Mid-week Musings: Anniversaries... and it's All a Matter of Time!

It was @cosmictriage's and my anniversary yesterday, so we took a slow day... which I find to be a really lovely luxury, in this day and age.

Of course, it was also Veterans Day here in the USA (and other places, sometimes known as "Remembrance Day"), so also a tip of the hat to all those who have served in the armed forces.

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Time and Excellence

Since we did have a "slow" day yesterday, it got me to thinking about how life unfolds — at least for me — when I have plenty of time to do the things I am trying to get done.

And I was reminded that I actually do a really excellent job at most things, when I feel like I have plenty of time (or, at least, "enough" time) to do them.

Pondering this brought back memories of why I failed miserably at Korporate Amerika: I have never been any good at anything when I feel like I have to rush, or am expected to do something in less time than I feel is required... and, in this day and age, "rushing" is pretty much the name of the game, at all times.

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The Speed of Life

I have written before about how it feels like life is eternally speeding up as we are subjected to ever more datapoints of information coming at us, faster and faster, in smaller and smaller chunks.

I used to think that my lacking capability to deal effectively with The Speed of Life was related to the fact that I was simply getting older and being unable to keep up with technology, but in having nice long conversations with our twenty-something and early thirty-something kids, they feel the effect, too.

UN-like me, however, they don't feel like they have a choice but to keep up, while I'm old enough to be able to say "to hell with this!" on a regular basis.

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Needs vs. PERCEIVED Needs

Which brings me to the point of considering whether we actually need all this information at such a torrential rate, or is it simply the bi-product of a world that must keep us running in a state of... what? FOMO? A Frenzy, so we will keep BUYING the proliferation of goods and services that allegedly will make our lives "easier," while ultimately just feeding the capitalistic growth machine that depends on our ever-increasing consumption for its very survival?

And no, I am not some kind of "Commie Apologist," I'm simply pointing to the very real scenario that ultimately any system that relies on growing faster than its organic "base" (natural population growth or decline), is ultimately an unsustainable Ponzi-like structure doomed to fail... in the very long run.

We live for next month's results... but where is the 20-year plan, the 50-year plan, even the 100-year plan? And how is our myopic focus on what's happening RIGHT NOW going to affect the world of our grandchildren? Or have we all grown SO self-involved that we actually no longer give a shit about anything other than what we can do to please ourselves, right now?

Just something to think about.

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Listen here, you commie apologist
Dear @denmarkguy , confusing capitalism with insatiable greed is a symptom of the indoctrination of corporatism and governments being capitalism - which it is not.(that's fascism).
Free market capitalism has no government interference, which means no corporatism (insatiable greed by a non living legal entity).

Capitalism is voluntary cooperation, which seeks to make both parties benefit from the transaction (and if it didn't it wouldn't sustain itself).

Capitalism has a (intentionally) bad reputation - from the insitutions - the powers that be hate capitalism - they love corporatism - which then leads to a more and more centralized one world government = communism/technocracy.
John D. Rockefeller on competition...'Competition is sin'.
If a snakes oil salesman loser, like him, says that - what does it tell you?

'Free market capitalism'- or no capitalism at all.
You can't have both, just the pretense of it.

I'll shut up now - I don't wanna disturb your relaxing day! lol

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Hey, you helped me maintain my relaxing day. I didn't have to respond to exonerate capitalism, since you already did. Cheers!

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I would submit that greed exists as part of the human condition, regardless of capitalism, statism, Marxism or any other -isms.

Whether you lean towards Austrian economics or Socialism... greed simply exists and some people will act on it, regardless of the infrastructure they find themselves in.

Capitalism is simply a framework; a vehicle.

There are always going to be a few idiots — maybe we should label them "mentally ill?" — who believe they should own and control ALL the "marbles," because that's what makes them feel "powerful." Maybe they didn't get enough candy when they were kids...

Most theories are pretty amazing... until you actually get people involved in them!

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As you say greed is part of the human condition - it's when it becomes obsessive that problems arise.
'Healthy greed' is no more than acquiring resources to live.(and why lefties have guilt about greed - (ie not understanding the human condition).
What could be more greedy than creating laws to 'legally' take resources off one person and then deciding who should get them?

Capitalism in it's truest philosophical sense - has nothing to do with money - it's the system that runs throughout nature. (we've just created the word in relation to money).
No money required.

All other 'economic systems' run against nature - top down social engineering that's not based on organic hierarchy (small social groups), but by entities not involved with a persons life, directly (governments for example).

The need for power for it's own sake does indeed lead to being 'Mentally ill'.
...Or they are nuts already, (more likely), and it's the expression of their nuttiness!

The Freudian perspective of super ego, id and ego seems to create a model that fits quite well in explaining behaviors (in my opinion, and though observation).
If it's anywhere near accurate - then 'the nuttiness' starts long before the acquiring of resources

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Happy anniversary!

I think it's very rational and self-interested (a very positive notion) that as a person with their own children are wanting more peace for them and their kids than what social pressure asks of them. I do find that if we all are aware of and operating from the present, there is no conflict between people on any point of the productivity spectrum; we can all shape the future with intentional actions towards our goals in this moment.

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Thank you!

I largely agree... the only thing we have to figure out is how to create a rational world, given that so many human beings are not rational, at all.

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