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Christiania was overrun by gangs due to a lack of rules and police until they made a deal with the Danish government to sell the buildings in exchange for police enforcement. These kind of communes always tend to turn into a shit show or become semi-cults in the long-run because they don't appreciate what it takes to maintain order.

I no longer really use ChatGPT. What's the point when it doesn't know anything? It's sicophancy breeds false confidence and you can't trust that what it says isn't just regurgitated Reddit. It's a waste of time when I can just do my own thinking.

Tragedy of the commons. When there is dysfunction in the system, they'll vote in populists who are only there for self-serving reasons and are going to make things worse. Then they'll repeat that pattern ad naseum till we no longer have a democracy. If the issue is a sense of agency in the electorate then the solution is to somehow find a way to make the electorate feel a sense of agency again within the democratic system. That would involve reinventing our way of centrist technocracy.

Conspiratorial thinking is a kind of magical thinking where you outsource responsibility for society to an mystical group of elites. It's characteristic of people who suffered tragedy and survival difficulties to cope with hardship. In my opinion, you can speculate in moderation with knowledge that it is to a certain degree unsubstantiated, but ideally with a degree of understanding of how politics and society works. Like, no one completely controls society. Or understand that elites have a psychology of their own and are thenselves subject to human weakness, like peer pressure, mental illness, etc. They are not these mystical beings who are essentially evil, like a krampus hiding under your bed.

They've exhanged rationality for an illusory sense of agency.

Uh oh. Shit like this makes me think Epstein's deal was essentially being a pimp for elites. It's sure is a way to network. Elite society is small and every one knows each other more or less. It's totally imaginable how a swanky sex trafficker can get you any girl you desire spreads just through word of mouth and connections.

Sounds like it is primarily a communication issue. Communication is how you deal with the frictions of living together for the most part. That is something both parties ideally strive for in a relationship. Like, he doesn't seem to communicate his wants before he is already pent up and resentful. Maybe he is scared or something but gets too emotional. You'll have to talk about it. If your both on the same page about working on your relationship then you can try iron out the issues of the relationship. At least you'll learn some valuable interpersonal skills. I agree with the recommendation of couples therapy as an avenue for dialogue since you both seem to have your grievances and an experienced neutral third party could help facilitate that in a safe environment. Best of luck.

Why do you think Leo is bald?

Now we know for sure that Iran is getting invaded.

Australia is a psy-op to turn Iran white.

Traditional Japanese martial arts very conformist. Meditating and bowing at a portrait of the founder in a neat row or having to speak certain phrases in Japanese like "osu" whenever you receive instructions or bowing when you enter the dojo is cringey. The whole enterprise of Japanese martial is more about "building character" in the Japanese image than functional martial arts in my opinion. It's why I bounced off traditional martial arts in favor of more "western" stuff like kickboxing. Even when it comes to swordplay, HEMA is much more practically functional than Kendo. They tend to be semi-mystical, especially Aikido. In aikido you are trained to not resist your partner when they practice their moves, so you get stuff where someone a bit more experience can "throw" their partner over their shoulder like a rag, but it's more like a choreographed dance because the one being thrown is not only not resisting but actively moving with the motion. A lot of traditional martial arts, especially aikido, are glorified dance schools. Kata is literally memorizing a dance. Actual martial arts require strength. At least half of martial arts is just being strong, which traditional martial tend to sidestep in favor of largely unrealistic technical minutia and philosophy. All the instructors I've had in kickboxing have all been taller and stronger than average and in their physical prime.

I already knew who made this thread before clicking on it LMAO

I guess his speech check failed on me. To me it came off as trying to weasel out of hard questions. Like justifying a criminal enterprise because you donate to sick and poor people. It's the rich man's praying to god for forgiveness. The fact that he went into abstraction at all is weaselly and should ring alarm bells. It's like if you asked Putin why he invaded Ukraine and he starts explaining his version of 500 years of history. It's rhetorical smoke.

Bro, who cares? I engage because I have something to say.

What do you mean? He was obviously deflecting away from the question and bullshiting. Very manipulative.

If you stare hard enough into the abyss eventually you'll see the state of Israel.

Bro's excuse is that he donates to sick and poor people. That's only like a couple of steps above going to church and praying for forgiveness. Epstein himself was definitely pedomaxxing, but I'm not as sure of his associates necessarily, like Trump. It seemed to be more about opportunity and the victims that Epstein was already providing for sex. Bill Gates is implicated to have serviced "married women" of Epstein, whatever that means 🤨 It's hard to say for sure without definitive proof, but it seems like Epstein was the center of a sex trafficking and networking ring while working for intelligence. Probably Mossad. Secretly recording elites having sex with minors is prime blackmail material for one.

What makes them different from you on a fundamental level? That is what makes them evil.

The Epstein files are a gut punch for trust in institutions. There's an increasingly growing perception of an "Epstein class" of elites that are above the law and can't be held, no matter their level of depravity. It's a perception of political indefficiency to do the bare minimum of upholding the social contract. It's a crisis of trust. If disapproval of royals gets too high as they are seen as corrupt and complicit in and part of the "Epstein class" then you could see the long-term dissolvement of royal families all together.

The Norwegian crown-princess Mette-Marit was apparently in love with Epstein and cheating on her husband with him. It's unclear how much she knew but it seems likely that she knew atleast the gist that he was a pervert, but carried on any way. It seemed like she was very bored and felt it exciting to cheat, and potentially she felt it more exciting that he was shady, alluding to that perhaps she didn't expect to be exposed. Apparently, Epstein didn't like her back like that and talked behind her back, calling her "a mess". It's funny, because it didn't seem like she put two and two together that maybe she's not his "type". It's either a way a bad look, regardless of the truth, and her lying about and ommiting the truth implies that it's worse than we know.

This all just sounds like the autistic trait of lacking natural emotional insight into people and context.

A great example of the culture of language is how we define the relationship between working and not working. Linguistically, we define the time your not working as "leisure", which is defined by the absence of work, implying that work is the default state and that leisure is merely taking a break. In contrast, in Rome they used the word "odium" to define the time when you are not working and which was considered the "default". Otium when translated directly translates into leisure, but in Rome otium meant to engage in those activities that made you human in an earnest and serious way. Otium was the goal and your real "job" (to put it into a normative modern tongue). "negotium" -work, on the other hand is defined by the absence of otium. Not having to work was a reward in of itself for the Romans. It be like if we called work "unleisure".

I don't believe it's necessary for society to have a grand vision for society necessarilly. People feel hopeless because they feel their politics are untrustworthy and can't create tangible solutions. The solution then is to somehow create a functional alternative to liberal technocracy that isn't authoritarianism. Putting a pedo billionaire on trial and publicly executing him would do more for the current state than deconstructing masculinity would.

The trend is that societies are becoming more and more unified because it makes society stronger. I can only see decentralization happening due to a severe crisis or during the development of interstellar colonization. I think a big part of the decentrilization fantasy is the rejection of capitalism and distrust of government. Greenies tend to have an infatuation for anarchic communes. But when you don't monopolize violence via a sovereign power, violence becomes unregulated and you get chaos. That's basically the history of Kristiania.

The issue with people who follow Trump is that they gain a sense of agency over politics from him at the same time that they don't prioritize truthfulness in any rational way. They'll believe lies if it gives them a sense of agency. If you could somehow enable a sense of agency then perhaps you could perhaps steer more people into more constructive politics, but that is easier said than done if they basically have lost their minds. A lot of Americans arguably need to learn the hard way the destructiveness of their complacency and stupidity.