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This is a concerning and complicated issue. There are several factors which indirectly link to gun violence. One important factor is brain damage. Some people want to shoot up a school because of this. When their brain damage is healed, they lose the desire to shoot dozens of children. Brain damage can be caused by the food we eat. A lot of the foods we eat do not the EPA and FDA safety guidelines because there is too much money on the line for massive food and water corporations and they can get away with it. Baby food can cause brain damage when linked with arsenic and lead. To make matters worse, the safety guidelines are severely outdated because there are carcinogens in Europe that are outlawed, but still legal I America. America is giving its citizens brain damage out of corporate greed and poor science in heavy metals. Maybe depression is a factor. When people feel they have nothing to live for they usually kill themselves, but sometimes they externalize these suicidal tendencies and take it out on others. Helping people to find meaning in their lives might prevent them from doing these horrible things. Of course there are many other factors in depression, but psychedelics are useful in curing depression. A lot fewer people would act in these ways if they were more loving and compassionate. Maybe psychedelics are so life transforming that it could prevent someone from becoming a school shooter. Another suggestion I have is online courses. Although not everybody has to take online courses, it can reduce the classroom sizes and disperse the target. The reason people attack schools is because there are a lot of people. If some students are better learners online rather than in a classroom because of abnormal social behaviors for instance, then fewer people would die in school shootings. Likewise, increasing the quantity of public schools would help classrooms to be less crowded. Instead of having 30 kids, they could have 20 or 10 kids. This would make evacuation during any emergency more efficient and fewer kids would die. Economic inequity often makes people give up on life. It could be student loans, stagnating wages, expensive medical care, unable to afford a house, a miserable dead end job, and many other factors. A lot of limiting beliefs come from money and a lot of society's problems could be solved through the combination of education and equalizing income and creating material abundance. Raising the age for owning firearms has been discussed recently. Background checks for people under 21 are important because their brains are less developed and it might make them more impulsive to the point of committing suicide or worse be a mass shooter. Alcoholism and other drug addictions can cause brain damage. Treating drug addicts rather than punishing then can solve a lot of behavioral problems. Most of the people who shoot up schools are crazy people with brain damage. If so many Americans are drug addicts, then no wonder they act insane. Maybe the ibogaine treatment can help alcohol and heroin addicts. Psychedelics also have anti addictive properties and legalizing them could help make the drugs less profitable for drug trafficking. For example, marijuana is smuggled across the border because it is easy to grow in Mexico and drug traffickers become less optimistic about their actions when it is legalized in America, giving doctors more control over the drug. It could work for other drugs as well. This also solves the issue of border security by the way. I'm sure there are many other solutions to gun violence other than these suggestions, but this is a few of them. By the way, there is a lot of talk about banning ar-15s. This could make the issue worse because there are less popular guns which are actually more powerful. If these guns become more popular than more people would die, not to mention how many guns are purchased illegally.

I am aware that there are problems with these images. I was talking about late term abortions because I remember that about 95 percent of abortions take place on or before week 20. The right wing often misuses these images to pretend that it represents most abortions and it isn't obvious to people who aren't aware of the true statistics. I understand that this is far from the truth and it doesn't mean all abortions should be banned all the way down to conception. Considering that most late term abortions take place because of complications during the pregnancy, it now makes sense why people get so enraged by the images. If it wasn't the woman's fault then I can see how much it hurts to starting calling her a baby murderer. The woman is innocent and it isn't her fault when images like these come about. Thanks for explaining that part. Maybe it is more accurate to say that the left goes too far when they call for "unrestricted late term abortions" rather than "late term abortions". In practice late term abortions are so rare that these images are misleading and emotionally manipulative. The argument against these images is now more clear to me.

@DocWatts this is a good example of hypocrisy from the left. Blaming an individual's moral character is a very myopic way to think about massive issues. The number of men under 30 who don't have sex could be increasing for many reasons. It could be economic reasons. If it is harder for men to move out and afford house, then it makes sense that more men would stop prioritizing sex. Inflation adds to these economic problems which could distract men from meeting women. It's mean to take a broad brush and assume these men are morally incompetent. Vaush makes a lot of excellent points on this topic.

