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How much should you care? (That the world is burning)

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Maybe I am getting older, or maybe the worse has gotten a lot darker - but it seems there are a LOT of negative vibes are the place as of late. A few minutes on Twitter is enough to think the world is quickly coming to an end.

- But how much of this is really the case, or was it always this way?
- And along with that, how much of this do you actually care about??
- And what actions (if any) do you take to try to get things on track for the world at large???

I know one response could be "to just turn off the phone and go outside" (and I do - and it's great here!), but I also don't like the idea of just letting the BS stack up because good people did nothing.

I am curious about the perspectives here.
We have a lot of older members who I am sure have seen these types of times before.

I would love some good advice and wisdom if possible. Thanks.
 
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A few minutes on Twitter is enough to think the world is quickly coming to an end.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That's funny. You barely started on Twitter and it already got to you.

It's funny how people who currently live are always the ones who think they are somehow special and that during their times the world is about to end.

The world isn't burning. F*ck man, despite some bumps along the way we're living in the best times ever. Just take a look at REAL "the world is burning" kind of periods in the past.

Imagine being born in 1900 and being a teenager during WW1, surviving the Spanish Flu, and then being an adult during WW2 (and dealing with the aftermath for the rest of your life). This is literal hell on Earth, for your ENTIRE life.

Or imagine living in the 17th century in Germany during the Thirty Years' War where up to 50% of people died. That war took THREE DECADES which means for many people all they knew their entire adult life was war.

Or how about the Black Death in the 14th century that reduced the European population by up to 60%? Imagine that in just a few years, every other person you know dies. I can't even imagine the scale of this destruction.

And that's just a few examples from Europe out of countless examples of terrible periods in the last several hundred years.

Our lives today and the problems we have are A F*ckING JOKE. Frankly, it's almost disrespectful to complain about the state of the world today compared to these terrible aforementioned periods of time.
 

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Maybe I am getting older, or maybe the worse has gotten a lot darker - but it seems there are a LOT of negative vibes are the place as of late. A few minutes on Twitter is enough to think the world is quickly coming to an end.

- But how much of this is really the case, or was it always this way?

Fear garners attention. On the opposite side, outrage also garners attention. I believe much of the negative vibes has to do with the ad-centric business model of our internet platforms, algorithmically optimizing for clicks and views.

I've fallen down a few science rabbit holes on Twitter and I'm amazed at how many incredible and exciting things are happening, but those sub-cultures don't get as much attention as fear porn does.

- And along with that, how much of this do you actually care about??

For me - there is what I call the collective happening. I check in on the happening in order to sense-check against what, generally speaking, the collective seems to be concerned with. This serves me in the sense that I can better relate with people, on either side of the fear or outrage.

This collective happening also shapes the direction of markets - so being aware of things and having a general sense check on the pattern with which things are shaping up helps me make more intelligent financial decisions.

- And what actions (if any) do you take to try to get things on track for the world at large???

I place breadcrumbs here and there, and sometimes see them echoed elsewhere. I find solace in knowing my ideas reverberate across the collective, even if my voice may not be as loud as others. I also bring people together IRL. I've become more and more vocal in my community and my pulse-check on the collective happening allows me to better relate with people's concerns.

We have a lot of older members who I am sure have seen these types of times before.

I would love some good advice and wisdom if possible. Thanks.

+1
 

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I also don't like the idea of just letting the BS stack up because good people did nothing.
Maybe I'm just being cynical but I think the BS is stacked past the point of no return.
 
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The world is always burning. There is no time in the last hundred years where the world was in better shape. Stay out of the way of the blaze and do your best to add value and not let the news media convince you the sky is always falling. Further I wouldn't watch CNN or FOX. Both are bias garbage for the same reasons.
 

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Would have thought the events of 2020 would have either

a)helped people realize shit is not as bad as it seems
or
b)at the very least help others understand that if we were able to get through that, we can get through basically anything.

