Aesthetics and beauty is all about proportions?
Why does China make such ugly cars?
So what’s super interesting is being here in Phnom Penh Cambodia, do you see a lot of electric Chinese cars on the road. Yet they are very very ugly when you look at them long enough, and this is my general thought:
The proportions are all wrong!
What the Chinese are really good at is copying and pasting design. For example, I see all these cars on the road that look like chimera of a fake Rolls-Royce, meets fake Teslas, meets fake Lexus’s, BMW XM’s, fake Maybachs etc.
For example, there is this one Geely SUV car I see on the road, which literally has a bumper the rear bumper and exhaust tips of the new epic BMW XM. But, it’s like a bit of a monstrosity because imagine like you took an average woman, and then suddenly Photoshop and copy and pasted Kim Kardashian‘s butt on it, then you will just take the boobs of some other random celebrity, paste it on, and also copy and pasting the face of some other person.
I mean I guess at the end of the day this is fine, but, what ends up happening is that the proportions end up looking very very bizarre and ugly. Another thing, being here in Asia, and also recently visiting Bangkok, OMG, I’m starting to really understand and realize what Plastic surgery looks like, both on men and women, and it is a bit bizarre and scary looking.
Why? Once again the proportions thing! Also, with women, like if you take a very very very slender and slim woman, and then suddenly bolt on a C cup on her, or if you take like an extremely petite woman, you give her a Brazilian butt job, it is more grotesque than beautiful.
The same thing is with men, and also especially at the gym. I’m starting to also realize what the typical steroids user looks like, bald, very red, and their muscles look more like perfect spheres, rather than something beautiful?
Even another random thing, legs. I think I have like the strongest legs on the planet, pound for pound. I’m like around 5 foot 11, I think I weigh like 165 or maybe now 167 pounds, and my current personal record for Atlas lift is 1000 pounds. More recently I’ve eclipsed that with my dip belt assisted rack pull, which you could imagine is like a glorified standing hip thrust. Or a hip lift? Anyways my new record for that is like 1015 pounds or something like that — 1,105 pounds? I’m starting to lose count.
Anyways, once again… Another bizarre thing I see is that a lot of men who have extremely impressive upper bodies but have chicken legs on bottom, it ends up becoming very very ugly because the proportions get out of whack. This is also why women are not attracted to steroid bodybuilders Because once again… It is not a sign of male fertility and health, I don’t even think they could produce kids anymore. Or for example, if in fact, steroids make you impotent, a.k.a. you cannot get a boner anymore, and you could no longer sleep with women, not even with Viagra, would you take steroids? And or if I could guarantee you that if you took steroids with 100% certain your penis would just become .5 inches, and your balls would actually receive back into your abdomen cavity, would you do it? Probably not, once again a lot of insecure men end up doing this because they don’t know what else to do?
Haircut
I recently got a very very aggressive fade haircut. I accidentally did it a bit wrong, a zero on each side all the way to the top, which kind of makes me look bald on the left and the right, like a Buddhist monk, but on top I look like a fucking warrior!
But anyways, the proportions are extremely aggressive like if you took the worlds most aggressive Lamborghini, and put it on steroids. My hair looks like a new Revuelto.
Also, funny enough I think all men could benefit from this haircut. Just let the top grow along, slick it back with some gel or make a mohawk out of it, and shave the sides clean. If you want it even more aggressive I guess you grow a mullet in the back.
But anyways, once again… Proportions are interesting because it is typically a sign of health and or fertility. Life for example for women… It is all about the hip to waist ratio, not one individual number.
For example, if you took like a tiny woman, and you give her a size B cup, this would look more impressive than a very very thick woman with a size D cup.
Also with muscles, I think this is the thing that is very very difficult for men to understand, it is better to look like Brad Pitt from fight club, or ERIC KIM, rather than Ronnie Coleman. And let us also know that he is essentially now a cripple, a cripple in a Rolls-Royce, very sad.
Why does this matter?
Beauty is of Paramount importance. It dictates almost like everything on the planet. Having children, finding your mate, the buildings that we build, the products we design and sell, etc.
