Greetings, fellow sentient beings!
This is going to be my New Year's rant...or warning...that mostly concerns the attitude of people...not among us here.
Is it for you then? Probably not that much but who am I to decide? You might be just that kind of person who would read along to sift through it all in order to find the few grinds of sand that feel useful to you. I know I do so.
So, here I am not saying I do not wish you well. I do. Wish. Us all well. But I am still annoyed at the possible naivety that lurk behind the possible assumption...
...That 2021 ought to be better than 2020. That it owes it to us.
Karma is just starting, b****es!
All right, let's stick to financially better.
Well, it might be a bit more than just a nominal stuff. (Although I might have gone in that direction, too. Too many steps off topic.) The changing of the calendar, since it does influence people's behavior. And this post is about behavior mostly. About the fact that...most people were naughty but they still want presents. Metaphorically speaking. Mostly...I feel they were bad to themselves. Hurting their future. Focusing on the present only. Feeling the hurt in the now. Not seeing the hurt that somehow wickedly this way comes.
So, do we deserve a better year? As a race? What did we do to deserve it?
Not. A. Thing.
(in my opinion)
Again, I am speaking about the generic kind of 2020 moaner on the nets who feels it was unjust what was forced on us and now that we're turning around the corner, the crisis shall be resolved.
It would have been, had it been caused by external factors.
But I fear shooting ourselves financially in our proverbial (financial?) legs would not heal that quickly. Actually, the inflation or deflation (same cause for for the lower-level causes for both, by the way) trouble.
I mean, time to grow up, us humans. Time to remember that our actions...
...or inactions...
...are causes that would lead to certain effects that cannot be avoided by covering it with a blanket or sweeping it under the carpet...or kicking it further down the road...
...Or can they?
The lifeboat.
Last time, I mean in 2008-2010, the trouble was nowhere near the potential of the dark energy currently amassed. And Bitcoin was created in order to prevent that kind of stupidity overwhelming us all in the end. And so far, in 2020, it has proven to be the adequate tool for that.
It is the tool for that.
On a very, very, very small scale. Yet.
Is it a scalable solution, actually? Perhaps not as scalable as altcoins have the potential to become. THey are, I mean, but underused. Widely, globally used and still maximum, now that's scalable. Not the solutions people deservem probably, not yet. But such that they need. Only, they might not know it, not yet, not ever...Or would they know it when the need is dire?
So far, wishes mostly. Wishes of a better nominal calendar value in terms of individual and mass success. Yeah, how about that? Pray to the clock to do your work!
Should I say it, finally?
We should not expect to always avoid the consequences of our mistakes.
Social support to incompetent or ill-intended decisions make yous you participant in said mistakes.
Then again, one learns through erring. Otherwise, Evolution (of economy) would not happen. And it needs to continue, otherwise we're ****ed.
Are you evolving well?
I hope so. I think I am. Just keep them naive well-wishers under one eye at all times and do not let them rub into you. Make your own fate and make the year great again.
Yours,
Manol