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thank you welcome to understanding the liberal mind we are continuing and concluding this two-part series the first part was understanding the conservative mind this is the liberal mind really the way this series is designed and that you is that you can watch it in any order so I'm going to repeat a little bit of the intro from part one just in case you start with this episode here so again what are we doing here we're not looking to be political particularly or to advance any kind of ideology what we're interested in is giving you in this series the goal is to give you the deepest most genuine sense of the opposite of whatever your political worldview is so if you are a conservative this episode is for you I want to help you to understand the liberal mind because for many conservatives you look at the stuff you see on YouTube a lot of sort of straw Manning goes on on YouTube of the liberal worldview and of course vice versa both sides do it to each other but what this leaves you with is this leaves you with a crippled understanding of your opponent's world view and then even to the point where you think that they are mentally ill or insane because you can't understand how anybody could possibly believe something so so silly or so stupid or so impractical or impossible so our job here is epistemological not political I will present the most charitable steeled man position of both World Views I've already done that with the conservative world you go check that out if you don't believe me I think I did a pretty good job uh of not demonizing it and so I'm going to continue that here I'm not going to be demonizing liberalism here this is going to be a nonpartisan non-judgmental uh most charitable look at the liberal worldview now here's an important warning for you conservatives is that if you've been watching a lot of conservative media you have to understand and just trust me on this that you do not understand the liberal worldview the liberal worldview as it is understood and portrayed by conservative media is not the actual literal liberal worldview it's something totally different it's complete a complete bastardization most conservatives could not articulate a charitable steel manned version of the liberal worldview and that's really a shame because this creates a lot of polarization and political dysfunction so you have to be very careful about straw Manning the left just as I told the Le the right I mean yeah just as I told the left in the other episode they have to be very careful not to straw man the right which they of course are also guilty of so there's a lot of misuse of the mind on both sides here okay so don't start pointing fingers at like oh but but the left is worse than the right no this you're already falling into the Trap right you're just shifting blame and you're you're playing this kind of what about ISM game what we're interested in here is is genuine understanding do you genuinely care to understand why people are liberals if you say no then can you see how already you're not really serious about policy you're not serious about governance how can you govern if you don't understand half the people in the world but if you say yes you have to now take on that responsibility it's a big responsibility to now genuinely set aside your prejudices and personal preferences and so forth and to really try to see the world from the Liberals perspective that can be difficult if you grew up as a conservative and vice versa so let's explore what makes the liberal worldview so emotionally appealing because again as I said in part one these World Views they're not about logic and facts and objectivity you should be wise enough to understand this they are emotionally held they're ideological there's an emotional appeal behind the liberal and the conservative worldview so what is that for the liberal why is the liberal so triggered why is the liberal so passionate about their beliefs why do they believe they're right well that's what we're going to explain now again another quick note here which I explained in part one is that by conservative I simply mean anyone right of Center these could be moderate conservatives or extreme conservatives and by liberal here I mean everyone left of center everyone from the most moderate Centrist neoliberal types to the most extreme radical Socialist Communist Anarchist types so we're just trying to draw a very general distinction between these attitudes they're really like attitudes that you have liberal or conservative right or left so if you are uh naturally more comfortable on the right up Center then here's a key you have to realize is that I want you to acknowledge to yourself that there exists an intelligent formulation of liberalism depending on how much right-wing media you've watched how much propaganda you've watched uh the more you've watched of it the more extreme far right you've gone the more you're going to tend to believe that there is not an intelligent formulation of liberalism because the more you go to the extreme the more the extreme demonizes the opposite Pole right I want you to understand that this is a trap this is not true there is an intelligent formulation of liberalism and there is also an intelligent formulation of conservativism which I talked about in the previous episode so the question now for us if you believe that there is such an intelligent formulation what is that formulation we're not looking for all the dumb stuff we're looking for the most intelligent stuff that's how we actually grow and we make some progress and we don't don't just waste our time in a partisan food fight so I'm gonna start building up to that to help you understand that so first we're going to begin just as we did in the other Series in the other part is we're going to begin with a feature of the liberal world view and attitude a sort of a feature list so here's the list generally speaking and again I have to warn here that these are going to be generalizations this is not going to be true of absolutely all liberals in fact a lot of people will mix and match liberal and conservative to their personal liking you know whatever suits them so very rarely do you find someone who's just a purebred liberal or a purebred conservative usually you see strange mixes of things especially these days where our politics is kind of topsy-turvy and uh we're sort of going through political realignments right now and um this this can this can get pretty hairy and messy so I'm sort of trying to to distill the essence of liberalism just as I did with conservativism and then um in the real world it's going to be a little bit more dirty than this it's not going to be as clean so this is kind of stereotyping here but generally speaking the liberal mind and that's how you want to think of it the liberal mind versus the conservative mind the liberal mind grew up in a more loving and favorable environment so just right off the bat Liberals are surviving in environments where survival is easier people are nicer and kinder to each other this is necessary to allow for liberalism because if you grew up in an environment where people are just shooting and raping and murdering each other genociding each other this does not allow for liberalism to flourish that's a super important point that many people don't understand I've discussed a lot of this already and that series or that part about the conservative mind so I won't go into that too much deeply here but um generally speaking because of the more favorable survival conditions for the liberal mind uh the liberal mind grows up less fearful less sensitive to Danger because there are less dangers in the liberal Minds environment and therefore it doesn't make much sense to be paranoid and very reactive and sensitive to threats this is what makes you liberal this is what makes you sort of relaxed or as the conservative mind is more anal the reason the conservative mind is more anal is because it perceives threat everywhere it looks from its neighbors neighboring countries neighboring ethnic groups and so on see and what you have to understand here is that there's not one right way to be in the sense that well Leo so is it correct to be very paranoid in Life or is it correct to be so carefree and just careless that you you walk into a forest and you see a bear and you you know you just care you just just say oh well it's just a bear it's just a cuddly bear and you just keep walking and the bear mauls you what's the correct survival strategy well there isn't a correct survival strategy survival is a very complex nuanced hairy kind of situation there's no black and white here it's it's all gray areas and so depending on your survival situation one survival attitude can be more appropriate than the other one can be healthy at one time and then unhealthy at another time so for example if you're walking through a wood through the woods where there's a sign that says you know there's a lot of bears around and I've had this happen I actually have I've gone to Yosemite National Park in California there's so many bears there um and they tell you you know hide your food lock it you know lock your car and you know don't leave food in there and blah blah blah blah blah because there's so many bears so in that kind of environment yeah you got to be on the lookout for bears and it would be intelligent of you to bring some pepper spray to bring a knife to bring some sort of loud horn you know whatever that will help you with that maybe watch a few videos on how to deal with a bear encounter what you're supposed to do you're supposed to run away are you supposed to stand your ground what do you do see see that that would be intelligent um so it's that would be sort of a conservative approach you know prepare yourself whereas if you just go in there willy-nilly and start taking psychedelics while you're there start tripping on mushrooms that's going to be dangerous on the other hand if you're sitting at home safely with your family uh you know back in the city and you're paranoid about a bear coming at you that would be dysfunctional you see so it's very context dependent now the liberal mind is generally higher in personality trait openness the conservative mind is more closed what does openness mean openness means in just very generically openness to all sorts of different experiences new experiences the desire for new strange experiences you could think of it as novelty seeking or adventurousness if you could put that into a personality trait or a sort of a measure the liberal mind is more adventurous it's more open to new ideas to new people to new cultures to new systems and ways of doing things new ways of practicing religion and spirituality whereas a conservative mind wants to just do religion or spirituality the old way the way it's always been done you know don't change it if it ain't broke it's that kind of attitude whereas the liberal mind wants to go out exploring and even if it ain't broke the liberal mind wants to improve it a lot of times the liberal mind might want to reinvent the wheel again is this good or bad well don't look at it so simplistically there's going to be advantages and disadvantages depending on the time the situation the context it's all about context here none of these things are absolutely good or bad by themselves the liberal mind is focused on advancing positive outcomes versus preventing negative ones whereas the conservative mind since it's more insecure and more threatened and the reason it's more threatened is because it grew up in a more threatening environment and it probably still lives in a more threatening environment therefore it has to be more defensive by its very nature and it's more motivated by avoiding negative outcomes than it is by advancing positive outcomes here's a quote for you quote liberalism is focused on positivity and social gains and thus regulates via interventions as opposed to tight restrictions end quote whereas the conservative mind is more about putting on those tight restrictions telling people what they can and can't do setting up rules and then those rules become the culture those rules become the norm you can't have gay sex for example whereas the liberal mind doesn't care what kind of sex you have doesn't matter because the liberal mind is not threatened by gay sex whereas the conservative mind is now is it legitimate to be threatened by gay sex again we're not judging that here it doesn't really matter that is going to depend on the context um there are legitimate reasons to be scared of gay sex uh one of which is catching diseases and there could be other ones as well for example legitimate concerns about the future of uh human families and are we going to sustain the birth rate necessary to sustain human civilization these are some legitimate concerns but also it could turn into paranoia and homophobia as well so which one is it well it depends very much depends the liberal mind has a larger sphere of concern and empathy and generally the liberal mind is going to empathize more with creatures and beings that are different than itself so the conservative mind tends to only empathize with its family its team its tribe the liberal mind wants to empathize with more it wants to empathize with animals with insects with other kinds of beings if we find aliens the the liberal mind will want to uh empathize with the aliens agenda and their perspective and their concern and it empathizes with minorities and with various kinds of cultures marginalized groups all around the world and then if you take it to its ultimate extreme if you take liberalism remember all this is on a spectrum so some people are just mildly liberal some people are really liberals and some people are like crazy liberal so if you're crazy liberal you're going to expand your whole circle of concern and empathy is going to expand to the entire universe literally the whole universe so as the result of having a larger circle of concern the liberal mind has more capacity to love it's more empathetic it's more forgiving it's less judgmental it is more capable of seeing the good in people and even for example in criminals all of this is related Your Capacity to love is basically the size of your sphere of concern now does this mean that Liberals are perfect at loving and that they're perfectly apathetic and that they never judge no remember there's many degrees of liberalism and