Epikur

I think one important thing to teach people is self discipline and work ethic. Today I read about Henri the father of socialism. He seems to be a realistic guy. He thinks our default as people is to be lazy. That is why it is so hard to create a civilization and to maintain it. I really believe that degeneration is around the corner. It is so easy to give up and lose momentum. It is easy to observe that with the black community but it's true for everyone. I started to watch film noir from the 40s. The mordern movies feel like mindless disneyland. I love pop culture but I think it is addicting and can distract from ones duties so easily. Next you see you wasted decades of your life. It is hard to make the machine going.

You mean basically Trump and the Looters are Leo? Also the killings in Chicago, it is all Leo killing himself?

Right plus the gangster culture makes it hard to even consider to be a good dad as there are too few role models.

I think that is not the point. I think the theory is she doesn't want a father because then she would lose easy money. She would be dependent on him. He would be the boss. I guess she wants to be rather independent because that is what feminism and media says. This way she can have fun with other men for hook ups and feel like a boss and have the security to have enough money.

Yes there has to be a very smart systems of incentives to gratify "good" behaviour. That is some higher level social engineering, positive psychology, self motivation, self improvement thing. One theory is that the democrats did consciously creat incentives for women to be single moms. If she had a man she did not get welfare money. That produced the core problem of having no fathers. That seems to be a big reason for the crime problem.

Me too. But it's hate speech in the eyes of the mainstream. I think she was saying something about 18,5% but I could not understand that. I heard Ben Shapiro talking about that as well but I could not find the background. Vaush goes mad on her video. He is saying that her numbers (18,5%) are not correct. Today I am not fit enough to try to figure it out.

It reminds me of the translation of the word "talk" in german. The german word is "unterhaltung" that has a second meaning that is "entertainment" Social interaction seems to be 90% entertainment. That is probably why people love to be drugged when they meet other people. Ecstasy seems to be the most effektiv ones. Intellectual conversations are tricky. I guess that is a "luxury" I would not expect that. For that the internet is quite good. Also we look for validation from others that is mostly draining because it is mostly an illusion like the fashion industry it distracts from a sustainable emotional support system that is the one you have to create yourself. On the other hand when one goes to the path of self exploration it does make less and less sense to invest in socializing. So some sacrifices have to be taken into account I guess. A philospher would say: know yourself, then you can know where to go. I like Epikur he had this philosophy: Live hidden. Don't do politics. Live frugal. Have a garden with friends. I guess one should not have too high expectations for the friends otherwise things get to difficult. And be intellectually curious. I guess it is to chanel the general boredom into a good direction. We have the need to explore but that could bring us into trouble. Intellectual curiosity is an easy way to do it safely. Think about Leo for example he has a "digital garden" here where he "hangs out" with his "friends" I am a big fan of karaoke and self communication training like loud and silent selftalk, reading etc. It helps to connect with others and with oneself. Mostly the need to talk to others comes because one feels the need to express oneself that can be done to a great part alone with right training.

This is a film review from the socialist guy badempenada. He seems to really like it.

Do you believe in coincidences?

Ui. Candace Owens is hard to digest for non trumpees. I would have taken something more light. She gives a shill vibe. Some call her a grifter like Dave Rubin. She was once at Joe Rogan she did not do a good job there but I agree with big parts of her. With the alcoholics there is a saying that you have to first accept that you have an alcohol problem only then you can start working to solve it. The black community and many individuals give the vibe that everybody else is to be blamed but not them. The whites actually listen to them. In Asia say Japan and China people would not even listen to them.

