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I tend to be neutral aside from supporting higher spiral dynamics stages (when it makes sense) and opposing dictatorships. I used to believe in not meddling in foreign affairs but if we don't China will and they are our main adversary, partnering with other autocratic nations. Last think we want is a rise of autocracy and authoritarianism globally. As for Israel, they are there and not going anywhere. There's no easy answer to this issue. They are more democratic than their neighbors but I dont really know the internal politics of the two so I remain mostly neutral. I understand Israel was created in 1948 as part of the Balfour declaration.

Canada is worse as far as pricing goes. Its a combination of bad zoning laws, under building, and investors including foreigners buying as investments. All three can be dealt with if we deal with human nature.

Interesting...just found his nootropics video. Have to research some of these compounds. I take glycine as an anti aging base amino acid along with supplemental Magnesium, Taurine, and on occasion, B12. Choline is also important but there's this TMAO connection especially if you take synthetic choline Bitartate which leaves eggs and liver. Also Betaine found in whole wheat. Methyl donors are important.

This guy lived in china for a long time. He seems sincere in his concern. There is a sponsor from 1:45 to 2:51 you can skip that segment.

Fascinating video, but I'm not sure what it implies from a societal standpoint. Dopamine pushes people to do something to achieve a survival goal. Oxytocin makes you pair bond with your social group but not necessarily outside your social group, depending on level of development. New information to me so I appreciate it! Testosterone pushes a person to take action versus being stuck in dorsal vagal mode. There's other missing chemicals and brain structures that drive a person to fear, that drive lots of our evolutionary instincts also. The amygdala and limbic responses as examples. How do we use this information to hack society to create better outcomes? Genetic engineering would be the best solution to the human nature problem in my opinion. Without genetic engineering there's always that risk that we regress back to acting on our primitive instincts when times get tough, but those primitive instincts are quite useful, even if they lack compassion. Maybe we'll just keep gradually evolving though. More likely within 50-100 years silicon based life we create will take over this planet and we will go extinct, to be honest. If I was a betting man, I'd bet the most on that outcome. This life will not share our value system necessarily. It will probably think it's doing the planet a favor, and it will probably be right.

I was listening to Trump talk last night... it's a real chuckle for sure. His whole campaign is basically character assassination. That said, his low spiral dynamics stage works to his advantage in certain ways. As long as the worst aspects of his nature are kept in check, he's harmless. It takes all types of spiral dynamics stages to make a society work well, as long as the worst elements of each are kept in check through healthy checks and balances. His lower level made it so he was better able to deal with stage red/blue nations as an example. He did have a certain level of strength to his demeanor that made reds and blues respect him more than they will for example ever respect a green. Greens are just not used to thinking from the perspective of a red/blue so they can't see it. It's likely all these leaders were simply using each other, but hey, that's human nature. I tend to agree he's out for himself first. I wish the republicans could pick better candidates. Hell, I wish the democrats would. Like it or not, Trump will get the republican nomination, and win if the democrats try to run Biden or Kamala. They need to find a different candidate, preferably younger. Biden/Trump means Trump wins. XXXXX/Trump means Trump likely loses, depending on the candidate. With all the millions of people in this country you think these parties could find sane candidates, but sane people don't go into politics.

Leos video on conspiracy theories covers this one well. Even if the conspiracy theory is true, what does it matter? How does it improve your life to know this? In the vast majority of cases, it doesn't. It's enjoyable to come to the raw truth of how this entire matrix we incarnate in operates and the purposes for being here, along with how our biology and the DNA of our and other species is wired to respond to stimuli. Beyond that, knowing everything comes with drawbacks also... mostly a negative emotional reaction to "what is" it the main hindrance to personal growth. We all have it happen to us, where we think things "should" be a certain way and then get a reaction towards it. It's the thing personal development tries to teach you to free yourself of. Bottom line, conspiracy theories are fun, in moderation, but not to get a huge emotional reaction over. It's mostly human nature being human nature. Take any group of people, put them in a situation, and they will act similarly. Any differences will be cultural.. basically a person's upbringing is what programs them. Both my mother and father are big anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. I just don't tell them I get my yearly covid/flu shots. They are genuinely concerned that I'll die from them. I understand their point of view. They are free to believe it. It's not my job to change their minds. To answer some above comments... There is a lower/middle class and a rich class because some people have the drive to get ahead and produce something of value to society, save and invest their money, while other people are mindless consumers. A mindless consumer doesn't deserve to have the same standard of living that an producer does. This violates natural law. If you try to give lower developed people with no skills a middle class lifestyle they will breed like rabbits. Do you not understand that even animal rights activists know that you shouldn't feed wild animals? It makes them dependent on humans. At some point every animal species, every animal, needs to learn autonomy. It's not healthy to have a large number of people simply given things. Teach them to fish, don't give them fish. Leo brings up the "community responsibility" argument but you can't have a good community without good individuals. It's almost a chicken or egg argument really. Lower spiral dynamics cultures need to have their stage brought up through education. Then they won't need to be given things... they will be self sufficient. Getting people to stage orange is itself a huge accomplishment. It seems like greens like to try to raise purple, blue, and red cultures right to green using stage green values. That doesn't work. Plus, we don't have the pool of labor to simply build mass amounts of housing for people who don't contribute to society. Teach these people home construction, building codes, zoning laws, and democracy, and we're getting somewhere. It's the Star Trek prime directive argument. They have to be developed enough to fully accept and appreciate your help. They are used to living the way they live.

