"When community disintegrates, when ties to nature and place are severed, when structures of meaning collapse, when the connections that make us whole wither, we grow hungry for addictive substitutes to numb the longing and fill the void."

~ Charles Eisenstein

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Life is strange. We come with nothing and fight for everything, and in the end, we leave everything and go with nothing.

Life is a fleeting journey, a cycle of gaining and letting go. We arrive with empty hands, yet we spend our days chasing, building, and holding on, as if we can outrun time itself.
We grasp at love, success, and meaning, desperate to make something of the brief moments we are given.

And yet, no matter how much we gather, there comes a day when we must release it all. But perhaps the beauty of life is not in what we keep, but in what we give, in the love we share, the kindness we leave behind, the lives we touch along the way.

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“Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The Stars Are Words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind. There’s no need for solitude. So love life for what it is, and form no preconceptions whatever in your mind.”

~ Jack Kerouac, 'Lonesome Traveler'

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China builds TALLEST bridge in the world, setting new record in bridge engineering.

At a cost of just $280m, it spans the Huajiang Canyon, Guizhou Province, cutting time to cross the gorge from 70 minutes to just several minutes. The bridge will open in June 2025.

In 2024, the US spent almost 1 TRILLION on ‘defense’ – because everyone attacks the US ‘n all. How many engineering wonders could that fund?

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🇬🇧🇺🇸🌏 Globalization Is Dead — The Empire’s Looting Scheme Finally Needs to Pivot

So now Keir Starmer, the velvet glove of British neoliberalism, is preparing to admit that globalization has failed. Not in Davos. Not in private. But in public. From the pulpit of the collapsing Atlantic order. The same man whose party cheerleads every imperial entanglement now wants to eulogize the very beast that made those entanglements profitable.

But make no mistake: this is less a reckoning and more controlled demolishen, and damage control. The global racket that masqueraded as “rules-based order” has been exposed as exactly what it always was: a parasitic wealth extraction scheme, designed by and for transnational finance, enforced by the U.S. military machine, and legitimized by smiling technocrats in London, Brussels, and Wall Street.

Now that the free lunch is over: now that the Global South is no longer kneeling for crumbs, now that China, Russia, and the BRICS+ bloc are building parallel institutions that don’t require bowing to the IMF or dollar hegemony, the Anglo-American priesthood is being forced to admit their god has failed.

Starmer won’t even condemn Trump’s tariffs. Why? Because deep down he knows Trump didn’t break the system, he merely tore off its mask. As Starmer concedes, “there’s a reason people are behind Trump on this.” Of course there is. After decades of being strip-mined by elites, hollowed out by offshoring, and insulted by media mouthpieces, people have finally recognized the con.

And what a con it was.

Globalization wasn’t about “free trade.” It was about dispossessing nations of sovereignty and locking them into permanent debt servitude, enforced through capital controls, supply chain manipulation, and the ever-present threat of regime change. It created billionaires in New York and London while turning once-independent states into zombie economies reliant on commodity exports and external loans.

The global financial architecture that the U.S. and U.K. imposed after 1945 (Breton Woods) was a modern feudal system, with compound interest as the new whip. Development was never the goal. Dependence was.

Now that the scam is collapsing, the same architects are scrambling to distance themselves. Starmer, the obedient butler of the City of London, suddenly wants to sound like a blue-collar prophet. But there’s no absolution in shallow rhetoric. The U.K. helped design the blueprint for modern global debt peonage. It helped loot Africa. It helped carpetbag the post-Soviet space. It cheered the dismantling of Libya. And now it dares speak of failure?

The truth is simpler: Globalization hasn’t failed. It succeeded, for the elites who designed it to extract labor, suppress wages, and dismantle national sovereignty.

Now the extractive model is being rejected by a rising multipolar world. And that’s what truly terrifies Starmer, the EU mandarins, and the Wall Street Fed priests. The problem isn’t Trump’s tariffs, it’s that the empire no longer gets to set the rules.

So here comes the West’s new sales pitch: pretend to oppose the thing they spent 30 years enforcing. Mourn the beast they fed, only because they no longer control the slaughterhouse.

Globalization is dead. And the only thing left is how loud the funeral dirge will be before the world turns the page, for good.

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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

~ Marcus Aurelius

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⚜️“If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else is needed.
If you are miserable, nothing else will help – learn trust.
If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help – learn trust.
Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.”💫✨

~ Osho


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Think about it.

Concerning the message that was transmitted to me
under a pine tree in North Carolina
on a cold winter moonlit night.

It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry.
It’s all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside.

We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.
But in our true blissful essence of mind is known
that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for 3 seconds,
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
which was taught in immense milky ways
of cloudy innumerable worlds
long ago and not even at all.

It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity.
It is perfect.

We were never really born,
we will never really die.
It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea
of a personal self,
other selves,
many selves everywhere,
or one universal self.

Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.
That which passes through everything, is one thing.
It’s a dream already ended.

There’s nothing from staring at mountains months on end.
They never show any expression,
they are like empty space.

Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away?
Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space,
which is the one universal essence of mind,
the one vast awakenerhood,
empty and awake,
will never crumble away because it was never born.
The world you see is just a movie in your mind.

~ Jack Kerouac, 'The Dharma Bum'

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