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What's expected is that a younger generation of healthy adults should not be asymmetrically dependent on their aging parents. The parents are still independent and in control. Why do they get to own their own home? This does not solve that. It just creates enmeshment.

I think it's more problem than healing. Calling it "multi-generational communal living" is a stretch. It's really younger adults dependent on older ones. The dependency is asymmetric and reflects the fact that younger adults in particular are struggling to provide their own survival. This creates resentment, stifling and lack of groundedness in younger adults.

Then you will be raging against nationalists for the rest of your life. You will never succeed. Nation-states are going nowhere. When is "some point"? 5 years? 50 years? 500 years? If your solutions are only useful 500 years from now, you have no real solutions. Just idealizations.

No they are NOT. You may feel they are dead, but the vast majority of the world population does not agree with you. And they will fight you to the death. Even a globally integrated society will still require nations. In the same way that the United States still requires states and cities, even though it is united.

We disagree if you think the US is some kind of unique evil. There is nothing unique about the US. This is the exact same game that has been playing out since the beginning of time: survival and power. Every nation would behave like the US if they could. This is what history has shown us. They only don't because they can't. And of course the US understands this and therefore wants to remain on top, which is why they will never give up power. Is it fair? No. It is self-justifying? Yes. Nonetheless, this is the situation we are in. Any serious solution you propose must contend with this. Otherwise you are just fantasizing, not doing real political thinking.

I didn't suggest we shouldn't unite. Uniting is the point of stronger global institutions. That's what uniting looks like.

I would like to see stronger global institutions that all nations are subject to. There is nothing particularly unique about the US, in the sense that global superpowers have always been rogue. Geopolitics are about power, and those with power decide what happens. Even if you could theoretically reel in the US, what then? Another global superpower will emerge and behave exactly as the US does now. So my focus is not strictly on the US. It's more broadly about the challenge of superpowers.

You can do with a place like Cambodia because it's a small, undeveloped nation. The US is the world superpower. It'll never agree to it, and no one has the geopolitical leverage to make it happen.

That will solve nothing. You cannot just dissolve these kind of problems away.

Contemplate it. Have you ever experienced space outside your consciousness?

"Space" is inside your consciousness.

You just don't conceptualize it as push-pull.

Pickup techniques are given to you because they demonstrate what actual good flirting looks like. The point is not to ultimately destroy the techniques. The point is to make them natural and unconscious, rather than forced. That's just called being an attractive man.

I get that it's important for you to deconstruct pickup. But there really is no way of getting around push-pulls. Push-pull just is what flirting is. You don't need to force it, but you're not getting rid of them either.

That wasn't good but it wasn't terrible either. Some small adjustments and that could have landed.

Good stuff. The next level is coming back to learning how to be strategic with your time and selective with your attention. But now, not from a place of intimidation or heavy neediness.

Diet matters, but I think many people also overstate the significance. I was vegan at one point. Now I eat meat everyday and my spiritual clarity has only increased.

They are related, but I would be mindful about collapsing the distinction between the two. That's likely to lead to sense-making errors if done poorly. When we say "awakening", we usually mean something more profound than standard metacognition. Everyone has metacognition to a degree. Not everyone is awake.

You focus on what you can control and living towards your highest values. You don't need to fix the world.

Science proved evil exists, you just didn't hear about it

Pretty sure they got in trouble a few years back, although I can't recall all the details. I think they weren't properly testing their product.

Don't expect women you are dating to match your personal development ambition.

@Ryan M If you make that much money, you should be able to set up a social circle situation. Network in Vegas and use your money to attend events where you can meet women. You could also host events. Get creative.

I did not mean you personally. I meant higher than your average conservative.