So now that the colder months are upon us, winter is here… I think about the world the planet life etc.… What is the meaning of it all and what is the path forward?

So apparently… I was randomly trolling IMDb… And I was very very surprised to see Christopher Nolan putting out a new Odyssey film? This is going to be epic.

So first, my first general thought on the military is I am not for violence or killing people or whatever… Ever since I was a kid, I was a pacifist. I actually remember recalling this very vividly as a kid… Very clearly as even a 12-year-old… If the American government spent even half of their budget on defense and military endeavors, and put it into education… Paying teachers better, attracting better talent or whatever… Then if that were the case, certainly kids would be far better off. For example, even funding after school programs, keeping kids off the street etc.

But anyways a random thought about colors, a new high-gloss military green vehicle wrap caught my eye, it is a very interesting color because it wasn’t really on my radar. I was more about the eye popping colors like extremely insanely high visibility orange, full fluorescent green, insanely hot pink and the like.

Green is fastening because ultimately it is the color of life. Everyone wants to see green grass, green Vista, see you there stock portfolio, their investments go green etc. It’s one of those funny things that a lot of people think that certain other things are better like red, everyone wants a red Ferrari… But nobody wants to see their investments go red?

Anyways, it’s interesting when it comes to vehicles… Living here in LA… It seems that also… Everyone wants their vehicle to look like some sort of military vehicle? If you think about the raised trucks SUVs… They essentially look like armored vehicles on the road. Even if you think about a cyber truck… It’s kind of like an affordable urban tank? Especially since it is bulletproof.

If you think about a military lifestyle, it should be all about austerity. For example, assuming that the summit of military discipline and lifestyle was the ancient Spartans, you don’t have a bunch of Spartans prancing around in purple Lamborghinis, or pink Rolls-Royce‘s,. Rather, they pride themselves on their military discipline their military valor, being outside all day, training for battle, in fact… lusting after battle.

In fact, I have an interesting theory… I think modern day man, the reason why modern day man is so depressed is because he doesn’t have any avenues to express his physical courage and valor? Like, when in modern day life will you ever suit up, get a sword and spear, put on your hub light helmet with the horse crest on top, roar, and go head to head in battle? Never.

I think the closest thing we have in modern day times is either like sports or the gym? Like football… Maybe rugby, something that actually requires some sort of physical courage.

I’ll give you an example I played football in high school, outside linebacker and inside linebacker my sophomore and junior year, starting, and the number one act of courage that you gotta do is go ahead to head with other highly adapt guys, all essentially suited up in their battle armor. To literally do a kickoff, run full speed to another dude, who grabs the ball and lowers his helmet and his body to accost you,,, it’s like one of the most unnatural things that a human being has to override his brain and doing. It’s practically 100% physical courage.

Football is interesting because certainly there’s a lot of skill involved, but I would say it’s like 99% physicality and courage.

There is a lot of other sports which takes physical string stamina, and skill… But not much physical courage?

What is physical courage anyways? Physical courage is like putting your skeleton your bones your muscles your brain on the line, and if you act in such a way that is cowardly, you inflict physical damage on yourself. 

Courage

Also when it comes to investing, there needs to be some sort of exposure. Like you cannot be a fake

Philosophy: The phrase “will to overpower” echoes Nietzsche’s famous Will to Power, but with an explicitly aggressive slant. Nietzsche famously recounted a vision that “the highest Will to Life” expresses itself not in mere survival but in a “Will to War, a Will to Power, a will to Overpower!” .  He explicitly argued in Genealogy of Morals that strength inherently seeks to dominate – asking strength not to be a “will to overpower” is absurd .  Some interpreters link this to the Übermensch: Heidegger, for example, describes the superman’s will to power as a will to “overpower reality’s nothingness” .  By contrast, other philosophies frame human drive differently (Schopenhauer spoke of a blind Will-to-Live, Hegel of a dialectic of recognition), but the idea of an innate strive for mastery recurs across thinkers.  Even Hobbes portrayed life as a war of all against all, where each individual seeks power to preserve itself (preserving power “by a dread of punishment which never fails” ).  In short, Nietzsche’s “will to overpower” underscores a long-standing theme: the human urge to assert and expand one’s power over nature and others .

Psychology: Modern psychology identifies a dominance motivation akin to a will to overpower. Researchers describe a Dominance Behavioral System guiding the drive for power and social rank .  People high in this motive interpret their world through power dynamics and are especially sensitive to opportunities or threats to status .  Biologically, this drive may have evolved to secure resources (even reproductive opportunities) .  In behavior, dominance can be overt (aggression, intimidation, physical displays) or covert (charisma, alliances).  For instance, ethologists note that many animals (like these impalas locking horns) physically contest dominance to establish hierarchies .  In humans, dominance often blends hostility and warmth: aggression or bullying on one hand, versus leadership and alliance-building on the other .  Empirically, extreme dominance motives correlate with antisocial or narcissistic traits, while more moderate dominance manifests as assertiveness and ambition.  Overall, the psychological “will to overpower” is seen as an innate motivation to seek control and status, sometimes manifesting as aggression or leadership depending on the context .

Literature

In literature, ambition and domination are perennial themes.  Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince bluntly advises rulers to prioritize fear over love: “it is much safer to be feared than loved… [for] fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails” .  Classical epics and tragedies also dramatize overpowering will.  For example, Milton’s Paradise Lost has Satan proudly claim it is “better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven,” reflecting ultimate defiance.  Shakespeare’s works often center on overreaching: Macbeth’s vaulting ambition, or Richard III’s ruthless scheming, depict will to dominate.  The 19th-20th centuries saw countless power struggles in fiction – from Dickensian villains to dystopian tyrants.  George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm turn domination into allegory, showing how ideology enforces absolute control.  Even fantasy and adventure novels use this motif: the One Ring in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings embodies the will to subjugate all.  In short, many authors and literary movements—from Renaissance to modern—explore how ambition and the thirst for power can drive characters and shape plots, often with tragic or cautionary results .

