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Make Sense Not WarChoose Love, Not XA Peace PoemIt is time to leave the beastTo starve the parasiteIt's on binary thought it feedsChoose love, not X(Read the hole poem on my substack) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucienlecarme.substack.com/subscribe2023-11-0403 min
Make Sense Not WarThe SecretThe SecretA New Earth Poem to Empower our HomecomingThere is a secret to overcome the oldHow to break the spellA code to crack the vaultA slick trick to ring heaven’s bellRead the full poem on my substack This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucienlecarme.substack.com/subscribe2023-10-2503 min
Make Sense Not WarThe Binary Trap: Escaping the Hero-Villain Illusion.Isn’t it bizarre that the moment the public opinion on the Russia — Ukraine war shifts, a new crisis emerges immediately?Well, it’s not new really, it’s around 4000 years old and probably humanities biggest hate-fest.Something did change in all of those years.The perception management of the masses seems more important than the actual battle on the ground. Notice that when the ‘blind righteousness of the victims’ shifts, the moral ground to kill thousands of innocent civilians also fades. And does billions of support from war Santa Claus Biden.The real b...2023-10-1512 min
Make Sense Not WarHumanity's Renaissance: The Magic of Taking Our Power BackMany of us have become a miserable bunch of cowards, hiding behind group-think, clicking heals when the next crisis is planted through narrative warfare. The good news? Being lost is the perfect scenario to find our way back home again.When all seems lost, this is the moment in movies when something magical happens. When a leading kernel of truth appears, when the fire of courage returns in the eyes of the beaten villagers and the escape route out of the valley of death lights up, and the hero climbs out of the sn...2023-10-0118 min
Make Sense Not WarThe Dutch Facelift: Efficiency Culture Blends with Technocratic IdealismIn a land far, far away, where everything felt fair, trustworthy and democratic, I studied Anthropology. A long, long time ago.Then I went to live on a small party island for 12 years, escaped the system, and went on a further spiritual quest: Ibiza.Now I am back on the flat lands. With a high dose of open honesty and curiosity, I notice I am studying my father's country. Like a true Anthropologist, I observe the change from a healthy distance while participating. I do have the agenda 20–30 bullet poi...2023-07-2615 min
Make Sense Not WarMaking Sense of ChatGPT--Human Creativity Killer?A.I is boring as f*ckI tried it, CHATGPT ( the name is already boring), and made it to write two blog posts.Sure, I was excited when I got up in the morning and thought: ‘ I’m gonna be rich soon. Let A.I do the work, and nobody will notice’’.I researched for an hour, got the AiPRM extension on Chrome, figured out a good prompt, and …The screen wrote a blog in 15 seconds.I made alterations to have it look more personal, made it poop ou...2023-04-1908 min
Make Sense Not WarThe Ultimate Strategy to Stay Happy and SaneDear Friends, followers, people with a laptop or phone and a wish to make sense of this world.First, I excuse since I’ve been out of writing for quite a while. There are several reasons.The biggest one is that I met a woman. She rocked my world like a comet and disappeared more or less with the same force as she entered my Kingdom.Yes, I left you, dear readers, for a woman.I needed two months to get to my senses again.Sh...2023-03-1606 min
Make Sense Not WarHow the W.E.F Abuses Spiritual IdeasA while ago, I minted the term spiritual elite.I live in Ibiza, and all walks of life are represented here. Especially the rich and uber-rich.Now, what happens when these groups get spiritual?You get the spiritual elites.Not that they can help it. Many are the most wonderful kind people. They have their conditioning, their wealthy ancestors, and their protected upbringing within the walls of financial security and elite schools. They eat expensive vegan food daily and drive Range Rovers.What do the spiritual elites...2023-01-2014 min
Make Sense Not WarA Journey to the Root of Evil“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” — George CarlinThe stream of world events since march 2020 exposes humanity's darkest face.It's worse than the creepiest horror movie.In my process of SenseMaking, I can’t wrap my thoughts around one central issue;How have certain humans become so intrinsically bad?Are they even human? Are they hiding behind a bigger apparatus? the system? a cult? In a blatant self-righteousness that only can exist when you demonetize the other. When you create an...2022-12-1829 min
Make Sense Not WarTen Ways to Remain Human and KindThere are some pretty uncanny forces at work to separate us.It seems from the outside, they’re doing a pretty good job. Opening Twitter is like taking the lit from a can of worms. Outrage and blame roam the streets like Robocop with a bad temper. Shooting hate from the hip. A deep divide runs through our world. Well, you must know what I’m talking about. It’s all over the place, especially on anti-social media. The grand canyon of misunderstanding.Interestingly enough, this divid...2022-11-2107 min