There are many examples in feminist hypocrisy. It often devolved into man hating as women convince themselves they are superior. My sister is part of this and our arguments talk past each other. I tried to show her examples of tier two feminism that recognize the excesses of the feminist movement and seek to rise above them. If feminists don't take this approach, then it will be a major detriment to the cause. Many feminists seem arrogant and they don't think through the consequences well enough. Here are some tier two feminists who are through the hypocrisy. Toxic forms of feminism seem to be related to late term abortions when women adopt the mindset that they don't want men controlling them. Although understandable, if they don't treat complicated issues with nuance, then it may lead to their rights being taken away. If a woman has six late term abortions and uses the procedure as a contraceptive in the name of exercising her rights, then she might lose her rights. The excesses late term abortions can be found when you go to Google images abortion babies. The images may be disturbing so proceed with caution. These images are immediately dismissed as offensive by many on the left, but it isn't hard to see where the conservative is coming from.

When discussing progressive policies it doesn't help that this face comes to mind for conservatives. These are the people they think of when they hear terms like "socialism." Honestly it looks like college students are too young and immature to be involved in politics. They are very emotionally sensitive and trigger happy. if college students didn't treat Peterson this way, maybe he would have become a very effective stage yellow thinker. Now he is probably stuck with his stage green shadow until he dies. When you tell a conservative that liberals are more cognitively developed them, they will reject spiral dynamics. These are the images they think of when talking about social justice warriors.

@DocWatts I listened to a couple of small clips from the podcasts. They were pretty amazing. The hopelessness of a meaningless death in opposition to a tyrant hits pretty hard when judging those who didn't oppose Hitler, Stalin, and other powerful people. Those who opposed the tyrants simply disappeared without expressing themselves. If I compare this to what is happening with Putin, it is getting harder to hide this practice with the advance of technology. News stories about people falling from windows spread all over, news stations get cut off when they start criticizing Putin, the world wide web makes it easier to see through the lies and so on. It seems to be more obvious what Putin is doing than it was when Stalin was doing it. People are disappearing, but not without a trace. At least I don't have a problem admitting that I would most likely be a Nazi if I were born in radically different circumstances.

@DocWatts I have a lot of questions about how you learned all of this. Are there books on politics that Leo should add to the book list? Do you follow sites other than actualized? Did you go to college and major in history, economics, or something else? Did you take any online courses? Were they paid courses? What motivates you to do so much research? Should Leo make a video on how to do good research? I think he mentioned that a while back. How do you get your news? I stopped following a lot of alternative news sources because they demonize way too much. In fact that demand for demonizing is so high that I could build voodoo dolls of republicans so people would practice dark magic on people like Donald Trump. I would be rich. Another business idea I'm considering is building a university that points to the future of education. I would have to understand a lot more about the world for something like that to be successful. I like the impact of such an idea more than Trump voodoo dolls.

@MarkKol I think you have given a lot of valuable input. Comparing the profits of movies and series seems to be a good point. It takes a lot more work from a dedicated team to get a long series to come to a close after five or more seasons. The idea that inspired me to make this post was a new Zelda cartoon. I tried calling Nintendo, but they currently have no plans until a production company purchases the rights to produce it. I'm sure it would get a ton of attention. I wrote out some of the script and it is pretty entertaining.

I am wondering about businesses which produce cartoons. This would be mostly kid shows like cartoon network, Nickelodeon, cookie jar, and so on. The producers of adult shows like family guy could be included in this question. If I produce a cartoon and put it on tv, where does the return for the investment ultimately come from? Is it mainly from advertising? How much of an investment does it take to produce about 100 episodes that run once a week? I also need to know how to get such a company off of the ground if it turns out I have to build one.