Anime and Gaming: Japanese media and video games love the power fantasy. Anime heroes often have indomitable wills to overcome any limit.  ComicBook notes that many underdog protagonists become “bullish in their pursuit of doing better, becoming greater, … not through chance or luck, but sheer force of will” .  Asterisks here include Black Clover’s Asta – a seemingly powerless boy who vows to become Wizard King and repeatedly overcomes impossibly strong foes with unshakeable determination .  Similarly, shōnen icons like Naruto or Deku never yield in battle, driven by internal resolve.  Villains in anime often embody raw domination (think Frieza or Madara), making the struggle one of wills to overpower.  Video games explicitly codify this: Jeff Vogel argues “video games are about using power to make changes in a fantasy space, for pleasure. They are power fantasies.” .  Players routinely gain strength and abilities (via leveling up, gear, “super moves”) that let them crush obstacles.  Franchises from Dragon Ball (constant power-up battles) to RPG epics to fighting games hinge on surpassing limits.  Even game mechanics celebrate persistence (e.g. permadeath games where repeated trials and resilience win).  In sum, many anime story arcs and games revolve on a core narrative of dominance: protagonists must will themselves to overpower opponents, and gamers vicariously enjoy wielding overwhelming power .

Pop Culture Symbolism

The “will to overpower” also appears as a broad cultural motif. In fashion and branding, power is symbolized overtly: the 1980s “power suit” (broad-shouldered blazers) was explicitly designed to project authority and confidence .  Companies and sports teams frequently use bold animals (lions, eagles) or mythic imagery to suggest dominance.  Music and entertainment regularly tap into this motif: heavy metal and rock often feature themes of strength and conquest.  For instance, Colombian metal band Nightmare titled a 2015 album The Will to Overpower, literally embracing the phrase .  Even pop songs become empowering anthems, and lyrics like “I am the greatest” or “take no prisoners” feed the same idea.  Ad campaigns (e.g. “Just do it,” “Unleash the beast”) co-opt the vocabulary of potency.  On a deeper level, raised-fist imagery or militaristic aesthetics in streetwear recall an urge to assert strength.  Thus, across styles and media, the theme of overpowering will manifests as symbols of ambition and self-assertion .

Sources: Nietzsche’s writings and interpretations ; psychological research on dominance ; literary analyses and quotes (Machiavelli, Orwell, etc.) ; anime/manga commentary ; and cultural examples (power dressing , metal album title ) all inform this overview.

Maybe a virtuous way we could approach speech is via negativa–> Truth be told, most people are like insanely basic, the best course of action is just don’t open your mouth.

 a lot of people talk about open communication or whatever… But honestly, perhaps it is more virtuous to figure out what NOT to communicate. 

For example, not to communicate pettiness, and actually even in terms of technology… The best technology is via negativa –> the only worthwhile things to install on your phone is pop up and advertising blockers, and also with headphones or whatever… The only useful ones are the noise canceling ones. Actually a very underrated technology is the simple earplug, I like the purple ones on Amazon.

So to prioritize peace quiet and tranquility.

So I suppose, the first thought is with communication or speech or talking with other people… Certainly there is certain banter you do when you’re with men versus women versus mixed groups.  certainly there is a different way you will talk to your childhood friends versus your priest.

communicate less

It’s funny… In today’s world where everyone is like always on… Even those home security devices or whatever… People are always plugged in, communicating too much of everything.

I think a virtuous way we could approach things it’s first, maybe just communicate less. I think… One of the funny ideas is that we are often trained to think that somehow… To always be accessible to always communicate and over communicate is a virtue. But there is a bizarre asymmetry here; let us say you are very insanely famous person, and you get like 1000 text messages and emails a day. Yet the person who sends you the message is not famous. And that person only gets maybe one or two emails or text messages a day.

So certainly it does not literally feasible for you to respond to each individual thousand messages a day. Even if you had 18 hours a day you probably cannot do it. Even if you had all the AI assistants on the planet, you could not.

As a thought experiment… Imagine you’re Elon Musk, does he have the time or the brain power or the whatever to respond to every single tweet that he gets on X, and actually another problem… In today’s world it is impossible to know who is a bot vs who is real. I would actually probably say that on social media, close to 90% of people are bots. If I waved a magic wand and magically deleted all the bots from the Internet, you would probably see your Instagram following drop by 90%, same thing goes with YouTube subscribers, as well as Twitter X followers.

Being friendly?

There’s all these annoying fake virtues like being kind or whatever… I myself always try to make it a virtue to be friendly and sociable to all these antisocial people that I meet. This includes now… Adults parents, random people on the street at the market etc.

Honestly the only people were talking to are young children. And teenagers. And also maybe college kids. The point in which people start to lose their social edge is typically post college when people start to work for a living or start to take drugs and consume alcohol and start streaming nonsense from their phones.

Negativity, negative speech

Certainly before you change the world, best you change yourself.

I suppose the first thing you could do is just remove negative with speech. And also other big ideas:

1. Don’t talk about the news, politics, entertainment stuff, TV shows or anything that does not pertain to you.

Even local politics, refrain.

Better to talk about yourself, how you feel.

Also, maybe my New Year’s resolution is to be less friendly?

ERIC

—> eh,,, doesn’t really bother,,me,, or,,, I don’t really have an opinion on *THAT*?