The DPO Project The Dispassionate Observer

This week’s episode is inspired by an article written by Grazie Sophia Christie detailing her experience dating an older man and why other women should follow suit.  Master Zi and Radheya discuss their views on modern dating and relationships and why it’s becoming increasingly hard to have a sustainable partnership.  We really take a look at how gender roles have shifted, and how it’s impacted both women and men.  Feminism has brought women many opportunities, but especially in urban areas, we’ve seen a lot of women age out of having kids because they’ve been focused on their careers.  Men don’t necessarily have a biological clock ticking, and often mature much later than women.  It’s somewhat of a cosmic joke. This week we really explore how this impacts our overall health and wellness in relationships.

This week Master Zi and Radheya explore the myriad ways technology impacts our overall health and wellness.  Ideally, we use these devices, and they don’t use us. However, with rising rates of dementia and other health disorders like tech neck, we can’t help but ask ourselves why is this happening.  Master Zi explains how technology and neuroscience work together and why it’s important to know when and how to use these devices.

This week Master Zi and Radheya cover the Ozempic trend and how it really impacts your health.  Every generation has a version of Ozempic, and Master Zi discusses why supplements and medications dedicated to weight-loss are more harmful than helpful.  They discuss why society tends to just want a magic pill instead of building a sustainable, healthy lifestyle that would support their overall health.

This week Master Zi and Radheya tackle topics like the debacle in Gaza, the government banning Tik Tok, and mental health trends in the U.S. They look at these current events by first examining how they came to be in the first place, and they wonder how we can turn a blind eye to things that are so obvious.  Zi shares his insight and knowledge of neurology and discusses the different types of cognitive dissonance that can be expressed in times of crisis.

This week Master Zi and Radheya continue their conversation around propaganda only this time they include ways to navigate it.  Maintaining your individualism and learning to stay centered amidst the chaos is challenging.  The media uses these tools in order to control the narratives to fit their agendas and maintain status quo.  Well, the best thing is to step away from the constant news stream and connect with like minded people, but we still have to find a way to work with the ones who are invested in this framework.  This episode we talk about ways to work together with people who have dissenting views without having to isolate from each other.

We are back! The guys are fired up in this episode as we tackle the topic of propaganda and how it shapes our culture, beliefs, and ways of thinking.  Ultimately, it is up to us to break out of the matrix of the constant news cycle and government narratives that keep us from staying open to other sources of information and storytelling.  Master Zi and Radheya discuss how politicians use these strategies all of the time in order to serve their own best interests. The silver lining that Master Zi offers is that younger generations are waking up and realizing this and they are using social media to share information faster than we’ve seen before.  That’s why it is still important to do our due diligence by finding our own sources and preferably multiple ones from different avenues in order to begin to understand the underlying truths.  Whether we’re aware of this or not, our overall health and wellness is connected to our thinking and beliefs so keeping an open mind is the first step on our journey to better health and well being.