I read something looking at what I’ve wrote.

A few years ago I wrote about how tradition keeps humanity stagnant.

Take a look at cultural traditions.

We always do this, it’s tradition.

If your only thing to say as why you do something is tradition, your stagnant.

Think about it.

Does anyone deserve something for the day they were born?

No.

Look at it. This is what drives materialism. We need to buy. This is consumerism.

This is the kind of thing that drives this world into scarcity. If it’s scarce it costs more.

This is the kind of thing that is tearing this world apart.

Think about other traditions the USA has.

Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, The 4th of July, New Year’s Eve and think about the traditions of religion. 

If it causes you to buy something, that causes waste.

Think about it.

We have landfills where we throw everything.

But I’ve got to have this new thing.

My friends have it.

Fear of missing out, and keeping up with thr Jones’.

Traditions cause waste. How much plastic gets thrown away for each tradition?

Take Christmas.  Plastic tape. Plastic ornaments. 

Everyone knows plastic is bad for the environment. 

Thanksgiving. Plastic forks and spoons.  Plastic decorations. 

Easter. Plastic eggs.

How can you tell yourself that these traditions do good for the Earth.

We only have one Earth. 

Minimalism knows what one needs, and doesn’t give a shit about wants. Wants are emotional, and emotions can be used against you.

Think about the commercials.  Buy this. Why?

You’ll look better than anyone if you buy this.

You’ll miss out if you don’t buy this.

Look at all the fun people who bought this are having.

The advertising industry would go down in flames if we stopped buying shit. Ad execs get psychology degrees so they know what triggers to hit to get you to buy.

I used to want to work in advertising when I was younger.  I rewrote sales scripts for one of the companies I worked for.

Sales jumped by 80%. Making the client 30-40 million dollars a month.

This was when I was 23.

Look at traditions and ask why do I do this?

I stopped celebrating my birthday years ago. I stopped celebrating Christmas. Why do I need shit?

I stopped celebrating Easter.

I get why I used to, to fit in with everyone else?

If that’s your reason for celebrating anything, you should be an individual.

Individualism is one of a few isms I follow.

Humanism is the other.

I look at if I ran the world.

13 month lunar calendar.  Getting rid of any dates that traditions use.

This is paradigm shifting. Shifting this world into a new paradigm.

Replicators can make food and other shit. So long to farming.  So long to manufacturing. So long to money.

Money is a narcissistic tool that has kept humanity stagnant. 

Look at it. Marijuana used to be the cure all. That was until logging. They needed it to be illegal so they could make money in logging.

Look at Tesla. He had a way for free energy, but they needed to us to pay. Hence why his shit got destroyed.

I can build a free energy system. Couple that with the replicator, and money is gone.

Look at traditions. 

Really look at them. 

If you didn’t need to buy anything for a tradition, what would you do?

Look at changing the calender.

If we stopped looking at the calender and realize all that exists does so now in infinite space, how much progress could we make as a species?

As it is now, we degrade ourselves so that we can afford…..

Stop degrading yourself and look at doing something different.

Have a blessed one and be excellent always.