LordFall

The trend of the last few years and especially the last few weeks has been this whole #canceled movement and general censorship of stuff that goes against the mainstream. Whether that be things like big pickup companies, men's rights activists, and now the far right-wingers. They seem to be worried and calling it an abuse of free speech or some sort of conspiracy theory by the establishment to solidify their grip on society. Is this generally good for the world though? Is this just what happens when society moves up the spiral? We have to censor things that are damaging to the collective consciousness? Or do they have a point and this is a bad thing?

This is a phenomenon common across basically every culture I've heard of. Most people I meet or know need to intoxicate themselves to be comfortable admitting they're a hairless monkey that likes to hump or get humped by other humans. Is there a deeper meaning to this? Why is this so common?

I'd do it. It's gonna shortcut a lot of the social growth that you would otherwise struggle to get. You don't have to be a degenerate all the time and you can meet a lot of other cool guys and really bond with them. Some of the coolest guys I know today were in frats while I was playing LoL all day and had to game for hours on end to catch up on social skills.

If you mean that literally then yeah, vegan girls are very attractive to me. Something about being more compassionate or being more health-conscious or even them wanting to make a positive difference in the world. I hear they taste better also, that's always a plus

Wouldn't it make sense as a high-value male to have many wives that share you? That seems like the best of both worlds for both parties.

Do you have any resources you recommend on that? I saw the book on your booklist and I'll definitely get it eventually, anything else?

Definitely curious about this, what is that about?

I mean you can read books like "no more Mr. Nice guy" or stuff on codependence which you definitely suffer from it you attract and are attracted to depressed girls. Many layers here: have you not worked on your value enough that you can attract girls with high self-esteem? If you think of an attractive, ambitious, well put together woman; what would she think about you? What would you think about her? I used to have this problem and these questions helped me. My ex was literally BPD with hardcore addiction issues and I had this fantasy of being the perfect boyfriend that rescued her and we'd love happily ever after. Life ripped that away from me quite brutally but I would now thank god for it ?

Perhaps this would be true at a red stage? Who knows but as you examine yourself, do you really find this to be true? Freud has a lot of fascinating theories but over time seems most of them are just that: theories.

If you had to put it in spiritual terms, why do you think that is? You made a blog post about how heroin addicts shoot up because that's an instant way to feel that pure love/bliss. Would you say that sex with a hot woman is a shortcut to feel love for themselves? Fascinating to me because it's 100% right. No matter how spiritual I get, its hard to get away from wanting women. I just try to find healthier(hopefully) ways to do it. How does this fit with spiral dynamics? Is it entirely separate and each stage just has a different way to go about it? Red uses violence for sex, blue uses control, orange uses financial incentives, green uses sexual freedom, etc. What's the highest level this goes?

China seems to be rising up as a major superpower and major antagonist of the 21st-century timeline. Are they as dangerous and as conscious as their Nazi counterpart of the 20th century?

@diamondpenguin Yay, let's have a free market. Where is the money gonna come from for healthcare, infrastructure, social safety nets, etc? I don't think the % of taxes is the problem, just pure corruption and low consciousness. Quality of life is way higher in Canada than in America for most people and we have way less money.

@Husseinisdoingfine Is that not what they're trying to do with their uighur muslim camps?

That's not really the same thing. I don't lack friends. I have 25 people I could call right now. Still doesn't feel like a community. It doesn't feel like a shared life adventure, more like we each do our own thing and reconvene once in a while to reminisce and not feel lonely. I want shared adventure. Shared journey. Like a guild in an MMO. The closest thing I'm thinking is I have a lot of friends that are close to my age (22-27) that are into business and entrepreneurship. Already both of my roommates are into online business and partying the same way I am. I want to get a few more friends to rent another condo in our same building so we can meetup almost everyday and collab on shooting content, making money online and hanging out. This would be a lot more urban of an ideal than a regular ecovillage. If anyone has other ideas surrounding this, let me know!

