The hilarious thing is that a lot of people want to become “enlightened“, or to become “woke”— but these are the hilarious ironies:

1. First, enlightenment, to become enlightened, maybe the first literal thing we could think about is light, literally to be in the light, and to spend more time in the light.
2. Second, the notion of being woke; woke means awake, like the opposite of sleeping. How can one become woke, if one is under the intoxication of drugs, alcohol, weed etc.?

Enlighten, light up… cast light upon yourself

First that basic notion of enlightenment is a fairly modern one; some sort of weird mishmash of pseudo pagan, no longer protestant American morality, mixed in with Hinduism, Indian, yoga, veda philosophy —

First the general notion of enlightenment was like some weird Buddha sitting in a lotus pose, levitating in the air or something.

Then, it seemed that the general notion of enlightenment fell out of vogue because it was too weird, spiritual and mystic; therefore as a consequence, the notion of political quickness, woke gone awry;

1. Literally spend more time in the direct sun!

I think humans we are like plants; we need water, lots of sunshine, care, nourishment in order to grow.

I wonder if the sun, sunlight is a great growth stimulant. There are certain theories that the more time you spend in the sun, the better your hormones and your testosterone etc.

2. What makes you “not woke”?

Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, anything on the news, magazines, podcasts, anything supported by advertising.

Instead, just study ancient Greek philosophy, before advertising was invented. This means ideally even anything before Socrates; Socrates was putting on a big show. One can think of Socrates as the original “influencer”.