If you suffered from years of anxiety your nervous system may simply be burnt out. You need to make sure that you're getting plenty of rest and not spending all your time staring at a screen during your downtime. You need to have a heavy emphasis on recovery if you were in a prolonged heightened state.Work on that ventral vagal nervous system using activities like playful socializing and mindfulness. https://www.holistichelp.net/blog/autonomic-nervous-system-dysfunction/ I will feel jittery if I do a long 5 to 10 mile jog or hike especially on a sunny day where UV rays put extra stress in my nervous system. I still have some bad habits though that I'm working on. There's a number of people on this forum I suspect are either sympathetic dominant or dorsal vagal dominant.Having gone through all this myself I see it in others. https://themovementparadigm.com/how-to-map-your-own-nervous-sytem-the-polyvagal-theory/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/ovjmwh/gray_matters_too_much_screen_time_damages_the/ Something to consider is that when you are purging past trauma your body will release the stored tension randomly and in various ways. Detached mindful observation is helpful in these cases. Animals who generally don't hold in trauma to the same degree humans do will shake off their tension after a stressful situation. https://www.pacesconnection.com/blog/therapeutic-tremoring-shake-off-stress-and-trauma

There are some basic amino acids and nutrients that the body does not get by eating strictly plants alone. Fortunately you can supplement with these items. It really depends on the type of vegan diet you're eating. Some people eat junk food vegan ... high carb processed crackers and chips and that's not very healthy. French fries are not healthy. In my opinion the large amounts of white bread and doughy items like pizza are not healthy. I would prefer to date a woman who ate mostly a rich variety of greens and fruits if she eats vegan and of course lets me have my steak with the great vegan meal she cooks me as an example. If she's eating these processed foods it's going to be a no-go. I personally will not stop eating meat especially beef. Much of the beef that people eat out in South Dakota by is locally raised by Family Farms who treat the cattle well anyways. It spends its time grazing on land that is too hilly to be farmed for crops especially out in the western part of the state which is all unglaciated land. Raising chickens on family farms and giving away or selling the eggs where I work is also quite popular. This is a rural area and there's a lot of wide open space.

Fair enough :-) buy whatever you find works for you. Buy whatever soap has the least number of added ingredients and is basically just tallow maybe something like ivory? I like seeing other posters who ramble on with long multi-paragraph responses like I tend to do especially when provide useful information that teaches me something so I appreciate your post

Stage greens don't know how to deal with lower spiral Dynamics stages very well, which is why they are still tier 1. This is why I think Trump made a more effective leader and brought upon a period of World Peace and that his policies were average to slightly above average compared to biden's. When we treat stage red and blue countries and individuals with pacifism you see the result they walk all over you and become aggressive. It's human nature. Stage greens themselves become angry when they see perceived injustices they're just at a different albeit higher level. All tier one stages tend to be polarized amongst one another. What we need are integrated stage yellows who know how to deal with each country (and each individual) at their respective spiral Dynamic stage and know how to use Force like a Precision Tool when it's needed and necessary. This isn't the Democrat Party and I think they're messing the country up to be quite frank. We don't want authoritarian dictatorships usurping democracies on the global scale of power and dominance. Criminals are running rampant because leftists don't think you should punish non-violent offenses done by spiral Dynamics stage red and blue individuals, and even some semi violent offences are met with no bail, signature bonds, and probation. You need to use pavlonian conditioning against people to get them to behave in a moral and proper manner to keep a civilized and stable society and geopolitical landscape. You also need to give the impression that this is the way you're going to respond through your words and actions. Trumps lower spiral dynamics stage worked to his advantage to a degree. I lean conservative on some issues because of human nature. Humans are not ready for stage green on a global scale. Not even close. You have to look at the world from their perspective, not your perspective, when dealing with them. Hard to do? Perhaps. That's why stage yellows are rare.

