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Example of conformity I deeply remember from my childhood:

When I was in 1st grade my best friend and I went to a food court in a mall and each ordered a big slice of NY-style pizza for lunch. I was sitting there enjoying my slice when my friend took a bite of his slice and made a disgusted face. He found something about his slice wrong or disgusting. It was just a basic pepperoni pizza, nothing weird about it. But he wanted to go return it. And in that moment I felt pressured to act like there was also something wrong with my slice. I started to act like my slice tasted bad too, even though I was enjoying it just seconds earlier.

Later I realized how wrong it was for me to conform like that. Lesson learned.

But many people live their whole lives like that.

Scientists and rationalists understand that unicorns are imaginary, but they do not understand that Albert Einstein is imaginary. That is the problem. They are not openminded enough to see that the imagination of a unicorn is just a special weaker case of the more general stronger case of the imagination of Albert Einstein.

Are you intelligent enough to see that the conventional notion of imagination is just a narrow, weak notion of what imagination really is? Are you intelligent enough to see that there is no reason why you should accept the conventional definition of imagination because it was made by unconscious fools? Are you intelligent enough to see that if you accept the conventional definition of imagination then it will limit your mind and its ability to understand larger reality?

You are imagining Albert Einstein, but you don’t know that yet. You are imagining Everything, but you are imagining that you are not imagining the “real” “physical” things. You don’t see that it only appears that way to you because of who you imagine you are. If you changed who you imagine you are you could realize that you imagine Everything. But you lack the imagination to imagine that! So you are stuck in the dream of being who you imagine you are: A human stuck on Earth in a material universe. That is what you’re imagining right now and you are so deeply committed to this imagination that you will not budge an inch unless a stick of dynamite explodes in your head. That stick of dynamite is called a psychedelic.

When that stick of dynamite finally explodes and reveals what I said, you will be so shocked and terrified that you will reject it, run away, and forget it ever happened. Because you are so committed to imagining that you are however you imagine you are. Everything the psyche does is designed to resist changing its own imagination of itself, because the psyche imagines that as death. And of course, you imagine death.

This is a superb recounting of the history of Israel/Palestine. Very fair and unbiased. Essential knowledge.

Ryan Chapman has stellar political analysis.

This is only Part 1. He hasn't released Part 2 yet, so stay tuned for that. I'll try to add it here once it releases, if I don't forget.

Do not overlook that the entire health food/wellness industrial-complex is based on profound conformity. Oh YES! What did you think it was?

The demonization of sugar, high fructose corn syrup, seed oils, GMOs, vaccines, evil Big Pharma, heavy metals, antibiotics, fluoride, and the glorification and promotion of juicing, wheatgrass, smoothies, kombucha, protein powders, protein bars, calorie counting, high glycemic index, coconut oil, MCT oil, methylene blue, Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Ozempic, nootropics, Provigil/Modafinil, mushroom supplements, maca, spirulina, chlorella, zeolite, clay masks, gogi berries, probiotics, detox, parasite cleanse, mold, enemas, yoni eggs, fasting, matcha, CBD oil, alkaline water, Fuji water, multi-vitamins, fish oil, krill oil, vitamin water, Bulletproof grifter coffee, collagen, stem cells, organic this, organic that, fat-free, gluten-free, soy-free, BPA-free, phthalate-free, cunt-free, whatever fad diet de jour, locally grown, grass fed, free range eggs, bone broth, beef liver, fermented foods, raw milk, flotation tanks, ice baths, cold showers, Wim Hof, CrossFit, HIIT, Kegels, Pilates, hot yoga, spin class, Peloton, Lululemon, Goop, air purifiers, red light therapy, "all-natural", butt-hole sunbathing, essential oils, incense, scented candles, acupuncture, etc, etc.

What is all this?

It’s largely mindless group-think — never seriously questioned nor tested.

Of course!

Again, conformity is not baked into the thing, it’s in why you do it. Do you know that grass-fed beef is any better for you than regular beef? You have no idea, and those “scientific” studies you want to cite at me are just more reductionist group-think. When it comes to health, you know virtually nothing. You have a bunch of buzz words rolling around in your head that you heard others parrot.

“But Leo! How dare you!”

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You are just a mindless machine. Even your objections are more group-think. You have not yet earned Autonomy.

If enough of your friends were doing it, you would stick a jalapeno up your butt-hole and call it healthy.

There is a subReddit called /r/MapPorn.

It's a collection of interesting maps like this:

Educate yourself with Map Porn. Fun for the whole family!

Peter Joseph is a very rare, advanced, mature Tier 2 political thinker. I highly recommend his YT channel.

With that said, I think Peter Joseph's political solutions are completely impossible to the point of delusional. But his articulation of our political problems is brilliant.

This is what high quality politics sounds like.
This is what a mature human being sounds like.

Remember Lower vs Higher Perspectives? Well, this is exemplary of a higher perspective. Learn this difference and stop feeding your mind with political scum.

Steamed broccoli is to a Twinkie as Peter Joseph is to Fox News.
How's that for an SAT analogy?

Note: I want to warn you seriously about this notion of eliminating capitalism or the market system. I strongly disagree with Peter Joseph that markets or capitalism can be eliminated. This is a fantasy. It is not going to happen. Not at all! So do not get the wrong idea that just because I recommended Peter Joseph that I endorse eliminating capitalism and markets. I don't have time right now to explain why this will not work. Nevertheless, I want you to watch his videos and learn from his analysis. Take the gold, leave the crap. I expect you to be able to approach sources I share in this way because you are Tier 2 and I share nuanced stuff, not ideology or simple answers. You need to question everything a source says, not just accept it as endorsed by Leo.