I think a lot of people are looking at their survives and aphorism i feel unfilled i feel hopeless i sense like time is slithering by and i'm not receiving anyplace i'm not getting anything it's not receiving improved i feel like i'm just getting old and there's nothing there's no compensation there's no wisdom there's no excitement there's no juice you know and what i wanted to to show people is like that's not your fault that's not your fault you're in a zoo you are domesticated you are being you're enslaved in many ways and there's no mystery to the fact that you're unhappy you're unhappy you should be unhappy right if you're happy you're the exception right and what's that line if if you're thriving in a sick society you're sick right,
And i strongly believe that many aspects of american culture in particular are deeply pathological and so if you're not suffering if you're not feeling like this isn't right um well good for you i guess but a lot of people are and so those are the people i was writing for right and so your question how do we integrate these things i think the first step is to recognize that look the the reasons for your unhappiness have to do with misalignments it's it's like we could talk about in physical terms right like marxism and people in that world talk about the the misalignment between our hunter-gatherer bodies and the kinds of food and activity levels and sleep levels and stress levels that the modern world is imposing on that body,
And the body's not designed for that the body's designed to move a lot uh but not run walk right we're used to hunting and gathering walking stopping moving the things that we like to do for leisure i have a lot of friends who are hunting right now right go on a picnic that's essentially gathering take some food out and eat and let the kids run around and play right in nature these things resonate with us because of where we came from so i think the first step is recognize where we came from recognize what kind of animal we are and then find ways to integrate these things i think the most important thing is a sense of community and you know there's research showing that if you feel that you're embedded in a community of people who love you respect you and care for you people who have your back which is a hunter-gatherer group,
Basically the health benefits of that are equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day right not having that is like smoking a pack a day having that it's a wash if you smoke a pack a day and you've got a great crew it's a wash you know statistically i'm not encouraging people to smoke um but it's a major effect on health uh walking you don't need to go to the gym you don't need a treadmill do you know treadmills were invite invented as a torture device i believe it for prisoners in the 19th century that was the invention wow and now people have them in their office like i'm gonna torture myself and i'll feel better no you won't man you're not gonna feel better uh so stress levels try to bring them down as low as you can pleasure up there's nothing shameful,
About pleasure that's why i lived in spain 20 years this first country i i got to spain i was like wow these people there's no shame around pleasure they like yeah life is to be enjoyed yeah i get that right that's those are my peeps over there yeah you know hey don't worry about work enjoy your lunch you know coffee to go why would you want i remember sitting in a cafe one day and a guy came in and he was like can i get that to go and i was like i don't know we have any paper cups around here finally they gave it and he left and the the guy who worked there was like why would you want a coffee to go like just sit down and enjoy your coffee you know like why it's just the philosophy of life so i think the best way to integrate these things is to try to find your people,
Find who do you love and how can you bring your life into enmeshment with them in a healthy way so that could be physically like you know we've bought land in colorado in fact we're here at this event with friends of ours who also bought some land there we've got i don't know six or seven friends we've all bought land in this little town in the middle of nowhere the land's super cheap and uh interestingly there's no building code so we can all just get together and build houses build each other's house like an old you know amish barn raising wow um and you know my buddy oliver here he's a auto mechanic and you know i've got some book money i can throw in and you know help people and whatever we each have our skills,
And our abilities and our resources and together we take care of each other right i think so you can do that in a physical sense it could just be buy a big old house with some friends and help each other you know your friends want to go on a vacation take care of their kids because you know those kids and they trust you and they love you and they're you don't need to hire a stranger for stuff like that you know i think this is a really important point and something that i i think it's naturally emerging amongst a certain people i mean a lot of friends of mine in texas are buying huge plots of land and everyone has kids and is married and family oriented and they're just kind of want to be left alone and it sounds like a commune or a cult kind of thing,
But the people that i know that are interested in doing that are actually very functional emotionally healthy people yeah some brilliant creative successful people that are like why go buy a house with a tracton with a bunch of people you're never going to talk to and you actually actively avoid them right instead of just going hey here's you know 20 people that are all neighbors yeah they kind of see the world in a similar way and jive and i love that idea yeah and you don't need it doesn't need to be a commune right it doesn't need to be oh we're all going to pool our money and then you got to deal with all that everybody can have their own property but we're just we're doing this in an intentional way to take care of each other.
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