Don't take it personally
I know, I know - "global epidemic" and all, but it is pretty hard not to take all this shit personally. I mean, how can it be that finally my family was starting to pull ahead a little and my wife and I even found some room to get a weekend away together, our first in four years, and then - a fucking flu shuts shit down.
We are already having trouble getting materials delivered to renovate our home, building contractors are going to likely be rarer than hen's teeth and my family was meant to be coming from Australia to visit in the summer and that has been rekt too.
By a fucking flu.
Is what it is though, right?
On the bright side, people have found that they miss being outdoors and getting some fresh air, even though they never bloody well did it earlier. Now that people aren't allowed to see each other, people I haven't seen in months have given me a call.
It is like telling a toddler not to touch something, then it is all they can think about. People have been told they can't do such and such and even though they never did it earlier, now it is all they want to do.
Well, perhaps this is at least good for crypto, once the pain of an economic crisis really starts bearing down on us all. Pain and suffering is a great motivator, and once the bank bailouts start again, perhaps people will begin looking to alternatives. Bitcoin was born on the back of the 2008 GFC, maybe this is the financial crisis season for alts.
Perhaps people will even wakeup and say, "hey, you know how you are selling our social interactions for trillions, we want in". Of course, they can't really get the distribution from those companies like Facebook for a pretty simple reason - investors. What shareholder will say "sure, distribute to users what would have come to me as an owner".
That doesn't fit their money for nothing narrative.
Taraz
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The coronavirus is a mercenary virus that condemns us to be without kisses, without hugs, without friends, without family... I sincerely hope something good comes out of all this. Sometimes you have to stop to see how you can take the first step. Greetings
I do think there is plenty of good in it for society as it is going to test the fences of our preparedness and resolve. Many so far have failed.
We are all in it together. When I finally decided to move out and explore a different country, I found myself locked at home until no fixed date :(
Where are you at the moment?
That hurts. I can feel it from here.
I think about this a lot but right now it appears to me that everyone's face is getting rubbed into it.
Mirrors.
hardship hasn't been a level field (so far).. I've got this idea. It's not exclusive or unique. But what if the sacrifices were seen as a kind of transaction. A rare opportunity to gradually turn a massive ship in crisis around. (whether decades or lifetimes pass in the doing).
We're not in a world war (everybody knock! Knock Knock) so - it could be unimaginably worse.
Bundles of perspective? Or at least opportunities to get them. Starts with individuals but it's got to bring humanity back to the control panel that run entities that take humanity out of many processes. (yea, I know- almost sounds like smart contracts or similar) It will take something terrible to take apart the govt/industry screw tactics that are turning people into captive resources - dependent on everything that's beyond themselves, needing what they already have but limited in what they can do with it.
I'm dreaming, idealizing. But if people can find a point - a meaning in having to stop. When does daily business ever just stop?!
stop continuing to corner each other in perpetual games of advantage (I mean the underhanded industry / govt bs that remove choice, opportunity, freedom and possibilities) - Sure, this all lacks clarification and decades of process- in the dream of a world capable of constructive inclusion.
Maybe it's not impossible.
It feels a bit like that doesn't it XD I have had several little headache causing melts (because usually it's all happening inside my head, no wonder people that have public meltdowns prefer to have external meltdowns, really hurts otherwise) about how the universe is persecuting me personally like it would actually care XD
And it does amuse me how suddenly desperately people absolutely need something they can't have anymore even if they couldn't care less about it when they could have freely and easily done/had it previously.