Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 3

I listen to this one a lot in the background. Great for sleep, contemplation, meditation, yoga, tripping, and work.

I know right-wingers love to cite Thomas Sowell to justify their regressive ideology, nevertheless, Sowell makes legit points that the leftist would be wise to consider.

Leftists are out of touch with survival-reality and they are ignorant of this point, in denial about it. Leftism is an ideology of denial of its own ungroundedness. When leftist ideals are implemented, they quickly fail, forcing a reversion to the traditional ways, which just work. What the leftist doesn't understand is that the traditional ways are ugly and stupid, but they exist for good reason: because they work. Capitalism exists because is works. And your leftist ideals don't exist because they don't. This is what every leftist is in denial about it. That's what makes leftism an ideology. If you weren't ideological your mind would be open enough to see this.

What every leftist is in denial about is that leftism gets Reality fundamentally wrong. You cannot sit in your armchair and moralize to Reality. Reality will laugh at you and then kill you. While you sit and moralize, lives are on the line. The bottom line is: your moralizing doesn't work because survival does not care, because your morality is your own invention. Human rights is something your mind cooked up. Actually, it's worse than that. Your mind is not even original enough to have cooked it up, it just conformed to it.

The original Russian Nihilists were such devils. This was the original terrorism. Of course Nihilism cannot work. It is pure self-deception. Civilization cannot be anarchistic. These are far-left ideological delusions. This could not end otherwise but with Stalin:

Far-left movements end with far-right counter-balances to restore civil order. But far-leftists are too ideologically lost to understand this, blaming all their own misunderstandings of social reality on the right. Far-leftists repeat this pattern again and again. That's why I'm not far-left even though I have rather radical ideas about Reality and society. I'm not foolish enough to believe that all of society should be like me. They shouldn't because society would fall apart. People like me can only exist in tiny percentages under the current order. You cannot hasten the development of mankind through violent revolution and crazy ideas because "success by any means, at any costs" is not a high stage of development. Mature, responsible, conscious people do not behave that way. Terrorizing people for some high ideal is a sure dead end.

If you dislike society that much, just leave. Go live on a secluded island or in the forest somewhere. Don't try to drag all of society down with you. It simply will not work. If you hate society, don't try to fight it, just go do your own thing. You will be far happier than staging a failed revolution. But losers love to drag everyone else down with them. If you're going to be an ideological weirdo, at least have the common sense to do so alone. Don't try to scale your weirdo ideology to all of society. That's so childish. Most people just need to be traditional and ordinary. You cannot make the bulk of society radicals through radical action. And you cannot divert the course of civilization. That is such arrogance.

Bottom line: Russian Nihilism is stupid. It is stupid because it could never work. You have to be intelligent enough to discard any political worldview that has zero chance of working.

God is a multiplex:

Leibniz was a true scientist. Notice how shallow today's scientists are next to him. Scientists used to be deep intellects, but today they have been flattened into shallow technicians. That's the effect of positivism in science.

See, today's scientists would have you believe that Leibniz was irrational for talking about God. But no. Leibniz was the truly rational one. How things have twisted and inverted. How rationality has been corrupted by positivism and atheism.

If you want to be a world-class scientist, you must think way beyond positivism. That's how new discoveries are made.