Scandinavia, Switzerland, Netherlands.

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.

In a healthy, developed society corporations would place the betterment of mankind as their highest priority and profit as secondary. Until that happens society will be sick and corrupt.

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.

It's really a Wall Street problem. The incentives of every public company is to maximize profits for shraeholders. This is always done at the expense of customers. Until that is changed this will continue.
 

Problem is, for this to make any difference you'd have to kill a significant chunk of the capitalist elites, which is not gonna happen.
Killing a couple of Fortune 500 CEOs is not gonna solve the problems of Stage Orange. They are not gonna suddenly lower your prices.
These CEOs are part of a vast corrupt Orange system. And if you are the kind of person to assassinate them, you are not less corrupt than they are.

You have to be careful about how you interpret things I say. You might think I said something which I didn't say.
For example, I didn't say that you should not socialize, not have friends, not pursue money or business, or not work on a technology related to crypto.
I say a lot of things generally, in the abstract. That doesn't mean all of it applies to you or that what you're doing is even what I'm talking about.
Obviously the crypto field is full of scams and nonsense. But saying so does not mean that there is zero legit use of that technology. Maybe you are working in a niche which isn't a scam. Then again, maybe you are fooling yourself about the usefulness of your work. You shouldn't rely on me to determine that. You gotta think for yourself. I speak in generalizations and abstractions. It's up to you to figure how and where these generalizations apply and where they do not.
Much of how humans achieve success IS evil and corrupt. But, again, not everything. There are better and worse ways of doing business and making money. Obviously I'm not against doing legitimate business in alignment with your values. Again, I cannot know whether your business is legit or not, or how corrupt it is.
Corruption is a serious problem that afflicts all of mankind in various ways. Much of it is even unavoidable. Then again, much of it is so excessive that it is avoidable and unnecessary. It just all depends on your specific situation. When I speak of corruption I make broad general claims and explain the principles by which corruption works. It is then up to you to decide what kind of values you wanna live by and how much corruption you're willing to stomach. I have a complex view of corruption. I don't believe that all corruption can be avoided, because it's entangled with your very existence and survival. So I'm realistic about it. I don't expect moral purity from humans.
Becoming conscious of mankind's corruption IS psychologically challenging. That's not a mistake. But you have to be careful not to dwell too much in cynicism because in the end that becomes counter-productive, dysfunctional, and untruthful. You have to find a way to integrate it, not just moralize about it. Blaming everyone for being evil and selfish is not high development. Moralizing is its own trap. Then again, living by higher values is possible.
As I came to understand the extent of mankind's corruption and untruthfulness, yes, I did blackpill/disillusion myself somewhat. That's part of what happens with deep understanding. There's good reason why humans do not do this work. But also, I'm keenly aware that becoming too cynical and blackpilled would be a trap. So this requires balance. I go through phases where I'm more negative and then phases where I'm more positive. It's part of the development process. Especially over the last year I've been through some dark realizations. But that doesn't mean that's some permanent position I occupy. But I have shed many illusions in the last year especially as my understanding of things deepens and becomes more realistic.
It's confusing because actual growth and understanding is happening. This means old views have to be reconsidered and changed. It's easy to not be confused just by not doing any serious expansion of your understanding of reality. That's what most people do. Confusion is a sign that you're actually rethinking things and changing your mind.
Life purpose is still valid and valuable. Corruption is that which will veer you off your highest purpose. So there's a deep connection between these two topics.
Be careful with the "distance yourself from people" thing. That's not something I recommend.
I am not against:
Business Money Sex Dating Socialization These things have their place and are necessary for most people in their development. Especially young people. Skipping or avoiding these things out of a sense of moral purity is more likely to lead to problems than something great. If I'm negative about these things it's because I've done them and seen through the illusion that they are. Which is different from not doing them out of fear, laziness, discomfort, or whatever.

It's much deeper and more nuanced than that.
I've had profound insights into the workings of mankind, society, civilization, culture, politics, social hierarchies, etc. I understand the fantasies and illusions that govern all of mankind's ignorance and behavior. That's no light thing to stomach.
I want to make some videos about it but I'm also careful not to blackpill you guys. I haven't even released videos on this topic yet and you guys already saying I'm too negative and cynical. If I actually laid it all out, you guys would get super bummed out.

Insanity is a domain of consciousness which could be explored.
Of course you don't wanna become mentally unhinged. Which you could if you explore those realms too much.

This doesn't make sense because you are still left with relative ethical dilemmas. You still have to decide right and wrong ways of acting. Even a mafia boss has rules for how he behaves. You can't just behave like an animal.
You can't appeal to God to rationalize your unconscious behavior.

Is that really true though?
Be careful that these kind of narratives don't become your own self-constructed illusion.
Dealing with people has always been difficult. Nothing new about that.
Don't forget to double-check whether your cynicism is actually true.

