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" I’m going to tell you something that will upset you. A lot. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1J7oSR2br8/ No matter which political camp you belong to. But you have to hear this, internalize it, and understand it. Take a deep breath — this is a long post — but it’s probably the most important thing you’ll read today. I promise it will leave you with something to think about. The greatest illness of Israeli society today is not the Iranian threat, not Likud, not Bibi, not the Military Advocate General, not the left, and not the deep state. These are just painful symptoms of the disease. The biggest enemy of the State of Israel today — and the only one that could dismantle it from within and lead to another October 7 massacre, or to the destruction of a third temple — is: Tribalism. The tribalism that divides us into hostile, polarized, conflicted, fragmented groups that hate one another. A quick scroll through my feed (and yours, I’m sure) reveals countless posts and pieces of content written in a certain style, from which the following message emerges. “We are Camp X, and opposite us stands Camp Y. Camp Y is traitorous / Kaplanist / leftist / Bibist / messianic / racist / fascist. If Camp Y wins, it will be the end of the country. Anyone associated with Camp Y is a traitor / Kaplanist / leftist / Bibist / messianic / racist / fascist — and therefore everything they say, do, think, or predict is invalid. Even if it’s a good idea that advances the country. In fact, merely joining Camp Y — in any way — is betrayal. We, Camp X, are the only camp that can save the country. If you don’t vote for Camp X, the country will fall into the hands of traitors / Kaplanists / leftists / Bibists / messianics / racists / fascists.” This variation repeats itself countless times on every social network where political discussion takes place in Israel. This is the essence of Israeli tribalism. This tribalism is an autoimmune disease that Israeli society has contracted — and the disease is in an advanced stage, so advanced that urgent emergency surgery is needed to remove the cancerous tumor that is rapidly spreading. According to the left-wing mutation of the disease, the State of Israel is held captive by messianic forces, extreme right-wingers, fascists, racists, and anti-democratic actors who seek to turn Israel into a religious, unfree, chauvinistic, authoritarian, racist, and dark state that serves Torah scholars, annexes the West Bank, leads to a bi-national state, and slides into shining international isolation. According to the right-wing mutation of the disease, the State of Israel is threatened by progressive and deep-state forces in the form of the Military Advocate General, the Attorney General, left-wing organizations, the High Court, Brothers in Arms, Kaplanists, and various “left-in-disguise” actors trying to seize power centers. All of these (according to the right-wing mutation) seek to weaken Israel, cause it to lose the war, topple the government at any cost to return the left to power, and turn Israel into a secular, atheist “state of all its citizens” with no Jewish identity or tradition. (I’m intentionally exaggerating the narratives to make the point — but you get what I mean.) Both camps are very right about certain parts (!) of their worldview. Both camps are very wrong about other parts (!) of it. Both camps cling dogmatically to the story they tell themselves, while developing a striking blindness to the story of the other side. Both camps don’t trust each other at all. Zero trust. Every move by one camp is interpreted as a chess maneuver to kill the queen, or position for it in a few moves. Both camps think in a “winner takes all — loser loses all” mindset, which leaves no room for flexibility, compromise, or decision-making. This leads to intellectual paralysis, and to every reform or change being made by force, violence, coercion, and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. Every small change in this country takes years, and is not made by broad agreement — but by a narrow, aggressive coalition pulling the rope by force. Both camps barely engage with each other’s arguments, ideas, and worldviews — everything is ad hominem (“You joined the other camp? You’re a traitor, end of story”). Both camps show very little empathy or understanding toward one another (or even try to understand each other’s fears, what keeps them up at night). Both camps see the opposing leaders as existential threats to the state (Bennett for the right is like Bibi for the left). Both camps clash with an intensity reminiscent of totalitarian states fighting total wars against each other (like Germany and the USSR in World War II). These two camps are leading Israel toward the abyss, in a destructive spiral where two clumsy people kick and roll each other down the stairs until they hit the bottom. Both camps operate well-oiled machines of poison against each other — two-sided, mutual — tearing Israeli society apart like a sword that wounds whoever tries to stab the other with it. Tribalism is the number