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This post was taken from another forum, posted here for my future reference. It could be pasted into half the threads in this subforum and is one of the most informed posts on human nature I've ever seen. "I guess I could say that I hate the human condition and the human body, but I cannot possibly bring myself to hate humans themselves. I love them and pity them. After all, they're trapped here in these prison cells of flesh on this god-forsaken planet along with me. Our bodies were designed to make us weak and stupid, suppress our True Will, defile our intentions, and blind our spiritual vision. There can be no fixing humanity until the Homo Sapiens genome is altered and all impurities removed. The limbic system must be made subservient to the prefrontal cortex, the fear response must be attenuated, the sex drive diminished, and numerous metabolic and oncogenetic defects addressed. These vessels are little better than the troglodyte apes they were fashioned from and we retain our primate cousins' drive for war, wanton violence and dominance over others. Look at what chimps do in the wild, free from the troubles of civilization. Remind you of anything? In the case of chimps, our closest genetic relatives, you can't blame culture, education, poverty, or poor character - only genetically embedded behavior. Those same genes control us, although to a much lesser degree. If we want to ensure a future for our species, we must kill the chimp within us. Imagine who you would become if you were free from all your urges, your laziness, your addiction, your genetically preset emotional valence (depression), your social anxiety, and your brain's pesky tolerance to continuous drug use. Imagine a world where you controlled your brain instead of it controlling you. If you wanted to act on your dreams, you could force your brain to produce dopamine and norepinephrine, spurring you to action. Your anxiety could be turned off and moved into a purely rational risk-reward calculation. Boredom and fatigue could be staved off with a mere act of willpower, and targeted emotional salience would encode new memories with greater precision and ability to recall. It would be a world where humans are free to become our best, authentic selves, loving life and embracing our greatest shared dreams." "Getting rid of sex would indeed be a colossally stupid move, but that is not what I'm proposing. I'm talking about diminishing the sex drive to the point where it serves the rational mind, not the other way around. You probably know people in your personal circle who have made regrettable mistakes due to being hijacked by their libido. Do you not see the benefit in being able to consciously turn your sex drive off and on at will? Sexual arousal is the linchpin of psychosocial control and can be used to manipulate your behavior at the subconscious level. How many stupid politicians now have a dossier of blackmail hanging over their heads because they listened to their dick instead of their rational mind? How many young women find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy because of their libido? How many men lose everything in a divorce because they ignored the red flags on their gold-digger wife, preferring instead to stare at their breasts? I'd even be willing to gamble that the demand for human trafficking would be greatly reduced if only our libido was dialed down. The libido is one of the most self-sabotaging urges we humans deal with, as reproductive instinct is evolutionarily optimized to prioritize the continuation of your gene-line over your own well-being. It's the one instinct doesn't care if your life falls apart as the result of a bad decision, it just wants your genes to propagate. The sooner we get it under control, the better." "I concede that compared to other life on earth, the human body is remarkable in many ways. The issue is that it's not designed to serve our mind/soul, rather evolution has tried to make our mind subservient to "selfish gene" principles, using our innovation and intelligence to ensure the propagation of genes by solving problems in the environment. Unfortunately, modern man's plight is even worse, for in mastering control of the environment, we have removed ourselves from the very selective pressures that would ensure our ability to adapt and improve. Even those of us with the lowest evolutionary fitness are all but guaranteed to reproduce and pass on genes that are maladapted to the modern world. We've got a 21st century mind running on stone-age genetic hardware and neural firmware, and it's causing a plethora of problems. Our hard-wired instincts are still fundamentally "caveman" priming our behavior to deal with threats that no longer exist. This leads to resource hoarding, tribal aggression and racism, overclocked sex drives, heightened anxiety, bad diet habits, and constant paranoia. In the environment our bodies were optimized to survive in, threats were everywhere and survival was a full-time job. We were not the apex predators, and faced just as much a threat from neighboring humans raiding our camps or stealing our land. Today, we have the means to become an almost post-scarcity society, yet we still think and act like it's the stone-age."

