Author name: Dante Sisofo

You stop education after grade 8, learn to build, live off the land, and create big families. No distractions and no connection to the culture of the city. Just God, your family, and your neighbors. Everybody has a role to play and works towards a common goal that benefits both the individual and the collective as a whole.

While technology has given us access to unlimited information and power at our fingertips, I do believe there are plenty of downsides. How is it that we have god-like capabilities with tablets that fit in our front pockets, but people suffer from more depression and anxiety than any other generation before technology? I think this has to do with the instant access we have to the news of the world. The screen time we spend can not be good for us and ultimately effects everyone’s sleep. I think people are more tired than ever because they sleep with a phone. It’s time to reconsider how we interact with technology in our lives. I believe the upside is that we can use it as a creative tool to propagate more beauty into the world through the voice of the individual. We are all artists when we were born and have the ability to share our unique perspective with others.

Whether it’s the protesters that advise me not to eat animal products when I go to the local farmers market in Rittenhouse or the “stop the oil” people that stand outside of City Hall and tell people to stop driving, I simply don’t get it. I believe that environmentalists should put all of their efforts towards planting trees and stop worrying about people’s personal life choices. Ultimately I don’t trust them because the environment doesn’t directly benefit the human. The human conquers the environment. Maybe we have less procreation today because we’re too worried about the environment?

The more money people have, the more problems people make up for them to solve. When I consider the Industrial Revolution, automation, and modern cities, I imagine it like a prison. All money is used for some sort of debt whether it’s paying for your shelter, food, or useless goods to fill the void in your life. People that inhabit a city are merely paying for their survival by serving someone else and climbing the corporate ladder. Self pleasure seems to be the focus in modern life. Go to the office, play on your phone, come home, watch TV, repeat. What ever happened to pain and sacrifice? We’ve become so accustomed to luxury that we have no desire to procreate and do anything to give ourselves real purpose.

I find that creating my own home gym has been the greatest thing for my fitness. No need to commute to an external place to get my pump in. Being able to wake up and hit the weights right away beats any public gym simply because of the time you save. I believe you don’t even need a gym as you can just do stretches and body weight exercises at home. The difference is I can get my lifting done in 15-30 minutes max as opposed to the full hour-two hours people spend going to the gym. I can leave a barbell fully racked overnight and just wake up to hit a one rep max if I want. The only benefit I can think of going to a gym is for the hot sauna?

The strange think I’ve noticed about weight loss is people’s obsession with counting calories. This doesn’t seem right because it has nothing to do with fat tissue. The goal is to lose fat, not “burn calories.” This is why any form of cardio for weight loss is obsolete. Fasting ironically makes you less hungry. The moment you eat something during the day is the start of your hunger. This is why I choose to skip breakfast, lunch, and only eat one carnivore meat at night of at least 2 pounds of beef.

I’m starting to realize that sleeping 8 hours isn’t enough. You actually need 10-12 hours to be at peak performance. The more you walk, the more tired you will be. Running is silly because you strain your body and don’t feel well the next day. I think all runners secretly lie to themselves that they enjoy it.

Perhaps being selfish is a virtue because when you improve yourself it can benefit the collective as a whole. You have to change yourself first before you can benefit everyone else.