America is mostly immune to world crisis and we have the luxury of safety and speculation from the sidelines but Sunday morning quarterbacking won’t protect anyone.

Liquidity in capital markets is drying up and may lead to market malfunctions. Russian crypto currency wallets are filling to 40 million dollars each as money moves out of our US treasures.

Cyber-attacks by “anonymous” against the Russians are quietly condoned by the same American leaders who called out similar attacks by Russia against us last year.

Embargos mean less oil to us which means more drilling and environmental damage in our backyard and it will go deeper, so to speak.

The best way for this War to end, is quickly regardless of who wins. Right now, the world is on fire so beware of being sucked into anybody’s agenda.

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Jeff Bezos: People who are ‘right a lot’ make decisions differently than everyone else—here’s how

We often view the most powerful leaders as being decisive, continual and unwavering. We admire and celebrate them.

A number of studies have even echoed this very same idea. In his body of research, Jim Collins, lecturer and author of “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t,” found that a common quality among great leaders is speed and decisiveness.

But Jeff Bezos, who announced Tuesday that he will step down from his role as Amazon CEO in late 2021 and transition to the role of executive chair, sees things a little differently.

Consistency of thought isn’t a positive trait

In a blog post from 2012, Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp and co-author of the New York Times best-selling book “Rework,” recounts a time when Bezos stopped by the company’s headquarters and did a 45-minute Q&A session. In one of his answers, the Amazon founder shared an interesting insight about people who are “right a lot.”

According to Fried, ”[Bezos] said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds […]. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.”

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Bezos went on to explain that the smartest people he’s observed were always “revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking,” Fried recalls.

In short, smart people (a.k.a. those who are “right a lot”), change their minds — a lot.

Nothing is definite

When asked what trait signified someone who was “wrong a lot” of the time, Fried says Bezos’ answer was “the tendency to be obsessed with details that only support one point of view. If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.”

It’s important to note that Bezos isn’t implying that smart people are insecure about their decisions. He’s simply saying that they’re comfortable with being wrong, which then allows them to analyze new data, be open to new opinions and revisit long-standing positions.

As psychologist Mel Schwartz writes, “One of the most prevalent — and damaging — themes in our culture is the need to be right. It is so deeply embedded in our belief system and in our collective psyche that we never even pause to consider it.”

It’s not just Bezos

At a D10 conference in 2012, Tim Cook shared a number of lessons he learned from Steve Jobs. What impressed the Apple CEO the most was Jobs’ ability to change his mind, quickly and often.

“Steve would flip on something so fast that you would forget that he was the one taking the 180-degree polar opposite position the day before,” he told the audience. “I saw it daily. This is a gift, because things do change, and it takes courage to change. It takes courage to say, ‘I was wrong.’ I think he had that.”

Al Pittampalli, author of “Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World,” is a consultant who has worked with leaders at NASA, Boeing and IBM. In an interview with Canadian Business, he argues that the smartest people “don’t wait for that negative feedback to come to them, they hurry up and try to actually say, ‘If I need to change my mind, I might as well do it sooner rather than later.’”

So the next time you make a decision, remember that it’s okay to be a little “wishy-washy.” The goal is to get it right. You can still take bold stances and hold strong opinions, but know that they can be temporary. That’s the best way to ensure, as often as possible, that you’ll actually get it right.

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Black Wall Street was shattered 100 years ago. How the Tulsa race massacre was covered up and unearthed.

PUBLISHED MON, MAY 31 20218:35 AM EDTUPDATED TUE, JUN 1 202112:05 PM EDT

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A century ago this week, the wealthiest U.S. Black community was burned to the ground.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, became one of the first communities in the country thriving with Black entrepreneurial businesses. The prosperous town, founded by many descendants of slaves, earned a reputation as the Black Wall Street of America and became a harbor for African Americans in a highly segregated city under Jim Crow laws.

On May 31, 1921, a white mob turned Greenwood upside down in one of the worst racial massacres in U.S. history. In the matter of hours, 35 square blocks of the vibrant Black community were turned into smoldering ashes. Countless Black people were killed — estimates ranged from 55 to more than 300 — and 1,000 homes and businesses were looted and set on fire.

