Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 24

Professional sports are hideously corrupt. There's no better example of this than the history of professional cycling.

Again, this is an example of the falseness of libertarianism. Without strict regulations, all of society becomes like French cycling competitions from the early 1900s. Participants delude themselves through unconscious self-deception mechanisms that they are doing good when they are being evil. There is virtually no limit to how much humans will cheat, lie, bullshit, defraud, and rationalize it all without strict regulations.

The reason that no society on Earth is purely libertarian is because if it were, it would be like French cycling in the early 1900s. This is a disgusting way to live, but it is very free.

Notice this: if society was truly libertarian then parents would be selling their children for a wheel of cheese. If I said this in a debate, libertarians would say that I'm making an absurd strawman, but I'm really not, it's how humans actually behave without regulations. This is human nature and libertarians do not understand it.

The key thing to realize is that freedom means the freedom to sell your children for a wheel of cheese.

Additionally, a key thing to realize about human nature is that when humans cheat and defraud, because they are unconscious, their mind convinces them that they are doing good. So it's not only that humans cheat way more than you expect, it's that they deeply believe that they are good, moral people for doing so. When an unconscious politician cheats to win an election, when an unconscious stock trader cheats to make a trade — he believes he's doing good. This is why libertarian morality cannot work. Due to relativity and self-bias, every evil person thinks he's doing good. So society cannot be organized around peoples' personal moral tastes.

When a Zionist soldier kills a Palestinian baby, he thinks he's doing good. When a Nazi kills a Jew, he thinks he's doing good. When MAGA chuds overthrow the federal government, they think they are doing good. When a crypto-bro does a pump-and-dump, he thinks he's doing good. When an oligarch corrupts democracy with lobbyists, he thinks he's doing good. When a tech-bro steals your data and copyrighted art to feed his AI, he thinks he's doing good. When Andrew Tate teaches men how to sex-traffic their girlfriends, he thinks he's doing good. When a terrorist blows up a bus full of civilians, he thinks he's doing good. When a dictator sends 100,000 troops to invade a neighboring nation, he thinks he's doing good. And when a slave-master beats his slave, he thinks he is doing good. This happens because morality is a relative, self-serving human invention. But libertarians do not understand this.

This is a disgusting example of the corruption of celebrities. Celebrities think that this is an acceptable way of behaving these days.

The speaker in this video says that these crypto pump-and-dump schemes are not technically scams. That is false. They are classic securities fraud — a serious crime. Self-issued crypto tokens are unregistered securities. You are not allowed to create your own securities and sell them to people. That's why stock markets are heavily regulated, because if they weren't anyone could just invent securities out of thin air and sell them to people. This kind of fraud was pervasive a hundred years ago before we had strict securities laws. Every nation must have strict laws against securities fraud otherwise it spreads like wildfire and harms many financially naive citizens. People lose their life savings to incredibly savvy scammers.

By the way, Bitcoin is not a security, Bitcoin is a commodity. All other crypto tokens are unregistered securities. This is a hugely important difference.

Anyway, this nicely demonstrates why libertarianism is both stupid and evil. Libertarians would have you believe that freedom and free markets are an absolute good. But if we allow just anyone to issue their own securities without heavy regulation what we get are pyramid schemes, pump-and-dumps, and rampant fraud.

Kanye West should go to prison for this. This is just pure theft. And what's worse is that he does it to his biggest fans. But under the Trump administration none of this will be prosecuted, and even encouraged.

Understand that if you are a fan of any celebrity, that celebrity does not care about you. They see you as just a cow to milk. This is low celebrity business culture has reached. Celebrities are brainwashed into this culture as part of their rise to the top. This kind of behavior is so normalized by their business managers that celebrities think this is okay, when really it is criminal.

Notice that libertarianism is not just a philosophy, it causes serious real-world harm. And yet, Stage Orange people do not understand this because they are blinded by the ideology of it. You can also see why libertarianism is so appealing to people at the top to the pyramid, because they get massive material benefits from it. Liberterianism is like a license to scam anyone you can, so of course business tycoons and hyper-capitalists love libertarianism. If you are a cheater you love the philosophy of us not needing referees.

If we had a proper government, there would a strong department of consumer protections with a division that specifically hunts down celebrity corruption like this and hands out 10-year prison sentences. That would be real democracy. But instead Trump has gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) which the Democrats created. This is an example of one of the many corrupt and toxic influences that Trump has had on our culture, by normalizing this kind of stuff. This should not be a partisan issue. Financial corruption is bad for society, bad for liberals and bad for conservatives. But of course, Trump's biggest backers are themselves scammers and financial fraudsters who make their fortunes from scamming naive people. So they love this kind of freedom.

