Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 24
I am sharing this raw, intimate example of the behind-the-scenes of fake spirituality, given this week's video topic.
Notice that fake spirituality is about survival masquerading as spirituality. The conflation of survival and spirituality. Notice that fake spirituality is an illusion, it hides truth.
Marc Gafni is Aubrey Marcus' spiritual mentor and has written multiple books about spirituality and enlightenment.
Note: This is not about judging Marc Gafni but about a lesson in how to identify fake spirituality. Notice how spirituality is conflated with survival (sex).
Video Credit: forum user @Natasha Tori Maru
The music industry is insanely corrupt, low consciousness, and fake.
The music industry is a cutthroat capitalist exploitation machine that allows vacuous, ignorant, low-development, narcissistic minds to become giga-famous and successful. And then of course they crash and burn, go broke, or end up depressed and miserable. The music industry encourages degenerate behavior to maximize profit.
The music industry is such a trap for egos. It promises the ego everything it craves: adoration, quick easy money, quick easy sex, partying, love, adventure, drugs, status. And it discourages development work. So we get some real horror stories.
More videos I watched on this topic:
How To Be An Industry Puppet - Sabrina Carpenter
What People Do Not Know About Pop Music
Note: But hey, I still love some of this music. I'm not judging the art. I'm just looking at the corruption behind it.
I was watching this when it struck me: Amish is just pure group-think. The level of brainwashing here is insane. Don't let these Amish fool you. They seem cute, kind, ethical, and hardworking, but these humans are incapable of having an independent thought about reality. The mental gymnastics these people do is cartoonish.
This gives you an idea of how incredibly conformist and unoriginal most human being were for most of human history. The further you go back in time, the more conformist human life was. Imagine living life without a single original thought; you only copy what others around you do. That is my nightmare. It is mental slavery.
You should be terrified of conformity.
Animals are amazing survival zombies:
So are most humans.
Everything a typical human does is just unconscious survival.
A beaver is amazing at survival, but it is not conscious of what it is doing or why it is doing it. It's just doing it.
The whole point of spiritual development is to make your entire survival process into meta-cognitive consciousness.
What is the difference between a Christian and a beaver?
To me there is no difference.
Imagine getting a beaver to stop acting like a beaver. It would be as hard as getting a Christian to stop acting like a Christian. Why? Because it's unconscious survival.
Genuine spirituality is about getting beavers to stop acting like beavers.
Now you can appreciate why it's so challenging.
A woman comes home early to find her husband in bed with her best friend. The startled man says, "What are you doing home so early?" She replies, "What are you doing in bed with my best friend?!" He snaps, "Don't change the subject!"
Source: Steven Pinker, Rationality
I am deeply concerned about peoples' mindless use of AI. To me, creative, independent, original thinking is the most important thing in life. Of course AI can be used selectively, intelligently, responsibly, but that is definitely not how most people are using it. I see too many people mindlessly outsourcing their creative thinking process to AI, using AI to arbitrate truth, which will atrophy the mind. The concept of autonomy/sovereignty of mind is not understood by most of mankind as it is, and now AI will make this problem much worse for younger generations. I foresee that young generations who grow up with AI will not even know what it's like to think truly for yourself because all their friends will just be outsourcing thinking, creativity, and truth to AI. This will lead to very mediocre minds with very low autonomy and virtually no capacity for truth-seeking or existential inquiry. Why think when AI can do all your thinking for you? Kids were already not thinking deeply enough about reality prior to AI. People already do not understand the value of philosophical inquiry and now we slather AI on top of that. Conformist thinking is one of the biggest problems mankind has faced and will continue to face. Kids will not understand what they lost by doing education through AI. As a philosopher and infinite mind, this saddens me. The beauty of mind requires decades of cultivation which AI will short-circuit. There is no question that constantly using AI will atrophy your mind's originality. I'm not saying to never use AI, but you need to be extremely selective about it.
Imagine if I started using AI to write all my videos from now on. You think nothing would be lost? Of course I will never do that, but I fear many young people will fool themselves into thinking that nothing is lost if they do it. It may seem like AI is making you more creative in the short-term, but in the long-term everyone's mind who grows up on AI will turn into milquetoast, middling, mediocre slop. Imagine if your mind becomes the quality of typical AI generated imagery. To me that is horrifying. Having deep, original thoughts and insights is the best part of life.
I just don't see how anyone can reach my level of mind through heavy reliance of AI.
AI cannot give you sovereignty of mind.
