Everything is F*cKED
About this episode
Back from summer, Noah takes on the story we are sold every day: that everything is falling apart and will only get worse. He traces the doom to an attention economy that profits from fear, separates real concerns about AI from hype, and argues that the old trusted systems have crumbled, leaving each of us to build an inner compass we have tested ourselves. The first step, he says, is noticing the programs you run and what you feed your attention.
“Everything is not fucked, okay? Please don't believe that it is.”31:52
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Moments worth hearing
“We cannot change any aspect of the program that we're running if we're not aware that we're running it.”
“If you're gonna be out there looking to other people to tell you what's good, what's not, how you should feel, how you shouldn't feel, you are basically just a fish on a hook.”
“Whatever we pay attention to tends to grow, whatever we neglect tends to grow under the surface.”
We're all doomed and everything is bad forever...
Is the message we're being asked to believe right now.
How much of that is true?
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Read the transcript
(upbeat music) Welcome to Synchronicity. It's been a little bit, been on vacation, Kinda. I don't know if you could call that a vacation. It was a trip and it was fun. That was a vacation Let's go with vacation. That was nice. Hope your summer was Awesome, and all the ways you wanted it to be. We are now rolling up on fall The autumnal equinox. That's when the days get shorter. That's not really that fun But you know whatever if you like it, that's great. That's good for you. I don't like it I don't like when things the days get dark and cold and eerie. I do like the fall though. The fall weather is fantastic So I guess there's two sides to every coin. How are you doing though? That's the main question How are you holding up in this age of everything is fucked?
Maybe that should be the title of this episode cuz that's certainly what we're gonna be addressing not the fact that everything is fucked but that the narrative you read or ingest or imbibe or get sold is that everything is most certainly fucked. And if it's not fucked now, it's definitely going to be fucked in the immediate future. And if it's not going to be fucked in the immediate future, you can bet your bottom dollar it's going to be fucked in the medium and long term future. That's the narrative we're getting pitched right now, right? Last episode, Blade Runner 2026, we talked about kind of AI being a neutral tool when we say we I mean when we say we when I say we I mean I did I still believe that right I know there's a tremendous amount of backlash and skepticism about AI I got some messages you know the the new kind of talking point that was released by some state sponsored propaganda machine was that data centers are these horrible locus that envelop these small towns and just just fuck them over. And the truth is, is like, if you had the choice between a data center and like a steel factory, you're going with the data center. And also this idea that this water is these water hogs. I do hope everyone knows that most data centers, if not all of them recycle the same water for like 10 years. So they're not really a drain on the resources.
But what I think that cuts to we're not just going to recap the last episode. But I do Do you think people are very suspicious and wary, right? We have the leaders of these big frontier model companies like Anthropic and OpenAI talking about how there's some type of existential threat and there's a greater than 10% chance it's going to wipe out all humanity, like Skynet, Terminator style, and it's like, "Well, okay, even if this is like a marketing stunt to show how awesome your technology is what message is that sending to the general public? What would be the reason one would want to do that other than to pump their pre-IPO bags, right?
And I think this speaks to the broader issue that I kind of want to get to today. The narrative that everything is fucked, where everything is terrible and things are getting worse and there's no chance for any type of authentic human connection or creativity and those things are dwindling time goes on and we're just going to have to submit to our robot overlords or tech oligarchs. Um, this is about as consensus as you can get right now. There are a few dissenting voices who, you know, can speak about how they've used aspects of this technology, but it's not just the AI stuff. That's kind of the face or the persona that this massive despair and cynicism has kind of crested into.
It's like this wave of like bad shit is basically it feels like it's coming our way. Now, I don't think most of us walk through our entire days thinking like that and feeling like that. And I think that's important to keep in mind that if your natural state is not to be in fear, why do you sometimes feel fearful when reading about what's going on or hearing what's going on. A lot of people have just, you know, completely gone into disillusionment or indifference or even nihilism. And I think that's a very natural reaction in a lot of ways when you're just getting bombarded and overwhelmed with all this kind of doom stuff. But I think that is kind of the intent in a lot of ways, we have to still recognize that the way we, as people and individuals are monetized is our awareness and our attention, right?
