Leo Gura

I should become a Trump supporter just as performance art.

I grew up there. I don't even think the groupthink was much worse than FoxNews. The bottom line is that you can't really control free speech. It like water finds it's way through every crack. Repressing a large population with disinfo is exhausting. Gorbachev passed some pretty bold liberalizing reforms in the mid 80s when I was born. Gorbachev was a pro-Western liberal. Which is why Putin hates him. People who lived under communism saw how ineffective it was. You can't bullshit people about their daily lived experience. Well, unless you're North Korea.

There is no risk of someone going after me for my wealth. If anything people would hate me for my liberal views, so for personal gain and security I ought to be a Republican.

The Whale and John Wick crossover.

This black dude is an epic drama queen and Oscar grade victim actor: Don't you love it how everyone goes Oscar actor mode when they get caught? Tells you a lot about self-deception. These people fool themselves more than the cops. The ease with which the mind spins bullshit is stunning.

It does harm me in the sense of higher taxes and such. All those Covid checks that Biden and Trump sent out -- I got zero. If I was voting purely to max my personal gain I would vote Trump.

It's literally not. What wacky dope are you smokin?

@integral I figured you'd get a chuckle outta that

Not. Because it becomes less predictable and the purity of a particular chemical is diluted. Keeping records of those trips is harder. Pure breed vs mut.

I would say white men def have a hiring advantage for jobs, especially powerful public-facing jobs. Women are still discriminated against for such jobs I think. And brown/black people for sure. In 1992 black people were not allowed to join the golf course on which I lived in California. Not offically, but unofficially. Wink, wink. Affirmative action is designed to fix stuff like that.

FYI: California, that woke hell-hole, banned affirmative action in public schools in 1996. And today it is banned nationwide by Supreme Court.

Interesting point. I should have said I was an endangered species. Last of my kind. A unicorn

Back in high school I applied to places like MIT and CalTech and never got accepted. Was it because of affirmative action? It never even crossed my mind to care. I don't need it that badly. But if I had some right-wing axe to grind I could still be blaming it on affirmative action 20 years later. That's the difference between abundance mindset vs scarcity mindset. Conservatives lack abundance mindset.

Sadhguru literally explained it above. Then I just connected that with Actualized.org work.

@integral Ask Claude if he would marry a pig with impeccable character. Where the rubber meets the road.

@UnbornTao 1) No one goes around saying, "I do Gnana yoga". You make it sound like Gnana yoga is the new Tide Pod challenge. It's just an alterative way of seeing a spiritual path. 2) Gnana yoga is one of those classical Hindu distinctions. Yogis talk about it because it is part of the Hindu spiritual traditions. I don't talk about it cause I ain't Hindu.

@SwiftQuill Affirmative action surely exists, by design, and it does its job. My question to you is, so what? Why does it bother you? I got over affirmative action back in high school. You just accept it, realizing that it's helping some people who need it and you move on with life. You don't take it personally and then build a politics around it. Not every policy in society is supposed to help you. Also, you will note, I didn't dismiss that life was hard for you as a white male. Life can be hard as the son of a billionaire. Life tends to be hard in general.

Gnana yoga is just deconstructing everything and having existential insights, as we have been doing with this work. Sadhguru is not teaching Gnana yoga, he is teaching more like Kriya yoga. You can call it whatever you want. I call it contemplation.

Of course that happens because progressives live in an ideological echochamber. The Green worldview is an echochamber. Yes. For sure this happens. Sam Harris is a good example of this. Some far progressives might call me just another centerist neoliberal.

Because God's body is wondrous.

Sadhguru clearly said it wasn't a belief system. But Ralston is overly dismissive of anything not of his own making.

@SwiftQuill So what are the points you want us to understand that you feel we are missing? Did you watch my 2-part series called Where Does The Left Go Too Far?

@SwiftQuill You are correct that some far left progressives are overly occupied with identity politics and have turned it into a kind of dogma/paradigm lock which overlooks individual details and even issues of economics and class. Some extreme progressives can say stupid things like, "Men are the problem". There are definitely excesses on the left. There are problems with cancel culture and automatically believing any accusation a woman makes against a man, and so on. There are problems with demonizing the police. There are problems with open borders. There are even problems with excessive weed legalization and lax drug enforcement.

You stated your points quite clearly. I don't have time to summarize them all. Bottomline is that you feel affirmtive action has been unfair to you and overcorrective. You feel that the white male perspective has become marginalized and beat up by lefties when in reality life is still difficult for white males.

@Clarence You seem like one of those highly sensitive people. That is a challenging way to live. All I can say is that you gotta desensitize yourself to life somewhat. Life is a harsh and dirty business and things will get broken, lost, or die on you. It is not your responsibility to babysit mice. About your ear, I can relate because I went through some difficult ear problems. I suggest you visit an ENT doc and have him check your ears for wax and do some tests. But in the end you will suffer a lot in life unless you get serious about letting go of all those excessive worries. You can't micromanage life that much. Let life flow more and surf the waves of chaos. If you cannot even hold a job because of all your worries then that's clearly very dsyfunctional. You should fixation on safeguarding everything so much and focus more on being creative and productive. Don't pinch pennies when you could spend that effort making dollars. This requires a shift in your attitude towards all of life, from defensive to offensive. You need to live more offensively and boldly. Take some risk.