many of the most sort of like highest Peak forms of liberalism here even socialists and marxists you might think that they're so liberal but actually they're not able to actually be the sympathetic and be this loving it takes a lot of spiritual and moral development to get to the point where your circle of concern expands to the entire universe and you're able to love everything equally right this is this is a level of empathy and love that most of the Progressive YouTubers and stuff like that that you see in the media they're not capable of this but even though they're not capable of that they're still generally better at it than most conservatives again we're generalizing some conservatives are of course more loving and have a larger sphere of empathy than some liberals but generally speaking this is how it works you have to understand that there's pros and cons to this it's not purely positive to expand your circle of concern to the entire universe this might threaten your survival so there's always a balancing act between how unconditionally loving you want to be on this side and then how much you want to protect your tribe and yourself on this side there's a trade-off there and one is not better than the other per se so when I say that the liberal mind has a larger capacity to love or a larger sphere of empathy as a conservator you might say well but Leo isn't that sort of not being charitable towards the conservatives because it sounds like you're saying that the Liberals are nicer people than conservatives isn't that what you're saying and then nice means good so that means Liberals are good and conservatives are bad right wrong this is much more sophisticated than that uh it's not it's not about being better than right you have to stop framing it this way I'm not really interested in who's better than who here in fact that way of looking at the world that itself is a sort of a sticking point for the conservative mind the conservative mind tends to see the World As Good and Evil and then that makes you judge but consider looking at the world in a way where you don't judge people as being better than or worse than or good or evil you just see it as it is you don't judge it and this in fact allows you to be more loving ironically love is a very sophisticated and sneaky thing I've talked about it elsewhere if you want more information about how love works go see my episodes called what is Love part one part two where we explore that I also have episodes explaining what is evil and how devil reworks if you're interested in that go check that out that's also something that trips many conservatives up so the liberal mind is more lacks it's more loose it's more lenient why is it this way because it can afford to be given its survival conditions if you grow up in a part of the world some liberal democracy like in Scandinavia you can afford to be more loose and more lenient because you got a great safety net social safety net welfare system um you don't have to worry too much about health care and running out of money these sorts of things life is nice in these kinds of countries right it's not like growing up in in Somalia or someplace or in in Afghanistan where you can't afford to be this this loose there's pros and cons of course to being loose and being laxed the nice thing is that you're not always stressed all the time uh you're kind of carefree and easy going you're easy to get along with you get along with others easily even if they're different than you that's one of the benefits but there's also downsides which I've discussed in the other episode the liberal mind is less structured than the conservative mind it's less it's more disorganized more disorganized so the the conservative is going to have a tidier room all else being equal than the liberal on the Myers-Briggs personality type there's a one metric called the uh the perceivers versus the judgers right that's one axis of measurement of personality type you're either a p perceiver or a j a judger a p is generally again just generalizing a p is generally a person who um doesn't like holding to a strict schedule so just ask yourself this do you like having a strict schedule every morning that you wake up you know exactly what you're going to do and everything is tidy and organized or do you like to just kind of wing it and do whatever and just kind of have free time for this or for that thing just kind of like no schedule so this uh correlates with whether you're more conservative more more liberal the PS the perceivers are going to be more liberal and the JS since they're more structured they like structure they're going to be more conservative also on the Myers-Briggs there's the intuitive and the sensor axis so are you intuitive are you a sensor if you're a sensor you're going to be more conservative you're going to be intuitive you're going to be more artistically inclinated and um more abstract and therefore more liberal the liberal mind is more questioning of authority and hierarchy it's more critical of authority in government now this is a little bit tricky because these days especially in the American political system if that's your understanding of liberal versus conservative it's just the American political climate today in the 20 first century things have been twisted up a little bit such that um it can trick you some things are kind of inverted so you might think that like today it's the the Maga people or the conservatives who are like anti-government and anti-authority because you know they're anti-big government and it's the liberals who are pro-big government and pro-corporate and pro-establishment and pro like Silicon Valley and stuff like that um this really muddles things up because if you really look at what the liberal and the conservative mind are like in their sort of purest most purest form when they're not sort of like intermixed in this twisted uh way that they are today it's actually the opposite of that um even these so-called Maga people and so forth it might seem like they're anti-government or anti-authority but actually they're just anti the liberal government or the liberal Authority they're not actually principled on this point which is one of the problems with Maga is that it's a form of conservatism that is not principled and uh there are also uh liberals and you know um there are neoliberal types and centrists who also are not very principled about their liberalism in which case they can support big government and uh sort of quasi-authoritarian tendencies in the government just because they're interested in keeping power this is what you have to understand is that the mind is extremely tricky so most of the time whenever the Mind claims to have some sort of ideological Purity like it says that I am a true pure Christian or a true pure Muslim or I am a true pure conservative or liberal or Progressive or whatever what you have to understand that is that in most of these cases the mind is lying to itself and in fact the more the mind exhorts its ideology and its purity of towards some sort of ideology the less that mind is actually going to be in Integrity with that because if you're actually in Integrity with being a liberal or conservative or a Christian or a Muslim you're not going to need to go out there and try to convince everybody that you are that way so the people who who yell the loudest about being the truest conservatives usually they're not the truest conservatives you have to understand this a lot of times these people are very unprincipled and so what they do is they're just looking for power and then in the name of power they will sell out their principles so for example the Maga people really what they wanted is just power and in the name of power they will overthrow their conservative principles they will they will violate constitutional Norms they will overthrow democracy whatever as long as they can get power that's the problem with people who become power hungry now again liberals can also be guilty of that I'm just talking about Maga here because it's just a particularly poignant example in current times and there is an asymmetry right now in our political climate in America between the conservatives and the Liberals it's not always equal it's not the case that both sides are equally debased equally corrupt and equally power hungry this is a mistake you can't assume that at different times in history different sides of the aisle will be more power hungry more corrupt and more Shameless in the way that they go about pursuing power now does this mean the Liberals and the progressives are innocent of this no they are not innocent of this they will also sacrifice some of their integrity and some of their principles in order to attain power so you have to really be careful about like ideological Purity versus Power because these things get traded off this is what happened for example in the Soviet Union um in a lot of communist regimes what happened was that a communist comes to power proclaiming all the benefits of Communism or socialism but then in practice what they really want is that this is just a this is just a facade to take authoritarian power that's what Stalin did that's what Mao did because you have to understand that the human mind what it really is concerned with the most is not truth or ideological Purity it or or being principled or having Integrity it's concerned about raw survival its own raw survival so even though I might have the most beautiful utopian ideology if you elect me into office once I'm in office my family is threatened I'm threatened I could be assassinated my family could be kidnapped I could lose all my money the opposition party could imprison me for whatever made up phony reasons right so I'm in great threat every politician is in great threat when they get elected to power and so the the the challenge for politicians is that how do you maintain your integrity despite all the personal threats on your life and uh you know you're going to be getting threats both from the left and the right because some people even in your own party are going to think you're not radical enough and then of course the opposition will think that uh you're not correct either and so you're going to be getting attacked from both sides of the aisle it's really not easy people underestimate how difficult it is to be in these political positions and so there's enormous pressure to surrender your principles and uh truth and your own integrity and to get corrupted whether by money by sex by extending your term in office by you know various kinds of political donations lobbying efforts uh and all sorts of corruption like this can happen and so um you have to understand that that this Dynamic of corruption this is this is not something that's particular to liberals or conservatives every human mind is prone to corruption corruption is such a deep Transcendent force of nature it really is a force of nature that nobody is immune to corruption and one of the mistakes that both the partisan sides in the political debate make is that they they make the mistake of thinking that corruption is something unique to the opposite side to the conservatives or to the Liberals now but also as I say that we have to be careful because I'm not saying that both sides are equally corrupt at all times there will be times in history and parts of the world where the left is more corrupt than the right and vice versa this is all dependent on the exact situations right if you want to know more about the fascinating nature of corruption and how sneaky it is and how pervasive it is go check out my episode called how corruption works very important episode if you want to understand politics so generally speaking the liberal mind does question authority in hierarchy and government more than the conservative mind because look the conservative mind is looking to conserve tradition culture Society how do you do that usually conserving your tradition your religion your culture your Society your language your ethnic group the way you can serve these things is by supporting the existing systems and structures you have to start to look at what liberal and conservative means not just in today's time of the last 10 years of American politics see a lot of people have gotten sort of like a lot of newbies have gotten dragged into politics through social media through these sort of outraged videos that you see on YouTube and on Facebook and stuff this is really distorting your understanding of politics and of what liberal and conservative means you have to look more historically historically over the last Thousand Years what have liberal and conservative Minds how have they behaved and the way that conservative Minds have behaved over the last thousand years is that they generally support the existing systems in power for example a liberal will say hey you know the Constitution is not so great there's not there I mean there's good elements to the Constitution but there's also stuff in the Constitution that just is outdated it just needs to change let's go um introduce new amendments and really change the Constitution radically see that's the liberal mind that's the truly liberal mind thinks this way the conservative mind says no no no no what are you talking about the Constitution is the original founding document which makes America so unique relative to all the other countries it is the Cornerstone of all of American government we have to treat that thing as sacred we can't change the Constitution it's dangerous it would be too dangerous to change the Constitution and the liberal says no it's not dangerous the greater danger is not changing it the greater danger is getting stuck in the past the Constitution is 250 years old or so um it's just not equipped to deal with all the technological advances that have happened in the last 250 years see this is really where the debate comes down to the liberal mind loves to challenge the status quo and subverts conventions and social norms again if you're looking at it just from the American perspective it might seem like no Leo in today's American political climate it's the conservatives who are challenging the status quo no you have to understand that this Maga stuff that Trump has been doing this was not really a challenge to the status quo we have to understand that Trump is not a honest Faith actor he's not acting with any ideological Purity or integrity Trump just hijacked the conservative