What's insane is I can see so much of other self-help authors in both the Master Key System and how to win friends and influence people. Even A Course in Miracles which claims to be channeled from Jesus was clearly derivative of the works of Carl Jung and other self-help authors of the early 1900s . What's insane is that modern Works don't really bring a whole lot to the table and are mostly derivative of earlier works which is insane to me. There's a whole self-help industry out there and I suppose it's great if it brings more awareness of personal development to the masses but you're right doing the work is the hard part because cravings habits and compulsions are so powerful they tend to keep people stuck in their routines. That's all well and good if you can reach Enlightenment and then are content with mediocrity but for most people that's not how it works they have a midlife crisis instead. What I see in this forum and on a lot of Internet forums is a lot of people creating narratives about the state of the world and then getting depressed about it. They make up this excuse to stay depressed or angry because they say the world is going to hell and then making excuses for their life circumstances rather than taking ownership of their own psychology. I suppose we all do this from time to time. To the degree a person does this they are a sheep who's projecting their own inner problems on the external circumstances granted there are some real problems out there we have to worry about such as the rise of authoritarian rule by such entities as the Chinese communist party. However, the mistake people make is they think that simply having these negative emotions towards perceived circumstances accomplishes anything when it doesn't. You either accept what is or take action to change it... ruminating over it doesn't really accomplish anything it just makes you miserable. Just read the first five pages of the Master Key System and it's amazing. So many books from so many different authors all derivative works. I suppose that's how we grow as a species though we're always looking at what others did before us. The drive for personal gain also drives our ability to want to try new things and see if they stick that's why capitalism as a system is generally more successful than other systems aside from the fact that it tends to promote more personal freedom. Collectivism can't and won't ever work long term no matter how much idealists like to think it would and I am objectively right about that so accept it. The laws of this Matrix in which we incarnate dictate that. It would be interesting if you could piece together self-help material going back to say the time of Buddha and find text written hundreds of years ago say. However one thing you'll notice about the Master Key System is it benefits from modern scientific understanding of our animal psychology and the inner workings of the nervous system. However, even the Romans seem to understand human nature to some degree or another one you look at the writings of some of their most famous people. Makes me want to research past authors and more philosophy but I don't want to get caught up in this cycle of more and more intellectual knowledge I know what I need to do it's to gain the life experience which is why I'm always torn between more reading versus doing and being.

Picking something and getting really good at it would be positive motivation, as opposed to "dabbling" where you kind of take an interest in a variety of things but never get good at any one of them.... taking that DLSR camera you bought and becoming a content creator, or using that flight simulator game to actually start flying and become a commercial pilot (something I wish I would have done, to go back in time. Sigh.) .. something that gives you a sense of achievement for having grown to the point where you can monetize your efforts. I would say as a young person you should find something you love, get really good at it, to the point where you can monetize your efforts. Some youtube examples.. Willjum... makes Rust videos Camomo ... makes Rust Anti-Cheater Videos Reed Timmer ... chases tornadoes, including live streams... he's done this for a long time. Marcus Veltri ... plays piano extremely well The Doo ... plays guitar extremely well Rob Landes ... plays violin extremely well ANATOLY.. a powerlifter who makes youtube content. Maximili ... does voices, goes on Omegle, streams GTA. I thought he took over the voicing for a couple of family guy characters but may have mistaken, but he can do the voice of Mort and Herbert extremely well. Time plus repetition equals habits. Grinding away the hours of practice leads to skill mastery in time. Skill development tends not to be a straight line, but takes sometimes unexpected jumps. See the book "Atomic Habits" Put another way, it's better to be a content producer than a content consumer. A producer will generally have a more fulfilled life than a consumer. If you give more than you take, your fulfillment level generally rises. As humans we tend to not want to make big life changes until our bad habits cause us so much pain they almost force change on us. Preferably it's best to not reach that point. Negative motivation leads to positive motivation.

I feel humans are burning themselves out from over-stimulation... sympathetic dominant nervous system. This includes sitting around and watching TV all day, playing video games, or in general staring at a screen, which might seem relaxing, but it's actually not. There's also increased stress levels from being programmed by all the narratives peddled by social media and our leaders. Garbage inputs tend to create garbage outputs. The goal of personal development as preached by authors like Eckhart Tolle and David Hawkins is to deprogram negative belief systems, or as David Hawkins says in his books, remove the clouds so the sun can naturally shine. The more negative programs you hold, the more belief systems you have that limit you, the less peace of mind you can naturally have.

