The internet is a land of extremes.
There is always a market for extreme pessimism.
There is always a market for extreme optimism.
Neither of which is very useful or valid.
There has never been an attention marketplace for the actual cheat code to a prosperous life: rational optimism.
Until NOSTR.
I’d say it depends on the goal. Lifting and being healthy is a small goal that’s easy for others to support. Big goals should be kept secret and only revealed upon completion.
It’s like in the 90’s and early 00’s when we had to search out media. It created a more intimate connection with the music, movie, book whatever… blockbuster is a place of high nostalgia in our memories because we miss the search and the anticipation. nostr:note189ctfw2rqlyg5d9xph8sy3wt5sx0hctpzk9qdugahvr8jksc2p5qycyug5
The fact that the commies feel so comfortable parading around their murderous ideas in public shouldn’t be passed over. These people are the scum of the earth and they mean you and your family harm. Take them seriously, believe them when they tell you who you are. Trust me as a Bitcoiner you will be hated above all. Never allow these scumbags an inch. https://image.nostr.build/559a3b3ee10ff63345c8ea4dd0d80108525eff4f1192d4a7f57fb462d5128c91.jpg
I think the social network was the most emotionally resonant movie for a certain cohort of young ambitious millennial males.
Whereas wolf of Wall Street was the most resonant for the same category of zoomers.
The message you got watching social network was basically this… the boomers are old and stupid and clueless and we can take over from them. Their empires are houses of cards and all we have to do is start pulling the cards out. We’ll build our own digital empires in their place. Will they be better than the boomers? Don’t know, don’t care. But we’re going to get rich and powerful doing it.
The message of Wolf of Wall Street is fuck everyone and everything. Nothing matters. The world is fucked. The only way to get ahead is to lie, cheat and steal. It doesn’t matter anyway. The only thing that matters is what you can get away with. Penny stocks, shitcoins, meme tokens, monkey pics whatever… let’s get our hands on it and find the next sucker dumb enough to buy it. We live in the moment. Fuck tomorrow.
pessimism vs nihilism
Taking what I said personally is peak boomer. It’s ok to admit your generation was trash even if you weren’t. True of my generation as well. True of most generations.
Remember when you were in kindergarten and you thought the adults knew what was going on? lol
And then you grew up and realized the adults are just giant kindergartners.
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