Yet for the longest time, the massacre received scant mentions in newspapers, textbooks and civil and governmental conversations. It wasn’t until 2000 that the slaughter was included in the Oklahoma public schools’ curriculum, and it did not enter American history textbooks until recent years. The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed to investigate in 1997 and officially released a report in 2001.

“The massacre was actively covered up in the white community in Tulsa for nearly a half century,” said Scott Ellsworth, a professor of Afro American and African studies at the University of Michigan and author of “The Ground Breaking” about the Tulsa massacre.

“When I started my research in the 1970s, I discovered that official National Guard reports and other documents were all missing,” Ellsworth said. “Tulsa’s two daily white newspapers, they went out of their way for decades not to mention the massacre. Researchers who would try to do work on this as late as the early 1970s had their lives threatened and had their career threatened.”

In the week following the massacre, Tulsa’s chief of police ordered his officers to go to all the photography studios in Tulsa and confiscate all the pictures taken of the carnage, Ellsworth said.

These photos, which were later discovered and became the materials the Oklahoma Commission used to study the massacre, eventually landed in the lap of Michelle Place at Tulsa Historical Society & Museum in 2001.

“It took me about four days to get through the box because the photographs were so horrific. I had never seen those kinds of pictures before,” Place said. “I didn’t know anything about the riot before I came to work here. I never heard of it. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been at my desk to guard them to the very best of my ability.”

The Tulsa museum was founded in the late 1990s, but visitors couldn’t find a trace of the race massacre until 2012 when Place became executive director, determined to tell all of Tulsa’s stories. A digital collection of the photographs was eventually made available for viewing online.

“There’s still a significant number of people in our community who don’t want to look at it, who don’t want to talk about it,” Place said.

‘The silence is layered’

Not only did Tulsa city officials cover up the bloodbath, but they also deliberately shifted the narrative of the massacre by calling it a “riot” and blaming the Black community for what went down, according to Alicia Odewale, an archaeologist at University of Tulsa.

The massacre also wasn’t discussed publicly in the African American community either for a long time. First out of fear — if it happened once, it can happen again.

“You are seeing the perpetrators walking freely on the streets,” Odewale said. “You are in the Jim Crow South, and there are racial terrors happening across the country at this time. They are protecting themselves for a reason.”

Moreover, this became such a traumatic event for survivors, and much like Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans, many of them didn’t want to burden their children and grandchildren with these horrible memories.

Ellsworth said he knows of descendants of massacre survivors who didn’t find out about it until they were in their 40s and 50s.

“The silence is layered just as the trauma is layered,” Odewale said. “The historical trauma is real and that trauma lingers especially because there’s no justice, no accountability and no reparation or monetary compensation.”

What triggered the massacre?

On May 31, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year old Black shoeshiner, tripped and fell in an elevator and his hand accidentally caught the shoulder of Sarah Page, a white 17-year-old operator. Page screamed and Rowland was seen running away.

Police were summoned but Page refused to press charges. However, by that afternoon, there was already talks of lynching Rowland on the streets of white Tulsa. The tension then escalated after the white newspaper Tulsa Tribune ran a front-page story entitled “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl In Elevator,” which accused Rowland of stalking, assault and rape.

In the Tribune, there was also a now-lost editorial entitled “To Lynch Tonight,” according to Ellsworth. When the Works Progress Administration went to microfilm the old issues of the Tribune in the 1930s, the op-ed had already been torn out of the newspaper, Ellsworth said.

Many believe the newspaper coverage undoubtedly played a part in sparking the massacre.

The aftermath

For Black Tulsans, the massacre resulted in a decline in home ownership, occupational status and educational attainment, according to a recent study through the 1940s led by Harvard University’s Alex Albright.

Today, there are only a few Black businesses on the single remaining block in the Greenwood district once hailed as the Black Wall Street.

This month, three survivors of the 1921 massacre — ages 100, 106 and 107 — appeared before a congressional committee, and a Georgia congressman introduced a bill that would make it easier for them to seek reparations.

Meanwhile, historians and archaeologists continued to unearth what was lost for decades. In October, a mass grave in an Oklahoma cemetery was discovered that could be the remains of at least a dozen identified and unidentified African American massacre victims.

“We are able to look for signs of survival and signs of lives. And really look for those remnants of built Greenwood and not just about how they died,” Odewale said. “Greenwood never left.”

