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Musk put on a show for years that everything he was doing, he was doing for humanity. At this point, you should be able to call that bs regardless the stories he tells himself. What one is actually driven by and what one claims to be driven by is more often than not, not the same. Elon says he has so many children because he’s worried about population collapse. Lol. Elon fucks for humanity bro. Just pure benevolence.

He sometimes misses the very obvious. He thought Elon Musk selflessly cared about humanity up until Trump’s election. Lol.

Bro, this is the whacked out SJW, which might be like 2% of the population.

That's because they comprise a very small percentage of the population, yet we spend 50% or more of our political discussion bandwidth on them.

True. That's a big one. It's universal though. It brings people into the fold who aren't necessarily ideologically aligned but embrace the ideology anyway just to belong to a group. This is also the dominant factor in the recent movement of youngsters embracing MAGA.

@SwiftQuill Have you ever tried to do demographic breakdowns of the entire U.S population? If you think about all the kids, all the old people, genders, ethnicity, religion, etc, and break all that down, I think that could give you a better sense of the actual numbers. 50% is definitely way too high. You could dive into each bracket and flesh out the prominent subgroups and then figure out which of those do or don't fit the bill. Would be interesting to do, but I gotta get to work, unfortunately. Tip: you can use Claude AI to generate these charts right in the browser.

@SwiftQuill Yes, I thought of that after I made the post. I was trying to figure out how I could understand that actual influence of the cultural left but it's not as easy to figure out. I know it's bigger than the political left, but not sure how to go about getting the numbers for it yet. Although I highly doubt it's anywhere approaching 50%.

I think it helps to try to understand the scale of " the leftists". For the U.S, it's something like this: As you can see, "the leftists" account for a very small percentage of the population. Of those, the leftists this forum is always talking about are the SJWs. Then, the SJWs end up getting lumped into the Bernie Bros and the rest. So people end up conflating the nonsense of the SJW with the entire left. And keep in mind, these are small fractions of population. But it doesn't seem like such a small fraction after one gets tied up in these conversations. In zooming into the left to analyze it's psychology and its implications for society, we forget to zoom back out. Once you’re locked in online discourse, it warps your sense of proportion, then the entire progressive wing becomes this amorphous “woke left.” In reality, these are small and distinct groups, and relatively inconsequential in national influence relative to how much attention they get. Don't get me wrong, turn over every stone, but it's important to understand the implications of the scale so you don't spend all your time looking at a piece of sand when you could be analyzing an intricate amethyst. We overanalyze a fringe until it feels like a dominant force. The SJWs are mostly young, egotistical, idealistic, empathetic college kids. The reason they are so cringe is because they're not mature yet. They still have strong egos. Mix a strong ego with extroversion, idealism, empathy, knowledge of the world's injustices, and an environment that facilitates activism, and you get something like a loud, annoying SJW. Ta daaa!!! To me, it doesn't make much sense to analyze a group that barely exists at scale, while there are much more consequential threats on the horizon. Now, if they had evil intentions, like say we replaced the woke left with neo-nazis, then the attention would be warranted, but these are mostly just annoying, well-meaning kids with big egos. Nothing to fucking see here really.

Googles “AI mode” is about to fuck organic search even more. It was rolled out like last week.

Elites are humans too. They do not want to hole up in bunkers with robots and a few humans on hand. They wouldn't be happy living like that. Not only that, it's a bad survival strategy. They'd eventually be snuffed out and killed. Also, their will to power is built around power over humans, not power over robots. The only solution will be another economic model. That's their best play.

If people can't afford to consume goods and services, the elites can't sell anything, and if they can't sell, they stop being elites. It will be in their own best interest, as well as everyone else's, for that not to happen. If it happens, a new system will emerge. There will be opportunity there, as there always has been.

Also, to anyone worried about jobs, you might look into getting into the trades like HVAC, electrical, etc. These guys are making insane money, especially if you run your own business. I know a guy who routinely makes 2-4k per day installing heating and air systems. I'm doing his marketing for him. Which is another job that AI will not be able to manage for quite some time. So, trades and local marketing seem like good ideas. I'm into coding, so what I'm doing is building out entire digital infrastructures that will allow me to quickly scaffold out any app that I need. This will be my toolkit for business solutions. You no longer have to be an advanced programmer to do this stuff. I mean, you have to have some knowledge, but you can simply work with Claude Code in your terminal, which has full access to your system and project files, and you just tell it what you want it to do. Having AI in the terminal is a game changer.

Yeah bro, I have. In your doom scenario of 95% unemployment, which will never happen, the capitalist system would collapse and necessitate a new system. Obviously. I was wondering if you had any advanced ideas on what the restructuring might look like. It sounds like in your mind, restructuring isn't worth considering. Got it.

