For those who still follow this blog, I’m sharing a quick update.
First, I have still been blogging like crazy, it’s just that you’re not seeing those efforts in the form of new posts because I’ve been painstakingly going through my entire Theory of Money series to update terminology and clarify many things. After I finish that refinement effort (I’m about halfway through by now), I’ll finish writing my summary of that series and post it. Then I can get back to writing about my other interests as well, mostly healthcare but also government and philosophy. For example, ever since reading How Democracies Die, I’ve been thinking about the big picture of governments in the long term. I’ve slowly been coming to the conclusion that if one could craft an optimal constitution, that would be the most important base for a society to thrive and survive. Maybe I’ll have to try writing one (Building a Constitution from Scratch series, anyone?). Who knows, maybe it’ll get implemented on Mars.
Second, I haven’t decided what to do with my Instagram account. The videos and posts were put on hold when we moved and I didn’t have access to my wife’s filming equipment, but now the studio is all set up in our new place, and I still haven’t resumed making them. Partly this is due to other projects that have taken higher priority, but also it’s because I’m not sure the videos are worth the time and effort. I may switch to doing more informal explanatory videos instead. We’ll see.
Third, I have long dreamed of a day where we could have (and I could participate in) an equivalent to the Nets from Ender’s Game–a global public forum where ideas can be shared and debated. It turns out, we sort of had that in the form of Twitter, but I was just oblivious to it. With Elon Musk buying Twitter (and subsequently renaming it X), he found out that there were many hidden censoring efforts going on. That’s a big deal–for a global public forum to be successful at supporting the improvement of societies and governments, it needs two things: (1) freedom of speech without any censoring and (2) people from all sides of the issues to be engaged. Sadly, it looks like with Elon supporting President Trump, many who are not Trump supporters are leaving X and moving to Bluesky. I don’t really care which platform we use, but I want it to have all sides! So, that’s a long preface to me saying that I think engaging in the public sphere is worthwhile, and since X is still the closest thing we have to an optimal global public forum (based on its vocal commitment to no censoring and its class-leading popularity and engagement), I’ve started posting thoughts occasionally on there as well. I hope people who don’t support Elon’s politics can stay on X and make the case for alternative viewpoints (which I am certainly doing as well whenever my opinions don’t align with the majority). Or I hope we can all find some different platform in the future that achieves those two requirements mentioned above because segregating ourselves into separate public forums is definitely not optimal. But, until then, come find me on X! @taylorjayc (Annoyingly, some dude is squatting on the @doctortaylorjay username on X and has never used it, but I can’t seem to find the guy anywhere on the internet to get in contact with him and ask him to change his username!)
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