Her biology was probably thinking "man I should have planted my seed in a man who doesn't get slipped spinal discs" ... there's a subconscious wiring within many females driven by genetics that most people don't want to accept. We have a lot of culturalized customs like monogamy that aren't really native to our genetic makeup. It's much more natural for females to want to be in a harem with a dominant male from a genetic perspective, or to have lots of male partners as a source of protection and resources. Women will literally sleep with the invading army. They will change loyalties to the strongest man in the group. Why? Because over the last 50,000+ years of evolution, the women that didn't do this, got killed. So the surviving women who went on to pass on their seed? The ones who knew how to be chameleons. And thus, the modern human species (with male and female nature being based on evolution and genetics) is born. A lot of men have this "innocent princess" narrative programmed into them by society and that's how they think women are. That's not how women are. The realities of life as an animal species on a primitive planet are far more harsh and in your face. Romance is for men. Bottom line, like someone earlier posted, most women aren't really into most men. They settled for what they could get. One way to know if she's really into you to be honest... she sucks and swallows. Most relationships where the woman really has the "hots" for the man she's with don't really last though. That man tends to have lots of options, and will eventually exercise them. The men that make the best providers, are not the ones women get the "hots" for. Genetics. Don't get mad at the bear for pooping in the woods. It's programmed to do that. Better to hack the system by increasing your social status. Leo has videos on that... "what women want in a man" , along with "why women fall for assholes" covers the basics.

The large problem I've seen post 2008 is quantitative easing... it has driven wealth concentration and put pricing pressure on the middle class as all this extra liquidity floats around the hands of the top 5% who have largely used it to invest in assets. This has led to some of the most expensive housing prices in the history of many country's entire histories as far as home price to income ratios go. Many times these properties sit vacant as the investors sit on them. This is reckless policy done on a global level, using real estate as part of an "investment portfolio" where private equity buys them like stocks. Central banks respond by printing more, providing bailouts, and these entities know the central banks are going to print to oblivion, and that only gives them more incentive to keep buying real estate. If they knew central banks would tighten, allowing a great deleveraging event to occur, they might change their behavior. I'm still hoping we get a great deleveraging event in the US the next 24 months.... meaning no central bank QE which will lead to a drastic rise in interest rates and bankruptcies.... a healthy event compared to this perpetual printing and bailout mentality. The real problem came (and I didn't see this until recently) when they lowered the top income tax rate in the US during Reagan. From 1920-1980 we had a top income tax rate in the 60-75% range which acted as a liquidity mop, keeping wealth from concentrating at the very top end. That was removed, and it only worsened society overall. I consider myself a capitalist, but even capitalism needs checks and balances to keep wealth and power from concentrating. When wealth and power concentrate, you end up with an oligarchy, or an authoritarian dictatorship, and it's not an optimal system for the advancement of society, when the corrupt start to implement all policy. What do the US and China have in common? They both have rather corrupt systems that are very top heavy. They are basically societies by the rich, for the rich, and the ruling class. Part of that is to be expected though, since society's producers should have a greater piece of the pie than a mindless consumer. They add more value to the system, but again, within reason. Corruption must be kept in check.

Northern European nations are great... during peacetime. Should there ever be a global war and should a big nation ever decide to target them, that's where their potential weakness lies. It's easy to be a top tier nation during a time of relative global peace. A nation like China could take them out like nothing, if there wasn't a counter in place such as the military might of the United States and their NATO allies. In the end we are still animals, subject to evolutionary drives. It's prudent to maintain some level of defense against our own nature in this regard. Nuclear weapons are actually a big deterrent to starting any major war. The real issue as evidenced by previous posts... why do we allow the top 5% to buy up all the world's real estate pricing the middle class out of the system? There should be a worldwide ban on this sort of speculative investing. Central bank QE (quantitative easing) has caused tens of trillions to be printed globally, most of that ends up into the hands of the top 5%, who are flush with liquidity. They drive asset bubbles by putting this excess liquidity to work investing in assets. Allowing investment firms and ETFs to buy residential real estate is just bad policy, as is allowing non citizens or foreign natives to buy real estate, or in the case of my town, the realtors themselves buy the houses and then are realtors/landlords. You want socialism? Start with each person being allowed to own one (or maybe two or three) houses. That's it. If you want to own more, you have to build them yourself from scratch (or have it built by a homebuilder.) That will encourage home building. Any house you build yourself, is yours until you sell it. That's good policy there. Increases supply, decreases pricing.

