Leo Gura

He never followed up to set it up. I'll keep trying. Maybe he will.

You've borne the risk of people driving since day one.

The New Left is not in charge of the Defense Department, military planning, or the intelligence agencies. That's all run by many conservatives and centrists. No one is going to let left-wing protestors run military policy. This is like giving a credit card to a heroin addict.

That's cause he chooses to conduct his business with media attention-whores and perverts. Destiny could engage with more thoughtful people. There are many intelligent and mature people on YT. Like Vlad Vexler or Daniel Schmachtenberger or me. But the lack of drama wouldn't get the views and clicks that Destiny wants. Destiny's own development is hampered by him fishing for drama and views. Higher consciousness discussions just can't get the same view counts as the clickbait drama that Destiny likes to get himself into. To go higher he'd have to outgrow that style of content and settle for less views and less fame. That's gonna be tough for him to stomach. Destiny is stuck in a cycle of wrestling with pigs for clicks. It gets him lots of material success but his soul suffers for it. He is addicted to the YouTube game, like a fish in water. If you want to seriously develop eventually you must surrender the temptation to wrestle with pigs. Why do you think I don't do that kind of content?

Notice what Sam Harris and Destiny have in common: intellectual integrity. They really care about the facts. They are not operating on vibes, dogma, or ideology. They are also not reactionaries or utopians. That's the key to higher stages of understanding.

Destiny strikes that balance correctly. He pushes back against far left fantasies but is also super strict on MAGA pervertry. Which is the correct "middle way". That's my approach as well. You must call out MAGA as the perverts they are without giving them one inch, but you must also recognize the problems with the far left, and with the neoliberal corporate mainstream too. But you must not allow any false equivalency between far left and MAGA. And you must not demonize the "mainstream", avoiding the trap of falling for bad ideas just because they are anti-mainstream.

Cenk has some good ideas and qualities but he's also delusional, as most clearly seen in his own political campaigns. It is a problem if you want a deep and accurate understanding of reality and society. I don't like this simple narrative. That's the nature of demagogery. Yeah, but people don't know or care about numbers. They want the vibes and their biases pandered to.

It's not grift, it's just a lack of deeper sensemaking. Eventually the lack of epistemic seriousness catches up with you in the domain of politics. If you don't get the epistemology right then you will get stuck somewhere in Tier 1, lost in the human media noise. Eventually the quality of your sensemaking will be the glass ceiling of your political view. The best example of how to do centrism correctly is Destiny. He has the best political analysis of anyone on the left.

Because my concern is to help you avoid getting your mind stuck at Green. I don't want you to become the next Cenk/Ana/Hasan. I'm not really interested in politics. I'm interested in taking your mind to higher levels of understanding. So I have a very different agenda than anyone in the political domain. As much as I comment on politics my work is not political. That's why it's powerful.

I don't see that happening unless maybe a nuclear war.

@Daniel Balan Nationalism is a Blue phenomena, not a Purple one. Purple is tribal and clanish. Purple does not have a concept of "nation" or even "race" because it is too tribal.

Cars crash. That's just baked in the cake of what cars are. Car AI will eventually save more lives than it kills so this is not a serious issue. If you don't want to take the risk then don't drive using AI. If you use auto-pilot you know the risks.

I explain this difference as the difference between Blue and Orange. Nazi Germany was Blue-Red and current America is Orange-Blue. Blue is a collectivist stage and Orange is an individualist/libertarian stage. This is why capitalism will manifest differently at these stages. I see no risk of America actually becoming a Christian nationalist state. That would be too unpopular and too low in development. America is not going back to solid Blue. But America can go hyper toxic Orange. Which is where we are headed now. The real danger is not a Christian theocracy but a hyper-capitalist oligarchic technocratic dystopia.

Calling Nazism Purple is a big mistake in my opinion.

What is the difference?

I say that voters are ignorant.

Master of Fools

Exactly. In practice all these anti-mainstream people are just aiming to become the new elites without even realizing it. Bashing elites is very convenient for those who want to take their place.

Mainstream media simply reflects how the society is actually run, as opposed to fantasies of how it ought to be. You are never getting rid of elites or hierarchy. Never. If you think you are you are just ignorant of how society works. If you want to improve the status quo first you must understand it clearly. You can't just assume that your utopian ideals will work. What you see with progressives and leftists is this constant struggle and denial that their ideas are unfeasible. Which is why they aren't already enacted. Progressives want the world to be better but their minds are totally underequipped to face the realities of the world. The world is not better for very deep reasons, not shallow ones.

By it's very nature a totalitarian dicatorship can appear like "socialism" because it is a government that seeks to control everything and everyone top-down. This is always justified as "for the good of the people" and hence has a "socialist" vibe. Rather than taking their self-professed labels at face value you should just look at whether the regime is dictatorial or democractic. The problem isn't the socialism, it's the top-down dictating. Rather than asking, Is it capitalism or socialism?, first ask, Is it dicatatorial or genuinely democractic?

Inflation has come down across the world after Covid. Be careful simplistically attributing such things to individual people or policies.

So many people have brainwashed themselves to hate the mainstream that their minds are now rotted. That's what happens when you spend 10-15 years constantly criticizing mainstream media. What you get isn't better, it's worse.

It's not strictly necessary but struggling through failure is usually a big part of developing anything. Much of learning is just trial and error. It's hard to say how exactly to avoid it since corruption takes many subtle forms. Mostly by paying attention to fundamentals like consciousness work, epistemology, contemplation, truth. Being very diligent about truth is the foundation for seeing corruption.

This is like asking for an option to ignore the police.

Same as yours.