@Heart of Space I think the reason people are getting fired up at you is because of your stance on innate intelligence. This was used by racist people throughout history to justify things like slavery through arguing that blacks are animals. Maybe you don't mean to come off that way. On a deeper level this debate is about nature vs. Nurture. Given the inequality between blacks and whites throughout history, most on this forum understandably argue that nurture is the greatest cause for these differences. That said, there is research that suggests that environmental factors can influence genetic expression of your children and grandchildren. In the case of the Japanese, the seafood diet stays in place for centuries, influencing the genetic expression of their children and grandchildren. The genes which emerge from this environment may lead to higher IQ as you argued. Even so, there is still significant genetic variety within any race. Two black people can be more different than a white and black person in terms of their DNA. If you maintain the belief that genes are inherent and inflexible, then this misguided scientific belief can get you in trouble. In fact genes are much more flexible than originally assumed. "Biologists originally believed the DNA passed down to offspring remained unaltered, regardless of environment. Scientists are now learning this may not be the case." Keep in mind that the gap between whites and blacks in IQ scores and test scores is getting narrower. The change is happening relatively quickly. Perhaps this demonstrates how quickly genetics can evolve between generations as environmental factors are equalized.

@Consept it is good to know that the test gaps are shrinking at a relatively fast pace. Thank you for sharing your findings.

@Shakazulu I used to follow the daily wire. There is a lot of fear mongering about the radical left. It is often overblown, but sometimes there are real examples that feed the right wing. A couple more come to mind. No wonder I used to think the left was insane. I accidentally put this one on twice. Anyway it is very hypocritical to have a man as a women's rights activist kicking pro life women in the face. Apparently there is a more recent example of a pro choice man punching a pro life women in the face. The anti kavanaugh protests were at best ineffective and at worst a detriment to the left. According to the Washington post some protestors were paid. These protestors banged on the door and left scratch marks. It makes them look kind of crazy. Sometimes the left wing makes a lot of noise in these protests, but it ends up being fruitless until they forget about it next month because of another outrage. Sometimes it looks like they start all kinds of drama and it doesn't solve anything. This is part of the left wing being overly sensitive. Micro aggressions is another example. Asking "where are you from" could be interpreted as racist. When the left wing is overly sensitive it wants to destroy any symbol of stop any conversation that is Even remotely racist because of some historical context. This made me think the left was crazy when they started destroying statues. Most importantly, why the left is losing. Antifa has a violent history and harassed a lot of conservatives. I can't find the video I'm thinking of, but there are plenty of examples of antifa violence mentioned in Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)

I think this video is relevant. Vaush does a good job of explaining how environmental differences can lead to genetic differences. Although these genetic differences may coincide with race, it is not inherent to race itself.

A couple come to mind. There were many social justice warriors who broke into the classroom and started shouting Peterson down. I believe that this kind of behavior has made Peterson even more toxic in recent months. Part of the reason why I used to find the daily site convincing is because of leftist identity politics. Oftentimes there is no serious discussion. It is making blanket judgements based on a person's race. They are not interested in understanding other perspectives. In my personal experience I was uncomfortable when my college teacher pointed out that I was the only white guy in the room. There is clearly an anti white stereotype and vaush is aware of this.

I used to be very skeptical of movements like BLM. It seemed to me that these movements were playing the victim to gain undue advantages. One example was calling a teacher racist because she gave blacks lower scores arguing that some black students objectively lack discipline and score lower in reading and math. Although many environmental factors are at play, it is concerning that black students often fall behind. I was afraid to tell people this because I would seem racist for pointing out the lower test scores in black students. I am not arguing that they are inherently inferior. It is concerning that this could make it more difficult for black students to get in good schools. It makes it harder to desegregate white universities without lowering the standards that black students need to pass. The result of all of this is the reinforcing of economic disparity between black and white people. From this point of view it seemed to me that systemic racism was just a boogeyman with which to shirk personal responsibility. I never believed that genetics actually made black people intellectually inferior because two black people can be more genetically different than a black person and a white person. The main difference is just the skin pigment according to modern science. It therefore seems to me that most of the difference has to do with black culture and identity, not genetics. Black culture includes both the consequences of systemic racism and the victim mindset about systemic racism. It creates a vicious cycle of disempowerment and racism by outcome. Reasoning like this is what made me drawn to people like Ben Shapiro to begin with. "It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture" he argued. Although I now know Shapiro is a shameless partisan, I believe this accurately depicts the perspective of white people who are strongly conservative and deny the existence of systemic racism.