movement for his own personal Ambitions to power that's all that was so the only extent to which Trump challenges the status quo is to the extent he needs to to attain power but then once he has power he's not interested in challenging the status quo anymore which is why if you look at his legislation it's all very pro-status quo there's very little difference between the actual policies that previous conservative presidents have have passed and supported and what Trump supports so it's a fake rebelliousness true rebelliousness would actually want to would want to radically change the status quo if you really wanted to change and challenge the status quo and convert uh subvert conventions uh you would be a liberal in that sense you would get into office and you would you would start to do radical things like change the economy from capitalist to socialists for example or you would start to modify the Constitution you would start to really change the the way that um for example money affects politics you would maybe Outlaw all lobbying or all political contributions these would not be seen as conservative moves this would be very radical and you would be opposed by the entire establishment which would include Mo all the right wing and much of even the left wing because you would be proposing such radical changes that it would threaten the survival of even many of these sort of moderate Centrist um uh leftists in government and you would also threaten many of the bureaucrats and so forth now Trump threatens the bureaucrats in a different way Trump isn't threatening the bureaucrats by doing some very Progressive you know agenda Trump is threatening the bureaucrats simply because his governing style is so erratic and so narcissistic and so authoritarian you know he just wants to his ego to rule that um the American bureaucracy the way it's set up is you have checks and balances those checks and balances are getting in his way and he's getting in the way of those checks and balances so yeah in that sense the Trump is fighting with the Deep state but sort of from the other end right you can fight with the Deep State because you want to dismantle the Deep state so that you can create sort of a you know a more maybe Equitable Society that's not what Trump is doing Trump is fighting the Deep state so that he could have more power so that he can just act out his ego his egoic impulses these are two very different reasons for challenging the Deep state so uh the liberal mind is the one that really um will question culture see the conservative mind wants to preserve culture doesn't want to question culture it doesn't want to deconstruct culture the liberal mind wants to deconstruct culture it wants to change culture the conservative mind doesn't like that it feels uncomfortable with just changing culture see the liberal mind wants to take the Christian Bible and then it wants to take a red marker and erase all the bad stuff in the Christian Bible and then reprint it so that it only contains all the modern good stuff right so we're going to cross out the stuff about um killing homosexuals and the bad stuff about maybe um mistreating women and slaves and this is you know we're going to remove slavery from the Bible all this kind of stuff we're going to remove all that so it's just sort of like the pure you know Jesus love kind of version of the Bible much of the Old Testament would be marked marked up and edited out um but if you tell that to a conservative the conservative is going to lose his mind it's like what do you mean you wanna you wanna improve the Bible you can't improve the Bible this is the word of God it's perfect we've got to preserve it as it is so this is what I mean by um the liberal mind challenges the status quo and really subverts conventions it's more rebellious it's more iconoclastic it's more non-conformist it's more avant-garde and more transgressive and this is why if you've ever wondered like why is it that the progressives and universities these Progressive University kids that are sort of uh straw man and demonized a lot as examples of like ridiculous liberalism you know excesses of liberalism and leftism uh why is it that these kids are wearing nose rings and they got tattoos and they got purple hair and they got like um weird dress style they dress like punks or they dress some weird way like this why is that because why can't they just dress normal why don't they just like wear a nice tuxedo all buttoned up and and kind of like you know Jordan Peterson it's actually very interesting just watch the way Jordan Peterson dresses and just compare that to the way that um some of these University kids dress this tells you just this is like the starkest example of of how the conservative versus the liberal mind looks at the world because Jordan Peterson always wears these like nice um old school sort of Suits they're not just like traditional business suits they're a little bit more of like on the sort of old-timey old-fashioned like he used to even wear like fedoras and like gangster outfits like Al Capone gangster outfits this was like back before he was popular he has a few videos like this but now uh in modern uh you know currently um he still you know dresses very nice he believes you know buttoning up and also whereas when you look at at liberals um you know look at Destiny Destiny has like blue hair now why does he have blue hair imagine Jordan Peterson painting his nails pink and his or black and his his hair his hair blue see uh the reason the liberal mind does this is because it likes to experiment with changing culture it doesn't want to just take culture as something that's been given to it that needs to be preserved and loved as it is it's like no culture is a co-creative process I am a participant in culture I get to Define culture my way I get to self-express I get to change what the Fashions are and I don't like the old school Fashions those were you know some Boomer old Fashions we don't need those let's invent our own fashions let's be avant-garde let's create new types of art new types of media new types of film new types of uh pornography new type new ways of of taking drugs let you know let's innovate that's the liberal mindset in its sort of purest form to the liberal mind the highest good is challenging the status quo to create progress innovation creating a more peaceful and fair Society that's the liberal mind's bias the conservative mind's bias is let's preserve the good within the society and culture that our ancestors have created for us let's not innovate too much because the Innovations can be worse and more dangerous than the tried and true and tested um systems of the past the liberal mind emphasizes fairness and reduction of suffering this is where the social justice Warriors come from that's their attitude if you're a conservative I want you to ask yourself you know you probably like to Snicker and ridicule the social justice Warriors but but really ask yourself social justice Warrior what does that mean as a conservative for example don't you value Warriors that's part of your ethos you like the war your ethos um you like your ancestors who were you know who who fought valiantly in battle to protect your civilization so you like Warriors brave warriors is the conservative value and then social justice don't you want to live in a just Society so in a certain sense what could be better than being a warrior for social justice after all all those Warriors that you idealize and look up to whether it's superheroes you know Batman Spider-Man whatever what are they doing they're fighting to protect the weak that's like Batman's whole thing um uh fighting against you know against bullies who who would do harm to the weak in innocent civilians of Gotham City or if you admire for example um the movie 300 Leonidas the general you know the Spartans from 300 why are the Spartans revealed because they were warriors but also what were they doing they were fighting the armies of Persia and Xerxes and all this kind of stuff and that movie you know watching that movie can bring you to tears because they're fighting for justice think about Braveheart Mel Gibson's character William Wallace and Braveheart what was he fighting for in that movie he was a social justice Warrior he was fighting for the freedom and uh the security and equality that his tribe and his people were denied because they were oppressed by some King so be careful demonizing the social justice Warrior stuff now of course it can go too far you can you can go crusading too much that is a problem um but understand that fighting for justice is a tried and true um Motif throughout all of Mythology that's what all the mythology is about that's what Star Wars is about what does Luke Skywalker doing in Star Wars he's a social justice Warrior the rebels are social justice Warriors against the oppressive Empire you see so be careful demonizing social justice Warriors try to understand their intentions even if sometimes they go too far or they do something ridiculous understand what their intentions are their intentions are to create a more fair Equitable Society where people are not getting bullied and what's funny about that is that then the social justice Warriors themselves get bullied by the status quo which is actually what the conservatives represent as a conservative you're representing the status quo which is why you don't like these social justice Warriors because they're upsetting the apple cart and sometimes the reason you do that as a conservative is because it can be painful to admit that there are problems in your Society because as a conservative you're more attached to your culture and your Society the way that it is to your religion to your ethnic group and so forth to your civilization like Western Civilization if you're in the west you're more attached to that therefore you feel threatened when people point out to you the limitations of your culture or your Society or the way that things have been done in the past you know if you're a Christian you're going to be threatened if I point out to you that for example the Earth is not 5 000 years old that's going to threaten you you're going to want to deny that or invent some kind of excuse or you might find some way to a demonize or ridicule me so that you don't have to take in the fact that there's a factual error in the Bible or if I uh you know um if you're a capitalist and I point out to you that there's problems within capitalism systemic inequalities within capitalism just admitting that to yourself you have like it boggles your mind it literally pains your mind to admit some of these things because you've been growing up believing that your system is the best one and you're attached to it it's sort of like me coming to you if you have a child and telling you something bad that your child did at first glance you might not want to admit that your child did that you know I might come to you and say your child raped my daughter and if you really love your child at first you'll probably deny it you'll say no Leo what are you talking about your daughter's just making up some [ __ ] story you're not going to want to admit that your son is capable of uh raping my daughter see but if you're honest and you're really you really care about equality and Truth in this case then at some point you have to say wait a minute maybe my son actually did rape his daughter and if that's true it's true you know I can't I don't want to like delude myself here so let me go find the truth and then but then see if you find the truth and the truth is as I say as I as I accused then that's going to be very painful for you for most people it would be much easier for them just to demonize me the message and shoot the messenger and that's some sort of story about me then you don't have to go investigating whether your son is actually a rapist so this is what's going on with conservatives a lot of conservatives are in denial about some of the stuff that Liberals are trying to point out to them of what's wrong with these systems that you're defending these systems are hurting many people are you acknowledging that they're hurting minorities they're hurting black people hurting poor people indigenous people people in third world countries what are we going to do about that this means our systems and ways and habits and culture has to change but then what if you're attached to Defending Your culture you know and this is actually exactly what happens with um in the Catholic church when people come to accuse the priests of abusing sexually abusing children in the Catholic Church what happens the pope and his subordinates and Cardinals and so forth they they generally deny it they try to suppress it why because if there's any admission that this kind of sexual abuse is going on this is going to tarnish the reputation of that whole system and then you can't defend it and love it so easily it becomes harder to love the system this is why uh radicals and critics of these sorts of systems have have usually been killed throughout history they're killed because they're they're um you know shaking the boat upsetting the apple cart and people's livelihoods depend on that and people love the way that these systems have been established people get attached to them the liberal mind is non-patriarchal and less hierarchical it's more feminine more relaxed more feeling oriented more open-hearted more intuitive more heart-centered more soft there's a better integration of the feminine and the masculine it's not that the masculine is thrown out or rejected it's that there's there's a there's more of a balance in the liberal mind the right-wing mind tends to be more about like that sort of Macho machismo a lot of right-wing dictators and fascists like to play that up the strong man people feel comfortable see people feel comfortable having a strong man leader why because in the past that was a good way to survive if you had a weak soft feminine leader in the past that would probably get you killed in a military situation but today you have to understand that our environment is changing so the kind of machismo and strong man hyper masculine ways of leading people in the past a thousand years ago that was effective today that's less effective why is it less effective well because nowadays it's actually more about being intelligent more about being diplomatic more about being um uh you know shrewd it's not