I suspect she is not alone. She's crying because she “felt nothing” on a perfectly good date. But why does she cry? Because she knows that it's not normal, that she's *supposed* to be feeling things. She's in distress and panicking but she doesn't know why.
Remember the mood organ in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which became the movie Bladerunner)?
It’s a home device that allows users to dial in specific emotions or mental states by stimulating the brain with electrical impulses. It lets you schedule feelings the way you'd schedule meetings.
The novel's setting was a post-apocalyptic world rife with social decay where genuine emotion is rare; people are so alienated that they pre-program and outsource emotions to a mood organ.
It's not hard to recognize how modern pathologies are pushing us closer to this kind of emotional dissociation and eternal numbness:
> benzodiazepines (Valium, Librium) turned anxiety into a treatable chemical imbalance
- 1 in 6 US adults takes a psychiatric drug: SSRIs, SNRIs, ADHD stimulants, and microdosing culture treat every emotional dip as a neurochemical glitch
- Need to feel empathy? Just dose with MDMA
- Too stressed? Try ketamine lozenges or $300 LED masks for “seasonal affect"
- What started as passive consumption via TV is now doomscrolling and TikTok’s infinite feed
- Your brain is one long continuous content funnel telling you how to feel, leaving zero room for boredom
Those tears are her clinging on to her messy humanity as she realizes that she's been emotionally anesthetized.
American father of 3 is considering cancelling his family’s health insurance even through it “feels very irresponsible.” He just can’t afford it anymore
He pays
-$1,500 a month in premiums
- Each person in his family has a $6,000 deductible
So he would have to spend “$30,000 in co-pays that we have to pay on top of the $18,000 in monthly charges to actually get coverage.”
‘Health insurance is the biggest scam’
Why is this not the biggest story in the UK?
Your government sabotaged prosecuting a spy case and then covered it up, hoping that you don't notice.
This is complete and total elite capture. Each person involved is denying and punting responsibility.
Huge opportunity for @reformparty_uk and @Nigel_Farage to articulate how they will weed out CCP political interference and insulate the UK from China's brazen attempts at economic coercion and subversion
Meet your vagus nerve (your body's master reset button)...
It's your 10th cranial nerve that "wanders" throughout your body (vagus = vagabond in Latin).
This nerve controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, and your ability to self-soothe.
Most people's is completely broken:
Young people aren’t dying from protein deficiencies
They’re dying from fiber deficiencies
Fiber is key to:
• Protecting against colon cancer
• Fighting heart disease
• Boosting fat loss
Yet 95% of people don’t get enough.
Here are high-fiber foods you need:🧵
1. Chai seeds