Naval on form. where have you been hiding sir ?
The modern struggle Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists & statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, & medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games & addictive drugs.
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It’s hard to come up with things that are original (to me), true, not derogatory, within the Overton Window, and don’t read like a fortune cookie.
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Go outside the Overton Window then
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Not at all. The vast majority of the this is you pretend we struggle against, really are things people chose to consume. Nobody is forcing you to watch those commercials, buy junk food, spreading misinformation or wasting your life on video games.
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Evolution is forcing you.
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Obviously false, given the choice not to.
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He means: Conscious & permanent effort to go against human programming for comfort, fitting in & foll. herd. Only few are able to long term. Only very few deadlifting/squatting next to me in gym. Only very view buidling passive income by investing to be free f. selling own time
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That's neither what he said, nor does it conflict with anything I said.
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You do have the choice but people are more likely to side with those that require less effort. Emotions play a big role there and if you do not know how to control them you end up suffering. Youre just a driver of a machine. Learn to detach.
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This is actually a really great tweet. In the lonely wilderness of the mind, many magical techniques are found that are unfortunately inapplicable to few other than the founder. Finding or imbibing even one of these jewels changes the entire dynamics of the game of life.
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Good observation.
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Human life is gradually turning from a struggle against suffering into a struggle against pleasure.
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I think the struggle with pleasure and desire has always been there. Desire leads to attachment which in turn leads suffering. The first noble truth in Buddhism.
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Yes. Primitive forms of wireheading are already becoming ubiquitous, and they only ever ratchet in one direction. longer thoughts:https://thedeepdish.org/wireheading/
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Modernity selects for those who resist it
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