It’s crazy to think how many hours of my life I’ve probably spent listening to you, I remember doing night shifts in my mid 20s, working 5x12 hour shifts a week and had converted ur vids to audio and listened on my mp3 player while at my station (no internet connection in the warehouse & not weren’t allowed phones). Really made what would have been a mind numbing experience productive. And now I’m a grown woman in my early 30s. Mad to think that as I’ve changed and gone through all these phases your vids are one of the things that have a remained a constant in my life. I look forward to being 50 or 80 and still listening to your videos, and thinking about the past me which is me now writing this, and all the ways me and my life have changed and improved since then.
Respected British anthropology professor, Dr. Edward Dutton, has demonstrated that “LEFTISM” is due to genetic mutations caused by poor breeding strategies. 🤡 To put it simply, in recent decades, those persons who exhibit leftist traits such as egalitarianism, feminism, gynocentrism, socialism, multiculturalism, transvestism, homosexuality, perverse morality, and laziness, have been reproducing at rates far exceeding the previous norm, leading to an explosion of insane, narcissistic SOCIOPATHS in (mostly) Western societies.
Too bad Leo doesn't touch on the fact that the political system as a whole was created to divide and control. Also the fact that everyone is being socially engineered on both the left and right by media of every kind.
@@mrscott01 He talks about it all the time in other videos. He did not mention it here for a specific reason. He says that our human ego minds need to think in systems but we have been corrupted by political and cultural systems. He is quite anti establishment. HERE he is trying to make spiritual people (the aim of the channel, if you look at his titles) more nuanced and less biased in their perspective. His goal is to see all perspectives so that we can remain neutral. He lists a lot of pros and cons from both sides of the political system. I’ve watched the entire video. He tends to be redundant and sometimes change an aspect of the topic but I understand his style since I’ve been listening to him for a long time. He also has said that as people on the spiritual path we need both detachment from social matters such as politics and others but to also be aware of how they work. Hope that may have helped. Oh, and do watch some of his other videos. They’ve really helped in opening my mind if you’re into that
the main reason I am compassionate, and concerned about social progress, is because all my material needs are met. If I was struggling financially, if I was jobless, homeless, penniless, I wouldn't have this luxury of high-minded social views. I would be thinking solely about my survival. I would steal if I had to, in order to feed myself and my family.
Leo… I grew up in a predominantly conservative white affluent area as the black passing son of immigrants. Despite the challenges this life presented I made it work and For this reason I have always been very open minded. Upon finally developing myself to the point of moving to a larger liberal metropolitan city I found the love of my life in a super liberal affluent white passing daughter of two immigrants. I thought she was the one. The next year we had an amazing relationship. It was the deepest love I have ever experienced. Eventually we began to fight after I realized that my consciousness work and openmindedness was clashing with her close minded views of progressive supremacy. She just didn’t understand. The breakup was long and painful. She ended up dating one of my younger friends which broke me. It’s been a long road healing from that trauma, despite the decent progress that I’ve made from simply being alone and not with the wrong person. But after listening to this…I can finally say that I’m fully over her and that I would not take her back if she wanted me. Throughout all of the self development, psychedelic trips, graduations, career progress, sex with newer hotter girls, nothing has been able to make me admit this truth until today(of course it’s simply a culmination and all of those things helped immensely in their own right). I am truly over this girl. I feel free. I feel lifted. This probably wasn’t your intention when releasing this video but I just needed to say thank you.
I relate to this because I come from a background of low psychological development. My grand parents were farmers in Angola. I'm first generation here in Toronto, Canada and I grew up in low income neighbourhoods for the first 20 years of my life. It's a miracle that while living in the ghetto I was open minded enough to consider Enlightenment. If you mention some of these ideas to the people I've grew up with they would laugh.
I know what you mean. I was fortunate enough to experience diversity at a young age through travel (mom was in military). If I didn’t have that traveling experience I’m sure I’d be close minded
So Leo I have to give you props for attempting something like this, and for acknowledging that neither political view, Left nor Right, is flawless. Indeed, both sides have their flaws as well as their merits. Having said that, I don't feel like you're truly as unbiased as you would like to think. Case in point: 04:30. You claim that Donald Trump and the entire MAGA movement is "racist, xenophobic, anti-immigration". Allow me to correct you on that and lay out a counter argument: we're not "anti-immigration" at all, much less racist or xenophobic. In fact, we're *pro* immigration. We believe that anyone who comes to this country in a *legal and lawful manner* should be welcomed, and in fact this behavior is to be encouraged. We do NOT, however, view unfettered, mass illegal immigration as the solution to poverty or as a viable way to solve the world's economic issues. In fact, if left unchecked, it would result in the destruction of the USA and then how would we be able to help the rest of the world? Now, I'm sure you (and everyone else in the comments) are angrily clacking away on your keyboards about how wrong I am or how "racist" I am etc. Allow me to continue laying out my counter arguments. Illegal immigration is actually very HARMFUL not just to the US, but to the people who attempt to cross our borders illegally. Statistically, 7 out of 10 women who illegally enter the USA are RAPED at one point or another during the journey, and that's just the ones that are documented; I'm sure in reality the figure is probably closer to 8 out of 10 women. As if that weren't enough, human traffickers routinely take advantage of this movement of people to force them into slavery. Yes, you read that correctly: lots of illegal immigrants are pressed into years of servitude in exchange for "guaranteed passage" across the border. That's downright horrible in and of itself. Then there's the fact that the US just doesn't have the infrastructure or capacity to support such massive amounts of illegal immigration. One recent newsworthy example is Martha's Vineyard. If a *SANCTUARY CITY*, which means they've pledged to allocate funding and resources for helping these people, crumbles and fails after a scant 50 immigrants and ends up in a state of emergency, how do you think border states like Texas or Arizona are faring with volumes of illegal immigrants that are hundreds or thousands of times that size coming in every single day? Then you have to look at the fact that illegal immigrants have few rights and opportunities here even if they do make here without being sexually assaulted or forced into slavery. They can't just apply at their local Wal-Mart for a job, at least not without resorting to some sort of identity theft or forgery etc in order to bypass the federal identity verification systems. As a result, many are forced to work "under the table" wherever they can. This has been proven, many times over, to result in abuse and an overall lower wage compared to someone who comes here with a work visa and can actually demand a fair wage. This not only results in a lower standard of living, but further perpetuates the cycle of poverty and misery that they were attempting to escape from in the first place! And let's not forget that life in the US is not inexpensive by any stretch of the imagination. Even US citizens are being stressed out financially with skyrocketing inflation and housing prices, so one can't help but wonder how we can expect illegal immigrants to fare any better given their circumstances? As if that weren't enough, the mass influx of illegal immigration is clogging up the legal system as many apply for asylum then subsequently skip out on their trials. This has the unfortunate side effect of slowing down the immigration process for people who do apply and attempt to enter our country legally. As a matter of fact, talk to someone who's entered the country legally and they'll likely tell you they're NOT in favor of illegal immigration because it feels like they (the legal immigrant) are being punished for trying to do the right thing. My final point comes from the fact that of the many Leftists I've spoken with, the vast majority have this unfortunate perception that everywhere South of the US border is just a lawless, gang infested, crime ridden "hell hole". I myself have been to parts of South America and I can indeed confirm that there are many places that have modern amenities and conveniences like high speed internet, running water, heating, air conditioning, etc. While true that the Mexican cartels do have a lot of power and authority in many parts of Central & even South America, the vast majority simply do not live under those conditions. In fact, the vast majority that cross the border do not qualify for asylum which is why they don't show up to their trials. So please, stop with this nonsense. Donald Trump and MAGA are a RESPONSE to the Left's failure to acknowledge and address the misinformation and lies constantly spewed by politicians and mainstream news. We're not anti-immigration, we're PRO IMMIGRATION, so long as it's legal immigration. The US asylum process is meant for people who truly meet the qualifications, and should NOT be abused by economic migrants looking for the country that will give them the best deal. Nor should it be encouraged due to how dangerous it is or how damaging economically unchecked illegal immigration can have on both nations and the immigrant themselves. I say these things as a Puerto Rican with a lineage that can be traced back to when the Spaniards carried African slaves to the isle of Puerto Rico.
No one seriously claims that all Trump voters are racists, rather the point is that most racists vote for Trump, and Trump has said and done plenty of racist crap, like trying to ban all Muslim migrants, in favor of more migrants from Norway. Also, many migrants at the board are not illegal, they submit themsleves to a lawful asylum process, yet you Trumpers love to demonize them as "illegals".
I agree with most of what you said and I don't care for Trump or any politicians. It's all about who these politicians are serving. Trump backstabbed the right and our country once convid hit and he supported shutdowns and stealing a trillion + dollars out of our pockets. Leo gets a lot of his views from media that is clear but he is much more open minded and has more common sense or should I say uncommon sense than most
Wisdom. Simple as that. This man is so intelligent. I use to be a sub 5 years ago and for some reason I was unsubbed. I don't remember doing that. I was used to a black t-shirt and skinny guy. Now we get this colorful get up and he gained some muscle it seems. Looks healthy. It took me 2 hours of research to find his channel again because I couldn't remember his name until he said it. I was like That's it! Nice to see you again Leo. Now time to binge watch 5 years of content. It will take 6 months because the videos are longer than full length films but hell, I can't get enough.
Is Mr. Gura a spiritual teacher or is he a spiritual MASTER? 🤔 If you are uncertain of the distinction between the two, I shall be MORE than happy to enlighten you. 😇
For simplification purposes it is required, otherwise there is a point you either cannot talk or you have to make the video even longer than it already is to get into all the nuance.
Okay, I get that you're using veganism as another example, but humans need meat to thrive and avoid modern disease. Most people don't have the biological systems in place to stay healthy off of a plant based diet for very long, 5-7 years max with maybe a few exceptions. 80% of people quit veganism and 75% of the quitters cite catastrophic health failure as the reason. If you're curious, check out Bart Kay's videos on the Randall Cycle. Our species appropriate diet is meat, mostly from large ruminate animals, with some fish and eggs thrown in. Humans really shouldn't consume any plants or carbohydrates whatsoever unless they're at risk of starving to death, for medical purposes or maybe for a bit of flavor after most of the defense chemical toxins have been cooked out of the plants.
it happens yeah, im 100% leftist but there's an extreme and rampant lack of nuance and respect of different opinions (like the whole calling everyone a racist or an xphobic) on the left is actually not helping the situation of the party, quite the contrary, sadly.
There is no civil discourse anymore. I remember a time where issues could be discussed rationally, intelligently, and a simple agree to disagree with a handshake could be the end of the debate. Now everyone is boxed into labels and dismissed if they are happen to fall into a disapproved of label. The left and the media have done a great job of labeling all MAGA supporters as racist, xenophobic, and just plain “crazy”. Even Leo has bought into this narrative. Sure , there are extreme individuals who possess these qualities but I would argue there are some with these qualities on the left as well. The right has demonized the words communism and socialism where no one on the left will openly admit being a communist or socialist. I agree that resorting to name calling and “cancelling” people who possess a different opinion is truly frightening and limits freedoms of speech. So a tweet from 10 years ago eliminates my views for the rest of my life ? While both parties have their extremes, if I was a conservative, “right winger”, or MAGA supporter and the left had absolute power with the ability to permanently eliminate any opposition, I would be very afraid. There just seems to be more rage and hate on the left.
