Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 11
The first publicly-traded multinational corporation in the world was the Dutch East India Company. They created a monopoly for themselves on clove and nutmeg spices which they sailed to procure from islands in Indonesia. By 1669 this company was so successful and powerful that the Dutch government gave it the right to make treaties and engage in war on behalf of the Dutch. This company was like a floating state, with 150 merchant ships, 40 warships, 50,000 employees, a private army of 10,000 soldiers, colonies from South America to South Africa to Iran to India, and an annual dividend payment of 40%. It was the richest company the world had ever seen.
To secure their monopoly on spice, the Dutch East India Company fought wars against the Spanish, English, and Portuguese navies. The Dutch established the world's first stock market to sell shares of the Dutch East India Company and small companies like it in order to help fund risky trade expeditions around the world. The Dutch also started the biggest international bank. The Dutch East India Company paid an annual dividend of 18% for 200 years! This made the Dutch the richest country in Europe at the time. This was one of the first modern experiments in capitalism which resulted in massive material success.
Free trade, entrepreneurship, and massive wealth accumulation from merchant activities had existed since the dawn of civilization. But what is called capitalism only arose with the Dutch, when they invented the multinational publicly traded corporation and international banking.
I'm studying the history of capitalism and socialism. Pretty neat, huh?
Africa is absolutely massive! Typical maps are very misleading and do not display its scale properly.
Here's the true size of Africa:
Just consider, the Sahara dessert alone is larger than the entire USA!
Source: The Visual Capitalist
Imagine Cat Infinity — a singularity that contains a roiling soup of every possible cat-form that could ever be imagined by anyone within any possible universe across all of time.
That's what I illustrate here:
Now understand this: Any time you see a cat walking around in our world, it was not born, it was spawned out of this singularity of pure Cat Infinity. There cannot exist a cat without Cat Infinity existing first.
And now imagine that such a singularity exists for every possible object and thing you experience in the material world: Rock Infinity, Tree Infinity, Car Infinity, Math Infinity, Pizza Infinity, Crocodile Infinity, Jazz Infinity, Human Infinity, Alien Infinity, Psychosis Infinity, Demon Infinity, Goblin Infinity, Child Rape Infinity, etc.
And now understand this: God/Consciousness is the sum total of all of these Infinities. That is where everything came from. That is INFINITE IMAGINATION.
You were not born from a human mother, you spawned out of INFINITY.
That is what you are!
YOU. ARE. INFINITY.
This explains absolutely everything.
No other explanation of reality can be as powerful as this. This is maximum power. Infinite power. Omnipotence.
Unless you are directly conscious of this, your enlightenment is weak-sauce.
If you're looking for a theory of everything (TOE) this is the ultimate one. Only it's not a theory, it is what you are. And nothing anyone ever does or says can ever contradict it.
This is what I mean when I say GOD.
THAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS.
THAT IS LOVE.
Not anything less. This is what all of my work was for. To get you to understand this.
Meow.
The following 12 part series on the ancient Greek Antikythera machine is just incredible. This is the world's oldest surviving analog computer, at over 2000 years old. It was a kind of zodiac/celestial clock/calendar which meticulously tracked the movements of the stars.
This YouTuber explains how the device worked, what each part did, and he re-machines the whole thing from scratch before your eyes. Incredible!
I suggest you watch the whole series to appreciate the insane metalwork and craftsmanship of the ancient Greeks. It gets crazy good in the last third of the series.
This is YouTube at its best:
I've been researching all sorts of ancient civilizations lately, just for my amusement, and found some great videos exploring the incredible stone work done in ancient Egypt which seems to show signs of advanced machining.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that aliens made the pyramids. It just seems like there might have been a pre-Egyptian civilization with insanely advanced stone cutting technologies which might have been lost to time. Watch the following videos to really appreciate how impossibly perfect some of the earliest Egyptian stonework is. It's hard to imagine that large circular saws were not used to cut some of this granite. I'm not dogmatic about it one way or another. It's just interesting to speculate about how such stone work was done.
