Kelton Mekkelsen

[ESPN MMA @espnmma]

The current combined record of Team Khabib is absolutely ridiculous 😳

One man’s vision. Father’s Plan 🙌

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[The Real World Tate @trw_tate]

You can live with the loss.

You can't live with the what ifs.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Most men have never felt the sting of defeat because most men have never even tried.

[Kelton Mekkelsen @KMekkelsen]

@gavinmchughh

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Ok, here is my trip report from 4.67 grams of magic mushrooms, 24.9 mg of psilocybin. The dose used in modern clinical trials.

First, the experience was exhilarating. Positive in every way. I felt like a kid finding and exploring a new playground.

My sensory perception was dialed up to levels I must have felt as a kid but have been dulled with time. I experienced sense of touch with awe. Feeling my fingers rub together felt novel. Touching my skin and running my feet over the threaded quilt lit up my brain. It seemed that my mind was insatiably curious and wanted to deploy its sensors into the world and discover all things.

I felt the same sensory joy in moving my body. Rolling my joints, curving my back, curling up in a ball, flexing muscles and moving all about in a fluid fashion. My body felt nimble, supple, fit, and strong.

My sense of hearing was equally as elevated. It helped that I was also wearing my new hearing aids which restore frequencies I’d long stopped noticing. The music I listened to hit more fully than I have memory.

My facilitator gave me some water in a glass jar. The visuals of the light reflections, water dynamics and sensory experience of holding the glass were so fascinating that I forgot to drink. My brain wanted to stare, study and marvel.

One of the most satisfying things I discovered was taking huge, deep breaths. Inhaling life and fueling the body’s needs and wants. I did it over and over and over. This material of existence, all around us, was available and free to be mined. You just needed to breathe in.

(After peaking and coming down, I ate a salad. It tasted like the most delicious food I’d ever eaten. The flavor exploded in my mouth. I savored every bite.)

At one point, I felt like my entire body was still. I had a perceived sense of total body control.  Like my heart had stopped. Complete stillness. This was surprising as I’m acutely tuned to my heart beat. I monitor my heart all day every day and can usually discern my heart rate by sensation. In that moment, I couldn’t feel my heart beat or any pulse pressure through my blood vessels. First time that’s ever happened. I asked Kate to check my heart rate on my wearable and it was mid 50s. I wasn’t worried. Just curious about my sensory experience.

With this heightened sense of sensory perception, it felt like my consciousness was dialed up to 10/10. I felt hyper aware and hyper alive.

It felt like mushrooms restored my perception to youthful levels, returning them to factory settings and dissolving my aged numbness.

Once my senses were reset, my attention sifted from the texture of existence to existence itself.

We spend most of our time playing games at the layers of people, dramas, companies, politics, jobs, money, ideologies, and status.  Underneath these games is the knowing that physical death has been inevitable. Everyone before us has died.

When death is inevitable, people pick their game among a wide array of options including reincarnation, heaven, legacy, offspring, ancestral veneration, existentialism and many more. These frameworks make death soothing, a virtue, and something positive to be anticipated.

But what if death is no longer inevitable? I’m not suggesting immortality. I am suggesting a radical remake of human life. The speed of progress in AI, biology and medicine point to a new frontier of possibility. Are we cavemen-equivalent now compared to what we will be like in 50 years? It’s now harder to argue why we should limit our imagination.

With so much promise, why have we not shifted our societal attention to secure our own existence? To solve aging. To address existential risks. To care for our planet. Why are we still messing around with self destruction, war and ignoring preserving our own existence?

We work hard to be fit. To learn a skill.  Build a relationship. To make money. When we identify an opportunity, we focus and work hard. It seems to me that we’re not yet aware or awake to the opportunity of what existence could become.

Whatever one’s life philosophy and belief of what happens after this life, the majority of us want to live to see tomorrow. We have stuff going on and things to look forward to. And when tomorrow arrives, we want to see the next day. Wanting tomorrow is functionally equivalent to wanting infinitely.

The want to exist is deeply embedded in all of us. Our actions prove this every day.

