Leo Gura

It's hard for me to say what I am since I am too close to the matter to see it objectively. In some very specific respects I am very unique. But I'm also quite normal in other respects. I have a unique capacity for understanding things. A unique kind of intelligence. And psychedelics. Other than that, not much else. Genetics? Yeah, my intelligence is grounded in genetics. Is it a worldclass intelligence? Hard to say. Not by conventional measures of raw performance. But there is something unique in my ability to understand things. It's hard to say why that is. As far as mastery of skills goes, I am not a master of anything other than understanding the mind. Because I don't care about anything enough to bother mastering it. But even in the domain of understanding, my ability is very specialized. I am not good at understanding complex technical stuff like math, research papers, or computer code.

But it's a question of timing. Should the freedom come now or 50 years from now? It's not obvious what is best for Russia -- what Russian's can stomach. It's like saying, Saudi Arabia should have gay parades and drunk cocaine club sluts walking around outside. Eventually people will want it. Okay. But when will that society be ready for that? It takes time to develop into that.

So what? He was pro US until he got a good taste of US hegemony and self-absorption. The US was not willing to make any compromises with him. So he went his own way to safegaurd Russia sovereignty.

There are many ways to explain it. When in doubt, remind yourself that people are ignorant and have no understanding of how goverance works or what is best. I don't know enough Canadian politics to comment more specifically, but one thing I know is that these waves of populism are based in stupidity.

That is not giving him enough credit. Pushing back against American hegemony is not the same as killing the wife you love out of jealousy. It's higher than that. This is a matter of worldview and this fails to take into account the survival needs of Russia, which are different than the West. If you assume that Russia should be like the West then Putin seems crazy and selfish for stopping it from happening. But there is another view, which is that Russia has its own way and needs. That's the basis for this whole conflict.

It's a matter of perspective. Maybe it could be done, but you wouldn't want to live in such a society. Because you're talking about a civil war. You wanna live in civil war? Not that that's seriously gonna happen. But even in the wildest fantasies of it happening, how does this benefit anyone? Gun-fantasy conservatives are too ignorant to understand the costs of war. Afghanistan is not something we should model in the West.

I am making more new videos on that. Stay tuned. You are not going to find deeper explanations of it than mine. There are no such books because nobody understands it. This is a flimsy understanding. Worldview is far more relative than that. If your worldview led you to believe that your nation was in danger, you would have no problem sending a million of your boys to die at war. That is all consistent with love. That Americans or Western liberals cannot understand this show just how biased and clueless people are about the workings of the mind. Westerners love their countries but Putin don't? Po0ootin bad! This is a comically self-absorbed understanding of the situation.

Deconstruct it. It's fantasy. None of these shamans or "healers" are epistemically serious people. They have low cognitive development, and no amount of ayahausca will fix it. Self-deception is a bitch. Be ware of all the spiritual group-think happening in these communities.

I'm not.

As long as you aren't selling the music files, there is no problem. Other then finding people to buy it.

Dialogue is not going to solve this issue. The issue isn't occuring on that plane. It is convenient for a podcaster to believe that lots of talking will fix the world. I found the interview shallow. Nothing of substance was said.

Funny enough, everyone is shitting on Lex for saying that Putin loves Russia -- how that's impossible -- but Lex is right, even though he is very naive about how war works and power works. Lex's comment section is a great example at how clueless people are about the relativity of love and worldview in general. All sides are so ignorant of the self-deception their minds are playing.

Yeah, Canada is such an awful place.

Interesting idea. I have not tried. Seems too solipsistic. I have more fun against a bot.

Kastrup is not that advanced. More serious spiritual people should understand. Although I have stopped trying to account for what others are conscious of as that is a fool's game.

Canada is awaiting its moment of populist stupidity.

Of course it's fine-tuned, but not in the way that foolish Christians or scientists talk about it. The scientific notion of fine-tuning doesn't do it justice.

Von Clausewitz got it backwards. Politics is a continuation of war by other means.

Yes - - - - - A new video will be out within a week.

Very good.

Am I the lazy one or are you?

Contemplate it for yourself.

Beauty and taste are not the same thing.

Don't you Canadians have term limits? 9 years is a good run.

Sounds nice in theory but don't work in practice. Many countries more developed than the USA have banned guns. Yet their government is more responsive and healthy than American government. America has endless guns yet the government is no better off for it. The guns do not help an advanced society better itself. You're not going to regulate Federal government with guns. It's just not a real scenario. You can do some terrorism and that's about it. This terrorism will not create meaningful improvement. It's a fantasy. A gun fantasy. A society in which people are using guns to regulate government is not a society anyone would want to live in. That would be like the Congo or Sudan. The truth is that Americans are lost in a gun fantasy. The bottom line is that violence begets violence. Which is the whole reason why the state has a monopoly on power. To effectively challenge the state through violence you need tanks and planes, not ARs. And even then it works poorly, as you can see from Ukraine, Iraq, Palestine. Palestine shows you what happens when you try to challenge a state with small arms and homemade bombs. The state will just hunt you down and execute you. People who think they can challenge a state with small arms guerilla tactics are delusional, living in a fantasy. That kind of thing can only work in very undeveloped and corrupt places like Afghanistan or Sudan.