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Hi everyone,
It's kind of hard to introduce myself, because I don't know what my life is about. I was grown up in a bar/restaurant in a small village (4k) in Germany and met a lot of (drunken) guests in a young age. So I learned that most of the adults are talking bullshit and everyone is compleining about something else but because of social norms no one was trying to change it.
I had Internet with about 14 years and learned to find any information I want, over time I developed some kind of Bullshit- Radar and it's active most of the time.
I left the village and moved to a city to study media design. I became very good at it, made my first career in VFX have done some Featurefilms and TV Commercials but all the story's sucked and my friends only watched the commercials if I send them a Link to the YouTube Clip. Some of the Commercials where only seen by 200 people on YouTube (millions have seen them on TV) so I learned that nobody cared about it.
I learned a lot about communication for myself and understood, that our perception of the world is formed by the media.
It's not about what you or someone else thinks, it's about what everyone thinks about what everyone else thinks. Our brains are highly connected and interdependent.
So I loved athenes theory of everything. I watched it yesterday for the second time, but it felt very different from my last watching a year ago. This time it felt like I understand it, that's the funny thing about learning, you never know what you know and what you don't know.
I'm 29 now, I know more than most older people because I'm always curious. I feel if someone is telling a lie to me or himself, but I don't know how to act on it. It's never about truth, it's about what most people think, what others think is the truth.
We life in a culture of double binds (you have to choose but both opportunitys suck) and there is some proof, that there is a correlation with double binds and shizopheria. In my perception, most of the people act very schizophrenic and many healthy people visit a psychologist, because of the social pressure to become schizophrenic.
So here I am, ready to learn, teach and help.
Alex
It's kind of hard to introduce myself, because I don't know what my life is about. I was grown up in a bar/restaurant in a small village (4k) in Germany and met a lot of (drunken) guests in a young age. So I learned that most of the adults are talking bullshit and everyone is compleining about something else but because of social norms no one was trying to change it.
I had Internet with about 14 years and learned to find any information I want, over time I developed some kind of Bullshit- Radar and it's active most of the time.
I left the village and moved to a city to study media design. I became very good at it, made my first career in VFX have done some Featurefilms and TV Commercials but all the story's sucked and my friends only watched the commercials if I send them a Link to the YouTube Clip. Some of the Commercials where only seen by 200 people on YouTube (millions have seen them on TV) so I learned that nobody cared about it.
I learned a lot about communication for myself and understood, that our perception of the world is formed by the media.
It's not about what you or someone else thinks, it's about what everyone thinks about what everyone else thinks. Our brains are highly connected and interdependent.
So I loved athenes theory of everything. I watched it yesterday for the second time, but it felt very different from my last watching a year ago. This time it felt like I understand it, that's the funny thing about learning, you never know what you know and what you don't know.
I'm 29 now, I know more than most older people because I'm always curious. I feel if someone is telling a lie to me or himself, but I don't know how to act on it. It's never about truth, it's about what most people think, what others think is the truth.
We life in a culture of double binds (you have to choose but both opportunitys suck) and there is some proof, that there is a correlation with double binds and shizopheria. In my perception, most of the people act very schizophrenic and many healthy people visit a psychologist, because of the social pressure to become schizophrenic.
So here I am, ready to learn, teach and help.
Alex
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Permalink Reply by Focking Original on -
Welcome Alex! I think you'll enjoy it here.
A lot of people are afraid of actually being schizophrenic, while it's just there different emotions talking.
Schizophrenia is when these emotions aren't communicating with each other.
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Permalink Reply by Michael V. on -
Welcome alex :-)
An interesting story you have here ..
Must be hard growing up among drunken people. It's a great achievement you handled it so well.
One who holds this kinda life-knowledge shall feel home on I-power.
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Permalink Reply by The Shiznit on -
Awesome Alex! Welcome to I-Power! :-D
I'm sure that your experience with the media will be helpful to all of us.
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Permalink Reply by Alex Boerger on -
an example from germany is stuttgart21, there where protest against an totally underground mainstation, that would cost more than 10billion € and there where many signs of corruption. There where protesters in all ages and the police had to stop the protests.
This was an perfect example of a double bind.
The policemen have to protect the people from threats, but they became a threat for the people themselves.
They have to stop criminals but they get orders from people who are under suspicion to be criminals.
How would you act?
- I'm happy that many policemen decided to sign a petition to stop this madness.
My biggest Double Bind is Money
I don´t like money as we use it (all money is debt) but i have no alternative. I can't say, i have something better. I have to use money. If you ask a banker "how does money work?" you don´t get an answer and if you find someone who knows it, he will tell you "It doesn't".
To find an answer i stood in front of the german stock exchange and the ecb for two days and the only answer i got after questioning hard was "It doen't, if we are lucky we will get a hyperinflation." I even met a reporter, who new a lot about the problem told me, he can't tell the public, because he is afraid of riots.
"How does money work"
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The problem:
You always need new money, to pay old dept. So there is more and more money out there. On the other hand, we are creating stuff. So there are also more goods and you can achieve this by extraction of resources (Oil), by a higher productivity (Robots) or working harder (more hours) . If the goods are growing as fast as the money, everything is fine. But we run into a problem. We run out of resources, we run out of productivityboosts (the computer helped a lot in the last years, but the effect is declining and we can't work harder (Burnout).
Today the money is growing faster than the goods, so goods will get more expensive and we run into an inflation.
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Think about it. If you are born in Germany (One of the wealthiest counties) today, you start with a debt of 25000€ and you haven't done anything. (thats the reason why babies cry ;)
I have to act different from what i believe. I have to earn money to do stuff i want to do, but i don't like money.
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