Apparition of Jack

Why would Jewish Nationalism be a good thing? In general any sort of nationalism tends to be low-consciousness and problematic. Of course there’s nuances but I doubt you’ll find many people here arguing for Jewish nationalism.

No lol, the market itself almost by definition leads to abuses. Not everything can be qualified through monetary exchanges alone. Sometimes you gotta bite the bullet and look beyond market mechanisms to make an actual conscious society.

@rnd Most corporations are more corrupt than than the government and yet you don’t seem to have a problem giving money to corporations. Why is that?

I think it’s a hive mind effect. A lot of people don’t like to believe there’s some collective intelligence at work in groups but really it’s there. When you’re out in public without a mask, you get caught into the non-mask wearing hive mind, and your thoughts will reflect that. Likewise when you’re wearing a mask. Its why homeless people can be ignored on major city streets despite thousands of people seeing them every hour. The “regular people” hive mind doesn’t want to acknowledge homelessness so that homeless person sort of exists “outside” of it. It’s also why if you see a homeless person, idk, talking to a box, you don’t think much of it, since they’re just doing “homeless people things”, but if a lawyer or banker started talking to a box a lot of people would find it really weird.

@Danioover9000 It’s more like a call to ask the church to be more generous with charity

Jordan Peterson really confuses me. I generally have a good sense of what people believe and what motivates them but JP is like a riddle to me. He’s someone who’s spent most of his life diving into dense psychological topics and seemingly investigating his own psyche, yet he falls prey to such basic stuff and seems completely inconsistent in his behaviours / ideas. Hes a weird one.

@Nyseto Haha, good joke man, you had me going for a second

You guys should get into solarpunk. It's a great literary genre inspired by steampunk / cyberpunk etc. but one that offers a more optimistic view of the future. It's about integrating technology and nature and creating a more sustainable, egalitarian world. Plus it just looks fucking cool IMO. Tell me your thoughts!

@Mesopotamian Has the fact that Saudi Arabia is committing an inhuman war against the Yemeni people ever factored into this for you?

For some reason, I see a lot of threads about the toxic manifestations of Green on this forum. Don’t get me wrong, obviously Green can be problematic, but toxic Green is SUCH a rarity and so limited in influence these days that it’s unhelpful to focus on it’s bad parts, especially considering how much more toxic Orange and Blue where dealing with in the world. And just to set the record completely straight, I want to point out just how developed and beneficial Green really is. I still feel it’s easy to stereotype Green people as “lazy pot-smoking hippies”, which is such a disservice to what Green truly can be. A healthy, developed Green person on this planet is such a rarity on the whole that you might as well be finding a unicorn, from a planetary perspective (most Green people are still dealing with Orange and lower shadows). Healthy Green is: Openly compassionate, kind, supportive and gentle More intelligent than Orange and Blue (yes, really) Insightful, wise, nuanced and able to grasp relativity Communicative, co-operative, sociable and fluid Democratic, able to compromise and non-hierarchical Non-judgemental, expressive, accepting and courageous Some examples of healthy Green people are: Bernie Sanders Martin Luther King, Jr Mahatma Gandhi Oprah Winfrey Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sam Seder John F Kennedy Russel Brandt Joe Biden Bill Gates Just to name a few. We should be encouraging more people to move up the Spiral to Green in order to meet the social, economic and environmental challenges of the future. Obviously criticise Green when you need to, but let’s not make that our first instinct. Green is fucking awesome, and the more we’re able to accept and embrace it the more conscious and purposeful life will become for everyone.

China is the biggest country in the world and despite a lot of growth most people still live in third-world conditions. I think it’s simple survival needs that people are so callous there, if you show sympathy or are nice to people you’ll quickly be taken advantage of

I'm under the impression that any future GOP candidate will have to appeal to the Trumpist crowd, since at this point there's basically no chance of power within the GOP without appealing to the style of politics he unleashed. Ted Cruz is too much of a cynical career politician for this IMO. It could unironically be someone like Tucker Carlson or one of Trump's kids (yikes)

Psychedelics make you aware of what’s going on in your subconscious. Even if you’re a rational person consciously but subconsciously you’re being affected by conspiracy thinking, then tripping might “wake you up” to your subconscious bias, but this doesn’t make it any less of a bias. The trick is to be made aware of your subconscious biases and then let go of them, not cling onto them because they came from a powerful trip or anything like that.

Good question. It’s hard to say. Honestly they might be as advanced as each other. Both have some emerging Orange but are still very stuck in unhealthy Blue/Red. Both are dictatorships with a lot of corruption and oppression and very nationalistic populations. I honestly don’t know.

Trump is out, Biden is in. A good day for truth, consciousness and love. But to the point. Trump needs to go to prison. He committed crimes unspeakable in a modern democracy and for democracy to function in the future then wrong-doers have to fear the repercussions of being criminals. It might be tempting to give him leeway because he’s an ex-President but this is a nonsense argument. He is not above the law as any citizen isn’t and must be held accountable for his devilry. Sometimes the most loving thing you can do is to punish people when they’ve done wrong.

