North Stoke Life

There are millions of corrupt people upholding this corrupt 'state'. Not a few billionaires or corrupt politicians. Probably 75% of the population have snouts buried deep in the corruption.  The Real Scale of the Problem Look, it's not just a handful of billionaires or crooked politicians running a corrupt system. Millions of everyday people prop it up. I'd estimate 75% of the population has their snout buried deep in the trough. That's the uncomfortable truth we're dodging.  Elon Musk keeps saying jobs might become optional in the future. Here's the thing: we're already mostly there.  The Private Sector Waste Machine In big corporations—the largest employers—tons of roles do nothing useful. Think endless admin busywork or layers of mid-level managers who mostly slow everything down and hurt the very companies paying them.  Then you've got the classic barrier-to-entry scams: lawyers, solicitors, regulators, licensing bodies, NGOs, charities, you name...

Is society The Problem? That is to say, do we still need to run a tribal hierarchy to rise to the great new heights which Mr. Musk is nobly striving for?  @grok define society and all its parts Allow me to make myself abundantly clear: these post are asking for people to think, not necessarily to act. So do not take them as a judgement but an positive opportunity to visualise the future for our descendants. Do we still need leaders like the apes do to govern the tribe? With rewards for those who signal obedience to authority. And punishment for those who do not. Apes need leaders and a hierarchy because without them any slight hiccup puts the tribe in serious jeopardy. The tribe could be wiped out by even a temporary shortage of food and shelter. I don't mean to say that society needs to be abolished. But if it's holding us back, why not? By abolition I mean to rid ourselves of the hierarchy. Do we need leadership any more? If so, pray tell me why exactly. For example, the econ...

You Cannot Secure an Election. They are just a theatre of authority, to which all people choose obedience before virtue. And what if 'the people', in general are corrupt? Will voter ID not then GUARANTEE a corrupt government? Have we reached that stage already, in spite of all recent elections having been stolen? By a corrupt people, I mean that in general, most people are at best obedient to authority and probably  worse. No matter what abstract principles we claim to follow morally and by the law.  Meaning these abstract principles are long ago overwhelmed by our insistence on prioritising our obedience to authority above all else. We obey because it works - not because it is good or bad. Because it works. It's well understood by all voters that obedience to authority will help you get on socially and economically more than anything else you can do.  So projecting onto evil wealth and power is just another mode of obedience signalling. We only elect wealth and power bec...

Full Disclosure : I own lots of land. My only income is Rent. I have not done a days work for 25 years. In the end, I pay no tax. I live off the labour and savings of YOU. And all of this is perfectly legal.  The Epstein Files Are Yet Another Minor Distraction. For the great masse of people trying to escape from their own perpetrations. That is, the people are projection themselves onto whomever it will most easily stick.  Distracting attention away from far bigger systemic problems. Namely: taxation: killing all small/medium business and robbing private property (your earnings and profits) private property in land:  killing the rest of the economy and destroying any hope of a justice in the distribution of wealth(if you earn it, you keep it, and are not forced to give it to those who refuse to work) Now, you will be thinking, this guy is a conspiracy theorist, right? A nut job looking for clicks... yet another grifter. But is what I'm saying untrue and how would you kno...

One Day People Will Realise the Problem & Solution for Everything is Inside "Me" But not today.  This is evident in the current news hysteria about 'the files', where everyone is projecting the shame and guilt of their own complicity in the world's problems onto it. Assuring far bigger problems remain unattended and helping us all escape from our own much bigger crimes. On a group walk yesterday I ran another productive de-hypnotising experiment. A nice yet failed liberal Londoner was chatting about 'the files' and how the perps should all be executed. My response was that he must be Jesus Christ to say so with such confidence. Which was a shock to him given the entire world is projecting its darker side onto 'the files'. He literally looked behind himself - without realising it, to see if he was going to be backed by any of the other walkers - closing ranks is a classic escape signal pointing at hidden shame and guilt.  We went through the usu...