Double-Standards Example
By Leo Gura - February 25, 2026
The following is a beautiful example of Double-Standards. I’ve long been looking for a concrete example of this lesson, and finally I found it.
In this clip, Mike Stoklasa, a Star Trek lore nerd apologizes to Star Wars Theory (“Star Wars Man”) for making fun of him for being so anal about continuity of lore. Mike had the epiphany that Mike is as anal about Star Trek lore as “Star Wars Man” is about Star Wars lore, but he ridiculed Star Wars Man for it — which is incoherent. This is a micro example of how the mind/self relates to reality in a biased way and oblivious to the fact, leading to misunderstanding and division. Your mind is always operating on double-standards because it is so biased. The key is to apply epistemic responsibility and to care about eliminating these biases and contradictions from your own mind — something most people are too negligent to do.
This seems like a trivial example, but your mind is falling into this same trap in hundreds of areas and ways, and it all adds up to become a huge deal. You should be constantly on the hunt for biases and double-standards in your reasoning process.
And here is “Star Wars Man’s” reaction to Mike’s apology:
Notice how Mike’s apology, which came as a result of his self-reflection, leads to the healing of a division between these two YouTube channels, creating unity and love. That is the power of Consciousness. When Consciousness sees how all things are united (Mike is united with Star Wars Man in his nerddom), love is created. Because Unity of Mind is Love! When you are seeing and eliminating double-standards and bias from within your own mind you are literally healing your mind and getting closer to God. God is a fully healed Mind!
So this trivial, stupid example from Star Trek and Star Wars nerds is actually a profound, universal spiritual lesson. This is the power and utility of this work.
Also notice the beauty of this example. The beauty of a genuine apology and self-recognition of wrongness. You should not wait for others to point out your bias to you, you should catch it yourself. That is epistemic responsibility. That is how a commitment to truth heals your mind, your life, your self.
Notice that now, thanks to his self-reflection and admission of wrongness, Mike’s mind is more coherent. Mike’s mind is literally closer to God than it otherwise was. He doesn’t know that, but if he studied my teachings he would know it and appreciate it and take it even further to heal his mind even more, until one day he realized God.
Disney Star Wars and Alex Kurtzman Star Trek are both united in being corrupt corporate shit, which should unite Star Wars and Star Trek fans. Really, all fans everywhere should unite in pushing back against the corporate corruption of art and entertainment. If you are a true fan of anything, you should not want a corporation milking that thing to maximize profit, robbing that thing you love of its soul. A true fan wants the thing he loves to stay TRUE. You want TRUE Star Wars, you want TRUE Star Trek, not soulless corporate husks of them.
You want TRUE Actualized.org. Imagine if I sold Actualized.org to a corporation. This would be the deepest betrayal.
The incoherence of corporate hacks is that they too would be upset if some other corporate hack robbed a thing they love of its soul to maximize profit. But what makes them hacks is that they don’t care about this incoherence.
Notice a potential double-standard here. You might watch these nerds arguing over Star Wars and Star Trek and tell yourself, “Who cares! Stop being such nerds! Get a life!” But then in your life you have something you are a fan of that you care about the integrity of. Perhaps you don’t care about films or video games, but you care about music, or cars, or science, or religion, or Marxism — and you will get all anal about that thing when you see it getting corrupted, which is a double-standard, a bias, an incoherence. Ultimately, everyone is a nerd about something, everyone is a fan of something, so it is untruthful to ridicule caring fans because you care about stuff too. Star Wars and Star Trek may seem trivial to you, but that is just your bias. The thing you love the most is trivial to someone else, and vice versa. Be mindful of that. Ultimately it is hypocritical to belittle the things others love because we all love something and we are all hurt when the thing we love is belittled or trivialized. Love unites us all. But out of selfishness and bias people often belittle and trivialize the love of others. Implicitly, out of selfishness, we behave like this: “The thing you love doesn’t matter to me at all.”
Contemplate: “How do I belittle and trivialize the love of others? And how does that make me incoherent?”
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