Leo Gura

It ends. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Yup, it can happen, just rare and inconsistent. Congrats!

I did not impunge all fans in what I said in this thread. However, since you bring it up, in a certain sense being a fan is foolish if fan means that you are worshipping someone or relinquishing your sovereignty to them. Fans tend to be servile and dogmatic sorts of people. You can appreciate someone's work without losing yourself in the process. Fans tend to lose themselves in the process. Remember, fan means fanatic. So your question is really: What is wrong with being fanatical? Do I want you guys to be fanatics? No. I appreciate Peter Ralston's work. But am I a Ralston fanatic? No. No good teacher wants to create fanatics.

What is the alternative? Not even trying? Regardless of anything, you still have to live with yourself, do the best with what you've been given. Yes, failure is frustrating. But that's how it is. Because they are ignorant, cowardly, and corrupt.

Tate fans are as fools as Trump fans. Tate should be nominated for an Oscar

In court documents Tate says he's just an actor playing an online character like Ali G. Lol. What a slap in the face to all his fans. https://www.newsweek.com/tate-brothers-fake-wealth-ali-g-style-persona-extradition-hearing-12377180

Did they have a chupacabra?

The single anything.

It's good but don't get paradigm-locked into a single source.

Good. Good. That's legit.

But is that the right analogy in this case? Be careful not to pick the wrong analogy.

Yes, without good leadership humans are doomed. Humans need good leadership because most humans are followers and incapable of leading themselves.

For it work like that, I would have to charge you guys a lot of money. The content couldn't be largely free. You can't have it both ways. You can't want it all for free and easily accessible and everyone to be woke, and also esoteric. Esoteric means only 1 in 1000 of you here would have found the content. Is that what you really want? Finding this content is hard enough even now. Most people who need and want this content will never even know it exists. Actualized.org is not some mainstream thing. Very few people know about it.

Because that's what my passion is. This is not a utilitarian project for me, this is a passion project. I'm not doing this work to get someplace, the understanding itself is the point. Keep in mind that most people are not intellectuals, so they don't need so much detail and complexity. But I need it because I have a need for deep understanding. When you go to university, all the professors are intellectuals and nerds. That doesn't mean that you as the student need to go that deep, but the professors need to go that deep in order to teach at the highest level. You don't ask the professor, "But why are you going so deep on this topic? Why not just chill out and take it easy?" The professor isn't just there to teach you, he is also there because he wants to innovate the field with cutting edge research. In fact, that's primarily why he's there. He's not just there to be useful to you, because what is useful to a student is so shallow that it cannot generate innovation in understanding. So yes, I do treat this topic like a nerd. Does everyone need to be a nerd of the topic? No. But a teacher should be a nerd of the topic he's teaching.