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This dude is amplifying the decay of the whole international-order by 10x

Yes!

If you are already investing this amount of money you should check out Qualia Mind. It simplifies your stack by a lot and entails a lot of the same ingredients, but more comprehensively thought through, so that they synthesize with each other. I have been experimenting with nootropics a lot and the best cognitive-stack I have found for peak mental-clarity, but also emotional-regulation, stress-resilience and easier access to positive-states, without any downside is Qualia Mind, 5-10grams of Creatine and a few mgs of nicotine (stay under 5mg optimally and dont smoke) here and there. Everything that is more effective short-term for focus, cognitive-edge, mental-alertness usually comes with downsides or downregulation later on for example with Piracetam, Modafinil, Amodafinil, Noopept etc...

I love the Talking Heads, unfortunately I missed the movie when it was in cinema.

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This is funny Yes I can totally understand you. This is the culture of last-men as Nietzsche saw it. I also find it almost a bit scary and can see Arendts banality of evil in it. I also noticed that if I socialize with people like this when Im not careful Im prone to making sarcastic-comments which as you said will often be read as hostility from my side. There is definitely a huge rift there and I can just be playful and funny for some time, but deeper meaningful contact can get pretty hard.

This one always gets me.

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@Jowblob I think I understand where youre coming from I just dont think this perspective is conducive to the situation at hand. I think it is very easy to rationalize/excuse very horrific acts in this way. Reminds me of how the zen teacher D.T. Suzuki helped japan soldiers in WW2 to kill more easily without bad conscience by teching them zen. And what are the consequences of thinking in this way?

This is such a weird perspective.

I would say everything that you truly enjoy is worth pursuing as long as it not gets addictive or damaging. Cultivate your love for life in your unique way. The mindset that everyting that you do should be furthering your self-development or have some utilitarian benefit can be a huge trap of personal-development.

Tristan Harris is really brilliant. He developed some of the sharpest frames to understand these topics with his Center for Humane Technology.

I must admit I watch every Daniel Schmachtenberger video I can find. This is an old one and the sound is sub-optimal but good stuff in there about resilience, nutrition, healthy- and unhealthy-stress and routines for optimal-recovery:

If you want to read some dark dystopian one, but also funny, full of insight with prophetic-vision and even more relevant for our situation than Orwells 1984 read C.S. Lewis "That Hideous Strength" centering around social-engineering and scientism. Also on my reading-list is "Momo" from Michael Ende - a childs-book but also very interesting for every adult to read about our relationship to time. Our high-school professor gave us the option to either read Marx, Thomas Mann and Piketty or just this one and said they would be equally valuable for our course on the relationship between economics and time.

I think it is a double-edged sword. Yes it is revealing and yes there are people out there playing these games and it is helpful to be aware of it. But also seeing through this lense will make it more likely to interpret other peoples actions in this way and you may project such intentions into peoples actions where there isnt such intention. Social-interactions mostly have enough uncertainty that you can start to fill the void and if you live in that worldview you will see people that way more often. Also in my experience reading Robert Greene he makes this worldview and this way of being look very sexy and worth imitating. Daniel Schmachtenberger said most people who read Robert Greene also get damaged by it.

Thanks!

Do you really think this is her authentic, unique life-purpose? She is just pushing the path of OnlyFans and milking the algorithm to its most overblown limit. She is just doing the next most sensationalist thing that will circulate in the algorithm. I also find it to be an interesting phenomenon philosophically but I dont see a good example of true life purpose here.

I have absolutely no knowledge of stretching. Is there some good basic-program or introductory-video you would recommand?

This show was mindblowing! Anyone else thought the hive-mind pretty much had the vibes of ChatGPT?