Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights

A documentary I'm watching about a Christian weight-loss cult.

Lessons in fake spirituality.

One of the things billionaires take for granted is health. All of their success assumes both physical and mental health — which many do not have, through no fault of their own. Without it, success can be nearly impossible. Just ask Steve Jobs how wealthy he is today.

Another thing they assume is intelligence. Not everyone has enough raw IQ to create their level of success.

Another thing they assume is immorality. Not everyone has the lack of morals and ethics necessary to become so successful. If you forced billionaires to behave ethically, they would have 95% less wealth. They never mention this part, for obvious reasons. Unethical gains grow exponentially, compounding themselves. Each person you didn't stab in the back is $50 billion dollars lost in the long run.

Perversely enough, some billionaires understand these things, so they become sort of eugenicists, telling themselves that their genes are superior to the common masses. Which is why Elon Musk breeds like a rabbit. But this is the wrong lesson to draw from what I'm saying.

Note: Be careful. Poverty also creates its own kind of bias. Just cause you ain't rich doesn't mean you ain't biased as hell in all sorts of other ways. Bias does not discriminate and afflicts all.

The more I listen to leftists, the more I listen to them constantly badmouth neoliberalism, the more I realize how delusional they are. Their politics is fantasy. It’s not that their policy ideas are bad, it’s that they have no comprehension of how impractical their ideas are, because they assume people are better than they are. The reason leftists continually fail to gain traction is because people are animals and leftists are too self-absorbed, privileged, and sensitive to understand this. The truth of human nature is brutal, brutal, brutal — too ugly for precious leftist ears.

The genius of Trump is that he treats people like animals because he behaves and thinks like an animal himself. This works because it is truer to the human condition than Marxist fantasies of equality and fairness. Paradoxically, there is a perverse truth to Trump that is lost on leftists. The truth that people are worse than anyone wants to acknowledge or know. Trump is a reality bitch-slap across the leftist’s soft face. That’s why leftist are so offended by Trump. It’s not merely that Trump is an ugly devil, it’s that mankind are ugly devils and he is their democratic representative. That’s the ugly elephant in the room that the leftist can’t stand to see because it would shatter her political paradigm. Liberalism holds the fantasy that democracy is an absolute good. But when the citizenry are ignorant, vulgar, TikTok-addicted devils, who will they elect? A mirror reflection of themselves.

Equality and fairness don’t exist and will never exist because no human is developed enough to live that way, which includes all the leftists themselves. The more I listen to leftists and Marxists, the more astounded I am at their utter lack of understanding of survival and human nature. It’s so dumb that no Marxist should ever be listened to again. Such people are completely unserious. These people need to be locked in a room full of hungry rats for a week, to teach them how reality works.

The truth of human nature is very, very difficult for an empathetic, good person to integrate. And yet that's exactly what the leftist must do. That's the cure to leftism. The leftist needs a reality check. That's what the conservative provides. When the leftist is out waxing poetic about socialism, a fascist comes along and wins the election. The leftist is shocked and outraged. She thought society was just about to take a huge leap forward but instead it takes an ugly slide backward. The leftist's worldview is too weak to make sense of this reality. So the leftist falls deeper into self-rationalizing fantasies, falling into the trap of blaming the conservative, when really it's the leftist's lack of realism that is the deeper problem.

The point of Trump is to show you that humans are corrupt, ignorant animals. And don't you ever forget the lesson. You should thank Trump for bringing you back down to Earth, lost as you were building castles in the clouds.

Politics is about realism. For all of his verbal bullshit, Trump is more realistic than a leftist. The Devil uses your empathy, naivety, and good intentions against you. The Devil is unburdened by trying to do the good or right thing. He's only doing what works, and what works is disappointingly low.

What saved me from leftism is my commitment to Reality.

I found this to be very psychologically astute.

Laying down the social game.

There is a time in your life to learn to play the social game, and a time in your life to lay it down.

This is interesting...

Notice how the mind cannot even make sense of past reality, past peoples, because their words don't even fit the modern mind's paradigm. The modern mind can read an ancient text and misinterpret it simply because the plain written words don't compute in today's paradigm. This is no trivial thing. This means that your mind will misinterpret any paradigm sufficiently different from its own. And that's exactly what happens epistemically in our work.

You have to be intelligent enough to see that you are failing to understand a different perspective because you are trying to make sense of it using your perspective. This is where rationalism fails badly. But not just rationalism, most perspectives. The ability to see that your paradigm blocks your understanding of alternative paradigms by interpreting them through itself, is an advanced stage of cognitive development. 99.99% of human beings cannot see this.