To the fools who say that cosmetics and vanity doesn’t matter; they are fools. Why? Let us consider; almost everything is cosmetics and vanity when it comes down to it.
For example, our clothes, our cars, our lifestyles, our aesthetics cosmetics etc.
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For example, aesthetics are an ethos. What that means is we pride ourselves in the way which something looks, feels, etc.
I’ll give you a simple example; colors. And finishes. 
For example, think about the color of your clothes, your shoes, your pants your shirts, your rims, your hat, your house, your car, etc. This is very important; Because you look at it every single day!
It is my personal belief that there is a strong connection between colors and emotions. Then what that means is be very very critical and very very anal about when you choose the color of something, assuming that you’re going to have to stick with it forever.
The more durable color?
So far, for the most part, I consider black the most durable color. At least with clothing. What is interesting with black as a color option is that black clothing never goes out of style. Assuming that you wear all black to wedding, all black to a formalware, or all black  as your daily outfit, you’re not really going to falter here.  And also a funny new ones I’ve discovered is black clothes, even when it fades to a funny purple color, in my mind is actually quite stylish! 
And also, the great upside of black in regards to clothes and shoes etc. is that it is most resistant to dirt, getting and being dirty. For example I remember as a kid, having all white case with tennis shoes… How much of a pain in the butt it was to keep them clean, and every once in a while I would reapply white Cream paint to it, to repaint it, to make it look new again.
“My vans all back so they don’t get dirty” – The Pack, VANS SONG
With cars, it seems that white is your best bet. In terms of physics, especially living in Los Angeles Southern California and beyond; whether you like it or not, even practically by osmosis, your car is going to attract dirt. Even if you have an enclosed garage or an awning or a covering… simply driving around, all this dirt and pollution the air, is going to stick to your car like a magnet. 
I think once again, the only reason why black has become popular as a car color option is through media. Everyone wants to be John Wick, or Batman, or name your favorite superhero or your favorite action movie star. Or like Vin Diesel with his muscle cars etc.
But the problem here, this is where I think it is wise to get rid of media, TV shows, movies films fantasy from your diet and your soul is that none of it is steeped in reality!
For example, I don’t think that there is any films that glorify children, especially if the main action protagonist is a man!  The only closest example I see or saw was in the movie 300, the scene in which king Leonidas is sparring with his son and practicing,  or the scene in which king Leonidas is with his 300, about to march to their likely death at the hot gates, and the final farewell that he gives his wife and his son. And also, the scene between his commander general and his son, the commander seeing the head of his first born son cut off. And also king Leonidas, before taking his 300 to battle, ensuring that they all had at least one son to leave the family heir.
Maybe this is what makes Zack Snyder such a good Director; I think I actually in the early scenes when you see King Leonidas beating up and punching the other kids, I think the actor the child actor was actually his own blood son?
When you watch films, just observe… Does the Director have children, have a son as well? 
Son club
It is a desire of every single man to birth will have at least one son. I think the ideal is to have your first born child as a son, if not, typically what you see is that a family will keep trying, ad infinitum, until they have at least one son. This is why you often see so many families with two girls, three girls, sometimes even 4 girls. Or the funny bit in I love Lucy, with the expecting father in the waiting room with Ricky Ricardo with six girls? And then him finding out, that his wife just delivered twin girls? 
This is why, if you see families in which the older first child is a boy, and then family decides to have a second kid, it is typically a signal that they just really love kids and children, and wanted to have more. However if the oldest kid is a girl, And then they try for a second, not 100% certain to see whether they’re trying to have a boy or not.
Anyways, I’m only going to talk from the male perspective, and honestly this is something you just throw to the fates, and just be grateful for whatever child you bear. Even if you are a father, with only one girl, two girls or three girls… fret not, hopefully one day that your daughters will have kids, and then one of their kids will be a son. 
And once again, this is where it is wise to subtract mainstream media from your mind your brain and your soul. You do not want to be the childless or the sonless billionaire playboy – traveling the world in your yachts, banging all these beautiful babes etc. Don’t be a fool; the purpose of wanting to have intercourse with any beautiful women to produce beautiful children; the ultimate goal.