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The Ailment

Humans have altered climate, eradicated species and destroyed much of the planet’s natural land. They do so because of a belief, that what’s in the best interest of man’s short life span, supersedes long-term sanctity of all others. Most extraordinary accomplishments come from 2% of the population. The inverse is true when it comes to extinguishing wildlife and natural habitats. Studies show two thirds of people care about the planet but far less act. Most accept diesel truck deliveries, use plastic bags or have children. Childbearing seems silly to point out but since humans reproduce exponentially and transfer their habits, our planet is doomed.

The disorder here is we rationalize our actions to make us feel better about what we do. Mankind has good excuses as to why they come first and prove it using narrowminded reasoning. This is often seen in cultural stereotyping. In the 1800’s Italians were unsavory because they cooked with garlic. Native Americans are sacrilegious because they used peyote. Burkas are offensive due to rare instances of genital mutilation. Correct conclusions notwithstanding, most of the equation is left out for easier self-serving rationalization. Thus, being at fault for destroying the planet is easy for many to accept—or should I say rationalize.

Aggressive Technology

Selfish prejudices are not cultural anomalies but our true nature. Dare I say, we are only human and neophytes in emotional development. What has fooled us into thinking we are so smart, is that utilitarian technology proceeds psychological advancement. Primitive weapons came long before the wheel and we dominated in a considerably short period of time on the evolutionary scale because aggressive technology developed first and rather quickly. Catching up to those advancements emotionally will still take millenniums, because life as a pleasant, cooperative garden of Eden was not our beginning—but could be our future.

Paleoanthropologists

Confirmed in field studies and even my own archaeology experience, primitive culture was intense and lethal. Skeletons from hunter gatherers show patterns of intense warfare among groups that included axes and projectile weapons. Nomadic foraging society was far from carefree. Look back at your own adolescence, it seemed like a breeze. Reality is—youth was difficult but rationalization helps whitewash the bad memories. So too are notions of early hunter gathers serenely roaming the planet.

Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago and we wiped out the other eight. Our modern ancestors who spread of out of Africa, didn’t cause mass extinctions through negotiation. It was done by annihilation. The men in mankind took what they wanted, including women. Random sexual encounters commonly happened because power was the law. Children needed to be raised by many because there were no institutional delineations—that came 290,000 years later with farming and land ownership.

Yet political systems and religions prefer to paint a past picture of humble creatures that peacefully conform when historicity, we were about clubs and guerrilla tactics. In hunter gather days, hunting was not the danger. The leading cause of death among men was violence. Sound familiar? It is hard to accept that our ancestors wiped out their own relatives through genocide.

The Bright Spot

However, take heart, there’s a simple solution—emotional maturity. We’ve been civilized for only 10,000 years, as marked by agrarian society a mere 5% of our time as modern Home Sapiens. Rationalizing what we believe is normal but instead of finding people to help confirm we are right, like a political party or a single internet proof. Evolve emotional conscience and broaden the perspective. Becoming cognizant of how the primate brain works. Then honor our bipedality, opposable thumbs, and intelligence by striving for a greater purpose. Launch it from inside your own back yard to lead others as better stewards. Because all animals, plants and humans, must coexist for our long-term survival.

Evolve emotionally to the next level and save the planet’s biodiversity by understanding human weaknesses. As there is toxicity in relationships never to be accepted, the same holds true for Mother Earth. We need to protect her as we do ourselves by giving up bad habits for new ideas and working together with effort and self-discipline. Historically humans became cooperative hunters and wiped-out predators. Using similar collaboration for a greater good, we can save the planet that sustains our species. Framing decisions with an emotional maturity that honors our divine uniqueness, truly makes us civilized.

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QUESTION: So, then what is the answer?

Simple answer is to take back control.

That’s what I call financial freedom. Amassing your own wealth so you have leverage. Besides love, money is the strongest power in the world and it can be used for good.

Problem is those in power intentionally try to keep the masses so busy they have no time to gather their own wealth, therefore they can’t fight back.

The only opportunity to vote happens only once every 4 years and it is usually colossal mess of poorly qualified candidates falling over themselves to get their snout in the public trough.

