SwiftQuill

I just read Leo's Rational Wiki's page. Jesus Christ. It's so toxic, so full of defamation, it's disturbing. I think there might be a little bit of truth in the criticism. For instance the section where they criticize him for misconstruing Godel's theorem or some quantum mechanics concept. But for the most part, that article is absurdly biased. The authors of that page decided to ignore 95% of Leo's good content from his videos, decided to focus on the 5% of scientific inaccuracies (debatable), and strawmanned some horrible things which I won't even write here. I have also seen lots of thumbnails of Youtube videos of people accusing him of being a narcissist, a cult leader, a creep towards women, and other bad things. These are horrible, horrible allegations. Videos agreeing with Leo, or engaging with his ideas in a neutral or positive manner? Very few. Only one or two podcasts where he's the guest. And it does make me feel kind of bad for the way I've responded to him here in the forums. I get irritated because I find him to be a bad interlocutor. And his way of engaging with certain topics of political nature, can be closed minded in a stage Green way. But damn, he's a fucking saint compared to the way many people portray him. Thank you for all your videos, Leo. I do believe that watching Actualized.org over the years has had a positive impact on me. To this day, I still find you to be a huge source of inspiration for me. I might dislike this forum, but I love your videos. I rewatch them and listen to them on my way to work, or while working out, very often. My favorite videos are the ones that cover Life Purpose and Motivation. This is among my favorite ones: ❤️

Feature request: rename the politics forum to "Low Consciousness Resources". Or to "Stage Green Circle jerk". Now, as for how to resolve the issue, I make two suggestions: - Embrace more perspectives. Leo loves to pretend he values different perspectives but in reality he, and most of the forum users, are more interested in asserting their own perspective than inspecting someone else's. The Politics forum is a perfect example of this. - Improve online communication. I can write a long paragraph on a certain topic, and people tend to ignore my overall argument, and focus and nitpick this or that irrelevant detail, leading into a tangent. Online communication is a huge problem of the forum format. People intervene without reading the entire thread. People engage in multiple threads at once (Leo). People decide to make their arguments as succinct as possible, allowing room for misinterpretation. People also decide to start with the point of disagreement instead of the common ground. I could write a post that has multiple premises. Someone might agree with me on 95% of the argument. But instead, they pick the 5% of disagreement and turn that into a debate. Right now, this forum is at the same level of Consciousness as some left wing subreddit. I find it tragic, really.

