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@Roy Perhaps the most tragic scene in Lord of War is when Cage sacrifices his own brother in an arms deal.

It varies a lot city by city. Each city has its best places that you must find.

@Seed Here's a key question you should start contemplating now: How can I do this work in such as way that I actually start to feel better? What must I change about my approach? What is the counter-intuitive move that I'm missing?

I don't know where I said that. Rappers are clearly celebrating Red culture. Red showing off is often cheesy, tacky, gaudy, classless, over-the-top, obnoxious. Orange might show of his shiny Mercedes sports car. Red will put fake diamonds and gold trim on it. It's obvious that Red is overcompensating. Red is a poor person's idea of what wealthy people do with their money. Orange wealthy people invest their money is sound investments. Red wealthy people waste their money on extravagant nonsense and soon end up broke. Look at Mike Tyson. His fights earned him tens of millions yet now he's broke because he pissed all the money away. An Orange person would have invested that 10 million to earn 100 million by now. Red pisses away money because they don't have self-discipline, impulse control, or strategic planning.

No Such empathy is possible at Blue and Green. Empathy comes in different flavors and levels of sophistication at each stage of the Spiral. A stage Blue Christian can empathize with a criminal on the grounds that the criminals is a sinner and hasn't yet found God. There are many examples of stage Blue Christians converting Red criminals to Blue believers. This is what evangelicals and fundamentalists are all about. It's a crude, manipulative, self-serving sort of empathy.

@Seed Don't overlook that it's easy to forget how far you've progressed. It's easy to romanticize how good life was 5 or 10 or 20 years ago when in fact you were utterly ignorant and unconscious back then. You were just living in blissful ignorance. It's important to acknowledge how far you've come. Also, psychedelics are very useful in such cases to show you how you're getting stuck. The problem with self-help is that no amount of it will make you happy. It's easy to get trapped in a cycle of endless self-help and then get more and more frustrated as you're doing all this work but not getting any more happy because happiness cannot be a function of work or achievement. In a sense, the more you achieve, the worse you will feel because the happiness you expected will never last. The only way to overcome this problem is to dive deep into spirituality and reconnect with BEING. Which psychedelics can show you. If you want true happiness, you must slow down and be happy RIGHT NOW no matter what is happening. Also, what this whole situation means for you @Seed is that you need to change up your approach. The way you're going about this whole thing isn't quite right. So now you have an opportunity to find a way of doing self-help which actually works the way you want. Don't give up. You're close.

In 20 years half the business in America will be monopolized by these 5 companies: Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft

Those European countries are not properly socialist. They are social democratic countries.

I don't see why not. If you are hardcore enough with it.

Don't insult Red's daughter:

"Before my time is done, I will look down on your corpse, and smile." -- Achilies

That itself is ego. You are ego. Ego is not something you have. Ego is basically the sense that you were ever born and will ever die. Your entire story of being human. Ego is highly useful for survival, which is its function. To transcend ego is the forever surrender the notion that you were ever a human.

No, he's less than typical. Read the book. He was a deeply dysfunctional narcissist. A mix of Red & Orange.

Mystery from the book The Game. He was a massive stage Red narcissist.

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Your comparison is simply absurd. This is exactly the kind of bullshit that Jordan Peterson spreads. It's a gross conflation of stage Red/Blue with Green. While people like JP are complaining about Green boogeymen and scapegoats, people are dying from poverty, climate change, lack of healthcare, pandemic, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

The villain from Pan's Labyrinth is stereotypical Red:

Understanding and consciousness are necessary. Just because you meditate does not mean you understand.