Make Sense Not WarThe Icke One Man Show Against the Cult Continues“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall, friend of VoltaireI don’t care if David Icke’s reptilian theory turns out to be BS.I do care when one man gets denied access to a stage to speak. In 26 countries. For two years.For speaking his truth.In these days, you can sell people they need to start eating bugs, but apparently not that bugs maybe rule the world.It’s the late...2022-11-1510 min
Make Sense Not WarBe Angry, be Outraged, but be aware of HateDear Readers,How is your day?Welcome to Sensemaking Weekly Summary.A sum up of links and sources I found in my quest for sensemaking, of what I’ve read this week, and the insights and wisdom I gained from these sources.I try to keep my scope of information broad, as part of my sincere effort and intention not to get too narrowed down in biased thinking, by reading only a select amount of sources that will solely confirm my bias.Don’t worry, I’m not go...2022-11-1111 min
Make Sense Not WarThe Unforgivable Story of LeadKnock Knock, let's put some poison in your car to stop that sound.A little more than seventy-five years ago, General Motors, Du Pont and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon) got together and put lead, a known poison, into gasoline.For-profit.The staggering result?They diminished the IQ of half of the U.S population around 1988 with close to one billion IQ points.To make this number more tangible;* A 1985 EPA study estimated that as many as 5,000 Americans died annually from lead-related heart disease before the...2022-11-1013 min
Make Sense Not WarWhy Did the Netherlands Cancel Anti-Russian Sanctions?Holland has deep historical and economic ties with Russia.The Netherlands inspired Peter the Great to open a window to Europe while he was trained as a shipwright in Amsterdam. In 1816, the Dutch Crown Prince of Orange married Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna, sister of Alexander I.The flat country is also run like a company.Holland, that once had a Russian Queen, is now caught in a U.S dictated Geo-Political war against the big bear. The sanctions are starting to backfire immensely, wrecking the pillars of the European economy.2022-11-0614 min
Make Sense Not WarAmazon Deleted my Account — “For my Privacy”Amazon just made sure my account can’t be hacked.By completely deleting it.Why?The initial reason was an infringement on the copyright conditions.Amazon doesn’t allow you to use Unsplash images, even when you link to the creator in an Ebook. Or images that are widely available on the internet.I deleted all of the images in my latest Ebook. Then asked the behemoth of content to put my humble store with four books online again.Things started to get a helluva lot...2022-11-0311 min
Make Sense Not WarHow to Save Your Ass when the Going Gets ToughAre you saving your ass too?I would love to know how.Lately, we act like a bunch of animals running inland minutes before the Tsunami kicks in.Just before the end of the world as we know it, the most natural reaction is to grab what you can while you can. You’re only human. Your neighbour is doing it, so you can’t stay behindMulti-Polar trap. Need to feed the kids.Grabbing was one of our core foundations of capitalism, anyhow. Now it has turned into hope...2022-10-2706 min
Make Sense Not WarThe Greater Reset-From the People, For the PeopleThis is a series of three articles around the idea of formulating the outlines for a plan, a Great Reset, from the people for the people. The past two years, humanity has been brutality attacked by a top-down technocratic plan imposing a new normal that is both trans-humanist and inhumane. Millions are suffering or either dying and more hardship is to come. History shows that a new story of culture and big societal changes always arise ground up. It’s time to define the conditions for this plan by looking at the three main root causes that corrupted our las...2022-10-2426 min
Make Sense Not WarThe End of the Myth of SeparationI am not you.Our central myth, our underlying story of culture, is one of separation.It’s very difficult to connect intimately in a world where we all believe the central myth that shaped our culture. I have nothing to do with that tree or fish.Mechanical thinking has urged humanity throughout the ages to see the world as a threat with whimsical forces of nature trying to destroy us. This created science and our obsessive effort to control nature, our bodies, our minds and each other....2022-10-1512 min
Make Sense Not WarCapitalism is Dying — I’m Grabbing as Much Money as I canThe Good old greedy competition money game is about to die.We all know why. You’ll become a credit score. A QR box. A goldfish at best.One morning I woke up and thought to myself; When money’s gonna die, why not try to get as much of it as possible?Why I’m turning into a Warren Buffet now and not earlier?Deep inside, my parents had conditioned me to be against money. I love them, but they were hippies from the 60ies, praying love and equali...2022-09-2607 min
