I was talking to a friend about cryptocurrency. Why am I lying? This friend of mine was saying something and I guessed he was talking about cryptocurrency and he kept throwing around terms and looking at me. The main idea of the dialogue, which for me was limited to expressions such as “aa-aa-aa” and “yes”, was that it was extremely important not to be late or miss something necessary. Of course, I didn’t understand exactly what I shouldn’t miss. I tried to answer in the sense that there is money and this money is needed initially to reduce transaction costs. To avoid engaging in endless natural exchange, value has a universal equivalent. A product or service etc. money is paid for. To be honest, I didn’t exactly feel like a caveman, but perhaps an illiterate peasant or a peasant who was trained to read but rarely understood the meaning of what he was reading.
And a friend told me about “shield coins”; these may rise rapidly or fail suddenly, but it will be too late because thousands of people will flock to the cellar, still feeling FOFO. This concerned me. What is FOFO? More precisely – FoFo. This is the Feeling of Falling. Or Fear of Falling. Even Fear of Learning. This is the feeling that arises when you realize that you are missing something important and are even afraid to learn more about it, when you realize that you still cannot keep up with the progressive humanity racing on the hyperloop locomotive. and more new people are joining the trends.
Apparently this “fofa” is a huge engine of commerce in that it forces people to move money into the darkest corners of economic activity, only for a while to feel like they are running at the pace of life. Some outer lives are not yours. That life where everyone has been successful in some way and now walks the crowded streets of Moscow and asks each other the question in front of the camera: How much do you earn? Everyone has seen these videos with strange but obviously expensively dressed people. What are they all doing? It is impossible to explain – so, brother, there is crypto, in short, there is arbitration, coaching, personal development, desire marathons, spiritual practices.
Naturally, everyone will experience the fear of moving out of their current reality. Look, they all say they make forty million a month, their watches are like cars, cars are like apartments, apartments are like airplanes. At the same time, neither coal nor stardust can be seen on the faces of these people. So they don’t make this fabulous money through labor-intensive coal mining or heroic flights into space. But how? The answer again relates to personal development and spiritual practices. It turns out that desires need to be visualized. And to take a course on this topic, you need to pay a blogger fifty thousand rubles. It looks a bit like that. The secret is that one does not come close to realizing one’s dream, it is one who fulfills the blogger’s visualized desires.
Or just the other day everyone was discussing the launch of a new dating service on Messenger. What does new mean? I didn’t even know about the old one. The person everyone mourned greatly when he stopped working in Russia. Yeah, I don’t know how to use dating services. This is also “fofa” but different. I’m not even afraid of falling off the agenda, I’m just afraid of finding out what happened. People discuss how to go on dates the right way and how to determine whether a potential partner is worth pursuing a relationship with by looking at the restaurant he or she invites you to. I assumed these categories were not measured by restaurants. After all, if people have nothing to talk about even in the foreseeable future, what difference does it make whether they eat jaguar in artichokes or goby in tomatoes?
But assuming common themes can be found, how can we find overlapping parts in these areas? A simple example. Everyone loves humor. Even those who have no sense of humor still love humor because it is trendy now. Stand-up is the new rap. In this sense, it is a fast social elevator, a path to wealth, an example to follow, a role model, etc. I even liked some of the jokes I saw in the cuts offered by the social network. I decided to watch the entire program. And it turns out that there are eight seasons with a certain number of episodes, each lasting three hours. And each of them has ten comedians. So what should we do? I can’t use them all. What if your potential boyfriend’s crush liked a joke in that episode that I didn’t see and didn’t watch the other episodes?
Such disappointment completely discourages the desire to understand something unusual, even theoretically useful. I won’t listen to all modern music anymore; I can barely recognize music from ten years ago, but that counts as retro. I don’t understand what get-rich-quick terms like halving, smart contract, and staking mean. And I probably don’t understand anymore. I also don’t understand how those who sell the dirty air of exciting marathons make money. Let all this be the realm of black magic for me. No one claims that it exists, but there were and still are people engaged in it.
And then it turned out that I – and everyone else who felt similarly – did not go out of trend, but got involved in another circle of occult beliefs, in which there are many in difficult times. It seems to me that life is not in the window of shorts, reels and other stories, but outside the window. Of course, he is not that dynamic and carefree, but he seems to be his own person.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the position of the editors.