The “crazy” things about me.
Last week, I wrote an article about Dave Chappelle and why he was not crazy. The article was supposed to be about why I wasn’t crazy but switched into a Dave Chappelle article. This was not a great first step to proving my sanity.
Anyways, as promised, I will now list SOME of the public things that get me labeled as crazy. To me, this is crazy, absolutely.
My diet alone places me in an extreme group of people. But I also think that many of the ways mainstream society operates are normalized extremely. The wastefulness integrated into our society, the forms of abuse and exploitation, the commodification of life and health, the level of inequality. These factors are unbelievably extreme and are basically the foundation of our society at this point. This has led to an unbelievable degradation of many systems.
I think it’s safe to agree that the Standard American Diet is quite an unhealthy one. I do not wish to blame anyone who, by default, lacks choice or other factors that cause reliance or adherence to a standard American diet. There are many financial and environmental reasons for being stuck in this system. I do, however, wish to inform, provide some tools/resources, and remove myself from systems that are damaging and violent. I’d like to talk about the nuances of many of these choices societally and beyond, in a nuanced way, but I would like to merely list them today. Just a simple list of the crazy things I’ve been doing, that I do not regard as crazy. I will not be explaining them in substantial depth until further articles. There are a reason and philosophy to all of these things.
I do not eat any animal products (because it's best for the environment, my energy).
I eat exclusively raw food these days. I haven’t eaten cooked food for 2.5 full years out of the last 7.5 years. (I have not in the last 10 months).
I do not eat any refined sugar (I do not limit fruit sugar intake at all).
I fast for 23 hours a day.
I do a brutally hard hot yoga sequence for 90 minutes a day. Lately, this practice has dissipated into nothingness but it is foundational to my routine and I’ve been suffering from its absence.
I bike everywhere I go and do not wish to own a car (especially not a carbon combustion engine type). I use public transit a lot too.
I do not shampoo my hair with any traditional shampoos; instead, I make my own. It involves baking soda and apple cider vinegar. The same applies to toothpaste, although my use of mainstream toothpaste.
I really care about not shopping at major corporations. I try to minimize, but we are stuck in a pretty reliant system.
I think breathing is a resource 99 percent of people don’t tap into.
I do not eat any oil. It’s been 11 months since I’ve had any.
My historically seeming lack of prioritization of money is alien to a lot of people. Money, and more of it, play a significant role in my goals, but the level of emphasis I place upon it is literally bewildering, jarring, and disturbing to many people close to me.
Thanks for reading my list of crazy things. Some of these are eccentricities to a degree and individualized choices, but some are thoughtful life philosophies I find to be potentially useful to all.