Humans have been the alpha form of intelligence for a while now, imposing our will upon all we can. Our powers have increased dramatically in the past few decades. We can edit our own DNA, design materials at the nano scale, and build thinking machines.

Our alpha status is now challenged by AI. Whether AI is friend or foe, and in what ways, and on what timelines is anyone’s guess. No one knows.

Mushrooms opened up my sensory awareness of this landscape to depths I hadn’t accessed before. My ability to see and understand felt like the movie Inception, where characters take a sedative to enter a different realm to carry out missions. A space as real as what we experience each day, but with different foundational pillars of reality.

It felt convincing that without the aid of a reality expanding intervention (like mushrooms), you can’t really see or understand this dimension, handicapping awareness.

While in this mushroom-induced dimension, it felt clear that we are about to start waking up from a slumber that has hypnotized us into accepting death. This will happen faster than people think. Once people see a practical path to extending a healthy life, they will adopt ferociously.

The body positivity movement came to mind. Most people don’t really want to be overweight and unhealthy. But when we want something we can’t achieve, we come up with moral frameworks about why we didn’t want it in the first place (i.e. sour grapes). Once GLP-1s came about, people’s attitudes changed overnight. The same will happen with aging. No one wants to be crippled and handicapped by age.

This awakening will also come about with the emergence of new ideologies.

Revolutions erupt when a civilization’s founding myth becomes incompatible with its reality.  The system fractures, dissolves, and opens up space for new meaning to rush in and replace it.

This pattern has been repeated throughout history.

> The agrarian empires (800-200 BCE) ruled via tribal power and violence, creating a moral crisis that gave rise to Buddhism, Greek philosophy, Judaism and Confucianism.

> Feudalism (1600-1800) ruled via divine monarchy, creating a stagnation crisis that gave rise to rational inquiry, the scientific method, individual rights and democracy.

> Industrial capitalism (1848-1945) ruled via mechanization and labor exploitation, creating a crisis of alienation, mass poverty and urban chaos that gave rise to socialism, nationalism, regulation and collective rights.

> Liberal capitalism (1980-2025) ruled via consumer sovereignty and free markets, creating a crisis of attention capture, metabolic collapse and existential despair that will give rise to something new. Capitalism solved for scarcity. Its defining virtue was freedom to choose. Ironically and perhaps inevitably, compulsion replaced scarcity and freedom decayed into addiction.

Revolution is at our doorstep.

Our current systems are fractured, evolving, and opening up space for new meaning to rush in and replace it. Change has been a reliable feature of human society. It will happen on accelerated timescales given the pace of technological and scientific advance.

After journeying this terrain, I was left feeling unbridled enthusiasm for the future of existence. That we may be the equivalent of cavemen trying to anticipate a future that is unimaginable to our current minds. And that existence could be more exquisite than any can actually paint at this moment.

New archetypes will emerge: warriors and caretakers of existence. People who are defiant of death, and view self-destruction as primitive and low-status.  Who take the continuation of human existence as seriously as profits, fame or power. They will emerge as our high-status societal idols.

The irony is that people thought this experience would collapse my interest in life and have me willfully kneeling to death.

To find truth though, one must always invert.

What seems more likely is that people use death to shield from the disappointment of not experiencing the potential of life without the limitations of death.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Most of the hate I get is understandable. Wealthy guy doing unusual things for health. Looks weird. Acts weird. Says weird things. Ok.

There’s also something else going on.

Ultraprocessed foods emerged in the 1970s. Those in adolescence / early adulthood (now 50-64) exposed to these foods now have nearly 2x the food addiction rates than the generation immediately preceding them (now 65-80).

More than half of U.S. calories now come from ultra-processed foods: 53% for adults and 62% for youth.

Contending only with tobacco and ultra-processed foods now seems quaint.

In recent decades, the most dynamic economic engine in history, American capitalism, has pointed its powers at addicting people to their products. Using the best available science. It’s become a predator prey relationship. We are the prey.

Social media, porn, nicotine, junk food, fast food, smartphones, streaming, energy drinks and gambling.  Each perfectly engineered to hijack our reward systems, enslaving us to their wishes.