I feel like, with a proper attitude, a sufficient sense of self-efficacy, psychological fortitude and resiliency, faith is not needed. Or maybe all of those things combine into a notion that is close, or even identical to what you describe as faith. But this is faith in yourself, not spiritual faith. From your description, and what I know about JP, I think what’s happening is he is conflating the two. Whatever I set my mind to, I trust that I will be able to manage it. For whatever reason, I have high self efficacy, which makes it so that I never even look to reality for anything. I never say to myself, Boy I hope this pays off in the future. Because I’ve already assessed that it will or won’t and have made my decision to go after it. I feel like for people who are prone to rumination, indecision, low self-efficacy, or worrying if they’ve made the right choice, then faith seems to be a viable substitute for managing the psychological friction created by those improper uses of mind. I don’t expect reality to take care of me. The only way to live is to assume that it will but not expect it to. We have to assume everything will be ok because to live any other way would be unhealthy and inefficient. JP turns this into a spiritual thing. So I would say we can simplify by replacing “faith” with “assume”. This comes quite easy for most anyway. It’s when the mind over-analyzes without proper context or hyper-fixates on the negative that we get stifled in such a way that JP’s maladaptive notion might be valuable, so it seems to me. Actually, thinking about it more, it seems that faith is just being used as an affirmation that everything will be okay or favorable. But again, that’s maladaptive because it’s hoping reality will be kind and it sets you up to be the victim in a harsh world.

@Leo Gura In your blog about AI and 95% unemployment, how do you see that playing out? If 95% of people are unemployed, then 95% of people have no purchasing power, so who’s buying all the stuff the machines are making? Capitalism only functions if people consume. Wouldn't society collapse before we got to even 50% unemployment? Robotic or AI production would be meaningless without a population to consume it. I guess there'd have to be some sort of UBI or something. All the more reason to get good politicians in now because we're going to need them before tech advances too far in the next few years.

You’re asking for the ultimate escape hatch. The problem is, the very experience of escape is yet another experience that will pass. No psychedelic or drug or anything else will free you. Do not listen to that advice. There is no escape, only surrender of the thoughts that resist. The mind spent decades beating the paths you wish to not be on, so you cannot simply will them away. New paths have to be formed. You form new paths slowly, over years, with discipline. That’s the only way to escape hell, you have to reject any mentation that contributes to it. Until you get clarity on this, meditation is a waste of time, as is everything else. You have to understand the mechanics of the mind first, only then can you choose your tools. You can take 1000 leaps of faith with meditation and psychedelics but all they’re good for temporary escapism and maybe showing you one thing, which in itself will not free you. You gotta fight. Accept it. And fight hard. Do not succumb to weakness. You’ll make it .

You only need an argument for a thing when you want to justify its existence. What compels you to justify your meat-eating? Guilt? Do yourself a favor and accept your selfishness. Carrying meat-eating guilt around just diminishes your health even further than the meat-eating. Lol.

Exactly. His profit model is pandering to insecurity by moving men from shame, apathy, and anger, up to pride, at the expense of women. His earlier videos weren’t as overt but I suppose they are now because he’s got a much higher definition view of his audience.

These notions of “what a man is supposed to be like” are all rooted in low consciousness. And that PyshHacks dude is a fuckwit. He does discuss interesting psychological dynamics, but unfortunately couches them in cringy egoic perspectives. To be expected I suppose since his target audience is a bunch of insecure men who are angry at women for not making them feel good. The whole “alpha male” archetype exists for purpose of egoic pride, which is an attempt to compensate for one’s own perceived inferiority. See, you don’t fake or play superior, you either are or aren’t. Anyone getting ego juice by identifying as a superior alpha male is not superior. Lol. If I grant the term, true alpha males would shun the label, not embrace it, because the superior man would see such thinking as foolish.

No matter how bad Trump does, it will not sway people toward Kamala. If they run Kamala again, they will lose. People don’t understand what happened in 2024. Through very effective propaganda and influencer marketing, Rs were able to bring many people over to their side, and for most who hopped on board, there was some degree of integrating right-wingism into their identities, which will not simply disappear with Trump. Think of all the apolitical UFC fans who now identify with the right and Trump. That doesn’t just go away easily. Also, the winning strategy of identity integration, using influencers for memetic desire, and effective yet subtle psychological manipulation is now a tried and true strategy. Which means, the people with the money will implement it for as long as it works. In my estimation, that’s for decades to come. It’s a whole new era. G-funk step to dis, I dare ya. Chords, strings, we brings, melodies, where rhythm is life, and life…. Is rhythm.

That was never the point of the tariffs. They were pitched as a way to strengthen the economy, not to launch a moral crusade to Make Americans Ethical Again. Lol. But of course, the best the right can muster to defend this disaster is, “Well, maybe we shouldn't be such consumers anyway.” Funny how that willful ignorance is the same willful ignorance that fuels toxic consumerism itself. Ignore the consequences, reject reality, and pretend virtue while actively participating in the very thing you claim to oppose.

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