What is a streetcar for? A street guitar for is a force on the streets, beyond the road, beyond the pavement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The critical issue of being in a car, in an automobile, in a truck, whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Is that it puts you on equal putting with all of these other cowards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, being here in LA\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Now here in Culver City, I am the GOAT of the streets. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc Everybody knows me; they know me and my iconic 60 pound weight vest, how I am always walking around in public with Seneca, and also walking around with my iPad Pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now as a consequence, I feel a sense of ownership of the road. Or the streets. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, any skinny fat loser in a car, especially when behind you, could honk at you, for not driving immediately half a second after the light turns green, or, throw you the middle finger because you stuck at your arm to know them to calm down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assuming that street Fatar fee is truly your prime passion, I think then the simple goal is dual: first, never drive a vehicle to get anywhere, and also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ride a bicycle. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all about bikes in general, but the truth is when you ride a bicycle, it is very dangerous, especially with these crazy distracted drivers in LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And also, the downside of a bicycle is that walking is at least 10,000 times superior to even riding a bike. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc Why? When you walk, it is far superior for your legs, your back, your hips, your shoulders your tendons etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And also, once again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is very common to get road rage, if you are in a car, or in a bicycle, or a motorcycle or a moped etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, when you are naked in the streets, without your 5000 pound metal vehicle encasing you, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcthen, you really do put people at a position of true valor. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I think the first issue here is that most people when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re walking in public, are a bunch of cowards. What the typical loser millennial does is they try to in case themselves with a shroud of cowardice; they do this with walking any opportunity of interaction with strangers;, Pros, Hitler mustache, or facial hair, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc focus on their dog or pet, busting out their iPhone, wearing heavily tinted sunglasses, wearing a baseball cap, and frumpy clothing etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A very simple thing you could do is for an entire day, within limits of reason, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc is for the entire day, never step into a car a vehicle\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Just do 100% pedestrian walking day! And the assignment is anytime you cross paths with a stranger, or somebody on the road, wave high to them, give them a peace sign, a thumbs up, a simple head, or say hello!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the issue in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world most people are always in their cars, it is easy to vilify or dehumanize other human beings on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the streets, it is very very easy to judge people. You could judge their height, their sex and gender, their body mass percentage, their clothing choices etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, any pre-diabetic old man, and a loser portion 911 convertible could honk at you from behind, because you did not go on the green light and half a millisecond. But if you saw the man on the street, would he dare to do this face-to-face, especially if he is only 5 foot four, old and fat, and you are 6 foot tall, tall dark and handsome? of course not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Honestly nowadays, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sorry I think that street photography is almost 100% courage. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc my bread and butter workshop for the last 15+ years has been my conqueror your fears of shooting street photography workshop, because it is resistant to all technology, media, platforms etc. I think any normal human being, in modern day times, and also in the past present and future will have to deal with Social anxiety, cowardice, courage, risk and reward etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Now walking around town with my 60 pound weight vest, I command a sense of dominance. Even police officers are impressed by me, because I think their bulletproof vest may only weigh 10 or 20 pounds, whereas mine is 60. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also starting to see\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 When I see police officers up and close in the flesh, without sunglasses on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 A lot of these guys are actually not that fit, not very intimidating, etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcOften younger than me, and certainly less tall, muscular and fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think when we think of cops, in the modern day media term, I think Oliver knowledge comes from television media etc. Television media etc., typically a cop is a male Caucasian man, insanely buff, tall, dominant. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The problem of media, if you want to look dominant on the screen, 99% chance they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on steroids, to give them that dominating on screen presence. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rambo, Sylvester Stallone, the rock; all on steroids and the juice. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now the reason why this becomes a problem is that steroids become normalized; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think that Chris Hemsworth who played Thor was probably most certainly on steroids when he got his super jacked physique for the Thor movies, just look at him about 10 years later, he is pretty wimpy looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, John Cena, who was super jacked for the fast and the furious movies, but in hus more recent roles, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc he is starting to look very skinny. Even the rock, seeing him in the Baywatch movie, why is his legs and his calves so skinny? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also I would not be surprised if Zac Efron took some sort of steroids to get into his role for certain movies etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This matters because men, boys, adults, alike\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We often equate ourselves with people who we see on the big screen, superheroes, marvel superheroes, Disney YouTube etc. But the big prom here is if everyone else is on steroids, in secret\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You will give you a false version of reality, in which You in vain to get similar monstrous gains, but end up not looking like them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is where I think media is so pernicious; Once again, it gives us a distorted and warped view of reality, which is not centered around real physics, or real biology. