Devil’s Orchestra
This issue is about external anchor points, the mirage of activism, and segregation and hate.
In this issue we’re exploring with Elon Musk how to be useful, we’re discovering how our rebelling, activism and demonstration is part of the system’s prearranged orchestration, and from Lady Gaga we’re learning about the essence of evil. And finally, in a new article we’re learning how to recenter ourselves from within the bounds of the complex system we live in.
✨ Sparks
🎙️ Podcasts: Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252
It’s wise to pay attention when successful people give advice for young people, no matter your age. Learn from Elon’s advice at 2:18:10. What he essentially refers to is the Japanese concept of Ikigai.
Try to be useful. You do things that are useful to your fellow human beings, to the world. It’s very hard to be useful. Are you contributing more than you consume? Try to have a positive net contribution to society. I think that’s the thing to aim for, not to try to be sort of a leader for the sake of being a leader. [...] I you live a useful life, that is a good life, a life worth having lived.
You want to try to find a thing that’s a good combination of the things that you’re inherently good at but you also like doing.
📚 Book: Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski
Learn how human and environmental crises as well as many of the stresses endured in contemporary life are the direct, inevitable result of technology itself. Check out the chapter The System’s Neatest Trick and discover how your activism or rebelling is an illusion that factually serves the system’s needs and goals.
Ted Kaczynski🎬 YouTube Video: Lady Gaga talks about evil and segregation
Learn from Lady Gaga how the evil operates through labels and segregation.
[Evil] is intelligent. It’s smart and it’s invisible. It doesn’t have a color, it doesn’t have a race, it doesn’t have a religion, it has no politics. It’s an invisible snake, that while it is planning to make it’s attack, it is thinking to itself ‘I am going to divide my enemy into smaller, less strong groups. And then I am going to make them hate each other’.
🆕 New Content
📝 Article: One Tool To Deal With Confusion, Doubt And Anxiety
Many feel incongruence about their place and role in a world of increasing complexity. Learn how to recenter with external anchor points for your meditation.
Ferdinand Kutschker
🙏🏻 Gratitude Journal
One of the most powerful daily practices to liberate yourself from mental downward spirals is to bring the things to your attention that you are grateful for.
- I am grateful for my ability to love.
- I am grateful for the incredible immune system of my body.
- I am grateful for humanity’s constant search for meaning and the interesting people I meet because of this natural impetus.
What are you grateful for?
💡 This Week’s Wisdom
Someday never comes. Someday is a distant horizon in the theater of your mind. Someday is dangerous and paralyzing.
From The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DEMARCO.
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