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@Bobby_2021 Leo is pointing to developmental issues that began before the US was even founded. See how exploitation is still just as awful as you are describing, and yet there are still dozens of more factors that are contributing to underdevelopment? This is not to say the US is developed, they're just very slightly ahead. Development potential is a very long scale. The issues at hand are infinitely complex, you could work on this problem your whole life and not even come close to a full picture understanding.

@Bobby_2021 Low consciousness base survival. Monkeys fighting monkeys, to make sure the other monkey doesn't take his shit. If you give any low consciousness being or nation a big stick, you bet they would do the same to you. And no one or nation on this planet is even close to high conciousness. It's not just americans vs the world. Israel vs Palestine. Russia vs Ukraine. Those are just labels that describes the current actors in play. It's big fucks small. Crocodile bites monkey. We will not be free of this cycle until all survival needs are met globally, and higher conciousness values become completely emobodied. That is thousands of years away, and might not be possible for the current evolution of the human mind. At least that's how I try and understand things, it's not complete and I am trying to grasp deeper.

@Bobby_2021 I am not sure you're really interested in understanding the structure of what is going on. You're more interested in engaging in anti-war, anti-west rhetoric. Which is fine, you're not wrong there. It's just so easy to denounce war and big stick vs little stick. You're engaging in very easy politics. Grasping why that evil exists and what can be done about it is much more difficult and a brutal pill to swallow, which is why most armchair progressives will never do it. I really encourage you to disengage your emotional reaction and directly grasp why these things happen and what is truly at stake. I understand I am coming from an extremely privileged position, but that doesn't make the position wrong.

Constant attention and conciousness. Habits and patterns are just what you do when you're unconcious and on autopilot. So in order to change that, you have to work very hard to not default to automatic behaviour. It's like being conscious of your own breathing, it becomes a manual process if you put your awareness on it. So whatever you want to change, you need to constantly be aware of at all times. Some people call this 'law of attraction', when it's really just deep behavioural change. Psychedelics do not help with this. They can reveal new possibilities to you, but you must put those possibilities into practice with sober conciousness to really reprogram yourself.

And you have just invented the dollar 😂 Yes that's right, we require deep intelligence and investigations into the best way to regulate crypto. And a total rebrand as well, whatever global decentralized currency we end up with cannot be branded as a crypto, else lobbyists will point to these early crypto incarnations for any excuse to not introduce regulations.

The promise of crypto vs how it actually gets used are just totally different things. Crypto at it's core is really just an ultra-powerful, unregulated currency. So of course, bad actors are going to ruin it way before it 'revolutionizes' the financial world. Many of your favourite business influencers are running massive crypto pump and dump schemes, Gary V is one such person. There is literally a business youtuber cabal where they get into unholy skype calls and plot ways to exploit you.

Exactly, if you have a stable internet connection and learn English you can bootstrap pretty much anything. But to realize that as a possibility as someone growing up in an underdeveloped country is very rare and difficult.

@Bobby_2021 I want people in all countries to be happy and to eliminate the exploitation my country engages in. How do you suggest we solve this issue then? I'm hearing a lot of pain and frustration at the west but no attempts to suggest a positive and healthy solution. It's an unhealthy habit to demonize westerners and make no attempt to solve the problem with love.

Nice breakdown. We live in a world were all of the above is true, from a certain point of view.

Yes, exploitation is one factor limiting cultures. However this is a very short term and incomplete perspective. The cards were dealt many thousands of years ago which shape the current societal developments across different nations. Consider other factors like: - Access to resources like metals, oil - Ability to farm - Landlocked vs sea based - having war prone neighbouring societies - Natural disaster prone areas Societies develop is the same way you might learn a new skill, they must constantly tackle new challenges and problems that are just within their reach to overcome. If there are no threats, they do not develop. If the threat is too dangerous, they get squashed. It's called the local maxima, leo shared a good video on the blog about it. Europe has had the best balance in the last 500-1000 years for societal development, prior to that the middle east had some good conditions. What to live in the most developed and good trajectory country right now? Look to Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia. Literally go to the world corruption index and pick a country with low corruption and you will be fine.

@Leo Gura Why did such cultures never develop? What factors can limit a cultures growth? Is it factors they have control over, or external factors they are subject to? This line of thinking is sometimes used by racists, which I know you are not. I understand you have a commitment to truth and are working to speak truthfully, but I think many in your audience need to understand all the factors and dimensions at play here before they hear such arguments.

