Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 17
Overall, this is a good talk and Galloway makes good points. However, I want to point out an important oversight in his logic. At the end of the talk he asks the question, "Do we love our children?" But here's the devil of this issue: People have always loved their children, including rich people like Scott Galloway. That's actually what creates the problem! Why do people pursue endless wealth, as Galloway does? In many cases it's because they are insecure about providing for their children. The problem isn't a lack of love for your children, it's the privileging of your children over everyone else's children. Rich people provide too much for their children relative to everyone else. When everyone wants to favor their children over all other children, the end result is a cutthroat capitalist society where the good of the collective is eroded.
In this talk Galloway highlights a collective problem. But there is an important difference between love for YOUR children vs love for all the children in the collective. And there is a tradeoff between those two. If you love your own children too much, you will try to use your wealth to give them special advantages, like getting them to the best schools, best doctors, best universities, etc. And of course this is done at the expense of other kids. This is a nuanced example of The Tragedy Of The Commons. Wealthy people are exploiting and manipulating the commons in order to gain special advantages in life BECAUSE they are in love with themselves and their own children too much. To fix the problem that Galloway highlights requires something more than loving your children, it requires making sacrifices for the collective well-being of society. Which requires someone like Scott Galloway to stop exploiting capital markets! Which he isn't prepared to do because he still feels financially insecure and wants to provide his children.
What do I mean by "exploiting capital markets"? Scott Galloway says on his podcast that he lost $15 million in the last year shorting stocks. << THAT is the problem. He has a net worth over $100 million and 4 mansions around the country yet he's still doing this Wall Street stuff. As long as Boomers behave this way, that's why Gen Z is getting screwed. So the real question is: How do we change our entire business and corporate culture so that people stop behaving this way?
Does Scott Galloway love mankind enough to stop short-selling and buying his 5th mansion? How about all of his Wall Street friends? How do we get these people to stop it? That's the real question!
I'm not interested in judging Scott Galloway, I just wanted to point out the depth of this problem and why it's so difficult to fix. Despite his exploitation of capital markets, Galloway is still doing plenty of good in the world by talking frankly about these issues. So he deserves credit for that. I would rather Galloway give this talk than not. But at the same time, let's not kid ourselves with love.
New book out (The Everything War) which details the corporate devilry of Amazon. It's illuminating to look at the details of how Amazon actually does business and their cutthroat corporate mindset. Really scumbag stuff.
Just pause and think of how many humans have been snatched by gators and crocodiles across all of history. How many naive children playing too close to the water?
Imagine one second you're playing by the shore with your friends, and the next your skull is getting crushed by a crocodile. What thoughts would flash through your mind as it drags you under? All your fantasies and human games would ooze out of your skull. You would beg for God to save you, but in this case God is the crocodile — and it's hungry.
Sloan Mattingly is the 7 year old girl who was buried alive in a sand tunnel that she dug in a Florida beach.
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I won this African mask at a Swiss auction recently:
It's from the Winiama people in Burkina Faso. These masks represent spirits and spiritual beings who adopt animal forms. This one represents a bat.
I've been looking for this particular mask for a long time. It's a classic. They are hard to find.
Louis Wain was a late 19th century English illustrator who specialized in depictions of cats. Later in his life he suffered from mental illness, perhaps schizophrenia. Eventually he was certified insane and committed to an institution.
This is the progression of his cat art:
Keep in mind, these were painted before the 1940's, before psychedelics were a thing. Before the discovery of LSD and DMT.
Looks like Louis Wain discovered Cat God.
And now he's probably a cat. Perhaps yours ;)
