Thread by @KetoAurelius

THREAD: I hate to break it to you.

But Western civilization has peaked and is in a slow, degenerative downward decline.

- Autism up 270x
- 90% metabolically sick
- 20% of people on psychiatric drugs

If this isn't the fall of western civilization, I don't know what is.

COVID is the red pill for many people...the wake up call that so many things are wrong in society. But this process was catalyzed years ago.

It's tough to pinpoint when exactly.

But I believe that ubiquitous technology massively accelerated this trend and is not slowing down.

The problems with Western society are deep and in some cases intractable.

Frankly, I wish there was one boogey man to blame it on. I wish we could blame all the issues on one president or even racism. But that's emphatically not the case.

A civilization declines & fails when the succeeding generations are weaker than the previous. I don't see how that's not going to be the case.

Those in Ancient Athens knew that taking care in cultivating the young is paramount. Today, we do the opposite.

Every single Gen Z'er is practically merged into their phone and Tik Tok. They are growing up, sick, diabetic, autistic & obese.

They're hurled into a world full of toxins & pesticides. A world that's completely devoid of any meaning.

If they rebel against this toxic world, they're diagnosed w. ADHD and loaded with meds. This is not how you care for the young.

A society where the only conception of a good life is one where you consume shit all day and work at a job you hate. Is this what life is meant to be?

We're drowning in material comforts but everybody is sick & miserable. The experiment of the secular west has failed.

We need a new vision -- this one is not working.

Is there a way out? I'm not sure.

But it starts with recognizing the polluted water we're swimming in that nobody sees. It starts by saying no to the sinister tradeoffs that technology and the modern world require of you.

Stop giving away your freedom. Stop letting others control your health.

Unfortunately, institutions are not going to save you.

I'd love the return of a Marcus Aurelius -- a triumphant philosopher king who could reconnect us all with the harmonious order of nature.

But that's not happening. It's on YOU to change your own life.

We need to birth a new, undomesticated human being that's capable of fighting the quicksand of modernity.

Start setting a course for your life and taking back control.

It all starts with diet & health.

You cannot be mentally strong if you're not physically strong.