sj_zero on Nostr: To be fair, the world is not simple and a lot of people seem to think that it is. You ...
To be fair, the world is not simple and a lot of people seem to think that it is.
You have some people out there that want to triple the national debt buying a bunch of stuff, and they use beautiful words about protecting the future for our children, but spending all that money is selling your kids into slavery -- you can't really be protecting the future for your kids while spending their money.
It's hard. There is no perfect answer, and anyone who tells you that they have a perfect answer is lying to you. There's a price, and sometimes that price is in blood rather than money -- if some people got exactly what they asked for today, there'd be coffins lining the streets.
At the end of the day, the final arbiter of Truth is no human being, but reality itself. Build a fictional world for yourself, and eventually the laws of physics will pull you back to Earth every time.
You have some people out there that want to triple the national debt buying a bunch of stuff, and they use beautiful words about protecting the future for our children, but spending all that money is selling your kids into slavery -- you can't really be protecting the future for your kids while spending their money.
It's hard. There is no perfect answer, and anyone who tells you that they have a perfect answer is lying to you. There's a price, and sometimes that price is in blood rather than money -- if some people got exactly what they asked for today, there'd be coffins lining the streets.
At the end of the day, the final arbiter of Truth is no human being, but reality itself. Build a fictional world for yourself, and eventually the laws of physics will pull you back to Earth every time.