But I really needed that Transgender parade in Edinburgh!
If you don't know what that reference was to, it is regarding the wasteful spending USAID has been doing that Elon Musk and his team of crack engineers have been uncovering.
What has been unfolding on X over the last few days is only solidifying what I knew over time to be true.
It all started for me back in 2016.
I was a young writer in my early thirties, had only just began to make some waves in the mental health space -- and I was creating quite the stir.
You see I was (and I still am!) a man that's completely in tune with his emotional state and can transform that into words.
It is something I'm quite proud of giving the current capacity of men to even get any meaningful emotion from brain to mouth -- any woman that's been in any a long term relationship can testify to that.
We were borne from the dads who were the son's of world war two veterans; the stiff upper lip is strong with them, back then it was either kill or be killed, no time to sit and contemplate the complexities of the emotional state as a German is sticking his bayonet into your stomach.
With war and death the pendulum swings far to the side of pulling up your big boy pants and getting on with life -- but as times have eased, international trade has began and people have became healthier and richer, men are now loosening up, becoming more balanced and open to emotional state than our fathers and grandfathers were.
That's where I started in 2016 -- leading the way in mental health; fostering new thought and ideas in men that otherwise did not know how to deal with what or how they were feeling.
Sometimes it's ok to be a soft emotional mess and feeling like a blob of putty. With the right atmosphere and the right, safe people around you it's entirely healthy to be emotional.
Don't get me wrong though, I've always been pro-people. Men and women. Just because I write about men it does not mean that I do not try and understand the psychology of the female.
I am always asking my wife questions about her thoughts on this.
That's when I began to notice the rift.
It was small at first; my editors at the magazines I published at would hand me back my work to revise because they did not agree with some of the words that I wrote.
I brushed it off at first but eventually the chasm between which my work fitted and the approved narrative was so wide I could not in good mind submit my work to any of these places anymore.
As someone that had worked in mental health and helped thousands of people directly and indirectly over my career what I was being told to write was the antithesis to anything I had ever been taught.
Do no harm.
But all I could see was hate.
Everything I was being told that I could write was harmful, and sometimes outrageous.
As a writer it was becoming increasingly apparent to me that to continue writing and submitting my work to anywhere at all, I was going to have to pick a side.
Men or women.
And well, that's just not me. I've always believed that men and women are symbiotic; we exist in harmony to one another. They are the order to our chaos. Or my wife was definitely the order to my chaos anyway.
I've always loved writing, but it seemed I was being pushed away for more favourable narratives.
"My toothbrush is racist"
Yeah, that's the stuff I was replaced with.
And it wasn't just writing, it was all over every media we consumed. TV, movies, articles, videos, you name it. It was being spoon-fed to us in so many ways.
Anyway, I'm not just a writer but an autist with a grudge, and well, let's just say I may not have written a single piece of note or worth since then but I did my digging, that's for sure.
The people that I was working with beforehand and after I left seemed to really believe that they were speaking truth to power; to corruption.
This was their strong fight for justice.
The ironic thing was, if they were really speaking truth to power then their words would have been deleted as soon as they were published, or worse, sat there with 1 view and no-one would care.
I hold no grudge to these people, though. They were unknowing pawns in a larger game of chess.
Manipulated through their unfortunate circumstances in life. Used as a battering ram to anyone that disagreed with the group thought. Their anger towards their inward reflection used as a weapon against the world.
We were always taught to help with that. To do no harm.
These people were hugely funded, massively organised, and anytime anyone anywhere tried to dissent they were very quickly shadowbanned or cancelled.
The influencers that did speak truth to power over that period were cancelled, removed, othered, refused entry to countries, and so many horrifying things -- it's only since X has came about and Elon took over that we have truly seen an opening of raw, unfiltered speech.
Elon Musk showing us recently that USAID was mostly behind all of this was music to my ears. It tells me we are moving into a new era of human development. One that inspires humanity rather than hinders it.
One that feeds on love rather than hate.
I guess my main question around all of this was
Why?
Why did our rulers try and create a completely worldwide bureaucracy that transcended governments? Why did we need this? Why oppress us?
Well I think this question is more about where we are headed as humans rather than where we are.
The answer I and probably you seek also is in AI.
We are on the precipice of something magnificent in the coming years. AI is developing in such a way that it will probably take over everything in the next 10-15 years. Maybe sooner.
You won't need a job.
You heard that right.
AI will do everything. It's coming.
Now the answer is at the top level. I guess there are a few billionaires that don't want to share the resources with the masses. This is the only reason I can think of.
If humans aren't work drones anymore, then what are we?
To some we are useless eaters.
We will consume all the work that AI makes and the people that have everything will have to share their resources with us.
So, the idea was to at first strip us of our religion (moral accountability) and then turn men and women against each other (steep decline in birth rates) followed by hedonism (just pure degeneracy and mental illness) and throw in a decent bout of famine and disease.
Give it 20 - 40 years and there's a massively reduced and very obedient population that those in charge can say and do anything with and we'll be thankful and happy.
Just enough humans to survive, with AI doing all the work, and those at the top living it large.
There's absolutely no error in judgement that Bill Gates is a population reductionist and it's not because of the reasons you may think.
I mean come on, he's always flying around in his jet -- do you actually believe he gives one single fuck about the environment like he pretends to?
Nah, he just doesn't want to share. That's all.
Because AI is in time going to do it all for us.
And our combined labour force as humans is eventually going to become completely irrelevant.
Of course only some Billionaires and Millionaires are bad.
Elon musk tells us to have more children because we need more people on earth rather than less. Our birth rates have plummeted so bad that if it continues then in another 60 years the human race will be extinct.
That's why population reductionists are full of crap. But they know this. They want most of us gone -- so they don't have to share.
Remember that.
But don't worry fellow human, because I see you panicking through that screen of yours wondering if you will make it through this mess.
I actually think we are headed into an incredible era of abundance; where everyone will have everything they ever want.
We're about to head into creating the beginnings of web3; and well, it's going to blow your fucking mind at how much value is going to be created through the combined force of a million builders all building their own vision.
You watch.
We're at the dawn of a new beginning for man and women alike.
Be excited.
Be prepared.