The fox wants to be free to eat all the chickens in the yard. And when you take away this freedom the fox will cry big ol' crocodile tears and scream "Authoritarianism!" This is the playbook of the libertarian right. They do all this so unconsciously that they don't even know they are doing it. In their mind they think they are the good guys just defending freedom.

This is a perfect example of evil as unconscious survival. But this is just a microcosmic example. Now extrapolate this into the macrocosm of society and the economy as a whole and you start to see how corruption really works.

The Trump administration is really a license to thieve and scam from the highest levels. This is why thieves, scammers, fraudsters, and criminals instinctively love Trump. They don't even consciously know why they love him, but they love him because he normalizes their predatory lifestyle. That's why someone like Andrew Tate or pickup artists or Wall Street scammers or rapists love Trump. Trump makes rapists feel like rape is acceptable as long as they are clever enough to cover it up. This is fundamentally why Trumpism is so wrong. It's not just wrong in my opinion, it's wrong because it is the opposite of rule of law. Trumpism normalizes violation of law for material gain. It's shameful that half the population does not understand something so basic and so obvious.

Imagine if I wrote a book which said that God wants me to own all of Hawaii. And then I brainwashed myself, my family, and my friends to believe this idea so deeply that we felt outraged and emotionally hurt when anyone else lived in Hawaii, and then we hatched a plan to displace everyone in Hawaii and take it all for ourselves. And then when by-standards stood up and said, "Hey, you can't do that. That's unfair!", I said, "But my book says it must be so."

That is effectively what Zionism is. Don't laugh. This worldview has been playing out and driving geopolitics for the last 100 years.

The premise of right-wing Zionism is based in the Bible saying that the land in Palestine belongs to Jews. But Jews wrote the Bible! This is so comically self-serving and circular that in any other situation it would be laughed out of the room. Yet Zionist Jews seriously believe this. But because it is “The Bible” the absurdity of it is overlooked. The Bible is a document written by Jews to serve Jews. They made the whole thing up! The Bible is an ethnocentric, racist human construction. But because of profound levels of conformity, group-think, self-bias, attachment, and unconsciousness, this is not seen.

This is what I mean when I say that Zionism is epistemic trash. The issue is deeper than morality. The issue is that a group of people have deceived themselves into believing their own self-biased, self-serving mental constructions.

Notice the power of human mental constructions. You can literally invent a construct such as "Hawaii belongs to me", convince yourself that it's true, and then wage a genocide against all Hawaiians until they are all dead — and you won't even feel like a genocide has happened because "Hey, my book says Hawaii belongs to me." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

THAT is the awesome power of mental construction.

Do you see how this issue isn't really about morality?

The issue is self-bias, lack of construct-awareness, and extreme conformity. Combine these factors into an alchemical brew and you get the situation in Palestine. This is really what's going on in Gaza which political news alone doesn't adequately explain by over-focusing on the moral angle.

Zionism is a profound and ugly lesson in the power of self-bias. Imagine being so blind to your own selfishness that you cannot even see yourself committing a genocide as you commit a genocide! Sounds far-fetched? You're watching it on the evening news.

The constructive power of the mind is astounding.

Is this offensive and antisemitic? Well, it feels that way to a Zionist because I'm pointing out an ugly illusion that they would rather not be conscious of. When your entire identity is wrapped up in this illusion, it hurts just to see the illusion.

Ethnic identity is an illusion. "But Leo! Then how come Jews were persecuted in the past." Well, the persecution was also based on an illusion. See, you construct an illusion and then you live out its consequences. But when the consequences are extremely negative you project the cause of the negativity onto some "other" who you don't care about. This is the ugly externality of the construction of your illusory ethnic identity. It happened with the Nazis, it happens with Jews, it happens with Hindu nationalists, it happens all over the world. It's not about Jews, it's about a much deeper existential mental structure. It is a battle of identity. The more you identify as a Jew the more you will fall into this trap. Which is why the most self-identified Jews can do some heinous things. But, again, this is not about Jews, this is about identity in general.

Do you see the power of this analysis?

Zionists are not evil, they are so self-biased they are blind.

Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

It is time to retire the platitude that America is a democracy. The democracy in America is a myth, a self-deception. America is an oligarchy / corporatocracy. Money has completely perverted and undermined American democracy to the point where we need to call it what it is because continuing the myth obfuscates to the problem.

The #1 political goal for America should be to create a true democracy, which means truly one person, one vote, with no money or corporate power getting any extra influence. When stated this way, it is clear how far America is from true democracy and what steps are in the right and wrong direction.

