Hey, thanks for the comment. I especially liked, "One of the causes of these blindnesses is hero worship and allowing people to accrue majority shares in social capital by bestowing trust on them because you want to believe in them. We've seen this lately in the Tor community." Hero worship and the cult of personality are huge problems in the entrepreneur community too. I guess that's where I'd put myself, if I had to choose a group to define my identity. Everyone I know deifies Elon Musk, including myself. However, there's a real danger in doing this. By deifying others, one never truly comes to understand what hidden strengths, talents and powers lie within each of us. Not everyone is going to want to work as hard as Elon Musk does, cramming down a dinner in 5 minutes, and sending email off while playing with your kids, but we can learn from him, take what's useful and dump the rest. The media knows that we deify Musk and they prey on our vulnerabilities. It's very subtle and most people can't see it. I'm a journalist and a paid writer, so I notice stuff like that. What I hope to change is the way that media runs. I want to give people information that helps them, not manipulates their overly hard-wired lizard brain that is consumed by: status, money, power, greed, sex, etc. I feel that my ultimate contribution could be something like this:
Packaging highly dense and helpful information inside little packets of digital media that from the outside look like click-bait. It's like the reverse of click-bait, because my intention is based in altruistic desire to help humans learn to be more authentic, happy, creative and free. It's what the media should be but currently is not. It's also a post-advertising model. Advertising is dead in my opinion. We're moving towards pure times, and I'd also like to help Nikola Tesla's predictions come true........Thanks again for your comments. I love the global feel of this site......and I think that as i get socially healthier, my tone and topics will change. Here's to the future.