Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Daniel Balan]

@Leo Gura This summer I re-watched your Understanding Democray and Authoritarianism. You went on for about 1 hour steelmanning dictatorship, this year you also published on your blog a post praising China's total dictatorship and how that dictatorship is creating so much prosperity for the folk... These 2 instances left me standing in awe and utter shock, for a moment I thought I was listening to Russian state television, not Leo. 

For some reason I am extremely enraged and my very survival is threatened whenever someone praises dictatorships. I will challange and push back against all pro-dictatorship naratives. Its been almost half a century since dictatorship fell where I live, but the old Bolshevik way of doing survival is still lingering to this day. The backwardness that comes with dictatorship is off the charts. I will never open my mind to such low level perspectives. Dictatorships, Russian brainwashing propaganda, MAGA propaganda deserve to be outlawed and deleted out of existence, not my openmindedness. I will be openminded about many things, but not of dictatorships, religion and conspiracy theories. I made a habbit of downright dismissing any conspiracy theory.

 

[Joseph Maynor]

Nice to see Spinoza listed on the blog.  Read Part 5 of The Ethics if you can, it's amazing.  

[Leo Gura]

@Daniel Balan Do you understand why dictatorship exists?

Not a strawman of it.

[VioleGrace]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

To aid your contemplation:

Wasn't contemplation should not use external sources ? 

or should i contemplate and watch this later ?

[Leo Gura]

Just now, VioleGrace said:

Wasn't contemplation should not use external sources ? 

or should i contemplate and watch this later ?

That's what an aid is.

Watch it, then contemplate.

[VioleGrace]

Just now, Leo Gura said:

That's what an aid is.

Watch it, then contemplate.

Thanks a lot ! I will get at it 

[Leo Gura]

10 hours ago, Tristan12 said:

so I figured you might want to hear about it.

Link it to me when it's ready to read.

[Daniel Balan]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

@Daniel Balan Do you understand why dictatorship exists?

Not a strawman of it.

Because the citizenry is corrupt to the bone and a dictatorship will best enable their unchecked corruption. Liberal democracy stifles corruption, a dictatorship stiffens corruption. The reason dictatorships exist is for a highly corrupt elite minority to allow unchecked corruption for the masses so that both the elites and the masses can exploit and steal off the weak so that both the corrupt elites and the corrupt masses of underlings enhance their survival on the backs of the weak and unconnected. The strong do what they want, the weak suffer what they must. 

 

[Leo Gura]

12 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

Because the citizenry is corrupt to the bone and a dictatorship will best enable their unchecked corruption. Liberal democracy stifles corruption, a dictatorship stiffens corruption. The reason dictatorships exist is for a highly corrupt elite minority to allow unchecked corruption for the masses so that both the elites and the masses can exploit and steal off the weak so that both the corrupt elites and the corrupt masses of underlings enhance their survival on the backs of the weak and unconnected. The strong do what they want, the weak suffer what they must.

That is good.

But even deeper: it exists because that's the best that minds of that development level can do.

Selfish and ignorant minds can't live better, as pigs cannot live clean.

Edited 43 minutes ago by Leo Gura