Rafael Thundercat

@LordFall you would love to read Allan Bloom. Here is a sentence from his book: Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones or watching MTV. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs; he is provided with comfort and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvelous, lifelike electronic sound and image reproduction he is enjoying. And in what does progress culminate? A pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms; whose feelings are made articulate in hymns to the joys of onanism or the killing of parents; whose ambition is to win fame and wealth in imitating the drag-queen who makes the music. In short, life is made into a nonstop, commercially prepackaged masturbational fantasy. Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind Contemplate what is his Bias

I want to add on this thread also a book I am reading from Nigel Biggar. The book is " Colonialism a Moral Reckogning" I got the book first thinking it would be about Anti-colonialism, but the book is actually defending Colonial Empires and somehow sugarcoating the consequences of Slavery etc.. I will take a look on it as a exercice of perspective taking. And having in mind that perpectives can be valid but not having the same High consciousness level. The author start defending Cecil Rhodes, a colonialism tha had a big impact on África history. The bias is that Cecil was Anglican and Nigel Biggar is also Anglican. Funny.

@aurum I dont know if The Guardian is a good source but here it goes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study?utm_source=instagramthreads&utm_campaign=threads_gu

Nice you put this here now. i was just digesting all the thing being said by all sort of people about all that is happening now in America. And it came to me that although what many people say may have some piece of truth or perpespective, the real truth is that America is a complex ecosystem, and we love to over-simplify complexity in order to avoid frying our little daily energy. So in the end a lot is lost in objectivity. I take for exemple my body. If I am having some health problem I can sit and wonder for years what is going on wrong. Or I can make exams, check imbalances in my nutrient intake and exercise, lack of sun, limphatic system,nervous system regulation,emotions,chackas balanced etc.. overall the good health can be achieved not in perfection but enogth to be considered good and functional. In the case of a body of a country the question is: How can we be the most objetive possible? What metrics to pay attention, of course not all can be quantified, but what I mean is, to be able to see through noise we would need to be first super objective, and more, having in account the data we dont have acess. Without objectivity we get lost in a ocean of opinions, and second to a video of Ezra Klein, one of the tatics of this folks is to confuse by overflowing the field with a lot to process.

Is amazing to see Elon on X . https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889070627908145538?t=pBqlvFLIbvwjW4CpFoqTUg&s=19 Following his response to Sam Altman on the Open AI shenanegans

@PurpleTree yes for the first guess. He feels very furiously happy with all this, since he still keep resentment for all that happened to him in the hands of Canadian Wokes. Poor man will die feeling like a victim of the circunstances.

this was relased 13 days ago.

Peter Thiel and the Palentine Company. https://politicaleconomist.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worlds-most-evil-company?r=1n8mbr&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true If this confirm to the true, imagine AGI plus AI data targeting.. I love interviewers that make incisive questions that surprises

When you realise Inflation is not the only metric to use. Good lesson of System Thinking.

Wow, listening to his tone of Warning to European "Friends" This is getting StarWars,Game of Throne and Dune proportions.

@MsNobody Looks like a Double Bind. The solution is in the middle. Ask Leo if he is open to relationship.

X money Plataform of payment on the way

Elon Musk is developing a new payment platform called “X Money.” Guess which agency would be making sure that Elon’s new project couldn’t scam you or steal your sensitive personal data? The CFPB.

Dont forget that Elon is just an example of a Techbro with weird ideias. Peter Thiel is on this boat as well. Where is a amazing interview of Thiel with a writer I am reading in the moment, David Graeber, writer of the Book "Debt" and a big book called the" New Dawn of Everything " a book study of the origins of this Tyrany we see emerging again and again.

Ian Bremmer. I found recently this pundit. Of course,listening with a grain of salt but the guy have good videos

Trump bullshitng on X about how if he was President this war would not happen. This guy is a joke https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1889720462151917756?t=B992BEyj99abBfjh5tm9Tw&s=19

The Listening Society Concept. There is maybe short videos or check the Listening Society page for a summary. I am posting this lecture because I feel it is a good introduction for the topic.

not that Bill dont have his Biases but...

Do you really belive he is just doing an act of good will for the public?

I came to notice in some of my social media that some people are losing their cool, entering in paranóia and distracting from deep work because of the crazy worldwide situations, I say situations because if we see clearly is like that movie " Everything Everywhere at same Time" well maybe wrong title " Anyway. For me although I may be a sinner in this aspect I still in my daily life can get back to Actuality Direct Experience easily. Maybe not as deep as a trip but the soft acceptance of what is around me in my bubble of perception, what I see,listen,feel, think and all. At same time I can navigate several topics that interest me, no matter how triggerimg they are. I mean, all the chaos ongoing nowadays, even knowing that sooner or later these events may hit me. And you guys, are you oveall keeping the cool? with capacity to do all the inner work contemplation, inquire, introspection, noticing the movements of the mind, the self deceptions at the same time you navigate the cringe state of affairs?

Anyone here follows Daniel Pinchback Liminal News or Substack? This guy make good Research, keep eyes on Elon and Peter Thiel and all the Techbros. https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/the-new-american-revolution

Or Make friends.with Peter Thiel. He may go to a Seasteading House in the middle of Ocean ( no political waters) https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ Really, there is a protect called Seasteading Institute that aim to built autonomous communities in artificial islands in International Waters. Suposlly Thiel was financing the initial stages of the project.

Totally true

Leo say: So who cares about truth then?, you might ask. Basically, no one. But there are degrees of selling your soul to the devil and you should distinguish between them. I was contemplating on it and if we would take the notion that everyone use some ideology and instead of caring about Truth they attach to the ideology as a life saving boat I would say their internal unconscious dialoge is something like this: Well,Nationalism serves me? Yes, so Fuck the truth!! Well, Sexism,Racism serves me, yes so fuck Truth. You get the ideia.of course is more complex than this but I got myself in this sort of trading many times in my life. Sometimes I new the Truth, for example,once there was a girl friend and we enganged in the same day she left her boy friend . The guy was even in the event while we started dating. She sleept with me in my tent and in the group dancing another day he was there. I was dancing with her in front of him and kissing her.. yes very unconsiderated from my part. But do someone think I was caring about the Truth that that was super cringe? No, fuck the Truth, I had the girl with me. So to be Truth, truth even in the smaller scale dont serve to much to obtain money,sex,etc... So in the Existential Aspect Truth is even more Undermining to Survival.