This week has been a success for Life, and a disaster financially. Everyone was spending their money on turkey, I guess.
So I am going to announce some sales for this coming week. I’ll make them good… so you’ll buy.
Now, about the successes that lead me to a huge insight.
All that people do is guided by memes, and they think they decided to do it. And you think they decided to do it from the goodness of their heart, from the badness of their heart, whatever seem to be the case. But in fact they never decided anything… It is the memes that are doing the deciding.
This is a totally different way to look at people, at life, and at what’s happening.
Frame: state change. Causing yourself or another to change their emotional state, aka attitude. The myth of “IS” One of the invisible tools the memes use, the memes that keep us trapped and unable to take control of our lives is to spew “is” on us. OK, that was a long sentence. let me see … 
I have said, in another article, that what is “normal” for a vehicle for the selfish gene (a human), is to move to and then stay in an ess. Evolutionary stable strategy. Where life works relatively smoothly. If you listen to the genes, you’ll live that way, you live in an ess. Your job, your … 
One of the sources of what to read is the book-list of people that are light years ahead of me, like Charlie Munger, the billionaire. I’ve read science books because of his book list. Other ideas come from my own articles: like reading Sarah Singer and Blair Singer, whose books and videos are setting my … 
So I am sitting here… and this wave of hopelessness washes over me. I observe my mind that goes and tries on different memes to make sense of the feeling. “No matter what I do….” the whining voice says. “It’s hopeless… give it up!” says the authoritative voice. “You are worthless… who do you think …