So recently, Matt Finestone has been interacting with our larger community, and his twitter handle has always intrigued me (3body.eth). So that was fresh in my mind when, shopping at a bookstore, I spotted "The Three Body Problem" by... Liu Cixin, who also has been discussed. Of course, I tore into the sci-fi book immediately, and was so struck by a few passages that I thought Matt may have been pointing us at it all along. Now, there's been a long list of films discussed in various forums, but I can't recall seeing any mentions of this book. The plot generally involves a struggle against mysterious threatening forces, and salvation can only be found by playing a hyper-realistic VR video game.
This gem appears on page 134: "In my line of work, it's all about putting together many apparently-unconnected things. When you piece them together the right way, you get the truth." Doesn't that sound like a guide to tinfoil? Then, on page 137: "I can guarantee you that the enemy is incredibly powerful. Those in charge are terrified... if killing you would solve the problem, you'd all be dead by now. But the most effective technique remains disrupting your thoughts." Like COINTELPRO, maybe? Interestingly, considering recent developments involving Kanye, the Ye family features prominently in the book (many of the events take place in China).
With the number 134 still on my mind, I searched through "The Big Short" and found that, at 1:33:00, Dr. Burry is writing to his investors about being in a fraudulent market. And right at 1:34:00, the 2007 housing market begins to fail. By 1:36:00, Morgan Stanley is asking to buy Front Point's credit default swaps.
So far, interesting tinfoil, no? Then I found that, exactly at 1:34:30 into "Fight Club", comes this threatening message to a nearly-emasculated power broker: "Look- the people you are after are the people you rely on. We cook your meals. We haul your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us."
I'm really feeling that last quote as we head into 2024; how about you?
(Lurker since 2020, hodler since Feb 2021)
Thanks, good to consider. A couple more thoughts: 1) they can't ALL be shills, right? :-) 2) 84 years ago, we joked about "weaponized autism" being the feature most dangerous to SHFs. Some of that is real - obsessiveness can be quite powerful - but it's also important to look out for each other, as you say. However, there's only so far an online community can go in that regard. 3) I've read Edwin's most-recent DD being referenced here, and I don't find it out-of-line with his previous work, really. Yes, he uses catch phrases like "do your own research" that have stronger meanings in other communities, but his foil has always been "beyond" most of our other folks, and I don't see him as lost or at-risk here. I also ignore politics, since I doubt most of us would agree on that topic anyway. Now, if Edwin's posts from Dr Eyeball were proven to be sus - or fabricated - I'd agree he's jumped the shark. But taken at face value, eyeball's comments do seem to be an attempt to assert control over several key subs by one individual, which would obviously be a danger to those communities. Since we mostly seem to support decentralization n' all (lol).
I suggest we all be very careful about calling anyone names, or suggesting they're mentally ill; or, even as Michael did the other night, repeatedly call someone stupid who was being mostly reasonable on the ppshow. The guy didn't even attack RC, as the pp team claimed; he just said he supported the little people and didn't care about billionaires, which I understood to mean "billionaires can take care of themselves." Which is 100% true. I'm a very loyal guy, but when someone's resources so outweigh those of most others here (presumably), I'd agree they can take care of themselves. I think RC and Pulte do a lot of good in the world, but remember, Pulte called RC a shark at the Florida gig, and we should always remember that idealizing mere humans will nearly always result in a let-down at some point.
The pressure is on rn. Don't take anything personally. As RC said, "words can never hurt us."