That is the bottom line, after all the stories and excuses.
Development is what drives everything. Even the so-called corrupt elites are just products of their society and culture. A neoliberal culture breeds people like Trump, Musk, Theil, Zuckerberg, Tate, lobbists, crypto grifters, and Wall Street wolves.

American Christians are as dumb as humans get and they will act accordingly by supporting the dumbest president of all time.
There is no healthy conservatism in America. It's corrupt and sick.

A real disorder is not psychosomatic.

1) Depression is such a psychological thing, so no surprise. Depression is not comparable to a health disorder.
2) I don't buy these claims that psychedelics cure depression. I think these reports are from people who are self-deceived. They will fall back into their depression.
You should assume that most reports of any kind of healing are self-deception.

Sam has good judgment on all the epistemic pervertry surrounding Trumpism.
One of the few public intellectuals who hasn't fallen down the anti-mainstream rabbit hole.
Musk has become completely unhinged. Full shameless douchebag oligarch mode.

Affirmative action: US Supreme Court overturns race-based college admissions
No more race based admission in college.  These affirmative action policies always disgusted me. Right from removal of gifted programs for kids to race(or caste based here in India), affirmative action policies are kind of secretly racist.
If this does not sound racist to you I do not know what will.
Affirmative action policies are discriminatory to students who work hard and excel. They prioritize kids who belong to 40 percentile over meritorious students from 90 percentile. Several Asian students who reported near perfect scores in SAT were left depressed because their scores were not enough for them to make into Ivy leagues. 
Affirmative action is never a stage yellow policy to overcome the oppression of the past. It is a knee jerk green reactionary policy (including the removal of gifted programs). The problem with admitting with students with weak scores is that they cannot keep up with the rigid curriculum ,so they tend to drop out or underperform since they are surrounded by over achieving counterparts. This is weird and humiliating in many levels. It is humiliating and depressing for the kids who get admitted into elite schools and for those who could not get into elite schools despite having meritorious scores.
What could be a stage yellow level policy that could replace affirmative action?
Thoughts.

Your explaination does not account for why women are more social than men.
Women are more social because their survival requires it.

Literally Thomas Campbell.
There are wackos, but you will not know about them because what you know is what is popular and mainstream.
But yeah, it is rare because you are asking for someone to master two totally different and even adversarial domains.
It's like you're asking why there are no hippie vegans working in a butchershop, or woke pacificst progressives working in the Navy Seals.
Mastering quantum physics requires 10 years of academic PhD training. And by the time you have invested that much time and money, speaking about God will just get you blacklisted as an unscientific crackpot who no one in academia should ever read, hire, fund, or work with. It would be career suicide. And that 10 years of training will brainwash you so deeply with materialism that you will never understand God.
And it's not like a new theory of quantum physics would be accessible to you or any laymen. So you would find it unsatisying too.

He takes steroids.

It's challenging. Life is challenging. Just do your best.
Never forget that this work we do it really challenging. Which is why good people are so rare.

Women need to be more social because their survival requires it.
Women are oriented towards people. Men are oriented towards things and abstractions. So of course a woman will feel more lonely if she is unable to be social. But in practice she will be more social than men and not feel lonely because her entire life already revolves around other people while a man's does not.

I've done his stupid diet and it didn't work.
The notion that you are going to fix a serious autoimmune disorder with fruits and vegetables is absurd.

Hitler was certainly an exceptional person. Few are at risk of becoming a Hitler. But the fools who follow him are typical Americans, since they have no wisdom. And not just them but even rich capitalists.

Well said.

No, it describes cognitive complexity, which is way beyond a mere unitive experience. Be careful not to conflate these things.
That's a huge difference.
It's way more than just descriptions. It's a totally different kind of mind.
Haha, now you sound like one of those lunatic post-modernists who say that objectivity and truth are white male values.
No. It's not about white collar elitism. Construct-awareness is as serious as this work gets, and no one has it.
Having mystical or unitive experiences does not give you mastery over the mind.
Just distinguish awakening from development. These are not the same thing. I thought we made this point clear long ago. Why are you still lumping these things together?

Yes, good.
1) Trump, or a criminal gangster. Typical blue-colar American who barely passed high school and cannot point to Iran on a map and goes to fooball games and prays to Jesus for his football team to win the campionship so he can win $1000. Typical MAGA rally-goer. Typical American right-winger who thinks Trump is sent by Jesus to save us from communist Biden.
2) Typical stage Orange materialist scientist at MIT. Autistic atheist type like Stephen Wolfram. Many atheist intellectuals are here. Eric Weinstein.
3) Typical hippie New Ager type. Many spiritual healers, witches, shamans, mystics, etc. These are usually people born with spiritual talents thanks to genetics. They operate on faith and intuition. They love stuff like Law of Attraction and astrology. My last girlfriend. The type of person who thinks RFK Jr is God's gift to politics.
4) Ralston, Ken Wilber, Actualized.org 
What is the difference between Actualized.org and hippie New Ager spirituality?

Makes no sense since most mystics are not only not Tier 3 but not even Tier 2.
Placing mysticism into Tier 3 is an even bigger problem than placing awakening into Tier 2.
Look, you just gotta accept that all these models are like the Mercator projection of the Earth -- horribly warped.

Hitler also won. Doesn't mean you should make deals with him, trust him, or cozy up to him.

All these people are ignorant, corrupt buffoons. I am not making any deals with them and I am not going to give them any benefit of the doubt or ground.
First they must all resign. Then we can discuss how to improve government further.
Stop acting like any of these people care about government. They are only there to serve themselves. That's their only agenda.
It is like you are trying to compromise with Hitler. This fundamentally misunderstands the kind of people you are dealing with.

As I keep saying, mankind's capacity for self-deception is infinite. Doesn't matter how smart you are or whatever other BS you think will keep you safe.
The Devil is smarter than you.
Pickup has corrupted Owen's mind. That's the natural cost of devoting your life to manipulating women for sex. This should be obvious. As a Christian Owen should know that lust is one of the 7 deadly sins.

TechBro billionaires are just libertarian egomaniacs. There's nothing mysterious or profound about their politics. It's so transparently self-serving and intellectually bankrupt.

Narcs care about that stuff a lot.
Once you have all the money in the world, what do you do? All that's left to chase is attention, approval, praise.
Attention and praise can be a greater high than money, because it makes the ego feel validated in all its self-deceptions. What Musk really wants is to convince himself his worldview is correct. And the best way to do that is to enroll millions of people to lick you up and down.
Fame is one hell of a trip.

Those "woke distractions" procure civil and minority rights. Don't dismissed them so flippantly.
Without those "woke distractions" gay people would be locked in prisons.
It's amazing how quickly people forget that all these minority groups had zero rights just a few decades ago and were demonized as lepers. Now everyone acts like that never happened and never needed to be fought against.
Dipshits like David Rubin can sit on YT and complain about wokeness without even an ounce of self-awareness of how woke activists gave him his gay rays.

If luck didn't exist, Trump would be in prison.

Owen had to delete all his old videos because he had an inside scoop from people at YT that they were gonna ban his accounts thanks to JulienGate blowback and all the toxic masculinity which was bad for YT's ad business.
YT had to crack down on hardcore pickup content because it was too sexist and YT was going mainstream. YT also cracked down on stuff like race IQ, which is why they banned Molynueax. YT had to crack down on the most toxic channels to keep the platform ad-friendly.
You can still find old vids through torrent sites.
In the end it was Owen's fault for not reigning in the toxic masculinity of RSD. He allowed it to fester into a cancer. It was the Wild West of sexism, misogyny, egotism, and devilry.