I'm not 100% left leaning or even right leaning! But do I have a personal bias in certain areas of my life? I sure do! Because I do believe that everyone has personal prejudices and biases. Anyone that claims not to is somebody I look at with suspicion! Case in point Fox News has always bragged about being "Fair and balanced". But we all know that's not true at all! They're the most right leaning mainstream news organization in the world.
In terms of immigration, there's also a very pertinent point my mum raised once about what happened when she was a nurse. She once nursed a lady who had just come out of surgery and needed more morphine for the pain, but the charge nurse wouldn't allow it and said she just needed to walk around. She couldn't walk if she tried and it would have been dangerous to. That charge nurse came from a third world country, where they didn't have accessible drugs and their practices were outdated and in some cases cruel. This is a culture clash and is an extreme example of what happens every day when two vastly different cultures collide. I'm not against people from other countries coming to live here, but there needs to be something put in place to remedy the stark differences in mentality. There are other examples too, like men who treat women like objects because that's what their culture's like, I've seen news reports of stuff like this. It's in my opinion a big problem that's going ignored because it's too easy to throw up the 'racist' card and then everybody backs off.
I've been thinking about these same left issues for a while now being that I lean left and it goes to show that there should be balance in everything.. bucause too much of anything can be negative.. there needs to be more understanding of each other's perspective.. videos like this help a lot!
I think you missed a big aspect with immigration: Immigration is considered most problematic with people who come from violent and oppresive countries which in turn often means that the immigrants themselves are from a lower spiral dynamics stage. And I know this is not true for everyone and my heart goes out to anybody higher than stage blue who lives in in the middle east or africa, but for the majority it is. All they know is violence and trauma. You can't simply expect those people to accept gender equality, homosexuality, etc. and follow the rules from a new, less oppressive authority. All they will do is challenge that authority, realizing that nothing they do has consequences and in turn will continue the way of living of the country where they have come from. This also goes in hand with the "idiot compassion" concept. So in a sense by adding those people to the country you add to the right wing side.
“We need to be critical and unbiased”, while proceeding to linking Conservatives with xenophobia, racism and fascism on every single sentence and mention of Conservatives in this video. 😅 And im not even a Conservative! Haha Thats how deep the Matrix is. Not even a shit ton of meditation, self-reflection and DMT is enough to break it in its most rudimentary and shallow aspect, modern mainstream Statism-centric politics.
I believe that government should never step outside of and from under that which it was formed. It was formed by the Constitution, it cannot exist outside of that. Anything beyond that is defacto.
@@truth6242 Totally agree. The issue with most spiritual gurus today is that they're out of the political loop. Lots have changed, and they dont know about the updated ways the government is controlling everyday people, as well as using the Liberal "movement" to further fascism and corporate control in this country. Liberalism is no longer associated with the 'empathy and liberty' romanticized notion. Leo still think he's a Liberal in the 80s lol
The timing you release these videos is quite the synchronicity. I've been participating in progressive, green spaces to get more perspective since my up bringing was very orange. Great episode!
The fact that I was born and raised in the deep south. I can relate to this all too well. But as I got older and lived in more progressive blue states. I realize that there are a lot of things my home state could really learn from and vice versa. Same thing for where I'm living now. Over time I admit that there are some things about being home that I truly do miss and things I don't.
Leo, thank you so much for this superb episode. I knew you'd make it at some point and I've been waiting. Many of the ideas you're bringing here have been collecting in my mind for several years. Some of them I've been able to express to some extent, but others I've not known how to translate from thought to language. This is so well articulated. It also makes me feel less alone in this world of increasingly opposing ideologies, which seem to bring extremes on both sides, none of which I can support and side with. Thank you for your work and dedication. I sincerely hope your teachings will reach more people as time goes by, this type of taught is desperately needed.
Beautiful to see you’re body of work coming together so cohesively and coherently. I’ve been following you for years and am still learning. Thank you, Leo. Love yourself.
Leo, I tip my hat to you here as it takes genuine open-mindedness to conduct a fair and honest critique of stances you may well support at some level. This is where 'true' teaching happens and I think this is 1 of your best ever episodes. Bravo!
I am the only progressive in my family for the most part. These videos help me love my family members and cool me down when they give their conservative rants
I used to be in your world as well - it was so frustrating!! I felt that there was no way they could be this ill evolved. But then I started to see all the validity in what they said and that I had misunderstood and misinterpreted what they said. It added another dimension to my understanding. Like what Leo said here about most progressives not understanding and thinking they understand conservatives. Conservatives may be at a lower level, but their lower level is more healthy than the unhealthy way a lot of progressives are operating in green - with cancel culture and radical ideologies that don’t solve the root problems (which often involve not adequately knowing yourself and loving yourself) which are actually creating more chaos. They need to be kind and wait for other levels to evolve not use force. Or else a reaction will occur. I think it’s wiser to be at a healthier lower level than at an unhealthy higher level. I hope we continue to move higher but in more healthy ways. And many once progressives are joining conservatives in their fight for this reason. Logic has gone out the window and it’s hurting us all. I’m seeing the unhealthy things the progressives are doing, and I just want to see it play out, that they learn from their mistakes, because even though so many children will be harmed and damaged, so many lives will be lost through the increased crime for lack of control of state red…. Well humanity has so learn, it’s either the easy way, or the hard way. 🤍
2:07:00 Okay you have literally no knowledge about the vegan diet. Eat plenty of grains and legumes, nuts, nut butter and stuff like that and you will get plenty of calories. As if you could only eat fruits and veggies as a vegan, dude it’s laughable. Veganism is also the most affordable diet out of all because it takes the least effort to produce. If you cut out the middle man (the animal that you feed with plants that you produce) and eat the plants themself it’s way more effective and therefore cheaper. You don’t have to buy crazy expensive vegan alternatives, just get some basic Whole Foods and you are good. Yeah you should take a few supplements, but they are cheap as hell.
i do in fact think it's a sick way to think about things to say that there is no amount of people a CEO can rape in their whole lives that will override the amount of value they provide claiming that calling this abhorrent is some kind of privileged sheltered point of view that doesn't represent how most people think is such an overwhelmingly bleak and fatalistic picture of how you view people
Good video... been waiting for you to make it :) If you haven't recorded Part 2 yet, I hope you will mention the following in regard to progressives: - Constantly accusing their political opponents of being bad faith actors and having ulterior motives (dog whistling, etc.), as well as strawmanning their POV - e.x. 'Conservatives only oppose abortion because they hate/want to punish women' - Pigeonholing people based on one or two character traits, and trying to turn the Oppression Olympics into a professional sport - Treating identity, esp. gender identity, like a religion. - Pointing fingers at the right and saying 'but they're worse!' when people point out their own hypocrisy and bullshit. That is not what leaders do. - Being too laser-focused on their racial biases, to the exclusion of many other ones
He's not calling the right fascists, he's saying that fascists are on the right. Big difference. That's like thinking he's saying moderate conservatives are fascists.
In regards to the topic of immigration, Germany made this experiment of open boarders in 2015 and some really bad things happened. Until today the flood of immigrants has died down but I would not recommend it
As someone who leans to the right on some issues, big applause for doing this. Bravo! Probably one of the most important videos you've made on your channel.
On vegansim: Its actiually cheaper with lentils and chickpeas than meat. We can't get enough energy from carrots and lettuce, true. Bet thats why we eat grains and potatoes.
"...but of course I'm very unbiased and very non-partisan." This is a statement I consider very presumptuous. Even if someone knows all the arguments and aspects of a matter, he will still weigh them subjectively on the basis of personal conditioning and preferences and is therefore never unbiased and non-partisan.
"Can you step back from your own mind?" "Can you deal with the most important matters and let things take its course?" "Can you teach with imposing your will?" Lao Tzu, Tao Te Cheng
I think America needs more Entrepreneurs. I also believe that the more value a person creates, the more they should be compensated. We should NOT all make the same amount of money. That is ludacris. Leo speaks truth here.
Leo your conception of Marxism, Communism, Socialism and their history here is very flawed, it basically amounts to what western schools teach kids about these concepts up to a high school level. Marxism is primarily a critique of Capitalism, the labor relations within it and the way it directs production and consumption in a way that is counterproductive to most people being able to live a good life at all despite living in a world of plenty. It has almost nothing to say about how society ought to work, it's strongly focused on what's wrong with Capitalism and you don't seem to be aware of what these criticisms actually are. For example you imagine a leftist objecting to a rapist CEO and say that this leftist doesn't realize that this CEO is where he is because he produces a lot of value - a Marxist would consider that this "value" the CEO produces is itself a problem, regardless of whether he is a rapist or not, and that society would be better off with less of it actually. I don't expect you to agree with Marxist philosophy but if you're going to talk about it I do expect you to understand what it's about. You've even said that when Marxists talk about exploitation they don't understand that a corporation HAS to exploit their workers in order to survive - Marxists absolutely do understand this, they're not critiquing corporations for being evil exploiters, they are critiquing the free market system for imposing conditions that make exploitation an inescapable necessity. You cite Richard Wolff, but his Marxism is a watered down version he's engineered to try and get average Americans to question some very basic aspects of their existance - it rarely goes into the actual critique of the system of production itself, into the contradictions of Capitalism that Marx identifies. I'd encourage you to familiarize yourself with what Marx was actually concerned about. I also notice you have a blind spot towards leftist understanding of the history Western imperialism and neocolonialism. It's easy to be critical of liberals, because liberals are fundamentally people comfortable in the status quo arguing for the preservation and expansion of their own comfort. I don't think you would have as easy a time challenging proper Socialist left wing ideology, the kind interested in liberating and empowering the imperialized/oppressed masses that make up the majority of the global population, but I would love to hear it, I know you're not one to shy away from research. Michael Parenti's "Blackshirts and Reds" is a very basic left wing book that I'd recommend, it may not go much into the economics, but it's good as an introductory Western dissident history - the stuff Western governments don't want people knowing, the stuff they skip over teaching in high school because it's inconvenient to the powers that be.
The problem is that Marxism fundamentally misunderstands human psychology, development, leadership, and how business works. Just because you can criticize a system does not mean you can invent a better one. If all Marxism did was criticize, that would be harmless enough, but the problem is that they never stop there, they actually think their ideas to replace capitalism are sound, which of course they are not. Which is why they keep failing. If Marxism was sound, it would have already replaced capitalism.
You're very brave Leo. Wonderfully brave. Depressingly brave. You probably wouldn't get elected if that was your final party political broadcast but most of us know you well enough to keep voting for you.
I used to be homo-phobic because it made me uncomfortable. Overtime I’ve become more accustomed to embracing the difference while also choosing something for myself. It’s all starting to come together. Culture shock can happen to anyone because it’s not what you’re used too. On a side note I’ve always lived closer to the city because I noticed people tend to be more inclusive and open minded.
