Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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This is brutally accurate. I wish I knew this 25 years ago.
This is the best argument against democracy and populism. This is why democracy and populism struggle so much. Intelligence is really challenging to scale across hundreds of millions of people. In a sense, you could think of mankind's #1 developmental challenge as: how do we make everyone intelligent? Mankind has been chipping away at this problem for 10,000 years and we still haven't solved it. What is the solution?
This is unbelievably accurate.
This is comforting to listen to if you're into this work we do.
Intelligence is a lonely game.
Schopenhauer is my spirit animal.
Note: This is why I don't debate. Debate is a format for stupidity to parade itself.
Here's a philosopher of science speaking pure stupidity:
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This is why I am so harsh on academics, philosophers, and scientists. This is also what I mean when I say science is conformity. All he's doing here is parroting ideas he heard in university.
Metaphysics isn't about thinking. It's about Consciousness and deconstructing the human ego-mind.
Scientists don't understand what anything is. And they think that's how it should be. Lol
More machine than man. But this is what it takes to be productive. Productivity is about being highly utilitarian and consistent. This is why many highly successful people have shallow minds and low morality. Because they are machines. It's just not part of the equation. Success isn't fancy or flashy, it's slow, methodical, consistent focus on the practical basics — which few are disciplined or serious enough to do.
Rockefeller is also a prime example of Stage Blue. The power of Stage Blue. The religious work ethic of Stage Blue can build empires.
This is eye-opening. It's important to understand just how vile and soul-crushing the industrial work was in the late 1800s. What a horrible era in human history. A mechanical Hell.
Once you understand that context, you can forgive Communists for being so hasty. Who wants to wait around for this capitalism beast to die of natural causes? Put your shoulder to it and push!
It's important to acknowledge that despite their failures, these socialist movements did give us the 8 hour work day and 5 day work week. That's so taken for granted today. If you had to work 14 hour days, 6 days a week in an oily factory, you would want to be a Communist too.
Watch this to appreciate the brutality it takes to win a revolution.
This is why soft, intellectual leftists and good people cannot win revolutions. A revolution is such a precarious survival pressure-cooker that it only succeeds by the skin of its teeth, only by any means necessary. Revolution is a mad scramble to see who can kill whom first. This means all notions of goodness, fairness, democracy, equality, intellectual purity, or integrity fly out the window. The only reason Lenin's revolution worked is because Lenin and Trotsky were willing to do anything, no matter how heinous, to win. Lenin would have shot his own mother if it helped him win. But that's exactly not the kind of person who will give you the equality and freedom you are revolting for.
The reality of politics is that you need to be a murderer to win, because if you aren't, a murder will murder you and crown himself king. People don't obey willingly. People don't do what needs to be done willingly. They do it when you put a gun to their head. In order to win and to rule effectively you need to be comfortable with putting guns to people's heads. But once you are comfortable with that, democracy, equality, and fairness are dead.
Politics is a contest of the most selfish for the top spot. Any soft or selfless candidates get slaughtered. This is why politics is so disgusting. Truly the filthiest of human enterprises. Politics is pure, hyper-concentrated, tripled-distilled survival. If survival does not disgust you yet, please, study more politics.
It will. It will.
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By the way, what happened to Trotsky in the end?
He got an ice pick in his skull. Courtesy of Uncle Stalin.
What sown, was reaped.
This couple has been living from a sailboat and sailing the world for 10 years. It's an interesting alternative lifestyle.
Maybe I should just buy a sail boat and live in the sea? Hmmmm.... Sounds better than my current life.