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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Do you know the history and origin of the word "thug"?
The word actually refers to the Thuggee — a cult of Hindu robbers and murderers who worshiped the goddess Kali. You can read more of about them on Wikipedia:
Wikipedia: History Of The Thugs
If you're a fan of the Indiana Jones films, here's an easter egg from Temple of Doom: Pay close attention to Indiana Jones' dialogue in the classic banquet scene. They are discussing the Thugs. But how many people knew this from watching this scene, distracted by the food?
My geography challenge continues.
More about the history and politics of Oman.
I love to study corruption because it gives me many insights into human nature, self-deception, and truth. Corruption is a super-truth. Corruption comes in infinite forms. Here's corruption in tiger form:
I am reading dozens of books about corruption, developing an incredibly deep understanding of it. Corruption gets more and more profound the more you study it. You could make a life purpose just out of studying corruption. However, be careful, because it will badly blackpill you. If you understand corruption deeply enough you may start having thoughts of annihilating mankind. So watch out.
I am planning a new, much deeper video on corruption. But I have to be careful not to blackpill people. This stuff gets very dark.
National Geographic has an amazing YT Channel. I recommend searching it for juicy documentaries. You're guaranteed to find some gems.
I found this cool new index, the Global Peace Index. It ranks the top and bottom most peaceful nations around the world using 23 different metrics.
This is another example of how development can be objectively measured. Politics is not just personal opinion, ultimately our goal is to increase the peace index. With peace comes prosperity, happiness, cognitive development, consciousness, freedom, love, and truth. Notice that the least peaceful countries are also the least truthful. Because truth is the first casualty of war.
Top 10 Most Peaceful Nations:
#1 Iceland
#2 Ireland
#3 Austria
#4 New Zealand
#5 Singapore
#6 Switzerland
#7 Portugal
#8 Denmark
#9 Slovenia
#10 Malaysia
Top 10 Least Peaceful Nations:
#154 Mali
#155 Israel
#156 Russia
#157 Syria
#158 Congo
#159 Ukraine
#160 Afghanistan
#161 South Sudan
#162 Sudan
#163 Yemen
This is a satellite heat map of South vs North Korea:
Capitalism is evil, but socialism is eviler.
If you are Green, Leftist, Marxist, socialist — you should take this map seriously. Don't rationalize it. Sit there and stare at it. Stare at the glaring hole in your political worldview.
Socialism didn't just happen to fail. It failed because it cannot be sustained at mankind's level of development. And the fact that you do not understand this, that you deny this, that you try to rationalize this, speaks volumes of your piss-poor understanding of mankind. You understand mankind so poorly that you're dangerous.
Marxism is a dangerous delusion. And the truth of this has nothing to do with capitalism, disgusting though capitalism is.
America has done a lot of evil shit. But fighting Communism was a net good. This is the most correct thing that conservatives did in the 20th century. If you are not intellectually honest enough to acknowledge that, you've got some self-deception going on. Sometimes you gotta give the Devil some credit.
I hate capitalism more than most people, but that doesn't make me stupid enough to buy Marxism. The opposite of the thing you hate is not automatically a good thing, because it may not work at all.
Don't get this twisted. The reason capitalism is evil is because mankind is evil. So you can fight to the death to take the capitalism out of mankind, but you will still be left with evil. For Marxism to work it would have to cure mankind of evil, which is a lift it cannot make. Marxism is way too shallow to cure the condition of mankind's corruption. If you think it can, that's because you haven't yet awoken to mankind's corruption and your entanglement with it.