It sounds like you were insecure about certain things like dating and got over it via psychedelics
I mean if that works, sure. But what happens in the future if you latch onto some other insecurity? Will you just take a psychedelic again? Is that going to actually fix the problem?
> We’ve been marketed to that we should be happy and that buying <thing|experience> will make us happy.
Seems like the entirely idea of happiness has been semiotically highjacked by marketing, morality, other things
When I mentally picture "happiness", all I really see is a bunch of behaviors that are frequently depicted as desirable in the aggregate by media and others
The Buddhists are a lot more sane about this than we are. Imo there's so much residue around the word "happiness", in order to achieve a sense of peace it's better to just throw it out and take each day at a time
> If the management, board, and ultimately shareholders of business want to run the most "progressive"/"woke" hiring and HR policies imaginable: they have the right to do so
What about title VII banning discrimination on the basis of race (among other factors)? That's outright illegal
There's likely enough ammunition on social media rn for plenty of litigation wrt this
There's apparently a bit of overlap between Title VI and Title VII. But will likely have a separate case
> “many of the thought processes and the basic legal principles” are the same, says Daniel Pyne III, an employment specialist at law firm Hopkins & Carley. If the court strikes down race-conscious admissions in education, “that is a strong hint that the same decision might be made” in employment cases
Considering the failure and timing of prop 16 and overall makeup of the California electorate compared to rest of country, official discrimination on the basis of race likely won't return in higher ed. Also consider that prop 16 failed by double digits with the pro-discrimination crowd outspending the opposition 19x
What I'm curious about is this: the Harvard decision is wrt a private entity, the court ruled that they discriminated against whites and asians
Could racially discriminatory hiring strategies be next? Could this trigger a wave of litigation?
> In the younger circles, it seems like there's a very brief period of telegraphing your "tribe", and once you detect the matching cues you can assume you know pretty much everything about the other's point of view
This is just a sign of a lack of sophistication, afaik it isn't purely generational
A couple weeks ago someone said to me that lying was a "violation of the first amendment" and I asked them "what's in the first amendment?" just to hear some dumbfounded response
A bunch of voters in this country are only functionally literate and it's depressing
> When I say masculinity, or masculine values, what do you think of? When you think of someone who values their masculinity, who do you perceive? Now do the same for femininity. Which model is healthier?
I don't think of anything aside from obvious physiological differences
> but there are right questions that boys dealing with a burst of testosterone should ask themselves
I mean, everyone's different, different personalities, different trials and tribulations of life. I have no idea how you can generalize across all teenage boys without making a bunch of stuff up