What the f*ck is wrong with everyone right now?

The world is going insane (as usual)

If you're anything like me, you're scrolling social media and can't help but think:

What the f*ck is wrong with everyone?

It seems like everyone became radicalized overnight on both sides.

So, I want to expose the psychology of what's happening here, and help you take control of your ability to think clearly during crazy times.

In short, this is the result of regression and ideology.

When you go through a stressful event, and if you haven't practiced the skill of stress mitigation for multiple years, you regress to a lower level of consciousness. You become reactive and animalistic. The worst parts of yourself come out and you may throw away various opportunities you could have had in your life.

You resort to black and white thinking, attaching to a preferred set of beliefs, joining echo chamber tribes that prescribe "one right way" to do or think about things, and if you fall for this trap, your life slowly gets worse for obvious reasons.

This can happen on a mass scale and often occurs in cycles.

When tax season comes around, everyone feels some form of stress.

When political elections happen, those who are sufficiently indoctrinated turn into a completely different person.

When something catastrophic and gruesome is plastered all over social media... you get the point.

And with the internet allowing the spread of information faster than ever, it's easy to get trapped in this lower level of thinking.

I'm not here to talk about what is right or wrong. I have my views and you have yours. You can find any opinion you want somewhere else. Instead, I want to dissect the mind behind lower levels of human development.

If you understand this, you'll be able to navigate this emotional wasteland without becoming animalistic and making decisions that could ruin your life.

How highly unintelligent people think

In HUMAN 3.0, I mapped human development across four fundamental dimensions (mind, body, spirit, vocation).

My goal with HUMAN 3.0 was to provide a model for becoming the most developed version of yourself. Multidimensionally jacked, let's say, rather than becoming overexposed to one domain leading to unconscious problems in others (like a businessman who lacks meaning or a mystic with a frail body).

The result of creating this model has also allowed me to think through complex situations and figure out what I can do about it.

Within each quadrant, there are three macro levels of development. Within each level, there are traits that must be acquired (knowledge, skill, and experience) that move you through the 3 phases (dissonance, uncertainty, discovery) that lead to the next level. For this letter, we are going to focus on the main levels.

These levels represent a person's level of consciousness, thinking, or development – we will use these interchangeably. They can help you identify where you are in each quadrant, or where you are as a whole.

• Human 1.0 (The Conformist, Low-consciousness) – Values established authority and traditions. Characterized by narrow-mindedness, black and white thinking, and believing there is only "one right way," which often stems from childhood conditioning.
• Human 2.0 (The Individualist, Mid-consciousness) – Rejects the norm and pursues their own goals. Has the desire to acquire status and be perceived as valuable. They are less narrow-minded, but now believe that their way is the one right way.
• Human 3.0 (The Synthesist, High-consciousness) – Able to adopt multiple perspectives, connect various patterns of reality, and strategize new paths. They understand that all perspectives hold truths that can be synthesized for more holistic and mutually beneficial results. They can display what some may perceive as level 1 traits, such as narrow-mindedness, but it is an intentional choice to tune out noise.

[Full body extracted in source: examples of level 1 thinking across information processing, belief rigidity, learning patterns, work/money, social media, cultural/political, technology; ideology as the primary trap; how to spot ideological attachment in religion, politics, science, diets, training; how ideology makes life worse on personal and collective level; the solution of firm beliefs held loosely, contemplate, expose, self-reflect, deconstruct, synthesize paradoxes, become a bridge, create new contexts; 5 indicators of reaching level 3 — full text in source]

Thank you for reading this letter.

I'm having a lot of fun with these lately.

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