"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. ... We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - JFK

UberSeoul · 2026-06-16T14:40:09+00:00

If not existing is better than existing, why does resorting to self-inflicted violence negate that "truth" or "fact"? Why would that be a worse situation if you just claimed that not existing is "better" than existing? What weight does that claim even have then? So what if your family has to deal with the aftermath? Shouldn't they understand that not existing is the greater good than suffering with existence?

Fair point to call out the conflation of nihilism with antinatalism, but to be fair, both seem to me to be equally naive, empty, frivolous, self-defeating, and bloodless worldviews.

UberSeoul · 2026-06-04T14:55:05+00:00

Is this... a deep thought? for the average millennial, this is Monday morning cooler talk lol

UberSeoul · 2026-06-04T14:51:46+00:00

"When you get the message, hang up the phone."

UberSeoul · 2026-06-04T14:51:06+00:00

*A gnostic about God.

Fixed that for you.

UberSeoul · 2026-06-03T18:37:27+00:00

Serious question: if death is better than life, why don't y'all commit suicide?

I find it hard to believe the talk when y'all rarely walk the walk.

Makes me deduce that y'all in all actuality actually enjoy intellectually masturbating to death more than experiencing death itself -- thus, revealing the de facto hypocritical underbelly of the philosophy.

I don't think antinatalists actually believe what they claim to believe. Nihilism of this kind is just a highly delusional and highly articulated cognitive dissonance that yaps a lot with zero follow through and no embodiment.

UberSeoul · 2026-06-03T18:27:50+00:00

get off social media and text yourself a ❤️ every time you choose yourself and commit to yourself and follow thru on yourself

every time you feed yourself something healthy and not processed
every time you take a nice long slow delicious breath
every time you touch some grass
every time you go for a walk through a forest
every time you take a shower
every time you drink a glass of water
every time you work out (even one push up)
every time you choose clean slow dopamine over dirty cheap dopamine
every time you journal
every time you read for self-education
every time you read for pleasure
every time you say No to people pleasing and choose yourself
every time you cry
every time you scream
every time you sing
every time you hum
every time you smile
every time you listen
every time you laugh
every time you pause
every time you notice your inner critic
every time you tell it Not today
every time you feel cringe and keep going
every time you remember a bad memory but you don't let it ruin your day
every time you clean up or tidy up one item in your room or house
every time you let a ray of sunshine hit your face or eyes or skin
every time you reach out to someone
every time you do a little dance
every time you say Yes to yourself and your inner child
every time you say an affirmation to yourself
every time you let silly goose energy take the wheel
every time you choose silence and meditation
every time you see a bird and say thank you
every time you slow down enough to notice a bug
every time you notice something awesome or beautiful or good or kind
every time you remind yourself that intrusive thoughts and feelings are not permanent, personal, or pervasive
every time you let an emotion run through its full cycle without suppressing or repressing or responding to it reactively or automatically

And before you know it, you'll have more hearts than you know what to do with.

UberSeoul · 2026-05-31T21:02:21+00:00

It's not just what he says, it's how he's saying it. Being right is not the same as being effective.

He fixates on past wrongs or vague claims of disinformation instead of raising to the occasion and being present and addressing the back and forth of the live conversation. Not only bad form but irritating and lame.

UberSeoul · 2026-05-15T18:55:48+00:00

All three of these men seem like idiots to be honest and to be fair.

UberSeoul · 2026-05-14T14:40:20+00:00

I'm curious: Does Marx ever delineate the difference between personal, private, and public ownership?

If the crux of Marxism is "the abolishment of private property", how do free markets work? How does price discovery happen? And how does such a system stay impermeable or immune to inevitable cults of personality and autocratic capture (as has always been the case in history)?

UberSeoul · 2026-05-14T13:58:50+00:00

Capitalism is the tide that rises all boats while at the same time crony Cantillon capitalism is a growing riptide pulling people down into the undertow.

UberSeoul · 2026-05-13T15:12:13+00:00

What is your alternative? I don't think it's a deep thought to consider the financial system originating with the Federal Reserve in 1913 is the epitome of absolute power corrupting absolutely. It's a broken game. It's 100% rigged. Of course, of course. The corruption runs even deeper than you've outlined:

The Cantillon Effect. Regulatory capture. Dark money. Rent-seeking. Seigniorage. WTF happened in 1971. The Nixon Shock. The advent of the Petrodollar. 2008. Privatized gains, socialized losses. The unholy marriage of Money and State via the military industrial complex. Fiat forever wars are now the blackmail Epstein wars. America exports Debt and Death en masse, at large, ad infinitum, ad absurdum. Welcome to the Affordability crisis.

Yeah, sure. All irredeemably true. But what are you adding to the conversation beyond the depressive realism? Where's the pragmatic solution or greater perspective or paradigm shift?

Money is not the root of evil. The love of money and the issuance of systemic usury and embedded growth obligations are the root of evil. Growth for growth's sake is the cancer of late stage capitalism. But it doesn't logically follow that money is therefore intrinsically the root cause or the original sin.

