Contemplation and inquiry. By deep questioning and deconstruction of beliefs, ideologies, and fantasies. Through radical introspection. Through research. You can literally find anything you want on Google.
These are relative truths. Not all relative truths are knowable. But the truths about the working of your own mind, reality in general, are available.

Yes, of course.
It doesn't follow that you have to feel joy about it. Some truths are bitter-sweet or even revolting.
How you feel is independent from what is true. You may feel joy, you may feel hate, you may feel horror, you may feel sadness, you may feel nothing.
Most realistically, your mind will go through a range of conflicting emotions.
Remember, anger and hatred are acceptable and valid emotions. Just don't act them out on others.

There are no shoulds in the Universe. You can live as a total monster. The only reason not to is that it will probably backfire on you and create misery for yourself and others. And of course, it will restrict your consciousness.
There is no moral difference between a monster and a saint. But the monster will not know God/Truth/Love.

Fascist is a loose term, analgous to Communist.
Right-wingers have no qualms calling the left Communists.
Charlie Kirk was not killed for being called a fascist by the left. He was killed because he spouted bigoted views that offended many people for years and years. Eventually you offend enough people with bigotry and one of them will turn to violence against you. Which is why bigotry is wrong. Bigotry doesn't just hurt people, it hurts the bigot too in the end.
Charlie Kirk was not killed for speaking truth, he was killed for offending enough people with bigotry that finally one of them went full psycho on him. Is it right? No. But it is predictable and understandable.
Free speech does not protect anyone from offending and inflamming psychopaths. Which is why if you speak to millions of viewers you better be careful what vileness you say.
Charlie Kirk is responsible for creating this polarized political climate we are in. That was his life's work.

When your political opponents are killed it can arouse mixed emotional reactions. This is natural. On the one hand you feel empathy for the murder, on the other hand you can feel a sick glee that someone heinous got his comeuppance.
The mind is not always a positive empathy machine. Complex, confliciting emotions can rise. The important thing is to stay mindful of them.

The fatal flaw of the fascist worldview is that it foolishly overlooks that the violence it glorifies will boomerang on the fascist.

This is not a good position. You need dating and relationship experience before you get married and have kids.
Dating is responsible. But if you want to delay it for a few years, that's fine. 29 is still very young. You can still date at 35 and older. But I recommend you don't delay too long because the more you delay that harder it gets. Dating is really a young man's game.
If you're going to delay a few years to make some serious money, that is okay. But then make sure you actually do that, rather than making this some never-ending excuse. It's easy to keep inventing excuses for not dating because dating is scary and challenging. Use your time efficiently and wisely -- that's the point.

That's literally what government is.
What you want already happened. And we are living the result.

The key thing to realize is that no one cares about what's actually better for society, they just want their worldview validated and they want personal benefits at the cost of everyone else.
Politics is not about making society better, it is about proving yourself right and stealing money from people you don't know nor care about.

@MightyMind Building civilization, by definition, requires power. The allocation of power, by definition, is called politics and government.
Organizing people is politics and government.
You're not inventing anything new in this domain. Humans have been working this domain for 10,000 years and what we have today is the best we've been able to come up.

Because technology makes survival easier. The easier survival gets the more kind mankind can afford to be to each other.
No, we are talking about all society ever. There are no exceptions to the ignorance, selfishness, and corruption of humans.
China is insanely corrupt, just in their own collectivist ways.

There is a huge difference between true and false beliefs.
A false belief is: the Earth is flat.
A true belief is: the Earth is round.

Thousands, if you do pickup.
Your problem is not that you failed to hit on her. Your problem is deeper: that you interact with so few women that you care even a bit about losing that one.
The solution is to change your lifestyle so that you meet 20 new girls like her every week.
Do you think she cares about losing you? No. Why? Because she meets 20 guys like you every week.
The reason you care so much is because your lifestyle puts you in deep scarcity. You should be meeting hundreds of new girls each month.
BTW, this scarcity also makes you very unattractive because you are going to be so needy and clingy even if she dates you.

Oh, this is simple.
The only way to get good with women is to socialize with 1000s of women. Everything else is irrelevant.
If you want to solve this problem you must undertake the pickup journey. That means you start going out consistently every week and talking to hundreds and thousands of women.
I have outlined the entire process in my videos: How To Get Laid - Part 1, 2, and 3.
Re-watch that video series. It really is the answer. It is so comprehensive that there's little else to say.
Don't worry about confidence. Confidence will come naturally as you gain socialization experience. You don't need to do any special tricks or techniques to be confident. Experience IS confidence.
The only way to be visible to women is to socialize with them.
P.S. Sorry about your scooter accident. I fell off my scooter too. Not as bad as you but it still hurt. Scooters are the Devil's vehicle.

@Wiz Look at this way: Meditation is designed to kill you. If you like that idea, that's the reason to meditate. Otherwise carry on with your monkey games.
Meditation is for those who are sick of playing games.