one enemy of Israeli society today. Israelis tend to forget too quickly: We live in a violent, deadly environment, surrounded by complex challenges (some strategic, some existential) that no other country in the world faces. None — check me. Tribalism quickly devolves into polarization, division, hatred, fragmentation — and then we lose social resilience, fall asleep on guard duty, and get attacked. That’s exactly what happened in 2023. The Middle East is a jungle. We don’t have the privilege of conducting destructive socio-political experiments like extreme tribalism, which leads to both sides breaking all the rules. So what’s the solution? How do we get out of this destructive loop? The same way you quit drugs: Look reality in the eyes, stop labeling each other with absurd tags, and start truly listening. When you put aside prejudice, hatred, and judgment, you discover: The other side is usually more rational and logical than you think. The other side is driven by deep pain that hasn’t been addressed (for secular people — religious coercion; for the right — a judicial system that accumulated too much power). The other side brings ideas, arguments, and a coherent worldview that has logic, something to learn from, and even things worth implementing. It starts with genuine listening and empathy, continues with building mutual understanding, and leads to social healing and a functioning government that works for everyone — not just its voters. And here’s something that will really blow your mind (maybe): Do you know the most realistic scenario for the 2026 elections? Deadlock and repeat elections. Then a third round — no coalition. Then a fourth round — no coalition. Just like the nightmare years 2019–2021. Only this time, instead of COVID and vaccines, the background will be: An ongoing Iranian ballistic threat, Hezbollah not defeated, Hamas rebuilding for the next massacre, Turkey arming jihadist forces, loss of governance in the Negev and Galilee, Wild West-style anarchy in parts of the West Bank, and unprecedented global opinion decline regarding Israel. Explain to me: How can we deal with these threats alongside endless election cycles? How will politicians build national strategy, security doctrine, economic growth, infrastructure, recovery, policing, governance — while running nonstop election campaigns 24/7? Does that sound logical? And I haven’t even mentioned the insane lag Israel is creating in the global AI race — a transformative technology that, if missed, could cost Israel a key strategic advantage. (To make it happen, politicians must agree to invest — which requires political stability.) This is a slippery slope that could easily lead to loss of control — and another massacre. How do we prevent this nightmare? Stop boycotting. Stop seeing each other as enemies. Sit down and talk until agreements are reached. Let me be blunt: Bibists, anti-Bibists, Smotrich supporters, Ben-Gvir supporters, Bennett supporters, Yair Golan supporters — all of you need to sit in one room and talk until smoke comes out. Lock the door if needed until agreements are reached. That’s probably the only way out of this mess. No matter your camp: There are 1–1.5 million Israelis who think differently than you. They are just as Zionist, just as much part of the people, and they will keep voting. You must respect that — even if you try to persuade them. Respect means: no disqualification, no boycotts — learn to work together. [...continues in same spirit...] In summary: The opposite of tribalism is unity. Not unity of identical thinking — but unity of disagreement with cooperation. Unity is not a luxury — it’s a condition for survival. And that’s exactly what Israel needs now: national unity. We must demand it from politicians. Sit in one room, reach broad agreements, form a broad unity government, and implement widely agreed policies. Israel doesn’t need a band-aid — it needs deep root treatment for tribalism. A treatment that heals us, stops the bleeding, and allows us to begin a new chapter after this long, difficult war — the defining event of our generation. It’s time to heal. And if you connected to the message — you know what to do: like, comment, and share 🙏 "
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I just finished watching some documentaries on Polish Hooligans. Like Leo's police cam videos lol. Polish and eastern Europe realities are harsh, there is so much violence, conformism, drugs, "nihilism" and sick mentality. You can't comprehend it unless you are from here and notice such things. I come from eastern Europe. This is a fucking priviledge on a global scale. But please, realize and live this, if you are in western Europe you are literally in paradise. Like the Netherlands or Norway. I know that people on this forum have heard it a 1000 times, but it's just that true. I spent 2 months working in the Netherlands. When I came back it was like waking up from a dream. You cannot fathom how different life is in the east. You would be in shock about the things that pass here as normal. Still, I am super-priviledged. But if I am super, westeners are supererer.