Things aren't as bad as portrayed.
 

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That's funny. You barely started on Twitter and it already got to you.

It's funny how people who currently live are always the ones who think they are somehow special and that during their times the world is about to end.

The world isn't burning. F*ck man, despite some bumps along the way we're living in the best times ever. Just take a look at REAL "the world is burning" kind of periods in the past.

Imagine being born in 1900 and being a teenager during WW1, surviving the Spanish Flu, and then being an adult during WW2 (and dealing with the aftermath for the rest of your life). This is literal hell on Earth, for your ENTIRE life.

Or imagine living in the 17th century in Germany during the Thirty Years' War where up to 50% of people died. That war took THREE DECADES which means for many people all they knew their entire adult life was war.

Or how about the Black Death in the 14th century that reduced the European population by up to 60%? Imagine that in just a few years, every other person you know dies. I can't even imagine the scale of this destruction.

And that's just a few examples from Europe out of countless examples of terrible periods in the last several hundred years.

Our lives today and the problems we have are A F*ckING JOKE. Frankly, it's almost disrespectful to complain about the state of the world today compared to these terrible aforementioned periods of time.

Nah I’ve used Twitter for years - only just recently did I start posting though.

And ya I agree with your points here. I had a section in my first post I removed which pretty much made the same argument.

It seems the general advice so far is to avoid the and drama and add your own value - which is already my own approach.

Also it’s hard to add tone in a post like this but I’m not “down” about this - more annoyed at the lack of strong leadership in a lot of countries.
 
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I use perspective, and it's true that in reality, there has never been a better time to be alive. The very fact that life is SO good and people in western worlds live lives better than the kings of centuries ago has also made us very soft however - almost unbelievably so. We are so weak and pathetic in our mentalities (most people, I mean), that ANYTHING remotely negative causes mass hysteria, panic and extreme negativity. People have lost all mental strength and perspective. And the platforms for people to show others that is the case have obviously increased exponentially.

I deal with it by yes, limiting my exposure to Twitter and such like, but also through sheer gratitude and perspective for how good it actually is out there in the world.

I also realise I can't solve everything, all I can do is be an entrepreneur and hope that I can make a small difference, and that together, as always, the entrepreneurs of the world will solve all the problems. Until the earth is consumed by the sun in a few billion years - that will be a tough one to solve ;)
 

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Maybe I am getting older, or maybe the worse has gotten a lot darker - but it seems there are a LOT of negative vibes are the place as of late. A few minutes on Twitter is enough to think the world is quickly coming to an end.

- But how much of this is really the case, or was it always this way?
- And along with that, how much of this do you actually care about??
- And what actions (if any) do you take to try to get things on track for the world at large???

I know one response could be "to just turn off the phone and go outside" (and I do - and it's great here!), but I also don't like the idea of just letting the BS stack up because good people did nothing.

I am curious about the perspectives here.
We have a lot of older members who I am sure have seen these types of times before.

I would love some good advice and wisdom if possible. Thanks.
I heard a great one-liner a few weeks ago. I’ll post it along with a few others I like (even though @MTF isn’t a fan of one-liners… haha):

“Lead with positivity.”

And on leadership:

“People listen to experts, they follow leaders.”
(Dan Gallapoo)
 

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Don't expect to do something like run for office or start a youtube channel and think you're going to accomplish anything.



Do what they have done in order to make it happen.

1. Plan for a thousand years across many generations
2. Create hundreds of organizations, societies, commissions, forums, and even agencies
3. Teach your offspring to get into politics, banking, education, media, etc.
4. Infiltrate government cabinets, schools, associations, companies, etc.
5. Use your influence in politics, media, education, etc. in order to shape public opinion, monopolize truth and ban 'unacceptable' beliefs, and get people to vote for policies that will create a compounding affect. (turn people into retards, change the demographics of a country to be more retarded, get them to support things that make them even more retarded, import violent people, repeat, etc.) until everyone is the preferred genetic makeup and intelligence level for you to move to future stages of your plan.
6. Promote and stand behind fake causes that sound nice but really just serve to further your goals over the long term.

