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Virtuous Greed, Unvirtuous Greed? 

Greed is good

So our best friend Gordon gecko tells us that greed is good.

Greed means to have, to hold.

So funny thought; to be greedy with money isn’t necessarily to gain more, but simply to hold what you already got?

The moralization of greed

I think the hard thing is once again… The main detriment to modern day times and thinking is so much of America is stunted and held back by weird morals and ethics.

Once again, this paradox of ethics in America… Honestly none of it really makes sense. And the more I think critically about it, the more bizarre and confusing it gets. No wonder why so many Americans are so miserable, society is giving them all these mixed signals that makes no sense.

The difference between spending $1 million and holding onto $1 million

Whenever people think that they want to become a millionaire, what do they mean to think is I want to spend $1 million. But, nobody ever wants to hold onto $1 million.

I have a crude analogy, I call it like semen retention for money. To blow your load is not desirable, even though it might give you some sort of short term pleasure.

 my personal thought is actually, the true best strategy here is to conserve your spunk to the maximum, to never blow your load. Essentially the strategy is each and every time you blow your load, you lose power. And it is kind of true… To produce a child is very physiologically expensive; a woman would never understand how much energy and force is expended after a man ejaculates.

This semen ain’t free!

It looks like all these women want the semen of Elon Musk. If Elon wanted a funny prank, and to maybe raise some money for some of his endeavors, she would actually just open source of semen, or donated it all to a semen bank, and have people auction it off, and use that money for some sort of good causes, or investing in certain businesses etc.

It does seem factual that there may be some sort of hierarchy in terms of quality of semen. For example, if you’re a 4 foot two man, very high likelihood that your children will be kind of short. But, if you were yelling, and 7 foot something, very likely that your children will be very tall.

So I think the funny bizarre trend is all these guys, they are essentially giving away their seaman for free; and there is this weird strategy in America that somehow… Women are seen as the more beautiful and desirable sex. But what if it were opposite; in the animal kingdom, the male is the more beautiful animal. It goes with ducks horses, peacocks and the like.

The Paradox of Power

The powerful vs the powerless?

An essay on power;

I think I’ve got it figured out

Niggas playing for power! – JAY Z

Respect Jimmy Iovine ,,, but he got to respect the Elohim it’s a whole new regime! – JAY Z

I almost feel like I could live my whole life off of cording Jay Z, Jay Z rap lyrics etc.

So what I find is very fascinating about both Kanye West and Jay Z, if you think about it, they are by far the most honest ones. Why? If you take any sort of traditional skinny fat loser academic, who watches basketball football professional sports, but hasn’t touched a weight or a barbell in years, don’t get at me.

Also very very funny… A lot of highly esteemed professors, at the elite Ivy League schools and UCS, also listen to Kendrick Lamar in secret?

Anyways, I think I got the whole thing figured out with politics, identity politics, race, sex and gender whatever. Essentially everyone is just trying to vie for power.

For example ,,, I find this really really strange movement with indigenous communities etc. Obviously everyone knows that the American colonist were evil bad, and essentially stole all the Native American land, that they probably raped pillage and killed all the locals, either intentionally or unintentionally with their germs diseases etc. kind of like the whole Jared diamond theory about guns germs and steel… The germs one is one that is often overlooked.

But a thought that always keeps coming up in my mind is… Why does this matter? Who cares?

So obviously… Indigenous people care because they were kind of fucked and screwed over. Yet wasn’t everybody kind of fucked and screwed over somewhere?

Fighting for power

So what happens when all your land has been stolen seized… with no justice?

One side calls for some sort of retribution, of land of money of privileges of power of political power etc. Yet from a macro perspective, I kind of scratch my head it finds me a little bit confusing…

What incentive does America or the American government have in giving back money to indigenous people, or local tribes, besides assuaging a guilty conscience?

To me the notion of a guilty conscience is not a strong enough motivation to give reparations?

Reparations is also debasing?

So let us say that it is a fact that the colonizer came in, killed and raped everybody, stole all the land, did all these terrible things. But to give reparations, it all comes down to money… Isn’t this disrespectful? Like for me… For example if some sort of injustice was done to my family, like the death or murder or something of any of my family members, whether it be my wife my kids my mom my sister etc.… Anyone essentially blood related to me, if somebody cut me $1 trillion check that would not be enough justice. For me it isn’t even a matter of justice, but simply revenge.

I forget which ancient writer which wrote it… But talking about revenge is sweeter than honey, probably true.

In modern day times, justice is essentially a rebranding or a standardization or socialized form of revenge. so for example, for one reason or another we have deemed that it is not OK to commit revenge by killing somebody for killing your best friend, as Achilles did to Hector, for the killing of his best friend Patroclus.

unrequited revenge?