@Leo Gura I might have missed the answer but what are you going to do with your cash after you sell? Bank it or invest in currency / commodities, or re-invest into your new biz? For me I'm thinking a global crash/recession is the perfect time to pivot from wage-slave to LP biz. Also anyone else who is planning on selling in the next 6-months, what do you plan to do with the cash?

Pretty much all of it. We've a long way to go.

Nah. His joke about the person dying was pretty gross. It was designed to tickle his audience rather than actually contribute to the debate.

Maybe! That's a big assumption to make. You'd have to look into that.

So, fighting the Nazi's in World War 2 is evil? Would you say picking the lesser of two evils is still too evil to bother doing? It is possible to kill with love - killing one person to save many is such an example.

@integral You could also just stop being a human. Then no identity crisis

@CARDOZZO Owen thinks Andrew Tate was just a misunderstood self-help guru, like his pal Julien. It's cute to look for the positive in Trump. Sure, there's lessons conscious people can learn from Trump in what not to do, but the overall impact on society is a massive loss having him around. I would say it's a big lack of awareness on Owen's part to tell the unconscious masses to stand-up unconditionally for what they 'believe' in. That's how you create people who are stuck in dysfunctional thought. Owen idolizes people with an unbreakable frame, which ironically are people with a form of poor social calibration.

Ugh, I don't even know what to expect anymore. If Trump was killed, would that kill or embolden the movement? Is the far right a hydra? Cut one head off two more grow back? American politics is the ultimate speeding train. Trump is going to make your dream miserable.

Well, I think such a person should question why their alignment is so. If you're conscious about what you're doing, and you know what you are doing has a negative effect on the victim, then what you are doing is not love. A crocodile only kills because it does not know how or have the ability to meet its own needs in a more loving way. If you gave crocodiles high levels of consciousness and the ability to use tools, you bet they would turn to agriculture or laboratory grown meat. If you had the ability to choose between butchering a chicken for meat, or just having the meat, you would choose avoiding the butchering every time, right? This is partially the reason why religions have developed ritual slaughtering practices, like Halal meat. They are recognizing the devilry in which they partake and seek forgiveness from God. I'm personally not at all religious, but Jesus really put it best. "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." The most divine thing in this reality is consciousness, and all of our efforts should go towards making consciousness a pleasant experience for all. Of course, what is pleasant is subjective. But if one person's pleasure costs ten person's suffering, pursuing that path is selfishness and devilry. It's a net loss. That's the whole game, maximize pleasant experience without being a devil (AKA, asshole).

@Thought Art Exactly right. The 10,000 hours rule is such bs. It takes 10,000 hours for mastery if you practice mindlessly. Practice with consciousness and you could cut that it half or more.

I am not sure that absolute emotional mastery is entirely possible as a human. But you could get very very good at it. We are slaves to our biological machines in this life. To my knowledge the best we can do is get hyper-conscious and override our reptilian brain before it reacts in stupid ways. First step would be consciousness training, with a deliberate focus on emotions. Noticing them, learning how to change them. Read Peter Ralston's consciousness series and mastery, that should give you all the tools you need.

Yep, be very careful when picking your doctors. They are human and have biases. I've had doctors withhold information about certain things about my condition as to not hurt my feelings, which cost me months to figure out without them. It feels a bit odd to do, but I kind of press my doctors a bit now and get them to explain things to me two or three times just so they don't accidentally leave something vital to know out.

Hell yeah it is. But you have to work it. It's not just a book that shares a nice perspective, you have to run the things you're interested in through it like a machine to get results. But the results are amazing.

Owen is such a character. For the most part the ideas he shares are fantastic, but his style is very problematic. The mental spell he casts on his audience is insanity. He tells them to break out of the matrix, wake up, stop being derpy and all that jazz, and then markets to them like the derpy animals he perceives them as. Look at his sales pages and youtube thumbnails. Look at his playbook, and then how he treats his audience. He treats them like mindless animals, with his sensationalist language and big flashy monkey-brain attention grabbing style. It makes sense why he does it, because the sales strategy works. He makes a fuckton of money from what he does. The problem is that it reveals a kind of unspoken disgust for his own audience, and for society as a whole. There's not much love there. He's okay living like that, but for most people it would tear up their soul. @petar8p That's the cost of hyper-predatory marketing. That's the integrity cost. If Leo marketed the shit out of his courses like that, you would feel talked down and condescended to. Leo and good teachers like him don't do that because they actually give a fuck about your mental state and development. From the perspective of someone who is very high consciousness, they understand that treating people in this way is like a crime against god. They are giving up hundreds of thousands of dollars to not lose their integrity and their connection to god. Or you could be like Owen, and just not care about that stuff. You do you.