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hey this is Leo for actualised org and in this episode I'm gonna rant about how society [ __ ] you in the ass and how society exploits your lower self and distracts you from living an authentic life I've got some bad news and I've got some good news for you let me begin with the bad news I think it's very important that you understand what society actually is this Western culture that most of us are growing up under you got to start to understand what's really going on in Western mainstream culture right now we're in the era of modern capitalism if you're familiar with the graves model of psychological stages then this is stage Orange what does this mean stage orange it basically means that business is shaping Society culture government science religion and everything else there is no facet of society which is not touched very heavily by business and that's a problem it's a problem because what business and marketing people are doing and they are experts at this is they are architecting systems to trap your lower self this is what characterizes modern business let me repeat carefully methodically architected and optimized systems to trap your lower self you get trapped into low consciousness patterns why because this is good for business and because you are so unconscious and you are so willing to go towards the low consciousness stuff that this is where the best business is very little business is in high consciousness stuff so what entrepreneurs and CEOs and savvy business people do is they create these systems they build their entire life around creating these systems and these leaders on the one hand they're quite crafty and they're quite intelligent and they're quite smart and they're very capable and they're very efficient and they're very hardworking but on the other hand they're actually very ignorant and clueless they're creating these systems but it's not like they're an evil genius creating these systems now see they themselves are stuck in low consciousness patterns and their entrepreneurship is actually fueled by low consciousness because what they're fueled by is by money power progress and greed and other neurotic drivers the same way that you are and they're exploiting these drivers in you but also they're kind of exploiting themselves and they're ignorant of this whole thing so this is what's going on it's a game that's rigged against you and it's a game that's rigged against the people who are creating the game and this is something you have to start to become aware of if you really want to take control of your life I don't know if you've noticed this but right now in society and in business there's an all-out war for eyeballs businesses their number-one priority is to capture eyeballs this is what marketing is about in the heart of every business is their marketing why eyeballs eyeballs is attention businesses need your attention to sell you stuff if they don't sell you stuff they die if they don't get your attention they die they pay millions and billions of dollars for eyeballs or they find some crafty way to get your attention have you noticed all the ads around you on the internet off the internet as you're driving to work as you're at the supermarket wherever you go there's ads these ads are fighting for your eyeballs why eyeballs because eyeballs directly equate to power power directly equates to money and all of this is done in the name of progress and you're caught in the middle of this whole war in fact you grew up you were born in the middle of this war and you were a child growing up in the middle of this war and you were an adolescent growing up in the middle of this war and you're probably an adult living in this war and you're gonna die a senior citizen in the middle of this war most people go through all these stages they're not even aware of this battle that's going on around them or maybe they're involved in the battle because they actually are a marketer or entrepreneur here's what you gotta understand about how this works is that your brain actually has different levels and parts in it and there's something that I like to call the chip parts of your mind the chimp parts of your mind are those parts of your brain which are basically not the prefrontal rational human cortex that is developed but the stuff earlier on from evolution that's still in your mind that still runs and governs most of your behaviors in life this is the stuff that's irrational illogical this is the stuff that rules chimps if you go and you study chimpanzee behavior and you see what chimps are predominantly concerned about in their troops what you learn is it's all of these things that I'm about to show you and so what these businesspeople and marketers do what modern capitalist is about is about creating traps and systems that exploit these chip parts in your brain and so basically what it turns out to be is it turns out to be ego banking off of ego the people on the top have ego and they're using it to Bank off of your ego so what are these chip parts well here's the basics of it salt sugar fat sex your mind is pradana and by thinking about sex you dream about it you think about throughout the day you look at magazines for it you don't even know how much you think about sex you don't even acknowledge it to yourself but you do and you're highly driven by sex same thing with salt sugar and fat that's the entire food industry right there is encapsulated in those three things salt sugar fat also another chimp part of you is the need for power and Status chimps if you study their behavior if you read some books about them what you learn is that they're all about power and Status who's at the top of the hierarchy who's in the bottom who's rising who's falling who has more prestige and status than the others who's plotting who to overtake whom that's a chip part in your brain and a lot of marketing