Having one son is worth all the wealth in the world multiplied by infinity.
The new manliness
Currently there is all this rhetoric, and all this cultural pressure, which seeks to demasculate men, to castrate them. Whatever that is all fine; but don’t let them F with you.
Walk around with your top off, proud, smile big talk big, be friendly, don’t be one of those emo antisocial losers; walking there adopted rescue dog or whatever.
Also, I am very very distrustful of men who almost become too focused about these progressive women issues; how much of this is virtue signaling versus the real deal what they really believe in? For example, ultimately what it comes down to is whether the man watches porn in private or not, with his VPN on, or in Google incognito, or brave browser, or brave browser with his privacy mode enabled. 
Tattoos?
Another thing that I am very anti-is tattoos. I think in the past, maybe tattoos was only for drug dealers and mafia members. Why? If you have all this illegal money, you can’t just nicely deposited into your bank account, so what do you do with all these hundred dollar bills, being like Pablo Escobar and burning it as firewood to just keep you warm?
 First, I think what a lot of them used to do was too simply get tattoos, because they really had nothing else they could do with their money. You could just hand your local tattoo guy stack $100 bills, and maybe the purpose of a tattoo was to signal your wealth on your body; if you have a full body tattoo, full tattoo body armor, maybe there is a signal that you dropped at least $100,000, $200,000 on tattoo work to your body. I suppose it is almost like covering your body with gold chains or a Rolex etc.
But, you can’t just extract the tattoos off your skin, and traded for any other desirable assets. Wealth and body tattoos is not liquid, you cannot convert it into anything, and when your family is facing dire poverty, you cannot just magically liquidate the tattoos from your body, and then use it to pay for rent. 
The aesthetics & ethics of Bitcoin
If you are apolitical, like myself, perhaps buying and investing in bitcoin may be the most ethical thing that you do. Why?
First, it is not controversial from a political stance. If you purchase American desirable property, in Los Angeles New York etc.… Sooner or later, assuming you’re not a fool, you’re going to have to become involved in politics, because the zoning restrictions will actually affect how you do business, your property values, etc.
So I think the truth of the matter is that the secret to getting really wealthy and real estate, you must be political, you must become involved in politics, etc.
But, if you don’t care for politics, real estate commercial real estate, even family home real estate — not worth it.
Energy efficient
Once again, anybody who says bitcoin is bad for the planet, they are fools. Typically I often hear a lot of women say this, I’m also distressful of men who are too much about climate change, environment, etc., they tend to be a bunch of skinny fat losers with man ponytails, ugly facial hair, Lam sunglasses, they might drive a Subaru, they may have a Hitler mustache, they might adopt dogs, watch porn in private etc.
Technically, bitcoin may be the most energy efficient thing on the planet. Why? You produce something, that has a half-life of forever.
Name anything on the planet in which you put energy to create something, it last forever. Nothing.
You make grass fed pasture raised quinoa, You’re going to have to consume it, and also package it and all this stuff which is bad for the planet.
Technically if you really really wanted to be the super hippie, you would have your own farm, your own pasture, your own cows, grow your own chickens and breed your own eggs, you would subsist on firewood, no electricity, no Internet no Wi-Fi etc. No iPhone, no Facebook, no Al Jazeera news, etc.
Ethics
Once again, ethics ethos, This matters.
First, treat everybody with love and respect, don’t be an antisocial loser or coward. If you may contact with somebody, throw them to peace sign, acknowledge them be friendly! Also, in regards to kids always acknowledge! I think the greatest tragedy of world is the average American just ignore kids. I say, you don’t have to acknowledge the parents, just acknowledge the kids! 
Also, at the age of three years, four months old… Even Seneca knows what bitcoin is. He saw a guy at the local pickle ball court with Boston Red Sox hat, which has B, and he said, bitcoin!
Get your kids to buy bitcoin with you on Coinbase app on your iPhone, and invest in the bitcoin right now, and have them see the value go up until they go and turn 18 years old, or 21 years old.