This is why I have a lot of respect for Leo. It takes an open mind to publically admit the flaws in your own perspective and not downplay them while doing so. I know many people in my life both on the left and the right who think they have all the answers and if everyone would just agree with their point of view the world would have no problems. I can’t say that I am fully there yet either but this episode helped thank you.
"It's harder to tell when the left goes too far" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂 Yeah I guess if you're a schizophrenic then it's harder to tell what you perceive as "normal."
A very advanced and accurate critique of the left from above. I too began to study politics more closely after Trump became popular and this style of critique is rare and desperately needed more of in this country. We have issues on the left that are less apparent than the right and this video puts them together clearly. Thank you!
Why is it considered a "more developed person" who wants diversity in their community versus someone who prefers and loves their own culture/people and wants it to remain uni-cultural? I don't see either as more or less developed, simply a preference (which you did speak on). People can prefer their race without hating other races right?
Because reality is diverse. It takes a lot of effort to avoid the diversity of life on this planet. If you only love one form of life, your mind is literally under-developed. It's like going to a Vegas buffet and only eating chicken fingers out of closemindedness. This is how children behave.
I’m glad I found your channel. When I did .. I was high on crystal meth… which made me watch your videos for 17 hours straight. Everything is so interesting, the way you explain these concepts is just so captivating. I learned more in the last 17 hours then I did in the past year. ❤ I can’t thank you enough , keep doing what you’re doing. It’s amazing!
The “Life Advice for Young People” series literally changed my perspective on “life”. I can’t believe how motivated I am. The amount of motivation I got it’s unbelievable. Started watching with no goals,no motivation, pretty depressed. Now I have 5 pages full of ideas, goals and plans. I finally understand “life” , I found meaning. And for all this I am and will be eternally grateful to you. Thank you Leo ! ❤❤❤
How do you even start doing meth? Like what made you say "fuck it, I'ma try eat poison"? Lol meth just seems like it gets too much bad publicity for people to be starting it in the first place anymore
@@DaPhreshestKidd In my case it was the loneliness and unhappiness combined with bad people. At the time I thought they were my friends. Because they helped me be less “lost” so to say. They did meth. They’r lives seemed better then mine so it seemed like a good Idea at the time. Can’t really say why.. many things combined. I used to like trap music so that was a huge influence too.
@@DaPhreshestKidd where I’m from meth isn’t popular, nobody speaks about it. I had close to 0 information about it the first time i tried. The people around me made it seem like an unknown good thing. And i didn’t really question them at the time:
Why should we lament the problems of the world. It just makes them triggered and defensive.. let's just talk about solutions or at least do something meaningful that is sustainable and profitable and good for the world.. everything else is mental masturbation
What we have is corporation capitalism. And what we people need is free capitalism. Meaning free capitalism EVERYBODY has the chance to make it or not depends if you re hard worker or not but the chances to make it are equal. Corporate capitalism is only the top 1% is allowed to make money and all the rest stays down there and never can make it as they put taxes high for us so we they can control us the masses and they have the power. Sounds like communism, only the leader is rich and you all equal poor😂😂. Free capitalism is chance for everyone to make it if the right things are done. No free money and being lazy but hard worked money. But these days even if you work hard you cant climb as they keep us down.
Born under Ceausescu and raised in Costa Rica, Anarcho-Capitalist here: Hats Off!!! We Desperately need So Much More of this! ...I may disagree with most; doesn't matter: The courage it takes to consider this perspective is astounding! Much Respect! Keep on Reasoning and ease on the emotion, I Beg! Thanks! This is So Refreshing!
🐟 22. ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNANCES: SOCIALISM (and its more extreme form, communism) is intrinsically evil, because it is based on the ideology of social and economic egalitarianism, which is both a theoretical and a practical impossibility. Equality exists solely in abstract concepts such as mathematics and arguably in the sub-atomic realm. Many proponents of socialism argue that it is purely an economic system and therefore independent of any particular form of governance. However, it is inconceivable that socialism/communism could be implemented on a nationwide scale without any form of government intervention. If a relatively small number of persons wish to unite in order to form a commune or worker-cooperative, that is their prerogative, but it could never work in a country with a large population, because there will always exist entrepreneurs desirous of engaging in wealth-building enterprises. Even a musician who composes a hit tune wants his song to succeed and earn him inordinate wealth. Socialism reduces individual citizens to utilities, who, in practice, are used to support the ruling elite, who are invariably despotic scoundrels, and very far from ideal leaders (i.e. compassionate and righteous monarchs). Those citizens who display talent in business or the arts are either oppressed, or their gifts are coercively utilized by the corrupt state. Despite purporting to be a fair and equitable system of wealth distribution, those in leadership positions seem to live a far more luxurious lifestyle than the mass of menial workers. Wealth is effectively stolen from the rich. Most destructively, virtuous and holy teachings (“dharma”, in Sanskrit) are repressed by the irreligious and ILLEGITIMATE “government”. The argument that some form of government WELFARE programme is essential to aid those who are unable to financially-support themselves for reasons beyond their control, is fallacious. A righteous ruler (i.e. a saintly monarch) will ensure the welfare of each and every citizen by encouraging private welfare. There is no need for a king to extort money from his subjects in order to feed and clothe the impoverished. Of course, in the highly-unlikely event that civilians are unwilling to help a person in dire straits, the king would step-in to assist that person, as one would expect from a patriarch (father of his people). The head of any nation ought to be the penultimate patriarch, not a selfish buffoon. DEMOCRACY is almost as evil, because, just as the rabble favoured the murderous Barabbas over the good King Jesus, the ignorant masses will overwhelmingly vote for the candidate which promises to fulfil their inane desires, rather than one which will enforce the law, and promote a wholesome and just society. Read Chapter 12 for the most authoritative and concise exegesis of law, morality, and ethics, currently available. Even in the miraculous scenario where the vast majority of the population are holy and righteous citizens, it is still immoral for them to vote for a seemingly-righteous leader. This is because that leader will not be, by definition, a king. As clearly and logically explicated in the previous chapter of this Holy Scripture, MONARCHY is the only lawful form of governance. If an elected ruler is truly righteous, he will not be able to condone the fact that the citizens are paying him to perform a job (which is a working-class role), and that an inordinate amount of time, money and resources are being wasted on political campaigning. Furthermore, an actual ruler does not wimpishly pander to voters - he takes power by (divinely-mandated) force, as one would expect from the penultimate alpha-male in society (the ultimate alpha-male being a priest). The thought of children voting for who will be their parents or teachers, would seem utterly RIDICULOUS to the average person, yet most believe that they are qualified to choose their own ruler - they are most assuredly not. Just as a typical child fails to understand that a piece of sweet, juicy, healthy, delicious fruit is more beneficial for them than a cone of pus-infested, fattening, diabetes-inducing ice-cream, so too can the uneducated proletariat not understand that they are unqualified to choose their own leader, even after it is logically explained to them (as it is in this chapter, as well as in the previous chapter). And by “uneducated”, it is simply meant that they are misguided in the realities of life and in righteous living (“dharma”, in Sanskrit), not in facts and figures or in technical training. Intelligence doesn't necessarily correlate to wisdom. No socialist or democratic government will educate its citizens sufficiently well that the citizens have the knowledge of how to usurp their rule. To put it frankly, democracy is rule by the “lowest common denominator”. It should be obvious that ANARCHY can never ever succeed, because even the smallest possible social unit (the nuclear family) requires a dominator. Any family will fall-apart without a strict male household head. In fact, without the husband/father, there is no family, by definition. The English noun “husband” comes from the Old Norse word “hûsbôndi”, meaning “master of the house”. The same paradigm applies to the extended family, which depends on a strong patriarchal figure (customarily, the eldest or most senior male). Likewise with clans, tribes, villages, towns, cities, and nations or countries. Unfortunately, there are many otherwise-intelligent persons who honestly believe that an ENTIRE country can smoothly run without a leader in place. Any sane person can easily understand that even a nuclear family is unable to function properly without a head of the house, what to speak of a populous nation. The reason for anarchists' distrust of any kind of government is due to the corrupt nature of democratic governments, and the adulteration of the monarchy in recent centuries. However, if anarchists were to understand that most all so-called “kings/queens” in recent centuries were not even close to being true monarchs, they may change their stance on that inane “system”. Most of the problems in human society are directly or indirectly attributable to this relatively modern phenomenon (non-monarchies), since it is the government’s role and sacred DUTY to enforce the law (see Chapter 12), and non-monarchical governments are themselves unlawful. One of the many sinister characteristics of democracy, socialism, and other evil forms of governance, is the desire for their so-called “leaders” to control, or at least influence, the private lives of every single citizen (hence the term “Nanny State”). For example, in the wicked, decadent nations in which this holy scripture was composed, The Philippine Islands and The Southland (or “Australia”, as it is known in the Latin tongue), the DEMONIC governments try, and largely succeed, in controlling the rights of parents to properly raise, discipline and punish their children according to their own morals, compulsory vaccination of infants, enforcing feminist ideology, limiting legitimate powers an employer has over his servants, subsidizing animal agriculture, persecuting religious leaders (even to imprisonment and death, believe it or not. Personally, I have been jailed thrice for executing God’s perfect and pure will), and even trying to negatively influence what people eat and wear. Not that a government shouldn’t control what its citizens wear in public, but it should ensure that they are MODESTLY dressed, according to the guidelines outlined in Chapter 28, which is hardly the case in Australia, the Philippines, and similar nations. At least ninety-nine per cent of Filipinas, for instance, are transvestinal, despite Philippines pretending to be a religious nation. Cont...
@@Nothing-lr3dt yeah no one reads it because it’s just a person shouting into a megaphone I’ve noticed that people who go into a public space and shout their ideas into a megaphone are usually dumb
I'm happy about Leo touching on immigration in this episode. I haven't been able to comprehend our problem with immigration which I see many Americans posting about on the internet. Something felt wrong about it for a very long time
I love that you're still considering spiral dynamics. It's the topic that's excited me the most from not just your channel but all of my discoveries. 😊
Socialism is when the workers control the means of production. It is not when the state controls the means of production. The Soviet Union had a state controlled economy not a worker controlled economy. They masqueraded as a socialist state for propaganda reasons. Similar to how North Korea calls themselves a republic. After the fall of the Soviet Union the definition of the word socialism changed to mean state socialism as opposed to its original definition. And that's the problem with the word socialism. People use the same word to describe completely different things. And what makes it worse is that now they've also started use the word to describe social democracies. And people on the right pretty much use the word to describe anything they don't like.
It’s hilarious to me when people think you’re left or right or try to put you in a predictable box. Very few people avoid sheep think and can be honest about what actually is true…aka being real.
