Leo Gura

Maybe, but selfishness comes in many degrees. Mild selfishness is healthy and important.

Only devils should be scared

Cult is not a binary. It's a matter of degree. There are dozens of factors that go into making a proper cult. One red flag does not a cult make. You could call it "cultish" if you want to be more accurate. I explain all this in my 2 part series, Cult Psychology.

@Husseinisdoingfine Wait for the video

Depends on which industries. Many industries can be private, but not all.

Well, conservativism is fundamentally grounded in fear. And if you are anal about protecting your baby, you may fall into that trap. That's called selfishness.

These are some nuances which are beyond the scope of what I was talking about in the video. The more evolved a society gets the less it will need to rely on brute physical force to enforce its laws and rules. Most US laws do not require brute physical enforcement these days. Maybe in the far distant future there won't need to be a military at all. But not in our lifetimes so I don't really care about that. Depends on how you define capitalism.

No, not Marx, but Socialism vs Capitalism.

@Epikur It is true that the more developed humans become the less babies they pump out. But this is actually a good thing.

I think he should have just switched to an ads/sponsorship model. That would have been enough for him to thrive. He could also have created and sold some kind of digital product that would have been helpful to his viewers. Monetizing 1,000,000 subscribers is not so hard. The hard part is getting them in the first place, which is a serious accomplishment and success -- and I give him credit for doing that. That's really amazing for a philosophy channel. Molynuex just needed a bit more biz savvy.

The EU and the UN are both small tests in how a world gov might work. As we can see, people are seriously not ready for it yet. They need to grow up first. They need to be willing to surrender their nationalism. A monopoly of force does not have to be perfect or absolute. Of course in the early days of the US things were somewhat loose. But still there were laws, courts, legislature, police, military, government agencies, etc.

Do not confuse the lower death drive with the higher death drive.

A) He has NO ADS! Of course he must e-beg. That's his revenue model by choice. Wikipedia does the same thing. They e-beg every December. As do all charities and non-profits. My mailbox gets full of charities begging me for donations every winter. B) His channel is about philosophy and politics. It's hard to make tons of cash from that, especially without ads. I don't think you're actually try to see his situation from his POV. You are looking at it from within your own biases. No one is saying the customer is at fault. His viewers are free to support him or not. It's their choice and there's no problem with that. People will only donate to him if they feel his work is valuable.

Not true at all. Monopoly of force was established from the very beginning. It was used to defend against foreign powers and conquer the Native Americans. The Civil War was simply a fracture in the monopoly and it only lasted for like 5 years.

Very uncharitable. Molynuex actually has high integrity because he doesn't run ads. So him asking for donations is totally fair. I see no problem with that. A donations based model for funding one's work/channel is admirable.

The fundamental answer is: because when you see how horrific and ugly it is for long enough, you will want to end it. Whenever consciousness looks at its own selfishness and ugliness long enough, it awakens, has a change of heart, and drops the selfishness in favor or selflessness and love. Even if the North had not invaded the South. Eventually even the South itself would recognize that their slavery was too ugly and selfish to be sustained. It would have just taken a few hundred years longer.

Yeah, that's how most libertarians argue because they are stage Orange, which tends to get comically "rational" when it is threatened. The entire stage Orange worldview is grounded in a religious-like faith in logic, without realizing that logic can be misused by the ego-mind to justify any sort of nonsense. Every deluded ideologue in the world feels that his worldview is logical. Case in point: Ben Shapiro. Logic cannot ever be trusted to understand the nuances of reality.

I don't think he's a cult leader. As I said in my Cult Psychology - Part 2 video, there are many cult-like dynamics in society and online which do not make for a true cult. Although they are still problematic. People call me a cult leader all the time. It's all too easy to call someone whose worldview you disagree with a cult leader.

So progressives don't have kids???? WTF kind of logic is that? If you have kids you should be extra concerned about climate change, income inequality, rising healthcare costs, rising education costs, war with Iran, and all the other problems of late-stage capitalism.

Ah... okay, fair point. So what I mean is NOT that one nation will become so powerful as to physically dominate all the others into one global empire. No! That cannot happen because we are too developmentally evolved as a species for that. Global unification will happen along the lines of how the 13 colonies became the United States. There was no bloody war to force the colonies to unify. They did it peacefully and willingly. So what will happen is that all the countries of the world will start to unify through a natural desire to do so rather than through domination. It will so be obvious that having a unified world government will be a net gain for all parities who join as it will bring great cohesion and peace and prosperity. Another possibility is if there is an alien invasion. This will force nations to unify in self-defense. But I think most aliens are going to be far too conscious and selfless to invade us. An advanced alien species who can build fast ships will have to be extremely conscious and loving and shouldn't even has a desire to harm us.

I was too uncharitable to call him "a hack". To be more precise, he's just ideologically stuck in a Blue/Orange worldview. That's really my only issue with him. I don't wish him any personal suffering. I don't see him as a fraud or charlatan. His heart is in the right place, it's just clouded by ideology.

Yes, of course.

I see your question. Okay, yeah, in that case you need to factor in development psychology and the moral developmental line. Yes, as people become more educated and conscious thanks to the order and peace and technology afforded by the unification under monopoly of force, eventually they develop a higher sense of love and selflessness, which then leads to things like abolition of slavery, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, police reform, etc. There will be one world government, of course. Take a look at how it works in Star Trek. They have a United Federation Of Planets which is the monopoly of force in the region.

And? How does this contradict what I said above? Both are true.

I find him sincere. I don't see why you must call him a failed philosopher or insincere. You simply have a different worldview than his. His show was about as successful as you could expect it to be and it seems like he earned his success through hard work on his show. Why begrudge him for that?