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Society was built to make money. Indifferent to your health and sanity. For example, we did not evolve to: + sit 10 hours a day + have our attention fractured 300 times daily + compare ourselves to millions of others + travel 9 time zones in 13 hours + tolerate sounds above 85 dB causing hearing loss + outsmart algorithms hijacking our reward system + breathe fine particulate air pollution + live under 16+ hrs of artificial light a day + have 3 courses of antibiotics before age 2 + eat ultra-processed foods for 60% of daily calories + consume 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day So if you're feeling down in the dumps, maybe fatigued, a little or a lot depressed, anxious, that's why.

Q: "Which actor would play you in a movie about your life?" Mahan: Russell Crowe in The Gladiator Becerra: Antonio Banderas Bianco: Clint Eastwood Hilton: Jason Statham Steyer: Gregory Peck Porter: Tina Fey Villaraigosa: Antonio Banderas

“It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they wanted, then they wouldn’t be the audience, they’d be the artist.” — Alan Moore

I have found that you can really get away with quite a lot just by adopting a particular affect when talking to liberals about controversial topics. The most important thing, the thing everything hinges on, is that they have to be convinced that you’re basically just like them, a good person just like them, not somebody on the other side. You have to hedge a lot, sprinkle your language full of, “to be sure” and other qualifiers. You don’t want to be too direct. If something is too controversial, then you want to signal convincingly that it brings you no pleasure to report it, that you’re not saying you like it. And you have to try very hard to be reassuring, to make them believe that above all you are concerned with the welfare of the people most harmed by these revelations. You have to go into it believing that it’s your job to manage their emotions throughout the entire conversation and remain attuned to how various pieces of information are hitting their ears, adjusting your approach based on how well they’re handling it. You have to talk to them, in other words, sort of as you would to a small child whose pet has just died. I’m not saying you should do this or that you’d even want to, but I am telling you that it works.