Mike Israetel's new book - review

[Natasha Tori Maru]

For someone who submitted such a poor research thesis for his PhD, I cannot say I am surprised AI was used in such a lazy way with very little review (broken down in the video). 

I think the overall points Mike makes encourage much greater attachment to the physical body, and there isn't enough emphasis on "this body matters, so I will look after it". The issue isn't caring about the body - but making the body into the foundation of identity / value / psychological security. Similar crossover to some of the more problematic extreme views within the looksmaxxing movement (hardmaxxing). I don't think it is good to encourage our wellbeing, identity, worth or security to depend on our bodies being a certain way.

[bazera]

I remember him promoting that book on Dr. Mike's podcast a couple of months ago. It sounded sketchy the first time I heard about it.

He's probably jumping on the looksmaxxing bandwagon with that book (I haven't read it), but some of the points he made on that podcast were reasonable, for example, that looks matter, as opposed to not mattering at all. But his claim that everyone could get an attractive body through surgery sounds like bullshit to me.

One more thing: I also criticized him from an ontological standpoint and assumed that he should have looked at the issue from an existential standpoint, at least to some degree. But then I remembered that he's just a bodybuilder YouTuber. I was asking too much.

Maybe surgery is what someone needs to realize that, ultimately, it was never really about the surgery.

[something_else]

8 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I think the overall points Mike makes encourage much greater attachment to the physical body, and there isn't enough emphasis on "this body matters, so I will look after it"

The irony is that steroid use at his level is the exact opposite of looking after the body. He's probably cut 15 years off his lifespan, and he openly admits that.

[Leo Gura]

Selling candy to children.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

I wonder if Mike had this in mind when he wrote the book

The Penis Has Entered Its Filler Era

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