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Don’t you need a trained instructor to do kriya yoga properly
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What are the benefits, just baseline consciousness, or also less anxiety and clearer thinking and the like?
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5th session of therapy So fifth session of therapy was last week on Thursday the 9th. And tomorrow if my 6th session. So I started in therapy again because my job sucked so badly after we got transferred to a new department 3 years ago. I worked for 5 years in a psychiatric emergency hospital before all of us got transferred into this new hospital, and things haven't quite been the same for most of us. I lost all spark, and got pretty depressed, but since I've been pursuing my spiritual path and creativity outside of work, I have sort of managed to cope, but this winter this really bad work-situation was really catching up with me. I tried to get help from both my doctor and HR-department, but they didn't really have much to offer. So I turned to what I knew from before works - gestalt therapy. And it has seemingly been really efficient this time. Last time I did gestalt therapy I was in a pretty unstable situation in life changing between different jobs and studies and no clear path ahead of me, but as I'm starting up again now I've been in the same job continuously for 8 years, and it is quite a different situation to apply therapy on. I'm starting to realize that one of the main reasons I took this transfer so badly is because I had made my old job into my old happy childhood home before my parents divorced, and when we where transferred into this new department this old patterns of my childhood home getting torn to pieces and me getting thrown into a new and chaotic situations - those emotional patterns have been re-activated again. To make a long story short we had a really strong community in my old job that we don't have anymore, and we where all giving each other a lot of acknowledgement and belonging, which there is not room for in the same way anymore. Having found my role and solid sense of both belonging and mastery in my old job, I had everything I needed. And even though it is sad we don't have this strong human connection between each other any longer, I see now that I have still been carrying around an unhealthy need for affirmation and belonging, coming from these childhood needs that were not met. Well - to round it off quickly. What we are doing in therapy now seems to really efficiently heal those needs, and I can see that I already care a lot less about how strong the sense of belonging and community is in my job, and that my capacity for focusing on helping the patients have been increasing. So, seemingly I'm growing up, and I can put my own needs aside and focus on my role as a caregiver. Which I also could before - but somehow something that was not completed in me was triggered by this transfer. And it is good to get these unfinished processes mirrored so that I can deal with them. So all in all I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out. So much so that I'm considering finishing the gestalt therapy education I was starting on last time I did gestalt therapy. I finished the 2 first years that time, and I have 2 more years left if I choose to go back to it.
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Oh, for sure, you could have Lyme for example. What were the exact medications that you took? Are you sure you don't have an infection? This all sounds like an infection that's undiagnosed? The reason is because there's only started one year ago. It's not normal. It's possible your nervous system is all screwed up from chronic stress and you induced some kind of autoimmune disease, but it's rare for it to happen in only one year.
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You're literally promoting his quotes and teachings. So your stance is now that people whose quotes and teachings you promote on your blog might be epistemic devils? That goes a 180 degrees against your pious claim of aiming to be the human most aligned and concerned with Truth.
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niko123 replied to Just Dreaming's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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No one is asking you to trust his work. You are focused on the wrong thing. Just practice Kriya yoga and forget about the stories. Kriya yoga works. I am doing it every day.
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Fair.
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JoinShame CrowdCringe —> the cringe directed not at the person but at the crowd for elevating them.
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I'm using the most biodigradable, bio, hippie detergent that I could find. (this https://uk.ecover.com/products/laundry/concentrated-bio-laundry-liquid/ ) - And use and little of it as possible. Nothing else in laundry. Also I stopped perfumes 8 years ago. CFS symptoms are present since one year almost, getting worse over time. Sometimes the symptoms seem gone, and then they come back 1 hour later like I got hit by a super virus.
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Like society would not function without baseless wars, sports cars, and child rape rings. Trogolodytes.
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Im not buying the hype. Ill believe it when i see it. The hype is ridiculous with Ai, they are always bullshiting.
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@Vynce are you using tied laundry detergent?
