Epimethius, so very sorry to hear about your Christmas with your father in the hospital. May this find him on the mend! Good wishes to you and yours for a happy and healthy 2026.
Agreed, as you say: "if you don’t act, others will, and you may as well re-join the normies."
Yesterday we were scheduled to visit our son, but the Swedish weather agency, SMHI, had conniptions over a storm coming from the North. After a bit of snooping, and recalling what I was told by the MSB a year ago (MSB is the Civil Defence Agency, soon to be renamed as the Agency for Preparedness for War), I understood that the storm-warning was not due to extreme winds (about 10-14m/s with gusts up to 25m/s is not extreme in any way) but due to people being more stupid/ignorant now than a couple of decades ago.
An intelligent, and/or wise and/or experienced (or scarred...) person can make snap decisions and be correct; a stupid/ignorant person plays dice with Fate.
So, what did we do? We packed extra blanket, a towing-line with a hook, extra straps and cords with a mini-winch handle attached, and a chainsaw plus petrol, oil and tools for it.
And on the way home I had to get out of the car twice to remove several trees from the road.
The 'D' in the Doing part comes down to that, if the doing is to have worth:
Intelligence, Knowledge, Experience - call it IKE so we can re-purpose the "I like IKE"-slogan of old.
Tampered by humility - a human is powerless against a tree. a small pine of only 15 meters, if bent and with tension in the bole, may kill you if it snaps up the wrong way. And you only need to eff that up or be unlucky once. Three people who were out clearing power lines and the roads yesterday died.
Meanwhile, the DEI - Degenerate, Egocentric, Ignorant - people were complaining in the media about roads being closed, police stopping people from entering some roads, the power being out, and that the sounding of the air-raid sirens had frightened and "violated" their children (the Civil Defence over in Gävle on the coast, which was hit much harder than the inland had to sound the air-raid sirens to get people to go home and stay inside - "it's Saturday, Imma gonna go out and party" was the attitude).
So, my state-of-mind is [Doing], almost always, but that doesn't mean buzzing about like a fly on meth. It means observe, assess, adjudicate, consider the "what ifs" and the "then whats", and the potential cost/benefit - then act, decisively.
And in closing, a (Not Doing]-mindset is far less dangerous and expensive than a [Must be seen doing something]-one.
Yeah, it's a little like what I observe at the university with the students (who continue to label themselves pupils, or elever, by the way): the problem here, as far as I see this, isn't that society™ infantilises its members; it's that our (social, mechanical, technological, etc.) technology has advanced to such a degree that our young people don't ever grow up.
Very sorry to hear of your family’s turbulent time and sending healing thoughts and prayers.
Action - yes!
With you - heck yes!
My compass is (even more strongly since 2020) can I live with myself now, and in the future when I look at myself in the mirror.
I try my best to guide people from black/white positions (aka narrative brainwashing) to join in the glory of grey zones of topics where anything can be examined and challenged.
And indeed once the box is opened, deary me, no going back and I absolutely wouldn’t want to …some days it weighs heavy on one’s shoulders though - that’s when nature or stillness or a good book or even something as simple as a good cup of tea comes into play :)
Epimethius, so very sorry to hear about your Christmas with your father in the hospital. May this find him on the mend! Good wishes to you and yours for a happy and healthy 2026.
Agreed, as you say: "if you don’t act, others will, and you may as well re-join the normies."
Thank you for your kind thoughts, which I throw your way!
Wishing your father and family good health.
A mikroexample of [doing] as a state-of-mind:
Yesterday we were scheduled to visit our son, but the Swedish weather agency, SMHI, had conniptions over a storm coming from the North. After a bit of snooping, and recalling what I was told by the MSB a year ago (MSB is the Civil Defence Agency, soon to be renamed as the Agency for Preparedness for War), I understood that the storm-warning was not due to extreme winds (about 10-14m/s with gusts up to 25m/s is not extreme in any way) but due to people being more stupid/ignorant now than a couple of decades ago.
An intelligent, and/or wise and/or experienced (or scarred...) person can make snap decisions and be correct; a stupid/ignorant person plays dice with Fate.
So, what did we do? We packed extra blanket, a towing-line with a hook, extra straps and cords with a mini-winch handle attached, and a chainsaw plus petrol, oil and tools for it.
And on the way home I had to get out of the car twice to remove several trees from the road.
The 'D' in the Doing part comes down to that, if the doing is to have worth:
Intelligence, Knowledge, Experience - call it IKE so we can re-purpose the "I like IKE"-slogan of old.
Tampered by humility - a human is powerless against a tree. a small pine of only 15 meters, if bent and with tension in the bole, may kill you if it snaps up the wrong way. And you only need to eff that up or be unlucky once. Three people who were out clearing power lines and the roads yesterday died.
Meanwhile, the DEI - Degenerate, Egocentric, Ignorant - people were complaining in the media about roads being closed, police stopping people from entering some roads, the power being out, and that the sounding of the air-raid sirens had frightened and "violated" their children (the Civil Defence over in Gävle on the coast, which was hit much harder than the inland had to sound the air-raid sirens to get people to go home and stay inside - "it's Saturday, Imma gonna go out and party" was the attitude).
So, my state-of-mind is [Doing], almost always, but that doesn't mean buzzing about like a fly on meth. It means observe, assess, adjudicate, consider the "what ifs" and the "then whats", and the potential cost/benefit - then act, decisively.
And in closing, a (Not Doing]-mindset is far less dangerous and expensive than a [Must be seen doing something]-one.
So, what you're telling me is that many of our fellow compatriots are cognitively impaired at this point in time, eh?
I like the acronym adjectives, by the way!
Hm, cognitively impaired in relative terms I'd say - for lack of need to to think, re-think, and ponder.
Too much things around us that does things for us, rather than us doing things, naturally leads to less cognitive thought being needed.
You could say we have developed technology to the point we no longer need our large and energy-expensive brains, on the species-level.
Also, socially impaired due to the destruction of family, social mores and shame as a feature of society.
Yeah, it's a little like what I observe at the university with the students (who continue to label themselves pupils, or elever, by the way): the problem here, as far as I see this, isn't that society™ infantilises its members; it's that our (social, mechanical, technological, etc.) technology has advanced to such a degree that our young people don't ever grow up.
Nature will out: no need for effort = no effort made.
Which results in dodos.
Appreciation and blessings from Sydney Australia.
Very sorry to hear of your family’s turbulent time and sending healing thoughts and prayers.
Action - yes!
With you - heck yes!
My compass is (even more strongly since 2020) can I live with myself now, and in the future when I look at myself in the mirror.
I try my best to guide people from black/white positions (aka narrative brainwashing) to join in the glory of grey zones of topics where anything can be examined and challenged.
And indeed once the box is opened, deary me, no going back and I absolutely wouldn’t want to …some days it weighs heavy on one’s shoulders though - that’s when nature or stillness or a good book or even something as simple as a good cup of tea comes into play :)
I know *exactly* what you mean!