Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 2
Could there be a clearer example of how corruption works?
Everyone is for sale. That's why society is so broken. And the reason everyone is for sale is because money is survival, and everyone is a survival zombie who puts money above truth. The health of society is poisoned by billionaires throwing around money to promote their self-serving agendas.
I recommend watching this channel about the strange reality of General Relativity and quantum physics. These videos are accessible, non-technical, and outstanding in their intuitive grasp. It's important to understand how weird and strange physics is at the micro and macro scales. People do not sufficiently appreciate the weirdness of physical reality, which then makes them complacent about other domains of reality, like Consciousness and Mind. If you understood physics you would be mind-blown and thrown into an existential crisis.
Nobody appreciates the staggering weirdness of reality. However weird you think it is, it is a million times weirder. Its weirdness transcends human imagination.
You should watch all of these physics videos:
- Everything Travels At The Speed Of Light
- Schrodinger's Cat
- Why Light Speed Is Constant
- Why Light Seems To Slow Down In Glass
- Why Light Has Energy But No Mass
- A Deeper Understanding Of Entropy
- Heisenberg Uncertainty
- Black Body Radiation
- Why Gravity Bends Light Without Mass
- What Happens If You Go Faster Than Light
- Why Mass Bends Spacetime
- Why Planet Orbit Precession
“My dearest Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the stupidity of the human herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp (serpent) and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon, or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth.” — Galileo to Kepler, 1610
400 years later, the academy is still stubborn.
While watching the new Alien: Earth show I got a killer idea for a Hollywood film:
A giant Wayland-Yutani space station is overrun by Xenomorphs, crew dead. They sent a rescue mission of elite marines but now they’re dead too. All other options exhausted, the Wayland-Yutani corporation hires Nicolas Cage to clean up the mess. He docks on the Xenomorph-infested space station and battles them one-on-one in hand-to-hand combat. Finally he reaches the Alien Queen, jumps on her back and bites her to death. He finds a half-dead Xenomorph whimpering in the corner, drags it into an escape pod and launches it back to the Xenomorph homeworld so it can tell the others never to mess with Nick Cage.
Final scene: the Smashmouth song All-Star slowly fads in. Long slow zoom-out shot through the space station port window of Nick Cage sitting in his underwear, calmly eating a Xenomorph egg with his bare hands like Winnie-the-Pooh eating honey from a jar. Credits roll. Theater audience gives standing ovation.
Post-credits teaser: 5 seconds of Xenomorph break-dancing. Teaser for Xenomorph: The Musical.
Hollywood, contact me, I will write you the script.
It is eye-opening to study the TV media from 3rd world nations. It's terrifying how self-biased, self-absorbed, and insulated it is. But then you have to go one step deeper and realize that your own culture's media is like this too when viewed from a neutral outside frame.
Study the local TV media of North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. It should leave you shell-shocked. These represent kinds of epistemic bubbles. By exploring these bubbles you get a sense for just how limited and self-biased the views of all cultures and peoples are. Imagine how limited your mind would be if you didn't know English and grew up in one of these 3rd world TV media bubbles and never learned any of the concepts from Actualized.org. Yikes! Yet that is most of the world.
But the hardest thing of all to see through is the epistemic bubble of American culture and media, because it is so polished, well-produced, and globally dominant. You can escape North Korea or Iran, but will you escape America?
More:
“Unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God: for the like is not intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become Eternity; then you will understand God. Believe that nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand God.” ― Giordano Bruno
Burned at the stake by Christians for contradicting their stupid dogmas.