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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It is crazy to me that many humans on Earth still live so primitively. This is how humans lived 100,000 years ago! We don't need to speculate about how humans lived, we don't need to ready history books, they still live that way today!
Try to imagine the worldview of such a primitive people. It is completely different from the Western worldview. I don't mean better or worse here, I mean totally different. That difference should leave you in epistemic shock. These people do not live in a scientific world, not because they are stupid, but because the scientific world is imaginary. The entire Western worldview is a local invention, but it is not registered by Westerners as such. Westerners think their worldview is just physical reality.
An eye-opening look at the cultures of the Eurasian steppe. I feel like these cultures are neglected and unknown to most Westerners.
I listen to this one a lot in the background. Great for sleep, contemplation, meditation, yoga, tripping, and work.
I know right-wingers love to cite Thomas Sowell to justify their regressive ideology, nevertheless, Sowell makes legit points that the leftist would be wise to consider.
Leftists are out of touch with survival-reality and they are ignorant of this point, in denial about it. Leftism is an ideology of denial of its own ungroundedness. When leftist ideals are implemented, they quickly fail, forcing a reversion to the traditional ways, which just work. What the leftist doesn't understand is that the traditional ways are ugly and stupid, but they exist for good reason: because they work. Capitalism exists because is works. And your leftist ideals don't exist because they don't. This is what every leftist is in denial about it. That's what makes leftism an ideology. If you weren't ideological your mind would be open enough to see this.
What every leftist is in denial about is that leftism gets Reality fundamentally wrong. You cannot sit in your armchair and moralize to Reality. Reality will laugh at you and then kill you. While you sit and moralize, lives are on the line. The bottom line is: your moralizing doesn't work because survival does not care, because your morality is your own invention. Human rights is something your mind cooked up. Actually, it's worse than that. Your mind is not even original enough to have cooked it up, it just conformed to it.
