I detest the words content and content creator. What is it that you're containing? Is far more important /  by Mirena Rhee

Yes, there is an issue, a big issue with the word content, because it just basically says you're containing something, right? It doesn't say anything about what is it that you're containing. What is the content of that box? Does it contain a gift to your mom, or is it human remains, or is it full of shit? Big difference, you know? Big difference from a gift to a coffin.

What are the contents of this box? Is it a great work of art? Is it like the lost word of Dostoevsky? What, is it a gold bar? What is it? Is it necessary? Do you actually think when you're creating this thing, whatever it is? Because when you're taking shit, you're not thinking. Exactly the opposite. I've never heard anyone getting a good idea while on the toilet. In the shower, yes. So it's very important what's in the box.

Don't use the word content to describe someone who is simply interviewing. They're just not creating enough to be a creator. To be a creator, you have to spawn the thing from A to Z. That's when you're a creator. So if you are contributing only 1%, then you're not a creator. You're a corresponding doer, like you're asking questions, you're making a video, you're taking a picture, all right?

I have a good word that describes people who simply report on others' thoughts or deeds. It's called a reporter. You're not a creator when you report things. You're simply a reporter. That's a very, very big distinction.The difference between a murderer and a witness to the murder. Creators have to think about their creation, A to Z, plan it, and execute. All right? Simply telling about somebody doing anything is not creating.

It could be a storyteller. I mean, you can sing it. If you can sing it, yeah, probably. You could be a creator, but you have to contribute a substantial amount, right? If you write it, yeah, then you're the writer. Then, you know, there are all these words that describe deeds, various deeds. That's why the word content is not a word. It's a husk. It tells us there's something contained and hopefully it's not shit. I think it is corporate speak for emptiness. That's what it is.

Woke is Communism /  by Mirena Rhee

Woke is a modern form of communism. It begins with social discontent. People who feel dissatisfied or lack meaningful work are drawn to ideologies that promise moral purpose and improvement of society. Ideologists redirect this dissatisfaction toward those perceived to have more, framing redistribution as justice.

The ideologists are well-meaning people with resources who are either too lazy or don’t know how to run a business, and instead of giving people jobs, give them ideas. Now they have found purpose all of a sudden.

There are two ways of improving society. One is entrepreneurial creation, which generates new value through free enterprise. It makes something from nothing. Moving atoms is the strong force. Very difficult to do. The ideologists don’t know how to do the difficult things and don’t wanna do them. The other is redistribution, which moves existing resources from one group to another. Communism prioritizes redistribution over creation.

The recurring features of communism are restriction of free speech, restriction of private enterprise, suppression of dissent, use of coercion and terror, and rewriting of history. The pattern follows a sequence. Speech is limited, economic freedom is curtailed, repression escalates. Then the ideologists use the dissatisfied as cat’s paw to start killing people.

The Communists don’t want to get people to think differently. No way. The Communist directive is to exterminate the people who are enemy of their ideology.

Looks familiar? Terror of random crazies roaming the streets and knifing people, weak-minded crazies assassinating presidents, but it starts with people walking out of grocery stores with bags of stuff without paying. Then is locking up the toothpaste behind thick glass. And then come government-run stores. I have seen it. I lived it every day for 18 long years growing up. I used to press my nose to the glass on stores with goods locked behind cages, and I used to line up at 4 a.m. in front of government stores to buy milk. I remember in school we had to read papers mocking the imperialist West. I remember a U.S. governor mocking Tesla that their stock is going down.

Contemporary woke ideology shows this pattern. They locked people up during Covid, started shutting them up, and every dissent in speech was destroyed, then curtailed business, then the riots started and people stormed my grocery store in Chelsea. I saw this as the proletariat revolution. The ideologists tested this in the U.S. Now they have a government-run store in New York City. They have already started executing business people using the vulnerable as cat’s paw.

Wouldn't it be great if someone can make a great business, treat people well, and pay them a nice wage? But this is so difficult to do. Most business people will tell you it’s like splitting atoms or eating glass. The hope is, I believe, the next round of automation to make this easier, to make enterprise more productive, energy extraction more effective, and less glass-eating.