Of course the point of true spirituality is to obstruct your survival.
Spirituality makes survival harder. Yes, spirituality makes you not care about living or dying. That is the point.
Humans are survival zombies. Most of the stuff humans do they would not do if they were conscious, including having children, starting businesses, making money, and making art.
You are like Elon Musk asking, "But if I do meditation then why would I need to go to Mars?" The answer is: your idea of going to Mars is stupid. You just don't realize it yet. "But I really need to go to Mars!" Yes, you are stupid enough that perhaps only death can cure you.
The point of meditation is that nothing in life matters but meditation because everything else is a silly dream.
Do normies need meditation? No. It won't work anyway because it is being done too shallowly.

"Knowing" is a very loaded and tricky word. It can be defined in various ways.
In my worldview knowing means knowledge. Knowledge is quite a limited and shallow thing in many cases.
You want some way to differentiate intellectual knowledge from the more deeper kinds of "knowing" like knowing how to walk. Because those are quite different things. They function differently in the mind/brain.
This is why you can't just read a book about surfing and then go out and confidently surf. Confidence in surfing can only come from tons of training/experience.
You are free to define terms however you want, but be careful with conflating ideas because it can lead to wrong conclusions and expectations.
In my view, knowledge is lesser than understanding and experience.

First principles is always ideal. The only problem is that it is hard and takes a long time.
Study is used as a shortcut and gives your mind grist for the contemplation mill.
Epistemology is such a pivotal, foundational topic that you can't really outsource it to anyone else. There are no good books on epistemology. And even if there were, you still need to dervive it for yourself for it to be powerful.
Some areas are worth outsourcing to experts and some are too foundational for that.
The problem with study is that it limits your mind to think along those lines. It creates conformity. Ideally you want your contemplation to be original and independent of mainstream thinking.

The most important thing is to sit down and actual do inquiry into epistemology.
You just sit down and reason it out from scratch using first principles, not books or anything you heard or believe.
Derive epistemology from scratch. That's the actual work. Just reason through how epistemology works.
How is anything known?
What is knowing?
All the best topics naturally follow from that line of questioning. This will lead you to contemplate self-deception, what is belief?, ideology, openmindedness, what is truth?, bias, relativity, construct-awareness, assumptions, egoic mental attachments, not-knowing, skepticism, what is science?, etc.

Of course having control over anyone is a fiction.
You don't even have control over your dog.
Existentially, no part of God can control any other part. That's why democracy is the best form of government -- because the sovereignty of everyone is respected (at least in theory).
Government is not based on any deep truth, it is based on survival necessity and pragmatism. Government works as it works because that's what helps keep certain people alive and reproducing.
"Legitimate government" just means legit relative to certain constructed principles and norms, like not violating its own laws.
Illegitmate gov breaks it own laws, like a degenerate human does. Trump contradicts himself, as all degenerate lairs do.

1) I am always exploring no matter what I say. You should know this.
2) From your POV what I say doesn't really matter because you have to explore regardless to find your own answers. No matter what I say you still have to find your own truth.
I say certain things from my POV but that doesn't mean it is true for you. It also doesn't mean that my view won't evolve in the future -- it usually evolves.
Just in general, whenever humans say anything it is only true for them at that time, not forever. This is the case even if they don't realize it or say it. Everyone always speaks from their present view of reality and that view always evolves. Even an enlightened person's view evolves. So you should never take human words as absolutes.
This is pretty obvious basic stuff that you should already know without me explicating it for you.
My views evolve a lot. I would rather be evolved than consistently stuck.

Mind and Consciousness mean the same thing in my view.
Everything you experience right now is what I mean by Mind/Consciousness.
Your field of experience is it.
By imagination I mean everything in your field of experience right now. All physical objects you see.

The 5-MeO state will not stick. It is far too radical to be your default state. Your state will return to normal.
You can however develop an understanding that all of your experience is a hallucination. You can break the materialist paradigm until it is dead. This would be a nice achievement.

At your stage of development grinding might be the right thing, for a time.
However, eventually you'll realize that no matter how hard you grind and how many material goals you complete, you will be no more happy or satisfied than you are now. Even less satisfied because now the illusion of goals making you happy will be shattered.
If you want real progress you need to work on changing your internal relationship to reality. That's the only thing that will change your condition.
Of course if you are just looking to break free of wage slavery, hustle culture has its purpose. But once you are free of wage slavery you will still be exactly the same slave of your mind that you are today.
I've spent so many years achieving goals that today the prospect of pursuing a material goal hardly interests me. My only goal now is higher consciousness of God. But it took me 10-20 years of work to get here.

I am here for my enjoyment. I also use the forum as a test-bed for my own thoughts and I gain experience dealing with people here. Without the forum this work would be too isolating. I have learned a lot about dealing with people here. I also get feedback on my work which is important. I can't do this work just totally isolated, talking to no one about it, hearing nothing, knowing nothing. I need to understand how my work affects people and what issues people are facing, what questions they have, what progress they're making, etc.
If all I did was record videos, that would be way too limited. And I am not interested in running a commune.
Your view of this forum is too cynical, as if everything here is just useless noise.
People who are into this kind of work are extremely rare. To have dozens and hundreds of them here is no trivial thing. Don't brush that off so flippantly.