Terell Kirby

@Leo Gura Just thinking- thoughts about creating a Mega Thread-Examples of Low & High Perspectives? There are so many examples to pick from on the Internet-I think it'll be a good supplemental exercise to bounce off of the homework from the previous video.

Imagine ICE busting into you local churches and schools armed with assault rifles to round up illegal immigrants (could be janitors or cooks) https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/ice-can-arrest-people-at-churches-and-schools/index.html

“Hey it costs an arm and a leg for that omelette!”~ says no one.

People are less poor from previous years but are still poor in comparison to the insane amount of wealth hoarded by the top 1-10%. I’m not saying that wealth inequality shouldn’t exist on some level-it’s a standard feature of capitalistic hierarchy. However, I don’t think we should be lobbying government as a means to actively widen the gap in some unscrupulous manner to perpetuate more inequality than is necessary.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer under the new Trump regime. For everyone freaking out-it’s really no need to do so, just get back to basics. Reducing unnecessary expenses, not taking on any new debt and building your savings are core principles I go by to ride out times of economic uncertainty. The Mad Orange King will not have total dominion of the Great Lands of the US forever. Buckle up and enjoy the chaos while it’s here-we’ll all be able to sit back one day and laugh at how the country willingly stepped into this mass pile of epistemic shit 💩

Something has to give though. Of course, to play with sharks one has to become a shark (I agree with you that most hippies/progressives are in denial about this). Question is how does one not become a full on shark, and maintain some degree of decency in the quest to turn things around?

@Leo Gura didn’t notice any rap songs on your actualized playlist. Are you a fan of the genre at all ?

Yeah-Easy to not take this in account living in the West-my form of stage Orange/Green idealism

Noting this down as a high perspective- also our political systems and their dysfunction are a reflection of collective values … not very high if you look at most world leaders (the US and Trump for example).

There’s good and bad to everything. TikTok has rotted the minds of many, yet could have be used for good if anyone gave a damn.

I anticipate this will backfire on Americans in due time. We shit on brown people in the Middle East because we think it won’t affect us.

That’s deep. In this case, valuing survival & fantasy over truth shouldn’t be judged as a moral failing of some sort. In a sense, Jail breaking the mind is a good thing only to those who desire it. Truth would indeed look like suicide from a POV that has no desire for it. Desire/bias very much drives our values, how we act on those values and how we judge our actions (actions of others).

How should one go about parsing true from false intuition? The process can’t be algorithmic-but at the same time, a higher level of intuition is needed for parsing .. a meta intuition of sorts.

Another gem from playlists-pt 1:

DeSantis picks Floride AG Ashley Moody to replace Marco Rubio in Senate. She’s complicit in aiding efforts to help Trump overturn 2020 Election results through legal argument: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/politics/ashley-moody-florida-senate-seat/index.html

Is that really an absolute fact of the matter? Seems like a blanket statement that lacks nuance and research on Bidens policy and it effects on everyday Americans. Biden did some pretty good things for infrastructure, gun safety and jobs-all in which were non partisan that the majority of people in the US benefited from. Of course the majority voters don’t care about any of this, culture war issues are more sexy for lower minds.

I find this to be an over exaggerated populist position. “The people” are mostly politically ignorant -that is what allows them to be manipulated by those in power. General stupidity and ignorance of the people (added on with social media algorithms and toxic online echo chambers/memes) is what got Trump elected. The people need to take more responsibility for their epistemology and understanding of political science.

The level of arrogance and entitlement in some humans is flat out disgusting. This is what is life is in a post-truth society:

More like you can never convince a Christian that Christianity is evil. This would be the path towards God.

The series on Low vs. High perspective will go down in the Actualized history book--it's so profound, it's been life changing / paradigm shattering just with two days of contemplating the criteria as homework. Glad I found this thing,

@Leo Gura the quote was deep, controversial, but deep nonetheless. It will take me a few weeks to contemplate it. I find myself becoming fearful whilst waking up to deeper corruptions within conventional social systems that ground society. Like, how am I supposed to even live a “human” life knowing corruption is at every turn? It’s not Iike I can unimagine my human-ness (deeper than that, I AM the one imagining it.) The saying ‘Ignorance is bliss’ couldn’t be more truer for me now. But I have faith/intuition that there are higher forms of bliss to discover on this journey, fully embracing varying degrees of existential crisis along the way is imperative at this point.

Mind of Dial Up (from a low perspective): "fiber? Sounds like a conspiracy, some woo woo nonsense! Must be a trans thing .. or maybe DEI bullshit".

Contemplating .. lower perspectives is basically a lower mind (or stems from lower mind). It helps me to use these interchangeably, also opens up the door to acknowledging how lower can develop to higher .. so as to not write lower off as forever doomed and dismiss it entirely. Thoughts? @Leo Gura & others