Carl-Richard

That's a WEIRD joke

It fits pretty well for me too, which is not surprising coming from a Western culture. I'm mainly interested in how they justify applying it to non-Western cultures (and cross-cultural people).

@SonataAllegro The stages were derived from empirical data. If the data only consists of American college students, it's at best an American developmental model, and therefore you can't apply it to non-American individuals or cultures without justifying that somehow (which is what I'm asking for).

Are you up-to-date with the latest health legislation? At least in Norway where I live, it's almost all about systemic approaches to preventive healthcare (primary, secondary, tertiary), health promotion (salutogenesis), better coordination between health services, and patient participation.

Lower consciousness than no education?

You could probably make the case that believing in conspiracy theories correlate negatively with things like education. You won't get very far into meta-awareness or understanding self-deception and self-bias without visiting post-modernism.

All mental illnesses exist on a spectrum of normal human functioning. You have more in common with conspiracy theorists than you think, or what I like to say: we all have a little conspiracy theorist inside of us. It's in many ways a battle against the human condition: of internalizing a contracted perspective on emotional grounds and defending it through post-hoc rationalization. The issue is really just about how honest or transparent you want to be about this process and how self-aware you are about which rationalizations you use, which is essentially what epistemology, self-deception and meta-awareness is about. Conspiracy theorists are generally less aware of exactly how they arrived at their position, but the exact way you arrive there is very similar across all value systems.

People who practice Islam generally need to adopt a more pluralist, non-literalist interpretation of not just religion but of worldviews in general, which is a big ask considering how the West is not anywhere close to doing that. For those who have grown up in the West and dislike the ideas associated with Islam, try to notice your own ethnocentric/fundamentalist interpretations when it comes to your own Western values (secularism, democracy, freedom of speech), even though you might rationalize it across developmental lines (SD also has a Western bias on many levels). You should be vary about convincing people to adopt your own worldview without understanding the limitations of your worldview.

I guess this is a more descriptive model than an explanatory one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede's_cultural_dimensions_theory

You are asking.

Is it true that I will die? Am I in control of death?

Seems like defining being as control is what is petty wordplay.

Why?

Why?

Far-Right + White nationalism.

Well of course, but in his own words

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanging

In his discussion with Lawrence Krauss, JP revealed that he has always had a deep dislike for social activists and idealists. Not so surprising then that the video that got him famous was him arguing with activists. Seems like it's bleeding over to his view on climate activism as well. It would be interesting if Joe could prod him on that.

It could be good as a shamanic tool once in a blue moon. Just don't do it regularly.

"Externalizing disorder" is a fuzzy concept, but I'll give you a list of relevant conditions (with DSM-5 codes): Attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders: Cluster B personality disorders:

@Fearless_Bum Is the banana peel supposed to look seductive like that?

Depends on what your problem is. For example, CBT is very good for internalizing disorders (anxiety, phobias and depression), but less good for externalizing ones (impulsivity, aggression and antisocial behavior).

I watched it up to that point, and then I had to turn it off when Joe did the "x is not the same as y" thing, as if things weren't bad enough already ?

Because sometimes you don't want to be too rational. Rationality unchecked deconstructs meaning and purpose, hence why existential nihilism and unhinged hedonism becomes a problem at Orange. Orange work ethic tends to be a slave to hedonistic pleasures, exploitative corporate success, material wealth and social validation (status, sex, drugs and money). There is a lack of higher-order purpose, of morality, of giving back to the community.

A less dogmatic and more rational version.