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@Preety_India Hard to imagine. The civil war was a nicely defined north-south geographic split. Now in America, southern cities vote democrat and rural northern states vote for Trump.

Excuse me. There are many parts of Africa that are incredibly safe. Somaliland is one example. Ethiopia, until its recent civil war, was very safe and still is very safe in big cities like Addis Ababa. Nairobi, except for pickpockets, is safe. Lumping a massive continent many times the size of Europe together smearing and stereotyping the entire place as "unsafe" is the type of lazy thinking that has caused A LOT of problem and which we should not repeat here.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-why-i-am-no-longer-a-tenured-professor-at-the-university-of-toronto Takeaways from his rant: - He believes white males are the most qualified and efforts to increase diversity come at the expense of white males -He believes in "meritocracy." -He makes zero effort to understand the perspective of people who want diversity and inclusion -He makes zero effort to understand the challenges faced by minorities and others underrepresented and traditionally sidelined by corporations and universities Although he frames his exit as a valorous attempt to protect his graduate students, I think the real reason is he's making a lot of money from YouTube and lecturing/book writing and this stunt will give him the aura of a martyr for the cause among his groupies. It's really sad academia has failed to produce any public yellow intellectual who can take on Jordan Peterson.

@Leo Gura come on now. "Serious nerds" are the 1% of the 1%. JP is interesting, seemingly meaningful, makes people feel smarter just hearing him speak. Why can't someone closer to yellow do something similar? We need to isolate this feeing among some that the mouth-breathers are so uncouth they don't deserve the attention and effort. They deserve it as long as their vote determines our destiny, no?

@Leo Gura Academia is too insular. There should be a bigger focus on interacting with the public or insidious figures like JP get too much power. JP has a lot right, but his fixation on minorities and "dominance hierarchies" combined with his massive influence is not good. There are a lot of science popularizers, but very few (interesting and broadly appealing) public intellectuals who address social, philosophical, and political issues like JP. Academia has come to enshrine publishing in obscure journals read by a handful of narrow specialists as the ultimate purpose of people in academia and I feel there is a loss there.

Is there anything "new" that caused all of this Muslim-hate to become so pervasive in India or are Modi and his cronies using Muslim-hate to distract from the fact that India has many serious economic and social problems that they actually have no solution for?

Pretty sure he very clearly did on the video you yourself posted.

He says he could have convinced slave holders to end slavery without war and Hitler not to commit the holocaust. Seems delusional, self-absorbed with a level of naivety distant from yellow.

Or should whatever autocratic power in those societies simply be pressured to lay some foundations for stage orange so the society can at a later time become a democracy?

Spiritual concepts that seemed to me hot air sober I came to experience and accept in a deep way on psychedelics. Even people in my day to day life have noticed changes. I would say there are some people who are naturally prone to be spiritual so might not need psychedelics, but for some of us psychedelics can break down some real barriers between heart, head and soul

He redirected a question to prevent nationalistic attack against another country and to speak out against the persecution of people based on caste. I'm not sure how you managed to view this video and conclude he is a bad person. As for his support for the ideology -- maybe he can use the power of the ideology while also reframing it in a way that is not hostile to others which he appears to be doing.

Deng Xiaoping was high consciousness, or at least approaching it. Yea, he opposed democracy but was China ready for democracy? The unfortunate thing is he appears to have strengthened China for a real brute to take over. https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-deng-xiaoping-dictatorship-ant-didi-economy-communist-party-beijing-authoritarian-11628885076

My mom only took the vaccine when our neighbor, a lady she liked, took it. If vaccines aren't being taken in some parts of the country, we should identify who is well liked in that part and get them to take it publicly.

Many of the most enjoyable things in life - to read and write, meditate, drink wine and laugh with a good friend, enjoy the bliss of mother earth - you can have without being Barack Obama. Obama doesn't have anything over you except perhaps a nicer bed (and even that you can buy), more sycophants around, and many history books written about him (many of them negative). He also needs to stop for a damn selfie everywhere he goes. Do you really want to be Obama?

I took three tabs of acid. First, I was afraid. And I felt like I was going to throw up, the paper I could feel it in my stomach. But then I eased into the trip and it was beautiful. I mean, the intial part was a little unsettling. I watched Leo's video on how we're all chimps, living a chimp life. And I was unsettled by how true it was. The desire for constant sex, the fixation on salt and sugar. Strutting on other chimps. Wow -- how true. Then something in my trip led me to a video on mindfulness and Jon Kabat-Zinn and I felt this man speaking to my soul. Dharma was a concept I never knew of before, but now it is the source of my deepest curiosity. My biggest gain from my trip is that this moment, right now, is the most precious, the most important. Not yesterday, not tomorrow. This moment. Love you all.

This video is actually hilarious. Clear example of red

I thought he would govern in an overly cautious way, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how bold he is willing to be on domestic issues e.g. expanding the social welfare net. Joe I think responds very well to public opinion so I think he’s reflecting the energy of the democratic base and his aides. The pullout from Afghanistan was a disaster with extremely bad optics, but I don’t care that much. If anything, it should humble the moronic Washington establishment and end America’s unhelpful, often destructive, attempts at state-building. My only regret is for the Afghans who are ready for freedom and can’t have it because most of “their people” are not.

You made me reconsider on the "good" part, and I agree with you healthy blue can be good - at least to their in-group - but isn't systematic thinking a tier of wisdom? Systemic thinking, from my limited understanding, is the understanding of how everything is interconnected and influences each other and thinking along those terms seems to be a key element of being a wise person.

What is intelligence? It comes in so many different forms. If you refer to the one sought out in college admission tests, then no. Stage yellow requires you to be wise and good.

Whatever those UFOs hovering around the nuclear weapon sites decide. Strange how this story totally dropped from mainstream media and even the feeds of twitter personalities like Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein who were pushing for disclosure.

It doesn't matter what she believes. Just because she's an academic at Stanford doesn't mean she knows it all. Actually, she probably only knows the small sliver of knowledge she's a specialist in, and even then, does not challenge orthodoxies. This is how modern academia operates. "Science progresses one funeral at a time."

I've noticed this. I think so many of these types are so committed to getting an ego boost by feeling morally superior to others, they can't stop flaunting green. Also, it's not just a "white" issue. I've had a green Ethiopian-American woman attack me for "respectability politics" when I told some inner city youths at a job training program they should be able to dress however they like, but they would not get a job if they came into an interview sagging. Meanwhile, she herself was dressed to middle class norms.

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2021/08/democrats-risk-being-out-power-next-decade-david-shor-how-his-party-must

You should have said "ex honey, the virus didn't originate from the U.S but U.S government funding helped create it."

@KennedyCarter - Work 80 hour weeks. You will kill it. Make every day memorable by doing hard things.