Corith on Nostr: Nice rant! Guess that's why we have to watch we don't become too idealistic and force ...

Nice rant! Guess that's why we have to watch we don't become too idealistic and force our belief's on other's. I try to lead by example. Lead with action. The old saying "talk is cheap". Cheap talk, back by no action is just like our monetary system.

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Gn #nostr.

(This might be a long one)

tldr: communism ruins everything.

I've been seriously considering making a huge career change, where I would probably end up as some kind of psychologist, assisting patients with hallucinogenic therapy. It is something I admit to being drawn toward, but completely outside of my experience and education. It would probably mean a decade of education and training.

But I've mostly decided against it, because while I would love to help people in this way, I have such strongly held negative opinions toward the existing institutions of academia, science, and medicine that I would be essentially putting myself in a place of dissonance. I think there must be some other way I can find to support and/or assist in this effort.

In explaining this to someone else, I started making the example of:

Say I was a communist, and believed strongly in communism and state control as the best way of living. Now, put me in a place where that would be challenged, frustrated, almost impossible to live in. My first thought was somewhere overwhelmingly capitalist - but I couldn't actually think of any places like that.

Then I lit upon this idea - put me (as a communist) in a remote homestead, where there is very minimal state influence. This was the best example I could think of as an uncomfortable place for a communist.

But then I had the thought - well, what are communes? Kind of similar to that remote homestead. But did any succeed? Arguably only the ones that were essentially dictatorships (cults) and only for brief period of time.

Then thought of the opposite - where would a communist feel most comfortable. My first thought - New York City. Seems very centrally planned.

The more I thought of it, the more it seemed that a communist could go anywhere and ruin it, while trying to make it more in line with their ideals. We're seeing this play out globally at this point.

Sorry for the wander. Just a note to remind myself of lots of different thoughts I had earlier.