Daniel Balan

I'm 30 minutes into the video, this is what I took away from it thus far: The only way to experience and live a succesful life is to have your life led by a mind that is run by an engine of truth. The only way to experience a fine life is to have a mind that is powered by an engine of truth. The engine that runs your life must be truth, otherwise if your engine is anything but truth the vehicle that runs your life will stray to corrupt and self deceptive paths that will lead to suffering and pain. A correct interpretation of reality can only be achieved by driving through life in a vehicle that has as its engine the valuing of truth. Without truth as your engine you risk having your wheels fall off your car as you drive through life.

I discovered actualized.org when I was 14 in 2014. I got news flash for ya, no teacher ever will help you with success and money. At the end of the day you gotta get off your ass and work to improve your financial situation. Leo gives tremendous financial advice, the problem is that we are too lazy to follow through on his advice. We can't expect Leo to go to work and improve our career for us. That is work each of us individually must do.

I can confidently say that after watching the first 16 minutes of this video I learned more valuable life transforming lessons than I did after 8 years of elementary school, 4 years of highschool and 4 years of university. In total spending 16 minutes learning from Leo yielded a ton more value for me than spending 16 years of my life learning in the state funded schooling system of my country. That useless schooling system didn't even taught me English, Leo was also the one that taught me indirectly all the English that I know today.

This is gonna be the most legendary episode to date! I'm only 3 minutes in and I'm already having a philosophical orgasm. Hell yea! I'm so hyped for this episode. This episode sums up the main reasons I follow your work Leo! Man I love your work so much! Thanks so much for your work!

I give an example. Imagine there is a mayoral election for lets say Paris. There are 4 candidates. The nationalist/conservative, the moderate liberal, the progressive and the libertarian. The conservative one is polling 1 week before election at 40% the liberal is at 35% the progressive is at 15% and the libertarian is at 10%. If progressives have a brain, they would vote the moderate liberal thus giving him 50%, winning with 10% difference over the conservative, and now the city of Paris would move slowly towards reform and the diminishing of the corruption. But because progressives are brain dead they vote their progressive candidate that has no chanche of winning , thus the conservative candidate wins the election beating the liberal with the score 40% over 35%. Now the status quo is upheld, the robbery of the public money continues and the progressives as always did their best to regress society.

Progressives and leftists are some of the most immature and dangerous among the political groups. They make the liberals look bad thus giving fascists free fuel to power their political machine. I put progressives in the same pot with libertarians. Utterly immature and dangerously ignorant. The whole political debate should be between which side steals more ( The conservatives) and which side steals less( The liberals) which side is pro status quo( conservatives) and which side is pro government reform and improvement (liberals). But because of those ignorant progessives, we are debating who is preserving culture and who is fighting to change tradition and culture. This allows conservatives to continue to steal and uphold the status quo under the banner that they defend tradition and American culture from those looney progressives. Right now, counter-intuitively progressives actually regress society with their naivety and ignorance. Those fools need to be dropped into a war zone to get in touch with reality. Their dumb political positions are ensuring that they make sure the voters don't vote liberal thus ensuring that the status quo thieves keep on robbing public resources.

If you look at the last election Kamala lost due to the moderates that choose to go with Trump. Those same moderates voted Biden in 2020, but now they went with Trump because of the huge inflation that happened under Biden. I don't say that the inflation is the fault of Biden, but the average voter perceived it that way. Bottom line of what I'm trying to say is that progessives are irrelevant in elections, in the swing states and the popular vote overall, the moderate luck warm voters are those who decide who is gonna win, and those moderates felt that Biden worsened the economy thus this time they voted for Trump. Progressives are litteraly dust in the wind in the grand arithmetic of general elections. I don't think there is a more meaningless demographic than progressives. Sometimes, ironically enough, these progressives are the ones that actually regress society due to their refusal to mobilize and vote the moderate candidate with the higest chanches to win.

