Leo Gura

Melatonin is chemically similar to DMT, so not too surprising. But this is unique to your genetics and brain chemistry. Don't expect it to be the same for most humans. You have some unique brain chemistry that makes this possible which most people won't have. So consider yourself very lucky.

No way, no how. Not in a million years. Not in the same ballpark. Not on the same planet. Not even in the same universe. However, there is a crucial caveat: most people's trips are so weak that meditation could easily match that level of weakness. But if we're talking about trips like mine. No way. No meditator will reach those states of consciousness. The issue is that people have weak trips and then assume that's what I'm talking about and then act shocked that I deny their meditation. The issue is that you don't know the states I'm talking about and you probably never will. They are completely beyond human imagination or experience. They cannot even be stored in human memory. The consciousness is so advanced that a human mind cannot even remember it.

Stop it. I expect epistemic responsibility from you guys.

Sure. But we don't know what it is.

It has to play itself out. The ugliness of it needs to materialize to the point of pain. Like 50 years. You can't use Infinity to say whether some course of future action is necessary or not. The future is unknown and depends on our actions. Infinity does not require that we act like regressive jackasses. But we might anyway.

Kotkin is an ace!

Yeah, but nowadays it's all about profit maximization. The corruption of late Stage Orange has set in. Remember, each stage only goes so far, after which point it becomes dysfunctional and sclerotic. Orange is turning into a rotting putrid corpse. Orange was healthy 200 years ago.

Right-wingers are incapable of genuine moral behavior because that requires consciousness and higher stages of development. Stage Blue morality has always been a sham. And Stage Orange only values money, so you can't have morality there either.

Yeah, it's in the right direction. Don't worry, that's just the tip.

Of course not. When politics is so corrupt as it is today, a surveillence state will be in the hands of devils.

Corruption always fails because it isn't true. The only thing that survives in the long term is truth.

Don't worry, that too will fail.

How dare you!

Cuba was propped up by the USSR. Once the Soviet Union collapsed Cuba was screwed. Hurricaines devistate the island too. Developing high civilization on a tropical island is tough.

It only gets worse and worse.

Don't worry, MAGAism will fail.

Of course I know that. They mean capital. Marxism demonizes and seeks to abolish capital.

@Emerald Of course right-wingers are more violent. But we only know that by keeping a scorecard.

It has everything to do with corruption, which is at the core of right-wing populism and MAGA. American democracy is insanely corrupt and MAGA is corrupting it more each day because they are corrupt truthless morons. As they corrupt democracy more each day more and more violence will happen. It could not be otherwise. There must be a cost for a monster like Trump wielding power. MAGA are such fools they don't understand that.

Watch actual Cuba:

China was a failure until it rejected Marxist economics and went with capitalist economics but kept its one party dicatorship. The economy of China is NOT what Marxists wanted nor predicted. Marxism was about eliminating free markets and private property. That did not happen because it cannot happen because that is a fantasy. What China proves is that capitalist economics works very well to make a nation rich.

But there is. If some conservative guy killed AOC, you would count that against conservatives. So don't pretend you are too enlightened to keep a scoreboard. You count acts of political violence against your political opponents as proof of their depravity and inferiority to your side. Leftists want to say that the right is more violent and dangerous than the left. Well, that requires keeping a scorecard if you want to be fair and scientific about it. How do you know the right is more dangerous than the left unless you make that an empirical matter? Who kills more humans, right or left? You can't assume the answer, you must empirically test it. So here we are.