Fear vs Interdependence

 "Fear paralyzes the faculty of reason, destroys the faculty of imagination, kills off self-reliance, undermines enthusiasm, discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of purpose, encourages procrastination, wipes out enthusiasm, and makes self-control an impossibility. It takes the charm from one's personality, destroys the possibility of accurate thinking, and diverts concentration of effort; it masters persistence, turns the willpower into nothingness, destroys ambition, beclouds the memory, and invites failure in every conceivable form; it kills love and assissinates the finer emotions of the heart, discourages friendship, and invites disaster in a hundred forms; it leads to sleeplessness, misery, and unhappiness - and all this despite the obvious truth that we live in a world of overabundance of everything the heart could desire."

Page 216 of Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, published 1937.

So now you know why the MSM (Mainsteam Media) has fear on every page. It disables the reader and prevents reason.

So yes, read and learn. Take advice. But make up your own mind. And set your purpose. If you make a mistake, own up and trim the sails so that you can change direction.

#love #fear #purpose #social #integration #interdependence

Alternatives

There are 73 oil exporting countries on this list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_exports

Quite a few of them could be considered rogue nations or nations which support terrorism. So what's new in the world of oil production and exporting and importing?

How do we make this right?

Why can't we get out of our cars? Why can't we learn the lessons of Covid and expensive oil? Why can't we work from our offices at our houses which we did for millions of years until the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1769.

Local work is working from your office at your house. Remote work is working outside your home.

Alternative energy is energy from coal and nuclear power. The sun cannot be considered to be "alternative energy". It was here in our solar system before even earth. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old. And the sun 4.6 billion years. One could argue that nuclear power is not alternative as that is how the sun runs, but humans have only been using nuclear power here on earth since 1954.

Personally I'd be happier if we only had one nuclear power station in our solar system, it being The Sun, and it being 8 light minutes away.

Let's get our terminology right and then maybe the world will right itself.

Peak Oil

The world is in a period of "peak oil" where oil prices will shift from very low $20 a barrel to very high $200 a barrel, or more.

In the past 20 years we've even seen negative oil prices!

See https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart

The world hasn't ended before. Why is it going to end now?

If only people would stop being fearful, they would be able to see a bigger picture, huge opportunities to make things right, and implement what we know to be right.

Using oil to run a car is very inefficient. We need oil for other things.

Edison said, “I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had more years left!

#oil #energy #electricity #decision #grandstrategy #strategy

Where should we invest? In prevention or in cure?

 I just discovered that $50 billion a year is being spent on Pfizer and Moderna Covid Vaccinations. The world with willpower found that money in under 2 years.

That $50 billion is enough to move the whole of Africa to 100% Renewable Energy in a year! And that is giving Africa what it really needs 200 GW, not what is has now, between 70 GW and 100 GW.

Europe is at 600 GW peak demand. 24 hour renewable energy is possible in Europe by 2026.

As far as I can tell the USA produces the same amount of electricity as Europe. So let's say 2026 for the USA.

McKinsey says that it will take at least until 2050!

David Lipschitz says that we can do it by 2030, if we just change our buying decisions. And the first decision? Use the knowledge gained in Covid and High Oil Price times to force everyone who can move their offices to their homes to do so. I've written extensively about the benefits of "remote" work. Note that 500 years ago, enclosure moved people from home work to factories. The modern factory is the office building. Working in a home office is local work. Any other work is remote!

Our health depends on us interacting with our biosphere that gives us life. When will we wakeup and learn where we should be spending money?

South African Energy Policy Failures

Where has South Africa failed? Is it in policy? I've researched South Africa's Energy and Transport Policies. And the failures are in implementation. Watch this 4 hour video series on South Africa's electricity policy (strategy), law (guidance to implement strategy), expert commentary, and my own commentary.

https://bit.ly/understandsouthafricanenergypolicy

PS: I studied Transport policy to see if the problem is only in Energy and actually it is in both. Note that policy was informed by wide public participation. Implementation has hardly any public participation. I believe this is where the problems lie. Government thinks it can do it alone, with its consultants, and its in house expertise. But Billion Dollar Programs MUST have public input.

David's books

 

I'm selling my first three paperbacks for R600 (for all three; the full price is currently R1880) including delivery anywhere in Cape Town. Payment for delivery is a cup of coffee, with the author, who lives in Milnerton, when he delivers. So far I've delivered as far as Robertson, but they had to buy me lunch :)

 

The books are:

 

The Torah as an Enlightenment Toolkit: how the Jacob archetype can become the Israel archetype. These are archetypes. They aren't men or women.

 

A User Manual for Life on Earth: how to run the world so that we don't have plagues and global warming.

Ramblings of an A-lien: how to get out of debt, for humanity.

 

The books are also available on a Smashwords sale at the moment (for July) for up to 75% off: see https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lipdav14

 

And the books are on Kindle, and Amazon Paperbacks.

 

You can pay cash, EFT, or credit card.

A User Manual for Life on Earth - introduction by David Lipschitz