Bernardo Carleial

You're welcome my friend! I'm glad you liked!?? I found that channel just recently , but I love the way by which he covers the logistics and the infrastructure of many activities and places in our lives!???

playlist of Lectures on Analytic Idealism, by Bernardo Kastrup

https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/0771057105 This is an Amazing book which talks about how processed food companies(vMEME Orange) manipulate their ingredients(sometimes at a molecular level) in order increase they're levels of salt, sugar and fat as much as possible, because they have figured it out that this is what can make their products more addictive to consumers, even at the cost of their own health. The way they do this is by misleading information via advertising by their costumers and by lobbying the government and the FDA to approve certain policies that might benefit them. It not always works, and sometimes they get backfired I could go on and on talking about the book, but I really recommend that you guys go read it if you like this topic. I'll leave you with some excerpts from the book: "Salt, sugar, and fat are the foundation of processed food, and the overriding question the companies have in determining the formulations of their products is how much they need of each to achieve the maximum allure. It’s simply not in the nature of these companies to care about the consumer in an empathetic way. They are preoccupied with other matters,like crushing their rivals, beating them to the punch. The grocery store, after all, is littered with the results of their war to outsell one another by arming theirproducts with more salt, sugar, and fat. Witness what happened when Post started coating its cereal with sugar: Rivals came out with versions that went as high as 70 percent. Or look at what happened when Hershey introduced its mega-chocolate cookie in 2003: Kraft responded by rolling out a slew of fattier, sweeter Oreos." "Besides being fiercely competitive, food companies are also deeply obligated toward their shareholders. When companies like Campbell say they will not compromise on taste in lowering the salt, sugar, or fat content of their products, they’re not thinking about the consumer’s welfare; they’re thinking about consumption and sales. As well they should, if they’re going to survive. Making money is the sole reason they exist—or so says Wall Street, which is there, at every turn, to remind them of this." “Nestlé is a Swiss bank that prints food."

@Eren Eeager I would recommend for you the book "The Lessons of History", by Will and Ariel Durant. It's a short one, but it gives some good starting point on how history plays a role in Society, Wars, Religion and many other topics that involves our human heritage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lessons_of_History

This video gives us a very good depiction of vMEME Blue power dynamics in the Middle Ages Era

vMEME Yellow Systems Thinking applied to Grocery Stores' logistics

“What do University of Wisconsin MBA’s learn about how to succeed in marketing? Discover what consumers want to buy, and give it to them with both barrels. Sell more, keep your job! How do marketers often translate these ‘rules’ into action on food? Our limbic brains love sugar,fat, salt (scarce and high energy). So, formulate products to deliver these. Perhaps add low cost ingredients to boost profit margins. Then ‘supersize’ to sell more (# users x amount/user). And advertise/promote to lock in ‘heavy users.’ Plenty of guilt to go around here!" Bob Drane, brand developer, considered to be "the father" of Lunchables food franchise.

I think you might enjoy it!?? This book is very thought provoking ? And he's able convey his ideas in a very direct and "colloquial " manner!??

This video covers both vMEME Yellow and vMEME Orange. If you're talking about the actual mechanics of how to develop a program with an algorithm that is capable of gathering as much data as possible from its users, putting into a psychometric chart, so that it can know how to present them with content which makes them more engaged to their platforms, that's vMEME Yellow. But if you're talking about the ethical issues of having your personal information(data) being violated by big tech companies in order "to sell" to companies in exchange for sponsored ads, or to make their users so addicted to their social media platforms to the point of ruining their lives and disrupting the "social order", just because it is profitable for companies like Facebook and Google to do so, that's vMEME Orange. Because the main theme of the Documentary it's to discuss about the ethical misconducts of social media, and its effects on society, I decided to post in the vMEME Orange thread.

@Nobody_Here wow! Thank you for sending that link and that article on the stages of ego-development! These are gold!!! ??? I will send two videos from the movie "Wittgenstein", by Derek Jarman, in which a lot of scenes were taken from actual examples from the book(Philosophical Investigations), in which he tries to deconstruct the "mysterious" nature of language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein A very good book for understanding the nature of Language and its implications in our world and our sense of reality.

I disagree with their solution at the end, I find it too Libertarian. But the Documentary as a whole is very good

"For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." —Exodus 9:14–16

An interesting link between Hegelian Dialects and Spiral Dynamics...

When vMEME Red gets entangled with vMEME Orange. This kind of exploitation only exists because celebrities and top CEOs are willing to pay for sex with multiple women, even when they know that these women came illegally from sex trafficking, because otherwise their countries wouldn't allow that to happen if it was all "regulated "

Hong Kong's vMEME Orange "Corporatocracy"

Excess vMEME Orange Capitalism (And also some viewpoints from vMEME Green)

The most "clear as day" examples of vMEME Green entrepreneurship I've ever seen in a documentary

very nice example of vMEME Green sustainability

Surely it cannot be applied for all the literary spectrum, there's a lot of artistic license that gets in the way throughout the narrative, and it varies from writer to writer... but I also believe that it's possible to find a main theme and/or core principles from a particular character that might resonate to a particular stage of the spiral.

Also Blue: War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy Also Red: Gates of Fire: Steven Pressfield

Is the notion of Holons, the first step towards reaching tier 2 level of thinking? And therefore moving from vMEME Green to vMEME Yellow? I've had that thought after watching a Ken Wilber video in which he says that after post-modernism reach its end, and destroys all the house of cards that were built in the previous stages, it turns out that its inevitable to develop more healthy hierarchies in order to create a more inclusive and more sustainable society... And the concept of holons present both by Ken Wilber and Leo seems to me to be a better conceptual foundation for development, both personal and societal, because it brings some tier 2 thinking that's required to adress what it's left out by post-modernism in its excess, like: transcend and include , growth hierarchies and "going meta" That's my thought on this issue, but I would love to see what you guys think about that, so that we could have a more well rounded discussion about that??...

@Windappreciator I think I know what you mean... Grasp this concept not just by understanding, but by embodying it, is that right?

vMEME Red plot twist in the Invincible series (SPOILER ALERT!)

even though I have a suspicion that the kind of discipline those inmates get from these institutions is leaning more to a healthy vMEME Blue, that initiative, as a social policy, is very vMEME Green. I was very surprised to know that there are such programs here in Brazil.