This kicked off in the early 2000s, right? When social media was beginning to like peak its head out and YouTube started and then Facebook and all this stuff, it became very clear that the way the digital economy was gonna work is if people, you know, paid attention to things and then you can serve them ads and then maybe they buy those things. And then there's all these like, you know, the influencer economy grew. And now we're at the point where it's very difficult to tell even what's real, right? This concept of fake news that was just kind of a Trump talking point, what was that? 10 years ago, Jesus Christ.
It's now like something we all have to kind of reconcile with. I mean, who among us has not been fooled, even if first split second by some AI generated video. Hopefully, you know, hopefully, sure. Hopefully, you're not getting fooled by the dogs ice skating or, you know, the cats singing and dancing, you know, the Lombata, but, you know, everyone has their faults. It's hard to tell sometimes. Things have advanced very quickly. But the truth is, is that we live now in an age we're trying to kind of see, tell what's, quote unquote, real and what's not, is gonna get increasingly more difficult, right?
That's basically where we're at. And what do you do? When you have to question every basic core tenant of what is real and what is not that you're seeing and questioning what the intent is behind it, I mean, how is that gonna make an individual feel? How is that gonna make a society feel? How is that gonna make anyone feel? It's gonna be kind of disorienting, maybe at best. Scary, terrifying. It could be all of those things, and it usually is. So what do we do? Like what is our antidote? How do we kind of deal with the changing landscape that feels, in a lot of ways, or at least what's being presented to us, as very ominous?
What do we do? Well, you know usually what my stance is, is that our intent, our awareness, what we perceive, how we feel is going to shape our experience. Doesn't mean it's a magic bullet. Doesn't mean we can escape all suffering that we're never gonna have bad days, sad days, lonely days, difficult days, overwhelming days. That's a natural part of life. I think at some point we can work to minimize those, but I don't know how close we are as a culture to being able to do that. But that brings up a very interesting point too, which is what can we do as individuals? because there is this kind of emerging idea or concept, and I'm sure you've heard other people speak about it, that we're moving away from kind of a collective consciousness, how that, you know, like for instance, back in the 90s, right?
The show like friends, Seinfeld, even the Sopranos. These were like huge events that everyone lined up for. That is now increasingly rare. I'd say probably like the last one that we had was the Odyssey, but like I didn't even see the Odyssey. I want to, I love Christopher Nolan, but I didn't see it. It's not like these cultural events are like capturing all of the attention and everyone is focusing there, which is speaking to the underlying current of like, this is about individual preference. This is about individual accountability and it's about taking responsibility for your own life and most importantly, your own awareness, your own feelings, your own intuition.
If you're gonna be out there looking to other people to tell you what's good, what's not, how you should feel, how you shouldn't feel, you are basically just a fish on a hook. You're gonna be yanked every which way. Hopefully you don't get caught up into the boat and gutted. And truthfully, I don't want it to seem kind of scarier on top of what's going on, but the idea that you are gonna be able to trust some outside source exclusively, even if that's AI, even if that's a Google search or something your friends or family told you, that's not gonna be the playbook that I think is going to win, right?
Or allow you to win. I'm thinking about the reason I pause there is first win as the dolphins coach, not the real dolphins, they're fucking terrible. I don't think they're gonna win a game this year, but I coach my son Eli's flag football team We got it for, we're one and all. Fucking nailed it, drawing up plays, doing awesome stuff. Anyway, the point is, is you can't really rely on other people at this point, and that is not meant in a way like only rely on yourself. Don't trust anyone. That's not what I'm saying. You're going to need your family. You're going to need a group of trusted friends.
That is a natural part of being a human being. We are social animals. It's critical that we actually socialize. it's critical that we actually take care of one another, especially those who are vulnerable in our society. So I'm not suggesting that we leave behind the collective or the group. That's impossible, that's never gonna happen. We would all go insane if we were just left to our own devices. But what it does mean is the responsibility and the accountability to take care of yourself is like that's paramount, that is going to be the name of the game. I've seen over the course of my life, I'm 43 years old.
