Just seems unnecessary and even insulting. Rogan and Lex make tons of money. They don't need Musk to directly pay them. That would make them feel corrupt. The corruption is far more powerful when they don't even realize it's happening.
The more scary thing to consider here is how easily elites makes friends and how totally blind they are to the corruption that their "innocent" friendships promote. This is the very heart of how society is corrupted: it's just rich, powerful, and famous people all getting super friendly with each other, and in so doing screwing over everyone else without even an ounce of self-awareness. They are so blind to it that it's terrifying when you realize that this is how all elites function.
They are literally doing the corruption live on TV while complaining about how society is ruined by elite corruption. The lack of self-awareness is staggering.

When it comes to situations of mass delusion of crowds, you should consider what happens when the hype breaks and the delusions collide with reality.

Because only a psychologically damaged mind would sell itself for sex.

Marry a prostitute and find out
Contemplate the difference.
Development of war just comes with the package of development as a whole.
The more developed a society will be, the more powerful their weapons will be.
Note that less developed nations are not rejecting weapons, they all desperately want bigger weapons, they just aren't capable of making them, or can't afford them. But if they could afford them they would buy them. So your lower nations are not some hippie, noble, spiritual, pacifists. They are warlords and warmongers, just less developed ones.
Not as much, but still, girls doing OnlyFans are not sharpest tools in the box since it is not good for them in the big picture. Making easy money from sexual exploits is not a good career choice in the end.
The buyer is healthier usually. Because buying prostitution is a lot healthier for a person than prostituting oneself. It is asymmetrical.
Would you rather be a prostitute or the buyer?
Being a prostitute is psychologically damaging. Paying for a prostitute is much less so because you're doing it for your own pleasure at your own convenience. It's the difference between buying a hotdog vs being butchered to make the hotdog.

Higher than China, Middle East, Russia, and the non-Western world.
The West still has the highest values of what's found around the world. You gotta keep things in proper perspective.
Neoliberal tech-bro democracy is still more advanced than Putinism or Islamic theocratic monarchy or Chinese communism.

Not so easy.
His worth goes way beyond that.
He's rich for a reason. He provides a lot of material value to people. Don't forget that.
Just because he's a political pervert does not mean he doesn't provide serious value elsewhere.
That is the paradoxical nature of people.
Elon could murder 10 babies tomorrow on stage, and he would still have provided more net value to the world and to American society than anyone on this forum. That's the mindfuck of it that leftists do not comprehend in their drunken self-righteous socialist stupor.
Musk is a disgusting egotistical character, but he also generates enormous material survival value.
It's important that your worldview accounts for all this.

Infinity/God/Consciousness is not a conceptual matter. It's more fundamental than perception.

@Something Funny
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Because American leaders have no real understanding of terrorism. Because it would be too inconvenient.
They see terrorism, they rally against it in a simplistic and mindless manner.
Most Americans regard Palestinians as savage terrorists.
And also, Palestine has no economic value to offer the world. Politics is built on exchange of economic value. Palestine has no chips at the poker table.

Material success, power, and fame do not interest me, since they can never satisfy me.
What you regard as mediocrity I regard as one of the deepest minds on the planet.
All depends on your values and what will satisfy you. Only you can figure that out.

That's right. That's because I've become much more grounded, shredding through fantasy. The world is much bleaker than people want to believe. Especially than leftists and spiritual people want to believe. Reality will beat your liberal ideals out you. The only reason liberals and spiritual people can be so delusional is because they live in a bubbles of fantasy disconnected from reality. But eventually all those bubbles will burst, like with this Trump victory.
Just notice that you liberal spiritual lovey-dovey ideas do not match up with how the world actually runs.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't have vision. Vision is vital. But it needs to be grounded in what is realistic. Good intentions, high ideals, and love are not enough.
I have made this calibration in my worldview and it has made my view so much more potent. But it also more biting. My view of mankind is more accurate than ever before.
The aim is not liberalism, the aim is accuracy. Wherever that leads is where I will go. Your political view needs to accurately predict political happenings.
You will notice, I predicted this Trump win would happen right before it did. Because I wasn't operating off my ideals, but what I saw in real life. This sort of predictive power only comes from grounding your view and cutting through all the fantasy.
In fact, I will be teaching you guys how to do this because it is so powerful and core to our work. We are not spinning New Age fantasies here. We want a stone-cold sober view of mankind's true nature. This is a painful, disillusioning process  but vital to our commitment to truth-seeking and epistemic rigor.

I don't get insanity from it, but it is blackpilling and emotionally difficult for sure to see all of mankind's corruption.
It's been difficult.
In the end, truth is your North Star. Follow truth wherever it leads. A genuine commitment to truth means that you don't get lost in sugary fantasies of life, but also don't overfixate on negativity and fall into pathology.
The path of truth is an exquisite balancing act, with crocodiles to the left and right.

Aye aye.