Make Sense Not WarCancel Culture - Why You Might be Next Even When You're "Woke"Woke-ism and its negative brother/sister cancel culture have flooded the planet like a new virus.Being “Woke” grew first in black communities and meant to be awake and present to injustice and discrimination, as Merriam-Webster states;“Stay woke became a watch word in parts of the Black community for those who were self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better.”It has now extended to almost every other arena of society, which I found not necessarily a bad thing. It’s great to be awake and act against any injust...2022-05-1710 min
Make Sense Not WarMake Sense, Not War, Through open CommunicationThe real war happens every day on Twitter. Tik-Tok and YouTube etc. It’s a war between us. It’s the result of an attack on your sane brain. Don’t get fooled into being socially pressured to chose a side in the real-boots-on-the-ground-war in Ukraine. That’s senile old men doing their moneypower grab while we, good faith civilians, pay the price.Sadly innocent people are dying while I write this. Millions of Russians that do’nt want this bloodshed suffer from irrational sanctions. The Cold War ended years ago, h...2022-03-0811 min
Make Sense Not WarCanada and Ukraine Show Bitcoin is Freedom MoneyOnly 2 weeks ago Bitcoin received its usual condemnation from legacy financial systems owning the news and thus the narrative.It happened in Canada after the freedom convoy truckers were framed as right-wing terrorists holding unacceptable views. They had the audacity, after GoFundMe literally stole their money, to refer to the last option available for the people, Bitcoin and Crypto.These events pushed Canada into a state of emergency so unprecedented that even a bank account of a single mom that donated $50 got suspended. All at the whim of the all-seeing leader...2022-02-2813 min
Make Sense Not WarFear is Driving this Insane Polarization — Not Covid, Truckers or Joe RoganCancel culture is roaming the streets like a gang at midnight with machine guns in downtown L.A. Polarization is off the charts.Who’s gonna be next? Nelson Mandela for being a racist? The pope for being a Bhoeddist?Everything goes.Twenty-two months of propaganda in the biggest sales pitch ever in the history of humankind, combined with the bulkiest fear-mongering media campaign of all times is asking its toll. We’re seeing the results right now.Thank you big tech for not being really helpful with your A.I...2022-02-1809 min
Make Sense Not WarSecrets for Living a Meaningful Life in a World that's Going BananasEngaging online with today’s world will fry your brain, attack your nervous system, and will make you doubt whether humanity has lost its common sense.It also will* Feed you contradictory information to confuse you* Trick you into believing hyper objects are real* Forces you to take sides to feel safe in an in group* Feed you constantly with headlines and images that traumatize you* Pull you into a dialogue on Social Media that is based on hate and polarization, le...2022-02-1114 min
Make Sense Not WarDid We Just Enter the End-Phase of the Cult?The Covid narrative is falling apart.In the desert of lies, the pandemic was just a Fata Morgana. Last week, the U.K suddenly dropped passes and masks. They didn’t even get to the stage of fascist mandates. Why isn’t the rest of the world following? This makes me weary. After 2 years of criminal psychological hardcore warfare, a Government is not suddenly going to listen to its people. A trick from the global corporations dictators handbook? Possible. Take hands-off for a cert...2022-01-2805 min
Make Sense Not WarWhy Big Tech Will Have it's Inexorable Big FallIts impossible to censor noble price winners, a Presidents of the U.S and brilliant minds and believing history will let you get away with it.In a world where critical thoughts are systematically killed, silenced or otherwise stopped, social media like Twitter and YouTube will become extremely boring overtime.Why?Because they no longer represent the rich diversity of thought. Questions that rise organically. Logical remarks. Plain right in your face truths. Stuff of which sense making is made. A collective process that should include all voices.These...2022-01-2110 min
Make Sense Not WarApply The Best Silent Protest Ever: Be HappyAround the turn of the year I got the flu.I have fully recovered now, and I am, as always, grateful for the process.I call catching a virus getting an updateIt cleaned my system. I was feverish for 2 days while my cells heated up to clean and protect themselves. I needed to surrender to the process and experience the luxury of being sick.It was yet another purge.Speaking of purges, it felt like I sweated out all of the toxicity that I...2022-01-1213 min
Make Sense Not WarHow to Get Rid of Your Government?2022 will be the year millions on the planet will let go of their Governments and start creating new healthy local societies.That’s my prediction.It doesn’t make much sense to look back to 2021. Just too much craziness happened. I rather look forward, since a unique setting has presented itself to us, humanity. We’re gonna get rid of our Governments before they’re gonna get rid of us.The movement of decentralization is unstoppable.Some big challenges are:* Still millions trust their leaders* M...2022-01-0212 min