and business systems are designed to appeal directly to that there's also fun and play and entertainment there's another chimp part of your mind you like to play you like to be entertained you'd like to be stimulated and titillated and excited all this is basically fun and everything is tried to be sold to you through this one part right here fun entertaining exciting right we've got billions and billion dollar industries that cater just to this one chip part also validation there's the the chimp part and you that likes to be validated that likes it's ego stroked that likes approval that likes people to like it and to need it to to want it into to shower it with praise well that's also exploited there's also a chimp part of you that likes security and comfort oh yeah you really like your security and comfort except that security like it's actually a false security so that is also catered to in the marketplace also love love was a real good one you love love you can't live without love except this is a lower self kind of love this is not higher self love the kind of love that you want this is like a needy desperate neurotic form of love an escape really from from reality from true love from authenticity and from truth so this is something you kind of just give yourself away to so you can escape from the rest of the world and then another chimp part of you is vanity your vanity your ego your pride your arrogance so that part is exploited very commonly and then lastly is gossip chimps love to gossip they love to talk about who's gonna overtake who they like to scheme they like to learn about who's having sex with whom and who's backstabbing whom and who's having fun and where's all the good food where can I get some false security who has more validation than me and so on and so forth that's gossip so those are some of the chimp parts of your mind and these are mechanisms that function unconsciously in you that's why they're so lucrative for business people to exploit is because you're very bad at controlling these mechanisms in your mind you probably don't even recognize that these mechanisms exist in your mind and so if I can serve you up some product or some service that hits one of these things or multiple of these things a combination then you're gonna pull out your wallet because what these marketers and business people have learned is that you don't buy [ __ ] unless the thing I'm selling you hits one of these pain points or one of these pleasure points of the lower self all of these things are of the lower self nobody really targets your higher self so just something to be aware of as you're going through and you're drinking from the cup of mainstream culture now what I want to do is I want to give you 30 specific examples of ways in which businesses and society exploit your lower self so there's a lot of them so I'm gonna have to go through them pretty quickly here they are here's the list very eye-opening list food the entire food industry from restaurants to the junk that they sell you at supermarkets and everything else is all geared to appeal to your lower chimp self and to ruin your health alcohol and drugs obviously the the medicine and pharmaceutical industry huge into appealing to your lower chip self how about the college and schooling and education industry so especially this whole system that we have going especially here in the US where you're studying for colleges should get into the best colleges the Ivy League schools and you're trying to get into the most prestigious ones and you try to take the best tests and you have to prepare for those tests and you buy books and manuals and all this and then the whole academic game that is played in academia in these high-end universities so that entire system is just all about appealing to the chimp lower self how about celebrities following celebrities watching them being curious about them reading up on them gossiping about them tabloid magazines all of that books there's a lot of good books but also there's a lot of chunk books out there and most people they don't read the good ones they read the junky ones which appeal again are they're lower chip self romance novels all those vampire novels all the other sci-fi novels and fantasy novels and all this crap all this is just appealing to your lower chimp self how about video games that entire industry I was part of that in that entire industry is just one giant treadmill of chimp behavior how about TV shows you love your TV shows Breaking Bad Game of Thrones Big Bang Theory what are you guys like whatever you like all that [ __ ] is just pure symptom it's just chimps interacting with our chimps it's chimps in a cage is what it is prime example Game of Thrones why do you think you like Game of Thrones so much Game of Thrones out of all the shows that I watch Game of Thrones is the most ingeniously designed show to appeal to the lower chimp and you what is Game of Thrones it's basically chimps murdering backstabbing raping and pillaging and overthrowing other chimps that's all Game of Thrones is in a nutshell but it's so good right oh yeah Game of Thrones is really good especially that little that little guy little dwarf chimp yeah he's a real entertaining isn't he you know how about the news industry you're familiar with a 24-hour news cycle and all the chimp dumb that goes on in their prime example I don't think I need to say much more about that how about social media pure temporary the whole thing is just chips chattering with other chimps it's just cheap chatter it's monkey chatter they need to rename Twitter and call it monkey chatter cuz that's what it really is how about the whole internet all the memes all the [ __ ] that goes on on the internet all chip chatter popular culture is just cheap chatter how about what you do with your friends when you go out and you socialize and hang out with your friends and you talk [ __ ] and all