Grewing up in switzerland and moving to an Eastern European country on stag blue, orange I have understood that all, these extreme western value positions of climate protection, vegan culture and organic food is a first world issue, which most people can never afford right now on the place i living in right now. Thanks for this great video. Just confirmed many of my own thoughts which I had for several months.
i think Leo greatly overestimates the number of people that have enough discomfort or xenophobic sentiment to cause problems and start fascist movements. he describes a majority of undeveloped people with those sentiments vs 10% of more enlightened progressive people and then conflates them with the most extreme representatives of right wing ideology, inadvertently echoing the "silent majority" argument. he kind of infantilizes the vast majority of people and underestimates their ability to grow and adapt along this particular axis
I know this may be off-topic but Leo should make a video about overcoming addictions like compulsive eating disorders or consuming too much caffeine or other substances. Thank you!
yeah search actualized addiction he has a video about obvious addictions as well as a video about subtle addictions. start with the one abt obvious addictions
Compassion is a loaded term. Warm squishy compassion vs hard truth compassion. Who are you being compassionate to??? The person in front of you or the person they could be? The conservatives I've met value tough future based compassion far more than the left. It just doesn't feel warm and squishy
I like these current events type videos! Could you do one on big tech privacy/ethics problems? Maybe something along the lines of digital identity and getting sucked into social media
Strength implies weakness, we are all lacking in areas and strong in other areas. Leo's greatest weakness is probably just getting out of the house, because introverts create most of the online content in the world.
Corporations generate many layers of profit, one of which is used to pay the salaries of their employees. Salaries essentially come from profit. Whatever is left after all costs and expenses are accounted for (if anything) remains for the owners to keep. Those owners -- in the case of the large, demonized corporations (the Amazons of the world) -- are often the public at large. And in the case of small businesses, it is often the case that employees get paid more than the owners do for long stretches of time and in many cases for the entire lifespan of the business.
The left can go wrong in several ways, particularly when they take progressive ideals to extremes, as discussed in political analysis and commentary. Below are some of the key points where the left is often criticised: 1. Excessive Political Correctness: One of the most frequently cited issues is when political correctness becomes overbearing, leading to censorship or an unwillingness to engage with differing views. Some argue this stifles free speech and open debate, especially in academic and cultural spaces. A good example is when historical achievements, such as those of ancient civilisations, are undermined or dismissed due to moral judgments from modern perspectives. 2. Demonisation of Opposition: Progressives sometimes fall into the trap of demonising all those who hold different views. This can manifest as labelling anyone not entirely aligned with their views as bigots, fascists, or racists. This approach can prevent meaningful discussions and alienate potential allies, even those on the moderate left. 3. Disregard for Economic Realities: Some left-wing commentators have been criticised for promoting economic policies that are seen as unrealistic, such as downplaying the importance of deficits and suggesting that governments can endlessly print money without significant consequences. This has been debated within progressive circles, as it can lead to unsustainable financial practices. 4. Overgeneralisation of Institutions: The left is sometimes criticised for broad generalisations of institutions like the police or the military. For example, while police brutality is a real issue that needs addressing, painting the entire force as corrupt or fascist can lead to a loss of balance in discourse. These examples reflect where progressivism can go too far, leading to criticisms from both within and outside the movement.
I was thinking about this a couple months ago. I wish we had some kind of social/political simulator that was fairly accurate (of course making something like that really accurate is probably impossible due to all the variables and moving parts, similar to weather simulations) so that we could implement different types of legislation and see how that plays out. I looked online and found democracy 4 but from what it seems like it only let's you work within already existing parameters. I want a simulator that let's you implement different governing systems, currency systems, etc. Being able to change the actual structure of the government, like going from a centralized to a decentralized government. We could see how things play out and adjust our systems accordingly. I think that would be an extremely useful tool for us.
I don't think it's a good idea to call yourself unideological or unbiased. That's yellow arrogance, or yellow hyper standards. I've been there and I got a lot of unnecessary rejection for this. When you actually are (relatively) unbiased, you don't need to tell it to people, many will sense it, and if people don't sense it, that's ok, it just means they would believe you. Some humility helps. It doesn't mean you have to see all people on the same level. But at least give all people the same fair standards to judge them, and play by these standards as well. Don't define your standards in a way that you are on a very high stage. Define your standards in a way that actually fits to what you think how people NEED to be. To what you think people need to be and be doing to make the world a better place. And don't only look on what's missing, look on everything that's needed. It helps a lot to humble yourself and feel less important and responsible, and it will bring you more friends.
I've long intuited that calling someone racist is counterproductive. Making people defensive and closed off doesn't help them, nor the progressive cause. Additionally, I have friends from every continent and I still laugh at racist jokes, oftentimes with them.
i do business with comcast not because they provide me with a really good service, but because i literally have no other choice since they've created a monopoly with an exclusive contract for my area and forced out the competition
Great topic to be discussing given our highly progressive political landscape. I wrote in a book that I’m working on about the problem of ascribing people the title ‘racist’. Very counterproductive to actually minimising it. I’ve observed in my own experience as a African man that using these vilifying labels are completely futile. Great to hear to touch on this. Also the plethora of ideological movements (i.e. feminism, black Lives matter, me too and climate change) nowadays is doing little to help the causes they are trying to support. A lot of blaming and divisive hatred and group think. Not enough togetherness and discussing of realistic solutions.
Are YOU racist? 🤔 I would appreciate if you would be PERFECTLY honest when responding to my question: if you were walking down a street in the middle of the night, and a group of Negro men were approaching on your side of the street, while a group of Japanese guys were approaching you on the other side of the street, would you cross the road?😬 Obviously, I’m assuming that you didn’t know anything about the individuals in question - ONLY their respective race.🤓
For the record Leo, being vegan is CHEAPER than being omnivorous, and animal products around the western world are heavily subsidised by tax money and are essentially a first world luxury. Most cost analysis show black people and poorer ethnic minorities are more than twice as likely to go vegan than white people are. I totally agree that there are difficult cultural shifts and mental resistances to the movement, but as someone who has been vegan and worked in warehouses unloading shipping containers, there are no caloric or physical limitations to what a vegan diet can provide, unless you’re living in extremely cold or food scarce climates. Ironically the saturated fat in meat becomes LDL cholesterol after digestion which blocks insulin receptors, preventing them from opening the sugar gates to your cells, making it harder for you to utilise the energy of fats broken down into glucose, which can actually cause diabetes. In contrast, complex carbohydrates that break straight down into glucose can be stored as glycogen in the liver as a much cleaner fuel that provides greater economy of energy. When most people say “they can’t afford to be vegan” they’re really just pretending that changing isn’t even an option so they don’t have to consider it, and given that the movement has been increasing in popularity at an exponential rate, most sociologists predict that in just over a decade veganism will become mainstream. Again you’re spot on with the cultural hurdles and mental obstacles, but who knows, maybe the change will happen sooner than you think. I’d be happy to answer any other questions or objections you have 😊
20:14 Incorrect sir, I'll freely admit that I'm racist. We're all racist just like we're all xenophobic. Racism and xenophobia are natural byproducts of the generalizing and grouping our brains naturally do, and how we as a species has survived. We're all racist and will always be because racism is part of the human condition. Managing our racism is the real issue but we can't hope to manage it unless we admit that we, as high humans, are racist and that's OK.
A friend of mine has a new hobby - he started to make a list of all the objects - either dead or alive - which show up in his nightly dreams. He additionally classifies the objects in all sorts of features and relationships as friendly, villain, neutral, destructive and creative, colorful and monochromatic, moving fast and slow and stationary. I asked him why are you doing that? And he said that he needs to better understand his dreams. I asked why? And he said that doing that makes him the dream philosopher. I wanted to ask him if it wouldn't be better to wake up in the middle of the dream and just see all that as just a dream? That would make everything so much funnier and happier. But he did not listen up my questions and went to sleep. I hope that one day he gonna see that.
The two ideologies are like a marriage. Success and prosperity needs positive polarization. But when the fight is just about hurting the other person. That's when the breakdown occurs.
Very interesting! Love your Content! I am an Immigrant to Germany from Románia 20 Years ago. Now Germany is flooded with Immigrants which causes problems as there are far too many. As Germany already has and had bad reputation concerning the right position what I found wrong as long as I live here due to people being very open minded in Germany. But I can see that a too left sight is now really destroying this country. I realized at an early point that politics and government are not eager to provide peace and dont have in mind treating people good and kindly. They are moneyhungry manipulators and feed of fear and unstability. That is what people have to learn. Actually right and left work together to create Chaos, it is an Illusion that there are many Parties having different goals.
It’s crazy to think how many hours of my life I’ve probably spent listening to you, I remember doing night shifts in my mid 20s, working 5x12 hour shifts a week and had converted ur vids to audio and listened on my mp3 player while at my station (no internet connection in the warehouse & not weren’t allowed phones). Really made what would have been a mind numbing experience productive. And now I’m a grown woman in my early 30s. Mad to think that as I’ve changed and gone through all these phases your vids are one of the things that have a remained a constant in my life. I look forward to being 50 or 80 and still listening to your videos, and thinking about the past me which is me now writing this, and all the ways me and my life have changed and improved since then.
Wow
@@ActualizedOrgLeo,
There is a guy replying to us using your picture and redirecting people to subscribe to a link.
@@GingerAlle171 Well, don't be foolish and follow.
Just because I don't like another culture, doesn't mean I'm racist. I just prefer my culture.
Nice Quote
The left went too far when they removed the dislike button.
Respected British anthropology professor, Dr. Edward Dutton, has demonstrated that “LEFTISM” is due to genetic mutations caused by poor breeding strategies.
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To put it simply, in recent decades, those persons who exhibit leftist traits such as egalitarianism, feminism, gynocentrism, socialism, multiculturalism, transvestism, homosexuality, perverse morality, and laziness, have been reproducing at rates far exceeding the previous norm, leading to an explosion of insane, narcissistic SOCIOPATHS in (mostly) Western societies.
Neoliberals aren’t leftists.
Eyo facts
Too bad Leo doesn't touch on the fact that the political system as a whole was created to divide and control. Also the fact that everyone is being socially engineered on both the left and right by media of every kind.
@@mrscott01 He talks about it all the time in other videos. He did not mention it here for a specific reason. He says that our human ego minds need to think in systems but we have been corrupted by political and cultural systems. He is quite anti establishment. HERE he is trying to make spiritual people (the aim of the channel, if you look at his titles) more nuanced and less biased in their perspective. His goal is to see all perspectives so that we can remain neutral. He lists a lot of pros and cons from both sides of the political system. I’ve watched the entire video. He tends to be redundant and sometimes change an aspect of the topic but I understand his style since I’ve been listening to him for a long time. He also has said that as people on the spiritual path we need both detachment from social matters such as politics and others but to also be aware of how they work. Hope that may have helped. Oh, and do watch some of his other videos. They’ve really helped in opening my mind if you’re into that
the main reason I am compassionate, and concerned about social progress, is because all my material needs are met. If I was struggling financially, if I was jobless, homeless, penniless, I wouldn't have this luxury of high-minded social views. I would be thinking solely about my survival. I would steal if I had to, in order to feed myself and my family.
Very wise of you to recongize this. Most cannot.
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Can we stop to reflect on the fact that Leo went from full black, to white and now rainbow! Fully embodying tier 2 😌
he is LGBTQ now
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@@Obby_Unsk me too
No Ive seen leo on the forum, he behaves like a little kid. Banning all conservative opinions.