about brute power the the army that wins today is not the one that has necessarily the most bombs it's the one that is able to deploy those bombs in more intelligent and strategic ways and also even just being able to use diplomacy such that you don't even have to get to the point of having to deploy those bombs because in the end in a war both sides are losing in a war even the side that win still loses so if you really want to win in government then the way you do that is is to be so good at diplomacy that you never even have to drop bombs and then in fact you can take those resources from the bombs and reinvent them reinvest them into your schooling and and other parts of your civilization and your Society scene so our technological ability has actually equalized the just the raw power disparity between the masculine and The Feminine such that um a lot of situations are better handled by the feminine approach than masculine again it would be a mistake to assume that one is better than the other it's not it very much depends on the situation sometimes you need a masculine approach for a situation if somebody is um you know shooting up a school you need a masculine approach you go in there you shoot them in the head that's a masculine approach to that problem it works well a feminine approach there would just get exploited if you try to go in there and then just kind of like talk that guy down he'll probably just shoot you in the head not gonna work but in a lot of situations these days the masculine action the masculine approach actually becomes counterproductive it's too forceful it's too brutish it's like uh you know it's like giving a um it's like it's like asking a gorilla to paint a painting what is the gorilla going to do it doesn't have enough dexterity and Nuance to to paint Fine Lines it's just gonna like smear [ __ ] on the on the [ __ ] um on the canvas it's not going to produce a good painting but if you ask a gorilla to go beat someone up the gorilla can do that so um much of our civilization these days actually benefits from a more feminine approach uh but a lot of times conservatives demonize that approach and that's that's generally if you notice in um especially in American politics the way that um political campaigns have been run in the past between conservatives and and liberals is that the conservatives love to paint the liberal as being soft and weak weak on military right there's that sort of Trope the liberal is weak too soft why is that because it's true the liberal mind is more feminine in its approach it's more willing to compromise it's more willing to do diplomacy rather than just bomb someone to death as a result it's less violent and less warlike now see when I say that as a conservative you might say wait a minute Leo but that's not that seems like again you're sort of demonizing the right because you're trying to claim the moral High Ground for the left is not a bias of yours because like you're trying to claim that that the left is less violent which is a good thing and violence is bad thing again no it's not that violence is a Bad Thing per se violence is good when it's appropriate in the right situation but a lot of times violence is used in the wrong situation it's very inappropriate in fact mostly that's how violence has been used but sometimes it is appropriate if somebody is shooting up a school full of children the police have a legitimate claim to violence there to take that guy out um so when I say that right Wingers are more violent again this is a very gross generalization of course most right-wingers are never going to kill anybody or harm anybody physically but they are generally more prone to violence they're more supportive of brute forms of resolving conflict which is why in a presidential election they even make fun of liberals for being being soft and not being strong man enough because throughout human history there's been a lot of violence and we know that the best way to keep yourself safe is just you know is be extra aggressive if you're extra aggressive No One's Gonna [ __ ] with you but what's the downside of being extra aggressive well if you're too preemptive with your violence let's say I moved to a neighborhood and I'm so I'm so like threatened and secure that you know I think that my neighbors are going to come and and uh attack me and rob me so I'm threatened by that so what I decide to do is I say well I'm going to be a macho man I'm gonna buy a bunch of guns and I'm gonna go attack them first even though they're just they're just peaceful Neighbors see this would be dysfunctional on the other hand if I moved her to a really bad neighborhood where my next door neighbor was a drug dealer and the other one you know had a huge stockpile of guns then actually me being preemptive and maybe taking their guns away or killing the drug dealer that might actually save my life and my family's life you see so it's all about the appropriateness of your responses there's no right or wrong absolute way the liberal mind cares more about fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities freedom from bigotry and bullying the liberal mind is more imaginative creative and artistic it's more insightful and flexible in its thinking patterns it's more cognitively complex and better at tolerating cognitive ambiguity now you might think that this is just stuff that I'm making up here because I'm biased and try to you know portray the Liberals to be better than the conservatives I'm not there's actually been quite a bit of scientific research and studies within neurology that have actually done brain scans fmri scans and so forth of liberal and conservative brains and actually comparing them there's also been tests you know they give sort of psychological assessment tests and tasks for the liberal versus the conservative brain to perform and what they discover is that actually um you can objectively demonstrate that the liberal brain is more insightful and more cognitively complex is better at tolerating cognitive ambiguity and has more flexible thinking patterns you can find some of that research online I will actually be posting on my blog over the next week I will post links to some really interesting studies that you can go read so you have to take my word for this um and you will see the differences that they found scientists have found researching this stuff one thing they found is the following is that the liberal brain has an enhanced error detection system literally they will give a task to liberals and conservatives where they give them a set of images where there are certain errors and they ask each person to detect the air as quickly as possible as the images are flipping through and what they find is the liberal brain is able to detect these errors faster and more reliably that's because what they found in another study is that the liberal brain is able to do deeper self-reflection and as a result of this self-reflection it has Fine more fine-tuned filters for looking for these kind of errors and that's also going to explain why it is that liberals tend to see more problems in existing systems because when a conservative mind looks at a certain system like religion or capitalism or you know whatever um they're going to look at and say oh it's it's pretty good it's working fine whereas the liberal mind is going to look at it with a different set of filters and say oh well there's a problem and there's a problem and there's a problem and there's a problem and it's gonna focus on the problems more than what the system is actually doing again this is not good or bad by itself in the absolute sense it's all context sensitive the liberal mind has a greater emotional awareness otherwise known as EQ emotional intelligence higher emotional intelligence this comes as a sort of a byproduct of that more feminine softer approach the more emotionally aware you become the more your approach to life softens in how you deal with people you're less Brute Force about it you're less driven by just your Reptilian Brain and your knee-jerk instincts you're less animalistic here's a quote about the liberal line for you uh quote when the task challenges habitual ways of thinking liberals tend to outperform conservatives end quote and also quote liberals have a higher tolerance for cognitive tasks that require novelty complexity and creativity end quote I pulled some of these quotes from the online studies that I will be linking on my blog the liberal mind is more focused on the future versus the past it's more about your vision for what Society could be 50 or 100 years from now whereas the conservative is more Traditions oriented looking at how to preserve the past glorifying the past the liberal doesn't glorify the past because the liberal sees a lot of problems in the past see when a conservative looks at American history and so the last 300 years of American History when a conservative looks at it he says look uh the founding fathers came over and they began the beginning of the greatest civilization and democracy that has existed on this planet so fundamentally we're doing pretty good when a liberal looks at the last 300 years of American History they will say well yeah the founding fathers came over but most of them were slave owners and they were racists and they were sexist and they were homophobes and they believed in all sorts of weird superstitions and religious mystical nonsense and um uh they set up a system which promised democracy but didn't really give full democracy until just as recently as 60 70 years ago till the Civil Rights Act and there were all sorts of abuses and Horrors and genocide of indigenous people and and these people and those people in black people and Asian people and and then conquering different you know lands and then stealing territory from Mexico and from those people and these people and then you know it's like see if you look for problems you're going to find problems in anything on the other hand if you look for the good in things you're going to find the good in everything so which is right it's not right or wrong it's glass half full glass half empty the liberal mind glories in his vision of the future and is a champion for change it's a quote generally speaking the liberal mind is more educated more Metropolitan and urban wealthier more worldly more Cosmopolitan more Global more Multicultural this is why um everywhere around the world the most liberal people live in the most urban areas and the more you go out into the countryside the red States so to speak or even the red parts of the country you're going to find more conservatives this is not an accident because when you're living in a large Urban metropolitan area you are forced to confront A diversity of ethnicities Sexes sexual orientations backgrounds Cuisines cultures and all sorts of stuff like that because people are living in literal physical close proximity you're living in the same high-rise whereas if you're living in Wyoming on a farm somewhere and you have 100 acres and your nearest neighbor is is 10 miles down the road well you're much more isolated and your neighbor is going to probably share exactly the same religion as you go to the same church as you eat the same food as you believe in the same things as you look like you racially ethnically so liberalism flourishes where there is a Melting Pot of many different perspectives and a liberalism likes that see to the conservative mind it's kind of icky and uncomfortable because the conservative mind is more simple it doesn't like all the complexity of dealing with all these different perspectives it's messy dealing with these perspectives but the liberal mind actually thrives on this so it values and appreciates multiculturalism diversity the bigger the Melting Pot the better as far as the liberal is concerned because all these different perspectives create a rich ecosystem it's sort of like the difference between those kind of fish that live on the bottom of the ocean like deep deep deep where there's not even any light there there's very few fish and they're few and far between and then most the fish there are blind they don't even see the fish down there can't even see because there's no light so why do you need eyes to see uh versus consider the ecosystem of the shallow Coral areas you know tropical areas in Hawaii and Indonesia Fiji other places like this uh Australia in these coral reefs they're very shallow uh there's a lot of sunlight the water is very warm because there's not a lot of depth to it so it heats up from the Sun and there's a multiplicity A diversity just like a complete Cornucopia of you know all sorts of Critters and corals and and sea life and plants and animals and and Marine you know mammals and all this kind of stuff and they're all together and it's just like there's there's millions of them and it's just like this this playground right and they all need to have huge eyes to see all this because you got to see all the Predators all your potential mates so you got to see all of it because there's so much stuff going on so that's like the liberal mind and the conservative mind is like you're living a thousand feet underwater where there's no light and also notice it's actually it's harder to the survival conditions are actually harsher on the bottom of the ocean than they are in these shallow coral reefs in the shallow coral reefs there's a lot more mating opportunities a lot more food opportunities a lot more shelter opportunities whereas on the bottom of the ocean it's just like a bare sand floor there's nothing there there's no food like once in a while you find some other Critter you can eat but otherwise there's no food there's no plants there's no Oxygen it's it's like really it's like a desert it's the equivalent of a desert underwater and so therefore like um have you wondered have you ever been to a desert I live in a desert uh have you ever wondered why all the plants in the desert have spikes and thorns and uh and then when you go to to the Jungle you go to the Jungle in Hawaii or something or in Costa Rica there's no there's not that many thorns and spiky plants why is that because surviving in the jungle is easier than it is surviving the desert because in the desert there's no water in the jungle there's a lot of water you're in rainforest and so because of this every plant in the desert has to be much more defensive and it has to be spiky literally spikes are [ __ ] growing