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@ Kaydee
2025-02-19 04:04:47
So, this will be my first post. I am too curious to just leave it in draft form, now that I have jumped through all the hoops to get a nostr address, created a profile, and, gasp, even got a lightning address. It is 20 to 4 in the morning, but who cares! 
I've been writing a substack which has just a dozen subscribers, and I quite liked it that way. And yet, recently I have been wondering: What would it look like if I actually wrote to be published? Moving from 'practice runs' to something real. What is the difference?
The thing is, there's so many exciting things going on in my life right now (though of course it depends on one's perspective if they seem exciting, but they do to me). It feels like having arrived somewhere while also still finding my way round in so many new areas. 
Here is what interests me: 
* Alternative economic models - and the communities that go with it.
* How we can collectively move to a more right-brained way of looking at the world (as written about by Iain McGilchrist in his book *The Master and his Emissary*). Which is linked to moving away from seeing living beings as machines, and reconnect with each other, with nature and with the Sacred, as McGilchrist calls it.
* The human psyche, and especially CG Jung's view of it
These are things I might write about. And books. I love books! I mostly read non-fiction books, though I hope that will change. I hope I will read more fiction and maybe even poetry.
Among the books about money systems I have been reading, the last one was particularly good. It is available for free download as a pdf here: <https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/book/9781529225402/9781529225402.xml>
I believe for the world to really change, it cannot be done without also changing our economic system. Whether Bitcoin could be part of the solution? It looks like it could not live up to the promise, and became purely an object of speculation. Could the lightning network be an offshoot that becomes something different? If it provides a means of exchange that does not care about how its currency translates into conventional money, maybe it could after all? \
'Trouble at the border', that is from a money book too, a very different one, which is about how you personally deal with money. *The Energy of Money* <https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/81109.The_Energy_of_Money>
There's this really good observation in it, on how we can dream up all kinds of plans in beautiful detail. But then, when it comes to taking the necessary steps to put them into action, we usually run up against difficulties. Just the resistance in our own minds can be hard to overcome. The author calls that trouble at the border, the step from the imagined to the real. And I think that goes for so many things. The map is not the territory. You also have to be aware to not rigidly put your ideals into practice. That is the trouble with ideologies... and that is why we need to be so much better connected, to each other and nature, and even to ourselves. 
So this is what I want to write about. The (seemingly) great ideas, and if and how they can make it into real life.