Make Sense Not WarLet's Switch off Fascism and Feel Some Christmas UnityHappy Christmas dear friends and fellow humans. This period is weird. It does feel like fascism has been dialled down for a few days.It reminds me of the famous World War One truce. German, British and French soldiers were done fighting and decided to play soccer together, exchange headgear and celebrate their unity in the trenches. (photo)Just before shooting their brains out the following days into the new year of 1915This piece has 2 sections. The first is a summary of the last week's rise of...2021-12-2526 min
Make Sense Not WarGlobal Corporate Extraction is the Real Virus. Addiction is the PandemicSnake oil global crony capitalism is the real virus. It sucks out all of the wealth of the planet to an elite without ethics. When the earth is about to implode, they wave a final goodbye to the hunger games society far out of reach of their spaceships escaping to Mars.That’s where sociopath extraction capitalism is getting us when we do nothing.You and I pay the price. * Monster inflation* Monster increase of house prices* Monster rate of health issues like obesity, autoimmune dise...2021-12-1710 min
Make Sense Not WarSome people wish me dead. I rather stay humanThe other day I did the rule omega exercise. I saw a title of a piece on Medium that compared anti-vaxxers with flies on a wall.It’s my anti-bias exercise, trying to stay open, feel where I get triggered and do an honest effort to research where the 5% signal might be.This post and podcast is my effort to mend pieces together that broke after reading this piece. It’s not about who’s right or wrong, God no. It’s feeling into my heart, and when I do that, I feel s...2021-12-1019 min
Make Sense Not WarConspiracy Theories, Sensemaking, and the Rise of the Mono-NarrativeOur societies are split, divided. People rage wars against each other, but mostly in their own heartsThe phenomenon of conspiracy theories entered our lifes in 2020. Together with massive censorship, cancel culture, and blatant mass propaganda.We live in times of the loss of trust in democracy and our leaders, who are showing their true despotic faces. Even a mouth cap can’t hide their attitude of bending over to their feudal big tech, big pharma and big finance overlords. It’s fair to say, in my humble opinion, that many forc...2021-12-0317 min
Make Sense Not WarIdeas to solve the sense-making crisis/Part 2Exponential tech leads…to exponential disinformation, exponential extraction, exponential pollution, exponentially scaled warfare, on a finite playing field that self-destructs — Daniel Schmachtenberger, War on SensemakingYou'd probably agree that it is currently very difficult to make sense of the world. Maybe you’ve given up altogether some time ago.According to Daniel Schmachtenberger, Co-Founder at the Neurohacker Collective, humanity is playing dangerous zero-sum games with a few winners and many losers in a darkening landscape of culture wars, game-A rivalrous dynamics, limbic AI-hijacks, and massive disinformation, propaganda, and psychological warfare.This process ca...2021-11-3021 min
Make Sense Not WarWhy Governments Are Destroying their Countries WorldwideTrusted governments worldwide are turning against the people in a coup-d’etat of unprecedented scale.For your health and safety?Often, they’ve completely taken over power, misusing each and every angle in constitutional law, in the name of something as lethal as mild flu.Even worse.This all has been prepared. Laws have been set in place, such as changing definitions of pandemics, event 201 staging a corona pandemic in October 2019, and vaccine passports have been designed already in 2018.We’re experiencing the rollout of what can be bes...2021-11-2616 min
Make Sense Not WarControl versus Letting go: What do you choose?When Cojonas hit us in march 2020, I instinctively just knew one clear truthIn fact, It was more a feeling than a thoughtThe paradigm shift has begunLet the system transformThe coronation, the big crowning, has started.While my heart was filled with joy and this ‘finally ‘feeling, the world around me started to become pretty funky.I experienced one of the hardest lockdowns in the world, in Spain from March-June 2020. Coast guard in a speedboat came after us while I had a swim...2021-11-1909 min
Make Sense Not WarHow Big Tech & Eugenics will Degrade you Into a Useless ClassTech is not the holy land.We like to believe that Elon Musk is Moses leading the blind and tech will solve all of our problems. It won’t.During Davos 2020, Yuval Harari warned us about the three main threats tech imposes on our lives;…technology might disrupt human society and the very meaning of human life in numerous ways, ranging from the creation of a global useless class to the rise of data colonialism and of digital dictatorships — Yuval Harari Speech Davos 2020A sentence like a glob...2021-11-1212 min