And then have your offspring repeat the process indefinitely until you accomplish your goals.

Eventually, your grasp over education, media and politics will create a compounding effect of creating more and more followers of causes you pretend to support, so millions and millions of people can be helping your efforts without even realizing.

You have to admit, it was pretty smart of them. They had to work very hard and plan very carefully to make it happen. I think they deserve to enslave humanity for all the effort it took.

Unless you are going to combat all of this with the same intelligence, effort, prudence, patience and cunning, then you should not expect for it to be very effective.

All of you plebs are just in the merchant class. You think everything is about money and think that's what motivates people at higher levels. It isn't. At the higher levels, they care about "steering". Small, discreet little nudges that affect things 1% a year over many generations.

You are unaware of your place on the ladder and what's really going on. Look at a typical 9-5 slave. You know they're an idiot, but they don't. You know 'how things work', but they don't. It's the same thing. People who actually run things look down at you "entrepreneurs" and laugh at how stupid and near-sighted you are. 9-5 slaves think about the weekend, you think about 1,5,10 year goals, and these people think about 100 year plans.

You can easily look around and see what people are destined for, as harsh as that sounds. You meet someone and see that they're retarded and are meant to be a low-level employee. It's in every part of them. The things they like to do, the way they think of themselves and others, the skills they have, etc. Some are meant to be higher-achieving employees. Some are meant to be business owners. They have the right natural attitude and they were born for it. I see that all of the "entrepreneurs" in the merchant class have the same type of attitude for the most part. They are energetic, positive, ambitious, but they are still naïve.

As talented as many of the business people here might be at operating a companies, they are still often incredibly near-sighted and foolish when it comes to what is actually happening in the world over the long term.


Probably the best, most realistic things you can do short term to at least slow down the fall is to do some quick fixes to hold off governmental encroachment.

1. Building decentralized infrastructure to make it impossible to fully regulate banking, internet and media access, communication, etc.
2. Technologies to effectively nullify any gun control or confiscation efforts (3-d printing, low-cost untraceable unserialized manufacturing)

Making sure people can always communicate, buy things, and have guns when the government doesn't want them to is probably the best way to stave off the worst upcoming plans people have. The rest is cultural. That is a much more difficult and slower game to win.
 
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Don't expect to do something like run for office or start a youtube channel and think you're going to accomplish anything.



Do what they have done in order to make it happen.

1. Plan for a thousand years across many generations
2. Create hundreds of organizations, societies, commissions, forums, and even agencies
3. Teach your offspring to get into politics, banking, education, media, etc.
4. Infiltrate government cabinets, schools, associations, companies, etc.
5. Use your influence in politics, media, education, etc. in order to shape public opinion, monopolize truth and ban 'unacceptable' beliefs, and get people to vote for policies that will create a compounding affect. (turn people into retards, change the demographics of a country to be more retarded, get them to support things that make them even more retarded, import violent people, repeat, etc.) until everyone is the preferred genetic makeup and intelligence level for you to move to future stages of your plan.
6. Promote and stand behind fake causes that sound nice but really just serve to further your goals over the long term.

And then have your offspring repeat the process indefinitely until you accomplish your goals.

Eventually, your grasp over education, media and politics will create a compounding effect of creating more and more followers of causes you pretend to support, so millions and millions of people can be helping your efforts without even realizing.

You have to admit, it was pretty smart of them. They had to work very hard and plan very carefully to make it happen. I think they deserve to enslave humanity for all the effort it took.

Unless you are going to combat all of this with the same intelligence, effort, prudence, patience and cunning, then you should not expect for it to be very effective.

All of you plebs are just in the merchant class. You think everything is about money and think that's what motivates people at higher levels. It isn't. At the higher levels, they care about "steering". Small, discreet little nudges that affect things 1% a year over many generations.

