I assume everyone here or into Peat is a dude for whatever reason.
because once you see how profoundly it is possible to shift your way of thinking, living, being, you also see how possible it would have been to do so in the past.
Yes, this is hard. It is key to not let this get in the way as it creates regret and guilt. I'm over 30 now so I grasp an idea of vanished time and opportunity.
Maybe solutions appear when they need to even though it is frustrating and doesn't happen quickly. Furthermore, God believers say have faith and beg God, but this seems absurd.. the logical end of this is basically going to live in the desert or away from everything and scream at the sky, and be humbled and live as a monk.
It is difficult to understand the parts and the whole; for example I think as my beliefs and ideas changed, my view of food and nutrition changed (for better and worse). I don't want to be histrionic but I think that's why Peat is like a very electric author or musician the way he engages people. The modern world is designed like a huge trap a la Kafka. Our cravings are being engineered by R&D teams; raw ingredients long have been subsidized for cheapness/profitability and extreme ideas like anti-starvation, shelf life, and cold war "fallout" shelter rhetoric. Then the FDA and "science" basically helps these big corporations move along calling their products "healthy" because they fortified it, or, because the science underlying all of the assumptions about pufa/grain, etc, is wrongfully concluding it to be healthy too.
Outside of nature, the sensations we experience are tied to the worldly materials that have been run through cost analysis resulting in mass production / low quality and engineered to maximize profits regardless of the effects (light, food, sound, etc). It's "revolutionary" pardon the term, to read Peat and others' writings and work on this world's "science," health, etc. Practically speaking, I think without a doubt I used to see "bad" food as a satisfying drug (greasy pizza, fried stuff, booze). Lots of pufa causes hangovers nearly as bad as alcohol, and it was an easy "stress relief" or stress avoidance tactic.
The cultural manufacturers prop everything up this way. It's like legal drugs, even though drugs are basically legal now 🤕
I don't claim to have anything really "worked out" very clearly except trying to understand my place within it a little better. It seems to me all of the mainstays of our "culture" are parasitic and insidious, and part of this is that people don't cook (or produce and create their own life) as much anymore. And institutions and "common sense" people deride people who 1) have energy and 2) think freely.
but I can't will that kind of faith into existence. I don't think.
It's interesting - I think to some if not many the "faith" in some ways is like asking permission to be and do. As in, I think some people are more confident but lack judgment or introspection. I might understand their faith concept if I was more confident and prideful but lacking judgment. But I spend far more timing thinking and judging things instead of "acting." So I think my faith concept would be in acting and doing. "Ask for forgiveness, not permission." Not my idea, but there's some truth to it.
