AMERICANLISH

 

While trying to find the correct spelling for the word “usable” (able to be used) I read on an American website that “there are more people using American English than British English” – bollocks I thought, as the word "INDIA" repeated over and over in my mind…

So just how does the use of American English really compare to British English? Here are some rough figures:

People speaking variations of British English

Indian English (125 million)*
United Kingdom English (67 million)
Australian English (26 million)
New Zealand English (5 million)
Irish English (5 million)
Singapore English (2 million)**

Total – 230 million

*India is the most populous country at 1.4 billion people (yes, slightly ahead of China as of 2025) but it’s hard to estimate how many Indians have some degree of English literacy – 125 million is considered conservative.  **Same with Singapore (population 6 million) – estimate 2 million have some degree of English literacy

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

 

People speaking variations of American English

US English (335 million – just the US population alone)

If we also include Canadian English (38 million) that increases the lead even further. Damn I always hate admitting Americans are right, but they got me there!

Other large countries I haven’t taken into account here include Malaysia (British English) and the Philippines (American English)

 

And how is usable spelt? – either usable or useable are both correct! (the spell checkers are wrong!)

And now I’ll make up for my anguish by including a few American memes!

 

 

 

IS ANY ART MY OWN?

 This was a question I pondered after reading people discussing plagiarism vs. original art, and I started wondering where the line between original art vs. plagiarism actually lies.

Here are 10 of my pictures, that I’ve given a percentage score on, starting with 100% original and working down to 50% or less. I’d call anything over 50% my own original art, but this is subjective and totally arbitrary. And that is the nature of art!

All these pictures taken from my old Frot blog have been through a similar process of digital editing, including being cropped to a 1×1 ratio, and finishing off with a black frame and my www.frot.co.nz URL. I’d be happy to post any of these pictures anywhere online, but I’m not a commercial artist, and I imagine some of them would cross an imaginary line in the sand for commercial use. But I have no idea where that line would be. I’d say anything above 50% is fully legit, but below that may not be.

1. FREAK DOG TOMATO THING – 100%

For my first picture I’ll go totally safe – this is originally a painting I did with acrylics on canvas. It’s all from the deranged contents of my subconscious, so I’ll call this 100% original.
 

2. STRANGE SCENE IN THE STREET WITH DOG PISSING – 100%

Most of my art is based on drawings I randomly do using pen on paper and then add colours. This is the sort of bizarre stuff I seem to keep drawing, it’s all mine but don’t ask me to explain it’s deeper meanings!

3. GROOVING OUT AT THE SUPERMARKET – 80%

This is not a photo from a nightclub, it’s actually taken in a supermarket. The guy in the photo just happened to be standing in line in front of me. The original photo looks fairly different, and although the subject might be totally oblivious to the fact that he was being photographed, I’d use this image anywhere and would give it an 80% score.

4.BIG BIRD IS LURKING IN THE BUSHES 80%

This is a photo I took of an ornament in a garden. It is just a mass produced garden ornament so I’m not likely to be sued for copyright! I’d say this is pretty safe ground and score it 80%. Not my original sculpture but the photo is all mine, and I’d happily use this image anywhere.

5. GET THAT FUCKING CAMERA OUT OF MY FACE – 70%

Strangers in the street are one of my favourite photo subjects. I regard anything in the public domain as mine to record, but some people disagree. Would all the people I photograph like me using their photos online? Hell no! – in fact the ones that look pissed off are often my favourites. This lady did not look impressed that I was taking her photo. I like this photo but would be a bit careful about where I posted it. So 70% on this one I guess.

6. A COUPLE OF ABORIGINAL GUYS – 60%

This a drawing I did based on part of a photo of two Australian aboriginal guys. But it’s not my photo and I no longer even have a copy of the original. My drawing is a bit different to the photo but probably fairly recognizable. I’d call this my own art but wouldn’t use it for an advertising campaign!. I’ll score this as 60% original because although I’ve changed it a lot, I’d be on shaky ground if anyone asked about the original photo.

7. SNAKE PSYCHEDELIC PARTY – 50%

This drawing was originally done by a friend – I just coloured it in and did some edits – but she was happy for me to do that and liked how my version looked. I’d call it a collaboration, and would ask permission to use it commercially for any purpose. And if it made a bunch of money I’d give her half, so I’ll call it 50%.

