Leo Gura

Psychedelics do not raise baseline, with rare exceptions.

Interesting point, but he still ended up a pawn in that whole game, riding it to fame and wealth. Becoming famous for telling the establishment to fuck themselves is still the same sort of game. Warhol's "art" still ended up highly overrated and overvalued.

Yes, but why does that happen? It's a marketing effect. In order to become famous and build a hype movement requires that you do something outrageous and controversial. That's why fine art has this toxic obsession with being avant-garde. This is actually a sneaky form of survival. You have to be avant-garde to make it big in the fine art world. Otherwise there's no hype behind your work. Fine art is a social contagion. It's the old school social media. You gotta go viral to be a somebody. In order to create a really popular video game or movie, you also have to pioneer some new style. Something that makes people stop and look. It doesn't have to be good per se, it just has to make people stop and look. Connor McGregor mastered this self-promotion self-hype cycle in the UFC. That's why he became the most famous and highest paid UFC fighter. Is Connor McGregor the best fighter? No! He's totally over-hyped. But he created a social contagion around himself. He created that fantasy and enough people believe it that it starts to look real.

It is not necessary. Taking a dump is good enough. Plugging only uses the last few inches of your rectum. There should be shit in there unless you are doing something weird.

It is bullshit in the sense of being overrated. There are some nice classical pieces. Van Gogh's Starry Night is lovely, but it is not $100 million dollars lovely. People have blown these artists like Van Gogh way out of proportion. Was he a decent artist? Sure. Was he some art God? No. That part is the bullshit. There are many artists alive today who are better than Van Gogh, Dali, Picasso, and so on. But none of them will ever be revered as art gods because they don't have the group-think behind them.

I don't know. Should be soon. I will post it on my blog when it comes out.

State always returns to baseline. With very rare exceptions.

@Joshe As I told you, you have gotten lost. What you are saying is not the work, it is self-deception. But you are already lost enough that you will not listen to me. I warned you guys many times how self-deceptive this work is. Every year there is another guy on here thinking he's too cool for school, thinking he has outsmarted these teachings. No you haven't. I am here precisely to keep people on track from this kind of thing. But I can only help you if you are willing to learn. I truly am here to help you, not to play ego games with you. But I can only say that so many times. I hope it is understood. I have seen dozens of people here over the years think they have outsmarted the teachings, and they were all wrong. Don't become one of them.

@The Fetus Blesser Nice! Hi to Martin.

@Rafael Thundercat Of course that level of caring about truth is rare. You don't proactively go out looking for people to push your work on. You create your work and wait for people to come to you. Philosophy is a niche thing, period. Always was.

No. Please don't expect any specific time-frame. The book will take however long it takes. If it takes me 10 years, it will be 10 years. I will not release it until I am fully satisfied with it.

There cannot be a formula. You just need to want it bad enough, have a very open mind, and then roll up your sleeves and start doing research and experimentation. Do lots of deep research and experiment until you eventually find the perfect thing.

The practical answer to your dilemma is: You need to find a more intelligent way to making money. A more intelligent way will require less work, not harm your health much, and generate lots of money. Put simply: work smarter, not harder. There are many highly creative ways to earn lots of money which require relatively little work. But it requires a lot of creativity and intelligence to find those ways.

Truth should not be pushed on people. There are still people who want truth, and that's enough. You don't need to force it.

Nope. As consistent as anything else. More consistent than vaping.

There are many ways to make money. Some involve sacrificing health and some do not. Health is necessary for success though. It is hard to be successful with poor health.

I don't tell you what to do. I just describe how reality works.

That means you don't care about it enough. You have to truly care.

You get what you care about. If you care about money, you get money. If you care about sex, you get. If you care about fame, you get fame. And if you care about nothing, you get nothing.

Don't overlook that you don't know who might know. It's not so simple.

AAA video games. Both the consumption of them and the making of them.

No. Watch out for sloppy thinking.

@Joshe Be careful. You are starting to get lost. If you don't correct course it will get worse, until up becomes down and down becomes up for you. Truth exists. Truth is not whatever you want. Truth does not care what you want. What you're talking about is not truth-seeking but human mind games.

@ZenSwift Sure

If Murica means liking pussy, sign me up and give me a MAGA hat.