It's all a farce

It’s all a farce:

It’s all a farce.

Life sometimes doesn’t feel real.

There are definitely times where I believe in simulation theory.

That everything we see doesn’t exist except in some game like the Matrix.

We’re all in our own bubble.

If you ask two people about the world, their answers are going to be completely different.

It’ll be personalized to what they like.

When our parents or grandparents were growing up, everyone heard the same information.

Information was controlled by a small group of people like the TV and radio stations.

Everyone watched the same stuff.

Now, everything is different.

Your world is personalized to you.

Whatever echo chamber you exist in is broadcast to you 24/7 on social media.

I’m doing a lot of writing now about the upcoming stock market crash, and Youtube and Twitter are constantly recommending that content.

It’s helpful because it keeps me informed on what I want to know, but I also have to remember how small my echo chamber is.

I’m broadcasting some whacko theories to the world.

I’m sure some people think I’m a conspiracy theorist.

Maybe I am.

Maybe none of this ever happens, and if it doesn’t, that’s pretty good.

A Great Depression 2.0 is not what I want but it’s what I think could happen.

But I have to remember I’m in my own head.

I’m looking at the world through one perspective, which is the perspective that everything makes no sense.

How the stock market is as highly valued as it is, and people still don’t think it’s in a bubble is beyond me.

Look at history.

Crashes always happen.

For every up, there must be a down.

People don’t learn history enough.

History is undefeated for crashes.

The Tulip bubble, the South Sea bubble, the Mississipi bubble, the crash of 1929, the tech collapse of 2001, etc.

And I’m only talking about America, but every other country’s markets are the same.

The problem today is everyone is connected.

Anything that happens in China or the US affects the entire world.

These seem like rational thoughts to me and yet some days I think I’m insane.

Am I just confirming my own bias or am I actively looking for counter points against my argument?

Maybe I’m not doing enough of that.

Why could stocks continue to go up?

The West is relatively under control with Covid so people could position portfolios thinking things will open up again. 

The problem is everything is made in other parts of the world where Covid is still not under control.

That affects what happens in the West.

Everything is connected in today’s society.

The actions of other countries can affect you.

If Covid is still a problem in other parts of the world, supply chains break down. That’s happening right now.

To me this seems so basic but I know it’s not.

I’m just trying to connect dots and things that I’ve learned over the years.

Without spending time following my curiosity and working on myself, none of these things would have happened.

Not many people can see across domains and understand patterns from multiple disciplines.

It’s a privilege but also takes a lot of work.

I didn’t get here overnight.

It took me years of building something in silence that no one saw to get here.

Years of reading books, listening to podcasts, and journaling may eventually pay off.

I don’t know, I could be wrong.

But there’s a lot more evidence that this whole market is a house of cards.

In my opinion, the whole market is a farce.