Okay wait... Is this strictly an ADHD thing? I do this all the fucking time. Like, I go through this mind palace thing where I hunt down my every single action with that object and play "Where's the stupid place I left my wallet this time?" In my brain.
But I don't see where I put the wallet, just places I've been with the wallet until I'm in the right place and my brain clicks. Like walking through a doorway and remembering what I was going to do.
I figured I had to give it a fair shake and use it as a companion to Kapital. While I found Marx's writing to be strongly focused on the philosophy I couldn't help but shake the feeling throughout Imperialism that Lenin was trying to sell the reader something.
Which makes sense to me as it was published in pamphlets and the likes leading into the revolution.
Though that unshakeable feeling never went away it did confirm a lot of my feelings and thoughts on globalisation, wealth consolidation and so on.
Lenin didn't get a faithful customer out of me but his writing certainly helped me understand some of my more authoritarian comrades. I don't have to agree with people completely to stand beside them.
To be completely honest I don't think Mein Kampf is worth the read and any other derivative that follow it are just worse takes like "The Turner Diaries".
Turns out ethno-fascists don't have anything to back them up except fear and hatred so their fiction tends to fall flat.
Thanks!
How did you find Rand's take on relativism?
I'm quite young so I can only compare it to a few things. It felt to me to just be overwhelmingly "Fuck you, I got mine." Which is... Interesting to say the least when you build your empire on the back of the workers.
Yeah, it just read like the angry rantings of a man left alone with hateful thoughts for too long. I can't speak to the quality of German in it and I'm certain some translations make his writings seem academic but they all just fall flat if you take a few hours to read up on economics and policy in Europe around the time he wrote the book.
Just the angry rants of some dude who feels like he isn't getting what he deserves. Some things never change. We just have podcasts for that now.
I've forced myself to read Mein Kampf, Atlas Shrugged, Imperialism by Lenin and various other political works from various philosophies. Do these count?
I've found many of them to be dry at best and abhorrent at worst (thanks Hitler).
None of them have changed my mind in drastic ways but have helped me understand the viewpoints of people I talk to.
Now the world will have to start reacting to Micro-Okra in the water? When will this end‽
May your blade chip and shatter.
The point I'm making is that a person who chronically overeats isn't going to know when "enough is enough". It's incredibly easy for a person to overshoot their TDEE and end up gradually gaining weight while only eating until they're full.
I say this as someone who works out 6 days a week, cycles 250km a week and works a fairly physical job. I probably eat close to 3500 calories a day just to maintain weight and I could still probably have some snacks.
If I wanted to lose weight and not count calories how would I do that? If I wanted to drop body fat and maintain muscle mass how would I do that without counting calories and macros?
Okay but like... What if I'm so used to eating a lot that I can pack down 3k cals in one go?
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Well, I do have a diagnosis. I appreciate you providing the insightful take on the process though. I just thought this was another instance of me just being forgetful.
Hard to de-condition myself from thinking about myself in a neurotypical fashion and recognise my limitations are real.