The key thing to realize is that no one cares about what's actually better for society, they just want their worldview validated and they want personal benefits at the cost of everyone else.
Politics is not about making society better, it is about proving yourself right and stealing money from people you don't know nor care about.

@MightyMind Building civilization, by definition, requires power. The allocation of power, by definition, is called politics and government.
Organizing people is politics and government.
You're not inventing anything new in this domain. Humans have been working this domain for 10,000 years and what we have today is the best we've been able to come up.

Because technology makes survival easier. The easier survival gets the more kind mankind can afford to be to each other.
No, we are talking about all society ever. There are no exceptions to the ignorance, selfishness, and corruption of humans.
China is insanely corrupt, just in their own collectivist ways.

There is a huge difference between true and false beliefs.
A false belief is: the Earth is flat.
A true belief is: the Earth is round.

Thousands, if you do pickup.
Your problem is not that you failed to hit on her. Your problem is deeper: that you interact with so few women that you care even a bit about losing that one.
The solution is to change your lifestyle so that you meet 20 new girls like her every week.
Do you think she cares about losing you? No. Why? Because she meets 20 guys like you every week.
The reason you care so much is because your lifestyle puts you in deep scarcity. You should be meeting hundreds of new girls each month.
BTW, this scarcity also makes you very unattractive because you are going to be so needy and clingy even if she dates you.

Oh, this is simple.
The only way to get good with women is to socialize with 1000s of women. Everything else is irrelevant.
If you want to solve this problem you must undertake the pickup journey. That means you start going out consistently every week and talking to hundreds and thousands of women.
I have outlined the entire process in my videos: How To Get Laid - Part 1, 2, and 3.
Re-watch that video series. It really is the answer. It is so comprehensive that there's little else to say.
Don't worry about confidence. Confidence will come naturally as you gain socialization experience. You don't need to do any special tricks or techniques to be confident. Experience IS confidence.
The only way to be visible to women is to socialize with them.
P.S. Sorry about your scooter accident. I fell off my scooter too. Not as bad as you but it still hurt. Scooters are the Devil's vehicle.

@Wiz Look at this way: Meditation is designed to kill you. If you like that idea, that's the reason to meditate. Otherwise carry on with your monkey games.
Meditation is for those who are sick of playing games.

Of course the point of true spirituality is to obstruct your survival.
Spirituality makes survival harder. Yes, spirituality makes you not care about living or dying. That is the point.
Humans are survival zombies. Most of the stuff humans do they would not do if they were conscious, including having children, starting businesses, making money, and making art.
You are like Elon Musk asking, "But if I do meditation then why would I need to go to Mars?" The answer is: your idea of going to Mars is stupid. You just don't realize it yet. "But I really need to go to Mars!" Yes, you are stupid enough that perhaps only death can cure you.
The point of meditation is that nothing in life matters but meditation because everything else is a silly dream.
Do normies need meditation? No. It won't work anyway because it is being done too shallowly.

"Knowing" is a very loaded and tricky word. It can be defined in various ways.
In my worldview knowing means knowledge. Knowledge is quite a limited and shallow thing in many cases.
You want some way to differentiate intellectual knowledge from the more deeper kinds of "knowing" like knowing how to walk. Because those are quite different things. They function differently in the mind/brain.
This is why you can't just read a book about surfing and then go out and confidently surf. Confidence in surfing can only come from tons of training/experience.
You are free to define terms however you want, but be careful with conflating ideas because it can lead to wrong conclusions and expectations.
In my view, knowledge is lesser than understanding and experience.

First principles is always ideal. The only problem is that it is hard and takes a long time.
Study is used as a shortcut and gives your mind grist for the contemplation mill.
Epistemology is such a pivotal, foundational topic that you can't really outsource it to anyone else. There are no good books on epistemology. And even if there were, you still need to dervive it for yourself for it to be powerful.
Some areas are worth outsourcing to experts and some are too foundational for that.
The problem with study is that it limits your mind to think along those lines. It creates conformity. Ideally you want your contemplation to be original and independent of mainstream thinking.

The most important thing is to sit down and actual do inquiry into epistemology.
You just sit down and reason it out from scratch using first principles, not books or anything you heard or believe.
Derive epistemology from scratch. That's the actual work. Just reason through how epistemology works.
How is anything known?
What is knowing?
All the best topics naturally follow from that line of questioning. This will lead you to contemplate self-deception, what is belief?, ideology, openmindedness, what is truth?, bias, relativity, construct-awareness, assumptions, egoic mental attachments, not-knowing, skepticism, what is science?, etc.

Of course having control over anyone is a fiction.
You don't even have control over your dog.
Existentially, no part of God can control any other part. That's why democracy is the best form of government -- because the sovereignty of everyone is respected (at least in theory).
Government is not based on any deep truth, it is based on survival necessity and pragmatism. Government works as it works because that's what helps keep certain people alive and reproducing.
"Legitimate government" just means legit relative to certain constructed principles and norms, like not violating its own laws.
Illegitmate gov breaks it own laws, like a degenerate human does. Trump contradicts himself, as all degenerate lairs do.

1) I am always exploring no matter what I say. You should know this.
2) From your POV what I say doesn't really matter because you have to explore regardless to find your own answers. No matter what I say you still have to find your own truth.
I say certain things from my POV but that doesn't mean it is true for you. It also doesn't mean that my view won't evolve in the future -- it usually evolves.
Just in general, whenever humans say anything it is only true for them at that time, not forever. This is the case even if they don't realize it or say it. Everyone always speaks from their present view of reality and that view always evolves. Even an enlightened person's view evolves. So you should never take human words as absolutes.
This is pretty obvious basic stuff that you should already know without me explicating it for you.
My views evolve a lot. I would rather be evolved than consistently stuck.