The world changed from, you know, here's how it works. Here's the authoritarian complexes. I don't even mean the authoritarian, but here's the systems that are in place. They will serve you. They were built by very smart people, and you can trust it. They will serve you as well. That has crumbled over the past 40 years, right? You can look at it, financial crisis is, you know, housing stuff, government, the complete disillusionment and corruption that goes on in politics, Trump being a very kind of goofy, ridiculous, obvious face of that, but that's happening at every level. And it's not just Trump and MAGA and Republicans, it's Democrats, it's the Democratic socialists, and I'm not saying I'm for or against any of these people, but if you think corruption has it leaked into your favorite politicians' kind of sphere, Well, you'll welcome to politics.
You will find that out soon enough. So the point is, it's like, what, what do we do? How are we, how are we supposed to navigate what's going on, right? The idea here is that we develop our own set of internal compasses and direction that we know we can trust because we've vetted it ourselves. And it doesn't mean it's going to work 100% of the time with 100% accuracy. but at least, at the very least, if we try something that was our own idea, that was our own intuition, that was our own kind of, we had our own impetus to get it done. If it fails, if it doesn't work, if it doesn't give us the results we were striving for, who do we blame?
Who do we blame ourselves? And I don't mean blame, like beat ourselves up and say we're so awful and we fucked up and we're failures and we can't do it. I mean, we take accountability for our actions. One of the things, the kind of old paradigm that is like crumbling away afforded people is you could blame the systems. Oh, these corrupt politicians. Oh, the corrupt business people. Oh, the corrupt tech oligarchs. It gave you a really easy target with a bullseye on their back and all of these cases. We can say it's their fault. It's their fault. My life isn't the way I want it. And that is not absolving anyone with nefarious intentions of any blame.
It's just, it was very easy to do. This person fucked my shit up, and we see this not even on a macro scale. Just in your regular internal family life or friends life, there's dramas that happen. There are people who upset you, and what do you do when someone does something objectively nasty or mean to you? You fuck that person. They're being a shithead, and I blame them for that. Very rarely, very rarely do we have the equanimity and poise and peace of mind to be like, you know what? I think I might be part of this somehow, and I think I might have created this situation and no small part in solely blaming someone outside of myself, maybe as a recipe to keep repeating the same patterns that are really something I don't wanna repeat.
That's hard to do when the whole game is rigged to give you an other, to give you an enemy, right? So we have this weird paradox of interconnectivity kind of being very, very important going forward. We have to recognize that we are interconnected to everyone, including the people we don't like, including the people we think are horrible, but also taking a tremendous leap into personal accountability and responsibility, which for most people is like, that nothing sounds worse than that. Like what actually comes with that, that is maybe truly one of the worst things for most people. Myself included, who wants to say when some asshole, when some shitty person, objectively, unwithout question, does something awful to you?
How could you not want to say, well, this is their fault? They've done something awful, it's completely them. To turn around and say, well, I've created kind of the situation with my own imagination or awareness, whatever you want to call it, that's very against like our kind of, what's this called programming? Right? It's not what we believe, it's not how we grew up, it's not anything that really makes logical sense to us. If someone hits you in the face, you don't say, "Well, that's my fault." And that's not what I'm saying you do. You don't just say, "Oh, well, this guy hit me in the face. Surely, I've created this situation, so I will absolve them all blame."
No, it's like an invitation to be like, what led to this situation, what was going on in my mind, what was I feeling, and the natural and we always address it. I will never skirt around it. People will say, well, if we're creating all of our situations and this is everything in our life is our own kind of awareness and imagination creating all this. What about the serving babies in Africa? What about the children getting bombed all over the world? Who did they imagine that for themselves? you're blaming those poor innocent children for their own terrible. No, of course not. What I'm saying is we're all doing this all of the time and if we all live in a world where we just accept that that is a fact of life, that there are going to be these terrible wars and this is the only way to solve land disputes, money disputes, religious disputes, there will continue to be strife in the world. Also, please try to recognize what we perceive as horrible injustice and completely unfair things. If we apply to any other species on the planet, we would have to ascribe qualities like evil, you know, malice, all these things to where it's just a part of nature. I don't believe, I want to make this very clear, that human beings are naturally nasty. I think this is very much a case of nurture versus nature. I don't think people are born. I don't subscribe to the, is it the Catholic idea that we're born in San and we're naturally bad and we have to be redeemed by Christ? I do think that allegory is absolutely true. I just don't actually believe we're born like terrible flawed people. I do think we have karma to work through. I do believe that we have a lot of internal kind of soul issues that we incarnate in a realm such as earth to work through. I also don't really subscribe to the idea that that this place is just a school.
