Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible (2005)
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Cruise has always been a bit off the wall personally. I’m not sure how he stacks up against some of the other awful people in Hollywood, however.
He’s done a bit better at keeping his personal image cleaner over recent years.
My understanding is that his contentious positions are mostly rooted in his faith, which is another rabbit hole.
Although I'm not really sure what the takeaway would be.
We humans have this sheepish herd mentality - when SHTF its often manifested in even the best and mentally most resilient of us. A great societal evolutionary advantage in the past for sure, but these days it messes up important stuff like politics and overall heading of society, since its trivial for skilled/talented people to abuse. Trump won that way, as did any other populist ever, this is reason why so many stupid movements like flat earthers exist.
All this boils down to us being mostly emotional rather than mostly rational beings. Emotions are easy to manipulate and change even on their own, do something dramatic and decades of hard facts are thrown out of window in an instant.
Back to why simpler folk so desperately cling to celebrities - we want to be told how to live, what to do, what to think. Figuring out life for oneself is massively harder very long task with no guarantee of success. And lets be honest, most folks don't end up very fulfilled nor happy, life has many tricks how to fuck you up even if you don't manage to do it yourself. Thats why and only why fashion is a thing, rationally it makes 0 sense. Thats why folks get addicted to sugary food that kills them while knowing it very well. We are not good at managing emotions, rather emotions manage us.
I try to actively fight all this, but its an uphill mental battle with parts of myself, and the more successful you are, the further you get from most other folks just drifting in their lives, effectively erasing a lot of common ground.
That's not ADHD man.
Unless you mean energy, intensity, drive and singular focus for something and the next day you forgot all about it and it's onto the next shiny thing.
For example, 3 hours ago I decided I want to write a video game. Never written anything more complex than PONG in my entire life. I know myself enough that I'll be writing down all the fancy ideas I have, and we'll see if I still want to do it in 2 days.
I’ve done the video game one before. Not coincidentally, it had an aquatic theme. I lasted like 2 weeks. I wasn’t discouraged by a lack of interest necessarily, but the sense that it was truly impossible to pursue.
I know some other people with ADHD who have very central and long-lasting interests, but you’re not wrong that the passing (and often even more intense) ones are real too. Perhaps more common as well.
That’s why I said “some presentations”; some people find a groove that allows them to go deep on something they’re interested in, I guess. But certainly not always.
If it weren't for the need to occasionally comply for work etc, "ADHD" would be pretty neat and fun. Being mercurial and intense can be isolating, though.
I get interested, I seek out the most direct and as far as I'm able to gauge, best information related to the task I'd like to complete and I consume as much as I can about it until it's done or I'm bored. Or something else takes the intensity. I can juggle 2-3 intense interests at a time, this helps keep them going longer as I'll shift from one to the other if I hit a wall.
My kids are often confused why I’m interested in things (most recently fish and frogs I found in a creek, or enormous boulders we came across on a forest floor which likely fell there from incredibly high rocky peaks hundreds or thousands of years prior) but to me it’s like, how can this not be exciting!? In both instances I was so deeply engaged and amazed by the subjects and it gives me this incredible sense of awe and appreciation for the world I live in. The rest of my family is so uninterested that my interest annoys them, haha.
There’s definitely a downside of course. Like you mention, losing interest in things usually means moving on to something else, but that’s not always a good idea or beneficial to myself or those around me. Even so, I love being able to get into things so intensely.
Yes that is how exactly ADHD works. Focus is there, but not in our control.
The psychiatry stuff starts at around 8 mins in.
I don't think Tom Cruise is fully unreasonable and certainly don't think psychiatry is a reasonable arbiter either.
And further, simply by giving the Church of Scientology a million dollars, you can rid yourself of these unknown alien spirits
If Tom Cruise talks about movie making or acting I’ll listen.
This is just logic chopping. You could say the same about autism or depression, as it varies so much across people.
Maybe my car doesn't exist? It's just collection of metal parts that when put together happen to get me to the shop?
That is extremely strong claim. From what I searched, this is not what higher quality studies found. Instead, they found them statistically working for some issues and not working ... for other issues.
Tom Cruise was right, he was the canary in the coal mine when everyone said he was crazy.
He had a strange religion so it was ok to dump on him.
Ritalin is heavily abused by children. There is no doubt massive amounts of children should be treated by other non pharma methods.
Psychiatry has shifted the Overton window to places no one thought they would go back then. If in the early 2000's you told people the 2024 rates of Ritalin and pharma use they would be shocked at the abuse.
The famous interview - https://youtu.be/tFgF1JPNR5E?t=460
But, please, continue to let us know how the iLluMinaTi control us all!!!