Leo's right on this one. Good health is around 50% genetics, 25% diet, and 25% lifestyle. The obesity problem is less genetic and more the fact we simply eat more calories, otherwise everyone 100 years ago would have been as obese as we are now. Foods today are more addictive because of unlimited access and variety. I happen to disagree with vegans because some people react negatively to eating lots of plant material. There's definitely a genetic component that creates differences in dietary requirements and optimal foods to consume. Consider this article... https://nautil.us/fruits-and-vegetables-are-trying-to-kill-you-234982/ For people prone to allergies or other autoimmune issues, meat is probably the least reactive food group they could consume. That said, I can eat basically anything with no allergies. I eat lots of meat and vegetables. The lifestyle argument comes from people not exercising and sitting for long periods of time. The way genetics works is if you don't use it, you lose it. People who don't ever exercise (in moderation) will see their body give out on them sooner as they age, or find it easier to say break a bone from a fall. The same argument is made not exposing the immune system to pathogens, which is why I get vaccines... they work out the immune system without actually having to get sick. OTOH, I don't live in a sterile bubble... I expose myself to undercooked food and other common sense stresses for my immune system.

Coffee really is a large source of antioxidants. Laugh all you want but it's documented truth, if you believe in the power of antioxidants for reducing oxidative reactions in the body. https://www.emedicinehealth.com/what_foods_have_the_highest_antioxidants/article_em.htm I'm not a caffeine addict. I only drink decaffeinated. Literally coffee is beneficial like tea. If you believe in the power of plant based eating, it's a silly product to vilify and for what reason? Caffeine isn't really inherently bad either... I just have an overactive sympathetic nervous system still so I prefer to avoid stimulants for now. As far as "drugs" go it's fairly harmless though. Maybe if I quote right from Harvard I'll see less skeptics? https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks-full-story/ "After water, tea and coffee are the two most commonly consumed beverages on the planet. Drunk plain, they are calorie-free beverages brimming with antioxidants, flavonoids, and other biologically active substances that may be good for health. Green tea, especially the strong variety served in Japan, has received attention for its potential role in protecting against heart disease, while coffee may help protect against type 2 diabetes." If you are interested in turning into a coffee snob, the coffee subreddit or this youtube channel are what you are looking for: https://www.youtube.com/@jameshoffmann

The big problem with drugs like meth and heroin is the dopamine spike is far beyond anything that is naturally occurring. Once addicted it's going to be hell getting off these drugs. Do we let people do whatever they want if they aren't hurting another? It's a question for the ages. With the rise of screens more people are addicted than ever. This is where Leo's sitting in an empty room and doing nothing comes into play. It's a form of dopamine reset, to break the time wasting cycle of chasing short term dopamine hits. It will cause discomfort, because the brain craves the stimulation. http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/addiction/berman/neuro/dopamine.html https://www.utahvalleypsychology.com/pornography-addiction-science-fact-or-science-fiction-2/

The drive for gain is a motivating factor within the DNA of our species. You can't get rid of capitalism entirely and expect a system to work. Ask me this: Why should everything be free? Where in evolution or natural selection does such a system make sense or seem sustainable? Why do we let people with inferior genetics breed? If you feed undeveloped groups of people they tend to breed like rabbits as an example leaving you with a larger problem in a generation down the road. Infinite compassion has it's limits. People don't learn and grow as individuals by being coddled. They tend to appreciate things less that they are given vs what they work for. Discomfort is a basic requirement for incarnating on this planet. Period. That said, there's a global cost of living crisis from the top 5% being allowed to buy up all the assets combined with reckless monetary policy (quantitative easing, inflating of the M2 money supplies globally.) There should be a global ban on owning homes as "investments, to turn into rentals." R-1 zoned (or equivalent) real estate should not be allowed to be owned by corporations or rental agencies in any way, shape or form unless it's for the purpose of renovation and immediate resale. AirBNB should not be a thing when it comes to using single family housing as a source. If you are doing it, you are part of the reason for the cost of living crisis going on. I suggest nobody use AirBNB, and don't feed this system by staying in places that should be people's homes. In reference to the post above mine, religion and government are two sides of the same coin... attempts to control the masses. I recommend the BBC video series "Century of the Self." Anarchism isn't possible due to our nature. People will always form large groups and those large groups will always try to get others to join them and consolidate their power in time. There's no stopping it. It's probably less viable as a system than autocracy or authoritarian systems, which themselves tend to not work due to human nature. You'll never have isolated groups of people minding their own business... not with our genetic makeup. There's always strength in numbers.