Leo…
I grew up in a predominantly conservative white affluent area as the black passing son of immigrants. Despite the challenges this life presented I made it work and For this reason I have always been very open minded. Upon finally developing myself to the point of moving to a larger liberal metropolitan city I found the love of my life in a super liberal affluent white passing daughter of two immigrants. I thought she was the one. The next year we had an amazing relationship. It was the deepest love I have ever experienced. Eventually we began to fight after I realized that my consciousness work and openmindedness was clashing with her close minded views of progressive supremacy. She just didn’t understand. The breakup was long and painful. She ended up dating one of my younger friends which broke me. It’s been a long road healing from that trauma, despite the decent progress that I’ve made from simply being alone and not with the wrong person. But after listening to this…I can finally say that I’m fully over her and that I would not take her back if she wanted me. Throughout all of the self development, psychedelic trips, graduations, career progress, sex with newer hotter girls, nothing has been able to make me admit this truth until today(of course it’s simply a culmination and all of those things helped immensely in their own right). I am truly over this girl. I feel free. I feel lifted. This probably wasn’t your intention when releasing this video but I just needed to say thank you.
Cheers brother. Girls are silly creatures. Don't take them too seriously, especially on politics :P
You need to find yourself a Tier 2 girl ;)
Imagine being able to get girls
It seems that one your highest values in a relationship is understanding. Look for someone who can understand you and grow with you the next time.
Hey Jacob, I'd love to talk to you and get to know you. You have the life I desire. Can we get in contact via email or another venue?
Let me guess you supported Trump and she hated Trump? Lol
I relate to this because I come from a background of low psychological development. My grand parents were farmers in Angola. I'm first generation here in Toronto, Canada and I grew up in low income neighbourhoods for the first 20 years of my life. It's a miracle that while living in the ghetto I was open minded enough to consider Enlightenment. If you mention some of these ideas to the people I've grew up with they would laugh.
sending out my love to you, brother. thanks for sharing
I know what you mean. I was fortunate enough to experience diversity at a young age through travel (mom was in military). If I didn’t have that traveling experience I’m sure I’d be close minded
Awesome dude. I grew up in Toronto aswell!
This guy is a snake oil salesman.
So Leo I have to give you props for attempting something like this, and for acknowledging that neither political view, Left nor Right, is flawless. Indeed, both sides have their flaws as well as their merits. Having said that, I don't feel like you're truly as unbiased as you would like to think. Case in point: 04:30.
You claim that Donald Trump and the entire MAGA movement is "racist, xenophobic, anti-immigration". Allow me to correct you on that and lay out a counter argument: we're not "anti-immigration" at all, much less racist or xenophobic. In fact, we're *pro* immigration. We believe that anyone who comes to this country in a *legal and lawful manner* should be welcomed, and in fact this behavior is to be encouraged. We do NOT, however, view unfettered, mass illegal immigration as the solution to poverty or as a viable way to solve the world's economic issues. In fact, if left unchecked, it would result in the destruction of the USA and then how would we be able to help the rest of the world?
Now, I'm sure you (and everyone else in the comments) are angrily clacking away on your keyboards about how wrong I am or how "racist" I am etc. Allow me to continue laying out my counter arguments. Illegal immigration is actually very HARMFUL not just to the US, but to the people who attempt to cross our borders illegally. Statistically, 7 out of 10 women who illegally enter the USA are RAPED at one point or another during the journey, and that's just the ones that are documented; I'm sure in reality the figure is probably closer to 8 out of 10 women. As if that weren't enough, human traffickers routinely take advantage of this movement of people to force them into slavery. Yes, you read that correctly: lots of illegal immigrants are pressed into years of servitude in exchange for "guaranteed passage" across the border. That's downright horrible in and of itself.
Then there's the fact that the US just doesn't have the infrastructure or capacity to support such massive amounts of illegal immigration. One recent newsworthy example is Martha's Vineyard. If a *SANCTUARY CITY*, which means they've pledged to allocate funding and resources for helping these people, crumbles and fails after a scant 50 immigrants and ends up in a state of emergency, how do you think border states like Texas or Arizona are faring with volumes of illegal immigrants that are hundreds or thousands of times that size coming in every single day?
Then you have to look at the fact that illegal immigrants have few rights and opportunities here even if they do make here without being sexually assaulted or forced into slavery. They can't just apply at their local Wal-Mart for a job, at least not without resorting to some sort of identity theft or forgery etc in order to bypass the federal identity verification systems. As a result, many are forced to work "under the table" wherever they can. This has been proven, many times over, to result in abuse and an overall lower wage compared to someone who comes here with a work visa and can actually demand a fair wage. This not only results in a lower standard of living, but further perpetuates the cycle of poverty and misery that they were attempting to escape from in the first place! And let's not forget that life in the US is not inexpensive by any stretch of the imagination. Even US citizens are being stressed out financially with skyrocketing inflation and housing prices, so one can't help but wonder how we can expect illegal immigrants to fare any better given their circumstances?
As if that weren't enough, the mass influx of illegal immigration is clogging up the legal system as many apply for asylum then subsequently skip out on their trials. This has the unfortunate side effect of slowing down the immigration process for people who do apply and attempt to enter our country legally. As a matter of fact, talk to someone who's entered the country legally and they'll likely tell you they're NOT in favor of illegal immigration because it feels like they (the legal immigrant) are being punished for trying to do the right thing.
My final point comes from the fact that of the many Leftists I've spoken with, the vast majority have this unfortunate perception that everywhere South of the US border is just a lawless, gang infested, crime ridden "hell hole". I myself have been to parts of South America and I can indeed confirm that there are many places that have modern amenities and conveniences like high speed internet, running water, heating, air conditioning, etc. While true that the Mexican cartels do have a lot of power and authority in many parts of Central & even South America, the vast majority simply do not live under those conditions. In fact, the vast majority that cross the border do not qualify for asylum which is why they don't show up to their trials.
So please, stop with this nonsense. Donald Trump and MAGA are a RESPONSE to the Left's failure to acknowledge and address the misinformation and lies constantly spewed by politicians and mainstream news. We're not anti-immigration, we're PRO IMMIGRATION, so long as it's legal immigration. The US asylum process is meant for people who truly meet the qualifications, and should NOT be abused by economic migrants looking for the country that will give them the best deal. Nor should it be encouraged due to how dangerous it is or how damaging economically unchecked illegal immigration can have on both nations and the immigrant themselves.
I say these things as a Puerto Rican with a lineage that can be traced back to when the Spaniards carried African slaves to the isle of Puerto Rico.
No one seriously claims that all Trump voters are racists, rather the point is that most racists vote for Trump, and Trump has said and done plenty of racist crap, like trying to ban all Muslim migrants, in favor of more migrants from Norway.
Also, many migrants at the board are not illegal, they submit themsleves to a lawful asylum process, yet you Trumpers love to demonize them as "illegals".
I agree with most of what you said and I don't care for Trump or any politicians. It's all about who these politicians are serving. Trump backstabbed the right and our country once convid hit and he supported shutdowns and stealing a trillion + dollars out of our pockets. Leo gets a lot of his views from media that is clear but he is much more open minded and has more common sense or should I say uncommon sense than most
Probably the best channel I have encountered in friggin years. You, Sir, are a legend.
Try The Academy of Ideas. Definitely a contender for best channel on TH-cam. You will not be disappointed.
Wisdom. Simple as that. This man is so intelligent. I use to be a sub 5 years ago and for some reason I was unsubbed. I don't remember doing that. I was used to a black t-shirt and skinny guy. Now we get this colorful get up and he gained some muscle it seems. Looks healthy. It took me 2 hours of research to find his channel again because I couldn't remember his name until he said it. I was like That's it! Nice to see you again Leo. Now time to binge watch 5 years of content. It will take 6 months because the videos are longer than full length films but hell, I can't get enough.
hahahah you’re in for a rideeeeee, it’s good shit!
@@jawokenn8766 Good and bad are RELATIVE. 😉
Is Mr. Gura a spiritual teacher or is he a spiritual MASTER? 🤔
If you are uncertain of the distinction between the two, I shall be MORE than happy to enlighten you. 😇
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices he's a spiritual salesman
@@Nothing-lr3dt what have I started?
if your brain was truly "evolved" you'd know you can't arbitrarily put people into "left and right" boxes
For simplification purposes it is required, otherwise there is a point you either cannot talk or you have to make the video even longer than it already is to get into all the nuance.
Okay, I get that you're using veganism as another example, but humans need meat to thrive and avoid modern disease. Most people don't have the biological systems in place to stay healthy off of a plant based diet for very long, 5-7 years max with maybe a few exceptions. 80% of people quit veganism and 75% of the quitters cite catastrophic health failure as the reason. If you're curious, check out Bart Kay's videos on the Randall Cycle. Our species appropriate diet is meat, mostly from large ruminate animals, with some fish and eggs thrown in.
Humans really shouldn't consume any plants or carbohydrates whatsoever unless they're at risk of starving to death, for medical purposes or maybe for a bit of flavor after most of the defense chemical toxins have been cooked out of the plants.
it happens yeah, im 100% leftist but there's an extreme and rampant lack of nuance and respect of different opinions (like the whole calling everyone a racist or an xphobic) on the left is actually not helping the situation of the party, quite the contrary, sadly.
There is no civil discourse anymore. I remember a time where issues could be discussed rationally, intelligently, and a simple agree to disagree with a handshake could be the end of the debate. Now everyone is boxed into labels and dismissed if they are happen to fall into a disapproved of label. The left and the media have done a great job of labeling all MAGA supporters as racist, xenophobic, and just plain “crazy”. Even Leo has bought into this narrative. Sure , there are extreme individuals who possess these qualities but I would argue there are some with these qualities on the left as well. The right has demonized the words communism and socialism where no one on the left will openly admit being a communist or socialist. I agree that resorting to name calling and “cancelling” people who possess a different opinion is truly frightening and limits freedoms of speech. So a tweet from 10 years ago eliminates my views for the rest of my life ? While both parties have their extremes, if I was a conservative, “right winger”, or MAGA supporter and the left had absolute power with the ability to permanently eliminate any opposition, I would be very afraid. There just seems to be more rage and hate on the left.
Authoritarian autocratic totalitarian socialist Communist terrorist dictatorial governments should be eliminated from the face of the Earth
100 percent means you're voting for the divisive woke cult
What makes you a leftist, respectfully asked
I'm not 100% left leaning or even right leaning! But do I have a personal bias in certain areas of my life? I sure do! Because I do believe that everyone has personal prejudices and biases. Anyone that claims not to is somebody I look at with suspicion! Case in point Fox News has always bragged about being "Fair and balanced". But we all know that's not true at all! They're the most right leaning mainstream news organization in the world.
In terms of immigration, there's also a very pertinent point my mum raised once about what happened when she was a nurse. She once nursed a lady who had just come out of surgery and needed more morphine for the pain, but the charge nurse wouldn't allow it and said she just needed to walk around. She couldn't walk if she tried and it would have been dangerous to. That charge nurse came from a third world country, where they didn't have accessible drugs and their practices were outdated and in some cases cruel. This is a culture clash and is an extreme example of what happens every day when two vastly different cultures collide. I'm not against people from other countries coming to live here, but there needs to be something put in place to remedy the stark differences in mentality.
There are other examples too, like men who treat women like objects because that's what their culture's like, I've seen news reports of stuff like this. It's in my opinion a big problem that's going ignored because it's too easy to throw up the 'racist' card and then everybody backs off.