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Heresy. I'm sure there are, even if they aren't strictly or formally framed as 'epistemological' works. Gotta take a look at Being and Time and The Critique of Pure Reason.
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Why do so many people pay attention to this BS?
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@Carl-Richard I was just going to share that clip!
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Contemplate why you believe: Cigarette smoke = Lung Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Air pollution = Asthma, lung disease Asbestos = Mesothelioma, lung cancer Radon gas = Lung Cancer Mold spores = allergies, asthma Pollen = hay fever, asthma, allergies Viruses in air = COVID-19, Influenza Chemical fumes (benzene, etc.) = Leukemia, cancer Diesel exhaust = lung cancer, breathing problems Dust (organic/inorganic) = Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis So all this air related stuff you understand is bad for you... BUT WHEN I SAY: Laundry detergent = depression, mood issues, agitation, fatigue, poor sleep, skin irritation Incense = mood issues, agitation, fatigue, poor sleep, breathing problems Perfumes = ADHD, headaches, mood issues, agitation, fatigue, poor sleep Foam couch (chemical off-gassing) = thyroid problems, fatigue, extreme fatigue, mood issues, poor sleep, headaches Dishwashing soap = digestive problems, fatigue, skin irritation, mood issues Air fresheners = hair loss, mood issues, agitation, fatigue, poor sleep, headaches Candles (scented) = Mental illness, sedation, fatigue, mood issues, poor sleep, breathing problems Cleaning sprays = cognitive decline, agitation, fatigue, headaches, breathing issues Paint fumes = mood issues, agitation, fatigue, poor sleep, vision problems House insulation = chronic high cortisol, over stimulated nervous system Shampoo = bool inflammation SUDDENLY IM CRAZY. OOOOOk. 😂
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That's fair. Our minds do share their infiniteness with God's mind, but they are not the same. Within our universe, there are larger minds and smaller minds, like your reference to Cantor theory supports. But I think God's mind is an infinity that is beyond Cantor's theory, because His Eternal nature prevents him from being bound to a theory in spacetime. So it is the ultimate infinity, eventhough Cantor's theory says there is no largest infinity because Cantor's theory wouldn't apply to It. Being your mind does give you indications to its infiniteness, but as agreed, doesn't mean you can know all of it fully. It was never about being God, because already our minds share their infiniteness with Him, but about recognizing the illusion of duality between our minds and the known, the observer and the observed.
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A comment I found under this video (where Frankie Muniz expresses the common opinion that "he hates Skyler"): It encapsulates the crux of my earlier point about how the show is a lesson in ego identification. When you skip all the manipulation, the excuses, the scheming, the justifications, of going through all the experiences from start to finish and just look at the pure endproduct, you see through all of it. And when Bryan goes through the logic with Frankie, you see how he quickly understands how ridiculous it is. Which is another point on how ego identification works: it is so engrossing and captivating in the moment, you get hypnotized by it, but when you step back, you see how ridiculous it is. This happens a lot when people have an argument and then step away and realize that they might have been acting foolishly. They realize they were so engrossed by a very particular and limited story, they couldn't see outside of it. And that's of course one of the main mechanisms of the ego: it works by limiting your attention and pulling you into a limited point of view. And it's maybe not so coincidental that we use the words "acted foolishly". You in some sense realized it was an act. It was a role you played. And that's how shows can reel you in to their story even if it's all an act. Because there is fundamentally no difference in terms of the mechanism of how it happens. And that's also maybe why somebody I know is unable to watch Breaking Bad because they think Walter is that much of an asshole and watching it is seemingly just too frustrating: she is unable to drop her role and identify with the character.
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But what tells that about a person like Yogananda - if he is either lying or self-deceived, why trust his other work?