Might we be the most addicted society in history?

Sleep deprivation is the silent amplifier. It wrecks willpower and deepens dependency. Yet it’s worn as a badge of honor, a cultural flex that rewards self-destruction.

On some level, many people realize that they’ve become powerless amidst the ocean of addiction that engulfs them daily. They’re powerless over what they eat. Dependent on stimulants to function. Compulsively checking their phones. Unable to turn off the screen before bed, unable to go to bed on time. Scrolling through the night, trapped in a loop they can’t escape.

As a result, they’re fatigued, depressed, anxious, metabolically unwell, and lack basic self-respect for the inability to do and become what they want in life.

This helplessness is where I think the hate directed at me gets much of its fuel. Sure, some people just don’t like me. It’s the magnitude, variety and intensity of the acrimony that points at something else.

Whenever a human finds themself in a situation they don’t like, they’ll search the world for moral frameworks that help them reassert dignity when they feel powerless.  Ideally, they’ll find something that makes themselves superior and others inferior. If you cannot win in strength, win in virtue.

Examples of moral reversals throughout history

0. The meek shall inherit the earth. (Christian inversion of power)
1. My preferences prove my worth. (aesthetic and consumer moralism)
2. My pain grants me moral authority. (victimhood as virtue)
3. Attachment is the root of suffering. (Buddhist renunciation)
4. I transcend the game; therefore I win it. (ascetic superiority / Stoic-Daoist synthesis)
5. The worker is the conscience of history. (Marxist moral economy)
6. Freedom lies in mastery of the self, not possession of things. (Stoicism)
7. The oppressed are the voice of truth. (Modern political theology)
8. The last shall be first. (Christian moral reversal)
9. What I cannot have must be bad. (sour grapes, the original moral inversion.)
10. Body positivity. (victimhood and authenticity as virtue)

Frameworks people use to try and wrestle their superiority over me:

0. Bro forgot to live (hedonic moralism)
1. I’m adding life to years instead of years to life (anti-optimization modesty)
2. What you’re doing is unnatural (purity moralism)
3. You spend millions and you look like shit (anti-wealth austerity)
4. Narcissist (communitarian morality)
5. You’re playing God (anti-hubris theology)
6. It’s worthless for the average person (equity absolutism)
7. Why when you can just get hit by a bus (fatalistic moralism)
8. Stupid, we all die (mortality leveling)

Basically, to strive is neurotic; to coast is enlightened.

You get the idea. People weaponsize moral frameworks to try and wrestle superiority and reconcile reality. Nothing is more painful than an unreconciled inner life.

Here is the thing. I am trying to be your advocate. Years ago, I was owned by these addiction systems. I wish there had been someone in my life helping me see the situation for what it was and giving practical guidance on how to dig out.

I’m on your team and I’ve got your back.

If you’re going to be angry, be angry at the systems that create the pain.

Then reclaim yourself.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Messing up stuff that matters is the cost of figuring out things worth learning.

[Kelton Mekkelsen @KMekkelsen]

@SleeperHQ LMFAO

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Kelton Mekkelsen @KMekkelsen]

@FantasyPros Started Nico, Amon Ra, Kenneth Walker, Trevor Lawrence

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

People will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential.

They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Depression is the worst. Absolute hell.

If you're in it, I feel you. Nothing said can soothe the pain.

I'm sending you positive energy.💙💪

[Khamzat Chimaev @KChimaev]

Rdr ☠️

[Khamzat Chimaev @KChimaev]

Alhamdulilah ☝🏼

[MMA On Point @mmaonpoint]

Khamzat Chimaev has crucifixed Dricus Du Plessis in all 5 rounds.

Have controlled him in every minute of the fight.

Have landed the most ground strikes in a fight in UFC history.

This is not a domination, this is an annihilation #UFC319

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

#UFC319

[Home of Fight @Home_of_Fight]

😳 Khamzat Chimaev is easily one of the most intimidating fighters to ever step into the octagon.

[UFC @ufc]

Absolutely DOMINANT performance from @KChimaev tonight 👏

He's leaving #UFC319 with middleweight gold!