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Why didn’t the Monday post go out on Monday? Mondays don’t exist. They are a construct that we all agreed upon. There are no ancient histories other than these fables. History is a set of lies agreed upon.

We can collectively decide to reject Monday at any time. The workweek now starts on Tuesday. We still work until Friday and then get a weekend. Yesterday was Sunday because today is Tuesday. I can justify madness of all sorts.

Prometheus brought fire to humanity, and we burnt our planet with it. Prometheus wasn’t punished for giving us fire. Prometheus was punished for not teaching us how to use it.

Crypto is A Modern Prometheus. Fiat currency is only as valuable as we agree it is. Without the Gold Standard, dollars, euros, yuan, and all the others are no more rooted in reality than bitcoin, ethereum, and dogecoin. Crypto promoters are telling us that if a lie is good enough for old constructs, it should be just fine to keep telling that lie with new ones.

Crypto reveals a flaw and uses its existence to convince us to believe in the ridiculous. Crypto appeals to our nihilism, and a group of non-believers in the current monetary system is trying to appeal to our collective nihilism. If nothing is real, nothing matters, so do whatever you want. We’ve been lied to by people in power, and that lie invalidates all their rules. Prometheuscoin to the moon!

Non-believers quickly become outcasts because they are destabilizing forces.

Some researchers believe outcasts would live adjacent to the tribe and later the society and civilization. When disasters struck, the non-believers returned to help rebuild. Outcasts introduced new ideas and drove rapid progress. Their perspective comes from a mutation in their thought process.

Researchers propose this hypothesis to support the prevalence of outcasts and support a far more radical opinion. The critical role outcasts played in rebuilding and continuously improving societies is why their mental mutations propagated through the centuries and survive today. Those researchers claim neurodiversity has utility, and so those genes have survived.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US. If you are prone to disbelief, there’s probably a little bit of outcast in your distant family tree. Non-believers live on a spectrum of thought.

At the extremes, people reject the constructs imposed by their bodies. They reject what they see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Their minds reject society’s constructs for communication and action. Some can even manage several distinct lines of continuity and reality. Society pushes them to the distant edges of institutions or jails to disconnect them completely.

In the middle of the spectrum are people who can function within society in a nontraditional role. I am a business outcast. When businesses need new ideas, they bring me in for a limited time. I use data to explain what’s broken and build solutions to fix it. I help clients manage and monetize disruption and change.

The last 3 years have been filled with relentless waves of disruption, and the trend shows no signs of letting up. Transformation is a continuous effort, so change is perpetual. Most businesses and people don’t have coping mechanisms so my client pipeline is robust.

Neurotypicals have always brought order to chaos. They’ve always created pockets of stability using a set of lies agreed upon. They’ve always minimized instability by removing outliers. Technology has introduced a new source of instability. Our Modern Prometheus is the outcast we’ve become dependent on to manage complexity and hide instability.

As with all outcasts, technology comes in two flavors: progress and nihilism. The people building our Modern Prometheus decide which one to embrace. Look around the field, and it is dominated by the neurodiverse, who all share a common origin story. No matter what side of the neuro range you fall on, the rest of this is going to be extremely difficult to read. It’s raw but real.

Developing my first coping mechanism as a neurodiverse mind meant making choosing between 2 bad options. I can accept nihilism and decide that this is how I end, or I can decide to start solving problems. If I solve enough problems, I continue. My mask was the first thing I engineered.

Choosing to be my authentic self would have led to neurotypicals casting me out. They would refuse me a job, business ownership, health insurance, life insurance, control over my finances, custody of my daughter, and likely my freedom. All those attacks are entirely legal, and if I fight back, neurotypicals will kill me legally. This isn’t just the law of this land. It’s the law of every land.

I made the decision that others have been making for thousands of years but I haven’t lost my outcast’s clarity. The fables of ancient history and set of lies agreed upon talk about stability that’s never existed. History repeats itself.

The only difference in modern cycles is that our globalized world faces globalized disasters. They’re all the same disasters we’ve faced in isolation before, and in some ways, that’s easier than facing them as a planet. It’s easy to get a like-minded tribe on the same page when they face disaster. It’s proving difficult to convince the world that there is a disaster in the first place.

That’s problem 1. We must reconcile multiple, conflicting ontologies, systems of belief, and sources of truth. We are all someone else’s outcast, so the isolation strategy of forcing out anyone who thinks differently isn’t going to work at global scale.

Everyone now shares the neurodiverse experience. Everyone is under threat of being excluded and marginalized for being an outlier. It all depends on who is in power at the time. This year, you’re fixing society. Next year, you’re a destabilizing force. An outcast class creates the precedent that will eventually be used against everyone to maintain the stability that never really existed.

Will the world choose nihilism? If someone’s got to be an outcast, better them than me. Or will the world choose progress? If one group is an outcast, we are all outcasts.

Societies have always chosen nihilism because the lies agreed upon talked about a time of stability and prosperity. Nihilism reveals the truth of constant instability, retells the lie of prosperity, and blames all the progress that has happened between a time that never existed and right now.

I have no doubt the global society will hold true to form. It is only after a disaster that progress is embraced again, and change is allowed to happen. I just hope there’s something left for us to fix.

Vin

High ROI Data Science

I Don’t Believe In Mondays