Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights

Imagine if I wrote a book which said that God wants me to own all of Hawaii. And then I brainwashed myself, my family, and my friends to believe this idea so deeply that we felt outraged and emotionally hurt when anyone else lived in Hawaii, and then we hatched a plan to displace everyone in Hawaii and take it all for ourselves. And then when by-standards stood up and said, "Hey, you can't do that. That's unfair!", I said, "But my book says it must be so."

That is effectively what Zionism is. Don't laugh. This worldview has been playing out and driving geopolitics for the last 100 years.

The premise of right-wing Zionism is based in the Bible saying that the land in Palestine belongs to Jews. But Jews wrote the Bible! This is so comically self-serving and circular that in any other situation it would be laughed out of the room. Yet Zionist Jews seriously believe this. But because it is “The Bible” the absurdity of it is overlooked. The Bible is a document written by Jews to serve Jews. They made the whole thing up! The Bible is an ethnocentric, racist human construction. But because of profound levels of conformity, group-think, self-bias, attachment, and unconsciousness, this is not seen.

This is what I mean when I say that Zionism is epistemic trash. The issue is deeper than morality. The issue is that a group of people have deceived themselves into believing their own self-biased, self-serving mental constructions.

Notice the power of human mental constructions. You can literally invent a construct such as "Hawaii belongs to me", convince yourself that it's true, and then wage a genocide against all Hawaiians until they are all dead — and you won't even feel like a genocide has happened because "Hey, my book says Hawaii belongs to me." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

THAT is the awesome power of mental construction.

Do you see how this issue isn't really about morality?

The issue is self-bias, lack of construct-awareness, and extreme conformity. Combine these factors into an alchemical brew and you get the situation in Palestine. This is really what's going on in Gaza which political news alone doesn't adequately explain by over-focusing on the moral angle.

Zionism is a profound and ugly lesson in the power of self-bias. Imagine being so blind to your own selfishness that you cannot even see yourself committing a genocide as you commit a genocide! Sounds far-fetched? You're watching it on the evening news.

The constructive power of the mind is astounding.

Is this offensive and antisemitic? Well, it feels that way to a Zionist because I'm pointing out an ugly illusion that they would rather not be conscious of. When your entire identity is wrapped up in this illusion, it hurts just to see the illusion.

Ethnic identity is an illusion. "But Leo! Then how come Jews were persecuted in the past." Well, the persecution was also based on an illusion. See, you construct an illusion and then you live out its consequences. But when the consequences are extremely negative you project the cause of the negativity onto some "other" who you don't care about. This is the ugly externality of the construction of your illusory ethnic identity. It happened with the Nazis, it happens with Jews, it happens with Hindu nationalists, it happens all over the world. It's not about Jews, it's about a much deeper existential mental structure. It is a battle of identity. The more you identify as a Jew the more you will fall into this trap. Which is why the most self-identified Jews can do some heinous things. But, again, this is not about Jews, this is about identity in general.

Do you see the power of this analysis?

Zionists are not evil, they are so self-biased they are blind.

Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

It is time to retire the platitude that America is a democracy. The democracy in America is a myth, a self-deception. America is an oligarchy / corporatocracy. Money has completely perverted and undermined American democracy to the point where we need to call it what it is because continuing the myth obfuscates to the problem.

The #1 political goal for America should be to create a true democracy, which means truly one person, one vote, with no money or corporate power getting any extra influence. When stated this way, it is clear how far America is from true democracy and what steps are in the right and wrong direction.

Imagine as a political message, "Let's create the world's truest democracy!" That's powerful. That's what we are missing.

Billionaires and corporate douche-bags have betrayed American democracy to make stock price go up. That's it! That's what happened.

Anyone who dilutes democracy to increase stock price is a traitor. American corporations are filled with traitors. That's why America is sick. They hollowed out democracy like termites.

In the coming weeks and months I plan to post some strong, negative stuff about Zionism.