All of whom want to keep people working busily so we don’t notice the failure of the system. That way, the tax base keeps getting feed no matter who or what is in charge.

Plus, we need to raise kids, go to church, walk the dog. Who has time to fight back? So, nothing ever changes and the same career politician’s, CEO’s and bureaucrats keep resurfacing.

You need to have your own powers so you can say Stop!

That means having, financial freedom, or basically enough net worth to live independently. Then you can refuse a boss who intimates you or a societal psycho who thinks you have no options so they can bully you.

If there is a sociopath in your life you can threaten a lawsuit. Sociopath start popping like a frying egg when you call them on their psycho BS. They hate to get caught. When you have time you can stop all kinds of people from taking advantage of you. Then you get to spend more quality time on people who truly love you.

This book is not about money it is about freedom. In my teenage years as a young surfer, I could never see myself squeezing onto the train to work in the overcrowded city.  I wanted the freedom to do what I loved most.

But my problem was how?

Having nothing to lose is one way, I tried that…ha ah

Another way is having the emotional disciple to accept all that happens to you.

Tried that …very painful

I’m not saying one of these is better than the other but the one I chose long term was having enough money so no one could hold me hostage to unreasonable agendas, or threaten me with getting fired.

Getting fired is empowering by the way. I suggest it, it gives you power and forces change. Read my blog https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/proudly-fired-insubordination-kevin-j-palmer/   about the merits of being fired—sorry I’ve digressed.

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The article, “Entire Estates to Charity,” simply provided options for high net worth families to leave their money to charity—because, knowledge capital and relationship capital that children acquire in such families is sufficient enough to create healthy financial lives without inheritance.

Less fortunate children not routinely reared with financial awareness, need to learn those lessons on their own later in life. Ergo donating family wealth to institutions that educate children of lesser means, with the same training as rich kids. Thus, balancing social and economic responsibility for all.

This also sends every child the message that people will not bail you out of poor decisions or laziness. The hardest job for any parent is letting children fail but failure is the natural path to achievement. Thomas Edison made over 1000 attempts at inventing the light bulb. Saints and scholars, ain’t we all!

Not only will gifting help less fortunate children, it will help everyone from entitlement blowback that deteriorates the fabric of capitalism. Showering kids with niceties is fine but as adults, they must know it’s up to them to earn their own way. Anything less, keeps them from reaching full potential.

However, those who have not learned lessons by provenance, because of exclusionary demographics, need to get a leg up on adulthood competition. Therefore, estates left to appropriate organizations can teach financial literacy and fund college educations, to even out social equations.

Nobody would give an adult money without something in return. Giving children inheritances is not much different. Independence, rooted in individual, must be developed. Otherwise we increase societal entitlements. So lesson one for children—own all your choices once you are an adult.

One woman’s daughter asked to be bailed out of debt after four years of marriage. She told her. “Rescuing you would be a blow to your husbands’ masculinity and you would lose respect for him and your marriage could fail.” We say, touché. Forcing them to work through crisis brings them closer.

Resistance to this came from materialized children angry the spicket would be shut off. Not to be sardonic but increased pathocracy, sociopathology, and borderline personality disorders in modern society, has given way to a substantial and chronic need to blame others.

Allowing adult children to solve their own issues hurts but it’s the best option. Otherwise dependency is never-ending and eventually divides families. Teaching children to make their own money motivates—while inheritance shouts out, ‘no need to work too hard’.

In a rapidly changing world, fueled by uncertainties and fierce competition, SMA Institute research is clear. Millionaires are made not born. However, any level of achievement or economic stability comes first from complete adult responsibility before financial literacy can take hold.  

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Throughout the pandemic, I’ve heard from hundreds of CEOs as they have led the way, navigating and innovating in uncharted territory. They adapted quickly, and leaders continue to innovate to ensure the confidence of their teams and customers. In working with these CEOs, I’ve found they are taking the following key steps to jump-start the recovery in their companies and communities:

1. Give employees the utmost care.

As each company’s recovery process differs, so do their employees’ needs. CEOs can put their people first by creating flexibility in the return-to-work process. Leaders who allow their employees to cocreate safe and creative solutions will have a more engaged team than those who create return-to-work ultimatums. It’s OK to let your customers know processes might change to protect your team; consumers don’t want to do business with companies that don’t treat their people well. Kevin Palmer Arizona #authorkevinJpalmer KevinJPalmerAuthor.com

2. Acknowledge this is a new reality, not a new normal.

No one knows what the future holds, and business models will look different moving forward. Companies, employees and clients have new needs, especially flexibility. Consider what these needs might be, including what the future will look like virtually. Will you continue to meet in person? Will you meet half the time in person and half virtually? This new reality is a chance to be authentic, transparent and let your teams know how the company is truly doing. Companies with transparent leaders tend to bravely weather the storm, rather than taking employees on an emotional roller coaster.