You are unaware of your place on the ladder and what's really going on. Look at a typical 9-5 slave. You know they're an idiot, but they don't. You know 'how things work', but they don't. It's the same thing. People who actually run things look down at you "entrepreneurs" and laugh at how stupid and near-sighted you are. 9-5 slaves think about the weekend, you think about 1,5,10 year goals, and these people think about 100 year plans.

You can easily look around and see what people are destined for, as harsh as that sounds. You meet someone and see that they're retarded and are meant to be a low-level employee. It's in every part of them. The things they like to do, the way they think of themselves and others, the skills they have, etc. Some are meant to be higher-achieving employees. Some are meant to be business owners. They have the right natural attitude and they were born for it. I see that all of the "entrepreneurs" in the merchant class have the same type of attitude for the most part. They are energetic, positive, ambitious, but they are still naïve.

As talented as many of the business people here might be at operating a companies, they are still often incredibly near-sighted and foolish when it comes to what is actually happening in the world over the long term.


Probably the best, most realistic things you can do short term to at least slow down the fall is to do some quick fixes to hold off governmental encroachment.

1. Building decentralized infrastructure to make it impossible to fully regulate banking, internet and media access, communication, etc.
2. Technologies to effectively nullify any gun control or confiscation efforts (3-d printing, low-cost untraceable unserialized manufacturing)

Making sure people can always communicate, buy things, and have guns when the government doesn't want them to is probably the best way to stave off the worst upcoming plans people have. The rest is cultural. That is a much more difficult and slower game to win.
Based.

Put me on the FBI watchlist too!
 

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Put me on the FBI watchlist too!

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All of you plebs are just in the merchant class. You think everything is about money and think that's what motivates people at higher levels. It isn't.
You are unaware of your place on the ladder and what's really going on. Look at a typical 9-5 slave. You know they're an idiot, but they don't. You know 'how things work', but they don't. It's the same thing. People who actually run things look down at you "entrepreneurs" and laugh at how stupid and near-sighted you are. 9-5 slaves think about the weekend, you think about 1,5,10 year goals, and these people think about 100 year plans.
You can easily look around and see what people are destined for, as harsh as that sounds. You meet someone and see that they're retarded and are meant to be a low-level employee. It's in every part of them. The things they like to do, the way they think of themselves and others, the skills they have, etc.

Jfc...

What does this way of thinking of yourself and others suggest about what you're destined for? Are you auditioning to join the ranks of the global elite?

As talented as many of the business people here might be at operating a companies, they are still often incredibly near-sighted and foolish when it comes to what is actually happening in the world over the long term.

Siri, what's a self-referential paradox?
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We are so weak and pathetic in our mentalities (most people, I mean), that ANYTHING remotely negative causes mass hysteria, panic and extreme negativity.
I believe that the last 2 years of social isolation and fearmongering have exacerbated this issue, to the point where we collectively became less emotionally stable (read: mentally insane).

Pandemics, corruption, economic collapse, famine, war and death have always been part of human civilization. But apparently we're still here. We somehow managed to survive everything thus far, despite the fact that we've been literarily threatened with extinction a few times.

It's just that today we are very vulnerable on the phycological front, and we have the technological means to express our fear and anxiety and broadcast them to the masses, therefore generating panic and hysteria. Also, the omnipresence of news outlets and social media can make the problem appear worse than it actually is.

What can be done?
I try to do as much good as I can, with what I have. I believe it's personal responsibility that will ultimately save the world.
 

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That's funny. You barely started on Twitter and it already got to you.

It's funny how people who currently live are always the ones who think they are somehow special and that during their times the world is about to end.

The world isn't burning. F*ck man, despite some bumps along the way we're living in the best times ever. Just take a look at REAL "the world is burning" kind of periods in the past.

