There is a guy from Moscow who used to work in FSB (like American FBI) and used to fight in Donbass on the separatist side, currently living in Moscow and often giving interviews (he is very anti-Putin but it's beside the point). When he was asked in one of these interviews "what advice would you give to average Russians" he said "have a lot of children, when we were occupied by Poland [roughly 1584-1613] and lived in forests and swamps, every family still had approximately 8 children." Civilizations and nations do fall, and sometimes do rise from the ashes, but people must survive even after collapse of their civilizations. He also said several months later "it doesn't matter who saves you from floating, whether he's a capitalist or a communist", which I also agree with 100%.
Does ideology (or religion, I use the terms "religion" and "ideology" interchangably) matter? Yes. Are there more important things than ideology? Also yes. Survival, I think, being one of them. But I would even say that psychology (likes, dislikes) and taste in music are more important than ideology. I don't know how to explain it better in words. I, personally, don't have any ideological disagreement with people that live around me, or that I have to deal with from time to time. But psychologically I really have nothing in common with them. Neither with the ruling elite, neither with the general population. They don't like anything I like, nor dislike any things I dislike. At the and of the day, I don't care if the absolute majority of them lives or dies.
Maybe that's why Muslims can't refrain from killing each other? I don't have any statistics, this is purely my intuition. But I think that most of their murders is not muslim-on-white, or even sunni-on shia, but sunni-on-sunni. Because (assuming it is the case) even though Sunni Islam is a coherent ideology, they still have nothing psychologically and emotionally in common with each other.
So, in the ending I would like to say that the OP must be on to something.
So, in the ending I would like to say that the OP must be on to something.
Maybe. I may eventually (assuming I can stop procrastinating) make a text post about involving what this video is about. I've watched videos and read blogs that get pretty close to this guy's idea and I want to outline why I think Endeavour is truly on the mark.
Sorry if that's inappropriate as an advice, or whatever. But what helped me personally (I'm currenlty unemployed which bad in an of itself also has this side effect of feeling both bored and tired at the same time) is instead of having this idea of "5 (6, 7, whatever) hour work day" to replace it with 1h-30min work interval (not more) and 20 minute intermission (not less) after each interval. Obviously only works if you set your own schedule. But, I found it to be helpful to me to clear my mind after productivity drops (after every one-and-half hour). You decide whether to implement this advice or not, but I just wanted to risk and share it. :-)
Sorry if that's inappropriate as an advice, or whatever.
It isn't inappropriate, it's actually rather interesting. There might be quite a few people out there that get productivity bursts rather be in a flow of productivity. It isn't quite like what I intend to write about, but it is something that does get ignored in various economic arrangements.
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