Make Sense Not WarStorytellers will Reshape our Future - not Billionaires and PoliticiansWe don’t need a new normal. We need a better story.Everything is a story. Your mind creates thousands of stories a day.Following this line of thinking it’s clear that our Western culture is made out of an underlying story. Some stories grow old, others will never die since they touch the divine. They stay true forever. Our current story of lack, separation, infinite growth and competition is slowly becoming untrue for millions of people. It’s slowly dying.What are possible implications for you? Sin...2021-11-0512 min
Make Sense Not WarGo off-screen. As if Your Life Depended on itGet rid of your phone, start building your dreamYesterday.Screenworld 2021; The metaverse is coming to get you.A completely fake world where streams of bytes eat away your passion, your dream, and eventually your life.You’ll be a virtual zombie staring in your Oculus while all of your vital brain functions believe it’s real and you let your body and soul slowly rot away in stasis.Any idea still what real-life even means?No, It’s not a meme nor an NFT...2021-10-2906 min
Make Sense Not WarWill Artificial Intelligence Beat us and Replace us?Wisdom is not algorithmic…You can’t have an if this than that algorithm that actually equals wisdom. And if you can, than we are just an intermediate boot loader for the A.I’s that are better creatures than us — Daniel SmachtenbergerThe business of zero’s and ones, humanity going virtual, is first and foremost a marketplace.Now give this market self-learning A.I-driven tools, ever-increasing capacity for the aim of profit-making, and voila, big tech feudalism is here.Because it’s self-learning, A.I is creating A.I at the moment. D...2021-10-2214 min
Make Sense Not WarHow to Stop a Bunch of Billionaires who Own Everything and Feel Happy about it?Hold on, I got the solution for planet earth.We need a wise elders council.Let’s have humanity vote for the wisest thought leaders, visionary game-changers, and captains of consciousness to brainstorm about our future. And we leave predatory corporate money stand outside the Gates.Yes, he can stay away too.We let the elite watch on big screens how real leaders make right what they have sucked out, dehumanized, and enslaved for their own sake.Not gonna happen any day soon, I hear you think....2021-10-1511 min
Make Sense Not WarThe Solution To All Problems in This World is in Our HeartsLet’s do the math and get to the heart of the matter. When all the bad stuff in this world comes from hate, greed, aggression, and separation. And when all the good stuff comes from compassion, kindness, virtue, knowing thou self and generosity,Then, isn’t the solution right in front of your nose?Politics, wars, and conflicts are handmade, by people. Peace, unity, empowerment, love, and wisdom are heart-made, by other people.Do the bad guys first have to become better people before this world can turn into...2021-10-1217 min
Make Sense Not WarHow Owning Your Lighter will Help Save the PlanetArtists make us look at our s**t. I have an architect friend who takes that quite literally. He makes art out of humanities waste products. Preferably big.He is convinced we can live in a world where everything can be re-used. His artworks are the living proof of his philosophy.Is art is telling us only one thing; Own your stuff, Western peopleBuy only stuff that you can tear apart, repair and put back together.Africa is showing us this for decades, and now we’re...2021-10-0809 min
Make Sense Not WarBeing Excluded From Society Isn’t That BadEnter the cultI mean, for me it's obvious most countries with their Governments have turned into cults.The initiation rite is taking a jab in the arm. Then you’re ‘with us’. We won't longer scare you, intimidate you, punish you. Or maybe we will when you’re not bending your will to future rules that we haven’t told you yet. (GNA, GNA)Or when we like to tighten the leash a bit, just for fun.When you’re with us, you get your ‘freedom’ back, which was hijacked in...2021-10-0508 min
Make Sense Not WarA Groundbreaking Vision on Health by Dr. Zach Bush MDLast year, humanity flipped in a collective fear paradigm. We started to react to a real threat with a fight and flight response. In this narrow-minded state, there is no room for creative solutions and the narrative becomes to fight and control. This is one of my main take-always from a 2020 podcast with Dr. Zach Bush MD. Zach is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems.I listened to it last night, couldn’t sleep. Slightly worried about the que...2021-10-0113 min
Make Sense Not WarIdeas to solve the Sense-Making crisis/part 1A good idea solves a problem and makes some people happy. A great idea solves a huge issue and makes half of the planet cheer. One of today’s biggest issues is our sense-making crisis. Without good sense-making, it’s hard to live a meaningful life. Solve this, and you’re Gandhi for the next century. Through reasons I’ll sum up below, it has become increasingly difficult to make sense of our world. Do you remember the times you believed every word in your newspaper? Stories written by ho...2021-09-2412 min