After watching Leos recent video on college, I realized that only thing that would make me go(I have never been and I'm 25) is the social life aspect on it. I remember my high school days very fondly and a lot of people that went to college tell me the same. It's not only about having friends too, I actually have a lot of friends that I hangout with each week. It's about the whole structure of seeing the same few hundred people over and over again and working together on similar things and living similar lives. Seeing friends a couple times a week just doesn't give me the same feeling of community. I'm curious how your guys friend groups are and how fulfilling do you feel about it? I came up with this vision of a big social circle (10-50) that are all friends and work together, live together, travel together and it seems like it'd be a much more warm way to live than the isolated cities with a few friends/relationships that we have now.

Ooh, thank you for the suggestion! I remember looking into one in BC(I think it was branded smart villages) and it all revolved around working together to produce art and sustainable technology and live in the BC mountains. Sounded heavenly. I really would want @Leo Gura to talk about this because your point here is a fantastic point. I don't know enough history to understand when the shift happened but big cities are made to promote individualism and you end up living away from your friends/family. How can this be fulfilling? I think owning your own business and being able to hang around your best friends/loved ones all the time is the best path for complete fulfillment. I'd be curious to hear more about it and see what kind of plans people have around it!

I started vaping in 2017 and have been trying to quit for around a year. I've managed to do it for three weeks but keep relapsing when I hang out with other people that vape or drink. I've directly noticed that it lowers my energy, increases my anxiety, and lowers my motivation so that in and of itself is enough of a reason to quit besides any other medium or long term health effects that I'm consciously trying to ignore. My roommate vapes and so trying to quit will be a nightmare. About as easy as quitting junk food while owning a convenience store. But this needs to be done since I feel like it's hindering my growth potential. Do you guys have any advice/relatable stories for me?

Did you find what triggered you to vape? I noticed that everytime I'm trying to run away from an emotion I vape. If I think about how I'm not where I want to be, I vape and it feels better. If I think about how I've done something shitty to someone, I vape and it feels better. When I'm nervous about something, I vape and it feels better. I honestly thought that I vaped because of boredom but the realization that it is to cope with negative emotions makes it hard to keep doing consciously. Doubled by the fact that all my most successful best friends don't vape/smoke and the ones that I see with emotional issues usually do makes it even more troubling.

Conservatives generally lack empathy and value things like conformity and tradition over it.

Be careful with this advice. Check the laws to see if this is even legal, in Canada you can't carry any sort of weapon for self defense and you will be charged for using it. Also statistically, unless you're trained in using it, carrying a weapon will most likely end up in it being used against you rather than the other way around.

I think it's good to do both. Get good insights from good books on Leo's list but don't get disconnected from the mainstream perspective.

I'd say peak orange, a lot of green and some yellow. He's definitely one of the highest consciousness business leader of today. His focus on being nice, authentic, and transparent is unmatched. I've rarely seen someone mainstream talk about such high character things and actually back them up. Watching his discussion with Jessica Alba where he breaks out into general life stuff and philosophy was super cool too. He has a lot of deep thoughts that don't come out in his regular content which is 99% business based.

What is currently your "lowest consciousness" habit? Do you regret anything in going on this path to self-actualization? If you had one piece of advice towards the general western population, what would it be? What's your favorite movie? Tv-show? Video game? Anime? Thank you for doing this. You've said at some point that you don't think people care about you personally, just your work. How can anyone care about someone personally, that's a deep question. But I've quite enjoyed your personal anecdotes along these years and I really liked it when you talked about working for epic games in the life purpose course. As a fellow nerd, that was a cool trivia fact. Keep on keeping on my dude and I hope that the health issues are going better these days, best of luck.

@GroovyGuru As someone who's not too familiar with the American political system and only knows headlines about Trump and some YouTube documentaries, what exactly are your gripes with him and his followers, if you had to give an in depth explanation?

@Leo Gura What's your opinion on her opinion? I think she makes an interesting point and her thoughts are valid because we do alienate rich people and deny all their problems because we're jealous of them being rich. Obviously there are bigger problems in life and some people are literally starving on the streets but doesn't mean their problems are non existent. Isn't there a lottery winner phenomenon where winning multiple millions with the lottery is statistically more likely to ruin your life rather than help it? I think when we eventually evolve beyond capitalism we will recognize it as an extremely bizarre stage in human development. I live in Toronto and it's definitely a late stage capitalism wonderland. Everytime you go out downtown you see about the same number of Lambos and Ferraris as you see homeless people sleeping outside.