Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

[Niya]

This whole brainwashing us with the American Dream, meh. The fact that companies do their best to sell us things isn't a secret, it's done openly. They don't exist for our benefit, they exist to make a profit.

That's only part of the picture which by itself isn't very impressive or eye opening. These things I speak of are realizations that stretch back over a decade for me. I cannot possibly cover 10 years worth of lessons, observations, research, introspection and eureka moments in just a few posts. There is just way too much to cover. All I can say is that some people eventually start to get it and some people are content accepting the delusions until they die. Neither choice is good or bad. It's only a question of whether you can live with your decisions. Plenty of people can live just fine never knowing how the world really works.

EDIT:

You can listen to the late George Carlin or interviews of boxer-turned-business man Andrew Tate. They don't come close to covering everything but they do a far better job of explaining some of the things I'm talking about better than I ever could.