124: Stuff, Mind Control and Deep Conversations

Everyone has too much stuff/everyone needs to be more festive / better days in the past? You need the trappings / Kids want nothing from their parents other than money debauchery in a one-bedroom / Need a massage? / Fat is lighter than muscle Insulin resistance / Testing your blood sugars / carnivore diet / Podcast? China invades Taiwan / Spreads in Europe / War / Trigger a Civil War $1000 stipend and all assets confiscated/goading a Civil War /Going to exploit tribalism MKUltra Red Pill / How to push back against the screens/books don't create reality Books are more dangerous than TV? / Mass media = persuasion We are being programmed by all media / Role model is Horatio Hornblower The Veil Piercers / Need a logo / Make all the predictions Does it matter if we live in a simulation? / We are pawns in the matrix; it does not matter Bill Gates = Full on Evil / Celebrities are tiny, well-formed people / Pictures with people Obama and Hillary in the mix / Brush with smarminess / Grieving group therapy Have conversations instead / Company of Friends / Chautauqua Movement = Self-Education Table Leaders are Conversation Starters / Just allow people to talk to each other Push Conversation / Structured Conversation / Deep conversations required