Death World/Life World

We have some ducks and a duck pond on our property. It's uphill from the garden and some fruit trees and other trees. A couple of years of duck pond overflow transformed the soil. The trees growing downhill from the pond probably grow 8-10x faster than their counterparts elsewhere in the yard. I planted some locust trees, for example, all across the back yard. The one that's directly in the path of the flow from the pond is about 15 feet tall and has a 4-6" trunk now.

I've been feeding animals on the property for about 10 years too. It's basically the same principle as the duck pond. Life creates the conditions for more life, generally speaking, although certain circumstances can make that work more efficiently, like the duck pond scenario on my property. I'm going to replicate that all through the landscape over the next 10-20 years if I live that long anyway.

The extra-dimensional civilization entity, on the other hand, creates death and sterility. Some people equate that sterility to "cleanliness". The world of stuff: tech, boats, cars, motorcycles, concrete, glass runs contrary to the positive cycle of natural life.

Nature seems to want to create a profusion of forms and complexity, while the demons of civilization wants simple shapes, colors, and textures for some strange reason. You can see this play out in older homes when people paint woodwork or brickwork so it is literally coated with a layer of plastic and pigment. Landscapers do the same thing for homeowners: green square of uniform length grass. Mulch. Etc...

It's actually quite weird that people live in such opposition to the natural order of things.

Keeping Chickens: Easy AF

There's currently an "egg shortage", although I don't see any evidence of that at my local grocery store.

My family didn't have any farm animals when I was growing up. I think lots of parents of the 1970s and 80s who maybe grew up on a farm considered it "low class" or something to keep farm animals. They were trying to live the "fancy"/garbage life they saw in movies and TV shows. Anyway, I didn't have any chickens or ducks until recent years. Now we have a small flock of birds.

Chickens are trivially easy to take care of. Ducks are slightly more complicated because they constantly need water. If you live in a cold area, it takes some ingenuity to supply sufficient liquid water to ducks year 'round. Chickens just need a coop, some food, and are much more robust when it comes to water needs. Almost any enclosed/shelter providing structure can serve as a chicken coop. An old shed can house chickens. A few sheets of plywood tacked together on trash 2x4's will work, etc... 

Anyway, it's significantly easier to take care of chickens than a dog or a cat. It's maybe 10 minutes of work per day or less. In addition to providing eggs or meat if you choose to kill and eat them, the chickens provide fertilizer for gardens or ornamental plants.

Most people with a house could easily have a small flock of chickens. I think it would have been a good experience when I was a kid to take care of some birds and see how they act. It's a way to get some wisdom as a young one.

Corporate/Consumer World is Just the Classical World

There are a lot of people who imagine the classical world was somehow better than the present day western world. It's really just the same thing. Rome was a giant corporate entity with a dysfunctional, insane ruling class and a dopey population of believers and slaves. The current day world is similar, but we have better machines and technology.

People think the different western religions today are significantly different than classical world religions, but it's pretty obvious the god character in the jewish mythology is just jew zeus and the jesus character is jew dionysus or osiris. The whole osiris bread story is even retained in the mythology, well so is the dionysus wine and donkey riding thing.

It's pretty bizarre everything is so static. Nothing changes, people don't get any better. There's still endless conflict about the assholey land, which is totally bizarre. So called western people have been trying to reclaim places like Jerusalem for thousands of years. Who cares? Pretty much every place in the Western world, especially a place like the United States has vastly more resources.

Individual Capability at All Time High

Last weekend I went to the Harbor Freight store in Middlefield, Ohio to buy a new set of mechanic's tools. I bought a similar set from Sears back in the early 1990s. Over time bits and pieces are lost and it eventually gets extremely annoying to spend 30 minutes looking for a specific socket or whatever. While I was in the store, I browsed the inventory. They have a large selection of tools and other supplies. The metal working tools there are quite impressive and cheap. There's pipe bending tools, sheet metal forming tools, plasma cutters, welders, etc... A person could outfit a small fabrication shop from mainly Harbor Freight tools for maybe $10,000 or less and be able to build tubular vehicle frames, fabricate large or small parts, etc... There are decent CNC plasma cutting tables for significantly less than $5000.

