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@Natasha Tori Maru Same here, very excited! From what I can gather, he is trying to make the reader get in touch with the beauty and awe of reality, which he has said was a difficult task. I have only had those kinds of experiences through psychedelics and deep self-inquiry so far. Looking forward to what he has. And 100%, his health issue means this might be his last book.

@oOoThere is literally a whole chapter that talks about Empathy in the Laws of Human Nature. And he has a complete book on Warfare and Strategy.

@Natasha Tori Maru Agreed. The thing is, everyone is giving their opinions these days over social media and even in person, but Robert is not simply a normie blabbing by the seat of his pants, he's putting in the time and effort to read 100s of books, researching the topic at hand, and then picking the best ideas from all that. This elevates his perspective. Yes, most of his ideas are not aligned with the absolute truth, but at the survival level or at the relative level, they are quite valuable. I think even Leo has recommended the 48 Laws of Power somewhere, not sure about it though.

@Joseph Maynor Do you find him valuable tho?

The Law of Sublime, dropping this November. Is anyone looking forward to it? The writing process he described shows the amount of work he has put into it, make me more excited for it.

@AION I am going to write this down somewhere

Good video. I just don't understand why did he infer that rationality gave birth to radical leftists

The timing is uncanny. I’ve been reflecting on this topic for a few weeks, browsing everything from Instagram to YouTube. It feels like everyone wants you to be a follower, especially in the self-help space. It’s easy to start thinking in specific ways that certain influencers or gurus promote. The topic of this video aligns perfectly with these observations.

Try to enjoy the act of reading. If you focus too much on absorbing it and making it useful you’ll start hating it. And then you’ll stop reading.

The main benefit of not cooking vegetables is the preservation of vitamins. Cooking can lead to the loss of water-soluble vitamins, so it’s sometimes better to eat vegetables raw or to cook them only slightly.

Understanding how everything = nothing is a really advanced thing. It took me a lot of contemplation to reach the point where it clicked. It was an insight rather than a logical conclusion. I think understanding how everything = nothing can’t be done using logic. Understanding the concepts is essential, but the final insight needs to come from beyond concepts (or the rational mind). Leo gave a great example of this in one of his videos, where he mentioned how a child suddenly grasps (numeric) infinity. You start counting from 1, and after a certain point, the child gets an insight that this never ends.

@Princess Arabia So your premise is: demonizing social media will keep me addicted to it. And awakening to social media’s true nature will put me (and then keep me) in a state of higher awareness, which is essentially what one needs to let go of attachments (or addictions). The problem is that to awaken to social media’s (or anything for that matter) true nature, one must already be in an elevated state of awareness, consistently. And to raise your awarness requires work, time, and effort. Raising your baseline awareness level is difficult. You may argue that wanting to raise your awareness is an attachment or that enlightenment is right in front of you, but that is a gross oversimplification, just look at people who take psychedelics and don’t do the work. Part of that effort and work to raise your awareness is to protect yourself from shit that keeps you in lower states of consciousness. You can say “there are no lower states of consciousness, everything is infinite love, you just can’t see it”, but again, that’s a gross oversimplification. Now, do you think that it's helpful to forcefully try to see social media’s true nature as a construct or as Love, God, or Mind?

@Princess Arabia I agree with you, Arabia. No matter how powerful the algorithm becomes, it can't affect me if I am in control of my mind. After I made this post, I realized that my inability to escape from my thoughts or disengaging from them was at the root of my problem. Shifting the blame onto social media wasn’t very helpful. However, controlling my thoughts takes time. In the meantime, I need to keep everything that preys on this weakness away from me. For that reason, it’s important to acknowledge social media for what it really is.

No measures. Just raw-dogging it.

@Yimpa By sprinkling DMT on it