that gossip with them chimp chatter about the status game that you play chimps play the same status game you think you're much more evolved than chimp you're not you think you dress yourself in a what is it to three-piece suit and then you put on your fancy watch and you go to the fancy restaurant with your fancy trophy girlfriend or whatever and you're driving your fancy car this is all status game it's pure temporary how about porn pure chipper you're just a chimp in a zoo cage jerking himself off that's what you are how about shopping how about fashion getting the latest clothes and looking cool playing the status game that way who's the coolest chimp are you the coolest chimp are you the second coolest chimp maybe you're not even there yet how about the whole tech bubble trend all the technology gadgets all the tech news you read the newest iPhone this phone that gadget the watch the this the that the hottest computer or whatever little Christmas gadget you're buying your mom for Christmas this year all that [ __ ] the Fitbit and all that crap what is going on there that's just temporary - it's all chimp eree done in the name of progress but it's all chipper II how about the financial markets especially credit loans mortgages credit cards are you seeing all these credit card commercials with these actors and celebrities now the Capital One and all this [ __ ] what is that that's appealing to your lower chip self - want to get something for nothing nightclubs purely for chimps it's basically a zoo for chimps with dance music how about this trend with cars that I never get this these guys who care about the car that they drive like they really love their car they want a sports car like a Porsche or Ferrari or some [ __ ] this is this is complete idiocy complete symptom how about holidays all the marketing during the holidays for Christmas and for Thanksgiving and for Halloween and for Valentine's Day all this [ __ ] this is all chipper II what about politics all politics is just isn't it isn't it just like two cages of chimps side by side of the zoo flinging [ __ ] at each other isn't that what politics really is I think that pretty much sums it up there how about and religion is like a a chimp walking out on stage dressed in a pope hat and a robe carrying a scepter thinking that he's somebody that's what religion basically is and man they they really perfected it over the the centuries that they've had to practice that one that's like old school old school chimp them right there how about marriage you think marriage is good you think marriage is immune to this no what is modern marriage modern marriage is so that instead of you self developing and going looking for truth and finding your authentic self no instead of doing that what you do is you go and you get married and marriage Deleuze you to thinking you can escape actual personal growth and sound so now you escape into marriage but this mayart marriage what is this marriage this marriage is just temporary you're just being two chips thinking that you're doing something but you're just you're squawk an inch on like two chimps that's what your marriage is how's it working for you by the way you happy with that fulfilled yet how about romance this whole narrative of romance that you're fed by some mainstream society same deal it's the same deal it's basically an escape complete appeal to your lower self you think that you're falling in love but you're not falling in love you're just being a chimp you're a horny little chimp you're a neat little chip your desperate little chip that just wants someone who's gonna take care of them who's gonna who's gonna need them so that you can forget about all your problems in life that's what romance is to you really how about family what's family life all about you think family is very noble and high consciousness no family is the most no consciousness [ __ ] it's just a troupe of chimps you know chimps like to [ __ ] so they produce baby chimps and then it's just chimps with their baby chimps and then they're all getting into crazy antics together and all of them are running on their own patterns their own loops all of them are stuck all of them are dysfunctional and it's just like this dysfunctional sitcom of chipton that's what family is what about the typical career the typical nine-to-five career pure chim pre you go in there you do your chip stuff probably a chimp could you your job you don't really care about what your job is doing what kind of output or impact it's having on society you're not thinking about any of this stuff you're acting like a chip you're using your chimp career to fuel all the chip behaviors see the chimp career is real important because if you have a chip career that means you can get all the other chimp stuff I've been talking about how about the stock market oh man I love to rip on this one the stock market Wall Street all these [ __ ] financial companies that are sprouting up everywhere have you seen all these ads for financial companies everywhere have you gone to a downtown area in your local city or in a major city in the US I was in Miami a few weeks ago for a vacation I was walking through the downtown area blew me away that every single skyscraper in Miami is owned by a [ __ ] uh kind of Wall Street financial services company what are these companies doing all they're doing is they're exploiting they're exploiting your your [ __ ] symptom and then of course they themselves are the biggest chimps so you go to some fancy restaurant in Uptown and you're you're sitting there with all these Wall Street chimps and these Wall Street chimps you know they have a nice suit they walk in there with a trophy girlfriend they're pulling up in there and they're BMW SUV or some [ __ ] like this and they're sitting there and they're you know they're sipping their wine they're having their their stupid business conversations this is all chimp