rhino wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 9:57am:



Good points. it is very saddening that the major traffic on the net is porn. shows that people are just going back to animal desires.

What i have observed about people is this.

At some point , you have to make the conscious decision to go up or you WILL go down.

I'm not even saying that going down is bad.
maybe watching tv, getting fat and durping around is the way to spend your time.

But no one is standing still.

The default, i believe , is that each year , without taking action, you go down.  The people i work with are just a bit more beaten down, a few more crows feet, their dreams are just lost.

This happens to a lot of successful people too.
They pull a heavy weight up a long hill and they just get to the point where they are done. they stop caring. they drink. they stop innovating and growing and they go down.

Its biological i think. We are designed to always be trying to conserve time and energy.
so if you can get a hit of pleasure by getting a like on facebook or eating a slice of pizza, you will do that instead of doing something "higher" because instant gratification is addictive, laziness is addictive, lower conscious states are addictive, being sorry for yourself is addictive.

I fully get why people feel sorry for themselves and play the victim.
My problem with it  is that i aint doing it.
I have goals i want to reach and i just dont have time for it. I think people who think they can feel sorry for themselves, who think they can live in lower consciousness are very optomistic.
I know i would never reach my goals if i thought like that.

for a relatively short time I experimented with social media, mainly because i was a member of a club which used facebook as the main means of communication.  I was asked why I didnt respond to posts or messages as if it was mandatory in some way, I got "friend" requests from people I had never met or barely knew. someone saw fit to post porn on my timeline, appararently the "default" is to give access to everyone in the world. Then the childish bickering, lots of it, worse than 10 Peccas put together. I had at one stage to physically separate 2 people at the club because of a near fist fight  over not accepting a "friend" request. I realised what it does is just feed and accelerates narcissistic behaviour. My experiment lasted a week, while these people spend their time taking selfies I continue with my training as I have done for decades, not against others but against myself, while these Peccas bicker and connive to attempt to portray themselves as better looking, more intelligent etc. and concentrating on the manufactured drama I still spend my time actually learning things, acquiring new knowledge. Social media is all about playing to others, these people dont understand the trap they are making for themselves, they are simple tools of the multi national corporations.

rhino wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 10:38am:



Excellent post.
Steven Covey in his excellent book, "crucial conversations" has a standing rule that all arguments must take place "face to face" and in the same room as the proximity will tend to bring out the best in people and the technology brings out the worst.

i listened to a marketer talk about how people are spending more and more time (wasting it that is) being sucked into clickbait.

if a marketer can get a couple of cents for every page refresh then they will try to get the people in the durr state to 'just keep clicking".

They found that things like "tattoo fails " where someone mispells a tattoo or celebrity wardrobe fails where a celebrity has a bra strap showing...people will keep clicking on pic after pic in a durrrp state , literally wasting hours.

This marketer even said that "just making sh*t up " is the way to make money.
Just make  up a story.
He found "outrage" to be the most addictive emotion for the masses of durpers.
he made up a story about a kid with a disability being kicked out of maccas for scaring other customers and it went viral. over 10million dumbies viewed it and shared it and made him $$$$$.  yep, stay off of the social media , hit the gym and stay away from group think.
i still always buy a carrot when i take the kids shopping and i walk around the mall munching on it (sometimes a cucumber). and the looks you get from fat steve chowing down on some cheese snack BS food.
fat steve looking at me like i have lost my mind.
Use the mediocre failures as the emotional juice to power yourself into an upward spiral.  .
It is so easy to just stunt on people nowdays because most of them have zero direction. There has never been a time when those with some focus can absolutley crush it in life. its a gift .

NorthOfNorth wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 12:22pm:
Thats what you interpret me as. But Im sure the Rhinos of the 18th century werent getting smarter while those who embraced the industrial revolution were getting dumber.  I harness the technology discriminately and use it as a tool. This information technology revolution is completely different, for one thing it is evolving at a much more rapid rate than the industrial revolution did, children who have grown up with this technology have different brains to their parents. We now have huge multi national corporations totally engrossed in making profit and nothing else, mass advertising of propoganda and subtle subconscious marketing. We have a whole generation of completely brainwashed kids who cant afford to buy a home because their priority is on portable technology enabling them to post selfies any second of the day. Look around you, communication skills are being lost by this generation. Go to a restaurant and witness the tables full of people all looking at their phones. Social anxiety and depression are increasing amongst young people at a phenomenal rate.

Im building a fence out the back in between posting here, my sister in law visited and was amazed at my building skills. I said its all there if you want to research it and put it into practise. I spent a bit of time of farms when i was young, you learn independence. My son can build a house from the ground up, self taught. Hold his own with any electrical engineer, again self taught. With the right direction from the old man of course.

rhino wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 12:36pm:

Sorry to be the one to tell you but Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud's nephew) is to blame with his 'propaganda' or (as it was renamed after the Nazis arrogated the term) 'public relations'...

His ideas have been fueling advertising for over 100 years... So, nothing new in the zoo.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 3:35pm:
Im fairly sure they didnt have electronic media 100 years ago, multi nationals and other vested interests are using this to brainwash and fuel their propoganda campaigns. Did that need to be said?

rhino wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 12:54pm:


Appreciate the concept, but put me down for NOT living in a house or any project wired up by a self-taught engineer. Unless you mean 'sparky' and not 'engineer' in which case... the same applies!