Imagine being born in 1900 and being a teenager during WW1, surviving the Spanish Flu, and then being an adult during WW2 (and dealing with the aftermath for the rest of your life). This is literal hell on Earth, for your ENTIRE life.

Or imagine living in the 17th century in Germany during the Thirty Years' War where up to 50% of people died. That war took THREE DECADES which means for many people all they knew their entire adult life was war.

Or how about the Black Death in the 14th century that reduced the European population by up to 60%? Imagine that in just a few years, every other person you know dies. I can't even imagine the scale of this destruction.

And that's just a few examples from Europe out of countless examples of terrible periods in the last several hundred years.

Our lives today and the problems we have are A F*ckING JOKE. Frankly, it's almost disrespectful to complain about the state of the world today compared to these terrible aforementioned periods of time.
That's a fair argument but it has never been on the global scale it is now, even more so than WW2. The elites have also made it so that everything on the surface looks fine while in reality really bad shit is brewing behind the scenes (e.g. inflation and haha money printer go brrrrr). So I understand Fox's worry because I've also thought about this. The key difference from WW2 to now is that this crazy shit is almost uniformly at a global scale even though it doesn't seem as outwardly chaotic... yet.
 

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Don't expect to do something like run for office or start a youtube channel and think you're going to accomplish anything.



Do what they have done in order to make it happen.

1. Plan for a thousand years across many generations
2. Create hundreds of organizations, societies, commissions, forums, and even agencies
3. Teach your offspring to get into politics, banking, education, media, etc.
4. Infiltrate government cabinets, schools, associations, companies, etc.
5. Use your influence in politics, media, education, etc. in order to shape public opinion, monopolize truth and ban 'unacceptable' beliefs, and get people to vote for policies that will create a compounding affect. (turn people into retards, change the demographics of a country to be more retarded, get them to support things that make them even more retarded, import violent people, repeat, etc.) until everyone is the preferred genetic makeup and intelligence level for you to move to future stages of your plan.
6. Promote and stand behind fake causes that sound nice but really just serve to further your goals over the long term.

And then have your offspring repeat the process indefinitely until you accomplish your goals.

Eventually, your grasp over education, media and politics will create a compounding effect of creating more and more followers of causes you pretend to support, so millions and millions of people can be helping your efforts without even realizing.

You have to admit, it was pretty smart of them. They had to work very hard and plan very carefully to make it happen. I think they deserve to enslave humanity for all the effort it took.

Unless you are going to combat all of this with the same intelligence, effort, prudence, patience and cunning, then you should not expect for it to be very effective.

All of you plebs are just in the merchant class. You think everything is about money and think that's what motivates people at higher levels. It isn't. At the higher levels, they care about "steering". Small, discreet little nudges that affect things 1% a year over many generations.

You are unaware of your place on the ladder and what's really going on. Look at a typical 9-5 slave. You know they're an idiot, but they don't. You know 'how things work', but they don't. It's the same thing. People who actually run things look down at you "entrepreneurs" and laugh at how stupid and near-sighted you are. 9-5 slaves think about the weekend, you think about 1,5,10 year goals, and these people think about 100 year plans.

You can easily look around and see what people are destined for, as harsh as that sounds. You meet someone and see that they're retarded and are meant to be a low-level employee. It's in every part of them. The things they like to do, the way they think of themselves and others, the skills they have, etc. Some are meant to be higher-achieving employees. Some are meant to be business owners. They have the right natural attitude and they were born for it. I see that all of the "entrepreneurs" in the merchant class have the same type of attitude for the most part. They are energetic, positive, ambitious, but they are still naïve.

As talented as many of the business people here might be at operating a companies, they are still often incredibly near-sighted and foolish when it comes to what is actually happening in the world over the long term.


Probably the best, most realistic things you can do short term to at least slow down the fall is to do some quick fixes to hold off governmental encroachment.