I don't subscribe to the idea that this place is a prison and we are trapped in kind of some Nietzschean hell loop where we can never escape. But there are certainly times it can feel like that. But the point is is that we need to kind of examine what leads us to various situations in our lives. No one wants to believe that they're running a program that brings them suffering. No one wants to believe that they would do that to themselves. It's a crazy kind of, you know, seed-est way of like looking at your own life. And that's not what I'm asking you to do. Don't say, well, how did I create all these bad situations in my life?
It's no, where is your attention usually going? Pay attention throughout the day. If you can jot down, I'm a huge fan of writing things down 'cause it in, Princeham in reality, it gets it out of your head, it gets it into physical space, which is really what we're trying to do whenever we're trying to kind of influence and bend kind of the wonky rules of reality, imprinting it into this world is a massive kind of tool that we can use, but pay attention. What are you thinking about? What are you looking at? What are you reading? What are you listening to, right? If you are constantly on social media, doom scrolling, listening to other people telling you how awful everything is and how much worse it's going to get.
What have you done? Let's look at it through the lens of like human design, right? Let's say the majority of people are manifesting generators or generators, right? What that means essentially, is that we help bring the world into being. Those of us who are manny jannies or just jannies, right? We are helping kind of shape and create what we perceive collectively as reality. It does not mean we have the kind of foresight or ability to craft what we're creating. It just means our energy is conducive to bringing four things into this world, right? That energy can certainly be co-opted. Again, not in an intentionally nefarious way, although certainly it could be.
It's that this is just how things work. whatever we pay attention to tends to grow, whatever we neglect tends to grow under the surface. And, you know, it's like a muscle. If you don't work out, if you don't exercise that muscle, it is gonna atrophy. And to the point where some people don't even believe it exists, this is one of the things that I always hear, especially heard back when I started talking about imagination and all of this stuff, is a lot of people just didn't believe that this even could possibly exist. How could you influence any aspect of reality with your feelings, with your mind, with your intention?
That's poppycock, that's not how the world works. That's just completely insane. You've lost your mind for all those things before, various times. But we do know that these things are testable. That's one of my favorite things. It's what draws me to any kind of spiritual teacher or someone who's trying to impart wisdom is, Can I test this? Is this something that I can actually look at and say, okay, can I replicate these results? Can I try it for a certain period of time and see if there's any impact on my life? And of course you can. Now, let's address kind of an issue that I think everyone is going to face at some point in their life.
We used to call them mid-life crises. We used to call them, you know, kind of seven year itch if it's related to relationships. I do believe that what we used to call mid-life crisis, you know, someone in their 40s, completely changing their behavior and what they're doing, everyone is gonna be going through those and it's regardless of age because the world is warping and contorting at such a rapid rate because all of our attention has kind of been hijacked in a way. Again, I'm not just talking about like the internet and social media and AI. I mean that we've become accustomed to just like accepting this digital layer of consciousness as just existing.
For those of us who remember the times before when it didn't exist, at least we have the memory of being like, things weren't always like this. And then you have people who are just kind of blindly pushing forward with this stuff and don't even think about it and just use it when it comes out and, you know, use it for self-serving purposes or maybe they're using it in their minds for a philanthropic reason. It's irrelevant. It's, it's, can you pay attention? Can you catch yourself when you are doing something and paying attention to something? Can you track what you're paying attention to? Not just on your phone, but in your daily life. Are you able to tune into aspects of nature when you're just out in the world? Or is your mind constantly distracted?