out of it so so also if you want to think of a conservative mind think of the conservative mind as a cactus it's got these spikes it's very defensive because it's very terrified of someone coming in sucking up all of its water and the liberal mind is sort of the opposite I don't know what would be the opposite of that it's like big juicy coconuts come take one it's like that you know it's more open like a flower you might say here's another quote for you conservatives are concerned with marking clear intra-group boundaries whereas liberals focus on intra-group variability and interdependence end quote and again the reason that is because as a conservative you're you're living more separated from other people so the boundaries there actually help to defend you whereas when you're living in a Melting Pot cultural Reef environment there's so many organisms all swarming together that you can't draw these boundaries and you got to learn how to how to live with a lot of diversity you can't just put up a wall you see isn't this interesting like Maga the whole Maga movement is like just put up a wall and then um the liberal attitude is like no walls don't work well walls can work or they don't work depending on the situation of course the problem with these walls on the border is that you can easily build you know dig a hole underneath it build a tunnel or use a ladder and a rope to climb it so how effective is that wall really so the liberal the liberal position would say that you can put up these walls but in the end the fundamental for the the driving forces are driving people towards more Oneness and unity uh no matter how many walls you build and how many immigrants you kick out in the end the whole human race is going to have to come together at some point like if you want to take this to its ultimate radical liberal extreme you figure that uh in the end every human ethnicity is going to have to [ __ ] and intermix with every other human ethnicity to the point where in a thousand years from now all of our babies are gonna be mixed race babies where you're not even going to be able to tell the difference between a black white asian or Latino baby anymore or a Jewish baby because they're all going to be intermixed so much that it's just going to be sort of a homogeneous um averaging of all of those ethnicities to the point where we're just going to have only one ethnicity it's just a matter of how many thousands of years will it take to get there that's what the liberal would say and the liberal would say well that's just inevitable we can't prevent that so and and why would we even want to prevent that that could even be a good thing why do we need these ethnicities let's let's just let's move towards that and um and it'll be great in fact have you actually noticed this you know I've gone out I've done a lot of pickup in doing pickup what I've noticed you know I especially where I do it I do a lot of pickup in Vegas and in Vegas we get people from all over the country and all over the world that's what's so interesting about it we have a very sort of Multicultural mix of people that come here I meet girls from Brazil and from Japan and from from China and from from Europe from Scandinavia from everywhere very uh very interesting to just to meet people from new places that I've never heard of before you know meet some girl from the Middle East interesting right just interesting to learn about that culture and so forth um but what I've noticed is that the girls that I'm the most attracted to what I would call like the hottest girls are always mixed race girls it's like Asian American mix or South American Scandinavian mix like like interest or like uh Thai and German I met a girl like that like um these are some of the hottest [ __ ] girls like I don't know if this is just a personal preference of mine maybe it is but um but I think it's more than just my personal preference I think what you can actually do is you can take photographs of the averages of each racial group I've actually I've posted this on my blog years ago I posted an image of the average faces like superimposed on top of each other of of people from every ethnic group and you can look from every nationality you can see like you could look at a German girl's face at a Japanese girl's face and stuff like and when you average out all their faces they become more beautiful just within that ethnic group like if you want the most beautiful German girl's face take a hundred German girls and average out their face like in Photoshop superimpose them all on top of each other and you're gonna get basically the face of a [ __ ] German supermodel and if you do that with a Japanese girl you're gonna get a Japanese supermodel and so on but using that same logic now we can extrapolate sort of one level more meta take all of the race all of the girls faces from all the races superimpose them into one you're gonna get a really beautiful girl I guarantee you and of course this applies to to to men's spaces as well so I don't know why you conservatives are so against interracial couples and marriages and mixing cultures we're going to get some really beautiful sexy humans if we do this so I think personally you're shooting yourself in the foot so that that's my case for interracial sexuality anyways um but also look even if that wasn't true you have to be realistic with yourself as a conservative like um are we are you really going to be able to stop this do you really think that creating an ethno state is going to work it's not going to work this is this is one of the most foolish ideas that I've seen from far right Wingers these right Wingers who want to create an ethno State now this is not true for most right-wingers most right-wingers don't want to do that but a few on the very far right want to create a Christian white ethno State and they want America to be that and then they say well I don't really hate the blacks but let's just move the blacks out to Africa and in Africa they can have their own black ethno State there and then you know the Latinos can have their own Brown ethnic state in um in Mexico or someplace and then we'll just everyone will be happy and we'll all just get along this is Pure Fantasy the reality is that even if you did that which is just completely impractical and it would be completely unfair to you know Deport such huge numbers of the population you're not going to deport 15 20 of the black population in America and Africa right it's silly um but even if you could the problem is going to be once we're all separated into these ethno states what's going to happen we're gonna have War like we've never had before because each state is going to start to hate the other state because you're not comfortable with the other state right you're not comfortable with black people brown people that's why you don't want them in your state you're not going to want to allow them to travel to your state there's going to be traveling problems there's going to be trade problems and then eventually there's going to be War we've already gone through this in human history much of human history has been one ethnicity fighting another ethnicity because they were just local tribes you know some Germanic Drive fought with some French tribe or with some Italian tribe or with some Scandinavian tribe we've already had this this is the majority of human history at this point though we've mixed enough to the point where we're comfortable enough that we don't need to kill each other just because we look different or have different culture and different food and different language so if you separate us out we're gonna there's gonna be a force in nature that's gonna try to merge us back together so really you're fighting against the forces of nature uh as a right-winger here when you're trying to draw these walls and this goes so profound this goes to a metaphysical level go check out my episode called Division versus Unity where I discuss how the whole struct the metaphysical structure of reality is about uh creating distinctions then re-collapsing and merging those distinctions into Unity the nature of reality is Unity but also the nature of reality is division that's a really deep Rabbit Hole I won't go into here but just connecting that episode with this one here for those of you who are a little bit more sophisticated in advanced and really wanna deeply interconnect your understanding of these topics here right so I want you to see how all the metaphysical spiritual stuff that I talk about connects with with politics so uh the liberal mind is less tribal as a result of all this it sees the whole globe as one Village and wants to treat all humans as one this is why the right Wingers smear the Liberals as globalists globalists this has become some sort of Boogeyman word but also like if you're a right winger and you believe in this globalist nonsense you think globalism is bad just look um ask yourself do you believe that we're one globe are we not on one planet is that not true are we not one species what happens when some alien civilization some evil alien civilization comes and attacks us isn't it the case that we're all going to act together as one species to defend the planet so are you going to be so stubborn that you're going to resist treating Humanity as one globe and that you're gonna have to sit there and wait you're gonna have to wait until some evil alien civilization comes in a thousand years and forces us to unite that's what you're gonna wait for why don't we just do that of our own volition preemptively not just because we want to protect ourselves in the future from Aliens and so forth but also because look the globe everybody on the globe is interconnected you see um this should be obvious but it it isn't from actually for most uh right Wingers because our atmosphere is all one the pollution you pump in China is the same molecules you're going to ingest in in Africa or in America it all circulates the ocean is one it all circulates you know um if we ruin the ocean in one place we're probably going to ruin it for everybody in any other place you know radiation will spread through the atmosphere through the ocean through the food supply viruses spread through the whole world you can't just you can't just build a wall around China and contain covid they've certainly tried if anybody could contain covid through lockdowns and strict boundary setting it would have been China they failed miserably at that so don't get mad at China for that it's just that it's impossible it's impossible in an interconnected world where we all have you know internet connections connecting us to everybody on the planet basically smartphones computers cheap air travel we're living in one globe now of course there's some there's some valid arguments about some of the harms that have come from globalism especially trade policy and so forth there are some legitimate concerns there and we could have a more protectionist policy towards trade and Outsourcing jobs that that's fine I'm not dismissing any of that but fundamentally you have to understand that globalism is our future if you look a thousand years into the future what's going to happen the whole planet is going to become one one civilization there's going to be skyscrapers built across the whole planet basically um and all the countries are going to have to get along there's gonna have to be more there's only going to be more trade more communication more travel more interconnection more mixing of cultures more mixing of races more access to different cuisines in a thousand years you're going to be able to literally go into a into a store and there's going to be food in that store from every single corner of the world every fruit that exists in every nation will be available in that story you'll be able to click a button and Amazon will deliver to you any fruit any cuisine any any book in any language any religion anything you want you can click a video on YouTube you will get a spiritual teaching from that tradition you want to learn a language you can literally learn 50 000 different languages just type it into YouTube or Hugo and you'll get it that's what's going to happen a thousand years so why resist that why don't we Embrace that and just work towards it because if you resist it you're just resisting the inevitable you're fighting against Evolution basically the liberal mind is more open to science facts and rationality now again if you're a conservative you might say well Leo that's not fair you're being biased because you're trying to claim liberalism as scientific and what conservativism is not scientific but this isn't true because sometimes conservatives Advocate things that are more scientific than liberals look we're generalizing here also you have to understand that conservative and liberal are very relative so for example in America many conservatives are somewhat scientific and open to rationality but in a lot of other parts of the world and throughout human history they have not been and if you look at American history conservatives have actually generally been anti-science and anti-rationality why because generally it's more associated with religion the conservative mind can you have a conservative that's not religious and just atheist and secular yes you can but most right-wingers are religious and the more right-wing they are the more fundamentalists they tend to be and the more you go back into human history or you go around the world in less developed parts of the world like in the Middle East and so forth all right-wingers in the Middle East are religious and many of them deny science and rationality and scientific facts because it doesn't suit their religion why because they're defending that system that status quo of religion now of course conservatives evolve conservatives don't stay still the conservatives in America are much more devolved than the conservatives in Iran or in Afghanistan and in a thousand years there will still be conservatives but they will be much more involved than even today's liberals the conservatives for example in the UK are much more Progressive than the conservatives of um of America for example in the UK no conservative is interested in defending gun rights or allowing people to have guns no conservative is interested in really dismantling the free health care System the National Health Care system that they have because they've Advanced beyond that so you have to