I have done more critical thinking and inner reflection work in the past 2 months than over the rest of my life combined. I have suffered greatly in my life. I am deeply dissatisfied with my lifestyle. And that is due to very incorrect assumptions I've held for a very long time. 2025 is my year of transformation. Possibly the biggest transformation in my entire life. I have managed to change my inner dialogue a lot, and I have adopted the necessary habits to achieve my life goals. But that isn't enough. Within me, I often encounter resistance, and conflict. I often find myself whether I should sacrifice my feelings and happiness for practical purposes, or if I am being a fool for making decisions that are impractical to my goals. After a lot of introspection, I managed to deconstruct many flaws in my way of thinking. These fallacies are common to many people. And so, I have made the decision to write a philosophical manifesto. Title: The Selfish Manifesto These are the topics I will cover in the document: The lie of Common Truth - how society lies to you into believing others have the truth, and the problem with institutions defining truth, and the fallacy of appeal to popularity The lie of Oppression - how society instills in you a mindset that you are oppressed, and that you need to navigate the world through the lens of an oppressed individual who needs to either join a woke ideology, or to serve your masters The lie of Ideology - how society promotes distractions, fake solutions, fake cooperations, and fake ideas to pretend there is an ideology out there that will serve the "greater good" (Feminism, Wokeness, LGBTQ rights, Socialism, Capitalism, Marxism, and even low hanging fruit ideologies like Right Wing, Christianity, etc( The lie of Selfishness - how society demonizes the concept of selfishness, when in reality it rewards the most selfish individuals and smashes the least selfish ones The lie of Morality - how society twists notions of morality according to its corrupt needs, and how you shouldn't fall for conformist moral systems How to take the Truth - how to discover the truth for yourself without relying on reading books written by others (yes I know it sounds self refusting but this point is anything but that), and stop seeking truth and validation from experts, and mainstream opinion How to take your freedom - how to accept that you have freedom, how to apply freedom into your own life, how to make tough decisions in order to maximize your freedom How to take your happiness - how to learn to be happy on your own, without relying on ANYONE to serve you, laugh with you, love you How to love yourself - how to accept your looks, your personality, essentially how to become such a narcissist that you give love to yourself This is going to be the most anti-ideological, anti-conformist, antiwoke document ever written. And it is going to be very antithetical both to common spiritual teachings and to practical, stage orange self help concepts. I will invite the reader to stop bending over backwards trying to receive validation and rewards from society. I will refute the notion that "the Ego is the biggest Devil" and all of that terrible advice that spiritual teachers like Leo like to promote. The idea of hating your ego and trying to kill it, eliminate it, "transcend it", is preposterous. If you live your life trying to diminish your ego, that is a path to guaranteed suffering. I will present a healthy, timeless perspective on Selfish Egoism. The document will be short. Between 50 to 100 A5 pages long. No bullshit. No stalling. No philosophical mumbo-jumbo. No counter-arguments, not bending over backwards to justify every little point I make. I'm very excited about this project. After so much introspection, I believe I have some interesting universal truths to write here. And this is no exaggeration. These aren't some weird ideology I am promoting. These principles should serve any individual, in any era, in any context. These are the most encompassing principles anyone could hope for. And they will serve me (and whoever reads this) to guide a powerful, authentic life. The primary audience for this document, however, will be young men. I don't expect some woke feminist Hollywood celebrity reading this with any amount of charitability or good faith. I am very aware this document will be perceived by many people as some toxic manosphere blackpill rant, or even as some cringe right wing Ayn Rand philosophy. This document will be very triggering for people who are married to their woke religion. I'm very excited for this project. I predict I will have the document ready in 4-6 months. Maybe less. I will publish it here for free as PDF.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/davidpakman-com-bias/ David Pakman is biased as fuck. Considered an extremist to the left.

These are the only political channels I subject myself to without needing a bucket nearby. Anything that is too mainstream tends to be right wing grift or woke propaganda. Edit: I'm not claiming these are completely unbiased by the way, but each is either slightly to the right or to the left, but they are watchable.

I accepted the job.

Woke clown promotes woke clowns religion. I don't think he's intentional or malicious. But he's absurdly biased.

A poem I wrote 3 years ago. Omnipotence Her Majesty is so pretty Her lilac dress dances in the breeze Her smile has such humility In her presence I am always at ease What a heart of compassion and consideration! The most powerful in our nation! Her words of wisdom are her vocation! People should not assume That the queen's nature ends here She has a great power, from the moon Just by looking into your eyes, she summons fear The irises bleed red Her soul seems dead You wish you had fled Time freezes when this occurs Not much to do besides to obey For in this state everything blurs Our free will starts to decay It is irrational, it is too surreal We can't do anything but beg and kneel No point in reasoning, this is all very real I don't want to relive this, the trauma is horrible So I binge her with a lot of adulation Lest I provoke her will, which is deplorable I must avoid Her Majesty's damnation This is how I live, with the obvious lie Obey her every command, never ask why If you want to survive, you must always comply Loyalty is all she requests, wish granted I say out loud her grace has no finitude I convey trust and pretend I'm enchanted It's better to maintain her in a very good mood.

So update. The good news: The company contacted me again, insisting they want me in their team. So they decided to schedule another meeting to persuade me again into joining the company. I will have that meeting tomorrow, online. I also have other companies interested in my work experience, although no job offers yet. Still recruitment processes in initial stages. The bad: One of the bad news is this job for some reason instead of having a 40 hour week schedule, it has a 45 hour week. This is something that I find concerning. Considering at 6 pm I already feel tired and can't be productive, I don't know if I will handle/tolerate working until 7 pm. My health (physical, mental) is kind of shit. I'm still very irritable and annoyed. Physically, I feel tired all the time. I struggle to focus for even small and easy tasks. My appetite has changed as well. I feel hungry and craving high caloric foods. It's gotten to the point I can't even hide how I've been feeling. My manager sometimes asks how I'm doing. I struggle to make eye contact. People ask me questions and I take a while to respond. And sometimes I give incoherent responses. I've also been making small, trivial mistakes, like dropping things, spilling glasses of water/juice. I've been clumsier than normal. Due to this stress, poor mental health, and lack of time, I've been neglecting my life purpose.