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust any movies cinema or film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even the movie 300, all these guys who got super jacked, especially the Spartans in the background, seeing their massive 8 pack abdominals — if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just a movie extra, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really no downside to taking steroids to look more jacked. To get the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the thoughts I had this morning is my two passions include walking and weightlifting. Then, how can you combine and integrate both of them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, 60 pound weight vest, and just walking around town. The second is focusing on weightlifting activities which allows an encourages walking and movement. For example, Farmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s carries, or any sort of weightlifting activity which encourages you to walk and move while lifting the heavyweight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even with Santa, at the age of 3 years, four months old\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc he might wait around 40 pounds now, and I could spend a whole day easily just arm carrying him around town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is my thought with if you are a father, my simple suggestion is get rid of the stroller, either or ergo baby carrier the kid in the front, or just arm carry the kid! \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc First, the benefit is you become more muscular jacked and swole, and also your kid gets the beneficial upside of being outside in the elements! \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It looks like my training of Seneca is working; everyone mistakes him for a four or five-year-old, and his 100% beef, beef burger patty diet is also working; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc he is much taller, stronger, and buffer in the arms and thighs compared to other kids I see on the playground who are all wimpy and anemic working, all these other kids are fed too many Cheerios, not enough meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And also, a tragedy, when I see young boys being raised by Spanish-speaking nannies, rather than their fathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, I think the early years are so critical, especially if you have a son. For you to train and breed them and grow them in such a way which reflects your own personal morals ethics and worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The spartan way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are person or a human being, who has the option of either raising your kids yourself, versus having somebody else raise your kid, raise your kid yourself! You could just do the sacrifice of being 100% caretaker of your child until they go to transitional kindergarten or whatever. This is what I have done, with great upsides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the great tragedy is when you have young male children, being raised by female Latina women who themselves are most likely immigrants, and also not in great shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Certainly everyone has the right to raise their kids however they want, but I seek to raise an elite child, the new Spartan boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To me all children are universally beautiful, all children I love, they always put me in a good mood etc. Yet the big downside here is that once again, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not having men raise the boys, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having women raise the boys. Certainly there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no issue with that, but the male attitude of raising a boy versus having a woman raise a boy will be starkly different. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, have you ever seen a male nanny?<\/em> No! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen a bunch of different nannies, all women. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n In regardless of what all of this modern day gender politics and sociology said, biological men with testicles and testosterone and a penis will certainly be different than a biological female with ovaries, a menstrual cycle, and a vagina. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n With literature, for example reading the Iliad\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Will be 1 trillion times better for your imagination creativity rather than watching a prepackaged movie and film which is centered around fake metrics of success, which include box office numbers, profit etc. Ancient Greek literature had no profit, the motive was to create truly great literature and stories, which would ideally last forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And also, let us consider that the past \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc there was no such thing as advertising, news or media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only type of news you would get was in your local towners Square, just talking shelf with other people in the flesh. And this becomes useful because you could see the veracity or the trustworthiness of the individual\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Would you trust a cracked out homeless person telling you about the modern day? Certainly not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And also nowadays, ChatGPT, the paid premium one\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc it is impossible to know whether something was produced by ChatGPT or not. It has superseded the touring test, and in fact, for the most part ChatGPT is more eloquent, interesting, and better than you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is where I think that the literature or the words the future will be more random, this dumped, un functional, and also, based around the personal real life opinion, rather than proper grammar spelling etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, I have created my whole empire over blogging; which has zero to do proper grammar, rules of composition etc. Yet I might be the first millionaire street photography blogger that has ever existed, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcthe only useful things I learned through K-12 education was the general rules of spelling and grammar, but beyond this, I got straight B\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in all of my English classes– yet now, I know more ancient Greek and Latin etymology than the average academic or scholar. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n The difficult task of having kids memorize stuff and remember it, then re-recite it is that if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being forced by a teacher to do something or learn something or remember something, you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Why? The only way to remember something is when you are personally curious about it, you are personally invested in it, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Autotelic — to pursue something purely for the sake of it, or for the sake of your curiosity, not for the sake of some sort of political social economic payoff. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcEven the Mars Rover is simply called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153curiosity\u00e2\u20ac\u0153; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc there is not really a huge material payoff of exploring Mars, you will not find any Martians or extraterrestrial beings,\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find precious minerals, or water. 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\n\n\n\nThe benefit of literature over movies and films<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSelf erudition is the best erudition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nThink hygiene, basic rules of hygiene \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n