Basman

I already knew who made this thread before clicking on it LMAO

I guess his speech check failed on me. To me it came off as trying to weasel out of hard questions. Like justifying a criminal enterprise because you donate to sick and poor people. It's the rich man's praying to god for forgiveness. The fact that he went into abstraction at all is weaselly and should ring alarm bells. It's like if you asked Putin why he invaded Ukraine and he starts explaining his version of 500 years of history. It's rhetorical smoke.

Bro, who cares? I engage because I have something to say.

What do you mean? He was obviously deflecting away from the question and bullshiting. Very manipulative.

If you stare hard enough into the abyss eventually you'll see the state of Israel.

Bro's excuse is that he donates to sick and poor people. That's only like a couple of steps above going to church and praying for forgiveness. Epstein himself was definitely pedomaxxing, but I'm not as sure of his associates necessarily, like Trump. It seemed to be more about opportunity and the victims that Epstein was already providing for sex. Bill Gates is implicated to have serviced "married women" of Epstein, whatever that means 🤨 It's hard to say for sure without definitive proof, but it seems like Epstein was the center of a sex trafficking and networking ring while working for intelligence. Probably Mossad. Secretly recording elites having sex with minors is prime blackmail material for one.

What makes them different from you on a fundamental level? That is what makes them evil.

The Epstein files are a gut punch for trust in institutions. There's an increasingly growing perception of an "Epstein class" of elites that are above the law and can't be held, no matter their level of depravity. It's a perception of political indefficiency to do the bare minimum of upholding the social contract. It's a crisis of trust. If disapproval of royals gets too high as they are seen as corrupt and complicit in and part of the "Epstein class" then you could see the long-term dissolvement of royal families all together.

The Norwegian crown-princess Mette-Marit was apparently in love with Epstein and cheating on her husband with him. It's unclear how much she knew but it seems likely that she knew atleast the gist that he was a pervert, but carried on any way. It seemed like she was very bored and felt it exciting to cheat, and potentially she felt it more exciting that he was shady, alluding to that perhaps she didn't expect to be exposed. Apparently, Epstein didn't like her back like that and talked behind her back, calling her "a mess". It's funny, because it didn't seem like she put two and two together that maybe she's not his "type". It's either a way a bad look, regardless of the truth, and her lying about and ommiting the truth implies that it's worse than we know.

This all just sounds like the autistic trait of lacking natural emotional insight into people and context.

A great example of the culture of language is how we define the relationship between working and not working. Linguistically, we define the time your not working as "leisure", which is defined by the absence of work, implying that work is the default state and that leisure is merely taking a break. In contrast, in Rome they used the word "odium" to define the time when you are not working and which was considered the "default". Otium when translated directly translates into leisure, but in Rome otium meant to engage in those activities that made you human in an earnest and serious way. Otium was the goal and your real "job" (to put it into a normative modern tongue). "negotium" -work, on the other hand is defined by the absence of otium. Not having to work was a reward in of itself for the Romans. It be like if we called work "unleisure".

I don't believe it's necessary for society to have a grand vision for society necessarilly. People feel hopeless because they feel their politics are untrustworthy and can't create tangible solutions. The solution then is to somehow create a functional alternative to liberal technocracy that isn't authoritarianism. Putting a pedo billionaire on trial and publicly executing him would do more for the current state than deconstructing masculinity would.

The trend is that societies are becoming more and more unified because it makes society stronger. I can only see decentralization happening due to a severe crisis or during the development of interstellar colonization. I think a big part of the decentrilization fantasy is the rejection of capitalism and distrust of government. Greenies tend to have an infatuation for anarchic communes. But when you don't monopolize violence via a sovereign power, violence becomes unregulated and you get chaos. That's basically the history of Kristiania.

The issue with people who follow Trump is that they gain a sense of agency over politics from him at the same time that they don't prioritize truthfulness in any rational way. They'll believe lies if it gives them a sense of agency. If you could somehow enable a sense of agency then perhaps you could perhaps steer more people into more constructive politics, but that is easier said than done if they basically have lost their minds. A lot of Americans arguably need to learn the hard way the destructiveness of their complacency and stupidity.

Delete the YT app off your devices and disable the algorythm on your account by disabling history and recommendations. There are both settings and plugins you can use. Basically make it so you have to manually find every video. Cold Turkey is also an option. You can also look into how to schedule when your wifi is on/off entirely. If your not used to reading books I recommend starting small and reading 5-10 minutes at a time and building up gradually by adding more minutes on a weekly basis.