3. Maintain your company’s culture.

If leaders start to think about culture when their employees return to the workplace, they’ve thought about it too late. Effective leaders understand a crisis is a time to lean into culture, not put it on pause. Engagement can wane in times like these, but leaders can reinvigorate their company culture through frequent, open communication. Consider short, bi-weekly surveys to gauge employee sentiment, then follow up with action to show you listen and care. Employees will know you consider their needs if you can allow them flexible schedules and time to unwind with family. By upholding culture and standing by your values through difficult times, you will be able to promote your company’s culture and talk about what you have learned as a team through the crisis. reawakeninganamericandream.com http://thequietrich.com/

4. Make room for innovation.

Vistage survey data shows nearly half (47%) of CEOs said they made changes to products and services as a result of COVID-19. Of those who made changes to their offerings, 49% added products or services that will sustain long-term growth. Many companies, including my own, have launched products and programs during the pandemic that would not otherwise exist. Projects that could have taken years were implemented in weeks. I have seen innovation not only from other leaders in the company, but also from employees and partners who have figured out how to improve and work efficiently. Innovation comes from vendors and clients sending in new ideas and from an entire workforce that learned overnight how to migrate to a virtual workspace. Leaders who mobilize their teams quickly and gather people from all aspects of the organization to collaborate will continuously foster innovation. http://smainstitute.com/ KevinJPalmer.com palmerholdinggroup.com

CEOs don’t get a free pass during a crisis. This pandemic is not something leaders can operationalize and push down the ladder. Strong leaders open communication and share personal responses with their customers and stakeholders. Most importantly, as we enter this new reality, we need to talk about these difficult times with our teams. We all braved the storm together, and we cannot forget what we went through. When leaders define with employees how their company worked through the crisis, it becomes a symbol of employees’ strength. Author and Journalist Kevin Palmer – SMA Institute Kevin Palmer Terminated From First  base on over throw Jul 2, 2018.  Former Arizona– based First Allied Securities broker/advisor

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The scent of cigarettes. There’s danger in the air.

—Alejandro Escovedo

Chapter 6        Inner Compass

It makes no difference who came before whom. All Americans

are immigrants. Everyone can trace their starting roots in this

county—even the homo sapiens who crossed the Bering Strait

during an ice age 14,000 years ago. Because of this, we are all part

of an immigration story.

It was my love of wild horses, that brought me to know a

person who lived life like the conquistadors, whose adventures

he had read about during childhood. As an adult, his stamina

inspired him to overcome judgment and cultivate a reputation as

an astute learner with sheer determination. His reward was respect

from his new community, peace for his family, and wealth from

his own enterprise.

I met this extraordinary man through my friend Mark, an

immigration lawyer who lived in my neighborhood. Mark was

a founding member of an equestrian program for at-risk kids.

You too can use Secret Success Standards from Drew’s life

story like the ones below as stepping-stones to your own

accomplishments:

• Let family and education be your core drivers to

success. Make the most of family values, education, and

determination. Enjoy uncertainty. Regard problems as

changes that open doors.

• Follow your inner compass. See events, issues, and people

from a higher perspective, and train not for a specific event

but for a lifetime of winning. Don’t let negativity from

colleagues, friends, or family members plant self-doubt in

your mind.

• Create and rely on a long-range vision for your life. Know

that you can lose everything except what you’ve learned

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If you can’t talk about sex, you shouldn’t be having it. Our society has made talking about sex a taboo topic.  Our society has made it difficult and so shameful.  It can be awkward and weird.  People get drunk and fuck and never talk about it or explore it, which is unfortunate on all kinds of different levels. Sometimes people can abuse someone else without knowing it.  ME too generation.