Bro the ammount of self deception and authoritarian loving bias from you is off the rails entirely. No offense but your brain is totally fried from the ammounts of authoritarian propaganda you consume. Your AI's are totally poisoned and self biased and their sole purpose is to reinforce your skewed Dughinesque worldview. I've always thought that you are Dughin on this forum, your every post is like it was written by Dughin himself. In every post you shit on the west, while you praise the authoritarian world led by China and Russia. I got bad news from you, but those regimes don't give a flying fuck about the individual. To those regimes the individual is just a slave that has as an only purpose to work like a mad dog to produce goods that the government can then boast with. China has achieved great success economically because of it's people that are very hard working and intelligent, not because of a piece of shit dictatorial system that you seem to praise non stop. Those hard working people would greatly benefit from western style freedoms and human rights that they rightfully deserve. Instead you praise some piece of shit dictators that see their people only as labour force. Another critique I have for you is that you are just a robot, when was your last time that you wrote a post on this forum using your mind alone? All your posts are 90% or more written with AI. Mind developing some independent thinking? Or we are reading the posts that your AI's have generated? Leave the AI chat bots to the side because they are poisoning your brain, the algorithm that your favorite AI's are using is the same algorithm that Facebook or TikTok are using. That AI is just feeding you information that reinforces your worldview, the same echo chamber effect that TikTok and Facebook are using to feed you the same content that you are attracted to over and over again. Using solely AI to make sense of the world is the same as dropping the soap in jail, the AI will fuck your mind if you drop the soap in it's bathroom . Use AI as a substitute for a search engine, not as a source of truth. Try to diversify your information sources because right now you seem like a Russian/Chinese propaganda vehicle on this forum.

This is childish levels of historical revisionism done by the Chinese, and that EU official was spot on calling their bullshit. China helped with shit in the defeat of nazism. Nazism was defeated by 50% the Soviets and 50% by the US and the West combined. China had 0 contributions on the defeat of Nazi Germany. China had great contributions when the US, the Chinese and the Soviets defeated Japan. On the side of the WW2 where Japan was the enemy China had great contributions and it paid with a lot of lifes. But don't come now rewriting history. Nazi Germnay's defeat had nothing to do with China. Saying that China helped with the defeat of the nazis is as stupid as saying that France helped with the defeat of Japan.

What do you think @Leo Gura, is the model of government proposed by China and Russia along dictatorial right wing lines going to replace the liberal democratic world order led by the West? A lot of people, even on this forum are swayed by the authoritarian/dictatorial ways of governing led by China and Russia. A lot of people on this forum are shitting on the western way of doing governance while they praise and like the governing model of China. Personally, It makes my skin crawl when someone is suggesting that the governing model of China is a more evolved form of government than that of the West. I'm curious to see how you view this situation. Are we moving to an authoritarian led world order? I think it is ludicrous to believe the dictatorial way of governing could ever overpower the liberal world.

Since Russia has allied itself fully with China and the rest of the authoritarian world, they are on a quest to defeat the West. Will they succeed? Will the west prove that western liberal democracies are still king? The west proved in the 20th century that liberal democracies were superior to the communist bloc. Now the west faces a new ideological enemy, Authoritarianism with collectivist fascist/nationalist far right flavours. Basically the new cold war is a war between the woke liberal individualism (Stage Orange/Green) of the west against the Fundamentalist, Nationalist, Reactionary Collectivism (Red/Blue/Orange) of China/Russia. It is a battle against stage Green and liberal democracies. Let the battle commence.

I've been following your work since 2014. I can say with all honesty, the above is the most stupid thing I've heard you say. I still don't fully compute what I just read. This is redneck level of climate change reasoning. What you said here, in my eyes is the same as if you were to have written a conspiracy theory in which you explain how the jews and the Illuminati are enslaving the world through the banking system. I hope your views on climate change have evolved since the fall of 2023.

Define the new world please! What do you mean by that?

What did you say? That people in the first world countries are trapped in endless work? This is beyond hilarious. As if in a 3rd world country you don't have to do the same amount of work. Hell, here we work even more in inhuman conditions. Have you tried to work for 4 dollars an hour, From Monday till Saturday, 13 hours a day? With no health insurance and no money for retirement? Try going to a hospital in Eastern Europe, you enter with a broken finger, and you exit with deadly bacteria on your wounds. Man, you first worlders are so annoying that makes me wanna vomit. You are basically living in heaven yet you bitch and moan all the time.

Imagine wanting to leave America because your favorite party didn't win the elections... This is childish. The citizens of the first world countries are so spoiled and ungrateful, man it is almost comical. If you live in America, you don't even know what corruption is. Even if Trump becomes a de facto dictator, you still have a lifestyle which is 1000% better than almost any place in the world. I'd advice anyone who worries over politics, to grow a pair of balls. Regardless of who is president, or which party is governing, America is one of the best places to live on the planet. You can do basically anything, and as an ordinary citizen, you never experience corruption. The corruption in America is litteraly child's play compared to the corruption in Eastern Europe, Russia or the 3rd world in general.