Fear is not insanity. And insanity is not generated by fear.
If you actually experienced insanity you would be rightfully very afraid.
Higher consciousness does transcend sanity. But almost nobody understands that.

Yes.
Perhaps a better way to look at it is to realize that sanity is just an island within an ocean of insanity. That island is where most people live and dare not step beyond.

No. It's much more fundamental.
It's more profound than that.
It's a new domain of consciousness. A domain beyond human comprehension.
No matter what a human thinks or believes, that's not radical enough for insanity. Insanity isn't happening at the level of thoughts and beliefs, it's happening at the level of reality itself.

Real morality is about empathy and consciousness.

This is fundamentally wrong. That assumes that people are developed enough to transcend neoliberalism. They are not.
People complain about neoliberalism but they are not mature, developed, educated, or selfless enough to live in a non-neoliberal society.
It's like a rapist who complains about his family getting raped. But just because his family stops being raped does not change him from being a rapist and raping other families himself. The rapist is not truly against rape, he's just against rape when it hurts him, and he's pro-rape when it's him benefiting from it. So really all he is, is selfish. He has not transcended rape.
There is not going to be anything but neoliberalism for the next 100 years. Because people are not developed enough for anything higher. You can blame centrists or whoever you want, but it's not going to happen. But what could easily happen is a backslide into illiberalism and authoritarianism. The more neoliberalism is attacked, the bigger the backslide will be, because attacking neoliberalism is not a solution to transcending it. Attack and criticism doesn't actually solve any developmental problems. The issue is not a lack of criticism, the issue is a lack of development.

That is the bottom line, after all the stories and excuses.
Development is what drives everything. Even the so-called corrupt elites are just products of their society and culture. A neoliberal culture breeds people like Trump, Musk, Theil, Zuckerberg, Tate, lobbists, crypto grifters, and Wall Street wolves.

Green cannot deliver on its values because most people are too undeveloped to be Green.
When Green really gets going most people freak out and regress to where they feel comfortable, which is some combination of Orange and Blue.
It's easy to virtue signal about Green, but when the rubber meets the road and it's time to pay taxes or surrender power or give up sex, people say, Hell no, and live at Orange or below.
People want the appearance of having Green values while actually surviving at Orange.

Yes, good.
1) Trump, or a criminal gangster. Typical blue-colar American who barely passed high school and cannot point to Iran on a map and goes to fooball games and prays to Jesus for his football team to win the campionship so he can win $1000. Typical MAGA rally-goer. Typical American right-winger who thinks Trump is sent by Jesus to save us from communist Biden.
2) Typical stage Orange materialist scientist at MIT. Autistic atheist type like Stephen Wolfram. Many atheist intellectuals are here. Eric Weinstein.
3) Typical hippie New Ager type. Many spiritual healers, witches, shamans, mystics, etc. These are usually people born with spiritual talents thanks to genetics. They operate on faith and intuition. They love stuff like Law of Attraction and astrology. My last girlfriend. The type of person who thinks RFK Jr is God's gift to politics.
4) Ralston, Ken Wilber, Actualized.org 
What is the difference between Actualized.org and hippie New Ager spirituality?

Ripping into others is a distraction. What's necessary is to see others clearly and to stand for good values and not be bullshitted or corrupted by others' pervertry and devilry.
This isn't personal, it's about truth, consciousness, and timeless principles of wisdom.

RSD uses their male customers the same way they use women.
When you are dealing with PUAs you are fundamentally dealing with people of low character, integrity, and truthfulness.

Well said.

Narcs care about that stuff a lot.
Once you have all the money in the world, what do you do? All that's left to chase is attention, approval, praise.
Attention and praise can be a greater high than money, because it makes the ego feel validated in all its self-deceptions. What Musk really wants is to convince himself his worldview is correct. And the best way to do that is to enroll millions of people to lick you up and down.
Fame is one hell of a trip.

That just shows you how delusional he is.
There is no danger of the left abolishing democracy, especially when the alternative is Trump.
Yeah, he's scinerely corrupt.
That's what self-deception is.
This is nonsense.
No one was getting rid of the right. These are rationalizations your mind makes to justify supporting right-wing bullshit.
Illegals are lesser developed people. They are conservative by nature, not progressive.
No Mexican is coming to turn America socialist and trans. Wokeness is a homegrown white phenomenon. It's not being imported from the 3rd world.

It's not just a function of momentum. Actual permanent skills are built.
But momentum is important.
One of the best guys in game who I know tells me that if he stops going out for some months, it takes him weeks to rebuild his momentum.
Your interpretation is incorrect. I haven't gone out for a year. I could go out tonight and my skills will still be solid. A bit rusty. In fact, thanks to consciousness work my skills will have deepened without even going out because I understand reality deeper.