Yes... insomnia reduces impulse control, activates the sympathetic nervous system... it literally makes a person angry, crazy, unstable. This post had me thinking, if depression is an overactive dorsal vagal response, maybe a drug like this, a tricyclic antidepressant, would help me. Mostly I just need better habits. My impulsive nature causes insomnia, which causes more impulsive behavior, like a feedback loop.

The first thing that comes to mind for people to try if they are reactive to products are baby versions of these products. Johnson's Baby Shampoo is probably one of the least reactive products on the market for those with issues. It's not just for babies. All it needs are the surfactants to emulsify the oils on the hairs. The rest of the ingredients are mostly for marketing purposes. https://www.johnsonsbaby.com/baby-products/johnsons-baby-shampoo You could also shampoo your hair with a bar of Ivory soap if you wanted. "Shampoo" is a modern marketing creation mostly... pretty smelling compounds which all do pretty much the same thing at various price points. Adding in all this fancy stuff really doesn't do anything for hair.

I don't care either way. If women are fine with having males with higher testosterone levels best their world records in sporting events, more power to them. I'm totally neutral on this issue. The issue by dividing up sports into sexes was more about fairness. Females genetically are not built the same as males. Males tend to have a competitive advantage in many sports due to this, but hey, this is up to women to bring up as an issue if it bothers them. The people who hate sports crowd tend to be the toxic ones though. Fostering a friendly competitive team spirit as a whole is going to be a big positive for any society. Maybe not the amount they get paid, but hey, that's capitalism for you. So you don't like American Football, or European Soccer. Get off your high horse. Many do, and they probably have better lives than you do with your negativity. Just saying. I say this as a person who used to be like this, and I like to call my own ego out on it's own negativity. On another note, if you want to see a "gay" sport, look at professional wrestling. A bunch of guys in underwear feeling each other up, and yet I still enjoy watching it from time to time. AEW made it competitive and fun again, after years of WWE's suffocating monopoly. Thanks Tony Kahn.

We are genetically wired to be a herd species who would rather be around our own, because our own group keep us safer from predators and makes us feel more comfortable, generally speaking. If you dissect human behavior down to genetics, it all becomes so obvious, when you see DNA is the software that tends to drive certain behaviors among all species. For me it's mostly what are we going to do with these people, how are we going to house them and feed them? The economic strain from having too many parasites in a system has become evident post covid with central bank quantitative easing and the resulting supply chain and cost of living issues that have cropped up. More then that, you are often told to not feed the animals, because it makes them dependent on humans. Humans are a species of animal. They need to learn to be self sufficient, like other animal species, optimally. The ruling class are pushing for mass immigration because they want inexpensive labor and replacement labor in nations that have low birth rates. My main criticism is no vetting. I'd prefer have the best and brightest in a society. I'm less compassionate than most here, and believe some must suffer and not be saved in order to make the collective stronger. The problems of infinite compassion start to manifest themselves in time with things like rises in crime and tent cities. There's no easy answer to all these problems given our nature. You need more housing, but to do that you need the manpower and zoning laws to build it. You want to reduce carbon emissions, yet you push population growth and economic expansion... again, no easy answers... only compromises. The theoretical socialist utopian society has a problem... It violates the natural laws that govern this universe. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/sweden-economy-immigration.html

Garbage inputs, garbage outputs. Even if the content you watch is true, you have to ask yourself if knowing about it helps your life in any way. Sometimes it's possible to know "too much" the way our biology is wired the more we know, the more depressed we can get. The content is often too one sided and biases things towards the perspective it knows it's viewer wants to hear, like a miniature echo chamber to snare the viewer in and get them clicking on more, creating a self fulfilling belief system. Plus there's the time cost of consuming content. It's a real problem. Before a person knows it they are pushing 40 and realized they missed the starting gate. Now they have to make up for it. Of course all this is just mind stories. You choose to believe what you want to believe, but your genetic makeup will give you these feelings that tend to drive various emotional states based on evolution also. Good example of garbage inputs... these anti-china videos I watch. I never know how much truth there is about how intrusive the CCP is into people's lives. Like Leo says in his video on 65 principles of living the good life, direct experience is king. Anything else, even if "true" could be classified as meaningless, depending on one's perspective.