1. Building decentralized infrastructure to make it impossible to fully regulate banking, internet and media access, communication, etc.
2. Technologies to effectively nullify any gun control or confiscation efforts (3-d printing, low-cost untraceable unserialized manufacturing)

Making sure people can always communicate, buy things, and have guns when the government doesn't want them to is probably the best way to stave off the worst upcoming plans people have. The rest is cultural. That is a much more difficult and slower game to win.
Based Johnny boy.
 
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Twitter is "Crisis Maximization: The Platform." It is where the Id goes to jerk its knee at any and all stimulus.

As far as I am aware, the world is always ending, at least within the media of the day. With 24-hour news and social media, the messaging is just more frequent and intrusive.

My cure/relief toward this has been:
  • to take note of how different actors shift their narrative on the same topic based on who is in charge (especially when it comes to politics), so that I learn to be judiciously skeptical of their claims; remembering how wrong people have been in the past helps me evaluate the trustworthiness of their newest claims
  • recognize the limits of my influence (barring any decision on my part to change this) and focusing on improving the quality of the lives around me and not being a dick
  • reading, watching and listening to Ray Dalio's historiography (or psychohistory, if you've read Asimov's Foundation; Dalio is a kind Hari Seldon of our time) for perspective on how these times rhyme with previous historical times; How the Economic Machine Works and Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
  • recently reading Will and Ariel Durant's The Lessons of History, which does a great job of contextualizing modern times within human history, including changing morals, fluctuations between private enterprise and historical socialism, and cycles of democracy-dictatorship/oligarchy-democracy
  • being grateful for the current American hegemony and its protection of European liberty and democracy, while being aware that it will probably end one day as all empires do
  • taking the occasional break to appreciate the apparent chaos and its absurdity, an appreciation of the cosmic jokes all around us even when it's gallows humor
  • remembering that it can always be worse, has been worse for most of human history and that I am in no way deserving of a better reality than the one I've got to work with; the Stoic reflections on fortune/Fortuna are helpful here, reminding us that we were no more deserving of our good fortune than we are our bad fortune
 

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A few minutes on Twitter is enough to think the world is quickly coming to an end.
I was on Twitter for a few months last year. I didn't notice any of that negativity. My feed was mostly techies and indie-hackers talking about growing their businesses etc. Can you clean up the circles you move in so your feed is full of less negativity?
 

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I also don't like the idea of just letting the BS stack up because good people did nothing.
I like the phrase "Charity starts at home". I'll put on my own oxygen mask first, then help my family, then friends, then anyone else I come into contact with.

My goal is to help my kids thrive and see the world positively. If they live a great life and pass on whatever lessons I gave to their kids then I consider it job done. If I help save a few starfish along the way then that's a bonus.

I'll be cheerful and supportive of people I meet in everyday life. I put out content that can help people as best I can.

If other people want to be miserable and negative then I may try to help, but not for long and not if it negatively impacts me and mine.

If everyone was more responsible for themselves and helped those closest to them then I think the world would be a better place anyway. I'll do my part and I don't consider it insignificant, but I'm not going on a crusade.

TL;DR ... I'll make a dent in my corner of the Universe and look out for my own. I refuse to let anyone else's cr@p mindset affect me.
 
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Let me share a secret.

1. Ice cold vodka straight. No ice you F*cking pussies.

2. Give zero F*cks. (Watch me contradict this tomorrow. What a hypocrite.)

3. Embrace the drama and chaos.

4. Be the one holding the Zippo lighting shit on fire.

5. More vodka, because I don't like to end lists on even numbers.
 

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A thought occured reading this thread.

A lot of the "dark world out there" concepts referenced here are in relation to social phenomena: poverty, power, wars, politics, corruption etc. Some of that shit is real, and worrying enough no question.

However, there are things happening in this world, in our lifetimes, that I think are genuinely frightening. Things we have less immediate control over. For example: the climate is changing and the science is settled that it is happening - as to the cause and whether it is anthroprogenic or not - that is another matter.