I've been thinking about these same left issues for a while now being that I lean left and it goes to show that there should be balance in everything.. bucause too much of anything can be negative.. there needs to be more understanding of each other's perspective.. videos like this help a lot!
I think you missed a big aspect with immigration: Immigration is considered most problematic with people who come from violent and oppresive countries which in turn often means that the immigrants themselves are from a lower spiral dynamics stage. And I know this is not true for everyone and my heart goes out to anybody higher than stage blue who lives in in the middle east or africa, but for the majority it is. All they know is violence and trauma. You can't simply expect those people to accept gender equality, homosexuality, etc. and follow the rules from a new, less oppressive authority. All they will do is challenge that authority, realizing that nothing they do has consequences and in turn will continue the way of living of the country where they have come from. This also goes in hand with the "idiot compassion" concept. So in a sense by adding those people to the country you add to the right wing side.
Yes, that is an important factor.
sometimes i feel like the comment section is filled with mental asylum patients
He said anti immigrant .. yet why am I marrying an immigrant if I'm so anti immigrant? Haha .. Nothing could ever be further from the truth.
“We need to be critical and unbiased”, while proceeding to linking Conservatives with xenophobia, racism and fascism on every single sentence and mention of Conservatives in this video. 😅 And im not even a Conservative! Haha Thats how deep the Matrix is. Not even a shit ton of meditation, self-reflection and DMT is enough to break it in its most rudimentary and shallow aspect, modern mainstream Statism-centric politics.
@@volpe_sol Yet I'm anti-statist.
I believe that government should never step outside of and from under that which it was formed. It was formed by the Constitution, it cannot exist outside of that.
Anything beyond that is defacto.
@@truth6242 Totally agree. The issue with most spiritual gurus today is that they're out of the political loop. Lots have changed, and they dont know about the updated ways the government is controlling everyday people, as well as using the Liberal "movement" to further fascism and corporate control in this country. Liberalism is no longer associated with the 'empathy and liberty' romanticized notion. Leo still think he's a Liberal in the 80s lol
1:41:40 "The second person is really ambitious and works 80 hours per day". Yeah... That's pretty ambitious 😂
The timing you release these videos is quite the synchronicity. I've been participating in progressive, green spaces to get more perspective since my up bringing was very orange. Great episode!
leo the bulb god ✨
@@goatoes6239 ;)
The fact that I was born and raised in the deep south. I can relate to this all too well. But as I got older and lived in more progressive blue states. I realize that there are a lot of things my home state could really learn from and vice versa. Same thing for where I'm living now. Over time I admit that there are some things about being home that I truly do miss and things I don't.
I read your reply with high hopes. But you gave no examples of when the left went too far. Why was that?
A cop has never not made a problem worse for me in my entire life
Leo, thank you so much for this superb episode. I knew you'd make it at some point and I've been waiting. Many of the ideas you're bringing here have been collecting in my mind for several years. Some of them I've been able to express to some extent, but others I've not known how to translate from thought to language. This is so well articulated. It also makes me feel less alone in this world of increasingly opposing ideologies, which seem to bring extremes on both sides, none of which I can support and side with. Thank you for your work and dedication. I sincerely hope your teachings will reach more people as time goes by, this type of taught is desperately needed.
Beautiful to see you’re body of work coming together so cohesively and coherently. I’ve been following you for years and am still learning. Thank you, Leo. Love yourself.
Thanks!
he is not a body of work, he is a human
@@RaduP3human is a construct of your mind. Which is my mind...
@@TheVoyagerArtist I love pizza
took a risk posting this, kudos!
Leo, I tip my hat to you here as it takes genuine open-mindedness to conduct a fair and honest critique of stances you may well support at some level. This is where 'true' teaching happens and I think this is 1 of your best ever episodes. Bravo!
I am the only progressive in my family for the most part. These videos help me love my family members and cool me down when they give their conservative rants
“Progressive” er, in relation to what?
I used to be in your world as well - it was so frustrating!! I felt that there was no way they could be this ill evolved. But then I started to see all the validity in what they said and that I had misunderstood and misinterpreted what they said. It added another dimension to my understanding. Like what Leo said here about most progressives not understanding and thinking they understand conservatives.
Conservatives may be at a lower level, but their lower level is more healthy than the unhealthy way a lot of progressives are operating in green - with cancel culture and radical ideologies that don’t solve the root problems (which often involve not adequately knowing yourself and loving yourself) which are actually creating more chaos. They need to be kind and wait for other levels to evolve not use force. Or else a reaction will occur. I think it’s wiser to be at a healthier lower level than at an unhealthy higher level. I hope we continue to move higher but in more healthy ways.
And many once progressives are joining conservatives in their fight for this reason. Logic has gone out the window and it’s hurting us all.
I’m seeing the unhealthy things the progressives are doing, and I just want to see it play out, that they learn from their mistakes, because even though so many children will be harmed and damaged, so many lives will be lost through the increased crime for lack of control of state red…. Well humanity has so learn, it’s either the easy way, or the hard way. 🤍
@@adamsmith307 I'm not affiliated with a political party but progressives are actually regressive in many respects.
This one is a banger. The left needs more ideas like these being prevalent.
Wow. Aiming for 80 hours of productivity per day really gives perspective. Thanks Leo!
How do you think I got to where I am today ;)
2:07:00
Okay you have literally no knowledge about the vegan diet. Eat plenty of grains and legumes, nuts, nut butter and stuff like that and you will get plenty of calories. As if you could only eat fruits and veggies as a vegan, dude it’s laughable. Veganism is also the most affordable diet out of all because it takes the least effort to produce. If you cut out the middle man (the animal that you feed with plants that you produce) and eat the plants themself it’s way more effective and therefore cheaper. You don’t have to buy crazy expensive vegan alternatives, just get some basic Whole Foods and you are good. Yeah you should take a few supplements, but they are cheap as hell.
i do in fact think it's a sick way to think about things to say that there is no amount of people a CEO can rape in their whole lives that will override the amount of value they provide
claiming that calling this abhorrent is some kind of privileged sheltered point of view that doesn't represent how most people think is such an overwhelmingly bleak and fatalistic picture of how you view people
Make America Normal Again.
Cherry, are you a SOCIALIST? 🤔
Good video... been waiting for you to make it :) If you haven't recorded Part 2 yet, I hope you will mention the following in regard to progressives:
- Constantly accusing their political opponents of being bad faith actors and having ulterior motives (dog whistling, etc.), as well as strawmanning their POV - e.x. 'Conservatives only oppose abortion because they hate/want to punish women'
- Pigeonholing people based on one or two character traits, and trying to turn the Oppression Olympics into a professional sport
- Treating identity, esp. gender identity, like a religion.
- Pointing fingers at the right and saying 'but they're worse!' when people point out their own hypocrisy and bullshit. That is not what leaders do.
- Being too laser-focused on their racial biases, to the exclusion of many other ones
You will enjoy Part 2 ;)
His claim of being non bias is an oxymoron. Calling the right fascists is the same as calling the left Communists but only the latter is true.
He's not calling the right fascists, he's saying that fascists are on the right. Big difference. That's like thinking he's saying moderate conservatives are fascists.
In regards to the topic of immigration, Germany made this experiment of open boarders in 2015 and some really bad things happened. Until today the flood of immigrants has died down but I would not recommend it
Und schon läuft die braune Sickergrube über
@@nthvoid6015 higher crime rate and more sexual assault
As someone who leans to the right on some issues, big applause for doing this. Bravo!
Probably one of the most important videos you've made on your channel.
On vegansim: Its actiually cheaper with lentils and chickpeas than meat. We can't get enough energy from carrots and lettuce, true. Bet thats why we eat grains and potatoes.
"...but of course I'm very unbiased and very non-partisan." This is a statement I consider very presumptuous. Even if someone knows all the arguments and aspects of a matter, he will still weigh them subjectively on the basis of personal conditioning and preferences and is therefore never unbiased and non-partisan.
"Can you step back from your own mind?"
"Can you deal with the most important matters and let things take its course?"
"Can you teach with imposing your will?"
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Cheng
I think America needs more Entrepreneurs. I also believe that the more value a person creates, the more they should be compensated. We should NOT all make the same amount of money. That is ludacris. Leo speaks truth here.
And that’s called capitalism.
Leo your conception of Marxism, Communism, Socialism and their history here is very flawed, it basically amounts to what western schools teach kids about these concepts up to a high school level. Marxism is primarily a critique of Capitalism, the labor relations within it and the way it directs production and consumption in a way that is counterproductive to most people being able to live a good life at all despite living in a world of plenty. It has almost nothing to say about how society ought to work, it's strongly focused on what's wrong with Capitalism and you don't seem to be aware of what these criticisms actually are.
For example you imagine a leftist objecting to a rapist CEO and say that this leftist doesn't realize that this CEO is where he is because he produces a lot of value - a Marxist would consider that this "value" the CEO produces is itself a problem, regardless of whether he is a rapist or not, and that society would be better off with less of it actually. I don't expect you to agree with Marxist philosophy but if you're going to talk about it I do expect you to understand what it's about. You've even said that when Marxists talk about exploitation they don't understand that a corporation HAS to exploit their workers in order to survive - Marxists absolutely do understand this, they're not critiquing corporations for being evil exploiters, they are critiquing the free market system for imposing conditions that make exploitation an inescapable necessity. You cite Richard Wolff, but his Marxism is a watered down version he's engineered to try and get average Americans to question some very basic aspects of their existance - it rarely goes into the actual critique of the system of production itself, into the contradictions of Capitalism that Marx identifies. I'd encourage you to familiarize yourself with what Marx was actually concerned about.
I also notice you have a blind spot towards leftist understanding of the history Western imperialism and neocolonialism. It's easy to be critical of liberals, because liberals are fundamentally people comfortable in the status quo arguing for the preservation and expansion of their own comfort. I don't think you would have as easy a time challenging proper Socialist left wing ideology, the kind interested in liberating and empowering the imperialized/oppressed masses that make up the majority of the global population, but I would love to hear it, I know you're not one to shy away from research.
Michael Parenti's "Blackshirts and Reds" is a very basic left wing book that I'd recommend, it may not go much into the economics, but it's good as an introductory Western dissident history - the stuff Western governments don't want people knowing, the stuff they skip over teaching in high school because it's inconvenient to the powers that be.
The problem is that Marxism fundamentally misunderstands human psychology, development, leadership, and how business works.
Just because you can criticize a system does not mean you can invent a better one. If all Marxism did was criticize, that would be harmless enough, but the problem is that they never stop there, they actually think their ideas to replace capitalism are sound, which of course they are not. Which is why they keep failing. If Marxism was sound, it would have already replaced capitalism.
You're very brave Leo. Wonderfully brave. Depressingly brave. You probably wouldn't get elected if that was your final party political broadcast but most of us know you well enough to keep voting for you.
the beamed up by aliens example doesn't demonstrate xenophobia, it demonstrates fear of being kidnapped and held against your will
Because westerners have never been kidnapped in the middle east?
Much respect for this video Leo, thank you kindly.
