/pt/ – Petrarchan

Sorry to be like this, but what's interesting about his musings? I say this as someone who agrees with him factually 100%. But it's impossible to ignore the reality that saying modern diets suck is like yelling into the abyss. No one cares. What good does it make? They've been told the same shit about healthy and natural living for decades, yet the world persists in its usual direction. (I often internally become quite irritated hearing my own opinions repeated or lectured back to me because it feels like I'm falling into a circlejerk trap. Anyone else?) Proof of this is found in the fact that you had to qualify your statement with "if you agree or not", despite the fact that you most probably do agree with the basic and obvious idea that modern diets are garbage -- you still felt the inevitable reaction from those who insist otherwise. Just look at the mocking comments in the video. Sarcastic jabs (the cry of the midwit) about how man has already developed fire. Can't deal with this retarded contradiction of opinions. I sink back into faceless bland jargon to avoid riling myself up. Thanks for the cool channel rec anyway OP.

Much like the contemporary internet musing that some percentage of people are hidden NPCs, I believe something similar -- that some large percentage of people are missing a hidden "key" that allows them to be close to nature, or that drives them back, or that gives them that soulful essence. I feel this combines nicely with the thought that modern homo sapiens are part natural evolutionary result but must surely have some non-natural component, whether that result is alien in origin or something else not fully articulated yet. That is, our divorce from nature is not simply happenstance but a result of this non-earthy component manifesting and developing itself. I was once in a city park and there was a grand meeting of hundreds upon hundreds of birds in the various trees up above. They continued to fly in from all over the city in small groups to join the gathering. I sat for an hour staring at them - worshipping. I praised them, the gathering, the incredible pagan energy, in the same awesome way one feels in religious centers (as I myself have felt before). But it struck me: only a few other people stopped to watch. They had enough time to stroll in the park but were not in the least captivated by this majestic meeting of nature. And that's when I realized, that there must truly be some component that's missing from most people that binds or attracts them to the natural world. They are NPCs in that way. Many in the third world or undeveloped countries are also NPCs in that way, just bound to their current methods of life by sheer circumstance and social inertia; they are the ones who jump most excitedly into modern habits; they are the ones who turn their surroundings into trash heaps as we see in media. It is some random innate component in us that is wholly separate from conventional notions of intelligence or development.

>>1215 I'm not sure I do agree with what he's saying... the best way to eat is to subsist on a diet of food that is presumably high in cholesterol, is subjectively disgusting to a large proportion of the world's population, and seems to intermittently kill its consumers? What's better about this versus beans and rice and fresh fruit and veg and good cheese and milk and bacon and eggs? It seems fairly clear to me that this is a foodstuff invented, ingeniously, to survive in an extreme climate. For those of us in other climates, shouldn't we be grateful we have better options?