Leo Gura

It's certainly better to do it with people than not do it at all. But for the real serious work you gotta do it alone. Yeah, maybe I'm biased here.

@Scholar You are an eagle and politics is for pidgeons, who feast on garbage It helps to know that.

Glad you liked it.

It's not that I demonize them. It's that they lead to corruption. I have been corrupted by them in the past to some extent. And now I am very aware of that corrupting effect. But I was wise enough to avoid most of the corruption. Most people will fall right into it. There are many different ways to get money and sex. They are not all equally corrupt. Of course I'm not saying you shouldn't make money or have sex. I'm saying, understand how these things lead to corruption and be careful that you don't lose yourself to them. Saying that pickup is corrupt doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't date or flirt with women or learn to socialize. My point was that the pickup community as whole is corrupt. In the same way that Wall Street or the mafia as a whole is corrupt. These are corrupt industries. Not all ways of doing business are corrupt. Not all ways of dating are corrupt. If you are just starting off, you may not care about corruption because you just want results. But at my advanced stage I care about corruption as an epistemic and spiritual matter. So I point it out as a favor to mankind, for those who care about such things. At some point, if you care about deeply understanding all these fieldd and social systems, you have to confront the issue of corruption within them. Otherwise you cannot understand them. Corruption is such a huge lens for understanding what's really going on with mankind.

Tom is a marketer. Don't forget what marketers are at their core.

We can't know exactly. But if Trump wins there will be basically zero checks on him. It is a hostile takeover of government and at that point the only question is how dictatorial will he be in the mood to be. At this point he could cancel an election and no one would be able to stop him. He can imprison any of his opponents. That is where we are headed. This is no joke. If Trump gets in office all checks are gone. His admin will destroy normal government for decades. It will be like the Iraq war but to the US government.

This is a great Op-Ed: https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024 As least a few adults are around.

It's so cringe. What an intellectual embarassment. Simping for the Devil.

My politics is very pragmatic. I don't see that such theoretical approaches will change anything. The real answer is to deeply study the work we do here, and in the meantime mankind will behave like a pack of ravenous hyenas. The real levers for raising mankind is education and technology. Those two things over decades make the biggest difference. Mankind evolves naturally, but slowly. As far as systemic changes to government, I would propose a serious focus on anti-corruption measures. Hundreds of small changes that make corruption by either party unsustainable. But of course, this is precisely what will be rejected by everyone. Any policy proposal that seriously cures corruption must be rejected by a corrupt society. So here we are. At this point I will be happy if America still has a democracy in 4 years. I doubt it.

Why not just say a rope stretched between animal and God -- over an infinite abyss?

It would look like American politics. Like raving racist lunatics storming the Capitol and realizing that doesn't work.

The point is to become so conscious that you realize that sleep is imaginary. You are trying to realize the imaginary nature of reality. Any way you frame reality will be imaginary.

Because you are taking genetics for granted. Good genetics is not something anyone is entitled to. Any capacities you have had to be evolved over billions of years through a very painful process. News flash: that process never ended. It's kinda like you're asking: "Why doesn't nature give a caveman a rocketship?" Because someone has to build it first. Nature doesn't owe you genetic capacity. Nature is using you to build genetic capacity. You are nature's stepping stone to something better.

Surely I do.

It's deteriorated by everyone who loves Trump. All of it is corruption on wheels.

Like attracts like. A devil attracts devils.

This is a dubious distinction that only exists at lower states of consciousness.

I don't need any humans corrupting my trips.

No. Their lives were miserable. It was a disaster for all involved.

Build your life a bit each day, every day until you die. That's the only reasonable strategy. Everything else is a distraction.

I reject these shaman fictions. I have done enough DMT that any more could kill me. Drinking shaman sludge is completely unnecessary.

Please stop bolding your entire posts. As a baseline, you need a deep existential relationship with life. You have to regard all of life with the gravity it deserves, not as something comfortable that you feel entitled to. You have to frame your whole attitude in a deeper context. Rats and birds are shivering to death right now outdoors somewhere. That's life! Not this artificial stuff that humans have invented. Life is serious business and must be treated with much respect. You can't feel entitled to anything, not to happiness, not to health, not to freedom, not to comfort, not to freedom from pain. This is the right starting point. Humans are spoiled and corrupt. This corruption makes you weak, pathetic, and miserable. You should treat life more like you are a rat out in the middle of winter. A rat has no rights and is entitled to nothing. A rat has to work every minute to stay alive. That's real life. You shouldn't be focusing on such artificial and spoiled concepts like fairness. You should be focused on what work you need to do to grow yourself.

Who's life was better?

That is true from a certain very high trans-human state of consciousness. It is true from God's POV.

And they still don't. It's madness of crowds based on vibes. That's how demagoguery works. It preys are on political fools who never really cared about governance. To these people politics is a football game.