Self-Generated Certainty

self-generated certaintyPaul Rosenberg – There’s a lot to feel uncertain about in this world. Making things worse, more or less all the large things in it are arranged to reap from your uncertainty. Advertising is an obvious example (reaping from insufficiencies that are implanted then filled with their products), but governments function similarly and even a lot of relationships revolve around insecurity-matching.

Needless to say, insecurity feels bad, and it is certainly no aid to good decision-making. Thus it’s clearly in our self-interest to fix it.

We can start by jettisoning any expectation of help from entities that reap from our insecurities. That’s obvious. And the central assumption of our age is that we’re clinging to life and whatever comforts we can grab, in a world with no real meaning. So, we’re not going to get much help from public voices. Continue reading