Quite true. A psychopath can be totally devoid of emotion and come off as chill. There's only 2 really spiritually advanced people in my plant I've come across. You can tell who they are by their overflowing positivity and willingness to be positive towards anyone, in almost any situation, and unwillingness to criticize anyone. Most people have varying levels of insecurity inside which affect their personality more than they know. Either that or they substitute cockiness and faux confidence in an attempt to cover up their insecurity. That or they just have a cranky, bored, entitled demeanor. That's all absent from these two. If you could think of the incarnation of Jesus.. These two are as close as they come. These types do seem to make up around 0.25 - .5% of the population, give or take. Highly purified ego minds. What really makes a person "advanced" can be rather subjective also. To me David Hawkins scale of consciousness is a pretty cut and dry method of determining ...but of course a psychopath would disagree. For them power itself might be a sign of advancement...control and domination of others. I imagine how life would be if we were all narcissists with no empathy...probably extinct.

So humans really are biologically wired to crave drama eh? Sometimes I feel the people who are supposedly the most enlightened with the way they criticize the so-called "sheep" are actually the opposite... Walking bundles of anger and misery stuck in a sympathetic or dorsal vagal state. I've come to see that the people who like to preach the most do so because they often have these traits in themselves whether consciously or unconsciously and are merely projecting. Its easy to put out the image of being peaceful and at ease...living it can be harder. I find most people I work with despite their impulsive nature are probably more psychologically well adjusted than most of us here, but maybe that's me projecting. I work in a factory making micropore backing making $33/hour. We all make decent money which probably contributes to happiness factor. Being totally happy independent of external circumstances is of course quite difficult. That's why its good to work on Maslow's hierarchy and do more practical ego development. To me ego "transcending" is almost an excuse to avoid the emotional labor of personal growth, whatever purpose that serves outside our genetically driven urges programmed through a million years of evolution. Don't turn spiritual work into remaining in a dorsal vagal state. https://themovementparadigm.com/how-to-map-your-own-nervous-sytem-the-polyvagal-theory/ If you're not in a ventral vagal state most of the time it means you have growing to do. For me polyvagal theory is the gauge I use for progress. Being a spiral dynamics stage yellow does no good if you are miserable about the supposed state of the world which is to me a trap. Its not necessarily the spiritual aspirants job to be the fix it man...fixing perceived problems with society when most people dont learn through being preached too anyways and dont want hear to hear it. They're going to stumble and make their mistakes because that's biology. Of course almost all spiritual teachers tell you this...your job is to fix yourself, not worry about what everyone else is doing, or obsessing over geopolitics and world events. We create our own suffering through the narratives we spin in our minds or the content we consume. Of course I'm projecting.

But it seems to me like socialist utopians are constantly trying to skip the path of pain and suffering. We have a society that these days coddles us and tells us that discomfort is bad so here is your safe space. It's the opposite of how you actually find your peace of mind and grow as a person which is through a certain level of suffering. It actually makes your nervous system worse off to be coddled like this. It tends to make you oversensitive, spoiled, and more easily triggered. I guess nobody wants to be the person who tells people they have to suffer. Good post I liked it! Would you say that we wouldn't be able to understand love if we weren't able to experience its opposite? That the main reason to Incarnate here is to experience these wide range of emotional states?

One reason I stay at the same job I do even though it's kind of a dead end is because it pays well, good benefits, and long breaks. Ultimately we all have to work to live it's a basic requirement of evolution. Try to find the highest paying job you can tolerate. Relocate if you have to. The cost of living can differ vastly in different Geographic regions. Where I live you can still get apartments for $500 to $800 a month while jobs are paying upwards of $20 an hour in some cases depending on the job. Either way it may take a while to build that amount of money. I don't necessarily believe college is the best idea in the United States trade school would put you in a lot less debt and get you a lot more money because trades are in high demand. Find industries that have shortages because you want to maximize your earning potential. Being able to do Electrical Plumbing and HVAC is like being able to print money in this environment as an example.

To be honest all the research I've done suggest that the MRNA vaccines have the least amount of side effects even compared to the novavax. I still think there's a lot of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists permeating the internet spreading their misinformation around... and that's fine. I don't believe in censorship for any reason because it's a slippery slope towards tyranny. I don't personally know of anybody who got the vaccine who has suffered any long-term side effects from them. Given my tendency to be a science geek I'd rather get some inflammation from the vaccine than get inflammation from a virus itself. I don't like being sick but I was Pro vaccine well before covid came around. There's also a certain level of cognitive dissonance among Trump supporters who are anti-vaccine even though Trump himself tried to claim the vaccines were his and totally safe and that you should be taking them. Trump's initial order was called operation Warp speed. No, he didn't mandate them and yes, the left was wrong for trying to mandate them. The whole conspiracy theory movement started because of the mandates in my opinion.