I gave you Dunbar. I gave you serotonin. I gave you my idea on social networks not being our natural state. You want charts? It's already been tested. Look it up.

It's not one place. That's what I'm trying to say. It's a lifetime of experience. Being raised in religion. Having people lie to me. Watching their actions. Listening to people tell stories of abuse. Watching family members and friends interact. Listening to theories that do and don't make sense. I don't wholesale believe anyone. It's all piecemeal. Listening to professors explain how the brain works. How anti depressant meds work by modifying serotonin uptake. Lectures on microtubules and quantum consciousness. It's too much stuff. I just distilled it down because it's apparent to me that people think you can fix your brain without changing your environment. You brain is part of the environment. Change your environment change your mind. Get off of social media. Don't compare yourself to people you will never interact with. If you feel inadequate find something you are adequate at and be the best in your group at it. This is everything from national geographic, all the way to Alex Jones. I find the pieces that make sense and I put them together. Removing yourself from ever competing or comparing at all is not good. It's a type of egotism. It's also ignorance of your place in your group. You end up stepping on people's toes or hurting yourself or them because you are clueless of how you relate. Comparison is useful and it's built into your brain at a chemical level. You don't remove it or get over it, you just become delusional.

It's not one place. That's what I'm trying to say. It's a lifetime of experience. Being raised in religion. Having people lie to me. Watching their actions. Listening to people tell stories of abuse. Watching family members and friends interact. Listening to theories that do and don't make sense. I don't wholesale believe anyone. It's all piecemeal. Listening to professors explain how the brain works. How anti depressant meds work by modifying serotonin uptake. Lectures on microtubules and quantum consciousness. It's too much stuff. I just distilled it down because it's apparent to me that people think you can fix your brain without changing your environment. You brain is part of the environment. Change your environment change your mind. Get off of social media. Don't compare yourself to people you will never interact with. If you feel inadequate find something you are adequate at and be the best in your group at it. This is everything from national geographic, all the way to Alex Jones. I find the pieces that make sense and I put them together. Removing yourself from ever competing or comparing at all is not good. It's a type of egotism. It's also ignorance of your place in your group. You end up stepping on people's toes or hurting yourself or them because you are clueless of how you relate. Comparison is useful and it's built into your brain at a chemical level. You don't remove it or get over it, you just become delusional.

No, it's a fallacious argument from authority. I gave you the information or at least enough cursory knowledge to look up more on your own if in fact you think I don't know what I'm saying. Information doesn't require an authoritative source. It just exists and it's true or not. It's not up to me to say names you like till you accept facts as facts. Test them yourself.

What political lines? Everything is political if you want it to be. That has nothing to do with what I'm saying. Experts are the problem. Results are what matter. Experts dislike results that disagree with their books. Books are only as good as the words written in them. This reverence for some sort of authoritative source of knowledge doesn't impress me. What is your thesis? Why doesn't it hold up to anything I said without straw manning? That's what you should be questioning. Not, "where did you get your information." That should be a red flag that what you know might not be what you know it might just be what you've been sold.

what about bonobo games??

a healthy relationship with the self proliferates a healthy relationship with others :3

I'm getting the impression that you aren't listening at all. That's okay. Keep ignoring the pain of comparison and ignore it's lessons.

If by study you mean read approved books or go to school, no. If you mean understand religion, philosophy and psychology through childhood, experience and story and philosophical teachings and reading and watching videos online then sure. I'm getting the impression here that if I haven't read what you've read you are very exclusive of what you are willing to listen to. I notice how you talk in name drop and I talk in ideas. You even talk in named ideas and strawman them. "zero sum" is one example. If it isn't named or doesn't have an author you approve of them you aren't very receptive and that's very limiting imo. I think I've said enough to get my point across regardless of whether I met your approved reading quota. This is all based on an argument from authority which is a logical fallacy. It's doesn't automatically make you wrong or something but it's not great for communicating ideas. You seem to be more receptive to poetry but I find that to be manipulative so I don't do it.

He's saying it's a culture. An American culture. But it's not. It's all cultures. Everywhere. All the time. Because it's a reward mechanism for finding your place in your tribe that's built into your head and you are trying to make it irrelevant and will ultimately fail at the task. That part of the brain is what builds all cultures. The problem isn't with American culture. It's with the idea that you can eliminate a serotonin based reward mechanism from your brain and that by doing so, living as if you have 8 billion friends is suddenly possible. It's not. Dunbar's number is a real thing. It exists for a reason. I'm not talking about zero sum survival or anything like that. I'm talking about a social heirarchy that's built into your brain to help you recognize your place in the world. Ignoring it will get you into a lot of trouble. Using it to find your place in 8 billion people is a losing game. Using it to find your place in a community of about 150-500 people works most of the time. Modern technology has wrecked our idea of who we are and where our place is. That doesn't suddenly make comparison and bad mechanism. It means we need to limit who we compare ourselves to to people that we will actually interact with in person day to day and find a way to fit in with them.

He's saying it's a culture. An American culture. But it's not. It's all cultures. Everywhere. All the time. Because it's a reward mechanism for finding your place in your tribe that's built into your head and you are trying to make it irrelevant and will ultimately fail at the task. That part of the brain is what builds all cultures. The problem isn't with American culture. It's with the idea that you can eliminate a serotonin based reward mechanism from your brain and that by doing so, living as if you have 8 billion friends is suddenly possible. It's not. Dunbar's number is a real thing. It exists for a reason. I'm not talking about zero sum survival or anything like that. I'm talking about a social heirarchy that's built into your brain to help you recognize your place in the world. Ignoring it will get you into a lot of trouble. Using it to find your place in 8 billion people is a losing game. Using it to find your place in a community of about 150-500 people works most of the time. Modern technology has wrecked our idea of who we are and where our place is. That doesn't suddenly make comparison and bad mechanism. It means we need to limit who we compare ourselves to to people that we will actually interact with in person day to day and find a way to fit in with them.