Gaming can of course be an addiction. Like all things in life, balance is important and we ourselves are not above playing the occasional computer game as we all need a little escape here and there. In spirts and not letting it take over our life of course.

Amongst other more creative things, one of our rituals we do for fun with our daughter is watch anime or game together. And recently we did an extremely rare acquisition and bought a new but used off Craigslist graphics card. By the way, we highly recommend the book "Chip War" on the subject of microchips and the massive importance of two companies on the planet, one of which is called ASML (Advanced Semiconductor Materials) which does extreme ultraviolet photolithography, creating the world's only machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced microchips, and the other is called TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and is the company that manufactures the majority of the world's microchips using ASML hardware in Taiwan and is why that is such a crucial small country in the Earth realm currently. Right around the time of this new GPU acquisition a new game had recently been released which caught our eye and was an excuse to try out the new hardware.

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“Be kind to people, but ruthless to systems” is one of those deceptively gentle aphorisms that, on closer inspection, turns out to be a hand grenade wrapped in a thank-you note.

What it insists upon, quite rightly, is a moral distinction that our age finds unbearably difficult to maintain. People are fallible, frightened, often doing the best they can with the intellectual furniture available to them. Systems, by contrast, are not frightened, not confused, and not deserving of sympathy. Systems are designed. They embody incentives, hierarchies, exclusions, and often cruelties, all carefully engineered and then defended with a priesthood of jargon.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

The Epstein files tell us, if one has the stomach to read them and the spine to accept their implications, that the ultra-rich inhabit not merely a different tax bracket, which consists of paying little to no taxes when they are the only ones who should pay most to all the taxes, but a different moral jurisdiction.

Jeffrey Epstein was not powerful because he was mysterious; he was mysterious because he was protected. The so-called “files” consisting of emails, images, video, flight logs, depositions, settlement records, and sealed testimonies pried open only after years of legal trench warfare - reveal a pattern that is by now impossible to deny: wealth, when concentrated to obscene levels, functions as a solvent. It dissolves law, accountability, and shame.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos