Martial law in Ukraine as sirens blare in Kyiv. You can pretty much find live streams from Kyiv on YouTube. These past couple of days showed me that reality is largely negotiable, and perception plays a key role in everything an individual does. I do understand that the situation is complex and has multiple facets. If you absolutely need to fight, don’t fight with another human being. Fight to allow yourself to clearly visualize and embrace the higher altitudes of the human mind and spirit in your day-to-day life. That battle is happening right now, while you are reading this. As cliché as it sounds, it is a battle with yourself. Striving to get 0.1% better every day. How can I be less wrong? How can I be more humble about what I think I know? What can I do to optimize and remove friction from my life and the ones around me? How can I add one more small brick to the future of a fully rational society? What would a fully rational society look like? What is the goal function of humanity? Detaching from our animal selves. Finding a new type of balance, where we are healthier, smarter, faster, sharper. Million of possible realities. Having power over nature and not over people, although this seems transferable at first.

If everyone renounced their desire for power over others tomorrow, I’d have no worries about the future. If you cannot renounce this desire, fuck off. You are the problem.

Individual sovereignty

If you want to change politics, you first have to change culture. You won’t be able to change the culture if you are competing in a field that’s already…