I have a fond memory in  elementary school, a PS 169 in Bayside Queens New York, in which one of our computer classes, we learned about stocks and investing, and for about a semester or so, there was this fake stock market game, in which all the kids started off with the same amount of fake money, and they had the option of choosing thoughts, and they would see that who would win by the end of the semester. There was some kids who were really smart, who just put 100% of their money into Apple stock, and they won. Note, this was in the mid 90s.
Teaching your kids economics
Teaching your kids economics, first starts with the parents. If you’re bad with money, or if you’re foolish with money, so will your kids.
Ever since Seneca was young, I would let him use my credit card, and check out at Whole Foods etc., teaching him how to grab my credit card and dip the credit card ship forward the correct way. I also then would give him paper money, to put into the automatic self checkout machine, and he would get so excited to get the coins back.
No, a new thing that I do with him is trying to teach him basic arithmetic, like a Trader Joe’s his favorite coat milk is $3.99, and I will hand him a five dollar bill, and then explain to him that he will get about a dollar a penny in change.  Even though he is quite young, three years old and four months… I think the best thing I’ve learned thus far is assume like your kid understands with 100% precision everything.  for example,  ever since he was born, I would just talk to him, more like being cute and whatever, not really seriously considering that he actually understood what I said. Now that he is fully cognizant, and that actually surprisingly, he is more or less fully fluent in Korean, and also English, and also Vietnamese… And also he knows his full alphabet in Spanish, he understands everything! He is his own person and being; and in my mind, I’m going to treat him like he’s a 12-year-old. Why? Of course he is not 12 years old, and certainly there will be a few things which goes beyond his comprehension, but my thought is always treat your child with free to expectations and goals etc., and they will rise to the occasion.
Think culture, not race 
For example , the good thing about Asian culture, is that getting straight A’s is a baseline expectation, not a big deal. Whereas the typical American, the thought is getting an A is an extraordinary feat. In Asian culture, to get an A is not a big deal.
The reason why Asians, Asian Americans excel in school is not that we are naturally good at math or whatever, the simple truth is different cultural expectations.
For example, an Asian Confucian culture, education knowledge reigns supreme. As a consequence, everything in Asian society is optimized and streamlined to being the best in terms of education knowledge etc.
Whereas in America, education is seen as a good thing, but not the most supreme thing. 
I always thought to myself, the best way that America could thrive was if they took all the money they spent on the military, and just put it into schools and education, it would solve a lot of the poverty issues in America. Even 10% of the military budget was done this way, I think this is a good idea.
10% of the military budget into schools; not enough to hurt the military defense budget, but substantive enough to at least reduce the teacher to student ratio sizes in schools. 
And also a simple thought about the 10% ratio; a good incentive to give your employees is a 10% share of the profit; enough that it motivates them to earn more money for you and your business, but not enough to hurt you financially, especially if you already live a frugal life.
Spartan economics
If you consider the economics of Sparta, it was very simple; keep the population small and tight, no need to extend your borders or boundaries, let the helots and the slaves do the dirty work, and the ethos of the Spartan men is to focus instead on more virtuous military training and combat instead.
In fact, I almost wonder if 99% of the focus of being a spartan, a Spartan hop light was in fact to just focus on military combat training, your whole life, and also for the life of your kids etc.
Modern day battle?
Personally speaking, I believe modern day American football to be the most virtuous and manly of all of the American sports. Why? The way it is structured, is like military combat. And it is the only physical sport which allows for physical tackling, which at least in the high school level, injuries are pretty rare. I think only the major injuries happen when you join the collegiate or the NFL, when all these guys are high on cocaine and steroids, and painkillers. 
How to make your kids anti-racist
I think it is obvious that racism is a bad thing. Everyone will agree with this, even the conservatives, Republicans or whatever. I think the main discourse is more about issues of affirmative action etc. But for the most part, being anti-racist is not controversial.
It starts with the father. If you’re a man, and you have a son… The first way you become anti-racist is to start with yourself. You treat everybody with equal respect, regardless of their pigmentation or facial morphology. The children will always mimic the parents.
For example, if the kids end up being racist, almost certainly the parents are racist.
