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Of course he's at stage Orange. So don't expect a yogi out of him.

That's what you call structural game. I like it. Why chase girls when they can come to you? High social status is the ultimate way to get laid. Nothing matters at that point, not money, not looks, not personality, not game, not words. Just pure status.

20 days! on a ventilator. Nuts!

The problem is their views are often dangerously uninformed. Actually I think Plato was onto something. The people who should run society are philosophers. As in, the most wise people who are loves of wisdom. But of course that's not gonna happen. I would just invest a lot more money in education so that all people are well-educated by default.

Reaching the Tier 2 stages will require most people more time. Yellow and Turquoise at 26 would be pretty rare because most people at that age are still just starting to get a handle on Orange and Green. I didn't even know Turquoise existed until my 30's. It's important to give people time to grow.

Earth is 4.5 billion years old If you believe in time, that is

@mmKay I've been to the 21 Convention back in 2012. The dude who organizes is a huge libertarian/anarchist with a raging hard-on for Ayn Rand and chip on his shoulder against all things mystical. But you can learn a lot at the convention. It will just be extremely stage Orange and alpha male ego dominated.

The Roman power grabs by the imperial family has a lot of examples of ruthless stage Red behavior:

Don't worship me and don't turn these teaching into anything about me. I am irrelevant to your development. Take the INSIGHT and apply them. That's all.

Oh God. This will get cringe real fast.

@DrewNows Sigh.... You have no clue how complex medicine is. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's just you being naive and gullible.

Look, bro, that is 0.00001% of people. Your average poor person is a racist, homophobe, bigot, ignoramus. When we talk about politics, we have to consider averages and lowest common denominators. Citing a few exceptional counter-examples is not smart here.

Yes, definitely agree here. The poor need more voting power and more outright assistance. I'm all for helping elevate and educate the poor.

Not as much as you'd think. Most poor people are stage Blue. They are easily fooled and misled by demagogues like Trump. Their fears are easily stoked. Their prejudices, closedmindedness, and ethnocentrism is easily exploited by charlatans and narcissists.

Science is part of the culture war to these people. Science is culture. There is a long and rich history of science denial by conservatives. Going back to Galileo.

FDA != Big Pharma The FDA has extremely rigorous standards which are difficult and expensive to clear. Clearing all 3 phases of the FDA approval process usually costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Obviously no natural supplement or herb will have enough research funding behind it to clear that bar. It's not a conspiracy theory. The FDA is not some evil bad guy holding back natural remedies in order to make the big pharma more $$$. The FDA simply has a very high bar for what they are allowed to endorse because millions of lives depend on it. Just because some natural remedy worked for a few people does not at all mean that it would pass rigorous scientific testing. If you really care to understand how FDA approval works, listen to Rick Doblin, he's an expert on this:

It's a culture war. American nationalists feel like their culture is dying and they will fight to defend it at all costs.

Of course it's complicated, but the rich are smarter than the poor generally speaking. Beware this Marxist idea that the poor are somehow equal to the rich, equally capable as the rich, and equally smart/wise as the rich. This is a dangerous idea. The poor are, for the most part, idiots. This doesn't mean there aren't some rich who are idiots. There certainly are. And it doesn't mean that the smartest rich are deeply spiritually wise. But the rich are generally smarter and wiser and more competent than the poor. Don't forget. People without college degrees vote overwhelmingly conservative and for buffoons like Trump. As bad as you might think being ruled by the rich is, being ruled by the poor would be way worse. Rule by the poor will lead to stuff like fascism and genocide. Believe it or not, rich people are actually MORE morally developed and conscious than poor people. Poor people simply have less opportunity and ambition to abuse it. Poor people are not your friend and they will not save society from evil. Progressives and socialists are way too enamored with poor people and populism. Populism is not some automatic good. Populism can cause all sorts of devilry.

Rich hold most of the power because they are smarter. Poor and middleclass folks tend to be ignorant, ideological, conservative, out of touch with politics, and not ambitious enough to do anything about it.

Of course. We need a special of tier of higher taxes for large multi-national corporations. We need stronger enforcement of existing tax laws and eliminating of loopholes. We need to stop all off-shore tax havens. We need to raise capital gains taxes. We need tiers of wealth taxes on wealth over $10 million, $100 million, $1 billion, $10 billion, and $100 billion. We need to tax luxury and elite goods more. Stuff like yachts, jets, expensive jewelry, expensive mansions, private islands, fur coats, exotic cars, expensive wine, etc. We need much higher estate and inheritance taxes. We need to tax 2nd, 3rd, and 4th homes at ever higher rates for each new home. If you're buying a 4th home you should be paying 75% of that in tax.

That's a pretty good map. You could also look at a map of CPI: Corruption Perception Index. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi

A materialist circle jerk

Nice!

We've discussed this issue and these articles a lot on this forum already. Search Bentinho's name on this forum and you'll find some deep discussions.