Basman

Leo/Teal: "Thank god I'm the normal one here."

It is a genuine issue of modernity that there are less organic avenues for socialization. We as a society largely have prioritized efficiency and individuality. You have too take way more responsibility for socialization nowadays as opposed to it being happenstance of every day living.

Americans boomers have an undying hatred of alternatives to cars. They see cars as a symbol of freedom and independence. They don't see how the need for cars is partially a self-reinforcing paradigm.

Have you ever been to Belgium? When everyone drives, no one drives, since roads are completely congested. No exaggeration, in a city like Gent it takes literally half an hour to get from a location to the grocery store, which takes you on bike maybe 10 minutes.

Cars have some significant deliterious effects on society. When everyone drives you have build cities to accomodate cars, which then caused distances between A and B to increases, which further necessitates cars. Cars are like mycelium in how they alter their environment to suit their spread. For what is collectively a highly inneficient form of transport. You need so much space, create so much pollution, just to transport on average 1-2 people. A line of cars at a stop-light is a fraction of the amount of people one buss can carry. All while congesting traffick, eating up real estate, making cities noisy and making society less social, unhealthier, more stressed and more isolated. Car centrism is like an addiction to us. A quiet city where everything is within walking distance is a dream. Increases to foot traffick is also good for local economies, like mom and pop stores.

I'm honestly quiet indifferent to GTA. I'm not really into these cinematic games. They are way too self-important and focused on cutscenes and graphics as opposed to fun gameplay and a novel art style. A good game doesn't need cutting edge realistic graphics to be a timeless classic. In fact, I find the emphasis on realism to be creatively boring.

Nobody hates the US more than liberal Americans.

God's command still applies since we are still "post-fall". Veganism would be disobeying god and therefor haram.

I'm currently redoing it. Fell off kind of the first time. Felt like I rushed things a bit back then. Actually, I think I've done parts of it twice before. My current iteration has been the most clarifying, though I think I already kind of know the final answer. It still feels good to figure out the minutia of one's values, strengths, etc.

This sounds like a delusion to be honest. Your creating a bogeyman out of government. Suicide among men is more correlated to macroeconomics than direct policy. It's largely a money issue in my opinion. Men are also worse at giving and recieving emotional support.

Technically, the issue isn't that humans are "destroying" nature but that it's changing too fast for many species to keep up. The only law of nature is adaptability. Human domination is an expression of nature.

How does the government cripple men?

Welfare solutions to a certain extend subsidize for an individualized society. Tight knit communities combine resources effectively which can supplant the need for government allocated resources up to a certain degree. It's through tight knit communities that humans survive in the absence of a government authority. Our thinking relative to collective survival is highly individualized, though there exists alternatives. Individualism doesn't seem perfectly suistanable to me.