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In my country and probably in some others, the main critique against politicians is that they can't identify with the average person anymore, because they live in their own bubble. The person complaining about this is mostly also living in his own bubble. Getting rid of ignorance is bursting that bubble to see more than one's own perspective. Goals will then exceed the paradigm of society and seem way too radical to most people. A true visionary is very hard to find in politics, because few people resonate with his ideas. You need to clearly separate qualities like intelligence, rhetorical skill and ambition from a person's paradigm and ignorance. Most politicians we have are in fact very intelligent, rehtorically skilled and ambitious. But they are of course in the same paradigm like most of society, which still tends to ignore everything that is above or below it. That's why we see agressive and pointless debating without arriving at a conclusion. It's all about defending the own perspective while blocking away everything else.

Sugar and society I watched a 90 minute documentary yesterday, featuring Dr. Robert H. Lustig, an anti-sugar scientist. The video exposed the sugar industry and their propaganda, showed how integrated sugar is in western society and was also about the various health risks it comes with."Name one holiday in which sugar doesn't play a major role" was a quote from it that really opened my eyes. Pretty much every single holiday we celebrate (Christmas, Easter, New Year's, birthdays, Mother's day, Valentine's day etc.) invovles a whole lot of comsuption, sugar especially. It improves our mood and therefore it is probably the most accepted drug in our culture. We often express love or sympathy by giving sugary foods to others. The video inspired me, but I decided to take it slow and only cut out sweets, ice cream etc. until the 24th of December. Even from that I expect cravings and I don't think it will be easy to resist the temptations at this time of the year. Today's Water Fast After binging and not sleeping enough the last day, the challenge was surprisingly easy. What I noticed again is that I fantasize about greasy / salty food and open the fridge automatically sometimes. Not eating some free sweet stuff at school was easy though. I drank some green tea, mint tea and water with a pinch of salt, way more in total than I usually do. My energy levels were actually above average and I didn't feel as much nausea as last time. Earlier the day I was quite hungry, but since waking up from a 3 hour nap in the evening it's better. Nevertheless I'm looking forward to eating again tomorrow. I'm planning to do one more 24 hour fast in about a week before increasing the duration.