BlessedLion

@The Caretaker haha exactly. And honestly not really. These days I’m only consuming the classics, and highest wisdom. I listen to John Vervaeke, Ralston and Wilber along with other very high level spiritual and consciousness teachers. Most aren’t on YouTube but they have powerful audiobooks. YouTube is quite played out and even the popular men today on there are pretty scattered and not really taking you anywhere. There is also my personal YouTube channel, still in its baby stages, but I enjoy creating more than consuming. I get little to no value out of guys like Dan Koe, Alex Hormozi, Mark Manson, etc

I used to like his content but it’s quite limited and too analytical. Now that he’s got his hands on AI he seems to have gone completely off the deep end with it. You can see it in his videos, it’s like he’s just transcribing an AI script. Too much. I also don’t agree with his view on having like 10 different skills and not reading books. Part of the joy of development is that it takes time, I enjoy the learning process

These are pretty weak reasons to dump her. You’re placing yourself in too high a pedestal

For sure. I’m curious what you mean by “wielding this power”? Also , do you feel most men step into or realize this conscious embodiment of higher values in life or that it is rare? Just curious.

Agreed. I can’t even consume this kind of content anymore. It’s painful

So you use what women find attractive as your moral code and how you should evaluate what’s acceptable behavior? Sure, if that’s your view than be like Andrew Tate and exploit them at all costs for sex. Have fun. It’s true that following a code of conduct like honor, discipline, and service isn’t flashy and might not get female attention, but it’s more about how you feel about yourself and being able to look in the mirror with a sense of satisfaction. Also the women who chase toxic guys are usually pretty shallow and immature, there are also high conscious women who are much more satisfying and nurturing to be around. I do agree with you regarding taking full responsibility for our paths as men, and not doing things because we feel we “should” or there is pressure. But I definitely think there are toxic men living by low values and standards and others (much more rare) living by admirable principles.

I think this is admirable actually. He was fighting for his values to the death. Japan and Germany were the aggressors in that war. I see what you are saying and it’s an interesting perspective. At the highest level, there is no duality (toxic vs healthy) but relatively there are values that are more “conscious” relative to others. Id label toxic masculinity as ego, selfishness, gain at expense of others, exploitation, competition, pride, and abuse (Tate, Bilzerian, Travis Scott, Tai Lopez) Whole healthy masculinity is helping others, empowering others, serving love and consciousness, being honest and having integrity (Ralston, Wilber, many Yogis, and John Wooden)

For sure. Most of the men sampled in the video are deeply insecure

I was inspired to make a video on this topic as it seems so popular and debated today. Let's discuss, what do you guys think and feel toxic vs healthy masculinity is?

AI has its place but this is just silly and makes you less intelligent

It’s also a good idea because Leo’s content, compared to what’s being created today, is even more high quality and valuable. Even the political “news” is just dopamine traps, over dramatizing everything. Im done

Same! I deleted insta and fb I never go on there my only “thing” is YouTube and this forum. And honestly, the value of books, doing nothing, and music has never been more appealing. It’s non stop garbage there, maybe 1 nugget of gold for every 100 videos of slop

Regarding the post on YouTube corruption. This is something I had been contemplating and noticing a lot recently as well. It’s sad, because I felt like for a while YouTube was a great platform that was quite unbiased and showed you interesting, thought provoking material. They were not like Instagram TikTok and twitter and held a certain integrity in not showing you dopamine fueled shorts and catchy thumbnails. And now you don’t even get shown videos of creators you’re subscribed to. I mean I found this channel via YouTube and it changed my life deeply. One good thing about YouTube is they don’t seem too politically biased. It seems like they just serve up what will make them the most profit, but they aren’t pushing some agenda like Zuckerberg or Musk (pussies) I was doing some searching for my own channel and it was so hard to do research. Seems like tons of videos are just gone or lost in the sea of slop that YouTube recommends first. Feels like YouTube is just like an entertainment platform now, and even educational channels are whoring themselves out to user retention and keeping people addicted. Sad. At least we have books still

I think the whole “sacred medicine” thing is not much more than a label for people to feel better about just getting high. And it doesn’t ensure it’s safe at all. I’ve sat in many ayahuasca and peyote ceremonies with trained Shipibo and Mexican Shamans from the desert. Plenty of people had horrific, traumatizing, and psychotic trips. Yet everyone just says shit like “that’s what the medicine wanted to show you” “there are no bad trips” as if the psychedelics are these wise entities who never fuck up. Super stage green and even partially purple imo. Also tons of shamans die from cancer from their tobacco abuse. What an absurd notion that just because they call it medicine it won’t fuck up their lungs. So glad I graduated this from this whole ideology a while ago

Exactly, agreed