A lot!
Israel is a Western bastion and military base in the Middle East, a region of critical geopolitical importance.
Israel shares intelligence on terrorism and Middle Eastern leaders. Mossad is powerful.
Israel has many defense contractors and important technology companies.
Many important and powerful Jewish tycoons in the USA have a fondness and loyalty for Israel, and they need to be placated.
All that is politics 101.

There's truth in both views because, as I said, nations scratch each others backs. It's an alignment of survival agendas. That's what all relationship is fundamentally about.
Don't forget that Israel is also a hedge against Iran.

The best guy I ever met in game wasn't a pickup artist. He is just an extreme extrovert. He can run circles around professional PUAs. He doesn't try to dominate or act alpha or be disagreeable. He's just extremely talkative and happy with everyone.
Once I told him about "state". He said, "What's that?" I explained it to him and he said, "Oh, I'm in state as soon as I get in my car". I said, "You fucker."
He could talk the panties off a bus-full of Catholic nuns. He's also the most fun to game with. Gaming with him is like magic.
PUAs are try-hard perverts. Natural extroversion is real game.
Owen modeled his game off naturals. But you can't turn an introvert into an extrovert.

Caring about people isn't the issue. The issue is when you care about a small tribe of "your" people at the expense of everyone else.
And also the issue is that by socializing with them you fall into group-think, not thinking about reality on your own.
You not only get corrupted by survival and ego, you then get corrupted a second time by social survival and collective ego. So you are doubling up on survival bias.

Of course normal individuals are that corrupt. That's the whole point.
Strictly speaking corruption is not good or bad, it just is.
But you yourself will perceive it as bad if a corrupt cop rapes your daughter during a traffic stop and then lies about it.
Yes, but if you are corrupt then your notion of good and bad will also be corrupt, so it will be hard to create that net positive footprint.
See Elon Musk for a perfect example. He honestly believes that he's not corrupt and that he's creating a net positive for the world, even though he is the epitome of corruption.
The point of doing this work we do -- of understanding corruption -- is that it's necessary to truly do good. Otherwise you become a mini Elon Musk.
Being good is harder than it seems. Which is why we do this work. To be good you must escape self-deception.

Your perspective overlooks the lies that undergird society. The purpose of my quote was to point that out, since everyone misses it.
It takes a lot of work just to see how untruthful society is, and deliberately so.
This talk of love and gentle living is not how society works.

That is solved by a commitment to genuine truth-seeking.
If your focus is to get your epistemology right then you will see that:
1) Negative emotions come from the ego's needs, as a form of survival, and do not lead to truthful perception of reality. Just because you are in pain doesn't make your view any more true.
2) Overgeneraliziation from a few anecdotes to entire classes of people is untruthful. The truth is that there is a huge diversity of different people in the world and no simplistic pattern of which of them are good or bad.
It is true however that long-distance relationships will almost always fail. Because if you really cared about the relationship deeply enough you would change the situation to make it short-distance.

- IQ is mainly genetic, and while environmental factors are important, they only allow one to reach their genetic IQ potential.
    - We currently live in a world where intelligence is not being selected for, as we do not have harsh Darwinian conditions where the less intelligent are unable to spread their genes. Instead, we live in a post-industrial, wealthy world, specifically in developed countries, where more intelligent people tend to have fewer children, while less intelligent people have more children. They are not punished by the environment for doing so because of welfare and the general ease of survival in post-industrial developed countries.
    - Genetic IQ is decreasing in developed countries, and the Flynn effect only accounts for the environmental maximization of genetic IQ potential.
    - A possible solution to this would be a state where comprehensive intelligence tests are administered to all people. Those who have a low G factor, or whatever metric is used, would be sterilized. This state would provide abundant welfare for sterilized individuals if they need it, ensuring they have fulfilling lives. The only thing that would be prevented is the passing on of less intelligent genes into the gene pool of the country.
    - Embryo selection technology and other such technologies might also be utilized.
    - These policies could lead to an increase in the intelligence of the country over time, resulting in better lives for everyone due to more innovation, improved infrastructure, and a stronger economy, all driven by more intelligent individuals working for and running it.
    - Some possible flaws of this model that I have considered include the accuracy of the intelligence testing, trust in the state to wield such power, civil and human rights concerns, and the challenge of ensuring that intelligent people continue to have children to maintain a stable population.
    - I believe that this model could work and could lead to an amazing society if implemented correctly and if my assumptions are accurate. I understand that people have differing views, but I think this would be a great plan for a country to try out, exploring new territory and moving away from the mainstream in pursuit of the global maxima.


