Reality is hierarchical. When there is disorder at the top it filters down to every level.

For example, the USA is run by a strange chaotic mess of secret societies and cults. What this does in practice is it causes every aspect of day-to-day life as an American to reflect the top of the pyramid.

Getting a job is an excellent example of this. There are a mess of unspoken rules and requirements that must be met, and many of those are based off of prejudices that are *technically* illegal. However, HR can always find a way to legally deny someone for a job as an excuse even if the actual reason is illegal. Your mistake as applicant was not performing the secret handshake correctly or knowing the right people for entrance into the company (cult). Human Resources function as intelligence agencies whose stated goal is to help the employee (average citizen) but whose actual purpose is to be the hidden enforcers protecting the company (the state).

Imagine you get the job, but once you are on the job you realize what you are being asked to do was not in the job description. Well, it was so difficult to get in you now feel obligated to do the work anyways. In a similar way cults and secret societies heap on additional requirements and even contradictory truths the further in you go.

The only way to avoid this is to work a job that actually requires effort and tangible results. Otherwise, in the corporate structure where no real work is needed, you are paid mostly based off of your ability to fit into the scheme.

Nostr TL has been great today. Social media sucks, but this place is the least sucky 4 sure

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What is the symbolism of the number 47? I swear I have seen this number referenced in so many different contexts and ways over the last month.

4 is for death, 7 is for perfection. Perfect death? 3 numbers are between 4 and 7, 777 444? Am I going crazy? Probably, but so is everyone else so I might as well lean into it.

Been pretty sad about the state of the world lately, especially my own country. Maybe someday I'll use this platform as a diary of my own personal experiences, but for now I'm content to interact with creative things I find interesting.

Been pretty busy lately and have struggled to make time and mental energy for reading, let alone writing. I do enjoy studying languages and would like to get back into poetry. I need to do a final pass on my novel draft and decide what future awaits it at some point.

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