https://mwinters.net/tags/blip/ Recent content in Blip on Michael Winters Hugo en-us feedback@mwinters.net (Michael Winters) feedback@mwinters.net (Michael Winters) Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:44:19 -0500 https://mwinters.net/blog/2024-04-09-muskx/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:44:19 -0500feedback@mwinters.net (Michael Winters) https://mwinters.net/blog/2024-04-09-muskx/ <blockquote> <p>If a frog turns right and catches a fly, and then turns left and catches a fly, and then turns around backward and catches a fly, the purpose of the frog has to do not with turning left or right or backward but with catching flies.</p> <p>- Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems</p> </blockquote> <hr> <ul> <li>Billionaires have more free will than most.</li> <li>Therefore, they also have the most existential angst. <ul> <li>This is amplified by the shallowness &amp; distrust in their social relationships, and the inherent hollowness of the pursuit of money for its own sake past the point of luxury.</li> </ul> </li> <li>When billionaires (or demagogues) run our system, the purpose of the system becomes the same purpose of the billionaire, which is to seek relief from the existential angst.</li> <li>Since gratification will never extinguish this angst, the purpose slowly becomes to commit suicide as the only means of relief.</li> </ul>