Let me spell it out for you.
There is no fixing that system. It is broken beyond repair. It is a gordian knot, and it requires the same solution.
Do with that knowledge what you will.
survirtual
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You are in this situation. I am not. If I were not able to opt out of voting, I would choose death over submission.
People need to understand what a "no-vote" is. Give me liberty or give me death. We are not playing this small, rigged game.
Humanity is in the age of becoming a multiplanetary civilization, and yet we squabble over petty differences and cater to the lowest common denominators.
We have the stars within our grasp and yet most of us clutch towards dramas played out repeatedly for centuries.
I don't want mere healthcare. I want complete unconditional care for every being alive and to ever live in the future. I want to choose the planet I live on based upon my gravitational preferences. I want my intentions and desires to be read near perfectly and frictionlessly satisfied to the maximum possible. I want equal share in cosmic computational capabilities to be operated as a sovereign extension of my mind.
And I want every other being to receive the same according to the magnitude of their consciousness. This includes plants, animals, and beings we have yet to encounter.
Where you see two choices within a political axiom that has total control over the outcomes within your life and the lives of your community, I see only one. The "choices" are simply ritualistic motions of compliance with decisions the ruling class has already made. I engage with that system only at the minimum required in order to maintain material and bodily sovereignty. Voting in an unauditable and openly rigged system, especially after seeing the DNC is rigged, is nothing but an instrument of mass control.
I create a second choice by not participating. Opting out is a non-destructive, peaceful way to withdraw consent and focus energy on alternatives. Every human being can create these sorts of options. That is how government was originally created. All better systems begin with rejecting the smaller visions.
“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth — whether it’s scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based.”
“We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.” — Jean-Luc Picard
Some of the basic tenants of Star Trek society are inclusion and shared progress. Elitism and exclusion are how we got to the mess we find ourselves in.
A better lesson is responsibility for the "nerds." You all sold your talents and abilities to salespeople and conmen instead of seeing the value in yourself. Then, you got manipulated into building a dystopian technology that entraps the common people instead of liberating them.
They needed guidance and you gave them your insecurity instead. The evil desires the technology as it is does not have the intellect to manufacture it. That requires complicit "nerds."
Voting is not democratic.
My preferred system is a combination of lottery-based representative governance, where the lottery is selected from a pool of potentials with enough support. Support is tallied via a liquid democracy. This system is relatively incorruptible and offers actual representation.
Is this a system you've ever heard of, or is it one used anywhere?
No?
Then I am not represented. I won't smear my head in shit because everyone else is. Your "democratic government" was destroyed well over 50 years ago when the business plot succeeded. Your "voting" is submission to tyranny. When a mechanism is corrupt and your options are invalidated, the only option is to stop using it.
How well has your voting gone? What about when democrats had control of all branches of government?
How many drone strikes stopped?
Did single payer healthcare get passed?
Was tax law actually enforced on billionaires?
What happened when the "good guys" in your mind won?
What will it take for you to realize where you are? You were never in a democracy.
Nonvoters are casting a vote. It is a vote out of a shit system that doesn't work. Pull your head out of your corporate captured ass. As soon as true rebellion is ablaze, those "nonvoters" will show you where their vote is.
But go ahead. Keep screaming into the void, just like your wasted vote. Blame the nonvoters. Hell, blame them MORE than those actively supporting fascism. That sure makes sense. Don't even think of blaming lobbyists, rigged voting machines, gerrymandering, judicial capture, media capture, analytical brainwashing, first-past-the-pole voting, and absolutely tiny representative pools (easier to bribe)....
No, don't blame that. Instead, put your energy into the people so disillusioned by the system they opt out. THAT'LL show them. Maybe it will get them to vote for your team? Yeah! Bully them until they vote!!
Yes, starlink giving poor communities in the Amazon access to the rest of the world is good.
Yes, starlink giving internet to rural people who have been duped, manipulated, lied to, and cheated about getting internet for decades is good.
Yea, starlink undercutting greedy, corrupt ISPs with a service they had deemed "technologically impossible" and "financially infeasible" is good.
Yes, innovation is good.
Yes, internet access is good.
I am sad that people with telescopes are slightly inconvenienced and have to add in dynamic filtering to correct for minor anomalies of satellites moving by every 10 minutes. It is so sad.
But hey, look on the bright side? For your minor inconvenience, millions more people are now connected. They can get help when something goes wrong. They can participate in the modern economy and get access to more food and medicine. They can share their culture and learn from other's. Remote workers can be among them and bolster their lifestyles.
So at the cost of a small inconvenience that can easily be corrected, the lives of millions are improved. I could write all day to this tune but if you can't see such an obvious thing, there is not much I can say to you. I can just hope any lurkers reading feel seen and heard, cause I am really tired reading the nonsense against such a powerful gift to humanity.
Fucked up the sky for all of us? Who is "all of us"? Most of "us" live in mega cities with so much light pollution it blots out the night sky. Everyone in these horrid concrete jungles has high speed internet and absolutely no connection to the stars. Many of these people have never even seen the stars.
The ones living outside of these cities are the minority, and now they have internet. An internet they have been promised to the tune of countless billions for a very long time. They see the stars every night. Starlink has not impacted their connection with the stars at all.
So I am genuinely curious. Who, exactly, is the "us" you refer to?
