We know from evolution that ideas are where things and behaviors come from.
The ideas are embedded in the genes which then go on to be expressed.
Ideas are imperfect because they are abstractions.
This creates a distribution of good and bad ideas.
The thing that is special about us is that we have general intelligence which means we can have ideas that are good in general or the true sense.
We call these good ideas virtues because they lead towards a good life.
My mom was Buddhist, and my grandmother is a Buddhist nun so I've been exposed to Buddhism a lot.
There's this fundamental premise that goes "Life is suffering."
I don't think this to be the case. I think life is ignorance. The moment you understand what the suffering was for, it's unlikely that you wouldn't be okay with it.
Every act of suffering becomes meaningful when you know that you needed it to reach a desired outcome.
I saw some tiktok mention that One Piece is the Illiad or epic of our times, and I can't get it out my head.
Each of the main characters symbolize a different country, and all of them are unified in the pursuit of freedom and prosperity.
Something that’s been bothering me for awhile now is Thiel’s talk with Peterson where he mentioned that being irrational isn’t the way to go.
Just hit me that he talks about Zuck’s irrationality when he rejected the 1 billion acquisition offer, and essentially saying that founders need this kind of irrationality to break through.
In other cultures, there is a ritual for a boy to become a man, but I've been curious as to why there isn't one in the West.
I realized that the manual for becoming a man and the path out of the self harm we are doing is in the Bible.
In this cast, I mentioned that a worldview fractured, and when this happens your psyche is split into two because the thing holding you together is gone. When this happens, you lose your grounding which makes you uncertain. At some point, the idea that it's easier to forgo life altogether appears, and one part of your psyche turns on you.
The internal struggle you experience during this is just manifest in the real world because in some people, one psyche is winning. That said, the way out of this isn't to defeat the so called devil, but rather to choose love because the only way out is to replace a false idol with a true idol. That's why the Bible says Jesus saved you because we would be caught in this loop otherwise.
Kind of crazy how you can only be for or against racism.
The opposite of racism is not anti-racism, but individualism.
Part of this belief is that good ideas are paramount, and good ideas can come from any individual.
That’s why we rank ideas based on their merit and have science to force out bad ideas.
Isn't a better measure of marriage whether or not the marriage had a form of self-actualization, rather than time together?
Moving to this as a standard is a lot better than reverting to traditional norms of bread winner and house caretaker.
I'm not sure what it means for a marriage to self-actualize, but I think a hint lies in the difference between give-give and give-take relationships. A lot of marriages are in the give and take zone, which is better than the take and take zone, but not as good as the give and give zone.
There's a lot of nootropics out there purporting to make your brain better, but if you consider changing the ideas in your brain, you might unlock exponentially more lol.
My thesis of how we got here is shifting to the idea that the reaction to the world wars is ending because it reached a tipping point where preventing totalitarianism eventually led to totalitarianism.
The reaction was to have a bias towards being open, but being open to everything eventually led to being open to nothing.
All of this rests upon the original problem of the death of God, which in its modern formulation are questions like what is Good, Truth, Beauty, and Morality.
https://youtu.be/-lNDgLR_DSI?si=H5xAJwYG1JDWh5oD
Sorry for the garbage writing, I wrote this as a mental note for myself.
In this cast, I was indefinitely optimistic, but I would like to turn it into definite optimism.
Here's how we reroute around the bureaucracy that is the Academia.
- AI is automation which produces a need for higher expertise.
- The current institution is terrible at training for expertise because the way they force us to learn runs directly counter to building expertise.
- Build the infrastructure to build expertise and use the internet to distribute infinite copies of the infrastructure.
- Exit at a fraction of the cost.
https://youtu.be/18H_DIhDhUo?si=gdJxF8l7X5bk_9gp
Sort of mind blown by this discussion because it’s the first I’ve heard of this kind.
They talk about manliness, family, and the return of strong gods.
It really hit me that I came of age in such a weird time.
I want to add to the list of differences between manly men and gentlemen.
One walks like he has nothing to lose, and the other walks like he’s ready to lose everything.
To me, the woke left and the woke right just want to be loved.
The problem is that the woke left wants to be adored without lovability, and the woke right wants to be admired without merit.