I used to be homo-phobic because it made me uncomfortable. Overtime I’ve become more accustomed to embracing the difference while also choosing something for myself. It’s all starting to come together. Culture shock can happen to anyone because it’s not what you’re used too. On a side note I’ve always lived closer to the city because I noticed people tend to be more inclusive and open minded.
The wost kind is when the culture is being shoved down your throat..
This is why I have a lot of respect for Leo. It takes an open mind to publically admit the flaws in your own perspective and not downplay them while doing so.
I know many people in my life both on the left and the right who think they have all the answers and if everyone would just agree with their point of view the world would have no problems.
I can’t say that I am fully there yet either but this episode helped thank you.
I love your comment!
Tred of both the left and ring wing, each with their toxicity and hypocracy. There needs to be a new movement based on balance and impartiality.
100% this
You could check out Yang’s forward party, it might suit you.
Well the political system was created to divide and control.
"It's harder to tell when the left goes too far" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂 Yeah I guess if you're a schizophrenic then it's harder to tell what you perceive as "normal."
A very advanced and accurate critique of the left from above. I too began to study politics more closely after Trump became popular and this style of critique is rare and desperately needed more of in this country. We have issues on the left that are less apparent than the right and this video puts them together clearly. Thank you!
I went from left to centrist to right until I stopped caring about politics altogether some years ago. That stuff is for puppets, man.
" People voting on vibe "
So simple but so true
Integration is the way. Liberals have to understand conservatives.
Yeah
Why is it considered a "more developed person" who wants diversity in their community versus someone who prefers and loves their own culture/people and wants it to remain uni-cultural? I don't see either as more or less developed, simply a preference (which you did speak on). People can prefer their race without hating other races right?
Because reality is diverse. It takes a lot of effort to avoid the diversity of life on this planet. If you only love one form of life, your mind is literally under-developed.
It's like going to a Vegas buffet and only eating chicken fingers out of closemindedness. This is how children behave.
I’m glad I found your channel. When I did .. I was high on crystal meth… which made me watch your videos for 17 hours straight. Everything is so interesting, the way you explain these concepts is just so captivating. I learned more in the last 17 hours then I did in the past year. ❤
I can’t thank you enough , keep doing what you’re doing. It’s amazing!
The “Life Advice for Young People” series literally changed my perspective on “life”. I can’t believe how motivated I am. The amount of motivation I got it’s unbelievable. Started watching with no goals,no motivation, pretty depressed. Now I have 5 pages full of ideas, goals and plans. I finally understand “life” , I found meaning. And for all this I am and will be eternally grateful to you. Thank you Leo ! ❤❤❤
Maybe lay off the meth, eh?
How do you even start doing meth? Like what made you say "fuck it, I'ma try eat poison"? Lol meth just seems like it gets too much bad publicity for people to be starting it in the first place anymore
@@DaPhreshestKidd In my case it was the loneliness and unhappiness combined with bad people. At the time I thought they were my friends. Because they helped me be less “lost” so to say. They did meth. They’r lives seemed better then mine so it seemed like a good Idea at the time. Can’t really say why.. many things combined. I used to like trap music so that was a huge influence too.
@@DaPhreshestKidd where I’m from meth isn’t popular, nobody speaks about it. I had close to 0 information about it the first time i tried. The people around me made it seem like an unknown good thing. And i didn’t really question them at the time:
Why should we lament the problems of the world. It just makes them triggered and defensive.. let's just talk about solutions or at least do something meaningful that is sustainable and profitable and good for the world.. everything else is mental masturbation
I am about solution but failed to mentioned also that the far right extremists want to set us back to the 1700s
What we have is corporation capitalism. And what we people need is free capitalism. Meaning free capitalism EVERYBODY has the chance to make it or not depends if you re hard worker or not but the chances to make it are equal. Corporate capitalism is only the top 1% is allowed to make money and all the rest stays down there and never can make it as they put taxes high for us so we they can control us the masses and they have the power. Sounds like communism, only the leader is rich and you all equal poor😂😂. Free capitalism is chance for everyone to make it if the right things are done. No free money and being lazy but hard worked money. But these days even if you work hard you cant climb as they keep us down.
Some difficult to digest points here man. That said, I’m all the more grateful that for this content for it will round out my perspective. Well done!
Over 600 hundred languages and this guy chose to speak Facts
Born under Ceausescu and raised in Costa Rica, Anarcho-Capitalist here:
Hats Off!!!
We Desperately need So Much More of this!
...I may disagree with most; doesn't matter:
The courage it takes to consider this perspective is astounding!
Much Respect!
Keep on Reasoning and ease on the emotion, I Beg!
Thanks! This is So Refreshing!
🐟 22. ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNANCES:
SOCIALISM (and its more extreme form, communism) is intrinsically evil, because it is based on the ideology of social and economic egalitarianism, which is both a theoretical and a practical impossibility. Equality exists solely in abstract concepts such as mathematics and arguably in the sub-atomic realm. Many proponents of socialism argue that it is purely an economic system and therefore independent of any particular form of governance. However, it is inconceivable that socialism/communism could be implemented on a nationwide scale without any form of government intervention. If a relatively small number of persons wish to unite in order to form a commune or worker-cooperative, that is their prerogative, but it could never work in a country with a large population, because there will always exist entrepreneurs desirous of engaging in wealth-building enterprises. Even a musician who composes a hit tune wants his song to succeed and earn him inordinate wealth.
Socialism reduces individual citizens to utilities, who, in practice, are used to support the ruling elite, who are invariably despotic scoundrels, and very far from ideal leaders (i.e. compassionate and righteous monarchs). Those citizens who display talent in business or the arts are either oppressed, or their gifts are coercively utilized by the corrupt state. Despite purporting to be a fair and equitable system of wealth distribution, those in leadership positions seem to live a far more luxurious lifestyle than the mass of menial workers. Wealth is effectively stolen from the rich. Most destructively, virtuous and holy teachings (“dharma”, in Sanskrit) are repressed by the irreligious and ILLEGITIMATE “government”.
The argument that some form of government WELFARE programme is essential to aid those who are unable to financially-support themselves for reasons beyond their control, is fallacious. A righteous ruler (i.e. a saintly monarch) will ensure the welfare of each and every citizen by encouraging private welfare. There is no need for a king to extort money from his subjects in order to feed and clothe the impoverished. Of course, in the highly-unlikely event that civilians are unwilling to help a person in dire straits, the king would step-in to assist that person, as one would expect from a patriarch (father of his people). The head of any nation ought to be the penultimate patriarch, not a selfish buffoon.
DEMOCRACY is almost as evil, because, just as the rabble favoured the murderous Barabbas over the good King Jesus, the ignorant masses will overwhelmingly vote for the candidate which promises to fulfil their inane desires, rather than one which will enforce the law, and promote a wholesome and just society. Read Chapter 12 for the most authoritative and concise exegesis of law, morality, and ethics, currently available.
Even in the miraculous scenario where the vast majority of the population are holy and righteous citizens, it is still immoral for them to vote for a seemingly-righteous leader. This is because that leader will not be, by definition, a king. As clearly and logically explicated in the previous chapter of this Holy Scripture, MONARCHY is the only lawful form of governance. If an elected ruler is truly righteous, he will not be able to condone the fact that the citizens are paying him to perform a job (which is a working-class role), and that an inordinate amount of time, money and resources are being wasted on political campaigning. Furthermore, an actual ruler does not wimpishly pander to voters - he takes power by (divinely-mandated) force, as one would expect from the penultimate alpha-male in society (the ultimate alpha-male being a priest).
The thought of children voting for who will be their parents or teachers, would seem utterly RIDICULOUS to the average person, yet most believe that they are qualified to choose their own ruler - they are most assuredly not. Just as a typical child fails to understand that a piece of sweet, juicy, healthy, delicious fruit is more beneficial for them than a cone of pus-infested, fattening, diabetes-inducing ice-cream, so too can the uneducated proletariat not understand that they are unqualified to choose their own leader, even after it is logically explained to them (as it is in this chapter, as well as in the previous chapter). And by “uneducated”, it is simply meant that they are misguided in the realities of life and in righteous living (“dharma”, in Sanskrit), not in facts and figures or in technical training. Intelligence doesn't necessarily correlate to wisdom. No socialist or democratic government will educate its citizens sufficiently well that the citizens have the knowledge of how to usurp their rule.
To put it frankly, democracy is rule by the “lowest common denominator”.
It should be obvious that ANARCHY can never ever succeed, because even the smallest possible social unit (the nuclear family) requires a dominator. Any family will fall-apart without a strict male household head. In fact, without the husband/father, there is no family, by definition. The English noun “husband” comes from the Old Norse word “hûsbôndi”, meaning “master of the house”.
The same paradigm applies to the extended family, which depends on a strong patriarchal figure (customarily, the eldest or most senior male). Likewise with clans, tribes, villages, towns, cities, and nations or countries.
Unfortunately, there are many otherwise-intelligent persons who honestly believe that an ENTIRE country can smoothly run without a leader in place. Any sane person can easily understand that even a nuclear family is unable to function properly without a head of the house, what to speak of a populous nation. The reason for anarchists' distrust of any kind of government is due to the corrupt nature of democratic governments, and the adulteration of the monarchy in recent centuries. However, if anarchists were to understand that most all so-called “kings/queens” in recent centuries were not even close to being true monarchs, they may change their stance on that inane “system”.
Most of the problems in human society are directly or indirectly attributable to this relatively modern phenomenon (non-monarchies), since it is the government’s role and sacred DUTY to enforce the law (see Chapter 12), and non-monarchical governments are themselves unlawful.
One of the many sinister characteristics of democracy, socialism, and other evil forms of governance, is the desire for their so-called “leaders” to control, or at least influence, the private lives of every single citizen (hence the term “Nanny State”). For example, in the wicked, decadent nations in which this holy scripture was composed, The Philippine Islands and The Southland (or “Australia”, as it is known in the Latin tongue), the DEMONIC governments try, and largely succeed, in controlling the rights of parents to properly raise, discipline and punish their children according to their own morals, compulsory vaccination of infants, enforcing feminist ideology, limiting legitimate powers an employer has over his servants, subsidizing animal agriculture, persecuting religious leaders (even to imprisonment and death, believe it or not. Personally, I have been jailed thrice for executing God’s perfect and pure will), and even trying to negatively influence what people eat and wear.
Not that a government shouldn’t control what its citizens wear in public, but it should ensure that they are MODESTLY dressed, according to the guidelines outlined in Chapter 28, which is hardly the case in Australia, the Philippines, and similar nations. At least ninety-nine per cent of Filipinas, for instance, are transvestinal, despite Philippines pretending to be a religious nation.
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@@Nothing-lr3dt yeah no one reads it because it’s just a person shouting into a megaphone
I’ve noticed that people who go into a public space and shout their ideas into a megaphone are usually dumb
i was waiting for this video, im sure its controversial but it was what i needed
If you can tolerate blk ppl, you can certainly tolerate white protestants. In fact, it should be a lot easier.
