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Yeah, that was a good interview performance by Cenk. Cenk's heart is in the right place. But he is delusional in some of his leftist ideals, like when he runs for office, it's just cringe. He's got a bad case of leftist ego.

If the market crashes, all the blue chip will crash too. Today's top blue chips are all Big Tech companies. And they will drag everything down if the AI bubble bursts. With that said, I am not saying you should sell. You can play the long-game and just stay vested indefinitely.

Don't forget that just a few months ago Licthman was arguing that Biden should not be criticized or replaced. So excuse me if I don't take him seriously. Without Kamala we would be in deep shit right now.

Congrats! Keep exploring and contemplating. There's more goodness to discover.

The point is that none of your efforts would have mattered if you were born a chimpanzee. I didn't say intelligence is 100% genetic. Science says intelligence is about 60% genetic and the rest is environmental. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ Stop thinking of this issue as either or. It's both. You need the right genetic foundation and then you need to take massive action on top of that to reach success. This is true for all human achievement, including spirituality.

@Nilsi There is a problem in that we have a big difference between "postmodernism" as a broad idea in our culture vs the actual technical philosophical work of specific post-modern philosophers. There is a disconnect in how to summarize the work of all these PM thinkers into a cohesive thing. Most of the so-called post-modern philosophers like Derrida would not even regard or call themselves postmodernist. PM has become a sort of gross abstraction, made all the worse by right-wing renditions of it. The challenge with this topic is that if you get really technical and scholarly with it, there's not even going to be a "postmodernism" at the end of the day. Yet people still talk about the postmodern era. Laymen and right-wingers still speak of postmodernism as an ideological movement or broad attitude. That's what my videos are focused on addressing, not the individual works of Derrida or whoever. The point of my video is not to present a lecture on the history of philosophy but to help the mind make sense of important epistemic insights that modernism and premodernism misses. Making a video about the techncial arguments of Derrida or Deleuze is just not useful to our work. No one but philosophy nerds cares about that and it will not be applicable in everyday life. Even my video is already quite disconnected for most from daily application. This is one of the problems I have with academic philosophy: it may be scholarly rigorous, but it has zero application in real life. Nothing is actually made sense of. It's just the parroting of ideas some dead guy has said. You can have perfect technical knowledge of Derrida and it will get you nowhere, but you will waste several years of your life to achieve it.

Good analysis from Vlad:

WTF

Not as subjective as you conveniently wish.

You guys are all here for the drama. No AI can shoot that drama into your online addict veins!

Let me ask my AI.

@zurew I don't see what's confusing about what I said.

Of course everything is a construct of Mind At Large. Genetics is a relative notion in our relative "material" world.

God cheated me. That asshole.

But body and genes are just ways to talk about consciousness. Yes, it's strange-loopy. You can call it genetics or past life karma, either way you are just saying that your consciousness tends to flow a certain way and not another. Why don't you have the consciousness of a kangaroo? You will have to appeal to some external factor outside your control. Basically God decided to go with human vs kangaroo, for whatever complex technical reasons.

Not at all. It's commonly understood by science. Heritability for intelligence is above 50%. Sadhguru himself says he worked multiple lifetimes to reach his current level.

Intelligence is highly genetic, precisely because intelligence and consciousness are so linked.

@Clarence Say as you like but I like genetic because it is more to the point. Consciousness highly depends on genetics. Which is why a rat is not very conscious.

@Joshe It's something like 80% genetic and 20% environmental. My best guess. You're not going to get a more precise answer.

You are taking that phrase "quality of someone's consciousness" too literally. It's a figurative notion. You can't literally look inside and see low qualities in your consciousness. We could say that Trump has "low quality consciousness" in the sense that his mind is quite corrupt. His ego runs the show and he gets a cheap thrill out of attacking people, conning people, bullshitting, stealing money, and influcting revenege. A low quality consciousness would, for example, get pleasure from torturing a monkey.

Neti neti is not about programming yourself with a belief. It's more like a meditation where you detach yourself from any form as your identity. For neti neti to be effective you gotta do it in an intense, meditation retreat-like setting. If you do it intensely enough you should have an awakening event. This event is not a belief or concept or idea or conclusion. Hold no images in your mind of what you are.

Don't call someone a fraud unless you have tangible evidence and proof.

@Salvijus I am rolling my third eyeball

Of course, if you can stomach the short-term pain.

When you believe nothing can be done, nothing can be done.