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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • It’s worse than you think.

    The miasma part is pre-germ. The worst part is what’s following. The immune system and healthy living part is an ideology that is popular in the New Age beliefs. It was very popular in some communities in the 60s and 70s. But, it’s an older ideology about health. The Nazi themselves used this and believed (at least partially) in the immune system bullshit. They all base their beliefs on a German umbrella term and movement, the Lebensreform (German Wikipedia for a longer article )

    It was promoted by wealthy bourgeois that lived in urban and industrialized areas of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The intent was a natural and healthy lifestyle to counter the detrimental effects of industrialization, urban living, and “modernity” on health and overall well-being. It included for example organic food, alternative medicine but also spiritual and religious beliefs.

    I highly recommend reading some lines about it. It helps to understand RFK Jr. and where his bullshit comes from.




  • Lack of education (and a university degree changes nothing) which ends in a lack of critical thinking. The causes are deeper than “it’s the economy”, “they are delusional”, “social media”, even if social media is bad for critical thinking. You still have to educate yourself in many fields to develop your cognitive capabilities, and this from a young age.

    Going outside, playing with a stick and a rock, develops your brain. You’re the actor of your life. A smartphone screen puts the kid in a passive state.

    But it would be too easy to blame just this. It’s more than one factor. This politics of doom scrolling serves an economical purpose. The economy is over wellbeing. More and more norms are put on the human being, alienating them.

    Masculinism is a simple theory, solution, to a more complex issue. Humans like these simple answers.

    We have to address these multiple dots connected to each other’s. It’s not just masculinity, it’s the society in which we want to live.