quinnGoes
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Is Ray Peat a communist/socialist?
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quinnGoes said:Is Ray Peat a communist/socialist?
j. said:He seems to be anti-authoritarian. Those are forms of authoritarianism. It would surprise me a bit if he were a socialist. I think it would make sense for him to be a small government, nightwatch-man state supporter, but he very likely isn't a pure libertarian, because he patented one thing, and hardcore libertarians are opposed to the existence of patents.
Ray Peat said:Intense relationships between men and women should be further explored - new selves will be evolved, and new methods for exploring will be discovered. But before this is possible for everyone, the whole system of capitalist imperialism has to be changed, so that being human is not defined primarily as having an economic role.
j. said:Ray Peat said:Intense relationships between men and women should be further explored - new selves will be evolved, and new methods for exploring will be discovered. But before this is possible for everyone, the whole system of capitalist imperialism has to be changed, so that being human is not defined primarily as having an economic role.
Nutrition for women, page 105, fifth edition.
Ray Peat said:The stylish science-talk about global warming doesn't really take very much into account, beyond a few cultural stereotypes. The most important context to take into account is the importance of moving toward an economy which develops qualitatively rather than quantitatively. There is no foreseeable limit to the qualitative development of the economy. If we can shift from an extractive-degradative economy to one which develops by investing in education, science. culture. and human well-being, we will have a future in which to discover whether the biosphere-noosphere has any limits to its developmental potential.
Let's be clear here. If the Swiss went to the USSR in the 60's and 70's, I absolutely guarantee you that they had 0 access to the normal population. This is a trade mark of communist regimes. Try going to Cuba or North Korea with a camera crew and asking to do blood tests on "real people". You're going to be led straight to the generals and politicians families. They weren't testing Ukranian holomodor survivors for stress hormones. They were doing blood tests on the most wealthy, healthy, politically connected people in the entire USSR.haidut said:Finally, I will end with mentioning a very interesting study that was done by Swiss doctors (so more or less neutral) on hormones and political systems. They compared the hormonal profiles of people in the US and Soviet Union in the 1970s. The study found that people in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s had high dopamine, and testosterone. People in the US in the same time period had high estrogen and serotonin. I find that just fascinating, when considered through the lenses of RP's teachings