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RESULTS OF THE FIRST WORLDVIEW LITERACY COMPETITION

BEST COMMENT - @oseworld for a clear sharp, and interesting take, and social/historical dimensions
II PRIZE @kingcrazy for a crucial distinction btw fitting somewhere and finding your right place
III PRIZE - @coordinator for brave and personal reflections

Congrats!! Today I'm going to tip your prizes under your original comments.

I WORLDVIEW LITERACY COMPETITION

In his 1 min. talk Ian Bremmer suggests, that it's good to constantly challenge and adjust our general picture of the world. Is he right?

BEST COMMENT - 300 degen
II PRIZE - 200 degen
III PRIZE - 100 degen

Deadline: 7 pm today, ET time (7 hours)
I will announce the winners in a separate post this evening.

I WORLDVIEW LITERACY COMPETITION

In his 1 min. talk Ian Bremmer suggests, that it's good to constantly challenge and adjust our general picture of the world. Is he right?

BEST COMMENT - 300 degen
II PRIZE - 200 degen
III PRIZE - 100 degen

Deadline: 7 pm today, ET time (7 hours)
I will announce the winners in a separate post this evening. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fu0HngFib8

The greatest dangers of reading voraciously online are 

1) everything seems to happen quickly, when actually you’re just drinking from the firehouse of cumulative human activity that might be built much more slowly (for example MSCHF works on projects for 6-18 months). 

2) The headlines, trends, and metas start to look anointed and inevitable. Actually these all began as creative acts of risk taking and iteration, and their significance and durability can be exaggerated in social media. New ideas may be found in the negative space between what you read on Farcaster, but it may be harder to see them if you’re just glued to the screen without some other creative engine that doesnt answer to the same crowd.

Making mistakes is less painful than avoiding action

Creativity is a constant push against the stream. We're struggling with our lives, but still doing things when we're at the verge of breaking down. It's just a normal part of me, I was like that my whole life. I'm not trying to explain that to myself, I'm just letting it be like that.

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my life is like this channel
it says explore the ultimate question at the top
nothing else i can recognize

how do we get to places like this?

i guess parents' beliefs at first
- in Poland we still have churches
later it depends

in public school, we see the world the way politicians want it
friends from your streets, movies, and ads industry 
can expand it a little or shrink it even more
in the private school 
you learn the dogmas of your elite circle

sometimes with a wise teacher or book
or your first love
you get a feeling of breaking free 
being true

most of the ways out are closed
experts sell your anger 
your revolution is co-opted 
your freedom is used

we live as hundreds and millions
our dreams and gods are the society

they say some of us changed the world in the past
but maybe they just happen to be in the right place
close to the top of the incoming wave

/life new @automod config. lmk if you have better ideas