8. AN INSECT AT THE WETA WORKSHOP. 50%

I take photos of all sorts of things, and with things like cars and motorbikes I don’t hesitate to call it my own work. But 3D art is trickier. This is a photo of a sculpture I took at the display at the Weta Workshop here in Wellington.   

https://wetaworkshop.com

My edit does look a bit different to the original, but the original was very cool and I make no claim to there being much of my original art here. So it’s my photo but not really my art. And this is based on a photo of a model from a very commercial source. Where is the line?

9. SKULLS GETTING MARRIED ON A WALL – 50%

Street art is another thing I like to take photos of – It’s not my art though, and I have no idea who originally painted it. So although it's based on my photo, taken in the public domain, it is very recognizable and not my original work. I like to edit photos of street art but have no idea if that is considered OK. 

10. WONDER WOMAN GOES QUAD – ?%

I like to do edits of random pictures from the internet, and from my own image collection. Pictures of Wonder Woman are all over the place, and I have no idea where this original photo came from to start with (but I do have a copy of it). Here I have edited it into four different coloured copies, but Andy Warhol used to do that sort of thing a lot. Is this above or below the 50% line? I have no idea… 

REAL WOMEN'S SPORT

Some "female" athletes really need to improve their tuck and tape technique!

Jarmila Kratochvílová was a Czechoslovakian track and field athlete. In 1983, "she" set the world record for the woman's 800 meters, which still stands as the longest-standing individual world record in athletics. 

 

 

In 1983, Kratochvílová broke the 800 m world record with a time of 1:53.28. At the World Championships shortly afterwards, "she" set a world record of 47.99 seconds to win the 400 m.

BUT COCK WAS SOON FASTER OVER 400M

Kratochvílová's 1983 400-metre world record of 47.99 seconds stood for two years until it was broken by her great rival Marita Koch in 1985.  

Koch's 400-metre world record of 47.60 seconds still stands in 2025, after 40 years. 

Kratochvílová's world record on an indoor track—49.59—stood until 19 February 2023 when the 400-meter indoor world record was broken by Femke Bol from the Netherlands with a time of 49.26.

 
Koch and Kratochvílová are the only women who have broken the 48-second barrier in a laned 400-metre outdoor race. "Her" 800-metre world record is the longest-standing unshared track record in men or women's athletics, and it was described by 1996 Olympic champion Svetlana Masterkova as ".. very fast. It's impossible for women to run so fast. It will last for 100 years."

Kratochvílová was a late developer, not breaking 53 seconds for the 400 meters until "she" was 27, and "she" was 32 when she set "her" world records.

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarmila_Kratochv%C3%ADlov%C3%A1}

BOYCOTT ZIONIST ISRAEL

Going back to an old post I did in 2017, it struck me that while the israel situation seemed pretty bad back then, things are a great deal worse now. But the list of companies included here to boycott was solid.

 And yes, I have boycotted nearly all of them, the exceptions being a few of the computer related ones like Dell and Intel.

IS THERE A WAY TO STOP THE ZIONISTS FROM COMPLETING THEIR GENOCIDE OF PALESTINE?

Most people are aware of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and some even believe Israel’s actions are reasonable. But the four maps of Palestine / Israel below tell a very different story.

Even if the UN plan, in 1946, to take part of Palestine and create the new country of Israel was in some way fair (and I am far from convinced that it was), what has occurred over the past 70 years is one of the most outrageous injustices of the past century.

Israel have gone on to take nearly all of the rest of Palestine by force, and are using divide and conquer tactics to gradually carry out genocide on the original inhabitants.

BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCTS

When you buy products made in Israel or made by companies who fund Israel, you are contributing to the Israeli economy and supporting the massacre and genocide of the Palestinians, who have been surrounded and gradually wiped out by the Israeli military over the past 70 years.

I’ve had several people suggest that I need to label my posts satire if I am taking the piss, which is fair enough, and this post is NOT SATIRE…

When I first started out on Steemit last August, there were several subjects that I avoided getting into because I didn’t want to start a bunch of arguments, and one of those was the Zionist genocide of Palestine.

But a couple of days ago I watched this short video from @truthseekereport of a hall of French students protesting an Israeli ambassador. And it reminded me that if everyone keeps looking the other way like they have for the past 70 years because we are too scared to speak out, then we are all going to end up like the Palestinians.

https://steemit.com/politics/@truthseekereport/amazing-brave-french-students-stand-up-to-israeli-ambassador

Steemit is hopefully a place where we can be free to start exposing this stuff, because the rest of the internet certainly isn’t.

