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One might have a natural disposition towards independence or internal processing. But that alone will not get you to deep autonomy of mind.

I live in an area where tattoos are extremely common. It's rare to meet a woman who doesn't have one. It's obvious that most people are not doing it out of autonomous thinking, but just because it's the style and culture. If these same people grew up or lived somewhere else, they would not have these tattoos. Tattoos are usually supposed to be examples of original thinking. But then everyone gets them, and it just becomes the same conformity. Conformity masquerading as non-conformity. Tattoo corruption. It's hard to draw a line exactly what I consider excessive. Serious neck or face tattoos are definitely out for me. Probably also full sleeves.

Tattoos are not a deal breaker, but I don't like them if it becomes excessive. There's a lot of conformity in tattoo culture.

The way these red pillers talk about women is so ugly.

In practice, they do. But in theory, they shouldn't because corporate interests are private. The point of the government is to be an overseer of private activity. Government needs to remain uncorrupted by corporate interests for this to happen.

But why do you need someone in a relationship to share your paradigm? Spirituality is for you. Needing her to get it is immature.

For better or worse, I feel music adds emotional weight to my contemplation. It becomes less dry. The upside is that the extra emotional weight makes the insights really stick with you. The downside is emotional self-deception, i.e "I felt something really strong, therefore it must be true".

But how are you thinking about love in this case? If you mean "strong feelings", then that's a false binary. Love can be relatively stable over the years. And yes, even entropy might happen. That does not necessarily mean your marriage is unhappy or unsuccessful.

Just frame control your toilet

Looking for love in all the wrong places, as they say. I think the biggest thing is having proper expectations. Most of our frustrations come from expecting things that can't be fulfilled. Your toilet has never let you down, because you never expect it to be anything but a toilet.

That feels like an impossible expectation at a certain point.

The total scale of human civilization is somewhat new, yes. But scale increase itself is not new. The scale is always bigger than ever. 200 years ago, the scale was bigger than ever.

Natural resources have always been scarce and worried about. Again, nothing new. People just lack perspective.

There's nothing uniquely chaotic about our current times. If anything, our times are pretty stable.

Yes it's not a game technique, but it's more than mere self-esteem. It's autonomy of mind.