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1984 and Animal Farm also need to be mentioned. Orwell is the greatest writer of all time in my eyes, and his books are just becoming more and more relevant. It seems to me that not nearly enough Americans have read these books or remember them well enough. The similarities between Trump and Napoleon (the pig) are shocking.

Mette Frederiksen doesn’t… https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/europe/trump-greenland-denmark.html

Norway still has a lot of oil and gas, and from MAGA’s perspective we are Islamized socialists/communists. God help us.

Seems like I’ve subconsciously adopted ChatGPT’s writing style. Now I’m ashamed.

I disagree here. Stage Purple is the lifestyle our bodies and minds are still programmed for. Therefore, it might actually be the most important stage to understand. It’s at least the stage I’m most interested in. If we want to build lives and societies with as much fulfillment and happiness as possible, I think it’s crucial to understand this way of life. For example, how do you expect to live a happy and fulfilling life if you don’t have anything in your life that resembles a good old tribe? Maybe you have some family members and friends you see once in a while, but that’s probably not nearly enough for anybody. The socialization I’ve had in my life that truly was magical and fulfilling was when my family and I were with other families we were close friends with, with kids around my age. That was kind of like a tribe. On the other hand, normal family gatherings have never given me much, and just being with my buddies has pretty much always just given me a shallow and weak form of enjoyment. We also get a pretty false picture of Stage Purple from our culture, the way it’s shown through Hollywood, etc. For example, a chief is something I have always associated with Stage Purple tribal life, but that’s actually something you find more in Red societies. Purple tribes usually don’t have one strong leader like that. Conclusion: If you don’t have anything better to do, I would love it if you took notes on Purple as well!

+1 I would say this approach is pretty heavily supported by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Of course, it’s just a limited model and shouldn’t be taken too literally, but still. I would advise trusting your gut feeling here. If meditation and yoga feel like a waste of time, then don’t do them. Personally I’m planning to be serious about spirituality, meditation and yoga later in life. Maybe when I’m 50+. Now I prioritize things like life purpose and relationships.

I’m trying to stay away from this subforum this year because of all the Russian propaganda. Life is too short to surround myself with that shit. I just had to make a little exception today because of this crazy situation. I already regret it.

I’m reading the second book in The Stormlight Archive right now, and I must say I’m really impressed by Brandon Sanderson’s understanding of people and Spiral Dynamics so far. I haven’t read the Mistborn series, but I know that those books have also been mentioned positively on this forum before.

The idea that you should be happy with being single. People mean well when they say this because it gets a lot harder to get a (healthy) relationship if you're desperate, but I don't think it's very realistic for most people and I think this saying does more harm than good overall. If you crave love, you shouldn't let yourself be gaslit into believing there's something wrong with you.

It seems like New Year’s Eve is one of the biggest perks of being in a relationship, at least for me. Finally, it wasn’t the by far worst day of the year, like it has been ever since it went from a day spent with family and family friends to a party day during my teenage years. This time it was actually really great. Happy New Year, everyone!

You’ve got a point. You’d think she’s obviously attracted to you if she agrees to go on a date after you cold-approach her during the day, but in my experience that’s often not the case.

It’s simply incredible that people do this. Saying things like women have become too picky because they’re exposed to so many attractive men and celebrities online. As if this doesn’t apply to men as well… And then this blaming of man-hating culture among women because many would rather stay single than keep dating. Like there isn’t a good reason for this phenomenon, considering women actually want a family more than men do. All of it just to avoid admitting that our culture is dysfunctional.

They have given me some of the best moments in my life while laying on the beach, and Tomorrow never knows is as good as taking a mushroom. Conformity sure can be amazing!

Cinephilia. Good example someone made up on Reddit: «Guys I've watched like thirty Kurosawa films and I don't like them. How do I make myself enjoy them?»

Dubstep has got to be one of the more extreme examples of my lifetime. It was everywhere 14 years ago, but if you put it on now, someone will turn it off within seconds.

Everything that ceases to exist is a failure?

I have long wondered why Yugoslavia isn’t focused on more in discussions like this. To me, it’s an obvious contradiction of the claim that socialism/communism has always failed. The war didn’t change that.

This is probably something all men in long-term relationships struggle with. Living in a big city full of young people certainly makes the problem way worse. The fewer attractive women you’re exposed to, the better.

Yes. I sure didn't fint it boring. I did my best. Also, cold approaching during daytime is pretty exciting and not boring in itself, so I don't really see any problem with pretty basic get-to-know-topics in that setting. This was your problem, not native women. Do you have any limiting beliefs about attracting native women? I've approached around 800 women here. Over half of them were natives. I got a date with around 20 of them and none of them were natives. That's simply evidence enough for me that cold approaching is ineffective on native Norwegian women. Especially when other guys with much better game than me have identical results with them. I guess it's a limiting belief now, but I had to go through that process to get it.

It was only for one year. I quit and I’m never going back. I’m in a relationship now, but if I’m single in the future, it’s online dating and more hopefully social circle ftw. I haven’t had Instagram since 2014. I find that and TikTok as toxic as it gets, but no doubt that has hurt my results badly. I would say I had optimal clothes and a pretty good body (still do). Career wise, I dedicated that year to writing. In dating context, my social circle has been shit for many years, so there haven’t been opportunities there for probably 8 years. I guess that’s not unusual when you’re my age (31). That was daygame. At clubs and bars the interactions were of course much more playful. No idea what I did wrong… No. That’s not the case.

Preach!

When I started, I came from a couple of years with almost no socialization, partly because of the pandemic but also because of voluntary isolation, barely doing anything other than watching Leo’s videos and doing personal development. That, combined with autism, made for one hell of a foundation. Pickup and game theory were probably the last things in the world I needed at that time, but I still went all in on daygame. I basically operated like a robot. Nearly always opened the same way, saying that I would have regretted it if I hadn’t said hi. The conversations were often about the basic boring get-to-know stuff, what they were doing out, their work or studies, etc. The conversations usually lasted 5-10 min. I definitely improved and got way more comfortable and confident. I got fewer and fewer quick rejections and more and more frequent numbers (always numbers, never Instagram or Snapchat), but the numbers were usually flaky, of course. The more we had in common, the better, but you could never really tell which ones who would actually date me. Some of the women I went out with, I had really quick and boring/bad interactions with. The interesting thing about the natives is that the interactions with them were just as good, if not even better, than with the foreign ones. The big difference was what happened afterwards: they would often reply when I texted them, sometimes in a really positive way, but when I finally asked them out: Silence. Every single time. I had two wingmen at the time, and they were much better than me. They also had the exact same results with the natives, so I’m pretty surprised you have different experience. Is your experience from daygame or nightgame? I’ve done some nightgame here too, but that has been a complete disaster. I can’t dance, and it doesn’t seem any more appropriate to approach in clubs or bars than during the daytime here, and they’re also way more hostile and defensive then, especially on behalf of their girlfriends. If I ever hit it off with someone and things look promising, you can be 100% sure that one of her friends will think I’m a rapist or a serial killer or something, and drag her the fuck away from me.

Not nearly enough places, unfortunately. You’re probably right about international law. I just think it’s wrong to portray it as though the world only cares about Israel’s actions and not Russia’s, when it’s only Russia that has faced considerable resistance from the world.

I’ll give you a detailed answer in a couple of days, as I need to focus all my attention on an exam before then.