understand how this really works is that whatever you consider conservative to be it's always evolving so in the future all conservatives will be open to science and rationality some of them are today but many around the world are not now sometimes liberals can take it too far with post-modernism and stuff to the point where they see post-modernism these things sometimes work in very kind of like cyclical ways where first there's a trend of of denying science because of because you're so religious then there's a trend of accepting science because you now reject religion and then there's another new wave of sort of science criticism that comes after you've accepted science and rationality where you realize science and rationality has limits and you want to transcend those limits and go trans-rational you want to go transhuman you want to go beyond science you want to go more into mysticism and then your critical of science for those reasons as I have been in some of my past episodes so you have to be careful about this this notion that I I've called it in the past criticism from above or criticism from below you can criticize science From Below or from above likewise you can criticize liberals From Below or from above I'll have an episode about that in the future just about that concept of below and above all right moving on um the liberal mind is more open to relativism it's better at understanding relativity if you want to understand what that is it's a very deep topic that I have a lot to say about that I can't cover here I have an episode called understanding relativism part one go check that out and I'll have a part two coming soon as well so uh basically what I mean by relativism and relativity is that the conservative mind tends to see the world from its own absolutist perspective it tends to take its own perspective as the absolute best truest rightest one it's like Christianity is the one true religion or Islam is the one true religion that's absolutism and it's almost impossible to take a fundamentalist Christian or Muslim and to convince them that no that's just a relative perspective and you know from your perspective Christianity is a true one from Islam's perspective Islam is a true one and then which one is actually true well there isn't a true one it's just relative the conservative mind cannot accept that generally speaking uh the liberal mind is much better at accepting that although the issue of Relativity is so profound so metaphysically profound and radical that even the most radical marxists and post-moderns and progressives do not understand the full implications of relativism and they can also distort it and abuse it so there's abuses that come with relativism um which I I will I have discussed and I will continue to discuss in my series about relativism so go watch that if you're interested seriously and some deep metaphysics and epistemology also the liberal mind is spiritually um it views spirituality as not as Orthodox religion not as following a set of rules but as in a more free and open way it's more about individuality to the liberal mind you want to customize your spirituality to yourself this is where the new age comes in the new age is really a mixture a hodgepodge a Melting Pot of all sorts of different spiritual Traditions from the East and from the west and from the Pagan called from paganism from Shamanism from Sufism you know it's a mixture of all this kinds of stuff and a lot of conservatives don't like this because it's not pure it's not orthodox but the liberal mind doesn't want Orthodox it wants to sample the liberal mind looks at spirituality like a buffet I'm going into a buffet in Vegas and I get to sample a little bit of everything and that's the ideal and then I get to customize it to me the conservative mind says no no that that's dangerous that's crazy what do you mean customize it to you you can't just go in there and kind of willy-nilly pick and choose parts of the Bible or parts of the Quran and mix them together and do whatever you want that's that's like you're violating God's Commandments you're just picking and choosing you're not sticking to the true words of Jesus or Muhammad what are you doing you're just you're just inventing whatever kind of nonsense your ego you know wants and you're building a spiritual ego around it and you're not being disciplined about anything and you're just one of these flaky hippie new agers well that's a different perspective on religion the liberal mind is more secular humanist it values separation of church and state it's more bohemian go look up the definition of bohemian it's a good word the liberal mind values the liberal arts values novel forms of education and abstract art the liberal mind is more open to mind expanding and altering drugs and intoxicants that loosen you up for example in most of the Middle East much of the Middle East alcohol is outlawed because it's not allowed in Islam and old school Christianity and just in generally very old school religious fundamentalists generally pooh-poo all intoxicants they're very anti-intoxicants many Buddhists are also against mind expanding drugs psychedelics and intoxicants why because they want to be very buttoned up that's their approach the conservative Orthodox approach is to be buttoned up and not allow any kind of intoxicants to loosen up your mind literally the conservative mind is afraid of being loosened up and expanded because it's dangerous to loosen your mind who knows what will happen if you loosen your mind too much maybe you'll get the idea to kill your children if you loosen your mind too much maybe you'll get the idea to experiment with sexual with homosexuality or with bestiality maybe if you lose lose in your mind too much too much you'll lose your mind and go insane or kill your neighbor or maybe you'll just discover some ugly truths about yourself that you've been hiding and repressing and denying maybe you've been denying that you have homosexual urges and now you're going to have to admit that actually you have those urges and that you're lying to yourself you see so loosening up the mind is dangerous but also you know as liberals we love to loosen up our minds with psychedelics and weed and mind expanding drugs we like to go party and have fun and um open ourselves to new experiences and New Perspectives ultimately these drugs open your mind to radical New Perspectives that are beyond anything you can imagine with the normal human mind the only thing that a Buddhist or a Christian could imagine but there's a trade-off there will you be able to handle it I've talked about that in many of my psychedelic videos go check those out generally speaking highly liberal minds are a smaller percentage of the population most of the world is pretty conservative why is that because most of the world at this point in our evolution is just struggling to survive most people are kind of down to earth people they work with their hands they do basic jobs they're not very college educated there's fewer people who are college educated than those who are not and this becomes truer and truer the more liberal you become people who are extremely Progressive very very liberal they represent a much smaller percentage of the population and that's something that many progressives and liberals extreme liberals um struggle to to to cope with because they think that the rest of society is like them the rest of the world is like them they are not you represent the top 10 or 5 or maybe even one percent of Minds on this planet because you happen to have been so lucky and fortunate to have been born in a Western democracy you could go to a university your parents were able to pay for you they didn't abuse you they didn't rape you they didn't molest you uh they were they were loving decent parents they educated you properly you had good role models and mentors in University and they educated you um in the right ways to see in multiple perspectives and therefore you're a very Advanced intelligent mind you've studied history you've traveled around the world you've interacted with many different kinds of cultures and people and cuisines this is rare most humans do not have the money to fly around the world they can't even afford a 500 ticket to Europe or to Asia because they're so poor and because they don't have time to travel around on vacation they got to work to pay for their children just to get food that's the reality for most people so um one of the things that many one of the things that progressives struggle with is that they're very frustrated because they want to win elections and they they keep losing elections and they keep wondering like well why you know we have these great Progressive ideas and visions of How Great Society can be why isn't everybody else voting like are they stupid uh and the answer isn't so much that they're stupid it's just that most people aren't educated and aren't developed enough to get to the point where they can even have the luxury to care about these things you care about you have some vision of how society and econ and the economy will be 100 years from now this socialist Utopia most people are just worried about how to pay their uh you know their rent this month they don't got time to be thinking about socialist Utopias and Promises of a future and a healthy Earth environment and all all humans coming together into one Global race and fighting off feeling like they don't have any that's not real for uh for most people on the planet you see that's not real that's fantasy for most people for most people what's real is tomorrow I gotta go into a factory I gotta wake up early I gotta work at the factory for 10 hours then I gotta come back home and take care of my children and then I gotta repeat that again the next day that's most people on this planet so their mind literally doesn't have the opportunity to read the books you read to watch the Youtube videos and podcasts that you've been watching for years to go to university lectures and to to talk to high-minded intellectuals about philosophy and art and no there's no room for this you work in a [ __ ] Factory or you starve and when your life is like that it robs you of even the impulse or desire to go out there to expand your mind with psychedelics and with traveling around the world and tasting different Cuisines you lose even your desire to do that because what's the point if I'm just gonna have to come back and work at my factory job which I have to work for 40 years how am I going to keep doing that knowing that there's all this stuff out there I want to [ __ ] kill myself this is serious stuff it's no joke the liberal mind is more optimistic has a more optimistic view of human nature It generally sees Humanity's Oneness and our ability to come together and to be peaceful and to coexist and to empathize with each other and to tolerate each other and to live together in harmony this is sort of the liberal ideal whereas a conservative mind tends to be more realistic and pessimistic about that and says well that's a nice that's a nice ideal but in practice humans are pretty vicious we're tribal we don't really get along many times we fight with each other so we got to be careful and protective the liberal mind tends to want to do away with classes casts and hierarchies to equalize everyone putting everyone on the same level the liberal mind wants every voice to be heard isn't it a shame that some voices are not heard in society just because they haven't been given power or because they've been picked on and marginalized so the liberal mind wants to bring forth and honor everyone's individual voice and the liberal mind values highly self-expression see the conservative mind wants more about uh is more about suppressing self-expression in order to fit in with the established tradition whereas the liberal mind is more about no I want to express myself my individuality so like if I'm a Christian in a Catholic Church Orthodox Catholic Church I'm not really allowed to express my own spirituality and be spiritually quirky and say things that are not written in the Bible I have to stick just to the Bible but that can feel very constraining you see the liberal mind feels that government must be careful not to trample on the individuality of its citizens so that each citizen gets to self-express you know the problem with being a Nazi in a certain sense it's not just the killing and the racism and all that stuff and the war the problem with being a Nazi is that when you're a Nazi you're just like every other Nazi you're not original you're not thinking new thoughts you're just following Hitler following some leader who tells you how to dress how to salute and all this kind of stuff what to you know what to eat and and what to say and what to believe then you just follow that to the liberal mind this is not appealing it's way too monotonous and regimented the liberal mind is more accepting of the costs of Freedom now today in American politics this has kind of turned upside down where a lot of Liberals are actually calling for protection and are willing to sacrifice freedom of speech for example in order to have more safe social spaces and so forth but generally speaking um it's the liberal mind that wants to be free to do whatever to believe whatever to have sex with whoever to take whatever drugs to believe whatever ideas and um and that comes with costs and generally the liberal is adventurous enough to throw caution to the wind and to accept those costs but again a lot of Liberals are just mild liberals you have to understand they're not radical liberals radical Liberals are actually quite rare and one of the reasons that is because it's dangerous to be a radical liberal radical liberals either get killed uh by their own tribe uh or radical liberals um end up just killing themselves either by Suicide or by mental illness and instability or just by being Reckless and doing something uh you know foolish the liberal mind is more revolutionary more willing to throw established structures to overthrow established structures in the name of equality the liberal mind would rather have equality the conservative mind would rather have um tradition and structure over equality so it's a matter of priority to the liberal mind the greatest threat is exploitation and bullying of the Weak by the strong unjustified inequality so the liberal mind has a great sensitivity to Injustice abuse corruption and unfair