Maybe I'm IRL

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Sometimes I'm some sort of philosopher because my brain thinks thoughts. I've been thinking thoughts about media and the mind for a couple decades now. I am beginning to realise, though, that I am on the luddite side of the veil. Digital realities are replicating real world inequalities. It's gross, yet surely the new market of NFTs is nothing at all to worry about. The fact that a small number owns all the wealth has been proven to work for everyone. It has worked out so well for our ecological reality. The impact doesn't matter. It's fine. Really. It's fine.

In The NFT Market, A Few Buyers And Sellers Are Responsible For Most Trades > https://thedeeptechinsider.com/2021/12/01/in-the-nft-market-a-few-buyers-and-sellers-are-responsible-for-most-trades/
The Token Disconnect > https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/disconnect.html
Analysis of more than 7 million transactions > https://github.com/bugout-dev/moonstream/blob/main/datasets/nfts/papers/ethereum-nfts.pdf

Shoes are not for protecting feet anymore. The friggin Matrix is from 1999 and apparently that's too old for folks to understand the moral of the story – we are not designed, we are grown. Whoa, was that the moral of the Matrix!? That we're grown into humans from the social and cultural experiences that we have and the inputs we receive? That our identities and minds are part of a collective whole and yet distinct enough that we have the potential to shift the balance of nature and that we must carefully consider that power so as not to ruin stuff? Or was the moral that if I try really, really hard without trying at all I will be able to bend the spoon?

Sorry. I got off track. What I'm saying is that nothing is real out there. The birds aren't even real, they're all just surveillance drones.

Nike just bought a virtual shoe company that makes NFTs and sneakers ‘for the metaverse’ > https://www.theverge.com/22833369/nike-rtfkt-nft-sneaker-shoe-metaverse-company
Keanu Reeves doesn’t get the NFT hype either > https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/11/22829383/matrix-nft-keanu-reeves-interview-carrie-ann-moss
Bird aren't real > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html

Maybe I'm disenthralled

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Last week, I didn't write you because I've been a bit...disenthralled. It's the lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. My city is closed. I'm trapped in Groundhog Day. I was at the crazy point last week. I both flipped a lid and kept a lid on the calm, destructive hate I felt for all the things. The pandemic sure does make it seem like long term goals are pointless. Everyone I know is suffering from lack of motivation and ambition right now and it's not just because it's December. If you're all honky dorey at the moment, could you please reply? Any examples of psychological well being would be stellar right now.

Everyday Philosophy: How Doomsday changes the way we live > https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/everyday-philosophy-doomsday-nigel-warburton/
Fooled by Randomness > https://himtox.medium.com/fooled-by-randomness-63f24a8390d0
Psychiatrists are uncovering connections between viruses and mental health > https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22783685/covid-19-depression-mental-health-risks-immunology
How to care less about work > https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/how-care-less-about-work/620902/

Maybe I need help?

I hope you, dear reader, have a nice holiday time of year. I hope you get fat on baked goods and drink too much alcohol. I hope you nap a lot. I hope you get to see something awe inspiring and I hope you come into 2022 with motivation and inspiration. I don't know if this is the last time I'll write you this year (or ever, for that matter). The fact is, I don't know what I'm doing (or why) most of the time.

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