Imagine as a political message, "Let's create the world's truest democracy!" That's powerful. That's what we are missing.

Billionaires and corporate douche-bags have betrayed American democracy to make stock price go up. That's it! That's what happened.

Anyone who dilutes democracy to increase stock price is a traitor. American corporations are filled with traitors. That's why America is sick. They hollowed out democracy like termites.

In the coming weeks and months I plan to post some strong, negative stuff about Zionism.

If you are a Jewish follower of my work, please understand that I have nothing against Jews. I do not care at all about ethnic identity. I do not divide humans by ethnic group. I do not identify with my own ethnic group. So I will not make special extenuation for any ethnic group due to past genocides. When I speak against Zionism it is from a position of truth-seeking and sense-making. The reason I badmouth Zionism is because it is intellectually bankrupt, not because I have a grudge against Jews. You can be a Jew and realize that Zionism is epistemic trash. To frame that as antisemitic is itself epistemic trash. What's being rebuked is not a race nor ethnicity, but a fallacious political ideology, in the same way that to say that Nazism is intellectual trash is to say nothing negative about the German ethnic group. I use the term "Zionism" deliberately to avoid smearing all Jews, because there are many conscientious non-Zionist Jews. There are also plenty of non-Jewish Zionists who are part of the problem. What's being challenged is a bad set of beliefs which the state of Israel likes to perpetuate because it serves the state's survival agenda. Criticizing the state of Israel is not racist nor hateful nor pro-terrorist. Nor am I calling for the extinction of the Israel state. Nor do I deny that genuine antisemitism exists. Nor do I deny the historical abuse of Jews in Europe. There is no contradiction between antisemitism being wrong and Zionism being wrong. To me, criticizing Zionists is like criticizing Neo-Cons. Criticizing Neo-Cons does not make one unAmerican nor anti-Caucasian, even though they'd love to frame it that way.

For me this is not an issue of human rights or political activism but accurate understanding of reality. There are deep epistemic lessons to be learned from studying the falsehoods of Zionism. So I speak about this issue from that angle, not as a political activist. My goal is to guide people to more accurate understanding of reality, which then auto-corrects most issues. Zionism is firstly an epistemic failure, which then becomes a moral failure. Since most political analysts tackle this issue from a moral angle, I like to tackle it from an epistemic angle — so that you learn something new.

I'm not saying this is 100% what we should do, but I want to put this out there as something to seriously consider, as a counter-balance to the out-of-control capitalist dystopia that we are headed towards.

Libertarianism is wrong because freedom in not a good thing. Libertarians do not understand what freedom is. Freedom is the freedom to enslave others. Period. That’s what freedom means. Until you get this, you fundamentally misunderstand the point of government. The point of government is to stop the freedom to enslave, abuse, and exploit others. There is no such thing as natural rights. There is no such thing as property rights. There is no such thing as non-aggression principle. There is no such thing as normativity. There is no such thing as morality. There is no such thing as objective right and wrong or good and evil. There is no such thing as ownership over your body and labor. The libertarian does not understand that you do not own your own body! Therefore, libertarianism is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of reality, which is why it will always fail if implemented. Which is why there is not a single libertarian state on Earth, and never will be. The reason libertarianism doesn’t exist is because if it did, it would end in slavery. The libertarian’s understanding of human nature is so childish that he cannot fathom this.

Libertarianism is a fantasy.

The reality is that whenever human beings have freedom, they use it to enslave others. Because that is logically what freedom entails. Therefore, healthy society must take away freedom.

This is not theoretical. What do billionaires do with their freedom? They use it to enslave the rest of society by any means they are able to get away with, because all of your so-called rights were a fiction which the billionaires do not share because it does not serve their survival.

This is the correct account of human nature.

Libertarians make the mistake of assuming that morality is objective. No, it isn't. It is because morality is subjective and relative that enslavement happens. Animals do not have morality, and neither do most humans because most humans are animals. Ironically, libertarians themselves are just animals. The problem is not merely that most humans are not evolved enough to have the morality of libertarians. The problem is that even libertarians are not evolved enough to be be moral. Libertarians have a fantasy of themselves as being moral and good, but in fact if everyone was a libertarian, the world would be full of enslavement, abuse, exploitation, theft, and horrible atrocities. Why? Because libertarians do not have enough consciousness nor understanding of survival to avoid those things despite how moral they imagine themselves to be. Libertarians are not conscious of their own survival at an existential level, therefore they are incapable of true morality. But they do not understand any of this.

Imagine giving the ego absolute freedom and thinking that will end well. Absolute freedom can only be exercised responsibly by a saint who has spent decades purifying himself in the light of God. Libertarians do not even know that God exists.