    - improvements and random thoughts: 
        - evidence for IQ being mainly genetic in developed countries
        - ethical concerns
            - i think it would be a net good considering the alternative is a decrease in IQ overtime leading to a worse society and possibly the collapse of civilisatoin 
        - accuracy of intelligence testing
        - state power
            - In constitution 
            - agreed upon by everyone? 
            - comprehensive system with checks and balances to make sure that the sterilisation is done to the right people in a humane and proper way.
            - people with lower intelligences should not be judged and should be treated in the best possible way just like everyone else. its just that we dont want them to influence the gene pool. similar like we would treat someone with a communicable disease.
        - would selecting for intelligence lead to possible negative effects and unforeseen consequences? 
            - what about empathy, creativity and emotional intelligence.  
                - darwinian selection wasnt really selcting for those things.... 
        - assumption regarding intelligence leading to a better society
            - I think this is a valid assumption but i guess i could back it up more

Certainly Americans are too spoiled and entitled to face as much death and hardship as Russians.
But Americans had no problem waging a stupid war in Iraq based on bullshit and hubris.
It's amazing how easily Americans overlook and excuse their own stupid wars while raving against other nations.

That's exacty what Islam is.
You can see how that turned out.
Living well cannot be an ideology. Because goodness is consciousness and ideology is evil.
What soceity needs is not ideology but much deeper education that guides people into epistemology and psychological mastery.
High development cannot be reached through ideology.

Yes. Higher emotions like inspiration, love, passion, beauty, gratitude, etc can be used to motivate you toward truth and higher development.
See David Hawkins' emotional scale. The higher the emotion on that scale the more it helps for reach higher development.
But even so, you still have to be careful with higher emotions because they can and will still be used to create spiritual fantasy and higher self-deception. That's the trap of many New Age forms of spirituality.

Hello everyone, today I will share with you the last psychedelic trip:
Date: 02/12/2024
Location: Netherlands
Set: I was feeling okay, kinda scared and excited for the trip
Setting: My housemate's room
Who: My housemate and I
Time of intake: 3.20 pm 
Type & Dosage: Orange Mystery Mix, 10 grams of fresh sclerotia
Intention: No specific intention, I wanted to let go, and let the truffle guide me
Trip Report:
When my housemate and I ate the truffles, we decided to clean up a bit the kitchen and then lay down in his bed. After 10 minutes I went to the toilet (when I take psychedelics I always have to poop on the come-up), and there is where everything started. It started hitting me pretty hard (the days before I also did strict intermittent fasting, where I would only eat for dinner - so also that probably made me more sensitive to the drug), so I went to bed and lay down. My roommate also started feeling it but not like me.
Before the trip, I mixed a couple of audio, that could guide us in the trip. I combined several tapes from the Gateway Experience so that it would last about 1 hour, and after that, there was music (Colors, the live concert by Eberhard Weber-really great music). 
Overall, the Gateway experience was pretty creepy and when the music started I felt better.
The trip was EXTREMELY intense, I have never experienced something like that. When I lay in bed, the truffle completely grabbed me and my whole essence and did everything it wanted with me. With my eyes open I could see everything as it was (with distortions of course), but I felt as if I wasn't really there. My body was not really mine, and I was in it only partially. With eyes closed, I was 100% somewhere else, in a field of sensations that I have never experienced, and go beyond language, and my level of comprehension. It felt like the psychedelic and I were one, but still, it was kinda separate from it. I felt like it wanted to hurt me, but with time I understood that the more tense I was, the more it would want to scare me. So I had to let myself be vulnerable, and then I would be safe. It was a cycle of vulnerability transforming into fear, changing back to vulnerability. With it, I felt another kind of cycle: it was a kind of "physical" tension that came every time I would let myself be relaxed. What I mean is that the peak of relaxation was also the peak of tension; when I allowed myself to relax I arrived at a point where the relaxation became tension again. The two things were the same.
I learned and understood some things about my personal life and other concepts. It reminded me that I shouldn't judge what people think and feel, everything is valid. I used to know that, and never judge people, but since last summer I started judging again.
I understood that my mind is here with me, and it's fine, it's not my enemy, it's a feature.
I understood that I often take care too much of other people, more than myself, so I have to think of myself first, of my health, both physical and mental.
I also cried when realizing that in different life situations I put on a mask and I kind of pretend of being someone else. I can let myself be myself everywhere, at any place and time.
One of the most important things that I realized, is the following: in the last year or so, I got so involved and attached to spiritual and nondual teachings, that made me really detached from this human reality. Something that at the beginning was a great realization, became something like a burden, or a curse. In that moment of the trip, I realized that my personal life is actually important, and I should live it. 
 
This was a great trip. As I said, it was extremely intense, and despite the good insights, I was on the edge of going crazy.
From that day of the trip, my life has changed a lot. I know that not much time has passed, but living a life where I know about the existence of deeper truths and not looking for them, makes me happier. I am aware and conscious, but my focus is on my life. I understood that this is not for me right now, at this stage of my life. 
I will still keep my spiritual practices and other things, with the goal of great personal development. Other metaphysical truths can wait for later in my life.
Thank you everyone for reading, I send you lots of love!❤️