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If Sadhguru is considered stage blue, then Spiral Dynamics is nonsense. At this rate this forum will not consider anyone to be Tier 2 except for Leo, lol.

Ukraine is fucked. Palestine is fucked. The middle east in general is fucked. Americans are fucked on several domestic issues. But with RFK and Musk having Trump's ear surely the environment has a chance? Musk doesn't just make electric cars, his companies have done work on battery storage and solar power, and he's holding a competition for carbon capture tech ideas. I refuse to believe that he would only have a profit motive. People are rarely 100% in one political camp or another. Musk can be right wing on other issues while still having the correct position on climate change. Musk has made himself indispensable to Trump. It's corrupt, but if he decides the government should be doing more for the environment, Trump will not be able to ignore him.

I think these complaints come from people having a higher expectation for academic research jobs than they do for industry jobs. As if academia is supposed to be some "pure" pursuit of knowledge. It sounds like academia has bullshit just like any other job. Scientists act like salespeople with their research proposals? Okay, the corporate world is all about sales as well. Aside from actual salespeople, anyone working in industry who has an idea will have to convince their boss/coworkers of the validity of their idea. If scientists were allowed to research whatever they wanted without the "sales" part, people would also be complaining about research funding going to waste. So what's the alternative?

My point is that human psychology doesn't work that way. People get tired of bullshit eventually. Every fascist and communist state needed a secret police, propaganda alone was not enough.

Assuming they don't become a dictatorship, it's impossible for one party to maintain power forever. Trump's victories hinged on him being seen as an outsider candidate, as an "underdog" who was going to take on the establishment. If MAGA republicans stay in power for a significant length of time they will be seen as the establishment (no matter what propaganda they use). Framing themselves as outsiders will be impossible. Also, recessions and times of hardships are inevitable. Whichever party is in power at the time of a recession will be blamed for it, and people will be inclined to give the other party a chance.

This feels like negativity just for the sake of fitting in with the general "doom and gloom" narrative. American politicians prioritize their big donors over the electorate. Musk has spent over $100 million on the Trump campaign. If he decides there should be more environmental policies, Trump will have to do something about it, regardless of the opinion of the Republican base. In the livestream Musk did with Trump several weeks ago, he mentioned that high CO2 levels are bad for human health. It's a bit of an odd argument, but I take it as a sign from Musk that he still cares and that he hasn't become a climate change denier.

I wanted to go on a psychedelic retreat next weekend. I live with my family and I obviously knew it would be a bad idea to tell them. However I had to tell them that I would be going somewhere. They managed to get a few vague snippets of information from me, and then from googling the events that were going to be happening in the area, they were able to deduce that I was going on a psychedelic retreat. My parents are very religious and so they took this badly. At first they told me how by going on this retreat I'd be inviting demons into myself, and this would completely mess up my life, and it would be dangerous to my family if I were to keep living with them after having brought these demons onto myself. Later, they started making fun of psychedelics, saying that the insights you have on a psychedelics seem like complete bullshit once the trip is over. And they made fun of the kinds of things psychedelic users say: "we are all one", "the universe is love", etc. But the conclusion of the entire conversation was that if I went they would never let me back in the house again. Now, I'm not some teenager going through a rebellious phase. I'm 24 and I'm both embarrassed and depressed to be still living with my parents, so I thought this might just be the catalyst I need to move out. I was religious when I was younger and I understand exactly why me going on a psychedelic retreat bothers my parents so much. Our worldviews are incompatible, there can't really be a compromise, and it would be best if we just lived separately. I had a job last summer and I hardly spent any of the money. I have enough money to cover the cost of the retreat plus modest living expenses for at least 2 months, possible even 3. My current living location isn't great for finding a job, especially with the Covid-19 lockdown, but by renting a room in the city I would have a better chance of finding one. If I managed to find a job within those 2 months, things would be fine. In theory it doesn't seem like an unrealistic plan. In practice, I've been heavily depressed over the past year and a half, and it's only getting worse. I'm now getting doubts about whether going to a psychedelic retreat is the right thing to do, regardless of my family's attitude. While the combination of therapy, psychedelics and relaxation you get on such a retreat is probably quite good for mental health, I feel my problems may be too severe to be taking them to such an event. I feel it may be silly to expect the retreat to be a magic cure and that it may make things worse in fact. There are several reasons why I'm depressed but chief among them is definitely my inability for dealing with people. I have an extremely hard time communicating with people and people tend to dislike me more often than not. My social skills have been improving over time, especially over the past few months. But no matter what I always feel I massively lag behind other people my age in this regard. People would expect a 24 year old to have better social skills and this will make it difficult to find and keep a job. I have had a few jobs before but I never lasted long in them (all of them were less than 2 months). On top of that being depressed, I know there will be days when I have absolutely no motivation and this will further make it harder to find a job. The problem is that if I do nothing, then what? At my age, living with my parents and sitting in my room all day (as I said it's very hard to find a job in my current location, and the lockdown limits how far I could commute) is both bad for my mental state and it's bad for other people's opinion of me. Thus, it only magnifies my problems. I'm not expecting people on an internet forum to have the perfect answer of course, but please try to advise me: 1) Should I go on the psychedelic retreat? 2) Regardless of whether I go on the retreat or not, should I move out? (not going on the retreat would save a fair amount of money, giving me a few more weeks of breathing room)