Coffee is the largest source of antioxidants in most American's diets. It's healthy for most people who don't have acid reflux. I roast my own decaf coffee or buy freshly roasted decaf beans. It's the only way to make decaf taste good. I enjoy the taste and want the antioxidants but don't really need or want the caffeine. The nice thing about roasting decaf is there's no chaff, so easy cleanup. Just get a bit past first crack and I'm done. I prefer a light to medium roast with around 40 grams of coffee to around 650 grams of water, with a water temperature around boiling for a light roast, gradually decreasing in temperature to around 185 degrees F for a really dark roast. Most drip coffee makers are only suitable for dark roast coffee as that's the typical temperature they roast at. I brew with a large style V60 brewing device and a gooseneck kettle. My mother and grandmother are both case studies that coffee works. They both look way younger than their age and both drank a pot of coffee daily basically their entire adult lives.

I used to be like this. You just get caught up in the constant search for "facts" and "truths" until you realize much of it is BS and to just use common sense. There's only a few supplements that are genuinely beneficial, such as Magnesium, and if you care about looking good as you age, glycine, wearing sunblock, and applying tretinoin to your face. A lot of it also has to do with social media clicks, selling books, making money. Come up with a new fad diet, get a bunch of followers, and start to rake in the dough. This diet resembles the book "How Not to Die" but that book preaches getting all nutrients from the foods you eat, with virtually no supplements necessary. This guy has a pretty extreme diet with blood tests to verify his results... his diet is quite similar. Heavy plant based. His main meat source is Costco brand canned Sardines. Good man! LOL If you want something close to the "perfect diet" for longevity, here it is:

I do believe it does more good than harm. People rebelled against religion for the same reason they rebel against any authoritarian or rigid ideology: They don't want to be told what to do and how to live their lives. We are biologically wired to want to rebel against the establishment after enough time (and often for good reasons.) Still, religious values install a sense of discipline that is sorely lacking from modern culture where we chase heavy hedonism. Granted the highers up in religions are just like the higher ups anywhere... they often violate the rules they set for others because they can, but that's human nature. Most human beings are hypocrites from my observation... the values they say they have don't match their actions, which is to be expected given our evolutionary wiring produces strong drives and cravings that are hard to resist. All religion, all government, all civilizations, have been about taming that animal within us. Without discomfort we don't grow. If we just do whatever our impulses drive us to do, how our DNA evolved us to behave, we are basically animals. I also think many people's opinions on this forum are biased by the sources of information they access and use for their factual basis. They tend to be in their leftist echo chambers so they don't see how the average religious person really is... mostly tolerant, not racist, just normal people who happen to have been raised with a belief system and use the Church as more of a social gathering place than a place to promote some heavy handed cult filled with hate and judgment, which is certainly NOT what modern Christianity is in the west. When you try to access as many broad sources of information as possible you start to see the mainstream media is feeding the people narratives, which they are. Hollywood in particular loves to push the "evil racist right wing nationalist" narrative heavily. Doesn't matter what nation you live in, your ruling class are feeding you bullshit to at least some degree. That's what people with power do. It's human nature... aside from the fact human beings tend to crave drama and conflict as a source of excitement, so finding some "enemy" that needs to be slain to create the so called perfect society barks right up the alley of what drives human DNA, and the human ego.

Given the way the brain's dopamine system works, I'm half inclined to think we should do it like the Philippines... execute drug dealers on the spot, and throw users in prison. I used to believe in decriminalization, but I'm not really sure about that anymore. Lax enforcement of the laws is the reason more and more bad behavior is spreading in society. Tough choices need to be made, and we don't want to make them because we are no longer a society that simply disappears the homeless, mentally ill, drug users, etc. like we used too. Bottom line... there's no easy answer to this problem and any solution you or I might think would work is merely speculation. Natural law (evolution, natural selection) doesn't care about human compassion or coddling people. Nature is cruel. Evolution is cruel. It's survival of the fittest. It's something progressives will never really accept, acknowledge, or internalize, in their quest to be infinitely compassionate incarnating in a matrix where the rules baked into the system don't really support infinite compassion. If that Lion doesn't kill his Zebra, he starves, dies, his species goes extinct. Period.

Desertification is a larger problem than carbon emissions.... clear cutting forests to grow Palm, graze cattle, or simply develop the land. The greatest problem is the expanding modernization of South America, Africa, and nations like India, etc... they are going to start pumping out ever increasing amounts of carbon and clearcutting their forests as their populations continue to remain high and increase in many of these developing countries. Us already developed nations have peaked and are likely to stagnate like Japan (which is fine, there's no universal law that says an economy and population must keep perpetually growing FOREVER, that is not sustainable for the planet) It's true that you never know what to believe though. You almost have to visit every country and experience every situation for yourself to know what the real truth is, since every media outlet in every country is going to be biased by their respective ruling classes who want to control the narrative.