I'm happy about Leo touching on immigration in this episode. I haven't been able to comprehend our problem with immigration which I see many Americans posting about on the internet. Something felt wrong about it for a very long time
The thumbnails are becoming increasingly awesome
I love that you're still considering spiral dynamics. It's the topic that's excited me the most from not just your channel but all of my discoveries. 😊
same here 🙌 understanding spiral dynamics blew my mind open
Socialism is when the workers control the means of production. It is not when the state controls the means of production. The Soviet Union had a state controlled economy not a worker controlled economy. They masqueraded as a socialist state for propaganda reasons. Similar to how North Korea calls themselves a republic. After the fall of the Soviet Union the definition of the word socialism changed to mean state socialism as opposed to its original definition. And that's the problem with the word socialism. People use the same word to describe completely different things. And what makes it worse is that now they've also started use the word to describe social democracies. And people on the right pretty much use the word to describe anything they don't like.
It’s hilarious to me when people think you’re left or right or try to put you in a predictable box. Very few people avoid sheep think and can be honest about what actually is true…aka being real.
I hope you make a video on clear/healthy thinking, like you mentioned in your last video. Thanks for the content.
Don't believe everything you THINK. 🧠
I'd love to see what costumes Leo wears to kink events.
Grewing up in switzerland and moving to an Eastern European country on stag blue, orange I have understood that all, these extreme western value positions of climate protection, vegan culture and organic food is a first world issue, which most people can never afford right now on the place i living in right now. Thanks for this great video. Just confirmed many of my own thoughts which I had for several months.
Will not be watching this. I love Leo but have given him way too many chances when it comes to politics. Dude is completely lost in the sauce
Leo, the new left IS too far.🤣
i think Leo greatly overestimates the number of people that have enough discomfort or xenophobic sentiment to cause problems and start fascist movements. he describes a majority of undeveloped people with those sentiments vs 10% of more enlightened progressive people and then conflates them with the most extreme representatives of right wing ideology, inadvertently echoing the "silent majority" argument. he kind of infantilizes the vast majority of people and underestimates their ability to grow and adapt along this particular axis
What fascist movements are you speaking of and which corporations are working with government to perpetuate this fascism?
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I know this may be off-topic but Leo should make a video about overcoming addictions like compulsive eating disorders or consuming too much caffeine or other substances. Thank you!
I believe Leo has a video about overcoming addictions in general
yeah search actualized addiction he has a video about obvious addictions as well as a video about subtle addictions. start with the one abt obvious addictions
Just wach "Awareness alone is curative". The solution.
Uhumm will be exepcional help to those in need .the problem is we dont want do sacrifices even knowing its more life for us. Sadly but thruth.....
Rational recovery works for all of these! And a better version for eating problems is Never binge again
Compassion is a loaded term. Warm squishy compassion vs hard truth compassion. Who are you being compassionate to??? The person in front of you or the person they could be? The conservatives I've met value tough future based compassion far more than the left. It just doesn't feel warm and squishy
AOC called me a racist because she wants me to be better.
I like these current events type videos! Could you do one on big tech privacy/ethics problems? Maybe something along the lines of digital identity and getting sucked into social media
The man is back
Strength implies weakness, we are all lacking in areas and strong in other areas. Leo's greatest weakness is probably just getting out of the house, because introverts create most of the online content in the world.
You might be surprised at how much he goes out of the house (especially these days). Take a look at his 'How to get laid' series for example
Corporations generate many layers of profit, one of which is used to pay the salaries of their employees. Salaries essentially come from profit. Whatever is left after all costs and expenses are accounted for (if anything) remains for the owners to keep. Those owners -- in the case of the large, demonized corporations (the Amazons of the world) -- are often the public at large. And in the case of small businesses, it is often the case that employees get paid more than the owners do for long stretches of time and in many cases for the entire lifespan of the business.
When you get offended over a thumbs up emoji; I think you've gone a bit too far. 👍
Credit to some progressives like Vaush & Farron Cousins for calling out the left when its absolutely necessary
I wish you many blessings, Leo..🙏
The left can go wrong in several ways, particularly when they take progressive ideals to extremes, as discussed in political analysis and commentary. Below are some of the key points where the left is often criticised:
1. Excessive Political Correctness: One of the most frequently cited issues is when political correctness becomes overbearing, leading to censorship or an unwillingness to engage with differing views. Some argue this stifles free speech and open debate, especially in academic and cultural spaces. A good example is when historical achievements, such as those of ancient civilisations, are undermined or dismissed due to moral judgments from modern perspectives.
2. Demonisation of Opposition: Progressives sometimes fall into the trap of demonising all those who hold different views. This can manifest as labelling anyone not entirely aligned with their views as bigots, fascists, or racists. This approach can prevent meaningful discussions and alienate potential allies, even those on the moderate left.
3. Disregard for Economic Realities: Some left-wing commentators have been criticised for promoting economic policies that are seen as unrealistic, such as downplaying the importance of deficits and suggesting that governments can endlessly print money without significant consequences. This has been debated within progressive circles, as it can lead to unsustainable financial practices.
4. Overgeneralisation of Institutions: The left is sometimes criticised for broad generalisations of institutions like the police or the military. For example, while police brutality is a real issue that needs addressing, painting the entire force as corrupt or fascist can lead to a loss of balance in discourse.
These examples reflect where progressivism can go too far, leading to criticisms from both within and outside the movement.
1% of police are corrupt!? Gotra be kidding me
I was thinking about this a couple months ago. I wish we had some kind of social/political simulator that was fairly accurate (of course making something like that really accurate is probably impossible due to all the variables and moving parts, similar to weather simulations) so that we could implement different types of legislation and see how that plays out.
I looked online and found democracy 4 but from what it seems like it only let's you work within already existing parameters. I want a simulator that let's you implement different governing systems, currency systems, etc. Being able to change the actual structure of the government, like going from a centralized to a decentralized government. We could see how things play out and adjust our systems accordingly. I think that would be an extremely useful tool for us.
I don't think it's a good idea to call yourself unideological or unbiased. That's yellow arrogance, or yellow hyper standards. I've been there and I got a lot of unnecessary rejection for this.
When you actually are (relatively) unbiased, you don't need to tell it to people, many will sense it, and if people don't sense it, that's ok, it just means they would believe you.
Some humility helps. It doesn't mean you have to see all people on the same level. But at least give all people the same fair standards to judge them, and play by these standards as well. Don't define your standards in a way that you are on a very high stage. Define your standards in a way that actually fits to what you think how people NEED to be. To what you think people need to be and be doing to make the world a better place. And don't only look on what's missing, look on everything that's needed. It helps a lot to humble yourself and feel less important and responsible, and it will bring you more friends.
I've long intuited that calling someone racist is counterproductive. Making people defensive and closed off doesn't help them, nor the progressive cause. Additionally, I have friends from every continent and I still laugh at racist jokes, oftentimes with them.
i do business with comcast not because they provide me with a really good service, but because i literally have no other choice since they've created a monopoly with an exclusive contract for my area and forced out the competition
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Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱
I would love it if I was beamed up by aliens
Wow how exciting!!
I've been waiting for you to cover this 🤞🙏🙏
Great topic to be discussing given our highly progressive political landscape.
I wrote in a book that I’m working on about the problem of ascribing people the title ‘racist’. Very counterproductive to actually minimising it. I’ve observed in my own experience as a African man that using these vilifying labels are completely futile. Great to hear to touch on this.
Also the plethora of ideological movements (i.e. feminism, black Lives matter, me too and climate change) nowadays is doing little to help the causes they are trying to support. A lot of blaming and divisive hatred and group think. Not enough togetherness and discussing of realistic solutions.
Are YOU racist? 🤔
I would appreciate if you would be PERFECTLY honest when responding to my question:
if you were walking down a street in the middle of the night, and a group of Negro men were approaching on your side of the street, while a group of Japanese guys were approaching you on the other side of the street, would you cross the road?😬
Obviously, I’m assuming that you didn’t know anything about the individuals in question - ONLY their respective race.🤓
Well said Leo. I'm grateful for everything you've done for humanity! I hope you keep going strong dude! Your analysis and philosophy is amazing!
For the record Leo, being vegan is CHEAPER than being omnivorous, and animal products around the western world are heavily subsidised by tax money and are essentially a first world luxury. Most cost analysis show black people and poorer ethnic minorities are more than twice as likely to go vegan than white people are. I totally agree that there are difficult cultural shifts and mental resistances to the movement, but as someone who has been vegan and worked in warehouses unloading shipping containers, there are no caloric or physical limitations to what a vegan diet can provide, unless you’re living in extremely cold or food scarce climates. Ironically the saturated fat in meat becomes LDL cholesterol after digestion which blocks insulin receptors, preventing them from opening the sugar gates to your cells, making it harder for you to utilise the energy of fats broken down into glucose, which can actually cause diabetes. In contrast, complex carbohydrates that break straight down into glucose can be stored as glycogen in the liver as a much cleaner fuel that provides greater economy of energy. When most people say “they can’t afford to be vegan” they’re really just pretending that changing isn’t even an option so they don’t have to consider it, and given that the movement has been increasing in popularity at an exponential rate, most sociologists predict that in just over a decade veganism will become mainstream. Again you’re spot on with the cultural hurdles and mental obstacles, but who knows, maybe the change will happen sooner than you think. I’d be happy to answer any other questions or objections you have 😊
Before critisizing deficit, please understand modern monetery theory(mmt).
Thank you, Leo!
Veganism is cheap imo
Junk veganism, yes. Meanwhile fresh organic fruits and veggies are $$$$.
20:14 Incorrect sir, I'll freely admit that I'm racist. We're all racist just like we're all xenophobic. Racism and xenophobia are natural byproducts of the generalizing and grouping our brains naturally do, and how we as a species has survived. We're all racist and will always be because racism is part of the human condition. Managing our racism is the real issue but we can't hope to manage it unless we admit that we, as high humans, are racist and that's OK.
A friend of mine has a new hobby - he started to make a list of all the objects - either dead or alive - which show up in his nightly dreams. He additionally classifies the objects in all sorts of features and relationships as friendly, villain, neutral, destructive and creative, colorful and monochromatic, moving fast and slow and stationary. I asked him why are you doing that? And he said that he needs to better understand his dreams. I asked why? And he said that doing that makes him the dream philosopher. I wanted to ask him if it wouldn't be better to wake up in the middle of the dream and just see all that as just a dream? That would make everything so much funnier and happier. But he did not listen up my questions and went to sleep. I hope that one day he gonna see that.
Love is the realization that there is no difference between right and left 😂
Sometimes I wonder if that love is really nothing but the maximum rationalization of things.
The two ideologies are like a marriage. Success and prosperity needs positive polarization. But when the fight is just about hurting the other person. That's when the breakdown occurs.
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I am an Immigrant to Germany from Románia 20 Years ago.
Now Germany is flooded with Immigrants which causes problems as there are far too many.
As Germany already has and had bad reputation concerning the right position what I found wrong as long as I live here due to people being very open minded in Germany.
But I can see that a too left sight is now really destroying this country.
I realized at an early point that politics and government are not eager to provide peace and dont have in mind treating people good and kindly.
They are moneyhungry manipulators and feed of fear and unstability. That is what people have to learn.
Actually right and left work together to create Chaos, it is an Illusion that there are many Parties having different goals.
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