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Anti-psychotics, yes. My understanding though is that current anti-psychotics are pretty limited. They genuinely help with the most obvious symptoms, but struggle in other areas. It seems analogous to taking an SSRI for depression.

I find the question of how to treat schizophrenic patients fascinating. If you're a psychiatrist, you cannot just tell your patient to hallucinate a stronger boundary. True or untrue, this is unlikely to be useful advice for them. So the question is, how would you translate the metaphysical truth (porosity of mind) into some kind of tangible protocol or medicine? If that protocol already existed and was part of standard of care, then I would expect a lot less people who are suffering from schizophrenia. Which makes me think that protocol does not exist. Or, perhaps such a protocol cannot be sufficiently scaled / standardized at all.

Life is not a fantasy where you can solve all your problems. The vast majority of your problems you can do nothing about. Life is in control, not you.

The documentaries on low development areas are great. But good lord, some of these journalists come off as so naive. It's like they don't comprehend that everyone is just doing whatever to survive. "Why don't the cops stop the sex tourists???" Bruh

True solipsism

Sure, but still most people will not understand that.

“It” might not be one narrow thing. But you still need to commit to some form of mastery. Even Leo has committed to mastery of spirituality, epistemology, mind, teaching, making videos etc. If you don’t fully understand what “it” is, that’s fine. But then you should be experimenting, building skills and introspecting to better understand overtime. So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport might be a useful book for you.

This sounds like your problem. If you have strong monetizable skills, you will get paid. So commit yourself to mastery in something.

Just stop right here. You need to work on your hatred. No amount of hatred for women is justified.

Yes, if done properly.

Yes, that's what a higher state of consciousness is. You can have such experiences if you learn about them and seek them out.

That's an extremely high bar though. You might as well dismiss everyone.

One might have a natural disposition towards independence or internal processing. But that alone will not get you to deep autonomy of mind.

I live in an area where tattoos are extremely common. It's rare to meet a woman who doesn't have one. It's obvious that most people are not doing it out of autonomous thinking, but just because it's the style and culture. If these same people grew up or lived somewhere else, they would not have these tattoos. Tattoos are usually supposed to be examples of original thinking. But then everyone gets them, and it just becomes the same conformity. Conformity masquerading as non-conformity. Tattoo corruption. It's hard to draw a line exactly what I consider excessive. Serious neck or face tattoos are definitely out for me. Probably also full sleeves.

Tattoos are not a deal breaker, but I don't like them if it becomes excessive. There's a lot of conformity in tattoo culture.