the economy, capital, and power,  like sourdough needs to keep growing

rock-paper-scissors is an effective model of power

once you do baking, the myriad forms of food of the world collapses into wheat-yeast-heat-and-eat

i believe a mechanic discovering welding feels similarly

if you see only what you believe, how can you get right beliefs so that you can see the truth ?

there is no truth, only ideologies mental models stories, that manifest as you go

constructive ideologies models stories pass for the truth and are invisible . 

science fails every day, yet we move forward on it.  Einstein (?) either believed Truth had a temporal component, or had trouble with the idea - I don't remember which.

destructive stories  pop-up regularly, as they have appeal, only because they are different from the 'party line'

one plugged it into Matrix knows at some level that it is all a dream and the urge to escape is like a splinter that needs picking

the first urge might be to destroy the world in the Matrix  on account of it not being real. however, the only change is that one has traded a working Matrix to a broken one.

absence is the solution, not the opposite