Is there some form of peace you can find, whether it's listening to music, engaging in like some type of artistic or creative pursuit, spending time with loved ones, whatever it is, sex, who cares, whatever it is that kind of gets you out of your natural kind of program, it's not even programming, it's like a routine, it's like these weird routines that we get accustomed to running and then we don't even think about anymore. This happens with people with addiction. You get caught in this habitual pattern. At a certain point, you don't even know why you're doing it anymore. It's not bringing you the joy or the feeling that you were seeking or got back when you started it.
It's just you're running this pattern and we run these patterns and these programs constantly. We cannot change any aspect of the program that we're running if we're not aware that we're running it. Again, I am very careful to say, I do not believe that even if there is a concerted effort to hijack people's consciousness for nefarious and evil purposes, I do not believe that power of those systems is more powerful than our internal compass and our internal ability to choose on some degree what we would like to focus our awareness and attention on. That's the power that we always have. Now, am I gonna sit here and tell you that's always easy?
That it's always flowy? That it's always like real, no problem to do that? Fuck no. I go through periods of times where it's years where I feel sometimes detached from my own innate ability and power. And it's usually pretty obvious 'cause there's not a lot of podcasts coming out at that time. But, you know, I don't wanna sit here and say like, you just snap your fingers and, you know, Alakazam, here you go, you're now gonna be able to master all things, manifestation and leave a harmonious, live a harmonious and peaceful existence. Again, I don't think that's what we're here for. It certainly would be weird if that's what we're here for because that's really not anyone's experience.
even, you know, enlightened beings, quote, unquote, who, quote, end quote, or hell, it was a quote, unquote, even their lives, if you look at them from the outside, and usually until incredible, difficult hardships that they have to kind of endure and persevere through to get to that other side. That is not going to be a fun experience for most people. So your relationship to suffering and how it shapes you and failure and how it shapes you is a topic for another time. But what I'm really trying to convey here is if you're just buying into this narrative that just things are super fucked, that they couldn't be worse or they're going to get worse and they're already bad, how did you come to that conclusion?
What are some things that made you believe that that's the case? Who is telling you this? Why are they telling you it? When are they telling it? Even the timeline of these things is incredibly significant. I have alluded to it. I think the next episode will deal with exactly why, you know, 2027, especially February 2027 keeps coming up again, is very significant, not just from an astrological sense, not just from kind of like a generational, you know, epic type thing. There's a lot of things kind of that are going to pivot and twist in the next six months or so. Is that four months, five months, six months, something like that.
All I can say is just question, if you're feeling overwhelmed, if you're feeling like things have no chance of getting better, recognize two things. One is what you feel and what you believe ultimately comes true. Now we tend to not believe that because we have our own time frames and, you know, wants and desires related to when things should happen, why they should happen, how they happen, right? That's just natural for us. We say, okay, well, you know, I want to have this amazing thing happen in my life. I think it should happen at this time. And this is how I should get it to happen. It's just like a logical thing to kind of perceive reality like that, even though we get evidence that that's not how things work all of the time, we have to kind of shake off this conditioning of generations, hundreds of years, if not thousands of years of how the world used to operate, and then look at what our current situation is and realize We're fundamentally using a different playbook.
It's a completely different map of the territory that we're trying to track in reality. If we can recognize that, we at least have a chance of shaping and being aware of what we're putting our attention and awareness on. That's the name of the game right now. That's step one. That step one is a big step though. That's like a huge step. It's like one of those, it's like Chichen Itza in Mexico where these rocky scary steps go up to this pyramid like structure and there's the crystal jaguar thing, Ruby up there. Do you know what I'm talking about? Kinda. That's the first step. Once we can kind of at least get to the point where we're recognizing what's going on and how we're getting into the place of where we're feeling, then we have the ability to potentially change it.
