Good morning, dear reader of this post, my good friend! Happy Sunday! How are you, today? How are things? As always, I wish you the best, and hope you may be okay this new week! As for me, I am alright, over all... I played some Sims 2, and been having fun with the game for a few hours! It is charming and made with much more attention to detail than the dreadful dollhouse of shallowness that is Sims 4. Yesterday I also played some Empire Earth II, and I enjoyed my time in it. What else to play? I could do some Anno, either 1800 or, if the trend of old school games continue, 1404. Are older games better than new ones? It is easy to fall into the temptation to trace a line and say: from this point on, games are bad. But of course that is not the case. Anno 1800 was released in 2019, RELATIVELY recently, and the game is great. Sims 4, released in 2014, same year circa Europa Universalis, is a terrible game. Europa is good in contrast. There are some practices today that are concerning, such as slicing a game into different packs. I don't think that, per se, is bad. What is bad is what Sims 4 does, and the game comes to rely on that for financing. The costs go up, economy gets worse because of the socialist policies governments have been adopting, due to horrid ESG and critical race theory ideas, both despised by me. The costs go up, as I said, the economy goes down, for reasons quoted above... how to solve this? This is where crisis come in. It makes for a rearrangement of things that are not working, and to make things that are working go forward. The famous Schumpeter creative destruction, only allowed in economies that are free, truly free. Often we fall into the error of believing capitalism as an "economic system", which is not. I don't even like using the name capitalism, because it feeds into a socialist narrative. No. The free market and free trade systems arise naturally, due to the laws of economics and the impredictability of human action. It is what lift us from our natural poverty state. A wonderful paradox, where one natural system free us from a natural condition. I am not sure if I am even making sense, I just am so fond of Austrian School of Economics, to consider that a guide on my studies and interpretation. It is based on that what I'm saying. There is a truth, we cannot be sure of it ourselves, but I trust in Austrian School of economics, and I believe it approaches to the Truth that is God, at the end of the day. The laws of God, that one cannot change... Ah, I am frustrated I cannot convert everyone to what I am saying, that I will be called crazy, that I will be accused of mixing things up. I am not. This is how I operate, one topic pulls the other, and as everything is intertwined, games to economics to common law of God... see what I mean? Anyway, I really don't want to convert anyone anyway, I truly just wish to talk about what I learn and what I read, thoughts and ideas... on another topic...
Question of the day, if any: Mugs, are they for coffee or for pencils? And speaking of pencils...
I could draw as well! I worked on two pieces the past few days, that I enjoyed a lot doing. I hope I can maybe do some more today! Most likely a portrait, I am not really feeling ambitious at this precise moment.
I usually feel anxious at this point, on the matter of the blog. We are slowly, but surely, approaching 1k posts. And God knows I have been having difficulty in picking a direction for it, even today. When I journal too much, I feel guilty, I feel like I am killing my readers with boredom... if any reader at all comes around. When I started, I just wanted a place to produce. Period. I mean, no corrections, no overthinking, just to write. I never got myself used to this, even today. I scream that there is something wrong, that I need to fix everything. That I need to make a masterpiece of a memoir. I question what is the point, if not to go beyond what is perfect? Hiperbolic. I blame my OCD.
I can only say Thank you for still being here reading, my great friend! How I appreciate you! I fight to free myself from unrealistic expectations, and to move instead of paralyzing with the weight of decision making. I cannot control everything, and neither do I want to do it. Far from it, decisions are exhausting and time is unforgiving... I don't want to feed into my control obsession. So, hence, this blog.
With that, this collection of thoughts, we could wrap up today's post. I have written what I wanted, for today, "filled the quota" of sorts. We talked about games, then economics, my insecurities over the direction of the blog, some chill drawing that I may do.... I have not mentioned college because the post has grown too big. I won't say disjointed, things have relationship with one another, but definitely too big. It is time to leave more writing for tomorrow.
Speaking of which... when will I be back to the blog? As soon as possible! If God blesses me with will, tomorrow. If not, that is also okay. I will write more as the week goes... worst case scenario, next Saturday. I hope I can wrap up february with at least 6-7 blog posts, that I may be satisfied with. Until next time, I see you real soon!
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