Yes it probably is too late to help them, but if we don’t stand up to this it will soon be too late for all of us. The Zionists won’t be stopping with Palestine – they already own America, along with most of the world, and they have one hell of a plan in motion.

Finding up to date information about any of this is difficult because it’s so heavily censored. Some of the following company information comes from an old site called Boycott Israel Today –https://boycottisraeltoday.wordpress.com

This cartoon can be freely reproduced by individuals and organizations that support Palestinian rights.
https://latuffcartoons.wordpress.com/

Here are five of the most widely known companies who are funding the Zionist military that it would be good to boycott first – not only are they supporting the Palestinian genocide, they are all selling utterly toxic crap too.

 

Coca Cola

A detailed account of Coca-Cola’s links to Israel is provided here: http://www.inminds.com/boycott-coca-cola.html

From 1966 Coca-Cola has been a staunch supporter of Israel. In 1997 the Government of Israel Economic Mission honored Coca-Cola at the Israel Trade Award Dinner for its continued support of Israel for the last 30 years and for refusing to abide by the Arab League boycott of Israel.

Every year Coca Cola bankrolls the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce Awards which honors companies that have contributed most to the Israeli economy. In 2009 a Coca-Cola sponsored award went to Israel’s Lobby AIPAC for its successful lobbying of the Senate to reject of the UN call for “immediate ceasefire” and endorse the continuation of the Israel military assault on Gaza.

In 2008 Coca-Cola tasked the Israeli venture capital Challenge Fund to locate suitable investments in Israel with a promise of “a blank cheque” . This agreement is exceptional in the Israeli venture capital industry.

In 2009 Coca-Cola hosted a special reception at the Coca-Cola world headquarters to honour Brigadier-General Ben-Eliezer. Ben-Eliezer is a wanted war criminal, during the Six-Day War his unit was responsible for the execution of over 300 Egyptian POWs. Under Sharon, Ben-Eliezer served as Defence Minister presiding over the massacre at Jenin.

For the past two decades, nearly every year, Coca-Cola has sponsored the JCC Maccabi Games whose stated aim is to cultivate Jewish youth in an informal setting to “encourage their identification with the state of Israel”. As part of this, Coca Cola has sponsored young children to visit Israeli military bases and spend time with war criminals in order to engender empathy, in their own words “visit an air force base.. talk with the pilots that are the elite Israel Defense Force units..meet fighters of the army”

Coca-Cola Israel, Israel’s third largest food & beverages company, owns dairy farms in the illegal Israeli settlements of Shadmot Mechola in the Jordan Valley and a plant in the industrial zone of Katzerin in the occupied Golan Heights.

For more enthusiastic endorsement, see my Coca-Cola webpage

 

McDonald’s

McDonald’s Corporation is a major corporate partner of the Jewish United Fund and Jewish Federation. According to the Jewish United Fund, through its Israel Commission it “works to maintain American military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel; monitors and, when necessary, responds to media coverage of Israel”.

The Jewish United Fund also runs “Fun-filled Summer Family Missions to Israel” where families get to “visit an army base and meet with Israeli soldiers” and “visit our sister city, Kiryat Gat and see the important work we are doing there”. Kiryat Gat is built on stolen Palestinian land – the lands of the villages of Iraq Al Manshiya and Al-Faluja whose residents were ethnically cleansed in 1949 in contravention of International Law.

Through its “Partnership to Israel” programme, the Jewish United Fund provides $1.3 million annually to help further settlement and development of Kiryat Gat. The Jewish Federation, through its Israel Action Network is tasked to fight “efforts to boycott Israeli products” and “campaigns, such as equating Israel with apartheid South Africa”.

Another way McDonald’s supports the Jewish United Fund is by running a partnership scheme whereby they will match any donation an employee make to the Jewish United Fund with its own equal size donation.

McDonald’s first restaurant in the Middle East was in Israel, opened in 1993, since then it has 160 restaurants in Israel (1996) with a 60% market share, employing around 4000 Israelis. Since April 2009 McDonald’s has also opened 15 branches of McCafe chain in Israel, with plans to open 10 new branches every year.

McDonalds discriminates against its Arab workers, in 2004 it sacked an Arab worker in Israel because she was caught speaking arabic to another Arab employee. Arabic, along with Hebrew, is the official language of Israel spoken by 20% of the population.