We need to diminish the importance of sex by making it easier to talk about. Because we make this such a big deal and we can empower the sexual interaction so much that the exact same interaction that isn’t about sex and we don’t make it such a big deal is. A penis appears and makes everything awkward.  A dick makes things a big deal, which shouldn’t be a big deal.

If you get touched by a dick, it turns a nice girl into a whore. It doesn’t work that way.  If you get touched with a dick it turns a straight guy into a gay guy.  It doesn’t work that way.  Dicks are not magical. Men and women need to wrap their heads around that one. We need to reduce the dick to what it is. Having a bigger dick is not going to make women like you more. A dude who has a bigger dick and fucks your girlfriend is not going to leave you for him.  Dicks are not like that and we give dicks too much power.  We give dicks that much power and it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you believe a nice girl has a dick in her and now becomes a dirty worthless slut, then in your head, that’s exactly how it will play out.  It’s not true. There is nothing about her coming into contact with a dick that changes who she is. If you have that belief structure, then in your head it changes who she is. And in addition to being an extreme violation of her, it is a shame for you too because now you are dividing the world into nice girls and girls who have sex, which means you can never have sex with a nice girl, which means you are doomed to a lonely fucking life because every woman who has sex with you or sex with someone else before she met you or has sex with anyone else, that’s someone that you can relate to. Well you have just painted yourself into a very tight corner there. A very lonely corner. In addition to that you are totally shooting yourself in the foot. It’s just not true.

Just like it’s not true that a 15 or 16-year-old guy who has never had sex and now has sex and it makes him into a man.  It doesn’t make him into a man.  No, that’s not what a man is. A man is not a boy who put his dick into a girl. That isn’t a man.  We need to really think through these things. No, she didn’t make him a man. She fucked him and that’s all.

OR, he took her virginity.  He took it? Where did he go with it and what did he do with it? Did that make him a virgin then?  Or did he go give it to another woman who fucks a lot and now she’s a virgin? I took it from her and now I gave it to you. What are we talking about?

A man’s mistake is that he got in trouble sexually (Lewis C.K. got in trouble for masturbating in front of women) because he didn’t talk, and he didn’t have this experience with women he didn’t really know.  And that may be part of the thrill. These chicks I hardly know are watching me jerk off.  If that’s the thrill, talk to your therapist about it.  Because it’s not cool.  There is nothing wrong with masturbating in front of women.  What is wrong is imposing that on somebody who doesn’t really know what they are getting into and being totally oblivious to the fact that you are a big star and that one of the reasons these people hang out with you is because you are a big star and hoping that by hanging out with you will help them professionally.

Lewis C.K.’s mistake isn’t that he jerked off in front of women it is that he was dumb about it. We need to know the people that we are having an experience with…and how is your presence in their life impacting them.  We want to have a positive impact to other’s lives. It needs to be a net positive. It won’t always be a net positive but for the majority, we hope it to be a net positive.

Sex is great and sex is important. The majority of the pleasure of sex is thinking about it beforehand, remembering it afterwards, talking about it, and it’s not just the act itself. It’s the light that it casts on the rest of your life. So, if you aren’t talking about it, you are missing a lot of the potential of the intimacy, thrill, and juiciness of what sex is.

It’s like eating. You get so fucking hungry that you want to wolf down your meal. And, it’s over and now you are going to go do something else. People who eat fast and don’t savor it. These people who eat Goop.  These tech dudes on the cutting edge and don’t have time to eat so they are going to get their food out of this tube. Well, they miss the whole meaning of a meal. They are missing out.  There is a lot of pleasure in eating that doesn’t just involve your mouth.

A meal involves knowing where the food came from, it involves growing the food, hunting for the food, it involves so many processes.  It can involve lighting candles and setting a table and anticipating the arrivals of your friends, and choosing what music you are going to play, and who is coming tonight.  Is so and so going to like so and so. The meaning around eating the meal can be 50X richer than the meal itself. It doesn’t matter what the meal is.  It can be Tacos, it can be burgers, it can be curry. The point is what is happening around that experience.

When we fail to talk about sex due to hang ups or shame, we are depriving ourselves of the vast majority of the experience.  The potential experience. So talk about sex before you have it, while you are having it, after your having it, and that is the joy. That is the beauty and that’s where you learn stuff. That’s where the juice is.