"I'm not a yuge believer in the global warming phenomenon." HAHAHAHAHA After so many hours of Trump content I've seen, his stupidity never ceases to make me laugh. I don't even think this is one of his cons. I think he truly is stupid enough not to believe it. Edit: "Ya know I'm a yuge fan of your mother." Wow. This one caught me off guard. President of America, folks. President of America.

I just shared 4 videos of Pakman defending and promoting cancel culture. As woke as Leo is, and even most people are in this forum, even they agree cancel culture is unfair and toxic. Cancel culture is one of the core tenets of Wokeness. And you still insist Pakman isn't woke. If you don't think promoting cancel culture is woke, then I don't know what on earth you qualify as woke.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. According to Pakman himself, anyone who is cancelled by the Left, deserves it by default. So I guess he's ok with it. Surely this doesn't demonstrate hypocrisy on his part. "The right wing lie" because 100% of cancellations were 100% fair and justified. Absolutely 0 left wing bias here, nope. And you guys still insist this clown isn't a wokie? And yes. To me, this is woke in the same sense that a MAGA supporter is right wing. Yes.

I'm not changing the definition of woke. These people are indeed wokies. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think every single left leaning individual is a wokie. I myself am quite left leaning. I took the political compass quiz recently, and I scored at the center of the socialist libertarian quadrant. I don't mean every single individual who is a leftist is necessarily a wokie. But that does apply to figures like Pakman and Destiny, who live off politics. They can't risk introducing any nuance into their videos because they risk pushing away the far left audience. And they themselves can't risk changing their political identities due to ego reasons. I make a huge distinction between individuals who are left wing, and public figures, celebrities, and political content creators who are left wing. Huge difference.

He should delete his channel. The real irony is that he is being cancelled for something I don't think he deserves to be cancelled for. But that's what you get for joining that toxic religion and not exposing its corruption earlier.

No such thing as Left wing without wokeness. Leftism is the Marketing. It sells inclusivity, equality, fairness, progress, tolerance, compassion. Wokeness is the real product. It's divisive. It's hateful. It's myopic. It's reverse racist. It's reverse sexist. It's censorship. And it's complete intolerance to anything outside the religion's tenets.

Yes, they are. They are wokies, that's their religion. They are the worst type of woke. The type of woke that portrays himself as neutral, scientific, and "a bit left leaning". They aren't loud as other wokies. You might like them. You might agree with their positions on things. But you must admit they are wokies. To say that Pakman and Destiny aren't woke would be like me saying Matt Walsh isn't right wing. And people have demanded evidence from me of instances of these people being woke. Which is hard to do for 2 reasons: 1- EVERYTHING they do and say, and ALL of their content is woke. We're swimming in an ocean of liquid shit, and you ask me evidence of the shit. 2- I don't have a bucket near me. If you want me to watch an entire Pakman video, listen to his propaganda, write down his argument, summarize his argument, write down my argument and present further evidence and documentation and links that he's wrong or heavily biased, I need a bucket near me to puke as I'm doing that.

I think education is essential. But we must use the information we obtain, otherwise we forget it. Here's what I think on this topic: Go back and revise the essentials. Revise what is electromagnetism. What are the different types of chemical reactions. A description of the periodic table. The names of the planets. Revise the essentials of history (first world war, second world war, cold war, other wars). The essentials of maths (equations). The basics of geography (the main countries, the main cities, the main languages people speak). Don't bother studying with 100% depth. Don't bother studying all the electromagnetism equations and formulas. Those things are the ones you will definitely lose from your head since you won't use them on a daily basis. Also, education is important, but it's important to study what's relevant to you. Should you really go back and study history and literature? Or should you start fresh by studying Finance, or Web Dev, or something more practical? Or maybe, instead of studying subjects you've already covered in the past, perhaps study something new. Like sociology. Or philosophy. Or psychology. Or zoology. Also, will you have the motivation to do this in the first place? I happen to have gathered some old science and politics books. I planned on studying them. Because I wanted to revise chemistry (I forgot 100% of this subject) and I wanted to study politics (the official definitions of terms, the historical stuff, etc). Turns out, I can't muster motivation to study anything that isn't practical or fun. I study psych every now and then, only because it's fun. And I study business subjects like Marketing because I plan on starting a side business in the future. If you like Psychology I HIGHLY recommend this series by the way:

When I say " it's fine if you only watch x" I don't mean you in particular. I mean whoever. These aren't assumptions. This is a perfect description of the likes of Pakman and Destiny and their woke ilk. I don't know what you mean by political pundits. In terms of individuals, I watch a youtuber called Gonçalo Sousa. He reports and commentates Portuguese news. He identifies as right wing but in my opinion he's pretty unbiased for the most part. 99% of YouTube politics channels are complete garbage. Either right wing grifters or left wing insufferable wokies. I don't know any channel besides Gonçalo Sousa that is even remotely watchable. As for news media, I watch Portuguese news channels. They are a bit biased to the left but overall ok. And lastly, saying that there is subjectivity when determining if someone is being biased, and calling someone biased, that's not a contradiction. I think it's a mix of factors to analyse, and it's hard to be 100% sure and scientific when assessing bias. This is not an oxymoron nor self refuting.

I get frustrated when people misconstrue me even after I have corrected their errors and made myself clear. I did not say or imply that the right is unbiased. It's fine if you watch content creators who refuse to address immigration issues, crime, misapplication of LGBTQ rights, misapplication of dei/affirmative action quotas, anti hate speech laws, cancel culture, hate men, hate white people, hate western society, hate their own ancestors, hate the middle class, and hate anyone who is to the right of Stalin in the political spectrum. It's fine if you choose to only watch content with headlines like "white cop kills black man" and "neonazis protest against mass immigration". There's no objective measure to qualify bias. But to me these 2 individuals - Destiny and Pakman are extremely biased. Their pride and their careers depend on them being biased.

Why are you pulling that card again? First of all, I'm not right wing. I don't defend the right wing. I never said the right wing is any better on this topic. Second, I said Destiny and Pakman are very biased. That is my opinion. It's fine if you disagree. I personally perceive a lot of bias in their content. Third, I pointed out earlier that the "but the right wing is worse!" card is a mere deflection from criticism addressed to the Left. That does nothing to your case. The right wing might be a thousand times more dishonest and biased than the left. That doesn't in any way free the left from criticism. How many times do I have to point this out in this forum?

I'm not going to watch. Only because I'm tired of politics tbh. I'm done engaging with these retarded wars of left vs right. I actively go out of my way to avoid watching political content.

Closed minded biased leftists fail to perceive closed mindedness and bias from the left. They must protect their religion with tooth and nail.

It's not about agreeing with everything. I don't agree with everything Jordan Peterson says but I watch him. But if I've seen only two videos from Nick Fuentes and I immediately identified him as a horrible source of information, and a promoter of dangerous ideas, I don't need to watch him for a week straight before making this judgement. As for Pakman, I think he is authentic. Same with Destiny. Two authentically woke, closed minded clowns. The hosts of The View are also authentic. Being authentic is an insufficient criterion to be worth being listened to.

You can't be serious. Nick Fuentes, the incel Nazi holocaust deniar? And when I use these terms, I'm serious. I don't overuse these terms as wokies like to do. Within the same post, you defend both Destiny the woke cuck, and Nick Fuentes the neonazi? It truly shocks me. And no I don't call him a Nazi because everyone calls him a nazi. I've seen actual videos from him saying he agrees with Hitler and that it's "ok" to wear a Hitler t-shirt. And a video of him doing gymnastics denying the holocaust.

@PurpleTree I get my news from Portuguese media. RTP, Sic, CNN Portugal. I find them a bit biased to the left. Every once in a while they do the "white cop kills black man" thing. But I'd say they are legit for the most part. I'm glad it's not like in the US where they do race baiting and pull retarded cards like that all the time. The news here are for the most part watchable and accurate. And there's no right wing equivalent to Fox News here. Which is why whenever I watch American CNN or MSNBC it's so obvious to me those media are ridiculously biased to the left. Downright woke propaganda.