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A good read about when incel and red pill content is covertly promoted by influencers who appear to be "conscious", "balanced" and “objective": https://substack.com/inbox/post/186623062 The Diary Of A(n Undercover Incel) CEO You know how we’re always wary of those podcasts or speakers that are unambiguously misogynistic? Like A**rew T*te, the guys on Whatever Podcast, Fresh and Fit. The ones that are blatantly, loudly and proudly hateful. I don’t know about you but I would NEVER have a friendship or even an acquaintanceship if I can help it with anyone who listens to and follows those guys. They’re violently disrespectful and they don’t hide their disdain for women’s autonomy and ways of thinking. I wouldn’t even deign to pay attention to someone who says ‘but they make great points sometimes.’ What great points? Please run away from them. But what happens when there’s one that is hiding in plain sight? Enter Diary of A CEO, hosted by Steven Bartlett. It launched in 2017 and on paper, the podcast looks harmless. It features conversations with “successful people” about hardship, growth and resilience. Sounds reasonable, and the type of thing a TikTok page called Goated Quotes would post multiple clips of (I kid you not there is a page named exactly that and they post clips of the podcast constantly). But underneath the motivational and seemingly profound front is a recurring logic pattern that isn’t just about self-improvement. It subtly reflects ideas about gender, purpose and societal structures that align with right-wing, reactionary and red-pill narratives, packaged as “brutal truths” for men. It’s also known for misinformation, especially on health. If you’d like to know more you can read here, but my main focus is on why it’s been called a ‘Trojan Horse for the manosphere’ and why that description is terrifyingly accurate. What makes Diary of a CEO dangerous isn’t that it’s openly hateful. It’s that it isn’t. The men who listen to Andrew Tate know exactly what they’re signing up for. The misogyny is loud, aggressive and obvious. You can spot it from a mile away and decide, very quickly, that you want no parts. Not this guy. Steven Bartlett speaks softly and uses language and tone that sounds like self-reflection, vulnerability, growth. His guests talk about genuine self-improvement in a way that sounds profound or even compassionate. That’s exactly how it sneaks in incel and bioessentialist propaganda without you knowing. For example, the recurring fixation on “men’s loss of purpose” or the perceived “mating crisis.” I watched some podcast episodes so you don’t have to and I will never do it again but here’s the gist: Steven had Dr. Alok Kanojia, or Dr. K as he’s mostly known, on his show in July last year. In that episode, the conversation starts with statistics that sound neutral and alarming in equal measure: rising sexual inactivity among young men, men accounting for nearly 80% of suicides, increasing reports of hopelessness and lack of purpose. All of these are real, verifiable issues. That’s part of what makes what comes next so sinister. Dr. K frames the situation as something close to an evolutionary crisis. Young men, he suggests, are being left behind by modern dating dynamics, economic shifts and social changes. Women, he notes, no longer need men in the way they once did; they can earn their own money, choose not to marry and even have children without male partners. This, according to him, creates what he repeatedly describes as an “extinction event”: a cohort of men who will never find partners, never reproduce and effectively “die out” of the gene pool. He ends up floating the idea that society should intervene to make sure men can pass on their genes, as if sexual access is a public utility like water or electricity. And, get this, he compares a man’s inability to find a partner to cancer, a deadly virus and genocide. I know damn well- Now, to his credit, Dr. K is careful to say that no one is entitled to sex, relationships, or reproduction. He acknowledges consent. He explicitly rejects coercion. But by casting male loneliness in evolutionary and biological terms like natural selection, genetic dead ends, extinction, it turns social alienation into destiny. He’s essentially suggesting that resentment and aggression towards women are not choices, but inevitable responses to being biologically sidelined. This mirrors almost exactly how incel and black-pill communities already talk about themselves, and the podcast instantly becomes a recruitment tool for the most radicalized corners of the incel movement. By suggesting that society has a responsibility to “course-correct” the fact that some men aren’t chosen as partners, Dr. K validates the dangerous idea that men are biologically owed the bodies of women. The same logic appears in Steven’s conversation with clinical social worker Erica Komisar. When asked about the “plight of young men” and rising suicide rates among them, Komisar argues that men have lost their purpose because society has dismantled their traditional roles as providers and protectors. Yes, she actually said that. I was baffled too. According to her, while “raising women up” had positive outcomes, it also involved “denigrating men.” She goes further, describing modern feminism as having taken on something “vengeful,” no longer