Being Italian is a hallucination.
Which is why people get so defensive and offended when their ethnic identity is questioned.

@Leo Gura
Thanks a lot Leo.
I spent much of my teenage years (16–22) absorbing almost all your content. Then I took a break while going to Uni, building a business, playing high-level tennis and now building my career in tech-consulting, building relationships and independence.
These teachings have been maturing in the background, and now they’re being integrated and lived.
appreciate your work over the years❤️

Tate is much less developed and mature than Brand. Brand has genuinely matured.

Looks like he will get a serious prison term. Wow.

It's hard to say. In some ways it's harder but in some ways it's easier. There are so many opportunities online these days that make business much easier than it used to be.
Breaking out used to be quite challenging because media was much less democratic.
The 90s were amazing opportunity-wise, but don't look backwards with envy, so much opportunity lies ahead. Pick a new emerging field and get to work. Tech, software, art, AI, games, VR worlds, psychedelics, spirituality, etc. have so much potential.
Income inequality really only affects people with standard salary or hourly wage jobs. It does not apply to creatives and entrepreneurs. If you generate massive value and innovation you will make lots of money.

There are many possible ways. Real estate is a good one.
Realistically you want to find a gig that pays well for your time. Then use that to bootstrap yourself. Stop working jobs that take all day and pay little per hour. You need to find jobs that have a high ratio of pay to work.

I work for a state-owned financial institution in the EU and the conditions are pretty good: 30 days of paid leave, paid health insurance, great salary (for being entry level), flexible working time (I’m only expected to be available from 10:00 to 16:00, the rest of the 8 hours I can work whenever I want), job feels exciting and meaningful (cybersecurity).
However, I’m still not so sure how to feel about the fact that I’m in the end a slave to my boss (she is an amazing and compassionate person btw) and don’t have full freedom. Also I have to interact with some colleagues I don’t really like, but nothing too bad or abusive. Would it be really bad to compromise on this for all the above?
Spirituality is one of my top values and I don’t feel it clashes with my job, as I can do spiritual work on the weekends and holidays (which I have a lot).

Who is doing all the SA? Not your Incel class.
The top 5% of men probably do most of the SA. Pickup artist types, frat boys, and fuckboys. These are men with power who can get away with it.

Thou doth protest too much.

That is Orange in pop songs. You are talking about Western party sub-culture, which is Orange.
Vegas, Miami, NYC, LA nightlife. This is all highly Orange and then they sing songs about it and for it.
Pop songs are by Orange for Orange. Rap is by Red for Red and Orange who thinks Red is edgy and cool.

Yup. Life is unfair.

That is technically true.
You can do a lot of evil with no discipline. But you can do even more evil with some discipline in the right areas.

This is explained by discipline and evil coming in many degrees and domains.
For example, Trump is disciplined to a certain sense that he shows up every day, he isn't sitting at home smoking weed and jerking off to porn. But Trump is very undisciplined epistemically, intellectually, morally, health-wise, verbally, spiritually, sexually, financially, etc.
There are many different lines and domains of discipline. You can be disciplined in taking cold showers every day and epistemically undisciplined in spreading conspiracy theories every day.
Discipline cannot be viewed as a single axis. That is why my original quote mentioned four key areas of discipline that people suck at that leads to evil.
Yes, Hitler was disciplined, but not in those 4 key areas. Hence the evil.

The thing that surpised me about this story the most is that anyone would want to sleep with Ethan. He is so shabby looking.

Most people on the right are just racists.
It ain't that complicated.

@James123 You are God but you love to keep denying it.

Immigration needs to have stronger expectations for assimilation into the national culture. And better systems to fasciliate that.
Immigration without assimilation is a problem, yes.

No, they are racists.

That's a good start. It won't be enough, but a good start.
You need to really appreciate the seriousness of your goal.

This exercise was only for forgiving people who hurt you. It was not an exercise to removal all possible childhood trauma. That would be a much bigger project.

@Hello1 you seem to be doing all the right things.
How was your relationship with your parents? Many times we repeat in our romantic relationships the traumas we inherited from childhood.

Being conservative is all about survival.
Kids are survival.

If by sorcery you mean bullshit, then yes.

Yes, bullshit.

Best to avoid sexual humor with women. It comes off creepy and makes her feel you only want to use her for sex.
Stop trying to talk about sex with women. That entire attitude is wrong.
If you have the urge to talk about sex, fix that.
Talking about sex will lose you women.