More videos:
- The Mysteries of Saqqara
- The Most Precise Granite Objects Of Ancient Egypt
- The Aswan Quarry
- The Colossal Statues Of Ancient Egypt
I'm not a fan of wild speculation and outlandish mystical theories about ancient Egypt. I think there are many bad New Age theories out there on YouTube about ancient Egypt. What I prefer are grounded documentaries. But even so, mainstream history and science may be underestimating the ancient Egyptians and especially their predecessors. It's possible that some very advanced people lived in Egypt long before the ancient Egyptians who are so well-known today.
In order to keep yourself from getting deluded on this topic it's important to remind yourself that all of this is speculation. This means you should keep an open mind to multiple alternative possibilities. Be especially wary of jumping to exotic and fantastical explanations where mundane explanations may suffice. Don't underestimate how much mastery is possible just through insane and clever work. One thing is clear, the ancient Egyptians were Lords of Stone.
This is a profound discussion of intelligence:
Michael Levin is doing some impressive and deep sense-making work for a scientist. I was pleasantly surprised.
The following discussions are excellent and full of juicy insight into this topic:
I like that this challenges conventional notions of left vs right:
It's crucial to understand that left and right within politics is a highly socially-constructed thing and only loosely grounded in anything real. Both left and right ideologies morph and shift over time because essentially they are kinds of group-think. And group-think sways with the wind and moves in arbitrary cycles. Left and right are very relative notions.
But even so, there is a deeper core to politics which this analysis misses, which is that liberal vs conservative are tendencies of the human mind/brain and constitute kinds of personality types. Liberal minds are more open and conservative minds are more closed. This is a structural feature of the mind, independent of content. It doesn't matter what you're closedminded about, the issue is that you're closedminded and that you could be openminded instead. And vice versa.
Be careful not to confuse the content of any political ideology with being what constitutes liberal vs conservative. For example, your position on abortion or gun control is not what makes you liberal or conservative. These kind of content positions are surface-level and change every generation. What endures is your overall attitude towards new things, new ways of life. You are either eager for new ways of life or you are put off by them in favor of traditional ways. That's the part which isn't a myth, and you can see this divide across all societies, all cultures, all eras.
What makes slavery a conservative position is that the people who defended it were fundamentally opposed to changing their way of doing business and life. That's what conservative means. It's not about the slavery, it's about not wanting to change. You can replace slavery with guns, Jesus, hotdogs, rice, burkas, yamakas, oil, capitalism, voodoo, ayahuasca, human sacrifice, or whatever. A pizza is still a pizza regardless of your favorite toppings. The pizza is not defined by the pineapple or pepperoni.
Really watch this, from 13:14-26:29, and contemplate what it means:
How do you compete with this kid? You can't. You've already lost. There's literally nothing you can do. You have the brain of a chimpanzee next to him.
And all of that is still peanuts compared to Alien Consciousness.
What you need to understand about human abilities is that they are NOT your own! They are God's gift to you. Whatever you are able to do: walk, talk, socialize, philosophize, emote, work long hours, lift weights, even sleep — NONE of that is your doing, it's God's doing. And God could take it away from you as easily as God gave it to you. So whatever talents you have, appreciate them, honor them, cultivate them, exercise them, and thank God for them. Do not take credit for your talents. And do not lord your talents over those who were not as fortunate as you.
All of your abilities are ultimately grounded in genetics. You could not add two numbers together without the right genetics. So appreciate that. Because there are many creatures on this planet who cannot do what you can do. And there are many creatures in this universe who are much smarter than you, in ways you cannot even begin to comprehend.
In the grand scheme of things, the average human creature is a rat in the great spectrum of Consciousness. Which is the only proper explanation of why our society is as dysfunctional as it is. A rat can only do so much. And an enlightened rat is still a rat.
Imagine that there are people born with as radically different states of consciousness than you as this werewolf boy was born different from you. Now you start to understand our situation.
Do not underestimate the power of genetics in shaping what you are. Everyone takes their genetics for granted.
Exceptionally spiritually gifted people are born just like this werewolf boy. And no amount of spiritual practice will give you their abilities. But because all that happens on the inside, people do not see it. So they end up spending their lives trying to emulate someone who is a genetic freak, and of course they end up disappoint with their lack of results or unhappiness in life. Because a werewolf boy has to live differently than normies. And if you as a normie try to live like werewolf boy, you will not be happy because it is not the right fit. This is why above all else in this work you must be true to yourself, to your genetics. Your destiny is in your genetics. But you need to discover what that means, which is no trivial matter.