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Check out Parkrose Permaculture. Her channel is excellent for practical tactics.

That's amazing!

@Elliott I'm planning on attending this Saturday.

@DocWatts I have stumbled across Knitting Cult Lady's channel a couple times. But I'll have to give her a closer watch. But I really appreciate Parkrose Permaculture's focus on raising morale and giving actionable steps for pushing back. I deliberately tuned out from politics about a year ago because I felt that most lefty creators were doing one of four things... Just sharing the new through a Lefty lens Doomerism Leftist in-fighting where one pundit has a beef with another pundit Empty philosophical ponderings But each of these things don't mobilize people to do anything productive to push back on rising authoritarianism. So, I just took the perspective of tune out 99%... but keep my ear to the ground so that I can protect my family if the shit hits the fan. Her channel is just really refreshing that it's like "Don't give up hope. Do these action steps."

We can have that argument from 2016 on another thread, if you'd like. But the hour is later than you think. And this video is about non-violent practical tactics for resisting against the authoritarianism of the current administration. It's not a place for endless semantic arguments about things that should be obvious in the year 2025.

Isn't that pretty obvious?

See! You get the point.

Yes. People really struggle with calling a spade a spade when it comes to the rise of American Fascism.

Neither men nor women are disposable. Men are just as valid and valuable as women are. Stop being a misandrist.

Stop listening to this nonsense. There are no disposable people.... even if some societies have treated it as such or needed to adapt that way.

It's a really common pitfall that those who are on the path can fall into. I used to fall into this one myself about a decade ago. And it's just another ego trap. But it also arises primary as a coping strategy for dealing with feelings of disconnection. One seeks to be the "superior one" relative to the normies because they feel a sense of not fitting. The reality is that God is just as over-joyed to incarnate as a pleb as it is to incarnate as a "serious Truth-seeker"... as it is to incarnate as a sea barnacle. And anyone who is trying so hard to differentiate their human character from other human characters is just operating off of the tendency towards ego differentiation, which is in the opposite direction of Love and Truth. Anyone who is in this trap has a spiritual path that's highly influenced by the Shadow of what they're pushing away on the ordinary human level.

You sure do say and think it a lot though... don't you? But the Leo character is not superior to any of the other human characters. He's not even wiser than them half the time.

This is just more "Look how superior I am to the unconscious plebs" talk that's common in the group think on this forum. It's just a bad habit that you've picked up from Leo. If Leo didn't talk like this... you wouldn't be talking like this. There's no "serious development" about it.

Personally, I don't think that's a very good strategy. I've experienced many many times where guys have immediately conveyed to me that they're attracted to me and want to go on a date with me, and it always read to me as, "This guy does this with just about every woman." And I see it as a tell about his priorities and personality. Who knows? Maybe it would work with some women. But I wouldn't count on a woman being receptive to a date invitation upon the first meeting... unless it happens in a night club or something like that where it's specifically a place where it's common for people to express interest and hook up. I've always needed a bit of a platonic slow burn for my feelings for someone to blossom.

It doesn't matter if you intend it as group think or not. First off, people are influenced by thought leaders. That's just the reality of it. You can't be in the business you're in without inviting some level of group think. Anyone who steps into a leadership position and creates a movement can only do so because human beings have a natural tendency towards "group think." Without group think, there would be no Actualized.org... or any other group, movement, philosophy, or institution. And the entirety of civilization is only able to exist because of group think. So, there is a positive and a negative side to group think. All the best and worst things come from it. But when we refer to it in the positive, we refer to it as a movement or institution or community or organization... etc. That's why I said that a communal Ayahuasca ceremony would do you some good... as you have a strong polarization against this component of being human. But moreso than that... any leader that presents themselves as certainly and "beyond that" as you do will invite lots of group think... as you are claiming superior leader status when you do that. You are conveying, "Look at me and listen to me. I am different than you and better than you." So, you may discourage group think with your direct words. But you encourage group think with the way you share your perspectives, as your positioning is always like, "Alright you plebs. Try to get on my level. But I bet you can't as you guys just aren't on my level." If you want to really discourage negative group think to the highest degree that a thought leader is capable, you have to walk the walk of being a bit more humble and human. And a big part of that is not blaming people who watch you for falling into group think. The reality is that human beings are incredibly vulnerable. And it's incumbent upon leaders to check themselves if a sizable portion of their audience is falling into negative group think. The reality is that you're not "beyond" anyone. You're human like everyone else. And accepting that would likely help you tremendously towards your stated goals.

Yes. I can relate to that. I just feel so responsible for teaching people to use basic empathy and to use common sense. I think it's mostly because I feel a lot of fear around people holding harmful nonsensical and unempathetic perspectives, as I know that society is plastic and can pick them up and normalize them. And then it, if that happens, madness gets seen as normal... andit becomes EVERYBODY'S problem. (Gestures vaguely at everything) Hence Exhibit A. So, I'm trying to avert global crisis EVERY SINGLE TIME I'm trying to get someone to see sense. And it doesn't work. And it's exhausting. But it's hard to let go of the "Let me teach them out of it!" But the reality is that it is what it is. It's not my responsibility to prevent it... even though it is problem (and all of our problems) to deal with it.

Use a bit of empathy. What if you were texting with someone and you started liking their personality and feeling a connection. And you found out they were an AI bot the whole time? Would you like that?

Yeah, I gotta just let it go. I feel too easily responsible for trying to speak sense to someone who is clearly locked into their own perspective. It's part of my own neuroses around feeling responsible for people.

It's good to come to that realization. And like Natasha mentioned, most people go through that. Prior to having my YouTube channel, I had similar thoughts before. It was like, "If only people that I know can see how highly developed and wise my perspective is." And there was a judgment of other people for not being on the same wavelength. But once I had my YouTube channel, I was able to interact with a lot of other people who had similar interests. And I was able to trade that sense of superiority for real community. And it made me realize that a lot of my tendency to differentiate myself came from loneliness and unmet social needs... but also as a coping strategy to make myself feel better than others. But talking with a bunch of other people who are on this wavelength, just makes me realize that it's just another way to be human among thousands of other ways to be human.

I think you'd benefit most of all from a communal Ayahuasca retreat.... especially since you have a resistance to it. A little dose of what you call "group think" would be very healing for you. But also consider... this forum is group think... and your retreats would also be group think. It's just group think that's lead by you as the thought leader.

@Hojo These are silly perspectives that I would feel exhausted even going through the trouble to debunk them because you're clearly emotionally attached to these ideas, as you have a resistance towards women wearing make-up... and even have a resistance to the fact that women are able to attract men based on their looks in the first place. You just can't tolerate the fact that women have that power, as it makes you feel like you're a victim to the fact that you find women attractive. So, you are doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to try to pretend that simply wearing make-up is equally deceptive to having AI do all of your preliminary "get to know you" conversations before the date. But I think you should be able to think critically enough to know better on your own. And it's not my responsibility to save you from your own foolishness. So, I will end the conversation here.

That's a silly request. Wearing make-up is a normal human folkway. And it's part of many women's style and persona. That would be like expecting her to be like, "By the way, I'm wearing a dress. I'm not usually that pretty." But using an AI bot to talk to dating prospects is deception borne out of laziness... and potentially even deception borne out of a desire to deceive. There are some things that shouldn't be optimized for efficiency... and dating is one of them.

No it isn't a direct comparison. In this analogy... Wearing make-up looks-wise is analogous to putting yours best foot forward on the date personality-wise. Either way, you're still fundamentally presenting yourself. But looks-based catfishing is using images that aren't you. And personality-based catfishing is have AI bots interact with your dating prospects.

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