War! The greed for power is a human mental disorder, an psychological "abomination" which can and will corrupt every individual, when specific circumstances are given or forcefully taken. It does not mater what type of person you are, good or bad, ner or later you WILL turn evil, there is no escape. When you start to feel that kind power over another individual it is absolutely impossible to evade this type of feeling, especially after somebody is freely or contractually giving you that kind of power necessary to rule, to govern or manage either a country, an institution or a business.
Individuals can be made to resist torture and thought in ways of mass manipulation and physical persuasion. There are many examples in human history that individuals turned from being great leaders (or at least their appearance to masses would be at some point) into a horrible monsters, up until these days and I won't give examples here. You know very well who they are!
Though, there can be a very arguable debate over the philosophical and/or religious beliefs and statements, but the physical and truthful fact is that on a cellular level the brain neurons are rerouting in a very weird pattern that can actually block empathy and love to make space for "job responsibility" and later greed for power. You must have heard the ridiculous reason: I was only doing my job, when people beat someone else or something more horrifying like torture. The more you stay in that kind of "poisonous" environment, the more you become evil and there will be no point of return when you become insane in the meaning that you actually believe that resulting to beating or murder you are actually doing a good thing for the individuals and humanity in general.
I do not know how many of you have heard about the 1971 University of Stanford's prison experiment, but this simulation study was conducted to see and understand how the prisoners feels after they are being locked in a prison building (Some of them were guards and some prisoners after being interviewed) with substantial given and restricted rights, given to guards and restricted to prisoners. In this experiment they used students who where promised money compensation after the simulation would end.
Philip Zimbardo a Professor Emeritus of Stanford University after this experiment and several more other, in approximately 30 years period, wrote the book: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, 2007), which it actually described by interviewing several test subjects about what happened during the Stanford experiment about how they were acting as prison guards or being treated as a prisoner in the prison's cell. In later years he interviewed other prisoners from several other real prison riots. I would definitely recommend to read this book: The Lucifer Effect and a second one entitled:
These are the websites for both books:
The Lucifer Effect
The Stanford Prison Experiment
So what has to do the Lucifer Effect with crypto? Well it has to do with everything in this world not only crypto. This effect (which the name Lucifer I find it to be a little to much religious and I digress) can and will make any human being to become evil or let's say totally opposite than the person he/she actually is. The power entitled and the need for more power will distort the peoples mind in ways that they never ever thought to be possible.
There can be given many examples like rug pulls in crypto world and other business. But to refer to a specific experimental example, one student in that Stanford prison study was actually a good person, liked by everyone, a bit shy though but you know what he did? He became to be turned into a "monster", he tortured prisoners and after a revolt against guards that appear in the prison a few days later, which by the way it was held by the students that impersonated the prisoners, the shy and good student (a guard) literally killed another student (a prisoner). Actually in that riot 2-3 students died and several more injured, the last one died in the hospital.
You can find some information about the experiment in Wikipedia also, but is not very accurate like it was written in those two books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
The Lucifer Effect is so powerful that you cannot escape it once you encounter it. Some strong individuals might return to their original state if they leave, evade or escape that kind poisonous environment, but many of them won't, and it does not matter what kind of therapy they will do, they won't be the same anymore and might resolve to suicide later on.
I know that it seems to be a pretty grim article, still the point that I want to make it here is that once a person is turned to the "dark side" of the human behaviour it would be almost impossible to become the same person that you were before without being effected by the experience.
This could be the case for all dictators and those people who want to do good but results later on abominable crimes, then it comes megalomania and point of no return.
So after all this aaam... unavoidable human feelings and changing behaviour, what we can actually do to prevent and at least to protect ourselves and our families? The thing is that, it is a question without answers, not yet at least. In my own opinion I would recommend the personal "safe Heaven" that I thought it might work:
Avoid as much a possible all kind of trust in government, institutions, personalities, even neighbours, literally anybody except your family. Be careful though this thrustless behaviour could turn into paranoia so watch out for that to. Check out facts before anything and if you they are not revealed to you be impartial to the the news.
Secure personal and family financial future in a thrustless manner by accumulating crypto currencies.
Avoid as much as possible FOMO (fear of missing out) feeling, which can force you to make silly mistakes. Just tell yourself that you must use reasons for all of your actions and try to find motives to not panic buy or panic sell. Stop being FOMO and try to be JOMO (joy of missing out) because sooner or later you WILL get the opportunity that you missed.
Stop watching news and poisonous newson Facebook and Instagram or Twitter. How do you identify them? Well it's simple if they make you restless they are not meant to make you happy! Many of them are either fake one or even if their are true they are meant to instil Panic, Fear and/or Anger. Pay attention to signs, good or evil it does not matter, just try to avoid trusting them and try to understand the people behind them. This way you become empathic but do not share love and compassion, that's a totally different felling which is not coinciding with rationality.
Be impartial and try to see all sides of the stories, truths or lies, hidden ones and otherwise. If there is no lie there must be a hidden truth.
Try to see and understand what will benefit you and your family, for example in making a decision. I know sometimes it's imperative to take decisions instantaneously or it gives you less opportunities to change when a decision is chosen. It is extremely hard to make rational decisions in a crisis situation but if you will be able to resist temptations in a "go with the flow" or "herd movement" then you might actually be successful.
Cryptocurrency is NOT a "Safe Heaven" but is a safer medium of exchange, therefore do not under any circumstances put all your savings in a crypto coin, that you might regret later. Invest only what you can afford to lose!
Secure your family future by owning land! Yes that's right, owning a land might be a "Safe Heaven" but not a secured one.
Do your own farming and secure your own food and materials used for clothes and tools. It is unbelievable how simple ways of living have been forgotten by ordinary people. Relying on somebody else to give you anything by paying them, is a good way to provide a personal assets but this way of doing things will make you dependent on somebody else. In last century humanity became dependent on corporations where everything you want to acquire is not solely made by us, personally or by our families.
Don't get me wrong I do not suggest for you to start doing what our ancestors did, but at least try to have secured the very basic needs like food, clothing and shelter. Hard to do that while living in a city? well, There are many opportunities in the country side. I know and I definitely understand that this it would be a boring life to have but at least you and your family you are secured!
What about crypto? Well the internet is everywhere! Keep you crypto in a safe cold or hot wallet and when you need something that you do not have just go and buy with it. The longer you keep your cryptocurrency the higher the value will get and you won't feel any inflation striking you and your family.
Try to predict the future and futuristic technologies. I know that it might sound like a nonsense idea but if you start to think of it, is actually not a bad one! If you believe in Bitcoin go for it, if you believe in Tesla go for it, if you believe in petrol and gas go for it. Nobody can tell you what to do and nobody should force you to do it if you do not want to. Every investments in every industry are done with futuristic predictions, otherwise their would become worthless and unprofitable. If they are successful or not it depends how humanity will evolve, but predicting what might happen in a near future, in your life time, could prevent you from making irrational mistakes, or to have that FOMO feeling etc, etc...
So what do you guys think? Is there a true "Safe Heaven" out there that could be found or our human nature prevent us to find it?
This article is not a financial advice, before investing in anything do your own research.