treatment the liberal mind is more focused on seeing all the problems of Institutions and all the ways to improve them and the conservative mind sort of does the inverse of that the liberal mind is more sexually open secure free and willing to experiment and explore with sexuality it does not demonize or Shame about sex liberals tend to be comfortable with sex workers they generally want to legalize prostitution they're comfortable with all sorts of alternative kinds of weird sex and um conservatives try to repress all that stuff even though many conservatives actually want and have cravings but they don't allow themselves to act on those Cravings or if they do they hide it and they feel ashamed and guilty about it because they perceive it as Sin whereas to the liberal mind there is no such thing as sexual sin as long as it's between two consenting adults it's not a sin the liberal has a more of a sort of a pagan attitude towards sex rather than the Orthodox Christian attitude towards sex and finally on this list of features the liberal mind is unconcerned about moral Decay and degradation it finds traditional Norms too restrictive of individual artistic expression whereas the the conservative mind is very concerned about moral Decay and degradation such that when the liberal hears the conservative complaining about moral Decay and degradation the liberal is almost like laughing because it's like dude like culture is always changing morality is always changing morality is relative so don't think of it as decay it's just it's always evolving and changing so what are you worried about don't be so uptight that's the liberal approach so here's another way to look at the liberal Outlook just very kind of big picture the big picture of liberalism is like this Make Love Not War mankind is capable of empathy love and tolerance in fact this is our truest and highest nature let's stop being selfish and brutal let's stop being animals and chimps let's start being loving peaceful and intelligent about how we conduct our civilization violence oppression competition and war is ultimately unwise and unintelligent resources for war are giant waste and should be funneled into the Improvement of the economic conditions of the entire planet let's do away with all the boundaries all the walls all the divisions we don't need them if we can just learn to coexist this will be a win-win scenario for everybody war and conflict and demonization and bullying each other this is a net loss for everybody what comes around goes around because we're all interconnected and Karma will come back to haunt you even if you win some war or some bullying contest or you end up trolling somebody successful successfully this is going to come back to haunt you you're going to regret this so let's wise up and start to work peacefully together towards a common goal as one species let's give everybody the basics they need to survive uplift everyone so we can transcend our brutish animalistic nature let's give people access to a guaranteed job guaranteed Health Care guaranteed education and all of these kinds of basic guaranteed housing so that nobody is born or suffering from a situation where they are deprived and are not able to make the most of their potential in the end what we want is we want to enable everybody who wants to work at it and is motivated to to work towards His Highest Potential and then of course there's going to be some people who are lazy and don't want to work and they don't have a very high idea of potential for themselves that's fine those people will just kind of coast along but in general we're not going to have this kind of situation where somebody wants to go to university but then they can't because their parents can't pay for it or somebody wants to um you know start a business but they can't because they're crippled by debt from you know credit cards because they've been exploited there or something or somebody um wants to you know has a great idea for an invention but then they can't build that invention because uh they can't afford to pay for their health care and they they are sick and then they die this is not an efficient system surely you can agree as a conservative this is not an efficient system and not only that but that in the future all of this will be fixed it's just a question of how soon we do it and obviously the sooner we do it the better it's going to be let's work towards equality before the law let's ensure that our laws are uncorrupted and they treat everybody equally black brown Asian man woman child adult everybody equally we treat everybody with respect everybody with dignity even the criminals even the offenders we treat everybody with compassion we try to help everybody try to redeem everybody who can be redeemed some people can't be redeemed but most people can and we will ensure that we do the most we can towards that the planet is globalizing no matter what and there's no stopping this therefore what we need is a robust pluralism we need A system that will allow the cooperation and inter-working together of all the different cultures and perspectives and religions and World Views everybody's voice should have the ability to be heard as long as it's not undermining the entire system so there will be some people who will be anti-pluralist and those voices need to be silenced the reason those voices need to be silenced is because if they're not then they're going to try to monopolize and take over and Destroy pluralism so we need we need a sort of an environment where all perspectives are allowed as long as your perspective is not a perspective that wants to destroy all the other perspectives if that's your perspective then that is not allowed in the same way that if you go into a grocery store you're allowed to be there anyone's allowed to be in a grocery store but if you go to a grocery store with a gun and you want to kill everybody there that is not allowed obviously many elements of our social hierarchy are grossly unfair corrupt and based purely on self-interest and bias let's create a genuine meritocracy we will flatten the hierarchy somewhat we will maintain the hierarchy as necessary so that there's function we don't want to just completely remove the hierarchy there's going to be some hierarchy but the hierarchy we're gonna we're gonna purify it such that it's only meritocracy if someone's at the top of a hierarchy we need to make sure that the only way they can rise up that hierarchy is if they truly deserve it that means they work the hardest they have the best ideas they're the most intelligent um the most charismatic or whatever other qualities they need to have and they're not just there because their daddy put them there or because of tradition or because you know your daddy went to Harvard so you get to go to Harvard no let's ensure that the the best people go to Harvard and that you you can't pay your way to get into Harvard out with the old in with the new that's our motto old systems and institutions are incapable of dealing with modern problems and Technology our ancestors created some great stuff we won't deny that the constitution has some good stuff the Bible has some good ideas and so forth however this was hundreds of years ago and technology is advancing very rapidly and it's accelerating even more so we need a very responsive set of systems that are adapting so we cannot stick with just the old we need to recognize that Society is going to evolve anyway so why not push it along why waste energy resisting like a stubborn mule let's make this happen let's make this our life purpose let's all contribute to this in our unique way whatever that is if you want to do it through government do with regardless you want to do it through engineering do it through engineering if you want to do it through ART do it through ART everyone has a role to play in this uh ultimate objective of engineering a Utopia that's ultimately what we want don't we want to live in a Utopia let's engineer it let's do it after all look it's not like we're not doing it anyways since the beginning of human civilization since the ancient Egyptians every civilization whether they admitted it or not explicitly they have all been in the business of engineering Utopia because I mean what else do you want if you're living in a civilization or in a community which you are you have no other real choice about it you might as well make it the best possible right why would you want anything less so let's make it the best possible now of course are we ever going to achieve Utopia realistically no but we're working towards a more perfect union as they say we're going to do our best we're gonna aim towards the sky and see how far we can get and even if we fall way short of that we're still gonna just by aiming so high we're still going to get to a great place we don't need perfect Utopia we can but we can fix many of these problems and we can make civilization a lot better than it's been and the the reason we know we can do that is just look through history look at how much better Society is today than it was 2000 years ago or even a hundred years ago we're making amazing progress let's keep doing that let's not put our foot on the brakes let's not be pessimistic we can do this ultimately the Longview picture of mankind is extremely positive despite all the petty [ __ ] that we're going through right now all this partisanship and some of these minor wars being fought here and there this is all a blip on the radar screen towards our progress towards incredible things think about the kind of Technology we're going to have in a thousand years flying cars and nuclear fusion free energy for everybody like it's going to be incredible what we can do if we just work together and the only enemy is really ourselves that's all we got to realize we're getting in our own way let's stop getting in our own way and the number one thing we need to do to overcome that is opening our minds we need to open our minds to the difference in perspective that different people have because if we can't understand all the different perspectives we can't unify them and we can't live peacefully and then we're going to be working against each other there's going to be too much friction lack of openness and understanding creates friction which is the resultant war and exploitation and slavery and genocide and bigotry and racism and all this kinds of stuff that's that's my best uh Steel Man of the liberal worldview here's a list of liberal values progress Innovation creativity compassion empathy tolerance open-mindedness self-expression artistic expression respect for individuality Freedom questioning Authority equality fairness peace kindness diversity rationality secularism science technology free sex environmentalism love defending the weak secular education femininity Mercy exploring diverse perspectives inclusion worldliness empowering minorities correcting unjust social systems and education for its own sake here's a list of characteristics of the liberal personality the liberal personality is eccentric sensitive individualistic artistic idealistic utopian pie and Sky Carefree free-spirited open-minded open to experience adventurous tolerant flexible accepting of everyone permissive lenient unpredictable impulsive spontaneous loose creative imaginative curious Desiring for novel experiences and diversity complex nuanced abstract worldly intuitive emotionally connected feminine quirky transgressive rebellious playful humorous and the jester or the Joker archetype here's a little bit more about how to appreciate the liberal worldview imagine how powerful mankind could be if we all started to act like adults with Consciousness wisdom and compassion our number one priority should be to eliminate all conflict and War on this planet because right now we are wasting tens of trillions of dollars on War on the military-industrial complex on bombs on military bases just think about the fuel we waste scrambling our Jets on training exercises or um piloting our ships into Foreign Waters this this wastes billions of gallons of fuel every year for what just patrolling our borders against our brothers and sisters what are we doing these trillions of dollars need to be poured into Education Health Care getting people jobs building infrastructure roads internet access satellite technology space exploration this is where our money and resources should be going what mankind is doing right now is just downright stupid but also it's necessary for the time being but if we wise up we can change that and we can funnel those trillions into creating a really great society right rather than fighting each other there are fundamentally enough resources on this planet for everybody there's enough energy we don't have a shortage of sunlight or wind or geothermal power or nuclear power or fusion power we have all these things there's enough steel and wood and granite and diamonds and gold on this planet for everybody and even if there aren't we can fly to the moon or to Mars to mine for more imagine for a moment how an advanced alien civilization would conduct themselves a civilization that's way more intelligent how would they live on their Planet obviously they would not be at war with each other that's not intelligent because war is a lose-lose situation for everybody and if they were at War they would have killed themselves a long time ago with nuclear weapons or Fusion weapons or laser weapons or anti-matter weapons or something even worse so obviously they figured out how to coexist peacefully with themselves and with their neighbors and to do that they need more understanding more openness more compassion higher developments in Morality more equality more fairness more love they need to be less tribal and less authoritarian do you really think that some Advanced alien civilization is exploiting some minority group within their species no obviously they aren't obviously they figured out how to equalize it and make it fair do you think they have corrupt corporations and governments that are exploiting the innocent people scamming them and enslaving them in capitalistic wage slavery obviously not they've solved these problems so obviously if they could do it we could do it our greatest challenges cannot be solved through dumb Brute Force they have to be solved through intelligence we have to start to recognize our inherent Oneness and act in alignment with that all hold ons Within