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I feel the same way. I was watching Vaush today and he was upset that the Biden campaign isn't running negative ads while Trump is sick, and to some extent I can see where this is coming from, but at the same time I also think it could pay off by making the Democrats look level-headed and sympathetic, which is something I imagine a lot of Americans are looking for right now. I get the feeling more and more that this election isn't going to be decided by the extremes (extreme right or extreme left) but rather appeals to the center, which is what this strategy seems to be aiming towards. This is the way I see it - I don't think Biden will win in November, I think the Democrats will win in November, with Biden at their head. Biden is a weak candidate but if the Democrats generate enough good-will (and some divine luck) and keep letting Trump fall on his own sword then there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to take the election. "Playing nice" so to speak may be one way of doing this.

@Leo Gura I like the idea of them standing 50 ft away from each other and yelling better

Really liking the Emperor’s new clothes this time of year

Guys, we can't keep saying that Biden is going to win, because that creates a false sense of security that then takes away the motivation to fight tooth and nail to prevent a second Trump term. You have to treat a Trump victory as an absolute guarantee then work against that tirelessly in the opposite direction, regardless of whatever the positive polls show or any other trend. Also fascism has a weird habit of coalescing power come election time so this situation is still open to fluctuate drastically right up until election night. I'm not saying there isn't a good chance Biden will win, I'm saying that he'll only win if everyone gets off their butts and fights for it as if their lives depended on it, because in some cases it does. Don't get lazy.

MLK was 100% Green. He's like textbook healthy Green. In fact I would even say he had some Yellow in him. He understood that you can't just tackle racism by ending racist laws; you also need to address the economic causes of racism too (he was set to lead a socialist-oriented People's March a few days after he was killed.) Of course he had some Blue and Orange in him, he was a preacher after all, but there's no way his center-of-gravity was Blue. In fact that's the reason he was killed, his Green message of tolerance and equality was too triggering for the racially-divided Blue society he lived in.

Goddamn

Damn. A poor, hurt guy being suckered into voting for the same criminals and thugs who are making his life more difficult. This is why positive and effective messaging for high-conscious politics is so important, so that cases like this are avoided.

So he’s shilling propaganda for a millionaire talking head who takes cues from billionaires? Sounds about right to me

@Leo Gura What is your business exactly Leo? Is it just Actualized.org and things like your booklist and LP course, or is it bigger than that?

Anyway, "Great Man" theory is a very stag Red way of looking at history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

I would unironically watch that Social Justice Warrior cartoon if it was good and had a positive messag

That's true of everyone at stage Blue, that's not unique to autistic people

Hitler strikes me of being of regular mind to me, perhaps he could've been a little autistic or something but then again so is a good chunk of the population, so this isn't anything particularly unique. I think Leo is right, Hitler's radical nationalism and anti-semitism developed as a result of the sentiments floating around Europe at the time. It's not like he targeted his hatred at Mongols or Indians, because he had no cultural conditioning to do so, even though it's about as rational to blame Germany's defeat on them as it is to blame it on Jewish people.

So this is something that's been on my mind lately. This is similar to another topic I made a few months ago at the start of covid, but I feel like it's worth repeating. So much of our social malaise and neuroses is a result of our self-imposed alienation from nature. By which I mean, our minds (and by extension our politics, our governments, our economies etc.) have literally atrophied as a result of cutting ourselves off from the natural processes of life, which our forebears had in abundance. Take, for instance, a centrist who in other situations would find authoritarianism abhorrent, yet can't help but find themselves wanting to vote for Donald Trump. What's going on here? Why is an otherwise sane, grounded person falling victim to this mass hysteria? There are many, many reason, too many to list here, but one key one that is being overlooked is simply the fact their mind is unsettled as a result of being alienated from nature. It's no secret we live in an industrial age, and unless you're fortunate enough to be born in the country or have a very strong pull towards nature naturally, then its so easy to go your whole life without ever truly feeling the Earth's sacred embrace. This has consequences. A mind disconnected from its source (nature) will be more susceptible to false ideas, more paranoid, more unsettled and less secure. Not only that, but with the growing impacts of climate change (look at the west coast the US right now), this basic fact of our connectedness to nature is making itself known once again, but too many of us have been conditioned to find nature fearful and alien, and we grow afraid and paranoid as a result. The solution is not to fight these changes, but to embrace them, and understand that humanity's has place has always been in nature's bosom, and it's just that we've forgotten this over the last century or so. Spending quality time in nature will drastically improve your mental health, clarity, physical wellbeing, and social acumen. Earthing (look it up) is one of the most powerful mental health tools we have available to us, yet you won't hear this from any doctor or psychologist. Try it for yourself with a sincere heart and open mind and see for yourselves the benefit. If you're finding the world too much to handle and want a way to calm yourself down, then there's really no better remedy than spending time in nature. In fact, I would say its imperative to have a relationship with nature if you're serious about self-actualising and raising the collective consciousness. There's a reason why the Buddha touched the Earth the moment before his awakening. As the months and years go on this will become more and more self-evident, and the only question is will you accept these changes willingly or will you let them drag you down and become fearful and fall prey to false ideas. I think there's still a lot of reasons for hope, but only if we're proactive about them. Peace.

Yess!! I love this. A connection to the Earth is also a connection to our authentic self and our spiritual capabilities. I think every great challenge in each era of human history is a teaching lesson for us, and in this era it's a lesson for how to let go of unlimited growth and instead pursue harmony / ecology. I just hope a lot of people wake up to this teaching.

Honest question - why are you bald?

Ive been obsessed with the Beatles lately. This song is about how humanity’s potential for Love lays dormant and how we’re conditioned by society to desire the wrong things. George Harrison was also inspired by the Tao Te Ching when writing it.

Blue mistaking Orange for Red:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html This is huge. This is honestly the most damning thing against him, even more so than the Mueller report. How this will affect the election I don’t know. But I can’t imagine it’ll be blown aside like everything else so far.

@No Self Nice post

@Dany Balan Your countries problems in my understanding come from the fact that Romania was a stalinist dictatorship for 45 years, which left it technologically and socially backwards compared to Western Europe. I imagine your country is struggling with a lot of unhealthy Red and Blue, which means it'll need to integrate those stages before moving up to Orange and Green. How can it do this? I don't know. Being a Tier 2 spiral wizard would help find solutions. Maybe look for key growth industries that can be used to provide needed income to your country and encourage long-term sustainable development. Also corruption is a huge problem. You'll have to get rid of corruption in your politics and business before your society can progress.

It's to do with Spiral Dynamics. Leo has a full series of videos explaining what it is and how it works if you want to get a very good overview of it. Also if you want to read about it check out the book Spiral Dynamics by Christopher Cowan and Don Beck. It's a great model.

I would say Vaush is at strong Green with some small hints on Yellow, but still has too much toxic Orange and Tier 1 thinking about “us” vs “them.” I do think he’s at a high enough development though that given enough time, life experience and good arguments he could be pushed to Tier 2 thinking.

@Leo Gura My question is, just how did they get here? What sort of technology are they using that allows them to presumably travel between solar systems in relatively short time? From what I understand time dilation makes faster-than-light travel almost an impossibility using current models of physics, so whatever it is the'yre using has to be some real futuristic mind-bending stuff. Even using future human technology it would still take us like 400 years to get to our next nearest solar system, what do they know that would let them do it in a few months or weeks?

This actually brought a tear to my eye