Leo Gura

@Cred I don't have ADHD and I did not struggle in academic philosophy. You are living in your world. I don't know how else to tell you. You are inventing a lot of stuff about me to yourself. It doesn't matter to me, but it should matter to you because your view of reality is going to get very distorted. Are falling into self-deception and I don't like to see that.

That is not my position and that is irrelevant to this issue of Lenin's devilry. I am not saying that no philosopher can know some things better than me. Of course they can and do on certain topics. I am not some expert in Marxist theory or whatever. However, I do have an deep enough comprehension of how the mind constructs reality that I see through many silly arguments and lines of logic like that of academics like Finkelstein on Lenin. To believe Lenin was egoless is so silly that Finkelstein would be embarrassed if he ever understood what ego was. Lenin was extremely egotistical. Lenin was not a good human being. He was a socopathic person who would do anything for victory and power. He was ruthless and remorseless. And it makes no difference how good his intentions were. His ideas were delusional and dangerous fantasies that killed many people.

Every ego thinks it is doing good. That doesn't mean it knows what Good is. Was Lenin fully convinced he was doing Good? Of course he was. As was Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, and every other devil. Before you can do Good you first have to realize Truth. That is exactly what none of these ideologues and sociopaths do. It's all egoic self-deception, in different flavors. You can have Lenin-flavored self-deception or Hitler-flavored self-deception or Zionist-flavored self-deception or Islamist-flavored self-deception. It's all unconscious survival that ends in misery and torture. All because people don't bother to study and understand spiritual reality.

"Lenin is the most selfless, egoless person I've ever met." AHAHAHAHAHAH! This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Lenin was a fucking devil. He would gladly kill your mother for a bit more power. There was nothing pure about Lenin. He was a self-deceived ideologue high on his own bullshit. Which is why Russia ended up in deep shit. To call any Russian politician pure is insane. That could only be said by one who doesn't know Russians. A terrorist is also pure theory embodied. That is what an ideologue is. That's not a compliment. Finkelstein is smoking crack in that clip. Osama Bin Laden is "pure theory embodied".

I cannot take Lenin seriously. He was a power-hungry ideologue. He was not a serious intellectual. He turned Marxism into a religion and it ended exactly as Bakunin predicted 50 years earlier: Stalin's gulags.

I was reading an Iraqi torture manual once and I had to put it down because it was just too much to stomach. You don't want to read even one such book.

I don't think a hundred books on torture have even been written.

That is not how he does research.

When the shoe fits. The shoe fits well for folks below Tier 2. This case validates Spiral Dynamics more than it doesn't. I can easily use Spiral Dynamics to understand Hasan and his critics. They are not doing anything original. I would love these guys to not fit in such simplistic categories. But unfortunately they insist on it.

@Monster Energy That is freaky. I have turned into a MILF.

That guy is not an ideological actor. He does quite good and fair research.

That is a function of ideology and ideology is part of Stage Green. You guys are expecting too much from Green. Green is not free of ideology. Just as Orange simps for capitalism, Green simps for socialism. Yes, Hasan is rooting against capitalism. That is his view. Nothing crazy about it. Of course he is more forgiving of his ideological allies. That's the Marxist view of the world. Capitalists are the enemy.

Reminds me of this kid

@Jodistrict That is exactly what is being disputed here. "Taught to her" is a very loaded phrase. I could "teach" a parrot to speak epistemology at you. That doesn't make the parrot a genius.

I have not said I read thousands of books on that. Dozens, yes. If I read a thousand books on torture I would kill myself. Lol