That scenario is true across the board: a smart person can jump into basically any project and do almost anything today. You can jump into something as seemingly esoteric as CPU design now with a RISC-V core and an FPGA board. You can build a drone. You can make a car, a car engine, a transmission, airplane, helicopter, etc... and on and on. You can make your own smartphone. Your own laptop, etc...

At the same time, the economy of industrialized countries is more centralized than ever. Giant financialized corporations dominate all the industries and own everything because of funny money printing and corruption. Similarly, governments are giant, bloated, incompetent monsters.

It seems implausible both these things can continue ad infinitum.

Collision of Reality and Belief

There are lots of people that live almost entirely in the world of belief, that is, they can function in 3D reality, but their thoughts revolve around some mental model. Religious people, for example, can see any event as the work of a benevolent "God" character. "God has a plan." For car accidents that kill a family including children while elderly mass murderers in government keep living another day. Religious people will see a fire burn a city down, like LA, and embrace collective punishment by a "benevolent God" for gays or whatever. Climate changers reinforce their belief model on very cold winter days or very hot summer days, or a very rainy day, or a long stretch of dry weather... it's all "climate change".

Their models are low fidelity cartoon representations of reality. The high fidelity experience of reality supersedes a simple model that's amenable to the "belief" machinery of the brain. Generally, the "believer" can't adjust or throw their model out when their personal experience demonstrates their belief model is broken.

Sometimes the models don't have any relation to reality at all. Some religious and political beliefs are completely disconnected from it and are mere opinions are assertions.

I think the fires that just burned down large sections of LA are realities that collide with lots of very flawed beliefs. One belief is the government is omnipotent and capable of protecting people from all eventualities. The reality is the government is just a bunch of people who are typically not very high functioning nor good at their jobs, plus humanity is really quite limited compared to the scale of natural disasters.

Really, all that matters when it comes to building something in 3D reality is nature and natural laws. Wishes and beliefs don't help anybody.

The Formula for Convincing Leftist People of Anything

I'm not a political partisan, but I do see obvious differences between "the left" and "the right" when it comes to selling them something.

To sell a leftist person something, create a character with credentials or fame or an award. That can be done via the media. A good example of that is Bill Nye the Science Guy. Another one is Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Bill Gates is yet another. Anthony Fauci was a good one during COVAIDS. The character can then make pronouncements on any subject with authority even if their area of expertise is limited and irrelevant to the matter at hand.

A second part of the sales job is to ridicule anyone who doesn't agree with the authority as a stupid rube and use religious labels like "denier" as in "climate denier".

The leftist person will feel like part of the good flock by sneering at the dummies who deny what Bill Gates Nye or Al Gore says. Their consciousness is all about "belief" and affirming their "beliefs" rather than knowledge, which is really quite interesting.

"Knowing" puts a person on par with an expert and implies agency and responsibility, while believing is just being a follower and not presuming to make any type of decisions.

Los Angeles Wildfires: Human Impotence and Government Incompetence

I was in LA a few times in 2024. Each time I went, I thought it is the most obviously unsustainable place I've ever seen. It's like a tinder box wooden structure on an oceanside cliff in a earthquake and fire zone. There's not enough water and resources to support the population. The economics of the city is FUBAR. The list goes on and on.

The hubris of people who imagine they can "manage the climate" by regulating CO2 is just part of the zany incompetence of the government of California and the lefty corporate entities out there. The climate is going to do whatever it's going to do. Humanity as a whole is just along for the ride. Even just somewhat out of the ordinary weather events like the Santa Ana winds in LA are too much for a city's worth of firefighting equipment. The idea a handful of "experts" and their opinions is going to steer 8 billion people's activity successfully to set earth's thermostat is utter retardation.

CO2 emissions from cars are only 10% of emissions from global human activity. I didn't know that until recently. The entire automotive industry is being regulated by governments around the world for that? Sure whatever.

The mayor and other officials of LA seem grossly incompetent, even by typical government official standards, and they made awful decisions about budgeting and staffing a critical service like the fire department--but they're black women lesbians and the like, so that's more important I guess. That said, I am skeptical there were competent people to choose from in the elections: why would there be?

Citities are maladaptive. Actually I think any entity composed of large numbers of people is inherently maladaptive and has an inherent tendency toward utter destruction. The worst types of people will always take over any group with more than a few dozen humans.