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@ryoko I guess so

Thanks for your input. Yes, you can be driven and be conformist. Buy into the consumerism fantasy. Buy that Lambo and instantly you'll be respected by all 13 year old's and the homies in the hood. 😂 Or even better, rent it, post a pic and under no circumstances let anyone ever know how broken you truly are.

The Proof Podcast by Simon hill on YT and Rich Roll podcast on YT.

Conformity example recontextualization: being overweight, struggling with health issues and living off a processed food diet, everyone in your community is overweight and sick too. Being a militant vegan and being a good little conformist soldier shoving your vegan manifesto down the throats of anyone who disagrees with you.

Here is an example of what I believe to be a very subtle form of conformity. Would love to know others opinion. It's a glorification of unconcious survival behaviour. It's also conformity to a type of confusian values common in China, Korea and some other Asian nations, respecting family, cleaning your room, putting family above yourself, respecting customs etc. Not to say what he is doing is bad, but still conformity. Conformity in that he is playing the "good, respectable confusian golden boy" role (at least in my view). Stuff like this in every culture and every country (some of it unavoidable to most of us if you want to live in any given nation you must fit in to some extent), culture and cultural values as conformity. *Turn on subtitles on video Other examples could be: "My daily life as a wall street banker" "My daily life as leader of North Dakota Harley Davidson bike club" "My daily life as a Model" "My daily life as a Buddhist monk" "My daily life as a minimalist" And it goes on and on....You get the idea. Being the golden child in any human domain in which following the rules of the game wins you praise and approval from your buddies in the field. Ps: I enjoyed watching this video while eating some food, dude is chilled as jejeje. PPS: I think it would be a great idea to start a conformity examples megathread.

Thanks for this example. I am very conformist myself sadly.

Hey Leo, Thank you for sharing these examples of conformity on the blog. I would love to see if you have any examples of conformity that are not as blatently obvious as botox and lip enhancement. Would love to see content on forms of conformity so lowkey that most educated people are blind to them & take for granted (excluding the domain of science).

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Hey Leo, could you please elaborate a little bit on this latest quote of psychedelic depeception post and after? I didn't really understand what you meant? Could it be that there is self deception prior to taking these substances and that without proper epistemic grounding a post psychedelic trip could be a trap as one tries to piece it together but filters everything through one's biased and incomplete world view, coming to confuse and conflate the trips wisdom with one's personal selfish survival agenda? Thanks

@Wilhelm44 This channel is awesome too!

Martin Ball's channel of psychedelics: https://youtube.com/@entheogenicevolution He was one of the pioneers of 5 meo dmt research. Search his name on YT and watch his podcast interviews on other people's channels as his main channel is a little chaotic. Check out his books as they give a lot of grounding in simple language about the psychedelic experience and god realization.

Just read through the new books on the list. Pure gold here people...Thank you Leo!

Cool channel thanks for sharing

Slice has very good high production quality documentaries on people, cultures and societies:

I also lived in Denmark but didn't really bother rating it but it's a great place. Yeah, there is lowkey racism (mostly financial and educational) in NZ of the whites in the country over the Local Maori population. A bit like in Africa most of the wealth is held not by the local people but by foreigners. NZ has a brutal history and being such a new nation many of these conflicts are still not resolved and the nation is navigating the hurt as best it can.

That's the one, you're really onto it jejeje!

Sounds very conspiratorial if you ask me...

I know we make fun of Ross Coulthart here sometimes but go check out his recent conversation on the jesse Michaels podcast it actually good with lots of new talk coming out of Ross we haven't heard before. I thoroughly enjoyed that one.

I was born in Russia - 4/10 great culture and history but shit values, corruption and poverty. Our family home is in Spain I've lived in Spain about 7 years total - 6/10. Great food, cheap prices but much inequality in the society and very tough for young people who want to find work. I lived in Mozambique 6 years - 1/10 As a foreigner we were protected from the realities of the country, but yeah your typical poverty striken, corrupt, violent hell hole that is the story of most African countries. I now live in New Zealand - 9/10 NZ is a paradise. Like Australia it's neighbour, high wages and standard of living, low corruption, incredible nature and clean air, open-minded people. I live in the North Island were the weather is incredible all year round. Downsides are the ozone hole so always wear sunscreen and holidaying around the country can be very expensive.

Kainos - Tier 2 convos

I use my phone at night to listen to podcasts (with screen off only audio) or otherwise at least 30 min before sleep no phones. Because I find it hard to consistently keep a nighttime phone routine I do the following: I've got it programmed that an hour before sunset the phone turns black and white (decrease dopamine response), the blue light filter turns on and I've also set it up to lower it's brightness below the minimum brightness setting (I've got a Samsung that can do that but otherwise get an app that can lower your screen brightness below minimum).

Rebel Wisdom - Tier 2 conversations on social issues (Note they have not posted anything in the past 2 years) https://youtube.com/@rebelwisdom

Thank you for your videos friend! They have given me greater understanding and appreciation for psychedelics.

Journeyman Pictures has high quality documentaries on society and social issues. Some of their old ones are very good. On the channel go to their playlist section to quickly find the doc you are looking for. https://youtube.com/@journeyman

I'm going to share a list of channels Leo has previously featured on his blog. Channels revolve around various topics: 1. https://youtube.com/@centerforhumanetechnology 2. https://youtube.com/@doomscrollpodcast 3. https://youtube.com/@interestingtimesnyt 4. https://youtube.com/@ezrakleinshow 5. https://youtube.com/@vivec 6. https://youtube.com/@businessinsider 7. https://youtube.com/@newthinkingallowed 8. https://youtube.com/@moreperfectunion 9. https://youtube.com/@americanesoteric 10. https://youtube.com/@peopleprofiles 11. https://youtube.com/@philonauticaa 12. https://youtube.com/@thegreatsimplification 13. https://youtube.com/@integralnaked 14. https://youtube.com/@noeticsociety 15. https://youtube.com/@scienceclicen 16. https://youtube.com/@josephcampbellfoundation 17. https://youtube.com/@robloak 18. https://youtube.com/@letstalkreligion 19. https://youtube.com/@davidbohmsociety 20. https://youtube.com/@jordangreenhall 21. https://youtube.com/@thestoa 22. https://youtube.com/@futurethinkers 23. https://youtube.com/@wilberfiles5643 24. https://youtube.com/@fairperspectives142