Human nature. People have principles that they talk about and then they have their actual behavior which tends to be whatever benefits them at any given time. Here in my red area supposed "free market capitalists" will line the city councils in small towns and prevent competition from entering the town that conflicts with their existing businesses. Most conservatives aren't fiscal conservatives anymore, they are modern monetary theorists, who want to pump up stonk and real estate bubbles because it pads their net worth and allows them to work less. Modern society is all about "making your money work for you" until too many people try this and it becomes unsustainable. The top end up becoming financial parasites in the end because they use their wealth to buy up everything, but that doesn't mean marxism or authoritarian dictatorships solve this problem... usually the top down corruption is far worse the less checks and balances you have. CCP/China is a great example of top down corruption. Basically, we are fighting human nature. The strong will subjugate the weak given no checks on their behavior. That is evolution. That is natural selection. It's not pretty, it just is... something you accept because you are here, in this reality, incarnating as this species, on this planet.

Just human nature. I like to poke at leftists at how their authoritarian tendencies manifested during the pandemic as another example. Each side thinks the other side are the devil but can't see the danger lurking on their own side. Politics is a horseshoe... the fringes tend to be authoritarians, anarchists, etc... so if you fall into that category, I would classify you as the "fringe." Collectivism doesn't, and will never, work, because of human nature. It will always be dependent on more free outside elements for it's survival. "Ignoring the misery of (fill in the blank)" is used as the justification for all sorts of tyranny throughout the history of our species. Misery and suffering are terrible, but the ends don't justify the means. Have I used the quote about the road to hell being paved with good intentions before? Looking back at covid it's easy to see how these sorts of nationalist movements form and oppression of unfavorable groups happens. It was a fascinating sociological look at our specie's nature. I disagree it will be talked about for centuries to come. History is written by the victors. That said, the whole prosecution of Trump is a joke... the pot calling the kettle black. That said, I don't really want him nominated or re-elected. That said, this is a political witch hunt by the people in charge, which happens all the time. Always has, always will. When I look at this planet and species now I see DNA computer programs acting themselves out. The level of free will we actually have is debatable. So many times people make choices that defy rationality and fall back on their animal instincts, or their fight or flight response, or any number of other "drives and cravings" our species has. It makes it easier to have compassion for all sides, rather than taking sides. I forgive them. Why hold anger inside when you know collectivism is driven by DNA computer programs within the individual host organism? Watching ant colonies on the AntsCanada channel it amazes me their collective intelligence. Evolution is fascinating. The DNA programming within different species is fascinating. Human programming seems complex, but it's not, and no amount of money and power makes you immune.

The two guys who lived in China for 10 years and saw it's slow transformation back towards Authoritarianism after Xi took power made a good point. In China they don't want to talk about all the societal problems they have. It's like they all know, but they don't say anything. With that type of mentality, nothing will ever change. The willingness to confront and discuss uncomfortable topics is paramount to a healthy society. It's when they started to talk about the issues of things like human trafficking and rampant government corruption that goes on in China that the government basically chased them out or disappeared them. That type of speech is different than bullying though. Bullying, cliquish behavior, and the like are hard to control but efforts need to be made to keep these things in check, because bullying an already insecure individual can really mess them up. Bullying is done by weak, insecure people to people they perceive to be weaker. If you look at it from a dominance or social hierarchy standpoint, humans are always trying to find their place. Perfectly normal people are fully capable of bullying, unfortunately.

There's no doubt about it. Any sufficiently large group of people that start to have groupthink, form echo chambers, and believe themselves to be right or superior to others could be classified as a cult. They become then dangerous if they try to oppress the rights of others because they believe their philosophy to be superior, so they seek to spread it and assimilate others. As for humans being hypocrites, almost all humans are. I catch myself being one, and I'm not one to let my own bullshit go unchecked. Partly though it's just people being addicted to drama. That seems to be wired into our species. Doesn't matter if it's ideas, events, or people, drama is still drama. Maybe you think you are fighting for what is right, and maybe you are, but it's important to pick your battles also. It's good for people to behavior check each other in moderation if necessary, but not get caught up in drama for the sake of drama. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linus+tech+tips+drama The important thing to remember about "social media" is that they push sensationalist topics and drama to get clicks and subscribers, so I wouldn't get too worked up about any one content creator.. you always have to sift through the piles of fluff to get at the nuggets of truth. Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe at times, especially since youtube got rid of the "dislike" count on videos, but given human nature it's easy to make an educated guess. Any time you can stir up justified anger in response to some event, that's right up the ego's alley. That's why "Darius M" is more popular than "Corey Wayne" as an example I have used in the past. I'm more careful with what I consume lately... garbage inputs equal garbage outputs, and all that.