them this is all pure ego low consciousness [ __ ] and lastly oh man this one is is real chipped um it's sports professional sports what is professional sports it's like the most low consciousness [ __ ] that you could possibly invent and yet it's like billions and billions of dollars this industry people rooting for their home [ __ ] teams loyalty to your team that you grew up in what is what is have to do the sports team that you root for and the town you rep like what's the [ __ ] connection it's just pure stupidity pure symptom going on there so that rep wraps up the list that's thirty items for you right there think long and hard about just what impact all this stuff has in your life and how much it's shaped the trajectory of your life over the last 10 20 30 40 years a lot a lot a lot a lot so what's happening in all these is that your lower chimp parts are being exploited and you're being kept in this kind of vicious cycle of low consciousness in all these different facets of life and what this allows you to do is it allows you to let go it allows you to follow the path of least resistance basically it makes your life real easy and convenient and fun and exciting and you listen to this list and you I hear you say something like well believe you know some of the stuff I hear yeah it's kind of bad but sometimes other stuff you talked about you know I like it I like my Game of Thrones and I like my restaurant you know I like my my hot girlfriend and I like some of the southern I like my sports team and what's wrong with this stuff look I'm not pointing my finger at you as though I'm holier-than-thou as though I'm not part of any of this you know I've fallen onto all these traps myself I speak about them because I've been in them and you know what you know it's it's been a real effort to pull myself out of this stuff but the more I do the more I realize like what the [ __ ] is going on do you realize what the [ __ ] is going on yeah you like this stuff because you're [ __ ] chimp and those chimp arts of you being exploited but there's also the higher part of you which isn't being tapped that you need to wake up to you need to wake the [ __ ] up to the idea that all of this that I've been talking about this is all an escape it's all a sham it's all an escape Society what is it really it's an amusement park for the ego that's what modern society is it's it's nothing else once you start to study the ego and how it works a little bit you start to open your eyes you see holy [ __ ] every every little piece is just an amusement park for the ego to do what to distract you from looking inward to distract you from looking inward notice that all these things are all about pointing you outward look outward don't look inward the distraction is from truth you're being distracted from truth you're being distracted from being conscious of your own death the shortness of your own life and you're being distracted from the lies you tell yourself because you're not living a real life you're being distracted from living a real life to not live a real life you need to lie to yourself and you need to distract yourself constantly and that's exactly what all these different industries do is they keep you in constant distraction and constantly lying to yourself and pacifying yourself and narcotized in yourself society's aims are as follows achievement progress power efficiency and status quo those are society's aims those are not your aims at least they shouldn't be your aims have to be finding your authentic self society and business generally does not give a [ __ ] about helping you find your true authentic self they don't give a [ __ ] about truth because truth is antithetical it's really antithetical to achievement in progress truth is about being not about doing society is all about doing business is all about doing because doing is an activity is a distraction from being to be being you have to be still you have to be silent business and society is all about commotion and motion and noise that's what it is it doesn't care about helping you to be it cares about keeping you business you know busy which is busyness right business busyness busy you're always busy busy but not being not being true to yourself you have found yourself and that's why you're unsatisfied that's why you're unfulfilled with all this progress and achievement all you get the more you get the more dissatisfied you are the only times you're satisfied is when you're being when you're being authentic when you're finding the truth your true aim in life should be to find your true self not achievement and progress and power and efficiency don't get those confused so that's the bad news it's a lot of bad news if you remember I started off saying that I have some bad news for you and some good news well that was the bad news now I got some good news the good news is short and simple the good news is this is that it's fully in your power to avoid these traps we're not living in North Korea if you are then you wouldn't be watching this video so that means that you have the power to avoid many of these traps business makes it very easy for you to fall into the food trap the porn trap the shopping trap the sports trap the Wall Street trap all these traps but you know what if you just summon a little bit of consciousness and awareness then you can avoid all of them if you can discipline yourself a little bit if you can start actualizing yourself a little bit then you can easily avoid many of these traps and in doing that what you're gonna do instead is you're going to design a healthy conscious lifestyle where you're really alive and your life is about finding the core of who you are peeling back the layer after layer on the onion to get to the very core of who you are that should be your sole concern in life not the distractions you're living with right now so this is good news because it means that you ultimately