Also one of the best ways to promote anti-racist thinking is to just get your kid into American football! Why? Here, a true sense of brotherhood. Playing football, we had the full rainbow crew; Every ethnicity race etc., almost evenly distributed. And when you are all on the same team, all racial differences evaporate. 
The problem with a lot of sports is that it is class based; for example, on our tennis team, the team was almost 90% Asian, and that the ongoing joke was average GPA of our tennis team was at least 4.2. Why? The truth of the matter is Tennis is a very elite sport because if you really really want to get good at it, at the elite or varsity level, you essentially need a private coach,  because tennis is not natural, and to get really really good at it, you need hours and hours, years and years of practice with a private coach.
And also, typically, tennis courts only exist in neighborhoods. Very rarely will you see tennis courts in the hood.
I think the reason why soccer is probably the ultimate global sport is that it is the most egalitarian. All you need is a ball; or something to kick around! No other equipment necessary.
Even basketball, in America there are basketball courts everywhere, which means even if you’re in the hood, at least you could get really good at basketball! By yourself!
But once again,  I think the primary thing to consider here is if you really want your kid to not be racist, put them into sports with mixed races, all across-the-board!
And also, if you consider yourself a progressive or a liberal and you see that the world is all bad, the solution is simple, don’t bitch and moan on social media, or virtue signal in the real world with bumper stickers. Have kids, and train your kid to be the change which you wish to see manifested in the world. 
And once again, my thought, typically wars unite people. For example, if one day we did go to war with China or whatever… I don’t know maybe we Americans would put aside our petty differences, and all become part of the same team. 
 And this is where I really enjoyed all of these films about aliens invading the planet etc. because all the human race comes together, to fight off the aliens. This is where I like Pacific Rim, also funny note, I think in the second Pacific Rim movie, which was financed by Shanghai mainland Chinese production company, the mainland Chinese in a good way. And once again, if aliens did, all nations, America Russia China etc., we would all sign a peace treaty, and just devote 100% resources to fight off the aliens. 
Did the Spartans see “race”?
If you think about Sparta, ancient Sparta… I think, there was no real notion of race; you were either a Spartan or a foreigner.
America is such a bizarre and funny case because here, obviously people look different. We have different morphological features, our faces our bodies look different, our hair is different, etc. 
But ultimately, if you live here, if you pay your taxes you are American! Simple as that. Even if you immigrated here illegally or whatever, as long as you pay your taxes, respect the old red white and blue. 
And technically, let us consider the first Americans who came here, they were the first rebels, who did “illegal“ things against the British, their original British overlords. 
Changing the world
Here, I encourage everyone to have kids. Even here, a really bad thing I see is it is considered bad manners to ask people whether they have kids or not, when you intend to marry, when you intend to have children, etc. 
For example in Vietnam, one of the first things you ask somebody is whether you have kids or not. In America, people almost feel indignant about it. 
You could have kids — it doesn’t matter what your gender or your sexual orientation is, I think everyone should have kids! 
Assuming you’re not addicted to meth, assuming that you’re rational human being, I think you would be a great parent! Your kids would be awesome! Doesn’t matter if they are your biological kids, foster or adopted whatever… in my eyes, all children are beautiful. 
If you had a traumatic childhood, like I did, the logic is to have a kid, and you raise them how you wish you were raised, not the opposite in which you desire not to have kids, because you don’t want to have another human being experience the same misery you did. 
Also, a sexual difference here; I find a lot of women, who had traumatic childhood, desire to bear children, because they don’t want to bring another human being into the planet which will face misery.
But with men… if you had a traumatic childhood or whatever… very very simple; you create a new society, without the badness you experienced!
The path forward
 I think some level were order of discipline, military discipline is a good idea. For example, it seems the best for raising kids is have them be spare, sports, frugal, Spartan.
Don’t buy them silly toys and diversions, rather, use that time to be 100% engage with them, run around with them, play with them, spar with them, take them to the park, leave your phone in the car at home etc.
Take your kid to the nearby nature center, nature preserve, have them run around in nature, or procure a football and throw around the old pigskin! 
Physical first.
ERIC