It's funny cos just a few days ago someone said these same content creators cause de-radicalization
https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-data-suggests-conservative-content-leads-to-de-radicalization-not-radicalization

And even some more controversial ones

But I guess whatever fits the narrative must be pushed, even if it requires jamming an oversized triangle into a circle

is anyone here in the know about wireless headsets?

You'll have to spend at least 80 euros/100 dollars for a good one that's gonna last.

My opinion: don't get one

It will stress you the fuck out

Goal should be to disconnect as much as possible from social media, and increase the number of person to person connections

If you wear an earpiece the whole time, you'll feel obliged to use it, thus increasing your online presence instead of real life

Eh, it depends on your own self-discipline and what your day-to-day looks like to be fair.

self-discipline is a myth

Either you're born with the discipline or you're not

If not, you gotta remove temptations from your environment

Either that or you replace them with new temptations

That's why all people eventually fall back into their old behavior

The discipline lies within not exposing yourself to the temptation in the first place, cause if you do you'll lose

Unless like I said you're not inherently inclined to fall for it in the first palce

Many people would benefit from this line of reasoning, but psychologists are too stupid to understand this simple truth

Or too ideologically driven by their love for absolute unrestricted lifestyles

Removal of temptation is no longer discipline

Example: Removal of oneself from the battlefield is not discipline over your emotions; keeping a level head in battle *is* discipline over your emotions.

discipline is doing what you dont want to do, as if it was

power is being able to do something, and making the choice to do it or not

wisdom is the ability to decide which is better outcome

and diligence is doing as good a job as you can do regardless of circumstance

Ergo, buying a wireless headset provides options otherwise not found. Thus, it is exercising self-discipline to not always deploy them.

The myth is that discipline can be trained without outside factors

Which is what I see as self-discipline

Self-discipline would be the ability to stop oneself from buying ice cream when the craving exists
An internal factor that can stop ourselves would be that we understand it's bad, therefore we don't buy it
But the truth is, people buy it anyway despite knowing this

And the reason is that we need to feed our cravings somewhere, sometimes

That desire gets stronger over time the less we feed it

So the desire moves elsewhere to other (replacement) desires

We can't stop

There's only craving management, which would be for example changing it into a less harmful desire. Or removing the source of craving altogether.

Discipline plays no role in that management, we simply follow our desire if we want that

In contrast, an *outside* factor to train away our lack of discipline would be for example a person, or circumstances, that stop us

As mentioned earlier, removing the source of craving altogether, so we don't need to show "discipline"

Or parents grounding a child

Discipline implies that we have control over our desires. But the desires persist, they go away not by our choosing

Discipline doesn't imply that

Discipline is control gained through force
Self-discipline is control gained through self-force
There's no discipline required when there are no antagonistic or chaotic forces pulling or pushing away from the target behavior