November 21st 2025 Under no illusion Under no illusion My partner read my post from yesterday and said it was very harsh. He has a point. Most people do not have the option to do anything but work in jobs that engulf their souls. Our Molochian system (https://syntropic.world/breaking-free-from-molochs-grip-charting-a-new-course-for-humanity/)is designed exactly to create worker bees always on the edge of precarity. It is because of the injustice of this system that I work as I do. I missed...
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November 20th 2025 Living a charmed life Living a charmed life I was speaking to someone recently who said they lived a charmed life. Yet they were speaking to me about their work, which they had come to resent. At work, they were taken for granted, exploited, rarely acknowledged and paid very well. As if being paid well gives permission to treat people badly. You get paid to be a prostitute, and sometimes you might get paid well, but you are still being fu**cked. I challenged the charmed...
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November 19th 2025 Willful resistance Wilful resistance Both of my parents are alive, one is 92 years old and remarried at 80, the other is 88, lives independently and drives. I understand resistance to technology. I am a fan of the Luddite movement, as we must be able to draw the line between real and digital. I am an advocate for cash. But wilful resistance that costs you and others is stupidity. Technology has always been a tension in human affairs. The use of weapons, fire, hammers. The...
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November 18th 2025 A shark feeding frenzy A shark feeding frenzy Several weeks ago, my local surf break became a shark feeding frenzy. See the footage here with very Aussie commentary. I am in this very water most days. The sharks are always there. Just not as snappy and unified as they are in this video. Fear of sharks could be equated to fear of cars. Statistics are clear. Cars and their drivers are far more dangerous. The current world of AI is our human equivalent of this shark feeding...
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November 17th 2025 Replicating outcomes Replicating outcomes How easily do we fall into the trap of thinking we can replicate an outcome someone else achieved by following a sequence of steps that they followed? Rivers teach us this story. You cannot step into the same river twice. We must start with the conditions we have, the ground conditions. They will never be the same as the ground conditions of those we seek to replicate. To do this, do a whole systems account – a Synergistic Account –...
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November 16th 2025 From killingry to livingry From killingry to livingry My mentor, R.Buckminster Fuller, introduced the terms killingry and livingry nearly 100 years ago. As a naval cadet, he was trained in ballistics. He determined that the precessional effects – the effects at 90 degrees to the goal – of making weapons to kill – killingry – would advantage living – livingry. When people are oppressed, starved and bombed, they either capitulate or they become extraordinarily creative. They...
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November 15th 2025 Call it by name Call it by name When the elites of capital and politics repeatedly get away with crime, corruption, rape, pedophilia and cruelty, we, the people, have many ways to respond. Here are three possibilities. 1. At the very least, to name it with precision. The mainstream media are not doing this, for they are part of the elite. Not underage women, but girls and children. Truth spoken with precision is the first step toward change. Remove all extraneous words....
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November 14th 2025 Rules, compliance and the authority to apply common sense Rules, compliance and the authority to apply common sense Travelling with surfboards is not easy. They are not heavy, but they are long. This is now our fourth trip overseas with surfboards. We have learned a lot. Contact the airline first. Even then, record the conversation. Do not rely on AI to tell you what airlines will or will not do. The AI has been dead wrong twice out of two attempts. If you find a good...
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November 13th 2025 Empire to fall Empire to fall Departures and endings. Leaving and completing. There is a step into the liminal. One door is closing. No going back. It is simply the scale of the ending that matters; each night we end, and each morning we begin again. Many years ago, I realised that life is wonderful because of the highs and lows. The rollercoaster ride must have the dip to get the rush. But how we resist the lows, the difficult, the challenges. The pearl knows the value of...
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