The world is literally burning. How about increasing fires in Canada, California, Spain, Russia and my home, Australia? Temperature records are repeatedly being smashed etc etc. Have we all become numb to the term 'unprecedented'?

The thing is the former seems to (indirectly) cause the latter.

Maybe putting our heads in the sand isn't the best solution, but it sure does help keep you sane. What if this willful ignorance causes everything?

I'm with @Andy Black (and Jordan Peterson) on improving my local world and cleaning room, and I'll take my coffee with a splash of ignorance, thanks.
 

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A thought occured reading this thread.

A lot of the "dark world out there" concepts referenced here are in relation to social phenomena: poverty, power, wars, politics, corruption etc. Some of that shit is real, and worrying enough no question.

However, there are things happening in this world, in our lifetimes, that I think are genuinely frightening. Things we have less immediate control over. For example: the climate is changing and the science is settled that it is happening - as to the cause and whether it is anthroprogenic or not - that is another matter.

The world is literally burning. How about increasing fires in Canada, California, Spain, Russia and my home, Australia? Temperature records are repeatedly being smashed etc etc. Have we all become numb to the term 'unprecedented'?

The thing is the former seems to (indirectly) cause the latter.

Maybe putting our heads in the sand isn't the best solution, but it sure does help keep you sane. What if this willful ignorance causes everything?

I'm with @Andy Black (and Jordan Peterson) on improving my local world and cleaning room, and I'll take my coffee with a splash of ignorance, thanks.


global warming is a fake tool invented to control populations and launder money.



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people killed by rising sea levels from global warming: 0

people at RISK of being killed by rising sea levels from global warming: 0

people actually killed by their own governments: 262 million in the 20th century

imagine being scared of the weather lmao gtfo
 
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Jfc...

What does this way of thinking of yourself and others suggest about what you're destined for? Are you auditioning to join the ranks of the global elite?

I want to build the biggest thing that I can, as quickly as I can, for the rest of my life, and leverage that as much as I can, in order to bring about the things that I think should be done.

And that is about as much as I'll ever speak publicly about it.
 

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turn people into retards
we have a lot more of these around now... and to answer @Fox question, yes we have had lots of retards over the millenia, but now with the advent of the technology, these hoards of retards now have pull and power and the ability to influence even more sheep.... I try not get involved with what is going i am so absorbed in my niche and my new careers and projects i just dont give two shits about the current state of affairs of the world. It will seriously take up a lot of bandwidth and affect your brain in a way that is harmful.... Better to just focus on the here and now and focus on your block.

¨The world is fine, the people are F*cked¨
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The amount of people who don't want to work and want to become TikTok'ers, or just walk the dog all day while taxing the rich, is staggering. Yeah, the world is F*cked, good luck.
 
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A thought occured reading this thread.

A lot of the "dark world out there" concepts referenced here are in relation to social phenomena: poverty, power, wars, politics, corruption etc. Some of that shit is real, and worrying enough no question.

However, there are things happening in this world, in our lifetimes, that I think are genuinely frightening. Things we have less immediate control over. For example: the climate is changing and the science is settled that it is happening - as to the cause and whether it is anthroprogenic or not - that is another matter.

The world is literally burning. How about increasing fires in Canada, California, Spain, Russia and my home, Australia? Temperature records are repeatedly being smashed etc etc. Have we all become numb to the term 'unprecedented'?

The thing is the former seems to (indirectly) cause the latter.

Maybe putting our heads in the sand isn't the best solution, but it sure does help keep you sane. What if this willful ignorance causes everything?

I'm with @Andy Black (and Jordan Peterson) on improving my local world and cleaning room, and I'll take my coffee with a splash of ignorance, thanks.
Global warming as we know it now is propaganda created to put fear in the people and to make $$$. Global warming as it actually IS is so much out of our control we might as well just embrace it. If the ice age could happen when there were barely any humans around, it could happen anytime whenever the Earth feels like it.