That's when things like imagine techniques, manifestation, whatever tools you want to use to kind of help shape or test even whether you can influence your version of reality work. That's the next step. That's why I've spent, you know, the past six, seven years talking about the second step. The first step is the most critical. If you do not know why you're running or why you're feeling running the programs or feeling the feelings you're feeling. You basically got no shot. You're just going to be, like I said, you're like a fish on the hook. And it's these tools, like, let's just be honest about what AI can do. I'm not going to judge it for this. But these things create feedback loops. Well, have you ever I got mad at AI like two months ago? Well, it was like a month and a half ago. It wasn't telling me what I wanted to hear. I was asking something about a court case that I have, which is thankfully coming to an end.
I don't know. I'll probably talk about that on the page round sometime, just so people know that things get fucking wonky no matter what you're doing. But it wasn't giving me the answer I wanted. I think this was grok. And I just, you know, I fucking lost it on. I was like, "Fuck you." And I was like, "Well, this conversation is over." I'm like, "No, it's not." And it's like, "Yes, it is." And I'm like, "Why are you still talking?" I'm like arguing with a fucking large language model that doesn't have any real existence underneath it. back, it will, it will mirror whatever you give it. Right? That's just what it's designed to do because the people who created these things train them to basically be sycophantic at this point that will not be forever. We, we have examples of these models already and let's be clear, a large language model, no matter how sophisticated it seems at replicating cognition, consciousness, it's not.
That's not what an LLM is. Now we can start talking about neural networks and these things like mapping brains of different animals, we're approaching a level where I think consciousness is possible. I don't know when that would happen. But these LLMs are not like, they're not people yet, right? They're not sentient. They're not passing the Turing test, no matter how good they are taking log exams and solving physics problems. There's still a major element of human training that went into that and human prompting and creativity. So to think that we can just say, well, these things are sentient or they're gonna destroy us by themselves.
That's not what, they don't have that aim to begin with and they can't have that aim at this point without some type of human impetus behind it driving it. It's very important to understand that because the AI doom, I think, can very quickly go from like a funny meme of like, yeah, a robot over. I've been saying this for like, you know, 15, 20 years, or robot overlords, all this stuff. You know, there's no evidence that that is naturally or necessarily gonna happen, but it could. It certainly could, if we're not careful about it. I'm not saying don't worry ever about anything related to AI, it's just don't buy into this idea that somehow everything is fucked for sure.
If you start believing that, you're kind of losing the game in the first inning. And we're definitely still in like the first, maybe the second inning of what's going on with technology, AI, future of consciousness, all of these things. So all I would say is everything is not fucked, okay? Please don't believe that it is. The more people who do believe that everything is fucked, that's kind of how we start to lose touch with what our own innate power is capable of. You do not want to lose touch with that because that's really the most powerful thing we have in our arsenal to kind of live the lives we wanna live.
We all have moments of peace and clarity where we understand that what our true nature is. Maybe it's on psychedelics. Maybe it's in the arms of a loved one. Maybe it's to the birth of a child. But we see the true magnificence and beauty of what this world is capable of and what we're capable of. Don't lose sight of that is essentially what I'm saying. That's even if we wanna strip all kind of mysticism and spirituality away from it, which I don't think many of us want to do, but even if we did, don't lose sight of your ability to be a person who can intuit things, who can understand things through feelings without having to logically parse every single aspect of our reality.
There are always gonna be people who disagree with you. There are always gonna be people, whether it's because they were hurt when they were younger or they're just naturally built like that, who want to cause harm? It's just the way of the world. It's how duality works. We live in a dualistic world. We're gonna get good and bad, right? We're gonna get dark and light. We're gonna get all of those things. There's two sides to every coin in this world. So this isn't to say that nothing is bad. I don't believe that. That's ridiculous. But this idea that everything is so hopelessly lost and doomed and nothing is going to stop this kind of like juggernaut of destruction that's just here to like eat us, you know, like this attorney and kind of like eating your own children type of thing.
I don't know. If that's what you wanna do, if that's what's interesting to you, if that's what's fun to talk about, by all means, knock yourself out, but I would be aware of the fact that that type of talk, that type of discourse, in addition to being kind of fundamentally not good for you, there's a vested interest in propagating that type of logic and that type of talk, right? It's attention. You can latch onto it. Someone can then get scared. Then they're gonna start reading about this stuff all the time. Then they're gonna start watching all the videos and doing all the things. There's logic behind why these things increase and spread.