Oh jesus. You go with the classics. It's funny the churches in Germany are so calm but little bit cold. This seems to be also the case with Buddhists tempels and Jewish synagogues. In the mosque you are on the carpet. You have no shoes on you feel little bit at home. I guess there you feel the love of the community. But it seems like ying and yang. Where is a lot of love there is also the possibility of a lot of hate. I told you about how I feel when I see the brotherly love between species in some videos. It seems it can be only sustained in a safe environment. Anyway the easiest version for love seems to be to get a dog. I am serious. Maybe I should get one. These kind of vids gets me:

Sometimes it is better to build bridges. Some cultures in history have created some amazing things. Other cultures took the torch and build something "better". Not much wrong in theorie to copy these cultures and try to not to get jealous if one is not on that level. Just aim for the better could be said. On the other hand because of the modern world we have sacrificed parts of our old culture that can be painful but I guess it is important to work with practical truth. I thinks as individuals and countries we can't have it all. We have to make sacrifices. To work with stereotypes: You can not have emotional passion like latinamericans and be at the same time like Elon Musk and vice versa. I would not say one mindset is better than the other. It is different. In some metrics is one better than the other. Trump fits not too bad to the american culture. Usa has quite the business culture historically. It is not bad that different cultures take different roles in the world. That might be more wholesome than when everybody is the same. Being complementary can be very functional like in the case of men and women.

Racism is just the flavor of the month. Another time there will be another topic. There is always room for wrong think. In 100 years we are dead anyway. Though some might be sad not to be able to fight the good war. This thread seems come so off-topic can somebody bring it back?

Maybe this SEAL guy is more practical about Love. He changed his style. He is the dual konservative combat version of Leo.

Well I am from Germany living in SEA. The mental gymnastics and the lies in the media and academia are crazy. Yes lately I read Poland ist doing quite good and making progress in many areas. Hungary is making huge efforts to give people incentives to make families. I think they are doing good even if I would have disadvantages there because I come from a migrant family I think countries should be allowed to do their thing as much as possible. Slowenia has not one mosque in their land. Pretty interesting.

There are brown people here at the forum who have a different viewpoint. There are also black guys who are against BLM. Biden would call them white. People seem to have different opinions on things who would have thought? These black men you will have difficulty to find because the mainstream media doesn't like that narrative. If you want to find them search for the victims of the riots like David Dorn in yt. There you will find these guys like this one:

I think he didn't mention how many people and who died in the riots. I think he forgot to mention this too: "Americans trust police officers, military leaders and local public officials more than members of Congress, tech leaders and journalists, according to a study published by the Pew Research Center on Thursday." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/trust-congress-military-police.html

You didn't answer the question. Read careful what the question was.

You are producing empty word salads. I just can't find substance.

Well it does makes sense to me. Don't you have some theories?

This is really sad: “We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the crime lab. “ ... I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.” The next highest murder total for a single day was on Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 people were killed in Chicago, according to the crime lab. https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/8/21281998/chicago-violence-murder-history-homicide-police-crime

It seems you changed your mind pretty quickly.

No there is an imbalance. His point of view is not shown in the media not even with Fox news. Fox news is owned by cooperations like CNN is owned by cooperations. So they have a certain agenda. He on the other hand can be independent. That is the big difference. The media wants to divide and distract from the real issue that USA is basically a big cooperation. The real fear of the cooperations is marxism and they distract and channel the people to cultural that is postmodern marxism, that costs far less money. If they don't do it, they think, poor people will want big money and redistribution or socialism. The temptation of socialism is strong with the poor. This is just a story

Nice story it may or may not be true. When Japan, China, South Korea got rich was it because they oppressed anybody? Maybe but not really. Their magic trick was besides being lucky is they worked like maniacs. That is the magic trick. The english for example could only dominate the world because they outworked everybody else. The german took the competition and challenged them buy working even harder. North Europe even created a sect in the christian religion to gratify hard work that is protestantism. The subsaharan geographie was underdeveloped comperatively even before a white person set foot in there besides albinos. Do you think that aborigines in Australia were poor because of whites? Work ethic is a simplified explanation also. Where did it come from? When you are lucky and your country has interaction with advanced countries you have the chance to make faster progress. Think about this thought experiment: One guy is on an island. He works 15 hours a day. The other one works 1 hour a day, if he has to, otherwise he does nothing. How rich will the hard worker become? Then multiply that with x if this work ethic is ingrained in their culture. Oppression plays a role but should not be an excuse for all situations.

This one is even better. Let's take a knee for Floyd Mayweather.