Nestlé

Nestlé is the world’s largest food company, it owns 53.8% share of leading Israeli food manufacturer Osem, an investment worth over $850 million.

In June 2002 Nestle opened its Research & Development Centre in Israel, in Sderot. And since then it has steadily increased its investment in Israel, its initial 10% stake in Osem has now grown to a controlling 53.8%. Nestle also owns Nespresso Israel Ltd in Tel Aviv which supplies coffee brewing equipment. In 2010 Nestle acquired a 51% stake in Israeli babyfood company Materna Laboratories for $72 million.

Nestle has 9 factories in Israel, which after China(18) and Russia(11) is the highest number in any country in Asia – disproportionately high when one considers its size and population.

Nestlé also owns 30% stake in L’Oréal, another company on the boycott list.

 

Starbucks

High profile Zionist product placement is standard practice in almost all “American” movies

Howard Schultz, the founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks who also owns 31.6 million shares of Starbucks stock (worth around $1.4 billion in Nov 2011) is an active zionist.

In 1998 he was honoured by the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah with “The Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award” for his services to the zionist state in “playing a key role in promoting close alliance between the United States and Israel”.

The ultra-right wing Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah funds Israeli arms fairs chaired by the butcher of Jenin, General Shaul Mofaz, and the zionist media pressure group honestreporting.com, they were also implicated in the production and distribution of the infamous islamophobic film ‘Obesession’. Starbucks proudly displayed the award on the company’s website under the section of ‘awards and accolades’ the Starbucks company has won, however, once the boycott started to bite the award mysteriously disappeared from its website.

Howard Shultz’s work as a propagandist for Israel has been praised by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as being key to Israel’s long-term PR success. On April 4th 2002, whilst the Israeli army was slaughtering Palestinians in Jenin, Howard Shultz made a provocative speech blaming the Palestinians, suggesting the intifada was a manifestation of anti- Semitism, and asked people to unite behind Israel. Starbucks also sponsors fund raisers for Israel.

At a time when other businesses were desperately pulling out of Israel, Starbucks decided to help Israel’s floundering economy and open Starbucks in Israel. The venture failed but Shultz vowed Starbucks would “return to Israel in due course”.
Starbucks had outlets in US bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, and even at the illegal torture centre in Guantanamo Bay.

Customer Relations say “Starbucks has the deepest respect and admiration for U.S. military, who risk their lives to protect Americans and our values of freedom and democracy”. Petty Officer Barry Tate who was serving in Guantanamo Bay agreed that Starbucks was helping “lift the morale” of the guards and interrogator’s at Guantanamo Bay.

 

Sodastream

SodaStream is an Israeli company manufacturing and distributing home carbonating devices and flavorings for soft drinks. The company’s main plant is located in the industrial zone of Mishor Edomim which is an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

Kav LaOved, the NGO committed to protecting the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israeli companies, has reported that SodaStream factory workers, in particular Palestinians, are paid less than half the minimum wage and has described the working conditions in the factory as “one of the worst”, with workers being fired if they complain of the conditions.

SodaStream brands include: SodaStream, Soda-Club, AlcoJet, Sprudelino, Aquabar, Gazoz, Aquafizz, Aquabubbler, Penguin, Sodamaker, Fountain Jet and Edition1. Its products are available in Argos, Asda, Comets, Currys, Harvey Nichols, Homebase, John Lewis, Robert Dyas, Selfridges and House of Fraser.

Now for the tricky one – the Zionist companies are mostly producing utter crap – but there is one exception – INTEL – I’ve tried AMD and they suck – so boycotting INTEL isn’t an easy option…

  

INTEL

Intel is one of the biggest supporters of Israel. Their very first development center outside the US was opened in Haifa in 1974. Since then they have continued pouring investment in to Israel. By 2000 they employed over 4000 Israelis. Exports from their Lachish-Qiryat Gat plant in israel total $3 million a day at peak capacity – approximately $ 1 billion a year.

The Intel plant at “Qiryat Gat” is built on land Israel confiscated from the Palestinian villages of Iraq al Manshiya. Iraq al Manshiya was a village of 2000 people living in 300 houses with two mosques and one school. The original Palestinian inhabitants were terrorized out of the village and then the whole village was razed to the ground to prepare the way for the new Israeli settlement of Qiryat Gat. The remaining population from Iraq al Manshiya was not allowed to return.

