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Nick Fuentes is a professional edgelord and troll. Unfortunately, young people, and especially young men, feel so disenfranchised, disempowered, and emotionally hollowed out by a secular culture, that fails to spin any narrative of meaning and substance, that they are easily swayed by people like Nick Fuentes. The things Scott Galloway talks about is the reason Trump won and people like Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes are some of the most popular podcasters. We are experiencing a failure of secularism, wealth inequality, and techno distopia. Ironically this is also why Leo's work is so valuable and needed.

Ken Wilber's model is a lot like Spiral Dynamics.

"Everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power. " -unknown

Mumdani, like Bernie Sanders, is a Democratic Socialist, which is a huge difference from Specialism. Mumdani winning is a good thing and he's more like Scandinavian politics than any other politician in the US. Mumdani is conscious politics.

This channel resonates with me huge. You might also like it. I agree with everything in this video and unfortunately alot of it pertains to me personally.

Is Fyodor Dostoyevsky worth reading? Many people recommend Dostoyevsky's books and claim he's one of the best authors ever. Brothes Karamazov is supposed his best book. Jordan Peterson is one of those people. I'm trying to read Brother Karamazov and have read Crime and Punishment but it just seems like Christian propaganda. Here's a quote by Dostoyevsky: "If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not the truth," What gives? Why is this guy so popular? What fiction is worth reading?

@Oeaohoo Surely you aren't denying that individuals and groups develop right? There might be debate about how exactly they develop but you do admit there are distinct hierarchies within individuals and groups. Surely you don't think a hunter gatherer tribe is as sofisticated as modern society? Or that a someone in grade 3 is equally developed as a university student? Regardless of what you believe I don't think anyone actually answered your question so I will try: The evidence used for believing in SD is the scientific study it was based on. Leo's video series and the SD book on his booklist also help understand the origins of SD. The other thing that validates SD is that other models like Susan Cook Greuters EDT have come to similar conclusions. An important point is that all psychological theories are a "soft science" which means there will never be hard evidence for anything in the psychology field. So every mental frame work and theory of the mind will forever be just educated guesses based on limited and subjective data. This is also due to the mind being infinite and nebulous. Hope that helps.

Can anyone recommend any fiction books?

For context those "protestors" were antivax truck drivers who permanently parked their trucks, blocking busy roads and honked their fog horns day and night for weeks. Some were relying on funding from right wing groups including from the US. It was Canada's equivalent of the Jan 6 "protest" in the US. Citizens including the ones who couldn't sleep due to the noise were begging Trudeau to do something.

Make Arab friends and celebrate the Muslim new year in January.

This video is about the decline of the West and BRICS.

Another great video by this guy

@DavinoWhat routine do you recommend?

Canadians might be slightly smarter than the Americans but that doesn't make them completely immune to populist tactics like the ones used by Trump/Pollievre.

They did

The banks in Canada are famously different than in the US. Canadian banks are less risky, and more stable, less predatory, and better regulated than in the US. That's why Canada faired much better in the '08 crash than the US. This is a point of national pride in Canada. So being a Canadian and Central banker isn't a bad thing in Canada.

So Carney won because he's a very good, charming, rational, well thought out intelligent speaker, with good credentials (the exact opposite of Trump). Also he's closer to center than Trudeau and sadly Trudeau became unpopular (for reasons I can't quite understand) and Pierre Pollievre was too similar to Trump .

Imagine if you were in another country and someone wished you joy on one of their holidays. Would you say "I don't celebrate"?

If cauliflower can be pizza you can be anything. But seriously it sounds like you should move on to avoid the emotional turmoil you described above.

Wish I didn't smoke weed, didn't have sex, didn't care about material possessions. Wish I saved all my money I could be retired by now.

Check out this video as it might clear some things up for some disenfranchised people here

Basically JD Vance was funded by billionaires to be the anti-trump. Hillbilly elegy was just a made-up story to make him more sympathetic funded by Peter Thiel. When Trump surprisingly beat Hillary, JD Vance and his billionaire donors changed course and started to support Trump for nefarious reasons. Trump really is just a useful idiot for billionaires like Peter Thiel and JD Vance is the real end goal for a tech monarchy in the US