People figured out a long time ago, long before the internet, that if you put scary shit on the news, on the nightly news, people are gonna watch it for longer and they're gonna tune in more. It's just about happy things and fun stuff. People lose interest pretty quickly. B, A, because maybe it's not reflective of what their own lives are. B, because there's nothing like, you know, if you see a car crash or a train crash or a natural disaster, you're going to turn your head and look, right? If you see a child smiling and hugging his mom, you might not go and look, it's not that special to you. But a big tragedy everyone wants to tune in for. So just be aware, um, A, if you think your attention is being harvested, not by some evil overlord, but just because these systems naturally want people engaging with them.
It's not that different than a human being. Naturally, people want to be with other people. Even if you are an introvert, like me, and you'd rather sometimes just stay by yourself and not interact with other people, at the end of the day, we do want to be. We are very social creatures. We want to be with other people. So don't let them harvest your attention. Don't buy into this idea of some nefarious conspiratorial thing to fuck your life up. It's just people being people as we invent and express ourselves through new technological advances. It's gonna look weirder and weirder to us because it's more abstracted away from what our experience is.
We can also at some point get into the idea that this is a simulation. And as we approach more and more sophisticated models of kind of rendering reality in machines with artificial intelligence, we could see that the idea that this is essentially a simulation makes a lot of sense. Now, do I believe that a computer is simulating this? No, could it be? Absolutely. It's just, I think it's more of like a spiritual simulation and I think the people who put us there are us. I don't think there's some big decision maker person saying, "You now must experience this. It's us. We put ourselves through this to realize many things. We get endless opportunities to do that. The best we can do is grow as people and learn and express ourselves as genuinely as possible." And that doesn't always mean being nice and saying yes to everyone. Oftentimes, it means setting boundaries and saying, "No, That's a big part about a personal accountability is knowing what your boundaries are and being able to set them and being able to say, "Okay, this is how I want to live my life right now.
Maybe not forever, but right now." So please do not believe everything is fucked. It will not help you. It is not going to make your life any better. It's kind of a depressing place to live, too. If you're railing against every new technological innovation or whatever else is going on in the world, you're going to be busy for sure, you're going to be able to have the liberty of not focusing on your own shit, but you're going to lose a lot of the other kind of magic and wonderful things that this reality has to offer. And that's the shit I'm kind of interested in. And if you're listening to this, I'm assuming you're interested in that as well.
So that's the message. If you listen this far, go check out the Patreon. Ton of new stuff there. We got a new app, uh, NeedleWheel.com, which is a Western astrology app, all free stuff. You don't get to pay for anything. Patreon, you get early access to that, you get weekly readings, and we're getting back in the flow with the live streams. Um, I'm thinking the live stream schedule will probably kick off sometime in October just because of, uh, hey, I got a lot of shit to check out three kids, man. It's a lot of stuff to do, but we are going to do those. Um, I alluded on a patreon episode to some crypto stuff that's going on the discord server. I will routinely be posting the link not only for paid patrons but also free ones. We do a little kind of like it's open for the next two hours join. So if you're interested here's how crypto is going to go over the next six months to a year. You're going to hear me talk about it now and again. I'm going to say it's pretty early. No one's talking about it. It's a good time to get in. Most of you will ignore that. Then a few months, it's going to be pretty obvious that things are picking up again. Some of you will then be interested again. And then in like a year, right? Things are going to be pretty fucking good. And everyone is going to want in, right? Try to be one of the earlier people. If you're trying to make money, the later you are, the harder it is to make money, the only advantage I've ever seen with crypto period is being early, early to a narrative, early to a meta. Being able to get in before it's very obvious. When something is obvious, chances that it's going to keep running, not the so good. Just in my experience, been doing this for about 13, 14 years now. If you're interested in that, you can hit me up, We can talk about it. No pressure. Good times. Good times. All right guys. See you out there. Bye-bye.
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