Not a home but a glorified shipping container. What happens to people who live in tiny houses or shipping containers? More shipping containers and sheds are installed on the same lot to extend their living space, because no family can live comfortably in a shipping container, or in a one bedroom apartment; they need storage space, they need living space. This is ghettoisation. You get less for more per square meter

Digital ID is not my identity; it is their identity. A face-scan or fingerprints are not my identity; it is their identity. This is how they identify themselves to me.

The assertion that legal tender is a liability of the central bank (and therefore the central bank has the right to control its use) is fraudulent non-sense. Legal tender is a liability only for those who generate and own the underlying value (goods and services) that legal tender is mandated to represent. Legal tender is either a form of taxation, if created by the state, or plain theft, if created by commercial banks (which is nowadays the case for 97% of savings held by the population).

HYPOTHESIS: The deal between US, Hamas and Israel was negotiated and agreed on prior to October 7, and included broad collaboration on October 7 and the agreement to completely destroy Gaza in exchange for a full rebuilt as a smart city-state: New Palestine. Hamas was offered the universal recognition of the state of New Palestine, modern infrastructure and first-world standard of living, massive US investment, subject to implementation of biometric identity with security controls across both New Palestine and Israel, operated by a third party (US, UN, Qatar?), and Israel was offered security guarantee associated with the same biometric system, plus some major perks (possibly major trade deals and exclusive investments on its territory, related to computing and AI, or perhaps even a nod to annex the West Bank). We will see what happens, but this is my impression so far.

Reality is Negotiable, according to the Law

Reality is negotiable; it consists of ideas that continuously evolve, therefore do not endure as identities but arise as unique instances of sense, in logical continuity from the antecedent instances of sense. Only that which does not change in its meaning can be said to endure from moment to moment, therefore to exist: the law of sense presupposed by the logical continuity of meaning. This is the Only law, the only authority; any other formulation of law or authority is contrary to the structure of being. https://philpapers.org/rec/KOWTT

A few years back kids with mental health issues who didn’t hurt anyone were shot dead by cops just for brandishing a knife in a public place and refusing to drop it when yelled at at gun point. They called it ‘suicide by cop’. It appears that cops are now instructed to stand down, look the other way, let the crisis escalate, give the teenage gangs enough rope, let a few shoppers bleed to death, let the perpetrators out again the following day, knowing that they are violent psychopaths beyond any hope of rehabilitation. I am sure that the ruling power has important reasons for doing this. https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/melbournes-youth-crime-crisis-laid-bare-in-three-words/news-story/9ffb681fea9b6cedef924296141a30cf

There is one critical error in the linked analysis, in addition to its premature commitment to a conclusion, as there are other possible motives for the propaganda-use of absurdity, including educational applications. The critical error is the misidentification of what counts for abstraction and what counts for reality: ‘lived experience’ is an abstraction, and objective reality consists solely in the distinction between consistency and contradiction. Non-contradiction is the sole standard of objectivity, to which ‘lived experience’ is subject to and according to which it can be refuted as non-sense. ‘Lived experience’ is like speaking a language, identifying words (which in this case are the identifiable phenomena) and interpreting the structure of the expression (which in this case is the perceived situation). We can both speak a language, or interpret phenomena in the broader context of experience we call ‘reality’, inconsistently; it is only thought conceptual reflection/analysis, which occurs on the superficial level automatically, that contradictions and therefore the limits of sense/objectivity/reality can be discerned. Taking objectivity for abstraction, and abstraction for objectivity, may be the underlying cause of the general susceptibility to manipulation and propaganda. https://open.substack.com/pub/howard366646/p/helpful-steps-towards-understanding

It is not profitable to even convert empty high-rise buildings to residential. Does not sounds like a ‘supply’ crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/12/converting-empty-office-blocks-apartments-appears-over

Conspiracy is the essence of corrupt institutions

Institutional corruption necessitates institutional conspiracy to conceal the corruption and evade liability. Systemic corruption necessitates systemic conspiracy, and all existing political systems are inherently corrupt with respect to their claims of institutional authority and the associated (fraudulent) monetary system. As such, there are no ‘conspiracies’ (plural) but only one systemic conspiracy via which the corrupt system preserves itself, which involves ever more lies to explain the past lies and the ever increasing demand to accept absurdity.

‘Philosophers’ who do not study the basics of meaning, who are not constantly evaluating whether their thoughts and words comply with the laws of sense, are not doing philosophy but either poetry (which is rare) or, more commonly, something akin to modern art (dadaism).

It is not correct to say that a sound is ‘neither yellow nor not-yellow’. This would imply that the visual category ‘colour’ applies to sounds, and there is a term in that category that is not-yellow and not-not-yellow, therefore not-yellow and yellow, therefore contradiction. It is correct to say that the category ‘colour’ does not apply to sounds, therefore the terms ‘yellow’ and/or ‘not-yellow’ cannot be used to characterise sounds (if meant in the usual, literal sense).

Born this way… https://substack.com/@michaelkowalik/note/c-90904407

The laws of sense are not a mysterious property. They are always, everywhere and in everything, they are the light of the world, and yet hardly anyone is aware of their immutable presence, and so people dwell in the shadow of being, blind, scattered in fragments. Once the omnipresence of the laws is realised, there is clarity, but also the trauma of being alone among the living shadows and fragments of consciousness, broken pieces of a mirror in which to recognise my-Self.

There is no such thing as “reasoning at superhuman level”; consistent reasoning is the human level. AI either complies with the laws of sense or it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t there is contradiction. There is no “superhuman level” of understanding of the law of non-contradiction: not(x and not-x). Musk’s assertion only shows that he cannot reason at the human level, and does not even understand what consistent reasoning means. https://news.1rj.ru/str/rtnews/116996

I am tired of people speaking to me out of habit, demanding attention, disrupting my thoughts, but giving me nothing meaningful in return.

I wish it were possible to ask anyone who says ‘Good Day’ or ‘How are you’ what they mean by ‘Good’ without them turning all weird or indignant. Don’t say ‘Good Day’ to me if you do not mean anything by it. I am not even sure whether there is such a thing as ‘Good Morning’. Why don’t we start greeting each other with more seriousness, like: “Hey you, what’s your argument?”, or “what does it mean to be?” :)

Money (a token that can be exchanged for goods and services) is a representation of real value. It functions as a mirror-image of all real value in existence. It is this property of money that allows the rich to do nothing and just absorb wealth created by others. For example, if you build a house, all by yourself, where materials cost you 200k but the final product is worth 600k, and you exchange it for $600k (of money), you have instantly enriched the biggest money holders by $400k (the banks and their real owners: bond holders), because all money in circulation just increased its purchasing power (the real value is ‘represents’) by just that number of tokens, as a percentage of the total amount of which commercial banks own 97% of as someone else’s debt. I explained this mechanism here: https://philpapers.org/rec/KOWAMC-2

God created Man to be in good company, but it is still a work in progress. There’s a point in the act of creation where Man has to create himself, by his own choices. Only then there is company.

What do you do when talking to people is more alienating than not talking to people?

A typical adult reasons at the level of a 5 year old child (including most scientists and philosophers). They have not improved their capacity for discerning sense from nonsense since they figured out how to construct complete sentences and kick ball. They function only because of social programming, which extends to academic indoctrination and literature, not because of consistent reasoning. Nobody taught them the foundations of logic because their teachers didn’t know either, and the students lacked the curiosity or courage or care to explore beyond the unconscious utility of social programming.

https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/what-is-sense