@Leo Gura I think you did an excellent job on your two recent videos. I was pretty glued to the video because I really want to understand healthy forms of stage blue and orange. Sometimes it can be hard to find because like the left wing, the right wing excessively demonizes And straw mans the other side. I think you have covered most of the oversights from the left pretty well. I had two points of disagreement. One would be how you discussed conservative blacks. According to Pew research studies blacks are more likely to vote Democrat than whites on a national scale. You seem to mean blacks in southern states, in which case it makes sense. Apparently, there are some blacks who are fed up with BLM creating a victim mindset and becoming unproductive. This seems like an interesting topic. The second point is trans issues. I think you made a good point that to most people who are not LGBTQ these issues are not relevant for improving their lives. Sometimes other people seem bothered that I'm a straight white male. Somehow there is a stigma to not being a victim in leftist group think. Of course I could be a victim in other ways like a bad family full of drug addicts. This might make conservatives close minded to psychedelics as it did to me initially. The problem is how you placed a gender transition next to a transition to another species of animal. You seem to misunderstand the actual position of most leftists on gender issues. In the case of women, sometimes they have y chromosomes that did not develop as they normally would. Some leftists distinguish this from transitioning to another species arguing that the difference between a man and an animal is more fundamentally different than the difference between a man and woman. The left does not think of gender issues like the South Park episode in which a man became a dolphin. Comparing gender transition to a unicorn transition or an animal is believed to be a misleading comparison in leftist thought. I'm not saying I agree with the leftist position on all of this, but this seems to be the actual position.

@Carl-Richard thanks for confirming. I genuinely could not tell because there are some cults which act completely insane.

@Carl-Richard is this really a thing? I am having a hard time believing that these people are serious. They look like actors. Are they like this for real?

Satanists are stage orange. They react to the excesses of stage blue, arguing that they don't like the self deception of wall papering over their doubts. Some people become Satanists after being sexually abused and they see how fake the whole institution is. The most common reason people have a crisis of faith is because others in their faith were cruel to them and they felt betrayed. Although they do not literally believe in Satan, Satan is still used as a symbol of man. This is man as an animal. Stage blue commonly misunderstands The religion, assuming they literally worship the devil. This continues to prevent some countries from recognizing Satanism as a religion. In reality they are atheists who do charity. The church of cannabis is stage green. I went there in vacation. They believe that wisdom is in the questions we ask and not in the answers we give. The church reacts to the dogmatism of stage blue. They had a video game room downstairs which was pretty awesome and I got a high score on galaga. They had a light show upstairs which have my brother a headache. My epilepsy used to be much worse as well. The goal of these light shows seem to be to mimic the effects of psychedelics.

@Heart of Space I would like to point out that the Japanese have a much higher IQ than Americans. This difference is accounted for by the food industry in both countries. In Japan they eat a lot of sea food which is far better than the standard American diet. Many of the ingredients in the food we eat are carcinogens, heavy metals, and heavy sugar. This adds up to the point of brain damage. Brain damage certainly explains the difference in IQ. If Americans had a better food industry then the average voter could have an IQ about ten points higher. With this in mind, I eat a lot more sea food and it helps me focus with sustained energy. I should further add the life styles of world chess champions. Although genetics is a factor in Fischer having an IQ of 180, Fischer also believed that body and mind could not be separated. He often went swimming. Kasparov did a lot of push ups. Carlsen plays soccer. Interestingly, Carlsen is also a vegetarian. I don't believe that diet can make up the total difference in IQ. Then again, IQ tests could be measuring intelligence in a poor way. Maybe pattern recognition can be practiced and improved. Maybe there are other ways to measure intellectual ability other than pattern recognition. Maybe I'll look more into the actual data on test scores by race. There have been some fights over possibly racist teachers who argue that blacks objectively score lower than whites on graded tests.