What is truly frightening is the lengths humans go to have control over the population. Big farms/crops burning "randomly", control of speech, food shortages, covid restrictions, covid vaccines, propaganda, China's hidden missiles (look this up), cultural upheaval, etc. Again, this type of stuff has never happened on the global scale it has happened now. It might not be THE end but it is definitely the end of an era
 

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Global warming as we know it now is propaganda created to put fear in the people and to make $$$. Global warming as it actually IS is so much out of our control we might as well just embrace it. If the ice age could happen when there were barely any humans around, it could happen anytime whenever the Earth feels like it.

What is truly frightening is the lengths humans go to have control over the population. Big farms/crops burning "randomly", control of speech, food shortages, covid restrictions, covid vaccines, propaganda, China's hidden missiles (look this up), cultural upheaval, etc. Again, this type of stuff has never happened on the global scale it has happened now. It might not be THE end but it is definitely the end of an era
Don't disagree with you, sir. Certainly people are capitalising on it (why not us too right?).

The point of my post, using climate change as an example (n.b. I deliberately didn't call it global warming), is in line with the point of this thread - that there are things happening, beyond our control, that may be worrying/consuming if you get caught up in them. It goes without saying, but for completion, you could substitute global conspiracy theories in place of any of the other things that could ruin your day.

You, as per the stoic's, really have it right. Accept what is outside your control. Focus on what you can.

As an entrepreneur's forum, I'm interested in ways to capitilise on the undercurrents of change. Staying in the loop without getting drawn into it is a skill in itself.

BTW commend you on the correct way to discuss and not resorting to appeal to ridicule.
 

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I read an article about a week ago that concluded that people are getting more friendly and apt to help each other. I wish I would have saved it, because it damn well shocked the hell out of me. I hope it is true and I spent some time trying to find it, but couldn't.

Right now I'm the camp that humans won't survive the next 100 years.

Common sense, is no longer common. I didn't think this pessimistically before Covid, but after, I do now. That whole spectacle was truly eye opening, not to mention the fact that truth and falsehood is now indiscernable. Think deep fake is good now? Wait 3 years.

And we also have a younger generation who mostly is addicted to smartphones and quick dopamine hits, incapable of doing any deep work. Throw in that thing about common sense, a bunch of unaccountable tech corporations more powerful than ever before, and you have an interesting mix NEVER SEEN BEFORE in human history. I say we don't survive it.
 
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I forgot to add that I think there are a lot of environmental issues that people like to dismiss as conspiracy. Yes, the powers-at-be like using that as boogieman to push their agendas.

However, certain things (like plastics and general waste) are simply not sustainable.

The other day I bought some coffee from Amazon and a decorative house item -- after the items were delivered and unpacked, that amount of WASTE in the packing materials for these two items alone was about 10X the size of the items themselves. Ill drink the coffee in weeks, but the packing materials will likely last a lifetime in some landfill.

I recognize that buying an item from Amazon and having a guy deliver it to your house (labor, gas, pollution) complete with a packaging box 4 times its size and smothered in plastic is convenient and cool, but unsustainable on a global scale.
 

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Maybe I am getting older, or maybe the worse has gotten a lot darker - but it seems there are a LOT of negative vibes are the place as of late. A few minutes on Twitter is enough to think the world is quickly coming to an end.

- But how much of this is really the case, or was it always this way?
- And along with that, how much of this do you actually care about??
- And what actions (if any) do you take to try to get things on track for the world at large???

I know one response could be "to just turn off the phone and go outside" (and I do - and it's great here!), but I also don't like the idea of just letting the BS stack up because good people did nothing.

I am curious about the perspectives here.
We have a lot of older members who I am sure have seen these types of times before.

I would love some good advice and wisdom if possible. Thanks.

I donno man, I just looked outside.
Sun is out, taking my dog for a walk.
People I see and talk to are friendly.
The world seems fine right now.

Directionally in regards to politics, and the policies dictating where we are going seem bad, but can't change it.
 

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