@Preety_India Wow, I really relate to most of what you're saying, except for the fact that I'm not female I see presenting a different opinion/point of view, especially in a work context, as a positive thing. I see it as a way to consider alternate options and try to figure out the best course of action. But people are very hostile to me when I do this. They don't want to be open-minded at all about my suggestions and dismiss them as if they're stupid. People also don't take well to me trying to be open and authentic with them. They tend to reject most attempts I make at creating rapport. And I can even relate to what you said about being Indian. I'm not Indian myself and I don't live in the USA. But I'm an immigrant in the country that I live in and despite my best attempts to adapt and fit in, I still have different mannerisms and ways of speaking than the people who are native to that country. While being an immigrant is definitely not the only reason people treat me different, I feel that it does play a part.

I don't get this article 13 stuff. They've been scaring us with it since last summer and yet it keeps getting delayed. Tbh I cannot see a situation where we aren't able to use Youtube at all. Would lead to too much backlash. Youtube isn't just an information and news source, it's a large source of entertainment i.e. a sedative for the masses. Politicians like those.

Why do American progressives think UBI is a good idea? There have been experimental studies done with it and they've shown it doesn't work, most recently in Finland. I brought this topic up to a hardcore socialist acquaintance of mine (we both live in Europe) expecting an argument but he actually said that he's spoken with various economists and knows from them that it's a bad idea. Imo if the USA somehow manages to make UBI work it'll only be thanks to imperialism or some other kind of exploitation. It's not that I think people will be "lazy" if there's UBI. People will probably do things they genuinely value, but with no incentive to cater to wider society many people will end up doing things that don't bring enough benefit to anyone else. How many people on this forum would just sit at home meditating and contemplating if they had their basic needs taken care of? And yeah, that's great, but it's kind of exploitative of the people who will work to provide those needs. If the majority of manual jobs get automatized, then we can bring in UBI and have this utopia but at the moment this is nowhere near being the case (also having thousands of robots doing everything would be very energy expensive, we'd need to solve the clean energy problem first).

I know what you mean but it doesn't work in practice.

My doctor prescribed it yesterday for my obsessions. For anyone who has had experience with this drug, how did you find it?

I get the sense that the current Leo would never encourage something like that, lol.

Please watch the full video. I would like to hear what the women on this forum think of ARC's teachings.

Women have a poor understanding of why male attraction manifests the way it does.

You don't get what I said. There isn't just one type of attraction.

@Emerald You're talking about 2 different things though. "Guys are only attracted based on looks" applies for sex only. For a guy to want to be in a long-term relationship with a woman the attraction will need to be on a deeper level. So you're comparing male sexual attraction with female romantic attraction, which is apples and oranges.

Lol which is it, more men or more women? Countries like China and India definitely have more men due to selective birth control. The west has more women but I've heard many guys try to use that to imply that men have more value on the dating market and that women should be the ones doing the approaching. But the excess of women comes from their higher life expectancy - there's more elderly women than elderly men. So this stat has no bearing on the dating market. For people of reproductive age, the amount of men and women is for all intents and purposes equal.

If you were in orange or blue, Leo would be strongly encouraging you to empathize with other sentient beings and to get involved in this sort of activism.

There's quite a few examples here already that are below yellow.

@Emerald I know I'm not really a part of this conversation, but to be fair what you're doing does feel an awful lot like a high-pressure sales tactic. There are groups on both the right and the left who tout being uncompromising. Every political group with a strong opinion sees itself as the minority, as the victim. Unless you've got some statistics to back up your claims, I don't think it's fair to assume that centrists are any more susceptible to converting to the right than to the left. EDIT: For clarification, by minority here I mean minority in terms of political thought.

Yes, conservative men would consider themselves good fathers but would they be ok with leaving their children in the hands of another man? Probably not. They see themselves as upstanding family men while seeing a majority of other men as potential pedophiles. It's not hard to see how conservatism led to inequalities in divorce court in the first place. Though there are some feminists who say all men are rapists, which isn't helping either.

It's difficult to understand why she gets misrepresented and vilified so much. Her views are very reasonable. I think her anger is just a reaction to the hate she gets. However, I still believe men need their movement. @Emerald As you said yourself, feminists don't like to address divorce laws as a particular issue. Waiting for feminists to destroy the patriarchy and then waiting for that change to percolate through society is not option. Especially since laws getting more progressive in one area doesn't mean they'll get more progressive in another. For example, there are still some remnants of religion left in modern secular nations. Unless an issue is talked about enough for people to care, it's not going to change.

People are advocating drinking your own urine? Really?