I personally stopped consuming any political content from the internet. It is all full of bias and self deception. From now on I take your advice on reading the political books from your book list and I am contemplating everything using my own mind. I've given too much authority to others to do the thinking I am supposed to do. No more!

You know why I compare Germany with Eastern Europe? It is because in 1945 both Germany and Eastern Europe were all leveled to the ground by the war. For example the entire city of Warsaw was leveled to the ground, almost no building was still standing, that was the case for much of Germany as well. Germany was also divided for half a century, yet after 1945 West Germany has started in the same place as my country, my country was in an even better starting point because Romania saw little fighting on its territory during WW2. Yet during the time that Romanaia was a vassal state for Russia, while it was under the most brutal form of Communism in Europe( National Communism) my country wasn't even able to develop even 20% of the success that West Germany has achieved since 1945. I'd argue that the reasons for this are the brutal communist regime that was 1000 more inferior to the capitalist system of west Germany, and the second reason is the development of the people. While in 1945 Germans moved from blue to Orange, Romanians just stepped into Blue, with many to this day at stage Red or even Purple. Development levels and the capitalist system is what allowed Germany to rebuild and develop into a giant powerhouse while the communist bloc was spiraling into deeper and deeper poverty. The 20th century proved beyond doubt that socialism and communism are obsolete, backward, regressive ideologies.

If Russia was a sane nation, it would ally with the western world, by doing so the whole country will be improved in all aspects from infrastructure to the economy, to the quality of life and to the reduction of poverty. Most Russians live in extreme poverty, especially in rural areas. Russia is part of Europe and it would be wise to join the EU and NATO. But unfortunately we don't live in fantasy land and that won't happen for the next 100 years.

To be frank I'd assasinate anyone who proposed the abolishing of private property. My grandparents worked their soul off to buy 2 acres of arable land, and I'd go to jail for life just to make sure I unalive any communist or fascist that proposes the nationalization of private property. Here in Europe 2 or 3 generations of people have been sacrificed for stupid retarded communist or fascist nationalization policies. How is this fairness that I get to live in a rat box of 2 square metters designed for me by the government while the socialist leaders live in 2000 square metters mansions? I've had enough of this nonsense.

I see in my country only the most corrupt devils that look with admiration towards Russia, those people are always complaining that they hate that the actual government force them to pay the minimum wage for their employees. Imagine being such a devil that you don't even want to pay 500€ a month to a human that works from dawn till dusk for you. Those devils want to pay their workers 150€ a month the same way it was before the EU. Only the people that could no longer enslave their workers they way they did before the EU, want my country back in the Russian sphere of influence. This is the reason why the west expanded eastwards. To modernize and to bring development to eastern Europe. If Russia wants a sphere of influence they should move to another planet to find one, because here on earth no one deserves to be a slave all their life for the ones that suck Russian cock for power.

Also those Russians want not only Ukraine but all of eastern Europe as their sphere of influence, in the name of a multi polar world. I'm so glad NATO expanded after the cold war, I'm so glad I'm part of the EU. Before the EU you couldn't open a little shop here, because you'd have to pay protection taxes to various mafia gangs or they'd destroy your shop. This is the model of governance that comes along with the Russian sphere of influence. Before the EU if you wanted a piece of propery that was owned by a poor farmer, you'd just bribe the ones in charge with the property deeds and the mayors and his underlings would expropriate that poor farmer if you had enough money to bribe the local authorities and if the farmer had no political rich friends. This is what the Russians are selling to the countries in their spheres of influence. Had my country been under Russian influence right now, I wouldn't even have access to Youtube and this forum, and I'd be paid 10$/day to shovel shit 24/7 at some rich Romanian oligarc farm that sucks Russian dick to have this power here locally. Why would anyone want to be enslaved by the Russian way of doing things just for Multi Polarity? Fuck multi polarity, fuck Russia, and fuck anyone who supports and justifies what Russia is doing in Ukriane. Anyone who is sided with Russia in this conflict is a shameless, corrupt, evil devil who needs to move to Russia to feel on their own skin what the Russian system looks like.

Yes, it is a humanitarian tragedy. But this very tragedy shows how evil Russia truly is, and that it was the correct thing to do to dare to exit from its sphere of influence. After all if the massacre happening in Ukraine is what Russia is offering, it is the right thing to do to align with the west and ditch the friendship with Russia for good. Also the justifications and the framing done by Russians is disgusting, calling Ukraine a nazi state. This is ludicrous. By all historical accounts Russia is the one behaving like Nazi Germany, not Ukraine. The war made Ukraine very nationalistic, which is expected when a neighbouring Russia wants to make Ukraine their colony the same way the Ottomans did with Eastern Europe.

