Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 5
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.
If you want a serious understanding of politics you should read every book in my book list about politics and history. Last month I added dozens of amazing books on politics to my book list. These are the books that I used to develop my own understanding.
Stop watching political videos and start reading quality books. That is the way. The political analysis you get on social media is too shallow and too biased, regardless of which side it is. You must read serious books.
This is a great explanation of how calculation is mechanized, which is the basis for all computers.
The key insight here was that calculation does not require mental cognition but just the turning of some cleverly designed gears. It's amazing how far this one simple insight has taken us. Which shows you the power of just one good insight. One good insight is worth a mountain of gold.
This mechanical process beautifully shows the relationship between addition and multiplication, and subtraction and division.
Also, interestingly, if you were in doubt about Terrence Howard's lunatic claims about multiplication (that 1x1=2), the mechanical implementation in this video takes the question of what is proper multiplication out of the realm of human opinion. You can know what multiplication is by designing a set of gears to do it.
This is an amazing, eye-opening recounting of the corruption and depravity behind US war policy. I recommend listening to the whole 10 hours. It's quite accurate based on my own research and readings.
Note: Scott Horton is a libertarian and I disagree with many of his libertarian and conservative views. However, his recounting of US foreign policy in this video is very good. We can find common ground with libertarians on being anti-war, anti-imperialism, while rejecting their other bad ideas, such as privatization of everything. Libertarians are excellent on foreign policy but terrible on domestic policy.
What's ironic is that if you just go back to the earliest Western and Eastern philosophers in written history and take their ideas as true, you will have the correct answer to the deepest philosophical, ontological, and spiritual questions.
- Heraclitus
- Anaxagoras
- Lao Tzu
- Mahavira
- The Vedas/Vedanta
It is amazing that mankind knew ultimate reality from day one of recorded history! And yet today's philosophers are like lost children, arguing over materialist nonsense and simulation theory. Mankind figured all this shit out 2500 years ago but no one bothers to care.
