Leo Gura

1) The #1 goal should be truth and accuracy of your perception. 2) Being negative and cynical is then not truthful nor accurate. 3) Hopeful fantasy is also untruthful. So that's out. 4) True optimism comes not from waiting for good things to fall upon you, but from knowing that if you follow timeless principles you can work your way towards good things by creating them for yourself. 5) It is true that through hard work and creativity you can create great things for yourself and the mankind. 6) There is always a chance bad things will fall upon you. That's just life. But you have some control over how you handle it and you can turn many bad things into good things through hard work, intelligence, and creativity.

Do not wait for the government to save you. That never works. Save yourself.

Losing awareness is not a breakthrough experience. A breakthrough experience is when you are conscious. Losing awareness is like falling alseep. It doesn't gain you anything other then maybe rest.

I doubt you will make much of a dent in corruption by telling people to stop being lazy. I don't know of any culture that values laziness. Maybe island culture? But that is a small percentage of the world. Most cultures are hardworking.

Inflation is close to old levels. Regardless, the solution is to make yourself productive and valuable so that you earn good money and don't have to worry. This has always been the principle to live by, so nothing has changed. Be more creative, more productive, and more valuable. That's what your mind should be worried about, not inflation.

That's a place I don't know. I don't know what the culture is like there. If there is nightlife then you can do pickup.

I disagree. When you combine unmet sexual needs and immaturity in an echochamber with no mature leadership, you get toxicity. I've been in those circles, I know how those guys think. It's hard to understand it without going in it. I didn't go into pickup because of shame or any kind of shadow stuff. I went in it because I needed a practical way to get a girlfriend and there wasn't really any other way. All the mainstream dating advice is weak garbage and doesn't produce results. Guys who want results want a hardcore approach. But that hardcore approach is then ruthlessly pragmatic and transactional. Like a business. It's not much different than if you wanted to make a bunch of money quickly. That requires a cutthroat attitude. So that's what pickup becomes. Incels and MGTOW communities are built around victim mentality and bitterness towards women. Guys who won't or can't take action slide into Incel and blackpill community. MGTOW is more about divorced guys who have been hurt.

That's part of the story. But mostly it's simpler than that: guys are just horny and want pussy. And when they don't get it they get very pissy, manipulative, and invent all sorts of stories and rationalizations about it. The pickup community is just an elaborate scheme to satify guys' need for pussy. It's hard for women to understand this because wome don't have the same need.

You need to make friends with guys who are good, follow them, and learn from them and watch their results. Just doing it by yourself you will make too many mistakes that will tank your results and you won't know why. Pickup works but it requires pretty specific rules.

Regarding #1, I am not in the business of making changes to 3rd world countries. Or even 1st world ones.

CNN does not cover international news like that because it isn't popular.

See, you want CNN to say that, but that's your empassioned perspective. CNN is not in the business of saying such things.

CNN is designed to be watered down news, like McDonalds. So no one finds it offensive.

It does work that way for the left. The problem is that the left excuses away all their failures and blames the right. How about Marxist revolution and confiscation of property and wealth? Is that law enough for you? Plenty of leftists want this. And it's been done before with plenty of harm. High taxation is standard leftist law. And leftists are also in denial that high taxation is harmful. The problem isn't lack of laws, the problem is denial.

Plenty of media discusses the apartheid issue.

IDF is a gang of young men raised in wealth, given a gun and told to shoot people.

Is printing a bunch of money, going into debt, and creating inflation a law? No. But it sure is policy and can be very harmful.

Why are you limiting this discussion to only law? Politics is obviously bigger than that. Why avoid my point about gender fluidity when that'a clearly a huge leftist position?

As always, survival.

@Emerald You are being way too technical when it suits you. Policy is not just law. But if you want law, look at NAFTA and all sorts of globalist free trade agreements.

Free trade and globalism.

@Emerald Much of leftist policy is not strictly law. Teaching gender fluidity in schools is not a law. But it is none the less a worrying trend. A lot of leftist policy is cultural. Like encouraging people to have free sex and get abortions.

Drug decriminalization in Oregon. Oregon's addiction rates have skyrocketed and now they are forced to reverse course. Will leftists ever admit that legalizing all drugs does more harm than good? No. They will shift blame elsewhere and make excuses.

I gave a list of problematic leftist policies in my recent blog post. Abolish the police is one of them. Gender fluidity is another one. Printing money and going ever-deeper into debt, with inflation. And many more.

That's one of the problems with leftism: it yearns to do good but in a naive and foolish way which often ends in virtue signaling and moral outrage more than actually workable policy. Yes, leftists are morally outraged at ICE and the police in general. But abolishing these things is like sweeping a turd under the rug. Leftists do not have a workable immigrantion policy. Their policy is just go let endless immigration happen and things will be cool. But they won't be cool. Because most people aren't leftists. - - - - - This isn't about you. It's about a general point about the blindspots of liberalism.