EVoCeO @EVoCeO@qoto.org

I bet there are people in China that find the state of their country and their belief system disjointed. They probably ask themselves.. "how did we get here?"

https://www.biography.com/scholar/confucius

We are more likely to tolerate a poor, undesirable situation then we are take up the rigors of educating ourselves, working or applying ourselves to a cause of an unknown outcome. The human mind evolved to survive by caloric preservation and risk mitigation. Learning is hard. Change and the unknown is scary.

This is why “government should not be changed for light or transient causes.” Yet, we pass more bills a year than laws repealed in decades. This leads to over governance of the governed.

https://apnews.com/article/aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-dda3d013897e14d5d0bd44d19eac9cd1

This is nuts. Seems familiar in some way.

Anyone getting failure to open on their desktop MASTODON app?

#qoto #qotojournal @QOTO

Thinking about the political domain a little differently.

https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/06/applying-porters-five-forces-to-fix-u-s-politics

FYI Michael Porter is a Harvard business professor and wrote the book on business and competition. Gehl is a former major business owner.

Another older podcast, better production:
Americas hidden duopoly.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/americas-hidden-duopoly-ep-356-rebroadcast/id354668519?i=1000489905733

MRS. MAXWELL COURT HEARING LIVE STREAM

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UNSEALING OF DOCUMENTS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91UZTrcXos&feature=share

Great wrap up of the times:

https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1347733159119523846?s=20

Great article on nation states using commercial coder/hackers to target journalists via iPhone's iMessage. Seriously, if that isn't a buzz worthy headline, i don't know what else would get your attention. Short read, great info, hopefully not too old.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/20/citizen-lab-iphone-nso-group/?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN1rx3_rR-OvBCIMciNwhK9dGPygF3AeHemBgcyzq3i73KUPaNFvI8ba6OkJyav5cCnJW9J14yHGV1f4m0aVpREQZhImWPzQ1vhQCq7mMI1Hs1aTq734s9F824gnZ5CZKlYiiAMhuPhgdU8IxWOtyyOGruznnnPWwHYyInzgzcFw&guccounter=2

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

Found it for free... :
https://fee.org/media/22562/paterson-isabel-godofthemachine.pdf

… the right to life and liberty are inalienable has been forgotten or deliberately obscured. Persons unaccustomed to attach exact meanings to words will say that the fact that a man may be unjustly executed or imprisoned negates this proposition. It does not. The right is with the victim none the less j and very literally it cannot be alienated, for alienated means passing into the possession of another. One man cannot enjoy either the life or liberty of another. If he kills ten men he will not thereby live ten lives or ten times as long 5 nor is he more free if he puts another man in prison. Rights are, by definition, inalienable only privileges can be transferred. Even the right to own property cannot be alienated or transferred j though a given item of property can be. If one man's rights are infringed, no other man obtains them; on the contrary, all men are thereby threatened with a similar injury."

Note: Government, whether intentionally or unintentionally, has obscured this fact which took the western world 3,000 years to figure out. And, most societies around the world continue to struggle to achieve. It is only those who have seen and experienced true liberty who know its value and those in power who have seen and experienced it know how it rails against the control of their masses. Thus, creating more control and more illegitimate government to suppress it.