EVERYTHING is on the internet today.
You can see everything, learning everything.
You don’t have to search for knowledge. knowledge finds you.
You don’t have to search for experts. experts find you.
The barrier of entry has been reduced to 0.
Do you know what’s the last barrier of entry? Actually DOING something. Actually testing. Actually executing. Actually implementing.
Previously you had to really care. You had to really care, so that you’d search for your answers really seriously, so that you’d find answers
Before you found any information at all you had already committed a ton of your time.
And most likely, it was a serious problem you were trying to solve. No one was telling you what solutions you need for problems you didn’t know you had.
Most likely you had a serious problem — you were trying to solve it, YOURSELF, you were actually having skin in the game, actually were INVESTED in trying to find a solution, and were actively involved in it,
and as you kept failing — eventually you turned to asking others for solutions
And it wasn’t one click away
It was many books away, or many human interactions away, or even half the world away, or all of it
Today you don’t even have a problem — and you already are showered with solutions
And if you do have a problem? You google that bitch
You google it long before you tried solving it — because it’s so easy
And it’s great that you google it. You immediately find your solutions
It’s great
If the advice is right
If the advice is right
TECHNICAL ADVICE will be great
VERY SPECIFIC advice will be great
But the more complex, vague, intangible the problem — the harder it is to have a very concrete, proven solution
Often there isn’t ONE good solution
Often the opinions differ
Often it can’t really be proven, there’s too many variables
And often you can’t just test it in an hour. You will be testing it for months. And even then you may not know for sure.
And it’s not just you who can now easily search for “solutions”, search for knowledge,
Those wishing to share their great “wisdom” can now do so with close to NO barrier of entry
The internet DOESN’T CARE.
Internet doesn’t care about your education. Internet doesn’t care about your background. Internet doesn’t care about your experience. Internet doesn’t care about your qualifications.
And on the internet you don’t need a publisher. You don’t need a studio. You don’t need peer review. You don’t need an investor
On the internet — if the INTERNET likes it — it will give you all of that
It will give you distribution. It will give you resources. It will even “prove” you right. People will come together in some single place on the internet and will dedicate their minds to MAKING “right” that which you said was right.
I’m not saying EVERYONE will win on the internet.
I’m saying SOMEONE will win on the internet.
Someone who WILL get lucky,
But previously — to even compete — you had to actually represent something
Now you don’t have to
Anyone can buy this internet lottery ticket — and pose as an expert, as a guru, as an influencer, as the authority, as a voice
Anyone can be the king.
…And of course we already know what this resulted in, already
People are still braindead enough to fund this parody
The vast majority is still braindead enough to fuel this parody,
And once they finally become disillusioned — they become the SCEPTICS
Now, you’d think it’s a great thing, becoming a sceptic. A bona fide liberation from the lies
No.
The opposite of wrong is not true.
And sceptics?
Sceptics are even worse
The naive consumers of the utter nonsense that internet is producing, they will consume all this junk, be sick from it, do nothing, and eventually die.
And what will sceptics do?
The sceptics will reject the utter nonsense that internet is producing, but they will still consume a lot of it (so that they can be “sceptical”, sceptical of something). And they will still get sick. And then they will still do nothing anyway. And eventually die
The naive, actually, have some hope of doing something.
At least they have a chance
So I would rather be naive than be a sceptic.
Because ONLY IN DOING do you find the truth.
And what is the truth?
The truth is that internet has really redefined how stupid humans can be. Took it to new heights. Spawned movements and ideologies we wouldn’t dare believe could come to life
It connected the weirdest weirdos from across the world, so that they bubble that would otherwise burst is now impenetrable. They support each other in their utter delusions, producing more nonsense doctrines than religions ever did before them,
Indeed religion is what this drivel is. A replacement for religion. Modern hope.
But this is not the whole truth
The whole truth is that internet gave access to all the knowledge under the sun
Connected the greatest minds from every corner of the world
And it AMPLIFIED it
Just like it amplified nonsense, in their own bubbles of insanity — so it amplified EXCELLENCE, when like minded man came together, shared ideas together, worked together, build things together
It’s an unbelievable tool
It’s a “too good to be true” tool.