You already tested the blood sugar. Could just be the fiber. I like to eat my oats really watery, and don't really eat them very often regardless. Blood sugar was my first thought, LOL. As far as foods being "dead" foods well, every fruit and vegetable we eat is unrecognizable from forms we've had thousands of years ago due to selective breeding. I used to get really caught up in eating "natural" and alternative health but not so much. I just avoid excessive refined carbohydrates now, due to their addictive nature. I have to set habits or my addictions will take over.

Lentils need to be softened before they can be consumed anyways. Generally this requires either heat or sprouting. I eat canned Chili Beans and then add liquid splenda to them. Tastes like sweet chili, and the stuff is dirt cheap on sale. Black, Lima, and Kidney Beans to make Calico beans. I usually drink the liquid in the can at least with peas, not so much with beans... the nutrients are going to dissolve into that liquid after all. I don't care about eating beans with sauces in them. Spices add antioxidants. Antioxidants extend shelf life and are eaten by cultures with some of the longest lifespans. People tend to have food hangups that are irrational throughout society I've noticed. Too much ego programming. David Hawkins taught me to largely abandon all the programs and use common sense in his books "Healing and Recovery" and "Letting Go" .. I used to be into a lot of that alternative health stuff a decade back.

I mean, I respect Leo's opinion most of the time but he's mostly wrong in this case. Tap water when living in a modern house with copper, PEX, or PVC plumbing can be tested for safety, for things like chemicals and dissolved solids and there's no harm in drinking it. It might have levels of chlorine or choloramines in it from the process of treating it that you can filter with a cheap faucet water filter, but beyond that it's perfectly drinkable and safe. They do like to add fluoride to it for no good reason (along with using Bromine in foods), so every once in a while, take an iodine supplement... something weak like sea kelp, not super strong stuff like Iodoral. Iodine will displace the Bromine and Fluorine. Generally speaking western governments like the US and Europe have good safety standards when it comes to tap water in the modern era. When in doubt, order a water testing kit online. You can also install undersink reverse osmosis systems, but they do produce wastewater of a ratio of around 4 gallons to every 1 gallon of treated. They also remove minerals from the water that are naturally occurring.

The US constitution was designed to prevent this, but it's only as good as people's willingness to enforce it. Human nature (and looking back at history) shows that opportunists who support collectivist, authoritarian ideologies which are worse than "mass democracy" will try to gain power when they can, and this is why cultures tend to go through cycles of Plato and Aristotle. Bad times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times. The circle of causality is complete. You will never have peaceful, blissful representative democratic republics where power and wealth are distributed in a common sense matter forever. Something will always upset the apple cart. Typically it's the concentration of wealth like is happening in the west today where corporations and governments are buying up more and more farmland, residential real estate among other things, or the fact that people become victims of their own success and become soft, but in dictatorships like the Chinese CCP, it's just an unusually bad leader that gains power (Xi) who subscribes to theories (Mao) that don't work. It's not even Xi's fault though. He was a product of his childhood and the way his father and subsequently he was treated by the Chinese Communist Party of that era. Again the A leads to B leads to C causality factor at play.... new dictators like to clean house to keep things in check, and Xi's father was among one of the victims. Of course this thread is about monarchies, not dictatorships. The queen of England is more a celebrity figure at this point. Ruling because of family bloodline is just another form of authoritarian dictatorship if no checks and balances are in place but Britain's system is different compared to say North Korea. Should we have caste systems where one's social status is determined at birth? A human being should be able to advanced based on individual merit, individual qualifications, and individual achievement. This is healthy. Any system that pushes equity, collectivism, or social status based on bloodline, is by it's nature inferior. Systems like this can justify their oppression of whoever they want "for the greater good" of whatever dipshit is calling the shots. Like I said in the other thread, the road to hell is paved with 'good intentions'

