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ANTI-CAR SOCIETY

Yesterday I had the very unpleasant experience of driving from my beloved Providence Rhode Island to Boston. Unpleasant because I forgot … just how bad, tiring, and exhausting driving is.

Driving sucks

Exhausting, tiring. Elon Musk is doing a good job with Tesla as well as Andrej Karpathy (huuuuge fan of him and his AI-vision stuff … see Andrej’s professional site here). This is what I discovered:

If you have the option to live in such a manner which doesn’t necessitate you to drive… why would you drive?

For example I live in a tiny luxury apartment and I don’t need a car. We can walk everywhere. In fact, we don’t own a car anymore. It seems the new luxury is to have the luxury to NOT have to own a car.

A post-car society

If you have the resources and the money, to maximize your happiness … get rid of your car. Live in a city (like Providence) where you can get a nice 1-bedroom apartment or a luxury studio (tiny apartment) for not much money, and you can just walk everywhere. And we get all our groceries delivered via Peapod (by Stop and Shop, the local ‘ghetto‘ grocery market here, which is waaaaaay cheaper than Whole Foods, etc).

A car to augment your masculinity

It seems the only ‘logical’ reason for us men to get cars, or sports cars, or Tesla cars, or hyper cars, whatever is this:

To flex our masculinity.

This is why we want expensive cars, rare cars, well-designed cars, fast cars, loud cars, etc.

But if you got a great body, why do you need a car to augment your masculinity? In other words:

Better to be insanely buff and NOT own a car, than to be fat and own a Porsche 911 GT2 RS.

Or like I say it:

Better to transform your body into a Lamborghini than to own a Lamborghini.


My Muscle Philosophy:

Treat your body as sculpture.

This is not my body

The first thing:

I don’t see my body as belonging to me. I look at my body like it belongs to someone else.

When I look at the Lamborghini of someone else, I admire it. When I see the muscles and physiques of anyone else, I admire it. Then I had the epiphany:

Why not transform my own body into a Lambo, and admire my own body instead?

The logic

The great logic:

  1. It is far cheaper to get buff than to buy a Lambo.
  2. The human body is the apex beauty. This means your personal goal in life should be to beautify your own personal body to the maximum (without plastic surgery, steroids, etc).
  3. Ultimate democratic approach: Genetics doesn’t matter. Sex doesn’t matter. Racial ethnicity doesn’t matter. Anyone can both add muscle mass and subtract fat.
  4. It doesn’t cost much to get ripped. Just intermittent fast [no breakfast, no lunch], one big ass meal a day, and mostly a ‘ketogenic’ diet.
  5. Your body is always with you. Why not beautify your body to inspire yourself?

The joy of sculpting your own body

To sculpt your own body is insanely fun. Why? You can see the change over time!

Once again, the goal is simple:

Never stop adding muscle mass, and never stop reducing body fat, or keeping it low (around 10%).

Muscle and your body is highly practical.

The more muscle you have, the more energy you got. The more power you got to make art-work, and live with gratitude, joy, and hyper-vigor.

Strengthen on, and flex on!

ERIC

MUSCLE 101

  1. NEVER STOP GAINING MUSCLE
  2. ERIC KIM PARK LIFE
  3. How I Workout at my Home Gym
  4. In Praise of Pistol One Legged Squats
  5. Powerlifting Style Workouts at the Park
  6. The Philosophy of Bodybuilding
  7. YOUR BODY IS YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
  8. WHY I WORKOUT AT THE PARK
  9. How to Strengthen Your Rotator Cuff
  10. In Praise of Rings Workout
  11. How to Workout at the Park
  12. Why I Don’t Eat Breakfast or Lunch (In Praise of One Huge Dinner Meal a Day)
  13. HOW TO LOVE YOUR BODY
  14. Is Working Out at the Park Superior to Working Out at the Gym?
  15. Why I Workout
  16. WHY PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD WORKOUT
  17. How to Increase Your Testosterone
  18. My Workout Philosophy
  19. How Appearance Matters
  20. How I Workout at Home
  21. My Philosophy of Food
  22. The Best Park Workouts
  23. How to Quit Sugar
  24. How to Workout in the Streets and Park
  25. How Much Meat Can You Eat in a Day?
  26. APEX MALE MASCULINITY
    HOW I WORKOUT AT THE PARK
  27. How to Lose Fat
  28. How I Became Stronger and Buffer and More Swole During and After Quarantine
  29. What is Skinny-Fat?
  30. In Praise of Working Out at the Park
  31. Why Meat is Good
  32. Flesh over Metal
  33. Why Lower Your Bodyfat?
  34. How to Augment Your Recovery
  35. Increase Intensity, not Reps
  36. My Park Workout
  37. How to Fast
  38. HOW I WORKOUT FROM THE PARK
  39. How I Got So Swole
  40. Pure Power or Sculpture?
  41. How to Workout in the Streets
  42. How to Workout At Home With No Equipment
  43. Super Saiyan is the Goal
  44. MY POWERLIFTING PHILOSOPHY
  45. MY EXERCISE/WORKOUT PHILOSOPHY
  46. What if Mood Originates in the Stomach and Gut? Digestion Health
  47. Why I Don’t Consume Protein Powder or Supplements
  48. Real vs Fake // Natural vs Unnatural
  49. You Can’t Fake Strength
  50. How to Grow Your Muscles
  51. How to Add Muscle and Subtract Fat at the Same Time
  52. ERIC KIM BODY MUSCLE FLEX
  53. Don’t Build Muscle, Build Strength.
  54. Visual Kinesthesia: Muscles and Art
  55. How to Maximize Muscle Growth and Fat Loss