Epikur

You want to have a just society? Why not go full in? Why stop at a random red line?

I am not shure about that. His critics said that he will start World war 3. He is farer away from the worst case scenarios than the classic Bolton, Hillary warhawks who might have already be in war with iran and what not. His critics from his group critics him that he became to establishment. They want much more extreme action. The guy is the will of big parts of the people. You have to critisize these people not much changed there I guess.

Yes I know what you mean and that sounds right and good but you have the case that sometimes if you want to help a organisation or let's say a company you don't want to give the CEO or the most productive members what they are worth otherwise you might destroy the company. Democratisation sounds good on paper in realitiy it's quite a mess. I made that thread about epistocracy. It reminds me always of Vaush's pet project the worker coops and the democratization of the work place. It does not sound realtistic at all. So you might be careful if you want to sacrifice a working system.

Who knows there might come a neo conservative revival.

Well it is early morning here. I wrote some stuff in the politics for the warm up. Till I started posting here I was not fluent in writing in a forum in english. Now it feels quite nice and I feel the flow. Anyway let's get back to the hard things. That is doing the work. Yesterday I was at say 50% of what I wanted. So I feel it's ok. This time I started with my Journal early. Let's see if that is going to make a change. Yesterday I did not do Karaoke till 4pm but boy after doing that I felt happy. Specially after doing a lot of meditation and having done my workouts I could really integrate it to feel happy and energetic. Yesterday I did not do much reading and that showed. I need the novel reading so that my brain works halfways ok. Yesterday before sleep I did some reading that helped me a lot this morning. My brain was quite active. I am thinking about implementing some dance routines. I may write a little challenge in the dance thread. I like the thread. Also because the people have so different tastes from me.

After warming up in the forum to get used to writing in english it's time to get more into the heart of the things that is the things I don't want to do but think I should do. I am not shure yet how I am going to organize my little projects I guess with time some patterns will show up. At the beginning I want to go into it very slowly. As we know habits should be created slowly and regularly. I guess the first step is to post maybe 2 times a week or more. I would like to post daily but that sounds too optimistic but I might still try it. Another side effect I hope is that I might stop posting so much in the politics forum for obvious reasons. So what are my routines or rituals I want to work on? Most of them I do for years. I start with karaoke. I love this routine. It gives a lot of emotional energy. Some may say it opens the chakras.

He is the sign of decay of the US you could say. If you make a clown your president who do you blame? The clown or the country?

If the white people in the US lose their drive things might get very challenging too. The white people seem to lose their energy to engage domestically and and globally. Globally the chinese might just take over. How would you envision China being the world super power and the US becomes as strong as France?

Again it creates a chain reaction world wide. You have countries like Poland. They see what is going on. If they are conservatives they will be much more rough against liberals. The harder you push the harder you might get a push back from places you don't expect and with huge time delay. People remember. That is something you have to put into the calculation even if you think you are right.

Yes you have the founding docs and than you have reality I guess. What do you prefere? The US is founded by taking land from others. The legitimation was because we are are stronger, because god wants it, because we have a superior culture because we don't care anyway. Later Europe was on fire. So the US got the job of world police some would say biggest warlord. It's a matter of perception I guess but probably some would bet without the US we would have more chaos in the world. Hard to find out. Bottom line big part of the US is about because we can. Of course you have also what you pointed at with democracy of the founding fatheres (mostly from britain?)

I mean you are right but that is not something new. It's like saying simbabwe will hardly make it to the moon because they don't have the foundations. Well yes. The next step is why and are there faster ways to get higher? Some places like Tibet, India, Thailand have meditation in their culture. It helps somewhat but not too much. Life is messy and meditation seems to be a way for the few. I think spirituality is not reasonable at all because it kills the will to make kids and life. You become nihilistic relativistic basically. It does kind of go against how we think nature works.

It's all about chain reaction. The US is a social construct. If you take away the pillars and try to replace it you make a bet. You want more justice? You might want to get rid of the US. It is an empire. You have to destroy the US basically. So envision that. How do you think it will look if there is no US anymore? If it looks good go for it.

Bring in some millions of refugees from Afghanistan and middle east and Africa. Then it gets really "divers"

I mean something else. The different groups are in general in a cease fire. They know they want more but they live in a compromise. If one group starts to get "greedy" it creates a chain reaction like with gang wars. Struggle do dominate. So even if you think you are right. There are people who can make it much worse. That is why Sam Harriss started to believe the US is heading to the Weimar Situation. Things back fired hard by trying to overthrow "tyranny". Life is hard sometimes it seems like hell. A compromise between Stockholm Syndrom and war. Ah yes and the hope for utopia.

Who can do it? Is it even possible? Like herding cats? It's not even that diverse in many US cities. Put in some more orthodox communists, orthodox muslims, tribals and things will get a little bit more challenging.

They don't ask because there are no answers. After the why it never ends another why will come. So he has to answer the why with some random answer as he has to make a decision. Lost in the why is not always a fun way to live. Actually I guess often people come to the why's because they are miserable and don't see other options. The whys broght Adam in trouble in the first place. The whys can become a disease.

One reason I can rationalize wasting time with politics is because there are similarities between political systems and personal systems. Think about it. Basically a person is a social construct. He has to develop principles, patterns and policies how to deal with the outer world and the inner world like countries do. You can even use some models from political system in people. Actually you can say the systems mirror people. Also vice versa. Like in the chicken and egg problem. So basically you might have a democratic way of dealing with your inner world. You might have a fascist way of dealing with it. You might be fluctuating. So the political system can be a objectifying and mirroring of our thinking. With that it is easier to analyse it as it is enough seperated from us. We can easier research it in a unbiased way.

Spirituality is basically playing and experimenting with the mind in the hope you will find something out. Like with some sciences I guess there is a dead end. It's good to realize it early on otherwise you wasted time and energy that you will not get back and regret it. Or worse as you are too invested you make a cult of it as you don't have a life anyway.

If you think this government is a Tyranny you might want to check the definition of Tyranny. In the US there is still democracy. By that logic every group can say the government is a Tyranny and start fighting against it. You might very much look like a terrorist very fast. It's normal that in a country like the US millions of people are angry. It's a mess to govern such a big country with opposite views on everything. You can not herd cats. It's basically impossible. The right size for a country seems to be 8 million people. The US is an empire. What can you expect from an empire?

Let's get back to training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hkJpMaHEw

Democracy is only good for swiss people. Let's try Epistocracy like in Jason Brennan's book "Against Democracy":

When you take away the giants you fall down or you spiral magically higher I don't know. The higher you rise the harder you fall. We know that from Ikarus.

Most people are comfortable in the lower stages of maslow's pyramide. Why work hard to get higher for no obvious reason if you don't have to? Life is short. Progressives are obsessed with progression even if regression looks them in their face I guess.

You seem to be very optimistic. Good luck with that. Many countries in the world don't seem to be interested in integrating standard women into the society but you think it's reasonable to just put more challenges on top of it with 1 billion new genders. That does not look very practical but who am I to know that? We will see.

So I make a quick note to self shame me so I get more motivation. As I failed yesterday I had to do a reset. I mainly focused on meditation and work. Work was ok not enough but it's a new beginning again. So I skaled back from my other routines as well. I love theses routines but it seems that my brain does not have the capacity to process all of the activities. My willpower burns out it seems. Anyway I might write later again. I want to just put some public pressure on me.