Ideas these days are defined by its critics

Ideas these days are defined by the critics, therefore all we need to do to get our ideas public, is to let the critics define it and love it.

When Federal Reserve – the American central bank, was being founded, the actual authors of the bill (Republicans + Bankers) pretended to criticize it, so that when the Democrats, who are the true friends of the American people (sarcasm), introduced the bill on the floor, people thought it was in their best interest to like what Republicans and Big Business hates.

One of the main reasons why Bitcoin – the new gold standard, is being loved today is because a lot of the lovers of gold standard criticize it because it doesn’t fit the “regression theorem” by Ludwig von Mises.

Artists integrate percepts into concepts differently

When you try to draw a dog in the paper, you actually translate the concept of a dog into an image, instead of using the actual image. Knowing how to draw things realistically is nothing more to learn how NOT to translate concepts into images.

Real artists don’t draw concepts, they draw the percepts. Inside their minds, they realize what they see is just a complex image of shadows, lights, shapes and colors instead of an abstract concept of an object derived from percepts, they draw the POINT OF VIEW.

Source: Drawing With the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards.

TD;DR: Instead of drawing “a dog”, you must learn to draw “a point of view in which there are shapes, colors, lights that resemble a dog.”

Profitting from the money multiplier effect a.k.a mandrake mechanism

Money multiplier effect popularly known as mandrake mechanism, is the manner in which new money is created in most economies.

In such an economy, money loses its value continuously, and money has the most value right when it is created. And there are two sources of creation of money in the modern economies.

One is at the point of government spending. Another is at the point of loaning. Money has the most value at these locations, and should be had from these points before investing it.

Emotional muscle in the brain

There is something like an emotional muscle in the brain which can be strained. I realize it now. And once it is strained all that remains is cold calculation and thought.

I think that is how psychopaths are born.

I wish I was one. I wish I could be cold and calculating. There is some of that warmth left.

 

What socialists think socialism is

When most socialists say socialism what they have in mind is the website Kickstarter, and the workers owning shares, just like how we do it in Capitalist silicon valley.

Unfortunately most of them think The Government is the perfect disinterested agent for implementing crowd-sourcing. If a socialist or a Kantian/Hegelian implemented Wikipedia they would try to pass a UN binding resolution that all people must be coerced into writing Wikipedia.

BTW Wikipedia is currently run by an Objectivist by his own admission.

My Secret

I have not domesticated myself in this late era. Had it been the past I would have been murdered by those who desire conformity. Deep inside my head, I desire perfection, independence and creativity. However I’d rather gain money sooner than later, so that I can have what I want. So I have to pretend to obey.

And that is why I do other stuff instead of what I am told to do. Because I want to pretend to obey and get paid/graded, while doing what I want to do.

I seek out environments that are conducive to this. I now realize such environments are more important than my pay/grade. I shouldn’t have listened to my parents and gone after salary.

Figured out a sub-tree of my value hierarchy

I prefer “my freedom to express my creative capacity while getting paid” to a high salary.

I did identify it last year, but then I forgot about it and went after money. Now I realize it again. I don’t want to forget it anymore.