But does “too good” mean that it’s not true?
Does “too good” mean that it’s not true?
No
It really is that good
And this is the entire problem
In this abject COSMOS OF SHIT that the internet is — lie TREASURES that were never, never fucking ever accessible, not to you and me, not to kings either
And it’s not just that they are there
If you know what to be looking for, and learn to SHOVEL through all of that shit and rot and filth and depravity — then you can find it pretty fucking efficiently.
Even if all of it existed before — which it didn’t — you just wouldn’t be able to find it. You’d just have to go through too much information.
But today?
Today you can just download it
-You can instantly have the PARTICULAR DETAIL that you want
-You can have the summary, or you can have the whole
-You can have it paraphrased, whichever way you like
-You can watch it practically applied, you can have that data
-You can watch ANYTHING being done — watch things no one bothered to document ever before.
You basically have ALL THE INFORMATION UNDER THE SUN
Information that you wouldn’t write a fucking book about — but it will be on someone’s VLOG
And a fucking BONA FIDE ROBOT will help you find it
And how is that not extremely powerful?
And conductive to an EXPLOSION of UNDERSTANDING?
Now you may say that “it’s all in the classics”
Fuck no
The TRUTH of EXISTENCE is changeless, yes.
But everything else? Fuck no
And you DIDN’T READ THE CLASSICS either
And i don’t think you should.
Should you download a POP version of the classics into your head?
Why not? As long as you don’t delude yourself that it’s anything more then that, and that you have a clue.
But as you do — at least you’re giving yourself a chance.
I would imagine that to those who seek, seek deeper truths — internet facilitated this process
Even if you will then reach for a million year old book — you still learned about it ON THE INTERNET.
….so this is the problem,
We ate so much shit on the internet that we are now cynical
And we fail to recognize the UNREAL potential of this thing, the WISDOM and KNOWLEDGE which therein can be found,
We REJECT IT
If it’s “too good to be true” — it’s a SCAM
If he’s selling something — he’s a SCAMMER
If he said something you don’t agree with — then everything he said is WRONG
If he was wrong once — he is always wrong
If he can’t prove something — that proves he’s wrong (absence of evidence is evidence of absence, after all)
We REJECT IT ALL
We REJECT IT ALL
Instead of TRYING TO LEARN WHAT WE CAN
Instead of TRYING to APPLY those teachings — and see what good they are for
Or even trying to make a very cogent argument for it, AND against it
No
It’s EITHER/OR.
It’s either we let ourselves become INTOXICATED with lies and promises,
Or we REJECT IT ALL, indiscriminately,
Enlightened monkey contrarians
I’m done being either “sceptical” or inspired
I just fucking listen
And then I fucking DO something
Maybe it’s for me, maybe it’s not
If it doesn’t work, who cares. I’ll try something else
I don’t care who sold me that. I bought it. I tried it. Didn’t work. I move on. It’s on me
The greatest punishment for delusion is delusion.
Do you know what being a scammer does to your self-esteem? I don’t wanna know.
Do you know how absolutely deletorious thinking that you know is? It’s like becoming brain-dead. Your brain is closed for absorbing new information
Do you know how terrible being famous is? Good luck changing once the world has already decided for you WHAT YOU ARE. IT’s hard enough changing without anyone forcing you to be something.
The cancer that is consuming the internet and the world, the hitherto unknown level of NONSENSE and DELUSION – it will die.
It may not die today, it may grow much bigger,
But it will die
SCEPTICS are already trying to kill it,
…But I don’t want you to be a sceptic, cynic
Nor a critic
I want you to make your life better,
Let this cancer die
Don’t feed it and it will die
If we didn’t feed it — it would die
Don’t become cynical
Appreciate good work some of us are doing
Let the cancer die
Please don’t become cynical
You have NO IDEA what is possible
NO IDEA
Open your mind
Please don’t be cynical
Even if it gets worse