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.
I've deliberately disabled comments to keep the blog streamlined. If you want to discuss any of the blog posts, you can do so here: Actualized.org Forum
I share this not because I agree with it, but because our work here is about examining different paradigms. If you are anti-Zionism, it's especially important for you to listen to this entire thing. Don't shut it off. Actually open your ears and listen.
This is how a Zionist sees the world:
I shared this because I want you to see just how relativistic sense-making is. This is what post-modernism is really about: not a blind progressivism, but understanding that progressivism is just one paradigm out of many.
I will be posting many of these videos from Neema Parvini because they are so important for truly understanding politics. I highly recommend his channel. It's a political science goldmine.
Note: Neema Parvini, the creator of these videos, has some regressive, right-wing political opinions. I do not agree with those. I share his videos for their educational content about great political thinkers, not his personal political views. Be careful not to fall down some right-wing regressive rabbit hole.
This is a perfect example of rationalism:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKEmHfiJ2X
Rationalism sounds rational, it sounds scientific, but it is epistemically and ontologically false.
There is very much a need in science to explain how anything whatsoever exists! And there is tons of evidence of spiritual phenomena which the rationalist simply refuses to experience out of scientific bigotry.
This is one of the best cases for conservatism. Social systems contain a baked-in intelligence that leftist academics and activists do not even know exists, and could never explicate. This is why Marxism and many progressive plans fail. There is a kind of implicit intelligence to social survival which leftist theorists underestimate. That's why leftists tend to be naively utopian. Society is such a deep, complex, intelligent thing that you cannot just sit down in your office and invent a better system on paper.
This video is why Hasan Piker and Peter Joseph -style politics will fail.
This is the kind of conservatism I can respect and even endorse. This is intelligent conservatism, which is so rare these days.
This is great stuff:
I was not familiar with Althusser until today. His ideas here dovetail perfectly with Actualized.org. But just to be clear, I am not a Marxist. Marxism itself suffers from all of these problems of ideology. It baffles me how someone can articulate the problems of ideology so well but then go right back to being a Marxist.
Also, I want to stress that it is possible to transcend ideology. That is the aim of our work here. There is Truth beyond ideology.
By the way, Althusser killed his wife by strangulation, but was declared unfit to stand trial on condition of insanity. That's a hell of a bio for a philosopher. How am I supposed to compete with that?




