Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "Hacking enlightenment: can ultrasound help you transcend reality?" video.

While It's very interesting and worthy of future study, providing solace and reducing anxiety for individuals. Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety, like war, disease, poverty etc. Meditation and breathing techniques can help individuals improve their lives and perceptions but we are leaning towards a global corporatocracy that sees people as cash cows and wastes the planet's resources in the pursuit of wealth and power. I'm not sure making people happy artificially is a boon to the individual or a tool that could be used to manipulate us.
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@philbarone4603 Agreed, on a personal level. But globally that won't work. Those with the power will simply take advantage. We've lost 65% of global genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of extinction. Even in rich countries like the UK, corporate greed increases at a rate proportional to poverty, and food bank usage increases. It's no coincidence. We also have neo-fascism and authoritarian governments on the rise. Not to mention the cyberattacks, industrial accidents, and skirmishes which suggest ww3 has already started...
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@raz0rcarich99 Don't bother to read my replies or try to understand my original comment, please just put a generic reply...
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@billusher2265 My initial statement commends the technology as laudable as I myself practise meditation and breathing techniques. But also states the opportunity for abuse of such technology. Yet most commenters seem to lack nuance and try to attack my point as If I'm stating what I believe to be absolutes. As you have twice.
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"It's very interesting and worthy of future study, providing solace and reducing anxiety for individuals. Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety" "I use Wim Hof's breathing techniques and cold showers to improve my inner world as well as meditation." "How many of you are not going to bother reading my words correctly or the numerous replies already provided, in order to argue minutia?" At what point have I said not to use these means to provide stress relief and use these techniques and technology to improve your own state of mind? When did ultrasound become the only means of providing happiness? If productivity was derived from happiness why is it that our greatest philosophers, artists, songwriters, poets etc predominantly share a life of suffering and depression? Do you actually believe change comes from happiness? because history teaches us that change comes from struggle, from recognizing problems and getting angry enough to risk your life to provide a solution. Take the Rebecca Rioters, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, Scotch Cattle, Wat Tyler and the peasant's revolt, suffragettes and the Anti-Slavery Society as examples of this (British revolutionaries that changed the world for the better). Giving women the power to vote, abolishing slavery, fighting unjust tolls and taxes, removing unjust systems of government. Try learning about fractional reserve banking, global financial hegemony, corporate monopolies, planned obsolescence (making flawed products that have a limited shelf life), geopolitics, global conflict, climate change (loss of 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction), environmental sabotage for profit, how the diamond industry hoards diamonds to artificially inflate prices, how the oil industry has known the risks of climate change for a century etc. I could go on but you have already proven a lack of logic and an inability to understand written language...
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@raz0rcarich99 My comments are being filtered/removed. Ask the worth of Michaelangelo, Samuel Johnson, Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Charles Dickens, Tolstoy, Isaac Newton, Tesla. All had depression.
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@billusher2265 While I haven't said otherwise, the phrase 'tortured genius' and similar wasn't coined by me...
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@billusher2265 Have the human race become petty-minded individuals who seek to see the world in black and white with no shades of grey?
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@raz0rcarich99 I've already provided several examples of how seemingly harmless technology can be abused. It was filtered or deleted. We are not talking about mediation per se, but the artificial inducement of mental states using ultrasound. Your pedantry and semantics are noted, well done for proving what a petty individual you are on numerous occasions. I've had a wonderful, enlightening debate, but this wasn't it...
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@squamish4244 Already answered in my comment, not to mention I practice Wim Hof's breathing techniques and meditation myself. "Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety, like war, disease, poverty etc."
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