Red Pill Vendor

     How many times have you been watching the news and you compulsively belt out “what an idiot!”? What about the times that you watch a movie and the same thing occurs? How about when you hear someone in your personal life doing something that is not so easily described as intelligent? So what would the world be like without stupidity? To be more precise, what would the world be like if everyone had the same level of intelligence? Most of the time news or entertainment, such as movies, YouTube videos, cell phone, game apps, etc. will showcase stupidity to elicit an emotional response. There’s a lot of advantage to this. But if everyone knew that advantage, would that marketing tactic exist? Would marketing exist at all? Marketing is merely psychology with an agenda after all. And most marketing tactics are effective because of the susceptibility of manipulation of thought and emotion. Which is typically born from certain levels of understanding.  I believe deceptio...

During a time of continual stress and bad luck, I started to ponder the mindset of those that have been clinically diagnosed to believe they are the only real person in this world. I cannot help but think that every delusion is based on some evidence, whether it is a small fraction of the meaning, or if there is gravity to the evidence. So I entered a thought experiment to understand what the world would be if this was actually factual. And the funny thing about it, it started to relate with many different bits of available knowledge. If at the very least, it might be a mindset adjustment tool. So let’s say you really are the only person in the world and everybody else is a simulation. What would cause bad luck? What would cause unnecessary hostility projected at you? I am sure I’m not alone in experiencing times where it appears that it is me versus the world. So what if it is like a dream and your projected consciousness causes all of these undesirable instances? Your life becomes an...