Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 39
This channel has the most mind-blowing 3D animations of how vehicles. It's so impressive my jaw dropped watching it. A single guy created these insanely detailed and precise 3D animations in Blender. It takes him months to model and animate each one by hand. He even composes the music. This guy deserves an award for excellence. This is YouTube at its finest:
I often like to say that humans are stupid, but the intelligence of humans is astonishing when it comes to engineering. The engineering intelligence that went into creating these vehicles is so astonishing that just understanding the scale and precision of what humans have accomplished here can be a spiritual experience.
Do you comprehend the scale of intelligence that was required to engineer the SR-71 Blackbird? Do you? Really look at it. Try to imagine what it would take to engineer an SR-71 yourself.
Humans are stupid when it comes to matters of politics, spirituality, and philosophy. But humans are insanely intelligent when it comes to feats of engineering. That's one of the paradoxes of mankind: astounding technical intelligence, yet profound metaphysical, epistemic, philosophical, spiritual, and political ignorance and immaturity. How can we be so smart and so stupid at the same time?
Side Point: Notice, if you developed the kind of 3D modeling skills and attention to detail that the maker of these videos has, you could easily make a great living either by making your own videos, or getting hired by a studio. Developing this kind of 3D modeling skill would be challenging, but doable. Very doable. You could even do it all by yourself, 100% online, at home, just by watching Blender tutorials and courses.
Notice that the excellence of your skills would be obvious to anyone just by watching a single one of your videos. So you would only need 1 video to sell yourself to employers. You would not need a degree or even a resume. All you'd do is show them a single video and they would hire you immediately, simply because you are so excellent they would be fools not to hire you. This is a powerful example of how you can bootstrap yourself to major success. But don't draw the lesson too narrowly here, I'm not just talking about a career in 3D modeling, you can apply this method to all sorts of other careers that have nothing to do with 3D modeling.
People often complain that no one wants to hire them — that they apply and apply but no one calls them back. That's only because you have not demonstrated any exceptional skill. The solution is not to send out 100s of applications but to make yourself stand out by developing and showcasing exceptional skill. Or, to put it more simply: teach yourself to making amazing things, and people will instantly hire you, and you can ask for 150% the normal salary. And, you don't need a voluminous portfolio. Don't focus on quantity, focus on just 1 amazing piece of work. This is how you bootstrap personal success. You could do this even from a 3rd world country. You could do this living in Iraq. The best way out of poverty is to build the skills to make amazing things. If your skills are good enough someone will offer you a visa out of your underdeveloped country. Or you can just enjoy working for yourself.
It's amazing how American media does not speak about the ethnic cleansing which is at the heart of the founding of Israel. There could not be an Israel without a massive ethnic cleansing campaign, and it is all explicitly admitted to by their own past leadership:
It's so simple once you see it:
Israel is an ethnic cleansing project.
Of course!
The truth is so simple, yet so ugly, that anyone involved must deny it.
I love the geography and architecture of the Dogon tribe. Such a beautiful place.
Damned fascinating how Stage Purple tribes live. What amazes me is how predictable life at these stages is. Spiral Dynamics explains it perfectly.
Once you understand Spiral Dynamics, you see that all cultures and societies on the planet in Tier 1 are as predictable as sheep. True freedom of mind does not take place until you transcend Stage Green. Until then you're just one or another flavor of sheep. At Tier 2 there is finally the chance to make original sense of reality. But there is a kind of primitive beauty to Stage Purple. These people are ignorant and self-deceived but make up for it with heart, soul, and sincerity.
When you are too liberal a coyote runs off with your dog ;)
Some years ago I went to get healing from a couple of New Age psychic mystical reiki healers. They put me a table and did reiki on me. But while they did that they would also ask me all sorts of spiritual psychological questions. One of the questions they asked me was, What was my spirit animal? I said I don't know. Then they told me to say the first animal image that came to my mind. I said coyote. They told me to imagine that I was a coyote and to act like how a coyote would act. So lying there on the table as they did their reiki I howled:
Aaaaaahhhhooooooooo!
Amazing and shocking documentary:
This is classic Stage Blue, absolutist conformist stage of ego development.
Note: Be careful. This documentary does not represent all Jews nor Israelis. This is a fringe minority of Zionist extremists. Be careful not to over-generalize it.
For a few years now I stopped reading books because I reached a point where they stopping giving me value. It just became hard to find a book worth reading.
But recently I revisited the matter from a new angle and found dozens of amazing books, mostly on history, politics, and social science. I've read over 30 new books and I'm burning through a couple new books every week. I've been reading about terrorism, extremism, racism, communism, biographies of dictators and mass-rapists, psychopaths, narcissists, corruption, money laundering, Islamic history, Zionism, Africa, war, the CIA, the right wing, and more.
All of this is crucial reading for making sense of the social world. I don't read spiritual stuff any more, I read to deepen my understanding of social dynamics and human depravity. I study all the ways humans act like unconscious devils and how they justify it to themselves. You will never understand the full gamut of human social depravity through direct experience. So books are necessary here. To understand how the globe really works. I do this to increase the depth and quality of my politics and social commentary. To ground my politics in hard historical reality, social science, expert analysis, and awareness of global cultural differences.
I make use of these books to make sense of all the bias and confusion that's all over the news and social media. It amazes me how just a couple of the right books can resolve an issue that people in the news business will bullshit about for decades. My advice to you is, stop consuming so much online news and punditry, and instead read high quality books on history, political science, and social science. Online news is keeping you dumb for clicks. One of the keys to developing mature politics is to read lots of history and social science books. I'm excited to share nearly 50 such books with you soon.
I'm on a mission to build a library of 100 books critical to developing mature, conscious, Tier 2 politics.
At a young age, Jalal al-Din Rumi acquired a reputation as a great scholar of conventional Islamic texts. Rumi was a Sharia jurist and teacher, giving sermons in mosques. He taught classes in a school founded by his learned father, who was himself a renowned theologian, known by all around as the Sultan of Scholars. Rumi's reputation for learning was so great that students flocked to his lectures and hung on his every word.
Then, one day, a dirty homeless man crashed one of his lectures, sitting in the back, singing, laughing, howling, and disrupting the class. He seemed like a madman. So Rumi's students grabbed this insolent bum to throw him out of the class. But Rumi stopped them and asked the man, "Why are you here? What do you want?"
"I am Shams-i Tabrez," the madman said, "and I have come for you."
To the astonishment of his students, Rumi closed his book, cast off his scholar's cloak, and said to the class, "My teaching days are over. This is my master." He walked out of the classroom with the madman, never to return.
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"Why should I seek? I am the same as He. His essence speaks through me. I searched for God and found only Myself. There is no reality but God. Don't look for me in human shape, I am inside your looking. No matter where I am, that is where God is." — Rumi
That is the difference between scholarship and spirituality. You will not find God in the classroom, unless perhaps he comes to howl at one of your lectures.
Source: Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary