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And yet the mysteries and cosmic awesomeness continue.

The internet is changing things. The prices of coffins has plummeted, as people were willing to undercut others to bring the price down to a more reasonable price.

The music industry is in trouble, you can get music for free. OK Spotify will pay an artist based on their advertising. Artists can circumvent that by not putting their music online, and thus they are not heard. The Beatles were not there, and then they were. ACDC was not there, then they were. If you need instant gratification, you can pay, but otherwise wait or just listen to something else.

Books are free now. You can get them from the library of course, you can save thousands that way and you don't have to figure out how to get rid of them, you just return them. You can get free content in many ways. There are a bazillion wannabe writers who give their books away (scifi books for example). Guttenberg also has books off copyright. Also libraries show you pictures of rare books.

Movies are not free. Subscription services open up libraries that are vast. You can download them via BitTorrent if you can get a VPN to hide your IPS for $10/month. There is so much free content on YouTube and Vimeo.

The spread of the Dharma to the west, the information about what is going on around the world, the world is getting smaller.

Obscure Canadian sitcoms are now popular in America. I know I should say the USA or States, because America includes Canada and Mexico, but illogical geography terms exist. Long Island is an island that I live on, but in the parlance, it doesn't start until after Brooklyn and Queens. Anyway, the beauty of the term also encapsulates how America thinks the sun shines out it's ass and nobody else exists. Chris Rock had a character say it in one of his movies, "God bless America and nobody else."

We sniff out hooey thinking more quickly, despite it's tenacious hold on the mind. It turns out our subjective realities are much more compelling than objective facts. Doubling down on a belief is a serious way of coping with the fear of being perceived as stupid. It is possible for a president to just invert anything he think makes him look bad, and state the opposite. I am an environmental president. I am the least racist person there is. I am very smart.

We're seeing into the puppet masters who elect jackasses to get them to do what they want. Communism is going to increase because of the ease at which the craziness of uncompassionate capitalism. There is a sense that certain policies and supporting certain policies is akin to murder because it leads to the deaths of people. Liberal gun laws lead to the death of 35 innocent children every year. There are people who say that is the price they are willing to pay.

And yet the mysteries and cosmic awesomeness continue.

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