@Hatfort thanks for the update. I was waiting for the situation in Kherson to clarify. It seems that the Russian army is preparing to retreat. Ukraine is likely to take back a significant amount of territory in the region over the next week. It is not immediately obvious to me why the Russian army is using its kamikaze drones And cruise missiles to target civilian infrastructure. It's possible that they are planning to weaken Ukraine's defense in Kyiv before invading through Belarus. Ukraine has its northern border fortified in case this happens.

My thoughts on this video is that it was definitely needed and Leo did a great job on this video. Many of his points match my personal experience. I have two sisters and a cousin who are very progressive and they often argue with their parents and grandparents over politics. I always felt skeptical about judging people from hundreds of years ago for slavery. One thing I would add to progressives is the weaponization of spiral dynamics. I tried to teach others about the model, but stage green interprets the model as being more developed than conservatives and therefore superior. The stage green ego has a hard time appreciating the significance of these models. telling progressives about spiral dynamics will make them double down and continue judging people as racist bigots. My sister is a feminist who uses models of the brain to prove women are superior to men. Stage green is close minded to research when ever it seems to validate the conservative perspective. For example, mom started talking about how some slaves used to be white. I was open minded and looked at the research, but my sisters refused to look because of mom's racist agenda. As a result I agree with progressives on many points, but they are only open minded when my research validates their current perspective. The fundamental misunderstanding of conservatives is the result of constant demonization. I manage to stop a lot of these arguments simply by sharing my research. This demonstrates how much conflict is created through misunderstanding. If we had a news station that just reported the facts without a political agenda, then this would solve a lot of problems with polarization. Usually the facts favor progressives, but a higher level is possible. Excellent video. I hope this forum benefits greatly from this balancing of our political views. This video helps see the difference between stages green and yellow.

I would prefer to avoid the implied yelling through typing in all caps. On the other hand I have a question. I've heard of the water wars caused by climate change induced droughts and Saudi Arabia is already talking about water wars. In fact the drought in Syria crippled the economy to the point that it partially motivated the civil war in the region. I haven't heard of wars for rare metals. Where did you hear about wars for metals and what metals are those? Do you know the function of these metals?

I think this forum would benefit from understanding conflict between stage green and yellow. I remember how heated the issue became discussing the possibility that stage yellow could support the death penalty arguing that the compassion of stage green is misplaced on those who would happily exploit it. If most people don't appreciate how rare stage yellow is and why this is so, then there will be many heated discussions that seem to go nowhere on this forum. It often boils down to assuming biased or partisan motives in those with whom we disagree. If this forum is about personal development, then I encourage everybody to check their knee jerk reactions especially if they are heated. By taking our opinions too seriously it can make it harder to detach ourselves from our beliefs. If this forum values open mindedness then we must realize that inner peace comes from not knowing. At the same time I understand the importance of educating ourselves on many perspectives. So far I see a lot of partisanship based on nationality.

The survival biases present in this war are so strong that they appear on this forum frequently. The knee jerk reaction you get when trying to understand a radically different worldview is people doubting your motives and agenda. Once I start to understand someone's worldview I will realize that from their point of view they are the good guy. In this case Leo starts to sound like he has an agenda when he argues that in Putin's worldview he is good and it provokes many negative reactions. This is a common source of misunderstanding in politics because the propaganda we are exposed to makes it hard to imagine that someone isn't acting out of cartoonishly evil intentions. Even in a Jihadists worldview they believe that they are freedom fighters in opposition to American imperialism and defeating the economic parasite will be for the glory of God. Life is not a battle of good versus evil. Life is a battle of good versus good. This reality is very difficult for ego to accept because it is easy to justify killing people when we think they are terrorists, crazy dictators, Nazis, or whatever else. Knowing the deeper truth that everybody is good does not serve the egos survival agenda, but it will raise our capacity for love dramatically, silence our judgements, and humble us.