No substance

July 20th, 2024

I think I finally came up with a way to succeed in life. It seems so easy that it borders on ridiculousness, but that might be the reason I haven't seen it as a solution before. All I have to do is to talk loudly and offer no substance to any words I say. That cannot be that difficult — every two-faced politician is doing it. But I would need sycophants and yes-men and yes-women to surround me to make sure that I would actually start to believe my own bullshit. And to make sure there wouldn't be any slip-ups and god forbid, I wouldn't show any humanity or self-awareness or understanding of myself. So yes, the only thing that stops me from being successful is a group of easily impressed and useful idiots. Or greedy idiots. I wouldn't care any which way…

I cannot comprehend the mindset of people seemingly seeing the dishonesty and lies and fake persona in front of them and not actually seeing it. Or interpreting it to fit their agenda against reason and sanity. How can’t they see that Trump is not a statesman, a (legally) successful businessman, or a man of the people, but just a racist, thief, and con man? How can’t they see that Musk is not a genius and inventor or a visionary or savior of humanity, but just a painfully insecure but insatiably greedy slave-driver wannabe? How can the MAGA crowd and crypto/tech bros be so stupidly blind and oblivious? I understand the need for easy and simple answers, but that doesn't explain how a vast majority of people allow themselves to be lied to.

I have my own internal moral and ethical value system. Something I work on, occasionally struggle but constantly develop it for my betterment. But there is nobody towards whom I can externalize my values and can be sure that they will be accepted and understood. That is becoming painful…