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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I do not support this speaker's overall body of libertarian work and arguments. However, there are a couple of powerful insights here about the problems with socialism.
Specifically, I am talking about the insight that private property IS the mechanism by which society decides which crops you can grow. Private property is much deeper than Marxists understand. Private property is what allows each individual to decide what they want to work on. Without private property, there is no efficient mechanism to decide who can work on what. To say you own a business means you get to decide what values the business follows. That means no politician gets to tell you what you can and can't work on. Private property is a clean, efficient way to handle this issue. If you get the idea to start a business, no government bureaucrat can tell you No because the business is your private property. When you get rid to private property — as true Marxism must do — that stops being true. And that is a much bigger deal than socialists understand.
In the Soviet Union my father was imprisoned for starting his own business. That's what it actually means to eliminate private property. It isn't as cute as socialists make it sound.
"But Leo, under my socialism you can still start your own business!" If that's the case, then your socialism solves nothing, because as long as you allow people to start and own businesses, you will have disgusting levels of income inequality. The question for every socialist is this: Am I allowed to start my own business and grow it to be worth billions of dollars? Either way they answer that question, it will be bad.
Here's an academic explaining how getting a PhD has turned into a sausage factory.
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Turning the understanding of Reality into a mechanical factory process has corrupted what was once a serious pursuit.
Understanding Reality cannot and should not be mechanized. Understanding is a function of spirit. Removing the spirit from academia has made it into a godless bureaucracy.
Bakunin's criticism of Marxism was exactly correct.
When Marxism is enacted, it ends in replacing the old group of corrupt leaders with a new group of corrupt leaders. Because the survival pressure is too great for anything else. The viciousness necessary to overthrow the oligarchs is the same force that will produce a new set of oligarchs.
Corruption is too intelligent to be defeated by a mob of angry Marxists. If you want to end corruption you have to appreciate how intelligent it is. Corruption is more intelligent than you. That is the key missing insight.
This is an amusing and eye-opening case-study in how the ego-mind twists and distorts spiritual reality to suit itself.
The self-bias here is laughable.
As soon as God is used to justify political power, that's self-deception and corruption. God does not care about your filthy human politics.
Notice how easily the ego conflates spiritual truth with its own survival. This is why I stress survival so much in our work. Everyone conflates their survival with truth. That is the source of all corruption in spirituality. Which is why I hammer this point for you. Don't you dare conflate your survival with God.
