I have said it 1,000 times. I will keep saying it. At the root, it is very simple.
The Popsicle Index is the % of people who believe a child can leave their home, go to the closest place to buy a popsicle and come home alone safely.
For my entire life I have watched the people around me make money from things that cause the Popsicle Index to go down. Drugs, housing bubbles, mortgage fraud, political corruption, environmental pollution. You name it.
Now this is REALLY simple. If we all try to survive by doing something that causes someone else harm, then the pie shrinks and many or all of us go down.
So what is the solution?
Wake up tomorrow and say, “I will do my best to shift my time, my attention and my resources to focus on people, activities and enterprises that support a rising Popsicle Index.”
Just stop doing things you believe cause the Popsicle Index to go down.
- Stop spending your time watching media that has not protected the Popsicle Index.
- Stop investing in companies and governments that cause the Popsicle Index to go down.
- Stop dating people who make money causing the Popsicle Index to go down.
For my entire lifetime the Dow Jones has been going up while the Popsicle Index has been going down.
The question before us is “Can we align the relationship between the Dow Jones and the Popsicle Index from a win-lose relationship to a win-win relationship?”
The answer is, of course, yes. Step one is to face the real problems. Most of the answers lie outside of the matrix.
Stop being socially acceptable. Our problems are too serious to stay inside the matrix in the hopes of clinging to respectability.
The world is now full of organized crime syndicates that have more powerful computers and weaponry than sovereign governments and have grown powerful on decades of drug running and black budget shenanigans.
On one hand, it is pretty scary.
On the other hand, you need to understand that death is not the worst thing that can happen.
The worst thing that can happen is living in a world where everyone you know thinks it is OK to make money by driving your popsicle index down.