have all the power no one has chained you no one has really oppressed you all it takes to some awareness and some care if you care about your own life if you care about living a meaningful extraordinary authentic life if you care about truth if you value these things and you keep your attention on and don't get distracted then you will avoid all these traps one at a time you will have one big problem though which is that if you do do this and you try to live a conscious life then you will be labeled weird weird that dreaded word that we dread ever since middle school in high school you know weird we always wanted to be normal you also always wanted to fit in well the bad news is that you will be labeled weird because almost by definition to live a conscious healthy lifestyle to find your true self that's so rare in modern society that you're not going to be mainstream anymore you will be weird and you have to be okay with that you have to be okay with not being mainstream not being normal this is gonna take courage from you this is gonna take independent thinking from you and this is gonna take emotional labor from you so this lifestyle that I'm selling you this higher consciousness healthy authentic lives now this is the harder option there is no magic appeal to get this you're gonna have to expend emotional labour to get it and it means that you can't follow the path of least resistance anymore because the path of least resistance is where it's where businesses lay all the traps you get this it's like when the deer the the deer trail that's leading down to the water that's where the trapper places all the traps because he knows the deer is lazy he's gonna walk down the path he's not gonna walk through the woods he's gonna walk down a little path where all the deer walk and that's where the trap will get him and that's exactly your situation to start to get out of this you have to sort of recognize just how unhealthy mainstream culture is mainstream everything is incredibly unhealthy mainstream food mainstream entertainment mainstream media mainstream news mainstream shopping and everything else it's unhealthy physically for you it's unhealthy emotionally for you it's unhealthy financially for you and it's very unhealthy spiritually for you and you know actualize that already is not immune to this actualize that always a business I'm here on YouTube chances are you found my videos through YouTube if you did you know I have to play the game to win eyeballs to that's the game I have to play every single day because if I don't play that game then I can't run this channel in this company and put this information out there so I have to learn how to play this game and you know I've played this game pretty good and I've played this game before I started actualize that org I've played this game I've started businesses and I know how it works so I'm kind of talking as a bit of an insider here having constructed many of these traps I know how to construct traps for eyeballs this is not an evil conspiracy so don't get me wrong you know I'm not saying here that all these people are evil and there's a conspiracy going on in society none of this trap what's really going on here is just ignorance ignorance ego distraction that's really going on all the CEOs and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley they're just neurotic ignorant people they're very wealthy they're very wealthy and they might be very powerful and they might feel like they're doing a lot of you know good progress for society technologically and all this stuff but really it's just ignorance and neuroses and some of them wake up to that neurosis and then you know they leave and they go off and they go find their authentic selves but a lot of them don't a lot of them they they stay neurotic until they have a heart attack working 80 hours a week into their 60s or 70s so you know it might seem like I'm kind of ragging on capitalism here I'm not the the fact is that you know there is a balance side to this a lot of businesses do provide us good services and some of this stuff is essential and in the end you know we're living in a good time I wouldn't want to trade our current time for any other time in history it's a good time to be alive right now because we have so much freedom you have so many choices and also once you are aware of all these traps you know what you can do is you can use these traps and you can use the tools and all these businesses create for you you can use them kind of against them and you can use them to find your authentic self faster because we have all these great communication channels the internet all these amazing resources books cheap stuff healthy food that's relatively cheap so we have we have more opportunities than ever in society so if you really wake up and you grab the bull by the horns then you can make some real class a quick progress so you might wonder at this point what do I do Leo what do I do about this well first of all like I said relax don't go postal right this is not an evil conspiracy you just need to wake up a little bit you need to acknowledge that you're sucking on society's tit and that you have been for years and that it's time to wean yourself off and I want you to make a commitment if you want make a commitment to take your life back make a commitment to really live an authentic lifestyle to stop the lies to stop the distractions to stop being normal to live a different kind of life the kind of life that your friends and family are not living the kind of life that you probably don't see anyone around you living that you have no models or examples of unless maybe you watch some of my videos that kind of life the kind of life that you're scared to live the kind of life that would require some bold moves that you're afraid to make the kind of life that would require some renunciation a renowned CA ssin of some of the stuff like maybe