Leo Gura

Not always. Sometimes. Selfishness can also blow up in your face very quickly, like a cheap firecracker.

This is actually more complex of an issue than it seems. If, for example, we passed a law that felons cannot run for office, then it could easily be weaponized by a corrupt government to keep good people from getting elected. This is exactly what happened in Russia. Putin uses such a law to keep all his best political opponents out of the elections, like Nivalny, by slapping them with phony felony charges. For another example, consider Lula in Brazil who was imprisons on phony charges and blocked from running in elections. But of course in a healthy system felons should not be allowed to run for high office. Just note that such a system is not so easy to create and sustain because corruption will creep in and abuse any mechanical rules.

I suggest that they don't understand this. They feel the threat, but they are in such deep denial that they honestly think they will win the battle. Which is why they fight it so hard. Take Jordan Peterson, for example. I'm sure he believes that he will defeat the Wokes/Greens. He probably feels he's well on the way to achieving that goal with the victory of Trump/Musk. It's a very powerful illusion of victory because in the short-term is seems like it's working, but of course in the long-term it will fail. But Jordan Peterson will be dead by that time, so from his POV he will fee like he won. Which is the whole point: to feel like you won until death. To stall out the clock. Think of Osama Bin Laden or Hitler or Putin or the Confederate South. These people honestly think that their worldview will win in the end. They go to their graves thinking they were right. It's an elaborate self-deception.

It does work, but people are easily influenced and brainwashed via social media. You can take a stage Orange-Green person and radicalize him through social media to hate Green and vote Blue-Orange. That's basically what has happened. Corrupt media has poisoned peoples' minds against Green. It is easy to demagogue and propagandize an ignorant and selfish populace, especially on social media platforms which reward rage-bait, reptile-brained content feeding into peoples' deepest biases to maximize profit. The American populace's development level is pretty evenly split between Orange-Blue and Orange-Green. So all it takes is a bit of social media influence to tip the scales. And it's always easier to tip the scale down than up because of gravity.

Rigor turned into a dogma leads to its own kind of self-deception and falsehood. However, intellectual rigor is a superior strategy to intellectual sloppiness. Truth-seeking is kinda like good investing, is not about always being right, it's about discipline on solid principles and strategy, rather than doing whatever feels good. There is no problem with aliens building the pyramid as a hypothesis. But then you must bring the data to back it up, or shut up about it. A principle of good epistemology is that you don't go around speculating and promoting ideas which you have no solid evidence for, just because you love the idea or it feels intuitively true. Discipline your mind to stick to the sound data and recognize when your mind floats off into fantasy. It is obvious that someone like Graham Hancock is reasoning backwards from his conclusions. He wants and needs there to be an advanced lost civilization -- he is attached to that romantic idea -- and then he travels the world cherrypicking data to justify his conclusion. This is bad epistemology which leads to self-deception. That is not how to do truth-seeking. If there was solid evidence for aliens building the pyramids I would be all for it. But there isn't.

No one voted for Musk. The situation is completely sick.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is also very good on this topic:

@Raze Are the charges criminal or civil? What damages is she seeking?

Decay into corruption is a never-ending problem. All systems decay over time. So Spiral Dynamics is not enough to save us. Non-corruption should never be taken for granted, as if it will hold automatically without our effort. There were many checks on executive power but over the last 10 years they were all corrupted away. The Congress was corrupted, the judicial was corrupted, the media was corrupted, the corporations were corrupted, the citizenry was corrupted. You can't have a healthy system when every branch of the system, from public to private, is corrupted by rampant greed, selfishness, and ignorance. In the end, nothing governs mankind but ourselves. If every leader is going to be greedy and selfish then MAGA is what we'll get. It is not really one person doing all this damage. The damage has been done by thousands of leaders and enablers across government, courts, business, political parties, and media -- because they are all epistemically bankrupt.

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Of course.

The image of those three in the Oval Office IS the corruption. Look no further. This is like two demons hosting a news conference to announce a committee to search for corruption. Only a fool would take them seriously.

@enchanted Contemplate what is freedom, really? What is freedom at its most pure, basic form?

Otherwise known as Joe Rogan syndrome

I am curious what percentage of Actualized fans have children. Let us know if you do.

Money has nothing to do with development. But yes, you should learn how to earn money so you are not too thirsty. Doing business from scratch is a good development playground. It will teach you important lessons.

I'm curious, how many of you here suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears)? What caused your tinnitus? How loud is your tinnitus on a scale of 1 to 10? Have you found any solutions that worked for you? The reason I ask is because I think I found a cure, which I plan to share in a few weeks.

Most likely dsybiosis and/or SIBO -- imbalance in gut bacteria. Many things could cause it, very hard to track down the sole cause. Could be autoimmune, could be bad bacteria you picked up somewhere. Yes, low FODMAP will give the bad bacteria less fuel. Plant matter and plant sugars are the biggest culprits. A basic stool test is not accurate enough to detect SIBO. That requires specialized breath tests. Stool tests are generally quite poor in what they can tell you. Find a doctor who specializes in Functional Medicine and SIBO and gut/auto-immune conditions. Normal doctors are not worth going to. If you got SIBO, just eating meat will relieve symptoms but it will not cure you. Cure usually requires nuking your gut with antibiotics but this is risky and troublesome with no guarantees it will work and then your gut microbiome will be ruined for years and need to be built from scratch. Elimination diet is a very important tool for finding which foods cause you problems. Research how to do elimination diet. Research SIBO. Age is also a factor. As you get older your gut will function worse and you won't be able to eat as sloppily as you did in your youth.

To the mind of a child Sesame Street is great entertainment.

It's not about money. It's about the ego feeling important and significant. Because these people are spiritually bankrupt all they have to live for is the feeling of self-importance they get from achieving ever more. If they stopped they would feel empty and miserable. They would have to do spiritual work from scratch and feel ordinary and lost.

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You are speaking about a serious crime. Obviously that is not acceptable from a human POV. You should care enough about yourself to protect yourself from crime and abuse. Nothing I teach means that you don't take good care of yourself or tolerate abuse from others.

@MarkKol Vlad covers Trump and American politics a lot. I share everything I know on my blog. If I find anything good I post it there.

@RendHeaven Why would you eat any chemical raw?? Put it inside an empty gelatin capsule for vitamins. https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Gelatin-Capsules-Size-Filling/dp/B0DJ8PKTHP/

Of course. But notice further than even once those people get money and sex, they still don't care about truth, they continue endlessly chasing more money and sex. Do any of the richest and most powerful people lack access to basic needs? No. Yet they are still lost in chasing success and survival. And I cared about truth before I had money or sex. Caring about truth transcends your material situation. Which is why getting a billion dollars will not suddenly make you care about truth. And also notice, if you really cared about truth you would work really hard to handle your base material needs so that you can focus on truth without being distracted by survival.