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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Of course Jordan Peterson's online university is no rival to actual universities.
The irony of all these critics of mainstream things like universities or media is that their alternative solutions are all worse than what they criticize. Are universities corrupt? Of course. But some thing some right-wing ideologue throws together is going to be more corrupt than that. How is that no obvious? Is Jordan Peterson capable of inventing a system better, truer, more objective, less ideological, less corrupt than mainstream universities? Of course not. How could he? He's an ideological actor. An ideological actor cannot create a more truthful system.
The notion that Jordan Peterson is going to gather a handful of his intellectual buddies and invent something better than a university is laughable. Criticizing and ranting is easy. Inventing a better alternative is near impossible. It is not enough to criticize systems, you have to invent superior alternatives that actually solve existing systemic problems. It is ironic that JP attacks a 500 year old institution like universities and seeks to replace it with some flimsy, time-untested, cheap, online gimmick. That is the opposite of conservative.
This guy lived the Stage Red lifestyle and finally out-grew it at age 60.
This is an insane degree of corruption. And notice how ignorant people regard such corruption as good or even saintly. That's because they equate survival with Good. They aren't thinking about anything but their immediate survival.
A prime example of Stage Red.
A good case-study in corruption. A prime example of Stage Red. Notice how foolish Stage Red is. They all end up dead or in prison. And they cannot stop themselves even when they're ahead.
Jiang has some good insights, however, the more you look into the details of his work and worldview, the more epistemic pervertry you will find.
As I've warned before, be careful getting sucked into his lectures. Over time he will poison your understanding of politics with simplistic and delusional narratives. His predictions of the future are especially problematic and embarrassing.
This is a great inside look into the epistemic pervertry of Alex Jones and his show.
Alex Jones is the prime case-study in epistemic perverty. He is an example of a narcissistic bullshitter who has zero respect for truth. This is what that turns into:
Alex Jones is not a liar, he's a bullshitter. The difference is, a bullshitter cares so little about truth that he doesn't even recognize he is lying. Trump is also a prime example of a bullshitter. You need to learn to recognize such people immediately, within minutes.