Mind and Consciousness mean the same thing in my view.
Everything you experience right now is what I mean by Mind/Consciousness.
Your field of experience is it.
By imagination I mean everything in your field of experience right now. All physical objects you see.

The 5-MeO state will not stick. It is far too radical to be your default state. Your state will return to normal.
You can however develop an understanding that all of your experience is a hallucination. You can break the materialist paradigm until it is dead. This would be a nice achievement.

At your stage of development grinding might be the right thing, for a time.
However, eventually you'll realize that no matter how hard you grind and how many material goals you complete, you will be no more happy or satisfied than you are now. Even less satisfied because now the illusion of goals making you happy will be shattered.
If you want real progress you need to work on changing your internal relationship to reality. That's the only thing that will change your condition.
Of course if you are just looking to break free of wage slavery, hustle culture has its purpose. But once you are free of wage slavery you will still be exactly the same slave of your mind that you are today.
I've spent so many years achieving goals that today the prospect of pursuing a material goal hardly interests me. My only goal now is higher consciousness of God. But it took me 10-20 years of work to get here.

I am here for my enjoyment. I also use the forum as a test-bed for my own thoughts and I gain experience dealing with people here. Without the forum this work would be too isolating. I have learned a lot about dealing with people here. I also get feedback on my work which is important. I can't do this work just totally isolated, talking to no one about it, hearing nothing, knowing nothing. I need to understand how my work affects people and what issues people are facing, what questions they have, what progress they're making, etc.
If all I did was record videos, that would be way too limited. And I am not interested in running a commune.
Your view of this forum is too cynical, as if everything here is just useless noise.
People who are into this kind of work are extremely rare. To have dozens and hundreds of them here is no trivial thing. Don't brush that off so flippantly.

That's generally how it works. Each approach builds up state until eventually you stop giving a fuck entirely and you enter a flow state.
But you have to rebuild it every night.
Still, you can enter state much faster if you consciously enter into play rather than just hoping that many approaches will brute force you into it.
And sometimes you may just not be in a playful mood, in which case go home and do something else.
The whole point of going out to engage in nightlife is because you want to have fun. Don't overlook something so basic. If you aren't having fun you are missing the whole point. The problem then is that you have a stick up your ass that needs removing.
See, you gotta ask the deeper question: Why are you so anti fun? Who hurt you?

Jesus.
What you need is a compelling vision for what you can make of your life. A vision for a career, for what kind of leader you can be, what kind of family you could have, what kind of art you could make, etc.
And then just work towards it a bit more each day.
But you don't need any achievement to fulfill you. True fulfillment comes from simply consciousness of Consciousness. That's what spiritual work is all about.
If you do serious spiritual work you will be fulfilled just sitting in a room doing nothing, having nothing, needing nothing.
If you are interested in that I highly recommend Kriya yoga. It will purify your mind and body of low vibrational energies over time. But it requires serious commitment to daily practice.
There is no reason why you cannot develop a happy life. No crazy accomplishment is required.
Life does not need meaning. You can derive 100% of your joy from pure Consciousness itself. But you can also create whatever meaning you want in the near-term to hold you over until you realize meaning is a scam. The real gold is Consciousness, not meaning.

I mean how womankind has sex.
This has all been field-tested to death by men. There are no more secrets. We know the entire process front to back like a formula.
We can draw a geometric formula of distance from club to quantity of sex.
Any man interested in sex should understand and respect that formula.

@LoneWonderer Some tips:
You don't have to focus on one point. It could be better to focus on the entire hand. So you aren't straining so hard. Relax your focus so it's not so effortful. Just keep looking at your entire hand. Allow your eyes to move across your hand. Don't keep them locked. Try to keep mind chatter down. Try not to comment on your experience to yourself. Just sit with relaxed focus and be still and at peace. Try to not-know the hand. Remove all conventional knowing of it, so that the hand becomes somewhat unrecognized. It starts to looks weird. Slowly moving your fingers and hand is good too. It's like playing with your hand. Do it for an hour at a time. Try to gently remind yourself that your hand is Absolute Truth/God. Try to gently remind yourself that your hand is Consciousness and imaginary. That's it. It's hard to fail here. Whatever happens is good.

Hey guys! I'm gonna upload all the video summaries I have at the moment and will be uploading more of them as I watch them! Needless to say that is a summaries made by me and not transcripts nor Leo's summaries. Probably you will find some of my comments and ideas in them; I enjoy feedback of any type so feel free to comment

Owen is lost in a delusion. 
He doesn't know what the world is.
Chasing sex like a narcissistic dog.
I've taken on the real world and found it fool's gold, as has every other intelligent mind.

Eckhart Tolle sat on a park bench for 2 years.
David Hawkins was alone in meditation for 6 months.
Om Swami spent 3-6 month is 24/7 solo meditation on a freezing cold mountain.
Peter Ralston lived alone in the jungle in Hawaii for 2 years.
Daniel Ingram has done many multi-week 24/7 retreats.
This is realistically what it takes to achieve serious spiritual results. That's why it's rare.

As soon as you can find them.
Starting solo is there in case it takes you a while to find someone.
Not gonna lie, solo is brutally hard. It grows you the fastest but I don't trust anyone to learn game solo. That is hellishly hard. I wouldn't trust myself to manage that feat. That's like going to war alone.
Vodka cranberry.
Don't get hammered. One or two drinks max. Just enough to loosen you up.