porn or maybe video games or maybe smoking pot or maybe watching sports or politics or something like you know you have to renounce some of these things so that you can make room for personal growth finding yourself health and when I talk about health I don't just mean physical health I mean even more importantly psychological health which is what actualize that were just kind of committed to is helping you to grow yourself psychologically so here's a recommendation I want to make for you if you want a practical step over the next six months if you make a commitment right now to take your life back then the big action step you can take over the next six months is to take one week off plan for I take a whole week off where you're gonna go off and you're gonna be somewhere alone all by yourself go rent a motel room on the edge of town in the woods somewhere where you're just gonna be all by yourself no friends no family no spouses no one bothering you no cell phone no media no internet no telephone no work no email no shopping no fun no entertainment no television none of that stuff and what you gonna do is you're just gonna sit there for a whole week you're just gonna sit there in that room maybe you want to go out into nature go out into the forest or something and just sit there for a whole week and just contemplate life think about your life think about how sure it is how precious it is how little time you have left think about the fact they're gonna be dead soon don't eat too heavy while you're doing this so that you aren't falling asleep you know you want to stay alert and just sit there and contemplate all this stuff maybe if you're into meditation sit there and meditate and just detox pull yourself out of all the caffeine the whole you know hustle and bustle that you're doing your whole nine-to-five routine pull yourself out of all that this is necessary this creates space for your mind to get in touch with being you're pulling yourself out of doing to get into being and then just sit there and notice how you feel and notice you know what your mind is coming up with once you detox for the first few days then throughout the rest of the week you're just gonna be sitting there and have new ideas you're gonna rethink some stuff in your life you're probably gonna want to make some changes probably some habits you're gonna want to install some healthy ones they're probably some bad ones you're gonna what to cut maybe some big life choices you're gonna want to make maybe there's a relationship you're gonna want to end or maybe there's a a business you're gonna want to end or maybe there's a career gonna want to change or someone you're gonna want to kick out of your life or whatever but just sit there and just be and see what you're being reveals to you take it slow take it easy it's gonna feel weird at first it's gonna feel Restless because you're gonna be having withdrawal symptoms from all this stuff you're addicted to you are addicted to it trust me you'll see when you sit there for a whole week you are addicted to it and that's it and then see where that takes you that could be the launching point for a whole new trajectory in life for you this could be the difference between living a life full of regrets the normal life or the life where you start really to take your self-actualization seriously and discover your true self could be that big of a difference to you so that's what I recommend but you know what if you have some other idea and you want to make this commitment to take your life back and you have some other action step you want to do instead of taking this whole week off go implement you know there's a lot of different ways that you can implement this stuff I'm just giving you one idea here so that's it all right that's all I have to say I'm signing off go ahead please click the like button for me share this video with a friend post your comments down below and lastly come check out actual eyes that are right here it's my website I have a newsletter it's free most of the videos I release are free and they're very deep jam-packed with information that I spent hundreds of hours of my time discovering and distilling and taking notes on because I'm really really serious about this idea of finding my authentic self and first and foremost I do it for me I don't just do it as a business I don't just do it to get eyeballs you know I really do it for me because this is me living my authentic life and the ideas I share with you are ideas that help keep you on track with living an authentic life of discovering who you really are and finding the true fulfillment in life that you're lacking right now you know also success I don't really hate success if this is a good thing you want a bit of that too so it'll help you with getting success as well the trick here is that it's very easy to fall back into your old patterns it's very easy to go back to sucking on society's tit even if you wean yourself for a few months chances are you gonna come back so the key functions matter lies I don't get to keep you on track with your new self actualized life so stick around watch the new content every week do they actually take the action steps that I tell you to take don't just sit there and do a mental circle jerk over this theoretical material all the stuff that I talked about is practical it's all actionable so take action and what you're gonna see I promise you this is that if you act on all the concepts that I share with you that over the span of five to ten years you will completely transform your life and your life will be a hundred times more profound and gratifying that it is right now and you will achieve levels of development that you thought were impossible I'm not kidding that's my promise I stand by it will happen if you just take action so I hope you like that idea if you do stick around watch the episodes and I'll see you real soon with more you