To the fool who says that design does not matter, just think, would you want your house looking like a McDonald’s or a Burger King inside? Or, if you have ever seen Soviet era design you know what I am talking about. 
Beautiful design uplift and inspires us, ugly design does the exact opposite.
I’ll give it an example, let us say that you owned a brand new Lamborghini Revuelto, in bitcoin orange with scissor doors. Versus if you had like some old ass rusty Camry, with the peeling clearcoat, and the ugly black paint and rusty rims and calipers.
You wake up every single day, and you look at your garage or your front lawn or the front of your home, and you are presented with each site. Which view would inspire you which would annoy you?
Or, a more extreme example, you’re liking some ghetto ass Brooklyn suburb, looking straight into another concrete building versus waking up up, on the top of the mountain somewhere in Switzerland, looking at a view like the land before time, meets the sound of music? What view would inspire you more?
So once again guys this matters because so much of life and reality is about beauty, beautification.
For example, one insipidus industry that nobody really talks about a lot is the beauty cosmetics industry. Assuming no one is doing plastic surgery or injecting Botox into their face or lips, no needles or pokey stuff, it is a bit alarming how much and how expensive all these products are to slather your face with all this artificial stuff?
For example, at least in America it is a de facto thing that all women wear make up. For men, no. In Asia it is starting to change, even the men get nose jobs, Botox, chin jobs, and wear red lipstick?
Ethically it is fine, but I’m more concerned about the cost. It is very very expensive, and even assuming it is 100% safe, isn’t it just more effective to take that money and buy bitcoin instead?
What do we really want?
So with men, especially young hormonal men, the dream is too like get super super demigod body, and then suddenly magically all these beautiful women will be attracted to us and want to sleep with us whatever. This is the insecurity that is sold to us.
For women, and then becomes a bit bizarre because obviously ultimately, the purpose of female beauty is attract prosperous male mate, and to have and produce prosperous children. Yet now, everyone is simply selling their bodies, their minds, their souls to social media, for attention And care?
It’s like social media prostitution. I mean I guess ultimately, if you’re OK with it it is fine, but for those who are suffering some sort of downsides, not good.
so what should we do about this?
The simplest thing is to just delete Instagram, delete TikTok, delete YouTube. A simple offboarding idea is this:
If it is free delete it. 
For example, if you have a kid that is addicted to YouTube, delete it immediately, and subscribe to Disney+ instead in which you actually pay money for it? It’s only like 10 or 20 bucks a month?
Also, another simple heuristic:
If it has a like button, or a follow button, or, a comment button, delete it. 
One problem I am currently struggling with, and I’m trying to figure out a more elegant solution is Twitter X. It’s like the best place to get any sort of information about bitcoin or MSTR related things, Michael Saylor @saylor — I’m just trying to create a feed of only him. I keep installing and reinstalling and deleting X because there is so much stuff on it that is quite detrimental in terms of calm?
Stoic calm
Another virtue that we are trying to cultivate in our family is calm. Cool calm Pete, or this strong, detached stoic calm.
I think certain things which are beneficial is deleting media or stuff that is the opposite of calm, and also… Hype lifting, powerlifting, one rep Max demigod weightlifting, 9 to 12 hours of sleep at night, maximum sun exposure walking around, glorious beef rib dinners etc.
Delete ChatGPT?
OK like I’m a bit on the fence about this. On one hand, ChatGPT is awesome. Yet there is so much new sneaky stuff they have have put into it, which distracts you, and also messes with your focus and calm?
Let me give you some examples. There’s this new thing that is built in which is like the trending web search, yes you could take it off, but ChatGPT enables it by default. Also, whenever it finds anything on the Internet, the downside is that it conjure up a lot of negative stuff from the Internet, even if it is true.
And I think this is a big thing… Internet culture is toxic, negative, not calm not happy and for the most part not constructive. Nowadays, the second that I see any negativity from anybody on the Internet, immediately I stop following them. Why? Life is too short for negativity?