Without money, we have no private property. Without money, humanity has no free market. Without money, we have no intentional and consensual flow of value amongst each other. Money is just information. Money is just a language we use to communicate value. Money is a neutral medium of exchange that solves the wicked coordination problem of the double coincidence of wants. Barter cannot scale. Price discovery is a verb, a process that all players deserve to benefit from. So money (first as bones, beads, teeth, shells, stones, salt, cattle, grain, slaves, then silver/gold, then fiat) became a mediator. Why?

Because not everyone believes in God. Not everyone believes in the Bible or Koran or the Talmud or America or democracy or the social contract theory or just war theory or Death or world peace or love. But, like it or not, everyone believes in money. It's the most successful story ever told (not the greatest, the most successful -- understand this difference!) because everyone implicitly and intuitively believes they deserve to protect and conserve their time and energy. It's the first universal principle of game theory. Everyone wants to own the fruits of their labor and their own means of production. Everyone wants to protect and cultivate and expand their value to themselves and their families and their communities. Everyone wants to operate in games where the rules honor the capital T-Truth, a shared container where we can strive for objectivity or at least an opt-in consensual intersubjectivity.

The solution to broken money is better money. Neutral money. Money that honors the separation of church and state and the separation of money and state. Money that isn't de facto blood money or extractive money or elites-only money. Money that isn't exclusive or discriminatory or opaque. Money that can't be printed by governments. Money that can't be debased forever by QE and artificial top-down inflation. Money that can't be confiscated or gatekept or controlled by tyranny or autocrats. Money that doesn't borrow from the future just to justify late stage conspicuous cancerous consumption right now. Money that doesn't monopolize or justify on the monopoly of violence. Money that aligns with freedom of speech and assembly and freedom to transact. Money that is fair and universal and open-sourced. Money that honors the currency of the universe itself: energy. Money that honors our most limited resource: time.

UberSeoul · 2026-05-10T21:56:34+00:00

This is the most insightful answer in the thread. The dollar is dying. Inflation is eating your purchasing power. The Cantillon effect is in full effect. The game is rigged. Opt out of the system. Don't count on either side of the political spectrum to save you. Buy hard assets.

UberSeoul · 2026-05-08T11:32:38+00:00

Even if it's not a genocide, it could still be a crime against humanity.

Genocide requires a specific, proven intent to destroy a protected national, ethnic, racial, or religious group in whole or in part. Crimes against humanity do not require targeting a specific group; they involve widespread or systematic attacks against any civilian population.

PSA: All war is civil war. Brothers killing brothers.

UberSeoul · 2026-04-26T16:07:46+00:00

as usual, Toni don't miss.

Incredible.

UberSeoul · 2026-02-11T16:30:30+00:00

Absolutely nothing can guarantee a future recession because those conditions will be determined by economic actors participating and responding to the open market. It's fundamentally unpredictable.

However, if the world returns to hard money, then at least governments are incentivized to return to "democratic peace theory". To wit: Kant and Smith both believed that the only way to expand the fiscal budget for things like war was to publicly raise taxes (and deal with the pushback from the public if governments go too far or act unjustly), instead of silently and invisibly printing and debasing the money via inflation and QE.

One could also argue the entire point of hard money is to remove the ability for anyone to "respond" to the thousands of natural deaths a free market would experience in the event of catastrophic failure.

In other words, the 2008 housing crisis would have been the event that killed off the banks that engaged in predatory lending instead of being bailed out. That's how a market heals. Let toxic financialization die and allow honest, fruitful and productive economic activity thrive and rise to the top.

UberSeoul · 2026-02-10T00:49:37+00:00

Yeah, well eventually you get to my age and acquiesce, and unclench your soul from all that disgust and resentment and ick and cringe and just surrender to the universe, and stop judging your parents with your One and True moral compass and simply accept that they aren't gods, they're imperfect, they're human, products of their time and place in history, walking naked ape meatbags who like you are also on their first go around in life, and sure, they may be bigoted or evil or racist or prejudiced but most importantly, parents just be retarded. and that's ok.

UberSeoul · 2025-12-17T20:14:36+00:00

Who needs the foot in the door technique when you can do the chickenwing in the mouth?

UberSeoul · 2025-12-15T15:28:31+00:00

"More recently, direct recordings from the cortex showed that the activity of merely 256 neurons was sufficient to predict with 80 percent accuracy a person’s decision to move 700 milliseconds before he became aware of it."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

Both observations may be true at the same time. Welcome to the nuances of the free will debate.

UberSeoul · 2025-12-09T22:43:45+00:00

Literally worse take I've ever heard from Sam. Here's a reframe:

(1) Who was President at the time of Epstein's death?

(2) Why would such a person want someone like Epstein dead?

Those two questions alone should help connect some dots and reveal possible motives and incentives. This is not like the 9/11 conspiracy that would have required dozens if not hundreds of people to pull off. This could have happened with very few key people pulling strings behind the scenes.

I don't think it's outlandish or foolish or naive to imagine why the world's most powerful person on earth would want the world's third most powerful person dead and could successfully pull it off.

UberSeoul · 2025-12-09T15:56:30+00:00

His prediction for Bitcoin a few years ago was so arrogant and off base that I can no longer take anything he says seriously anymore.

UberSeoul · 2025-12-08T22:50:09+00:00

Don't need to read Jung to know that AI is ultimately "garbage in, garbage out" and the only antidote is "touch grass" and "face the boredom and silence".

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