And why are you not rallying against the light pollution that has denied billions access to the stars for at least generations?
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The choice to exist or not is our final freedom, regardless of what anyone else says or the social pressures. I am happy for you that you are exercising your choice. Life is extremely hurtful on many levels. It may be relatively predictable, but it is hurtful, and leaving it would be preferred.
I'd want to return to a void of nothingness. No time, no feeling, no existence. My life is, interestingly, a pursuit of that quiet. Unfortunately I have concluded physical death is not the mechanism to achieve non-existence in my case, but I respect other's autonomy to try.
Before I decided to off myself, I realized I was liberated from all social norms. I decided to use my first drug because of this liberation, DMT. DMT behaves very strangely when you are ready to stop existing. I don't think you should change your mind actually, I agree with your decision. But if you are really going through with it, do yourself a favor and do a mega-dose of DMT. It is the closest experience or simulator to dying. May as well try death before dying.
You want someone to listen to your pains, I can do that, but you need to read this novel first. I am sure someone else here can listen to you without conditions. Since I have already lived what you are going through, I figure I have some insight to share and will do that instead.
Given how short life is, and how long non-life is, I concluded during these relative-stable reality times, it is more beneficial to pursue true death in "life" by living maximally.
If I remove my material body, the energy may spontaneously arise in a new body, or it may divide into significantly more agonizing or unconscious energy forms. An ant hive being consumed by cordyceps parasites? It could. A thousand flies desperately trying to find food before their clocks runs out? Sure. A reality where no joys exist at all, only hunger, only longing? ....why not? These things all exist here already, so it isn't far fetched.
Trading the predictability of a human vessel for the chaos of infinite realities is not what I consider a good idea, and since I've had hundreds of journeys with DMT and hundreds more with secondary "death-like" verifiers, in my own case, and my own evidence, I can conclusively say none of us can die.
Have you tried ayahuasca? Try it before you go. You can do anything now, your decision is made, so do anything.
We can exit the current material reality sphere of others, which can be satisfying in an ego-driven sort of way, but ultimately it may be a futile pursuit, because there are countless realities, and countless versions of each of us, and countless modalities of existence.
You see...dying is not what any one of us thinks it is. I want non-existence. It takes significantly more technology to achieve this than "ending life." The irony is, in the pursuit of not existing, existence opens up.
So I end myself regularly now. I can ghost anyone I wish, and start over elsewhere. I can quit any job (and have). I can end or start any relationship. I can grab a bag with minimal supplies and sleep on a hammock anywhere in the world. I've cooked BBQ bacon burgers among bears and buffalo. What will they do, eat me? Good.
I had a run-in with a moose during rut season but he decided to run circles around my camp instead of stomping on me. Darn.
I've made friends with people most would run in fear of. Turns out that even the scariest people can have a beautiful heart.
I've done mega-doses of acid and walked out into remote canyons, and driven 100mph in the middle of Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas during snowstorms and icy roads where no one else is dumb enough to go. I've gone straight into hurricanes and tornadoes. I've regularly driven onto remote ocean beaches and had a cookout. Don't do that in Louisiana, they have mosquitoes even on beaches and they're hungry. I wouldn't want to be a mosquito that's a horrible life.
You know, I ended up going to every state in the US this way, before going to other countries. When you are ready to stop existing, why not? Who cares about borders? Who cares about laws? These are all invented by beings who want to live in a singular material reality. That's kind of sad in a way.
We don't. We want to end our existence here. I want to return to a true nothingness. The desire automatically unlocks multidimensionality.
I don't think I am anyone special. The opposite really. I want to be no one. I want to end my existing. In the pursuit of that, you can have some fun.
That that is my advice to you, that you didn't ask for: since you are slated to end, end all ties to your current life here first. You can ghost anyone you want. You can quit any job. You can sell any possessions. You can throw away anything. You can go anywhere and try anything.
Here is a basic framework I organically discovered in my own process that might save some time:
try anything that has a chance to raise your consciousness. More consciousness = more control = better chance of achieving actual end state. Don't bother with alcohol, heroin, or anything the removes your sovereignty.
freedom is king. Maximize personal freedom. Since you are slated to end yourself, you always have your exit hatch. Cut off people that drain you. Draining can be physical, emotional, intellectual, etc. Do not let people in who have a chance of doing this. If you find yourself thinking about someone else too much, and you are left in confusion, this is a clear sign. People that are good for you are generally transparent.
freedom at the cost of others is a trap. If you hurt others it will eventually come back and eat away at you. It also lessens the chance of a safe landing after material reality death. The logic in this is simple. If you're a dick, why would higher dimensionality entities want to hang out with you? I mean I wouldn't want to, I'd just let you connect with things that can match your dick energy.
you will find through a pursuit of death the underlying truth behind many things in reality. Many humans have already walked this in the past, you'll get eyeballs to see their impact. Trust your instincts and operate without regrets.
i'm bored so this is where my message ends. If you end up axing this iteration of yourself, if you happen to wake up as an energy form trapped in this reality, come hang out with me in a dream or something. I can guarantee you we'll have a better time than you've apparently had so far. At the very least I'd have a massive bonfire in your honor and burn sage or some shit, it smells good. Feel free to message me. Also, anyone else who is on the fence about dying, feel free to send me a message. Good luck!