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Yes because I don't believe any of the western countries are gonna adopt socialismt anytime soon. Best we can do is mimic the scandinavian countries. If somehow a socialist system were in place, I'm willing to bet obesity would be much lower. People in the US are also overworked. Although China and Japan especially have overwork built into their culture. I don't thine regulations are going to solve these problems, only soften their effects. A real solution would require a fundamental shift in culture and an increase in consciousness. These points are absolutely exclusive to capitalism because no other political system requires people to overconsume to excess to function. If people don't consume in a capitalistic society the economy fails.

Because of capitalism, companies prioritize profit over peoples health. Companies will therefore optimize for taste and price i.e the cheapest foods that activate dopamine receptors the most. These foods tend to had extremely high sugar, fat and salt as well as other dodgy chemicals. Unhealthy foods tend to be the cheapest as well as the most widely distributed and advertised. Can you name me a food franchise that is healthy and as cheap as mcdonalds and burger king? I don't really have a perfect solution for this but at the very minimum, I would increase taxes on extremely unhealthy food and use the profits for heart disease research. Even this would have a huge public backlash and likely wouldn't have a chance of being passed. The problem isn't just the economic system. It's more the culture that arises as a result of capitalism that encourages people to consume to excess. Stage green countries like Norway and Denmark have much lower rates of obesity than the US. Asian countries like China and Japan have even lower rates of obesity because overconsumption isn't built into their culture.

Nofap always felt like I was repressing a part of myself. I've done 1 month streaks and I did get some benefits but I always ended up getting depressed.

I agree with you on an individual level. However on a societal level, due to capitalism, companies design their products to maximize profits and as such, they put in ingredients that are extremely addictive to our animal brains as well as being cheaper than healthier options. This makes people have an innate dopaminergic bias to eating these foods. Furthermore, healthy foods can be expensive and time consuming to cook especially if people are extremely busy (which they are because of capitalism). No one is forcing people to eat donuts. But you cannot deny the effect of capitalism on people dying because they ate too many donuts. The american diet is extremely unhealthy and a lot of that is attributable to capitalism.

They die because a lot of food is unhealthy, which is a problem with capitalism.

@michaelcycle00 IFS stands for internal family systems therapy. It's basically an advanced method of shadow work for healing trauma and other mental disorders. But I like to combine it with mindfullness and other forms of spirituality.

I just had the craziest experience. After doing ifs for a decent while, I noticed a pretty significant energetic blockage in my neck area corresponding to my throat chakra. It felt like there was energy rising up from my lower body but there was a protector part blocking the energy and preventing it from moving upwards. It took me several weeks to get accquanted with this part and during a session I managed to integrate the part so that it would let go and let energy through. Immediately I felt energy almost like an electric current moving through my neck and head. I felt my entire face vibrating as energy moved through it. Eventually, the energy stabilised and I felt a energy blockage corresonding to my third eye chakra. I used the same method that I used before to unblock it and the energy moved up into the crown chakra where it was once again blocked. While attempting to unblock it, I noticed an intense fear that if I let go, my mind would dissolve and I would cease to exist as an individual. I kept trying to unblock it but I was unsuccessful so I went to bed. While I was in bed, I tried to sleep as I had a job interview next day, however, there was so much energy in my crown chakra that I was unable to sleep. I tried once again to unblock it with a more gentle approach and this time it was successful. I had an extremely intense psychedelic experience where I merged with the universal consciousness. Its like the consciousness/energy in my body was water in a bottle in the ocean and by opening my crown chakra, I had removed the lid and allowed the water in the bottle to merge with the ocean. However, before I could fully surrender to this infinite consciousnes, I was hit with intense intrusive thoughts which showed me my worst fears and must fucked up thoughts (People I love dying horrific deaths). This was a protector part trying to stop me from completely letting go, it convinced me that because my worst fears are technically possible, I could not fully let go. It also convinced me that because I was connected to universal consciousness, my worst fears would manifest due to the law of attraction and my trying to make them go away, I was actually giving them energy which would make them even more likely to manifest. This created a nasty feedback loop which almost felt like a bad trip which stopped my from fully letting go. I decided to use the IFS approach to understand the protector part responsible for my intrusive thoughts. Its trying to prevent me from letting go of fear because life contains fucked up stuff. Therefore I have to have some underlying fear and clinging to be prepared. Its trying to protect the parts of me that are traumatized from seeing the fucked up aspects of the world. This greatly lessened the intrusive thoughts but I was unable to surrender my ego to the universal mind. I also had a job interview the next day which i was worried about which also prevented me from letting go. I lay there in bed trying to sleep. However, instead of going unconscious I started seeing intense hypnogogic visuals almost remniscent of DMT. I started dreaming but I was still conscious and self aware of my dreams although they more resembled weird thoughts and shapes rather than any thing realistic. I woke up the next day fairly normal, but damn what a weird experience.

