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How is societies current transition between stages going? Is it not smooth enough, is it possible society will revert? How do you feel about claims that young people in western countries lack meaning in their lives? Do you feel foreign policy reflects understanding of stages, or do larger countries try to force smaller countries to skip stages?

Playlist of stage yellowish gender/relationship perspective

https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-021-00362-9

https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0

The power Big Tech is gaining is very worrisome. They have an absurd amount of control over what a large amount of the population sees every day. Now they are using their wealth to lobby the government. With enough lobbying and a divided opposition they could legitimately control the federal government eventually.

Women desire a man who is more 'masculine' then them so that they can feel feminine. This means they usually want him to earn as much or more than them, be more outgoing, etc. But in the west women are more masculine in general, in fact single women even earn more than single men, so no matter how 'masculine' they get they want a man who is even more masculine than them, which becomes a smaller and smaller minority.

A good beginner work on Islam is The Life and Times of Muhammad Paperback by John Glubb. It's not a religious conversion and he tries to weave together a wide variety of sources with different levels of trustworthyness. I've also heard good things about Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings but I wonder if it's biased since the author converted to islam. I wasn't a big fan of Leo's video, I overall agree with his points but I feel like he didn't research it that well. For example he brings up the 72 virgins thing, but from what I heard the source is extremely iffy and some claim it was a mistranslation of raisins, not virgins.

The taliban said that they didn't do that for religious reasons.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride/ This article contains links to essays Bernie Sanders wrote in the 1970's. Back then his ideas were a lot more radical, I don't know if this means he went down on spiral dynamics or up. Some interesting things I noticed is him saying public nudity should be legal, working 9 to 5 causes cancer, women not having orgasms causes cancer, and children shouldn't be sent to school. The whole essays are worth a read.

Despite accusations of racism against Trump and a large push by Democrats for diversity and anti-racism, Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters all moved away from democrats and towards Republicans during both Trump elections. If this movement is sustained (of even increased if republicans run an outreach program to minority communities/lose divisive rhetoric like Trump had), the democrats could potentially lose a huge advantage from what was a growing population of voters. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/opinion/joe-biden-inauguration.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-changes-political-divides-2019-7 https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-conservative-fertility-advantage I am talking about long term TRENDS. I never said minorities voted majority for Republicans in 2020, the fact that they voted overall for Biden in 2020 is irrelevant to my point. My point is they are TRENDING away from Democrats and towards republicans. If that trend continues, eventually Democrats are going to lose a large advantage with their populations. The data in the original thread post literally shows this. I know they are not a monolith, but I am talking about them overall. I find it incredibly unlikely it was Trump magic that caused them to trend red. Trump was extremely divisive and barely tried to reach out to them, except for a small amount he did later in 2020. Most likely they weren't coming to republicans because of Trump, it was in-spite of Trump. If Republicans have a less divisive candidate and actually have a plan and message to reach out to minorities they may expand this trend. America doesn't elect presidents based on popular vote, so I don't see why that matters. It might as well be a fluke since 2000 had a difference of 0.5%, and had Republicans lost in 2000 they easily could have won big in Obama's place if Al Gore oversaw a great recession. One of the biggest bases of demographics favoring Democrats is the increasing minority population, mostly of Hispanics, but if the trend of them moving away from democrats continues, that would become an advantage for Republicans.

That is the point, it is a trend going in that direction. If it continues this will cause a major shift in campaigning from both sides. I didn't say millennials are going to turn republican, I said there was some minor indication gen z might be more conservative than millennials. What you aren't understanding is that the age change happens slowly over a long period of time, not instantly. Republicans could for example win the next four elections in-spite of this by simply making more ground with the remaining older population than the democratic advantage of the younger population replacing them. You're also not considering that what matters are key swing states, which can change for far more reasons, by your logic Florida would be solid blue right now, yet it's becoming red. Also, there is another even slower demographic trend of birthrates, people in dense cities (which are democratic mostly) have less children than people in rural areas. And for this reason among others, Republicans have more children than Democrats, and though this may be changing, generally children have a higher chance of voting for the same party their parents did than changing. So far Texas has been leaning blue because of a large and growing Latino population, that trend may not continue if the trend of Latino's going towards Republicans continues.

No, more white males voted for Trump, just not as much in 2020 as in 2016. Joe Biden was leading with Boomers, it is Generation X, the generation after Boomers who is consistently more republican. The younger generation is more liberal, despite some minor indication gen z might go more conservative, and no telling what is after that. You can't just say 'young people are liberal' and assume republicans are over, the young replacing the new happens slowly over a long period of time, not instantly. Young people do not vote often and the republican boomers and gen x'ers are going to be around for multiple other elections. If republicans continue this trend with minority voters, and expand it, they will be growing their base of support and endangering democrats, because there are many key areas that are only purple or blue because of a large minority population.

IFS (Internal Family Systems Model) is a new form of psychotherapy that involves viewing the human mind as having a 'true self' which due to traumatic events split off into 'false selves' as a defensive maneuver. The goal of the therapy is to relax and integrate the false selves to move with the goals of the true self. https://elemental.medium.com/inside-the-revolutionary-treatment-that-could-change-psychotherapy-forever-8be035d54770 Many people who do IFS report having psychedelic like experiences and making rapid progress compared to traditional therapies. Tim Ferris did a brief live session on his podcast and has said it was similar to his experience with some psychedelic drugs. IFS connection with the spirituality: To access the true self, the easiest way according to IFS is to identify all the protective false selves. Then through multiple therapy sessions for each part, you embody the false self and eventually they step aside. Eventually you go through the exiled parts, and then the inner child parts. As you relax the false selves, eventually you feel emotion and compassion welling up, that is supposed to be the true self coming closer to the surface. Though it hasn't personally happened to me, I have heard reports of people saying that eventually they were watching their 'false selves' all around them and feeling a sense of weightlessness, and that there was a 'self' full of love and emotion that was just out of sight. I'm thinking that they themselves are the true self, basically viewing everything from that perspective. I am thinking if this state is achieved, it could somehow be combined with self inquiry for rapid spiritual progress.

Obviously terrorism is wrong, but this is an extremely narrow world view. You aren't actually considering their perspective, you are just assuming the US is right and they are wrong and they are 'below' the US because they are against it. Why don't you actually consider their life experiences and what caused them to hate the US.

https://americalostfilm.com/watch Documentary about stage blue/stage red working class people