We finally conclude our "accepting the world as it is" multi episode discussion by addressing a question from a listener wondering what the purpose and benefit of this outlook actually is. From toasting Teslas to war in Gaza, we examine how people avoid working on themselves by latching onto large scale causes and boogeymen - permanently delaying fixing their own lives until the rest of the world operates the way they think it should. Focusing on changing the world first is merely a feel-good guise for a deep desire to avoid the one thing that actually might change the world: self-improvement.

We're back after a long travel hiatus to keep talking on the recent theme of accepting the world as it is - this time focused on Ted Kaczynski's ideas around self-propagating systems and the inevitable race to doomsday created by unrestrained technological advancement. We begin with a rather lengthy discussion of the nothing burger of the first Epstein release and what the purpose might actually have been - and conclude with an uncomfortable truth about the reality of the Epstein blackmail operation.

Episode notes:

Price inflation by good type:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/inflation-chart-tracks-price-changes-us-goods-services/

Uncle Ted's paper on self-propagating systems:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-why-the-technological-system-will-destroy-itself