SINKING SHIP

Should I divorce myself from reality (With all the stupid shit going on right now) but I don’t want to bury my head in the sand.  Facing reality brings about the reality of my complete lack of control in the world, which sucks too. It is an interesting conundrum.

The premise is that there is a sense of reality here. There is one reality here and he is thinking should he divorce himself from it or remain in direct contact with it. The fact is that there are an infinite number of realities. And some demand our attention more than others.

Our reality is shaped by our perception. This is not an original thought and anyone from Buddha to Jesus to Einstein has made the same point. But, especially today when we are living in a techno-social world that is hungrier for our attention, it pays to be very careful what we do with our attention.

Essentially all those apps are made to capture our attention and take hold of our attention. These apps are not neutral, and they are designed to be attention parasites.  It is an attention economy to get your eyes on the ads. It is quicksand for your attention and doesn’t want you to look away. Meanwhile the seconds, the minutes, the weeks and years of your life at ticking away.  You are being farmed for your attention.

What do we mean when we say this reality needs my attention and making me anxious? What is this reality we are talking about?

I can turn from your reality around you and focus in on Trump destroying our Democracy. And, I can expand on that and say it’s not really Trump, he’s a symptom and not a cause.  We have allowed selfishness and a brutal disregard for concerns of other people is what America has grown in the back yard.  And there is this Pandemic happening, which is causing great suffering and it is exposing the fault lines in American culture. A lack of universal income is devastating and creating a revolution and destruction.

The Powers at be want stability more than anything. They want to keep doing what they are doing so if the shit is going crazy, stuff burning in the streets, that is going to cause a problem for them, and they don’t want that. Also access to healthcare for everyone is obviously necessary due to the Pandemic. It is clear the incompetence of government in Washington that is happening right now. The only way things are going to improve is to see rock bottom.

Yeah but the environment is being destroyed. We are on a road to oblivion. There are so many disasters I could be thinking about. They are all true and they are all real.

And it is up to me and it is my choice what to think about. So, we need to focus on our immediate world. Yes, there is a lot of shit going on in the world, but if you have a shitty job or a shitty marriage, you need to take care of it. IF you are doing something that you feel ashamed of, why are you selling yourself so cheap?

You need to arrange your life, so you have maximum freedom in order to take risks that don’t work out or fall on your face.

We are on a sinking ship. We are all going to die. We need to deal with our immediate reality. Don’t worry about the world. Your problems aren’t with the world. The world is a problem. But, right now if things weren’t going great in the world, you will still have the shitty job and the shitty relationship.  No matter how great things are in the world, you will still be unhappy.

Choose the reality you want to focus on. Choose the one that immediately affects you. Choose the one where you are looking at the quality of your daily life. And, how can you affect that. You can’t change the fact that the coral reefs are bleaching.  There is nothing you can do about that. It’s worth knowing about. It’s worth grieving over. But, there is nothing you can do about it. I think the amount of time and effort you put towards that should be only that which is to require you to acknowledge its existence.

The bulk of your time should be going towards your immediate existence. Think locally. And act locally. Deal with your friendships. Deal with the food you eat. Deal with where you live and where you work. Deal with the absence of meaning in your life right now. Look at the reality you can control.

Our country is a sinking ship.  It is possible to have a good time on a sinking ship. I know the ship is sinking and it breaks my heart. I can try and have a good time and help other people have a good time while this happens.

A lot of us will already be dead when the ship goes down. I will probably be one of those and maybe you will be too.  And sometimes when the ship sinks, people float off to islands and find that they are much better off than they were living on the ship of civilization.  So, who knows how this will play out?

If it plays out that Western Civilization collapses and we all end up living in small villages, growing our own food, and hunting, raising some animals, loving each other, and taking care of each other and living way better than we are now, then aren’t we going to look back and feel fucking foolish for not having a good time during the transitional process.

No matter how bad the world is, we have all been endowed with this incredible opportunity and incredible gift to being alive, being conscious, being intelligent and being capable of love. And, being worthy of love. That is the reality we need to be looking at and not denying anything and not ignoring anything.

by, Christopher Ryan , transcribed by Pam Chambers

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