A MORE COMPLETE LIST OF ZIONIST SUPPORTING COMPANIES TO BOYCOTT:

I would have preferred to just copy and paste a list, but it’s really hard to find any good ones so I compiled this myself. I suspect it’s just the tip of the iceberg – please comment with any others I’ve missed out,

I have now included Apple, Microsoft and Ford, along with 70 other new additions – this is already much bigger than I anticipated

For me it’s really only the computer stuff that’s a problem – otherwise I wouldn’t touch most of this crap with a 10 foot pole.

20th Century Fox
ABC
Aero Polo
After Eight
Alcobra
Ambi Pur
Ameriquest
Andrex
AOL
Apax Partners
Apex Supply
Apple
Aqua Velva
Aramis
Arsenal Football Club
Auchan
Aveda
Banana Republic
Barbie
Barr
Baskin Robbins
Bath & Body Works
Biotherm
BitTorrent
Bobbi Brown
Body Mist
Branch
Britannia Pacific
Bryan
Brylcreem
Buitoni
Bumble & Bumble
Cacharel
Calvin Klein
Carnation
Carnival Cruises
Carrefour
Carson
Caterpillar
CBS
Century 21
Champion
Charles Schwab Corp.
ChinaByte.com
Cisco Systems
Citigroup
cK
Clinique
CNBC
CNN
Coca-Cola
Columbia Pictures
Comcast
ConnectU
Cross & Blackwell
Danone
del.icio.us
Dell
Delta Galil
DIM
Disney
DKNY
Donna Karan
Douwe Egberts
Dream Works
Drop.io
Dunkin’ Donuts
eBay
Emblaze
Estée Lauder
Evian
EXPO Design Centres
Express stores
Face.com
Facebook
Fanta
Felix cat food
Festival Records
Forbes
Ford
Fox
Friend.ly
FriendFeed
Fruitopia
GAP
Garnier
Georgia Lighting
Giorgio Armani
Gold Coast Bulletin
Goldman Sachs
Google
Gossard
Granada
H&R Block
Häagen-Dazs
Hanes
Harper Collins
Hear Music
Helena Rubinstein
Hema
Henri Bendel
Herald Sun
Home Depot
Hot Potato
HP foods
Huggies
Hugo Boss
IBM
ICQ
Independent
Instagram
Intel
Intimate Brands
Isrotel Hotels
Jacob
Jane
JC Penny
J-Crew
Jibbigo
Jo Malone
Johnson & Johnson
Jonny Rockets
JPMorgan Chase
Just My Size
Karma
Kate Spade
Kenneth Cole
Kia Orange
Kimberly-Clark
KitKat
Kleenex
Kotex
La Mer
La Roche-Posay
LA Times
Lancome Paris
Leggs
Lerner New York
Levi’s
Lewis Trust Group
Libby’s
Lightbox.com
Lilt
Lion
Loews Corporation
L’Oréal
Lovable
M&S
MAC
Maggi
Maison Cafe
Marks & Spencer
Mast Industries
Mattel
Maybelline
McDonald’s
MGM
Microsoft
Milkmaid
Milkybar
Mirabilis and ICQ
Miramax
Motorola
MTV
Mushroom Records
National Geographical
NBC
NDS
Neiman Marcus
Nescafé
Nesquik
Nestle
New World Entertainment
New York & Company
New York Post
News Corporation
News of the World
Nextstop
Nickelodeon
Nokia
Nur Die
Nursery World
Oculus VR
Oracle Corporation
Origins
Outer Banks,
Pasqua
PayPal
Perrier
Phoenix
Pickwick
Pilao
Playtex
Prescriptives
Progressive Insurance
Protalix BioTherapeutics
ProtoGeo Oy
Pryca
Pure Life
Quality Street
Quark Pharmaceuticals
Radox
Ralph Lauren
Rawkus
Redken 5th Avenue
Revlon
River Island
Royal Carribean Cruises
Sanex
Sara Lee
Seattle Coffee
Selfridges
Siemens
Sky
Smarties
Sprite
St.Michaels
Star
Starbucks
Stila
Structure
Sun Microsystems
Sunday Mail
Sunglass Hut
Sunkist
Superior Coffee
Taro Pharmaceuticals
Tazo
Tchibo
Teva Pharmaceuticals
The Limited Inc
The Sun
The Telegraph
The Times
Timberland
Time Life magazine
Time Warner
Tommy Hilfiger
Toys R Us
Universal Studios
Viacom
Vichy
Victoria’s Secret
Villager’s Hardware
Vittel
Volvic
Walmart
Warner Brothers
WhatsApp
White Barn Candle Company
Wikileaks
Wikipedia
Wonderbra
Wynn Hotels
Zondervan