So I have a theory, a lot of the modern-day maladies that we face and suffer, it is simply revenge we desire, but for one reason or another, we cannot commit the revenge?

And this is where the whole powerful versus the week thing happened; when you are weak and powerless, and you cannot commit revenge… Then what do you do? Do you become passive aggressive, you become resentful, which is like drinking Poison and hoping that the other person dies.

But the tricky thing is with revenge… In the case of the Elliot, even after Achilles does get his revenge on Hector, the heart of Achilles is actually not fully settled. Achilles still feels the pain the sorrow of his best friend, and even sleeting the throat of some young Trojan boys who they captured as prisoners, burning the massive funeral pyre for Patroclus, and even debating the body of Hector, by piercing his ankles and running laps around the enemy camp, once again still… The heart of Achilles is not settled.

so what is the moral of the story?

I think most people have the wrong. We often look at this like some sort of Judeo Christian morality, I would not trust any sort of modern day American teacher or thinker or professor to uncover the themes of justice and morality here.

So the typical Jude Christian might say that seeking revenge is not the way because even after Achilles got his revenge, his heart still felt sorrow. And then one might invoke some sort of Jesus mentality here; better to forgive your enemies and turn the other cheek.

Problems with this

Once again, turning the other cheek… My thinking and thought in my unorthodox interpretation, kind of in line with Friedrich Nietzsche, is I wonder… If the tactics the morality the ethics the teachings and thoughts of Jesus of Nazareth was simply because Jesus lacked a physical army? If Jesus of Nazareth, also had some sort of military army, a kin to the prophet Muhammad, would he have approached things differently?

Tactics of the weak

So for example, my theory is the whole turning the other cheek, is simply a tactic of the weak. In Jesus‘s time, to simply try to subvert the authority of those in power at the time was kind of like a pre-eminent death. And therefore turning the other cheek was actually the most effective strategy because you could continue to endure abuse, without being outright killed. For your insolence.

so the question is what is the alternative?

Assuming that Jesus of Nazareth, yes, he was a real historical figure, had the ethics or the morality of an Achilles, how would things have turned out differently?

Tactics of the weak

So I’m starting to really really get into this notion of tactics, tactical etc. For example, I will never forget that one moment in John Wick, in which John Wick is meeting the Somalia, getting suited up etc., and asking what the occasion is blah blah blah, and then when asking what kind of attire or formal where he wanted… John Wick just responded with a single word “tactical.”

So tactics, taktikos,,, to arrange, to order,,, tasso…

So typically we tend to think of tactics like military tactics. And almost all of modern language is derived from the military.

So now the big problem is mostly demilitarized world, how are we allowed to talk about military like things, without actually talking about it?

Armored vehicles

So what I discovered in Los Angeles is that whenever somebody pulls up in some sort of AMG g wagon, some sort of Range Rover, high-powered SUV, cyber truck whatever… Essentially what they want is some sort of armored military vehicle. I kind of get it; driving in LA is like a fucking Warzone, kind of like mad Max. And the truth is here, a lot of the drivers drive without abandoned; I honestly think it is a social economic thing; people from the hood drive very recklessly, both endangering themselves and others. in fact, an interesting observation is that you could tell how good or bad the neighborhood is based on how people drive. And also, you could tell whether somebody’s a local or not, to search the neighborhood because once again, holiday drive, and also the make model of their car etc. 

Least one thing I love about Teslas, is they have all the safety things baked into it. Therefore, I think Tesla cars have it pre-wired and programmed into the car that even if the driver wanted to, even if the driver had malicious intent, they could actually not rear end you, or T-bone you; the car would automatically break before it would happen. Also, when you are merging in traffic or on the freeway, always better to cut in front of a Tesla than any other car because once again… The Tesla will automatically brake and stop itself. 

Waymo

Also a random thought, I think in terms of our mind, we don’t like Waymo cars or self driving cars because we don’t feel in control. But the truth is, a WeMo car is probably 1 trillion times safer than real human drivers, on both sides of the equation.

First, Waymo doesn’t text while driving. Literally being here in Los Angeles, whenever I pee into the driver side door, and stare at the people… They are always looking down at their laps, texting while driving, some of them even having the audacity to drive with phone in hand texting!


Back to power

OK back to power;

bitcoin is digital power

Also smaller waist size?


Men vs women

So some non-politically correct terms;

First, what is the difference between man and woman?

Man desires more power, Marshal prowess, pride glory, eternal fame and revenge. Achilles.

 women desires ease, comfort, Security. A woman would prefer to be in a citadel, a man would prefer to be out in the battlefield.