about balance but about diminishing men, pushing them out and taking over. What’s next is she points to the fact that women now make up over 60% of university students and graduate school attendees, and cites studies suggesting that men tend to marry across or down educationally, while women marry across or up. The conclusion of all she’s saying is that women’s educational and professional advancement has effectively stripped men of their purpose, leaving them discouraged, diminished, and lost. What’s so funny here is not that she’s concerned for men, but the assumption beneath it: that men’s purpose is fundamentally external and relies on women’s dependence. When women no longer need men to survive economically or socially, men are said to lose meaning. That is not a feminist argument, it is a deeply patriarchal one that has been quietly repackaged as sympathy for men. Instead of encouraging men to find new, more empathetic ways of being, the podcast encourages them to look back at a patriarchal past with a sense of stolen entitlement. This pattern becomes even clearer in Steven’s interviews with former Love Islander Chris Williamson, and the language moves from therapy speak to market logic. Dating here is called a “mating market” so now, we’re talking about relationships in a transactional manner. Sounds awfully familiar… Chris describes women as hypergamous, inclined to date “up” in education, income and status. According to him, as women achieve parity or outpace men in education and early-career earnings, the pool of “eligible” men shrinks. The result is a large group of men rendered invisible, while a small group of “high-value” men accumulate options and avoid commitment. He called this the “tall girl problem.” Hmm. You mean the tall poppy syndrome? Here again, women’s independence is treated as the destabilising variable. By focusing on reliable contraception and socioeconomic autonomy as the “disruptors” of dating, he is essentially saying that women were easier to deal with when they had fewer choices. Structural issues like economic instability, job insecurity, housing crises, the collapse of community spaces suddenly fade into the background. The problem becomes women’s standards, women’s choices and women’s fear. Over and over again. Even MeToo is folded into this logic (of course it is). Chris acknowledged it as necessary to hold powerful men accountable for their crimes and misconduct against women, then he makes a hard right and describes it as having gone “too far,” leaving men afraid to approach women and women afraid of men, which therefore produces an epidemic of loneliness and sexlessness. He flattens fear of violence and fear of being accused into moral equivalents, so the asymmetry of power disappears. What’s left is the suggestion that women’s safety and boundaries have produced unintended “externalities” for men. Taken individually, any one of these conversations might sound like a clumsy but well-meaning attempt to understand modern relationships. Taken together, they form a consistent worldview: men are suffering because women have too much autonomy; equality has created imbalance; and social progress has left a generation of men behind. The problem is not that Diary Of A CEO talks about men’s pain. Ultimately, it functions as a bridge. It meets young men where they are; looking for health tips, business advice, or a sense of direction, and then slowly leads them toward a worldview where women’s autonomy is the root of their misery. Over and over again, the podcast returns to the same conclusions: men are purposeless because women no longer need them; men are invisible because women “date up”; men are angry because feminism went too far; men are lonely because women are afraid; men are being selected out of the gene pool because society has changed too fast. The villain is never collapsing social infrastructure, or the monetisation of dating, or the hollowing out of community, or an economic system that strips people of dignity and stability. It is, consistently, women’s autonomy. That is red-pill rhetoric. What’s missing from these conversations is the reality of femicide. The fact that men’s feelings of entitlement to access do not exist in a vacuum is rarely ever discussed. Women exist in a world where we are killed, stalked, assaulted and harassed by men who believe they have been wronged. What makes this especially dangerous is the tone. Steven Bartlett is not shouting or calling anyone a h*e or B-word. He is nodding and empathising. He is letting his guests spin narratives about extinction events, hypergamy and vengeful feminism with minimal pushback. While he has released a statement saying he doesn’t necessarily hold the same views as his guests, I call bullshit. He platforms these people, give hums of approval when they speak and eggs them on. He only released said statement because it was becoming obvious what was happening. So no, Diary of a CEO is not harmless self-help. It is not neutral, and it is certainly not just “motivational content.” It’s time we stop treating Steven Bartlett as a harmless motivational figure and start seeing him for what he is: the manosphere’s most effective public relations officer. That podcast is a pipeline that feeds young men a story where the social progress of women is the reason for their pain.
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