 “For over 20 years California’s technology industry has been channeling billions of dollars to finance the growth of Israeli tech firms”

 

NOT THAT THE MEDIA WILL BE REPORTING ANY OF THIS…

When I was researching this post I found the subject is censored like nothing else I have ever tried to find online.
And I am regularly searching for stuff like false flags, vaccinations, and conspiracies.

For obvious reasons I never use Google, but I usually use DuckDuckGo – it’s not perfect, but it’s less censored than Google.
 But in this case the results were clearly being manipulated.

 

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For anyone looking for further information on Zionist related subjects – here are five other links from my old FROT blog:

OUR ZIONIST OWNERS

ISIS IS A ZIONIST CREATION

JEWISH CONTROL OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

THE HOLOCAUST OF SIX MILLION JEWS IS A HOAX

THE FAKE HOLOCAUST

 This content was previously posted on FROT, September 19, 2017

RANDOMS 2026 #23

 

 

WHY POST STUFF?

 We all tend to think we understand what is going on, and all the people who are levels behind ourselves in this multi level learning game are retarded.

Which they are. But each time we move up a level, we have to accept that our old self was also retarded, compared with our present self. 

Hopefully that process will continue!

The past decade has been a real eye opener for me, as it has for many people. It's been one of my hobbies to post things online for over a quarter of a century, as I first started out in 1998. 

It was even once possible to earn some income from blogging, but if you want to post content that is not deep state approved propaganda, it's far harder to do that now in the AI slop video age than it ever was in the past. 

 From 2018 to 2022 the annual hits on my old WordPress blog dropped from over 4 million to less than 40k - a 99% drop!

#1 TO MAKE MONEY

The blockchain platforms I used to earn some income from, have all completely crashed and burned, with key insider accounts totally controlling the payouts on the few platforms that remain. 

And it's safe to say if you were calling out the covidhoax and the death jabs back in 2020, you were not on the insiders reward list. I was black listed on several blockchain platforms, so everything I posted was automatically down voted.

From 2016 to 2021 I actually did make money online, some from posting, but mostly from buying and selling blockchain tokens. But those are both dead ends now, so it's safe to say I'm not doing it to earn money anymore. 

In fact I've lost business, and made enemies, by being fairly outspoken online. And posting stuff always takes time. Financially I would have been better off to just shut my face and act like a normie.

#2 TO CHANGE THE WORLD

The next major reason was to "change the world". Despite being a cynical conspiracy theorist, I did set out with the hope that by posting content it would be possible to "wake up the sheeple". 

But this multi layered psyop we are all part of is an ongoing mind fuck. If the sheeple haven't woken up by now, my little blog posts are not likely to change much in the greater scheme of things.

My best advice at this point, is if you want to move up a level, go to the website of Joachim Bartol and read all his essays. Yes, there are hundreds of them - read at least a dozen. By that point you will be well past not just most of what I'm posting, but most of the entire internet. 

But even that is very unlikely to be the final stage of knowledge - it never is! 

What comes next I don't know, that is as far as I've got. The world will continue to change with or without any input from me. So changing the world might be an exciting idea in theory, but in practice I'm sort of beginning to understand why all those zen guru teachers say you can only change yourself.

#3 TO MAKE NOTES FOR MYSELF

Yes, this is probably the only one that really stacks up. The best way to get my head around something is to present it to others. And I prefer to do that in the form of a blog post. 

The combination of condensing ideas down to simple and easy to understand lines of text, combined with images, forces me to make my thoughts clearer. If that helps anyone else, that is a bonus. So that is the main reason I'm still posting stuff, and most definitely the reason for this post.

#4 TO HAVE FUN

Along with #3 just having fun strikes me as a really good thing to do online, and I am aiming to do this too, alongside making some good notes. 

If I can manage to do both that is great. But it probably does require letting go of any ambitions to achieve #1 or #2, so I'm still working on letting go of all that outdated get rich and change the world crap!