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Trump is much more egregious in terms con-artistry than Elon. And Trump certainly still lies to himself plenty about the good he does, warlord-narrative or not. Even warlords have things they care about.

I said they think they are saving the world. There's a difference. One is conscious, one is unconscious. Elon cares more than Trump. Don't oversimplify and write them off as the same. Unconsciously, yes. Consciously, no. Trump is driven more by his own self-aggrandizement than Elon. Yes and no. "Care" is a tricky thing. You can care and still do much devilry. In fact, sometimes the more you care, the more devilry you do.

I would not make your LP about pickup unless you want to seriously handicap your growth.

No he does not. This is unconscious for both of them. They think they are saving the world. Edit: Trump less so than Elon.

The LGBTQ community does not want to force people into being gay. This is an absurd strawman and slippery slope fallacy. What they want is acceptance for who they are and equal citizen rights.

It's complicated. I'm saying American culture continues to move more Green. Look at how badly unpopular the social conservative agenda from Project 2025 has turned out to be. Most people do not think we should be banning porn and premarital sex. We've moved past that. Perhaps most people wouldn't consciously understand it if you ask them. But yes, sometimes right-wing policies fail badly and get weeded out as a result. Too much deregulation of the market is a good example of this.

Most definitely not.

A couple different perspectives we could take on this: 1) Leftists policies can sound nice on paper, which then creates a kind of a surface level agreement. But these policies are also much harder to implement in practice and can easily be used as a nice-sounding smokescreen for lower development survival agendas, e.g Nazi "socialism". 2) Leftist policies generally favor populism over a minority of elites. But the elites have the power and can bully the majority 3) The left is actually winning the culture war, and Blue conservatism is losing. Especially among younger people 4) Many right-wing policies have been disasters when tested in real-life policy scenarios, and people who are informed understand that.

Looks like Jamie Wheal asking the question. Makes sense that he would have been influenced by Wilber.

Yes that’s right. From that perspective, progressives could be seen as more dangerous to societal stability. They don’t always seem to understand the consequences of what they ask for.

Bending of the truth IS exactly how society is able to currently function. Conservatives are defending the bullshit glue that holds everything together.

That is how you evolve to Yellow. You’ll get tired of Green bullshit eventually.

Their tagline is "Education, Devoid of Ideology." That's a laugh.

The democratic base definitely seems to like Walz. They will make a good ticket together.

What’s the problem? Is it affecting your training or causing you pain?

It's going to depend on how much time you have to budget towards this work and how much of a beginner you are. The more time you have and the more you are just starting out, the more I would read. You need a basic foundation of what this work entails and all the concepts. I was reading one or even two books a week at a certain point. Some of them are easy reads.

Good take overall on the state of our current situation. His biggest blindspot seems to be that he hasn’t had any transcendental experiences. Thus he places science as the peak of intellectualism and misunderstands spirituality. Also, we need to keep voting. I get why people are disillusioned but it’s really one of the few meaningful democratic tools we have. And if people become so discouraged they stop voting, it will not suddenly be replaced by something of higher integrity. It will most likely be replaced by an authoritarian like Trump who will just remove those pesky voting rights that you didn’t want anyway.

I’m not looking to pop them out of anything.

Okay. And you also claim that: 1) This level of consciousness is the highest that can be reached 2) This level of consciousness is permanent once achieved 3) No one else presently has achieved this level of consciousness 4) This was the level of consciousness that the historical Jesus inhabited 5) You also have achieved this level of consciousness 6) We can only access this level of consciousness if we follow your or Jesus’s teachings Is that all correct?

What is the Kingdom?

Great, that’s an empirical claim. Let’s hold him to that. Any other insights?

Well I don’t want to bash the guy too much. Maybe religion will help with his mental health and controlling his vices. That is obviously the appeal for many people. At the same time, the problems with organized religion are deeply obvious. Especially if your priority is serious spiritual work.

It's a good lesson in self-deception.

An interesting take by a left-wing activist: Her perspective is essentially that this is not new and that the Dems are ready for something like this.

@Carbon No advice, but I am curious to hear how it goes.