Am I crazy? The guy strikes me as 100% Green to me, not Orange or Blue. His reforms of perestroika and glasnost seem heavily centred in a green worldview. He envisioned the USSR becoming a stage Green social democracy like Sweden or Norway, not a stage Orange capitalist ratrace like America. After the USSR collapsed he has spent his time advocating for things like peace, climate action and nuclear disarmament. He’s not a stage Orange corporatist or stage Blue nationalist by any stretch of the imagination imo.

This is honestly fucking horrible. I don’t comment on stuff too much these days but I felt I had to speak about this one. People could die because of this movie. Art deeply influences people’s ideas and behaviours and if some impressionable 14 year old kid watches this and thinks “yeah, if some gun-totting turd comes to MY school I’ll just outwit them like in that movie!” ... before getting themselves killed. Active shooter situations are not goddamn Hollywood action scenes. There’s no glory in them. Your goal should 100% be your own survival, not some foolhardy attempt to look like an action hero. Not only that, but by glorifying taking down school shooters it encourages kids to resolve more conflicts this way. It turns school zones into some fucked up “survival of the fittest” battle arena, not places of peace and learning. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so disturbing. Shame on you, Benjamin.

I've seen a few Fox News people going on quickly going on air to denounce the people as "unAmerican" and "rioters" and all that - I get the strong impression they're trying to cover their asses

How much chaos it there really? Yes, the situation in the US is tense, but so far we still have food chains, running water, electricity, etc. Without wanting to downplay the severity of the attack on the Capitol, even that - an actual attempted coup - only resulted in 5 deaths and so far more widespread violence hasn't occurred. For a nation dealing with massive economic, health and social issues, that is extremely bloodless when we look at similar situations in history. I undestand that our 24/7 media cycle, smartphones etc have made it seem like the world is a constant state of bad news, but if you take a step back and look at the actual situations critically you would see that things perhaps aren't so bad as your mind is projecting them to be. Also, let's not forget that there can be no growth without first a doing away with the old patterns that weren't serving us. While it might be tempting to think that the world ~5 years ago was more "stable", you have to remember that everything we're seeing today is just a result of the negative trends that were already happening during this time. It can be hard to see right now but everything going on is actually for the best right now, since it'll force societies out of their sleep and really make the positive reforms that will lead to a more humane, conscious, democratic society. Think of how most Americans are now on board with government stimulus ($2000 each, imagine trying to pass that 5 years ago!) Think about how many more people are now involved in democratic activity and are taking an active interest in their communities. Think about how close we are to getting healthcare in America. Think about how many people want life to be less focused on work and more focused on communities and hobbies thanks to all the people working from home. There is a lot of bad, yes, but there's positive things coming out of this. We just have to go through this period of tension first, and then we'll see all the massive benefits.

@Leo Gura How much do you think the federal forces are prepared to defend democracy, and especially figures like Joe Biden? I know the higher-ups in the military don’t like Trump but I imagine there’s a lot of Trump sympathisers in the lower ranks What do you think the military should do about this?

As we enter the Age of Aquarius I imagine a lot more of this kind of stuff will climb to the surface. As it stands the current paradigm of humanity inventing civilisation ~10,000 years ago just isn't sustainable IMO. There's far too much evidence (and far more will be revealed) that humans had advanced societies for much longer than that. I'm really looking forward to what we uncover.

What the heck is going on in this thread? You guys are downplaying the very real effect an environment’s energy can have on someone. @Chr1st1ne Is this the first time you’ve been in a shop like this? Have you ever felt something similar at other places?

It depends what you mean by “fall”. Certainly the situation won’t be the same as it was in previous decades, especially in relation to the power the US had over the world in geopolitical terms, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that America’s “fall” will be barbarian invasions and massive chaos the same way Rome fell for instance. I think modern society is simply to advanced and too adaptable for something like to happen save for the utmost extreme circumstances, and we’re a long way off from that. Rather, I think the “fall” will instead be a mindset shift where Americans simply wake up to the fact they’re not as powerful as they once were and that they have to learn to live in a world where China, Europe, India etc are just as if not more powerful than them in a lot of key ways. Of course, to the ego-mind that has been conditioned to believe that America will always be “#1” this might feel like an actual apocalypse, but that doesn’t mean it actually will be. Most American’s lives won’t be drastically different during this process; if anything Americans will become less arrogant and full of themselves.

I think the point is that it’s too early for an M4A but not too early for a public option, and to get to M4A we’ll need a public option first. Too many Americans are still brainwashed to think public healthcare is a communist plot to destroy the west, so giving them a small taste of its benefits (public option) would finally convince enough people to go the distance (M4A.)

Jimmy Dore is a grifter who is high on his own farts and once he got a taste of some modicum of power (being one of the major figures in the Movement for a People’s Party) he suddenly saw himself as some sort of “progressive kingmaker.” He’s utterly delusional and full of himself and almost certainly wants the Democrats to fail so he can increase his own power in the MPP and earn more money / fame / status / power etc as a result. IMO he should be ignored entirely and be considered as helpful as a Trump fascist in fighting for progressive change.