If you are a Jewish follower of my work, please understand that I have nothing against Jews. I do not care at all about ethnic identity. I do not divide humans by ethnic group. I do not identify with my own ethnic group. So I will not make special extenuation for any ethnic group due to past genocides. When I speak against Zionism it is from a position of truth-seeking and sense-making. The reason I badmouth Zionism is because it is intellectually bankrupt, not because I have a grudge against Jews. You can be a Jew and realize that Zionism is epistemic trash. To frame that as antisemitic is itself epistemic trash. What's being rebuked is not a race nor ethnicity, but a fallacious political ideology, in the same way that to say that Nazism is intellectual trash is to say nothing negative about the German ethnic group. I use the term "Zionism" deliberately to avoid smearing all Jews, because there are many conscientious non-Zionist Jews. There are also plenty of non-Jewish Zionists who are part of the problem. What's being challenged is a bad set of beliefs which the state of Israel likes to perpetuate because it serves the state's survival agenda. Criticizing the state of Israel is not racist nor hateful nor pro-terrorist. Nor am I calling for the extinction of the Israel state. Nor do I deny that genuine antisemitism exists. Nor do I deny the historical abuse of Jews in Europe. There is no contradiction between antisemitism being wrong and Zionism being wrong. To me, criticizing Zionists is like criticizing Neo-Cons. Criticizing Neo-Cons does not make one unAmerican nor anti-Caucasian, even though they'd love to frame it that way.

For me this is not an issue of human rights or political activism but accurate understanding of reality. There are deep epistemic lessons to be learned from studying the falsehoods of Zionism. So I speak about this issue from that angle, not as a political activist. My goal is to guide people to more accurate understanding of reality, which then auto-corrects most issues. Zionism is firstly an epistemic failure, which then becomes a moral failure. Since most political analysts tackle this issue from a moral angle, I like to tackle it from an epistemic angle — so that you learn something new.

I'm not saying this is 100% what we should do, but I want to put this out there as something to seriously consider, as a counter-balance to the out-of-control capitalist dystopia that we are headed towards.

Libertarianism is wrong because freedom in not a good thing. Libertarians do not understand what freedom is. Freedom is the freedom to enslave others. Period. That’s what freedom means. Until you get this, you fundamentally misunderstand the point of government. The point of government is to stop the freedom to enslave, abuse, and exploit others. There is no such thing as natural rights. There is no such thing as property rights. There is no such thing as non-aggression principle. There is no such thing as normativity. There is no such thing as morality. There is no such thing as objective right and wrong or good and evil. There is no such thing as ownership over your body and labor. The libertarian does not understand that you do not own your own body! Therefore, libertarianism is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of reality, which is why it will always fail if implemented. Which is why there is not a single libertarian state on Earth, and never will be. The reason libertarianism doesn’t exist is because if it did, it would end in slavery. The libertarian’s understanding of human nature is so childish that he cannot fathom this.

Libertarianism is a fantasy.

The reality is that whenever human beings have freedom, they use it to enslave others. Because that is logically what freedom entails. Therefore, healthy society must take away freedom.

This is not theoretical. What do billionaires do with their freedom? They use it to enslave the rest of society by any means they are able to get away with, because all of your so-called rights were a fiction which the billionaires do not share because it does not serve their survival.

This is the correct account of human nature.

Libertarians make the mistake of assuming that morality is objective. No, it isn't. It is because morality is subjective and relative that enslavement happens. Animals do not have morality, and neither do most humans because most humans are animals. Ironically, libertarians themselves are just animals. The problem is not merely that most humans are not evolved enough to have the morality of libertarians. The problem is that even libertarians are not evolved enough to be be moral. Libertarians have a fantasy of themselves as being moral and good, but in fact if everyone was a libertarian, the world would be full of enslavement, abuse, exploitation, theft, and horrible atrocities. Why? Because libertarians do not have enough consciousness nor understanding of survival to avoid those things despite how moral they imagine themselves to be. Libertarians are not conscious of their own survival at an existential level, therefore they are incapable of true morality. But they do not understand any of this.

Imagine giving the ego absolute freedom and thinking that will end well. Absolute freedom can only be exercised responsibly by a saint who has spent decades purifying himself in the light of God. Libertarians do not even know that God exists.

If you want a serious understanding of politics you should read every book in my book list about politics and history. Last month I added dozens of amazing books on politics to my book list. These are the books that I used to develop my own understanding.

Stop watching political videos and start reading quality books. That is the way. The political analysis you get on social media is too shallow and too biased, regardless of which side it is. You must read serious books.

This is a great explanation of how calculation is mechanized, which is the basis for all computers.

The key insight here was that calculation does not require mental cognition but just the turning of some cleverly designed gears. It's amazing how far this one simple insight has taken us. Which shows you the power of just one good insight. One good insight is worth a mountain of gold.

This mechanical process beautifully shows the relationship between addition and multiplication, and subtraction and division.

Also, interestingly, if you were in doubt about Terrence Howard's lunatic claims about multiplication (that 1x1=2), the mechanical implementation in this video takes the question of what is proper multiplication out of the realm of human opinion. You can know what multiplication is by designing a set of gears to do it.