“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate
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Needed to be reminded of this:
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"In general fear indicates unfamiliarity with something. The more familiar you become with it, the less you fear it. And familiarity grows with the attention you give something. One way to loose fear is therefore to become more familiar with what you are being afraid of. Another way to handle fear, that has already been mentioned, is to “dive into it”, immerse yourself into the energy in your body, while removing all labels, judgements and resistances…until you either reach a point where you say “OK, now what?” or what you labelled as fear turns into what it was all along: Energy. " Fredrick Dodson from parallel universes of the self book
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Confucius say…
Man who run it front of car, get tired.
Man who run behind car, get exhausted.
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Entrapment in the ‘matrix’ web occurs in stages.
In the beginning, with the help of food technologies, consciousness is clouded. This is the first stage. Then the wave of information pours on the conscience, the clothespins are hung, and this is the second stage. The third stage will be the “cyborgization” of reason.
For example, as long as animals live alone, they need a high degree of awareness: they must get food and defend themselves from enemies. As soon as they group into herds, their awareness fades: being together is calmer.
Similarly, complete loss of awareness occurs on the farm. On the farm, in fact, being aware is not necessary: just eat and sleep (click and type “like”).
It would seem that there is nothing particular and terrible about any of this.
People spend time together, communicate, have fun, and let them do it too. In reality, in the web, communication, self-expression, self-realization and participation in life and community is just an illusion. All this is not true. The more “surrogate friends” you have, the more acute is the sense of loneliness you feel. It doesn’t even make sense to talk about self-realization. In general, this type of communication gives absolutely nothing: it is a useless waste of time, of life. Many understand and even agree that time online is really spent for nothing. But even getting out of this swamp is not that simple: people are attached to it because of the addiction generated by information poisoning. And there is nothing surprising here.Maybe quitting smoking is much easier. And here people come up with justifications and reasons: no, in any case communicating online is not in vain, however I need it. In reality, time lost without use is not as harmless and does not go in vain as it is believed. We have already said that informational saturation leads to a narrowing of consciousness. Now we are witnessing an interesting phenomenon: “clip” thought and culture . Modern man is able to assimilate or give information only in small portions, “clips”. He has no strength for anything more. Even his awareness only awakens in flashes, like the light in a disco strobe.
The circle of interests is also primitive. Basically we discuss things that are of no importance and non-essential, what is commonly called “a tap”, “a cool”. We saw something strange, we stopped for a moment, “we tapped” and went on. The really essential and important things have become uninteresting. The “clip” curiosity is the last cry of consciousness before its definitive cyborgization. What will people be interested in when the “clip” curiosity is exhausted? … … … … …What the consequences may be is not difficult to understand: full loss of individuality and the ability to manage one’s own destiny. To you, dear Readers, much of what has been said may not seem new. But today an entire generation has already appeared that does not understand and does not realize what it is getting involved in and what is actually going on.
From the book hack the matrix by Vadim Zealand highly recommended 
“If you get far enough away, you’ll be on your way back home.”
– Tom Waits
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
– Viktor Frankl
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
– Langston Hughes
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“My model of business… is the Beatles. They were four very talented guys… They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts… The Beatles, when they were together, they did truly brilliant innovative work and when they split up they did good work, but it was never the same…”
Steve Jobs
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"It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates
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"Depression is a state of mind designed to motivate you to find a life that doesn’t depress you any further. That’s all it is.
Now you have to decide are you man enough to get it done or sit around and cry.
Depression is the cure all excuse you are using. ‘My life is shit because am depressed’’. NO! YOU’RE DEPRESSED BECAUSE YOUR LIFE IS SHIT!
It’s the other way round."
-Andrew Tate
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“Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.”
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“Power discloses the character of its holder”
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"If people could see how much of what we love now comes from the past,
maybe they’d work a little harder to make sure it doesn’t get lost."
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“We don’t exist if we don’t fight for who we really are” - an old Polish saying.
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"I came to realize that conversational competence might be the single most overlooked skill we fail to teach.
Kids spend hours each day engaging with ideas and each other through screens,
but rarely do they have an opportunity to hone their interpersonal communication skills.
It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask ourselves:
is there any 21-st century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?"
– Paul Barnwell
10 rules to a good conversation by Celeste Headlee:
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Don’t multitask. Be present in the conversation. Be in that moment.
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Don’t pontificate. Enter every conversation assuming that you have something to learn.
“True listening requires a setting aside of oneself. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker becomes less and less vulnerable and more and more likely to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener.”
– M. Scott Peck
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something that you don’t.”
– Bill Nye
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Use open-ended questions. Take a cue from journalists, start with who, what, when, where, why or how.
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Go with the flow. Don’t hold on to a thought so you can talk about it after the other finished talking. Stories and ideas will come into your mind and you need to let them go out of your mind.
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If you don’t know, say that you don’t know. Assume you’re on the record and be careful about what you claim to be an expert in and what you claim to know for sure. Err on the side of caution, talk should not be cheap.
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Don’t equate your experience with theirs. It is never the same. All experiences are individual. And more importantly, it is not about you. You have nothing to prove or to promote.
“I have no idea. People who brag about their IQs are losers.”
– Stephen Hawking (when asked what his IQ was)
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Don’t repeat yourself. It’s condescending and/or boring.
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Stay out of the weeds. People seldom care about the details, they care about you and what you are like, about your experience.
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Listen.
“If your mouth is open, you are not learning.”
– Buddha (paraphrased)
“No man ever listened his way out of a job.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“Most of us don’t listen with the intent to understand. We listen with the intent to reply.”
– Stephen Covey
- Be brief.
“A good conversation is like a miniskirt; short enough to retain interest, but long enough to cover the subject.”
–Unknown
I can think of several of those rules I got down and several I don’t. Fortunately I don’t have to worry about #10 and #7, my posts are always brief and I never repeat myself on this forum. 
EDIT: Buddha did not talk about my “moth” you silly typo.
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“Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible, rather aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.”
– Kevin Kelly
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“No servitude is more disgraceful than that which is self-imposed.”
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