Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 17

There is a new on-going war for corruption of social media influencers for political purposes. This war has only begun and will get worse in the years to come. You cannot trust any popular social media influencer or political commentator to not be receiving payment for their positions and opinions. Generally speaking, social media influencers and personalities have no epistemic nor ethical standards nor oversight. That means they will readily take money from political actors to covertly promote their agendas and ideologies.

Billionaires, interest groups, and foreign governments are going to pay lots of money to purchase social media influencers. There are going to be scandals in this domain over the coming years. As mainstream TV news media collapses in popularity, podcasters, YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagramers, and social media celebrities will become the new vectors of corruption. Money and power follows the eyeballs. Any social media personality with a million or more subscribers will be under great pressure to accept bribes for peddling political propaganda and there is no policing nor transparency for this. They will also rationalize it to themselves as for the greater good. So it's going to get bad.

Be careful — liberals and leftists are not above corruption. Corruption is not a conservative-only problem. But just imagine how much worse the situation is for conservative influencers. You can't trust a single one of them not to be bought because they are epistemically shameless.

As I've said for a long time now, alternative media is going to be more corrupt than mainstream media. And that's coming true. Because there's no accountability and these people are uneducated amateurs. At least many mainstream media people have journalism degrees and they have huge pressure from such a big spotlight. Meanwhile alternative media is a dark alley where ghouls and vampires jerk each other off in the shadows of relative obscurity. You cannot trust an average Joe TikToker to have journalistic integrity.

This dude made $35 million dollars selling fake fine wine from his kitchen.

To be honest, I kinda admire scamming millionaires with fake fine wine. Anyone pretentious enough to pay tens of thousands of dollars for wine deserves to be scammed.

See, without strict regulations you would not even know if someone pissed in your thousand dollar bottle of wine. And if you think people won't piss in your bottle of wine, you don't know people. The human mind is such a contraption that it will invent a way to piss in your wine while believing it is good for the world.

Mahavira was the Awakened founder of Jainism. He gave 14 stages of spiritual development. The highest attainment is Omniscience (Kevala Jnana).

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Source: Wikipedia - Kevala Jnana

This lady has excellent explanations of Russian society and Russian culture, as a former insider.

The key to understanding Russia is understanding how corrupt and backwards the whole thing is. It is corrupt to the bone. The entire society is one rotten pyramid scheme. Russia is a mafia state where every citizen is a member. It's hard for people raised in 1st world democracies to imagine this degree of corruption. It defies Western imagination. But, there is an even deeper understanding where you realize that every nation, including America and its empire, and Zionist Israel, are also corrupt pyramid schemes, but the corruption in America and Israel is more sophisticated and elegant.

Every society on Earth is a corrupt pyramid scheme of one kind or another. But in Russia the corruption is of a very crude sort. The corruption in America is like a well-engineered professional machine. The corruption in Russia is like the mob, where they skin your dog alive in front of your children. Even Trump is too refined to imagine this kind of corruption.

Imagine the following form of corruption: You gather a gang of 20 guys with pipes and baseballs bats. You break into the next Microsoft board meeting. You lock the doors and tell Bill Gates and his board members that you are going to break their knee-caps with a baseball right now unless they sign over to you 100 million Microsoft shares. You wait until they give you 100 million shares and you walk out of the building. And if they complain to the police, you give the police chief 10 million shares. If they go to court, you give the judge 20 million shares. If they complain to Putin he tells them that unless they give him 50 million shares he's going to prosecute them for financial fraud and they will lose the whole company.

That's how business works in Russia.

Business in America is like playing Animal Crossing.
Business in Russia is like Dark Souls.

Why does Russia so oppose and reject the West? Because Western-style liberal democracy would dissolve this entire system of business. It's the same reason the Mob opposes running a normal business. The Mob exists to be corrupt. In America corruption is the spice. In Russia corruption is the main course.

Liberal democracy is like redesigning Dark Souls into Animal Crossing. Players great at Dark Souls don't want that. Putin is like the world's best Dark Souls player.

Professional sports are hideously corrupt. There's no better example of this than the history of professional cycling.

Again, this is an example of the falseness of libertarianism. Without strict regulations, all of society becomes like French cycling competitions from the early 1900s. Participants delude themselves through unconscious self-deception mechanisms that they are doing good when they are being evil. There is virtually no limit to how much humans will cheat, lie, bullshit, defraud, and rationalize it all without strict regulations.

The reason that no society on Earth is purely libertarian is because if it were, it would be like French cycling in the early 1900s. This is a disgusting way to live, but it is very free.

Notice this: if society was truly libertarian then parents would be selling their children for a wheel of cheese. If I said this in a debate, libertarians would say that I'm making an absurd strawman, but I'm really not, it's how humans actually behave without regulations. This is human nature and libertarians do not understand it.

The key thing to realize is that freedom means the freedom to sell your children for a wheel of cheese.

Additionally, a key thing to realize about human nature is that when humans cheat and defraud, because they are unconscious, their mind convinces them that they are doing good. So it's not only that humans cheat way more than you expect, it's that they deeply believe that they are good, moral people for doing so. When an unconscious politician cheats to win an election, when an unconscious stock trader cheats to make a trade — he believes he's doing good. This is why libertarian morality cannot work. Due to relativity and self-bias, every evil person thinks he's doing good. So society cannot be organized around peoples' personal moral tastes.

When a Zionist soldier kills a Palestinian baby, he thinks he's doing good. When a Nazi kills a Jew, he thinks he's doing good. When MAGA chuds overthrow the federal government, they think they are doing good. When a crypto-bro does a pump-and-dump, he thinks he's doing good. When an oligarch corrupts democracy with lobbyists, he thinks he's doing good. When a tech-bro steals your data and copyrighted art to feed his AI, he thinks he's doing good. When Andrew Tate teaches men how to sex-traffic their girlfriends, he thinks he's doing good. When a terrorist blows up a bus full of civilians, he thinks he's doing good. When a dictator sends 100,000 troops to invade a neighboring nation, he thinks he's doing good. And when a slave-master beats his slave, he thinks he is doing good. This happens because morality is a relative, self-serving human invention. But libertarians do not understand this.