wake blake

Let's take a little tour through screenshits on my phone.  We start with South East Asia. As 'westerners' we're generally taught to ignore this area as being, well, the cradle of humanity where all the really important stuff has happened. No, that was in Europe!  Gun powder? Pasta? Money? Hydraulics? The stirrup? Zero? Never heard of 'em. ChatGPT gave wildly different answers, $93k average and $92k average if you exclude the top 1000 earners.  The medium is the message. (He types into his phone.) At this point in the shrinkflation cycle, a lot of us agree. Car addicts designing the world around their addiction.  Seems like a fairly good idea.  Less is more.  Learning to enjoy the things I have has made a big difference in my life. And requires occasional reminders.  We'll be getting to more charts soon enough. They're all like this on...

When martial law arrives, it might not look like what we think. Sometimes I like to remove the labels to see what might be really going on.  Our language has a strong control over our thoughts. How we see the world around us is "framed" by the language we use to describe it.  Language is coded with all of the good and bad of human culture: Euro-centrism and scarcity, equality and abundance. Which words we pick change our impression of the world we are witnessing.  "A missionary spreading the good news to unsaved souls" sounds a lot different than "a foreign cult leader poisoning innocent minds." But they're both describing the same thing. When we remove the labels, we might not see the truth, but maybe we get a bit closer. Or attempt to.  "An outsider attempting to convince a group that they're wrong and their right" is another way of describing the missionary's situation, but it removes the labels of religion and national...