It's what has been called the "slippery slope" argument, or the road to hell being paved with good intentions. Who's to decide what speech is allowed, and what guidelines do they set? In the long struggle between individualism and collectivism, between Plato and Aristotle, it seems like collectivism, authoritarianism, fails spectacularly every time it's tried. The real reason for freedom of speech is simple... to keep human nature in check. Checks and balances. No entity should have the right to control the narrative and potentially create a reality where what you perceive and believe is simply what the state tells you to believe, actual scientific or otherwise "facts" in the matter be damned. Modern examples include North Korea and the CCP under Xi's leadership. Prior examples include Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. It's all about how many restrictions we want imposed on our right to individual identity by the collective. Of course these same collectivists (whether they are "left" or "right" or whatever nonsense cult they choose to identify as) will use the more "free" societies to push their philosophy at the same time, so you always have to be on the watch for things like this. The people who preach freedom once they get power do the opposite, because human nature. Intellectuals traditionally through history like to push Plato and forms of collectivism, which fails due to human nature. It will never, ever work. Again, the road to hell is paved with "good intentions." The only thing that seems to work is keeping power and wealth from concentrating, and the system that can do that the best, while still promoting profit and innovation in moderation, will remain the global superpower and promote growth and progress in a more healthy, balanced way. Also, no matter how hard you try, you will never, EVER please everyone. You need a system that works for the majority. When you go trying to "save everyone" that's when those "good intentions" start to bite you in the ass, and you leave yourself open for authoritarian type rule. It's the paradox of governmental rule. Trying to fight for the minorities ends up subjugating the majority at the same time and provides the right elements for opportunists to gain power. I personally believe we saw a miniature version of this stage play during the covid pandemic. Fortunately life returned to relative normalcy, minus the damage to the supply chain, resulting shortages, and the subsequent severe rise in the cost of living from the money printing that went on.

It's better to not grill meat at high temperatures or excessively smoke meats, but I still do...applewood smoked burgers and steaks...I also grill beyond burgers when Costco has them on sale...I can go either way, but I counter my meat consumption with antioxidant consumption. Plus I don't particularly care when I die. If it's my time, it's my time. Most meat eaters around me eat lots of other junk food and low fiber diets. It's the diet as a whole you need to factor into consideration. The safest meats to eat would be things like Costco canned chicken...canned meat cooked through basically boiling is basically harmless. Also stews and slow cooker meat that is also basically boiled. Meat is in fact quite healthy in moderation. Most vegans end up with nutrient deficiencies if they don't supplement. Worst for you foods are processed high carb seed oil filled foods...pop tarts, chips, pizza, crackers, donuts, cookies, French fries, etc... I have lots of Costco canned sardines. Best source of EPA and DHA with least mercury content of any omega 3 fish. I never liked sardines until I realized it was because of the crap they were flavoring them with...only olive oil that's what I like. But yes, overcooking meat produces carcinogens. This can be mitigated somewhat by mixing antioxidants into the meat or applying rubs which contain antioxidants. Allowing fat to drip on to charcoal and produce smoke is among the worst offending but it's also the thing I love to do most :-). Nonetheless everything posted in the OPs original post is scientifically true.

Corey Wayne's stuff is pretty good. It's not flashy and doesn't throw shock value at you to get social media clicks...just practical advice. Media loves to sensationalize because humans are emotional creatures that crave drama, generally speaking. Tate is just another figure trying to get his piece of the pie. I also like Woujo's stuff. Takes a look at things from an evolutionary perspective. Ultimately we are animals evolved through the same process as every animal on this planet, subject to the same natural laws I would agree with those that say Tate is not good or bad....he just is....and being like him still gets you more worldly recognition than being a doormat. DNA doesn't care about compassion...it cares about whatever genetic traits are most fruitful in passing along DNA to future generations. Generally this is displays of strength, including killing, at least in the animal kingdom.

For me clean eating is simply avoiding excessive refined carbohydrates and seed oils... basically no cake, donuts, pop tarts, chips, crackers, hot pockets, pizza, etc... I eat lots of beans. Steaks. Eggs. Greek Yogurt. Salads. I do eat processed "healthy" foods such as Nick's Ice Cream, along with those inexpensive costco protein bars that have chicory root extract in them. One positive to come out of processing is being able to add prebiotics, fibers, and sugar alcohols into food to mitigate the blood sugar rise and excessive calorie/carb consumption.