The war itself proves that Ukraine choose the correct path. The war itself proves that their decision to ditch Russia to the trash can was the right one. Russia has enslaved the Ukrainian people for the last 300 years. Russia wants a sphere of influence? Then they better learn to behave towards other nations, for that they have waged non stop wars since the cold war, yet they act shocked when Ukraine told them to fuck themselves when the Russians tried for the last 30 years to install puppet governments in Ukraine. Ukrainian people told them that they want nothing to do with Russia. Had Russia been a more sane society, they'd develop themselves so in the future other countries want on their own volition to be their friends, but no, they decided to level to the ground an entire nation just because they don't agree with their pro western values orientation. That's precisely why NATO exists, so that no country is forced to eat the shit Russians are selling. And the reason Russia is so afraid of Ukraine joining the western world is because if Ukraine liberalizes and becomes westernised, that will automatically export to Russia and the people of Russia will demand the same for Russia, this meaning the end of the kleptocracy instaurated by the gang of thieves that rule Russia today.

It makes my skin crawl just when I hear the word nationalization. For me personally the communist regime gave me PTSD. I was born in 2000, 11 years after communism ended in my country, but even to this day I can still observe and feel the communist aftertaste all over the place. I've also been in Germany and it blew my mind to see how much more developed that country is. Also there I felt no communist aftertaste whatsoever. It felt all so capitalistic and fresh, whereas in my country everything still had that soviet shit vibe. Everything from the buildings, the cars, the philosophy of the average people, to the way business is done. I like the state to provide the infrastructure and the safety mechanisms necessary for the individual people to run businesses and manage them. From my experience a private owned factory will always deliver better products compared to a public funded and managed one. I still have a lot to learn about economy but I have a really strong bias against government owned factories and businesses because of my background of living all my life in what resulted of half a century of communism. I think that the government can only produce amazing services like policing, maintaining roads etc. I have the opinion that the government does a horrible job at producing goods like cars, chainsaws, tractors, excavators, trucks, goods made from steel and iron etc. Because the people that manage and work for the state owned factories don't really care about the end products, don't strive to work out of their way for the survival of that factory whereas if the factory is private owned, the owners work to make that factory profitable like their life depended on it, which usually generate amazing goods and products.

This could be summed up as: Drop idealism. Idealism is what gets people like Navalny in Russia killed. Being too progressive and idealist in a backward society as the one I live in could really get me killed if I'm not careful. I'd argue that the best reality check for progressives is spending half a year in Russia or Eastern Europe. That experience alone will cure them for life of their idealism and their fantasies. When you tell progressives that they should be dropped in a war zone with no way back home, that's literally the best advice a progressive needs. Also progressives have a very childish understanding of politics. Most progressives think that if AOC were president all the corruption and the theft of the public finances would be fixed over night. The president can't do nothing unless he has 50% of the parliament in line with his vision, and the parliament is the direct reflection of the citizenry. The same people believe that if Putin would die, Russia will suddenly become democratic and stop the Ukraine war and turn in a liberal democracy. The fundamental fact that progressives don't understand is that over 80% of the Russian public deeply support a leader like Putin. So if he dies there won't be a democratic liberal Russia. There is no such thing that Putin is ruling Russia by his own whims, he is just the front cover, there is a vast network of powerful oligarchs that own key industries in Russia, the whole giant group of oligarchs rule Russia, not a single man. That single man, who is now Putin, even if he wanted to have a form of government that is less corrupt, he couldn't do that because he would be killed instantly. Because the Russian society as a whole is so backward, even if a new group would take power in Russia that consisted of a million people that are not corrupt, those would be literally killed by the corrupt mob and oust them from power, because the corrupt mob consists of 130 million people. Progressives need to understand that in order to meaningfully change a society, you need over 60% of the citizenry to be aligned with non corrupt and high consciousness policies in order to have those policies be put in effect. To have a liberal Russia you'd need to replace 130 million backward Russians with 130 million liberal Russians, not by hoping that a more liberal group of people rule Russia. The same principle applies to all countries. I just gave Russia as an example. Society changes when the development level of the society evolves, not when you elect a president. The president is a mere public functionary, he is not God or a witch that could wave a magic wand that evolves hundreds of millions of backward humans.