"You live and share an extremely unique lens of perspective, as you have straddled the worlds of academic, socioeconomic demographics and are a lucid observer who seems to be very open to friendships and experiences with all kinds of people. Most people who have become MIT neurosurgeons stick with people in that class and become extremely class oriented. You seem to be constantly challenging yourself and deconstructing all sorts of phenomena, from political, economics, environmental, true health and more. You are am open traveller of life, seeking, and sharing with sincerity. Your videos are insightful, reflective and have a pace and feeling that is so welcomed by us others out there, who practice optimism through altruistic actions, yet have times of weariness".

"I am living in a real dystopia as we speak. The dichotomy and segregation are very apparent if you look at the details of my area. You can see the various levels of wealth inequality on any street in southside where I live and roam. I moved to this, more affordable, denser part of the city over ten years ago. I come from rural Utah, and moved here to the megalopolis of DC-Philly-LHV-NY-Boston as a teen. Inequality is here. But, if you have money, you may not see it. And, so, we have done nothing but make it worse. Now our cities are left with their hands tied behind their backs and homelessness".

"Permaculture must be a big part of our various lifestyle choices going forward. Even if you just make the attempt, you are moving in the right direction. Homesteading and regenerative agriculture are part of permaculture, I'd say, they just don't know it. What homesteaders are missing, from my observation, is advanced environmental science education. It's not just about detaching from capitalism. you can homestead and still do things that are counterproductive to protecting nature and creating a surplus of energy. Life gets better when you get closer to each other, support each other, and connect to nature. In the 1800s, most people farmed. If you did not farm, you were connected to the farms and farmers. For 99.99% of our existence, we ate plant-based diets and were hunters and foragers. Most of our calories came from plants. If you think THIS is normal, and good for us, you may want to rethink that stance. Mental, physical, social, and environmental fitness cannot be purchased. I mean, in capitalism, there are costs; but, you have to choose to shift your spending and prioritize time spent on those things on a more regular basis. You'll be surprised by the connections you can make and smiles you can put on faces through growing food, harvesting water and resources, supporting wildlife, and more. I fed a lot of people green beans this year. About 30. I now know a lot of people on my street just because of the food I grow".

"We have a species of enablers. So many people agree to sacrifice themselves and receive crumbs to prop up power addicts at the top of the hierarchy. It’s very sick indeed. Our species doesn’t know their own deservingness. That is why some people are deemed more or less deserving of access to resources/money. When a person is internally stable enough to truly know their own deservingness they know everyone else is equally deserving of access as well. We are all fractals of the same consciousness, therefore, we are all equally deserving along with all the other life forms/consciousnesses we share this planet with. It comes down to knowing it as an indisputable fact that, I am, therefore, we are".

"Adorno’s project was not to design systems of control, but to diagnose how instrumental reason, administered society, and mass culture deform human experience, often through institutions that claim to be emancipatory. In that sense, Adorno is closer to a radical critic of technocracy and mass manipulation than a contributor to it. His suspicion of psychiatry/psychology, mass media, and the culture industry is grounded in concern for individual suffering, not indifference to it. That said, I also think it is fair to say that critical theory itself is not immune from being institutionalized, co opted, or misused in ways Adorno would have opposed. That tension is part of its legacy and worth taking seriously rather than ignoring".

 "So that's the reality we live in. We fear social isolation. We fear being laughed at. So we just go with the flow even though in our hearts we know this is all a lie."

"In terms of global production we could see to every person's basic needs worldwide right now, and we could just stop warring, conflict, etc if the people engaged in it started refusing to participate, and chose paths of collaboration and cooperation instead of competition), they are not a current reality precisely because those with privilege, power, and who benefit from the broken status quo prevent them from being realized worldwide, primarily due to greed".

"This world is a brutal place. Those who do not become brutal have a much harder time than those who stay fully human, by "fully human" I mean too wrapped up in their body and human ego."