I would have been fine if I had trip sitter but I did it alone so I'm a bit of an idiot. I would attribute the trip going wrong on several factors: 1. It was in the middle of lockdown so my mental health wasn't ideal 2. I had taken a long break from psychedelics, so my tolerance had likely decreased a lot 3. I had spent the last few months meditating intensely. During the trip, I felt some mental discomfort so I tried some meditation techniques which likely made the trip far more intense. 4. I vaped cbd beforehand, which may have interacted with the LSD 5. I did it in a dark room which amplified the trip a lot. 6. It was in the middle of summer so the room was very hot which made me dehydrated and quite uncomfortable. 7. I don't know 100% if I actually did but I possibly took 5-htp the day before which interacts badly with psychedelics. I think 2 and 3 are the most probable because I did 100ug 1 year after that and had a super intense ego death experience even with all other factors different. However this one actually didn't end badly as I took all safety precautions.

No, I did 2 tabs of 100ug visually it was exactly like 200ug. I think being in a dark room intensified it.

100% sure. It was from the same strip that I had used before with no problems. I had also tested the strip with ehrlich reagent.

about 20 lsd trips with 10 being high dose and 2 heroic doses. And about 20-30 dmt trips with 2 breakthroughs. The trip was around 200ug which is a dose I had done many times before with no difficulty. It should be noted that I took a 6 month break from psychedelics where I meditated every day.

It's all good. While it was a horrific experience, I learned some extremely valuable lessons from it.

No, but I did vape a bit of cbd beforehand to reduce comeup anxiety. I remember becoming so overwhelmed with ego death that I forgot my name, what time was, or that i had even taken drugs.

yeah this legit happened. I still kinda have ptsd from it. Although it hasn't stopped me from trying psychedelics again.

I took 2 tabs of LSD and blacked out and ended up leaving my house in an ego death state and got hit by a car. I passed out on the streed and ended up in hospital where i freaked tf out. luckily I had no physical injuries but was a pretty traumatizing experience.

I exist

and in the same way, nothing guarantees a cure for cancer

That's not necessarily true. Understanding how a problem works doesn't guarantee a solution. For example, scientists pretty much have had a full picture of how fusion works for, but they can't create an effective fusion reactor.

Managed to unburden an exiled part. It was incredibly intense, rivaling the psychedelic experience. The exiled part responsible for my feelings of unworthiness dissolved into a void of infinite love. My energetic body felt extremely spacious as if the part had left behind an empty space. The next day was strange, The part no longer burdened my but I had intense bouts of anger which consumed my entire being, and so I had an intense argument with my sister over some mean comments that I could have easily shaken off. The anger could also stem from my stress over job applications so its probably unrelated to the unburdened part.

Damn those are some amazing achievements! I strive to be where you are! If I was in your position, I would travel and go on adventures, explore consciousness with psychedelics and find a deep meaningful relationship. And after I got bored of that, I would use my resources to help others.

Same reason why people stay natty when bodybuilding.

I got god realization from 10 minutes of meditation the other day . Didn't last very long tho

you will care when the economy collapses and you can no longer afford to pay rent.

Discovered a protector part responsible for laziness and procrastination. This part believes that life is too difficult and painful for my exiled part and therefore to avoid pain, I must lie in bed all day and distract myself. This part is trying to protect an exiled part that carries my feelings of unworthiness and guilt. I will then blame and repress my exiled part when I fail to achieve goals due to procrastination. This increases the burden on the exiled part creating a vicious circle. I have internalized the voices of my parents, bullies and teachers and treat my inner child the same way they did. The funny thing is no one has treated me like that for a long time except myself. My parents are a lot more kind and respectful towards me. The types of people who used to bully me now want to be my friend. As for all the teachers that said I couldn't make it, I have a valuable master's degree from a top university so fuck them. The only person critical of me is myself at this point...

First of all, I (and probably you) lack the resources necessary to do anything about it. Second of all, most attempts at making the world a better place actually make it worse due to a lack of systems thinking and holism. Therefore the most important aspect of self improvement is to raise your own consciousness. I don't think Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs have actually helped any of the issues facing humanity. The root cause of the world 'burning' is due to low consciousness and they did not make the world more conscious. I have a question for you. What do you think someone like me should do to solve societies problems? and I'm not talking about some vague answer like ' improve yourself'.