Leo Gura

I don't see how final cut could have saved that film. Unless you leave 50% of it blank But, yeah, I know he regrets it.

Could be both. They dovetail.

I don't get insanity from it, but it is blackpilling and emotionally difficult for sure to see all of mankind's corruption. It's been difficult. In the end, truth is your North Star. Follow truth wherever it leads. A genuine commitment to truth means that you don't get lost in sugary fantasies of life, but also don't overfixate on negativity and fall into pathology. The path of truth is an exquisite balancing act, with crocodiles to the left and right.

Consider those two hostages dead.

Higher than China, Middle East, Russia, and the non-Western world. The West still has the highest values of what's found around the world. You gotta keep things in proper perspective. Neoliberal tech-bro democracy is still more advanced than Putinism or Islamic theocratic monarchy or Chinese communism.

As I said, once Israel has the hostages, they will have no mercy and no honor. The pig-headedness will continue. Gaza now has zero leverage and Netanyahu will punish them for it.

That's right. That's because I've become much more grounded, shredding through fantasy. The world is much bleaker than people want to believe. Especially than leftists and spiritual people want to believe. Reality will beat your liberal ideals out you. The only reason liberals and spiritual people can be so delusional is because they live in a bubbles of fantasy disconnected from reality. But eventually all those bubbles will burst, like with this Trump victory. Just notice that you liberal spiritual lovey-dovey ideas do not match up with how the world actually runs. This doesn't mean you shouldn't have vision. Vision is vital. But it needs to be grounded in what is realistic. Good intentions, high ideals, and love are not enough. I have made this calibration in my worldview and it has made my view so much more potent. But it also more biting. My view of mankind is more accurate than ever before. The aim is not liberalism, the aim is accuracy. Wherever that leads is where I will go. Your political view needs to accurately predict political happenings. You will notice, I predicted this Trump win would happen right before it did. Because I wasn't operating off my ideals, but what I saw in real life. This sort of predictive power only comes from grounding your view and cutting through all the fantasy. In fact, I will be teaching you guys how to do this because it is so powerful and core to our work. We are not spinning New Age fantasies here. We want a stone-cold sober view of mankind's true nature. This is a painful, disillusioning process but vital to our commitment to truth-seeking and epistemic rigor.

Because it's easy cheap content for the endless mill. All these people need to pump out new content every day no matter what. So they blattermouth whatever they can scramble together to get some clicks. It's so much harder to actually say precise and original things. Speculation is the low-hanging fruit of the mind.

No country serves another country. It's about shared values and interests. It's about finding common ground, alignments, and scratching each others backs. The US, EU, and Israel have a lot of common ground on values, economics, intel, tech. This is why they largely blindly support each other. It's like an old marriage. Even if your spouse misbehaves you don't abandon them because there is something much larger at stake.

No. It is intuitive. Mankind has succeeded in reverse engineering intuition. That's the mindfuck of our time.

Western countries think alike on these "terrorist" issues.

Material success, power, and fame do not interest me, since they can never satisfy me. What you regard as mediocrity I regard as one of the deepest minds on the planet. All depends on your values and what will satisfy you. Only you can figure that out.

The reality is that if you put ordinary plebs into the roles of elites they will either crumble under the pressure and fail, or they rise to challenge but become exactly like the old elites before them. Because the role itself has a certain survival structure which cannot be overcome other than through development of oneself, which no one is seriously doing. Politics is not a function of good guys vs bad guys.

Yes, this def happens. But what you have to understand about society is that it is a filtration system which uses sheer ambition and tenacity to filter people. To reach the top you will not be given a red carpet, you will have to slit throats, crush spines, and stab hearts. It's not enough to be skilled or educated or developed, you need that killer instinct and supernatural will to success and power. You have to want it bad enough to endure hell. Otherwise you will just be average.

I found a space kangaroo under my bed.

That's a difficult challenge but you seem like you have a good head on your shoulders and will make the best of it. Health challenges can grow and mature you a lot. They tend to strip away the fantasies real quick. Hang in there and keep us posted.

Yuppp. That's how I am with epistemology. Epistemology is just the Devil's chess.

Of course. If he took seriously things I say his life would implode. Which is why no one important listens to me. I am pure death to power.

Of course they will sell it. It's all about the $$$.

Time will tell.

Parents = Slavelords

I thought her advice was useful. Most people need very basic advice. Not alien fucking God consciousness.

To transcend neoliberalism requires exceptional development -- basically Tier 2 -- which less than 1% of the planet has. We can't transcend it just by screaming and flailing our arms. We need to raise the rest of the world first. Neoliberalism has a long way to go before it exhausts itself. It's like a booster rocket that is still only half way through its burn, but leftists are screaming to dump it.

Have not seen any of his work except Dune, which is a mixture of weirdness, grossness, and badness.

A lot of LSD ain't pure or ain't even LSD. Real LSD feels quite pure.