What it means to be ‘Based’ - and what HD has to do with it.
For Christmas this year I gave what might be considered from some outside pov (point of view) or other to be, let’s just say … unusual … books to my family.
Not caring about outside pov’s is part of what it means to “be Based” imho.
Actually I had only the gist of an understanding of what the word meant for sure before today, though I’ve been hearing my oldest daughter and her boyfriend use it quite a bit this last year.
Context of our conversations was giving me clues.
But here’s a post by James Lindsay that explains in depth:
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/05/manifesto-for-the-based/
And I think, in a way, to be living one’s Human Design per our personal Authoriy IS to be “Living a Based Life”
Back to the books I gifted those closest to me 😋
The themes this year turned out to mostly be Art & Politics.
> Austin - my someday SIL, got the least on-theme one, but it suited him and I think he liked it … and it was about - coincidentally - a stand for being Based.
“Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work”
It’s the cutest little pocket book that guides to find yourself and the work that you love via a basketball analogy (he plays pretty much every day at work). Not that I feel he has to change his course particularly, but it’s words for staying his course and being encouraged to be himself - and staying playful.
The rest of the crew got much …mmm, heavier, I guess would be the right word …. reading opportunities 😄
Which why I balanced the kid picks out with art selections too.
For Aleda - offspring #1
“The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (the condensed trilogy with a Foreword by Jordan Peterson, whom she deeply appreciates)
“Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain”
& a comic sketchbook called “The Manga Artist’s Workbook”.
Also … “Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond” by Charles Pincourt & James Lindsay (who she introduced me to in the early Summer of 2020 via the Evergreen College videos, which subsequently began my ‘Grievance Studies and related fallout’ playlist on YouTube … yes she’s the one to thank for me being down that rabbit hole 🙃)
And Critical Race Theory Debunked by a favored YouTuber - Styxhexenhammer666 (it’s an old gamer name lol)
For Morgan - offspring #2
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (John also got this one)
& “Leonardo, The Complete Drawings”
Zane - offspring #3
“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Puberty―and Shouldn't Be Googling: For Curious Boys” heh heh, this one I gifted privately/adjacent to Christmas
& “You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less”
For my Dad … what I’m calling a pink-pill book/writer (ie. bridge to Red Pill that I thought a life-long Democrat might be able to swallow - I was correct)
“Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America” by John McWhorter
He actually started reading his and we’re now better equipped (it felt like he needed some catching up on current events of the last few years to be able to have better informed conversations - with us - around this stuff. John McWhorter to the rescue 🥳)
And for myself -
“The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)”
Yeah. Light reading there 🙈
Anyway just to loop it back to this connection I’m seeing between being Based and Living Your Design … whatcha think?
On point? Or no 🤔🤷🏻♀️
It’ll take a dip into the article link above to see what I mean.
Oop PS - Aleda just shot me a Joe Rogan link. Apparently James Lindsay was on the Joe Rogan Experience (what a smart podcast name 🙌🏼) a couple days ago …
Here’s the link and off I go to drink it in ☺️😄
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rYwwE7hcpgsDo9vRVHxAI?si=_55i3j55QTa0KP4RlBk9Kw