I don't see why we need a new word for this. This is a feature of leftists. I just call that Green/leftist. I think Hasan is intelligent enough to understand that Hamas is not some pro-gay leftie organization. He knows they are barbaric terrorists. He just thinks they are justified in fighting back against the injustices done to them. The notion that Hasan is some terrorism promoter is silly to me. He is just realistic about why terrorist exists and may even be necessary when your oppressor is a gigantic machine. Hamas does not need to adhere to progressive values for us to recognize that they are just defending their homeland and families from getting raped by Zionists. It is silly to expect Hamas to have progressive values or else we refuse to see the validity of their grievances. Hamas are barbarians and they are also victims of heinous crimes that made them barbarians. No great paradox here. It is also silly to side with Israel just because Israel has some gay rights. As if gay rights somehow makes ethnic cleansing okay. This is actually an absurdity of the Sam Harris position: Israel is more progressive so they are allowed to ethnically cleanse anyone less progressive than them. Keep in mind, slaves were less progressive and less developed than their slave masters. But that doesn't mean that slaves were wrong for overthrowing their masters. The entire issue is that Israel is progressive off the land they took from primitive Palestinians. The progress came at Palestinian expense and now the bill has come due. America is also progressive thanks to our exploitation of 3rd world nations. It is legitimate for 3rd worlders to be pissed off about that.

Dude, the above video beautifully presents the evidence and the case. You are choosing to deny it. You are defending the claim that a completely blind woman wrote epic poetry about the colors of a sunset. This is absurd. She clearly could not write that. She had no way of knowing what colors are. Or she wasn't blind. Another possibility is that her handicaps were grossly exaggerated. Perhaps she wasn't truly blind or deaf. People love to exaggerate handicaps too because it makes them seem more impressive than they are. And I am very vocal about the evils of AI slop.

I should buy a chimpanzee, put his name on all my work, and then tour the country with my legendary, epistemic genius chimpanzee. I shall name him Coco. Coco the first chimpanzee to teach humans epistemology

Why would Mark Twain not have been duped along with everyone else? How could Mark Twain know? He didn't have all the facts. He wanted the legend to be true as much as everyone else. The issue isn't plagiarism. The issue is that her caretakers were doing all the physical writing for her and injecting their own heavy interpretations and polish on everything she said. This was not a single incident, this was her entire lifestyle, origin story, and legend. Imagine if I had all my work edited by a secret nameless worldclass author and then presented it as my own. That would be fraud. But it was never at the same level of quality/depth. And who was her replacement?

My process for these clips is quite efficient. I am satisfied with it. I can generate 500 clips per month. Not that I intend to keep that up. So it is at least 100x more efficient than YouTube. Start a new thread please.

Ultimately there is no reason to do anything. However, unlike a dog, a scientist can realize that science is a human construction, a scientist can open his mind to things I say, and eventually I will get some scientist to realize he is God. And that will be the point. The point is, at least a few people will realize God from the things I teach. It won't be thousands or millions, but dozens. And that's good enough for me. All of my work is done for a small number of very serious people who will eventually realize God. But larger numbers of more casual folk will also benefit along the way without going all the way to God. It is good for scientists and academics to understand epistemology and the limits of their fields. This will help their fields advance. I don't just criticize them for entertainment or clicks, I explain how to think deeper and better.

Unfortunately that's just not feasible. Every clip requires at least a bit of editing work, titling work, rendering work, copy & pasting work, uploading work, etc. Posting raw videos looks too unprofessional. The overhead on rendering and uploading a video takes more time than recording it. But it's not too bad. I have a few ways of managing it.

It's a mix. There is re-treading of insights from my long YT videos, but also entirely original insights and ideas, or framing them in new ways. If you go into it expecting 100% new ideas, then you will be disappointed. The Vault is not essential, it is a bonus feature for fans who want more. Like a backstage pass to a concert. You don't need it, but if you love the band then you will enjoy it. The Vault is not intended for lukewarm people but those passionate about the work. Yes, this is precisely the case. The Vault allows me to release more content than I can on YouTube because the prep work for long YT videos is very grueling and unsustainable after a decade of doing it. The Vault solves the sustainability problem for me. Yes, I am open to any topic ideas. I can easily cover topics in The Vault, unlike on YouTube because they are much faster to create and I need thousands of topic ideas. Taking requests for YouTube videos doesn't work well, but for clips works much better.

It really depends on you. It's not a function of time as it is a function of your effort. If your effort is too low, then you will never get good. But if your effort is very high you can get good in a year or two. Effort matters most of all. To advance quickly you have to get very serious about it. It has to consume your life for a few years. If you are just dabbling in game, even 5 years won't get you far. You have to be a beast about it.

I fixed this. #112 works now.