our planetary system should be protected and honored go check out my episode called what are hold ons for more on that all the basics of a good life should be provided to to everyone so that no one is born lacking why are we allowing some children on this planet to be born into horrible miserable conditions into war zones into abusive families and to into poverty into racist environments why are we allowing this this is unconscionable and obviously an advanced alien civilization would not tolerate such inequality eliminating the corruption in our systems of which there is plenty to go around and everyone is to blame for this corruption requires upgrading all of our systems and processes obviously our systems and processes cannot stay the same and this corruption has to go and we need a world government because we need a global coordination effort just to survive to deal with external enemies and threats that might come from Aliens or whoever else to deal with global pandemics and viruses to deal with climate change to deal with various environmental disasters like super volcanoes Supernova blasts Sun you know Rays radiation you know solar radiation waves um asteroids hitting us from outside all of these things require Global coordination Global governance but this Global governments cannot be such that it it stifles and oppresses all the local governments it needs to also be sensitive to the local governments which is what I meant by all the whole Lawns on the planet need to be protected which includes local governments local States local cultures local languages they all need to be cared for so that we don't just turn into one purely homogeneous you know oppressive authoritarian World System that's not what's being advocated so that's a little vision for you of sort of the best of the best of the liberal worldview what are some of the top liberal fears it's this environmental destruction confrontation violence the status quo or the establishment not solving our problems fast enough not evolving fast enough regression into old ways and systems that are Antiquated and brutal getting stuck in Petty parochial squabbles authoritarianism fascism bigotry stifling of self-expression monotony suffocating discipline and rules lack of empathy cruelty shutting down diversity of perspectives selfishness and exploitation of the weak what are some liberal blind spots here are a few of the biggest ones the liberal mind tends to overlook the wisdom of the current existing system in favor of some idealistic utopian unproven scheme there is a deep intelligence for example to capitalism there is a deep intelligence to organize religion there is a deep intelligence to the way that many large corporations are run there is a deep intelligence to Wall Street a lot of liberals and progressives especially cannot fathom this they think they are more intelligent than these systems which makes them very foolish and stupid these systems do have corruption and they do have problems and eventually they will all be replaced and upgraded however the path towards doing that requires first understanding why these systems exist and why they work as well as they do why they're sustainable only when you have a deep appreciation understanding of these systems can you start to begin to Tinker with them at the edges and perhaps make some progress otherwise you're gonna create new systems out of whole cloth and they're gonna fall flat on their face so this is perhaps the biggest blind spot the other one is that the liberal mind fails to recognize the selfish and brutal aspects of life it tends to it tends to believe that these aspects of Life are not important they're not they're not serious or that just it doesn't realize that most people are living in such brutal survival conditions that where they they just are forced to be selfish they don't have the luxury of being so open and so free and so loving and compassionate and non-tribalistic most people have to survive inside their little tribe the liberal mind fails to address uh the egos down to earth survival needs what most humans on this planet need are not some sort of wacky new art or some sort of new age spirituality or non-duality or psychedelics or any of this kind of fun fluffy stuff or even socialism what most people need is um they just need they just need a decent job that fits their level of intelligence and capability and they need uh just uh some some basic support structures a church they can go to you know a school they can go to um some basic Health Care Systems it just need some very basic stuff like this and um and these people do not need their their whole culture and tradition radically transformed and [ __ ] with they need it preserved because they're not ready for sort of crazy you know Progressive culture the liberal mind overestimates people's level of development and education you have to understand that the majority of humans on this planet Are as dumb as [ __ ] animals that's the reality and their levels of development are much lower than you think they are and in fact your level of development is much lower than you think it is don't assume that most people are ready for Progressive ideas they aren't if they were they'd be Progressive that's why you lose life another liberal blind spot is a that many of the changes that liberals want to make they just become unsustainable and lead to Eco backlash what happens when you try to develop or to push development on people who are not ready for it or societies that are not ready for it is that you push them you push them you push them and eventually they just get fed up with it and they um they get angry at you they they bite the hand that feeds them so when you're when you're feeding for example I've actually posted videos of this on my blog in the past I posted a video of of a guy whose whole thing on YouTube is he rescues like feral abandoned kittens and puppies and stuff and then he rehabilitates them these are kittens for example their mother died or they were abused they come from some abused household they didn't get enough food or water or anything so he rescues them kind of on the brink of death they're in very bad condition such that when he picks them up he has to pick them up with gloves thick gloves on because they they claw and bite they're like super aggressive it's like it's like a [ __ ] rabid animal this little kitten it's terrified it's angry um and this guy is not threatening at all but the kitten is just coming from a place where it's on the brink of death he rescues it and then over a period of of a month he rehabilitates this kitten and the way he does that is just by like gently petting it gently giving it food he he literally feeds little every little bit of food to the kid he feeds from his own hands and he does this and the kidnap first the kitten bites them and scratches them and resists and is afraid and hisses at him right over time he does this slowly over weeks and then the kitten calms down and then it takes some weeks just to get the kitten to the point where he can pet the kitten so then he starts petting the kid and he starts watching TV with a kid he starts sleeping with the kitten do those and then a month later the kitten is it's not fully rehabilitated it's a little bit kind of like touchy uh and kind of frisky but um it works it's workable that kitten will be okay so see that's the approach that is really needed and that's the approach that many liberals and progressives don't know how to do because they just want to crank the gas they want to just put pedal to the metal and they just think well if there's a lot of people suffering the best way to help them is just to press on the accelerator as fast as we can go full speed 100 miles an hour ahead and just start changing everything and then fix all the problems as fast as we can and that's going to do it and if you're opposed to that then you're our enemy this is um this is not intelligent this is not how human development works it's not how social or national development works so a lot of this has to do with timing just timing and like um you know if you had a child and you started to try to force the child to learn faster and more and and bigger and read more calculus books right but the child is too young for calculus and you try to push it on them you're going to traumatize them and you're going to make him hate you you have to take the child slowly through 12 years of of mathematics to get him to the point where he can pick up a calculus textbook and even then it's difficult so this is something that liberals have a pretty big blind spot in and in order to fix that blind spot the most important thing is watch my previous episode understanding the concern of mine where I explain to you why conservatives are the way that they are and why you're uh your attempts to change them are not going to work here's some points on what the liberal mind struggles with the liberal mind struggles with staying grounded admitting to itself that its own ideals are not going to work in the real world we liberals love to be so idealistic and utopian but then the reality is that most of our ideas there are too impractical to actually work another area where liberal mind struggles is just being practical dutiful and doing the nuts and bolts of the work a lot of Liberals are very artistic and they have a lot of ideas and a lot of interesting political ideas maybe Marxist social ideas but then when it comes down to like the brass tacks you're not able to actually execute you're not able to go and canvas and get the right people politically engaged to actually go out and vote or even if they do vote that voting alone is not enough you have to build organizations you have to build support systems you have to like it's a whole a lot of just like very mundane technical work has to be done to govern and to change society and to build new systems you can't just sit around smoking weed and doing Pie in the Sky Marxist philosophy that's not going to change the world another area where the liver mind struggles is with integrating less developed more hateful insecure people it really struggles with this bigots racist homophobes transphobes fascists Nazis bullies and tyrants the liberal mind simply cannot understand these perspectives which makes the the liberal mind demonize and attack all these perspectives and when you do that it's the same thing as taking that little kitten who's terrified and you know uh lashing out at you and you just you just try to grab it and you just try to manipulate that kitten this is only going to make the thing worse and then you start to hate and demonize this kitten for not reacting to you in a sweet manner the way that you expect well you're a fool because you understand where that kitten came from all these bigots racist homophobes transphobes fascist Nazis these are just like that kitten these are not evil people these are just people who have been through very difficult survival situations that's made them very aggressive and closed-minded and defensive and insecure and so if you want to rehabilitate them that is some serious work that requires you to get a much higher meta understanding of the human mind which I can help you with uh the next uh struggling point is liberals struggle to understand how backwards and ignorant most of mankind is just the depths of Mankind's ignorance Global ignorance is so profound it's so profound no liberal understands this I can help you understand this in fact in the future I'll have a whole episode understanding ignorance we will talk about that but if you've been following my work you know I've already done an implicit job pretty good job implicitly of explaining this stuff to you you should already know how deeply ignorant you are and most of mankind is uh the other struggling point is the liberal mind struggles to integrate materialism capitalism and raw survival corporations these just tend to be demon eyes and kind of like dismissed as as simple problems these are not simple but these are extremely delicate nuanced complex hairy problems that cannot just be dismissed or glossed over in the way that many marxists try to do and also lastly the liberal mind struggles with integrating unfairness and inequality solve on fairness and inequality you have to really deeply understand the source of unfairness and inequality which most progressives do not understand all right let's go like I did in the in the other episode let's go through how a liberal would view certain issues within politics so I'm not necessarily going to be stating my actual true perspective I'm just going to be stating a Steel Man of the liberal leftist Progressive view of some of these issues like feminism religion immigration we're going to go through that okay so first feminism what is the liberal perspective the liberal perspective on feminism is that um yeah it's true that in the past strongman leaders were probably necessary when we were more chip-like in the way that we LED our tribes and people um but this sort of hyper masculine approach to leadership this is becoming way outdated and the reality is that women have a lot to contribute to society and to government and to our politics but not just that it's not just women it's femininity um our Human Society for thousands of years has been way over skewed and over indexed as they say on masculinity that masculine approach leads to a lot of War a lot of violence and stuff like that masculinity is more aggressive and more brute in the way that it handles its problems we're getting to the point where we're evolving beyond that and femininity is actually something that every masculine person needs to integrate um and also femininity is a very beautiful thing so you as a masculine man you like femininity and you're women um but it's not just that it doesn't just stop there it's not just about having sex with the feminine it's it's also about recognizing the the important features of the feminine that you can integrate into yourself to become a more whole human being and feminism offers that now there are some excesses to feminism if feminists start to demonize the masculine that becomes a problem but really the healthy forms of feminism are uh can be valuable even for men to integrate um to integrate the feminine the masculine because that's when you're going to be at your spiritually holist and uh and strongest and you're going to feel better about yourself and you're also actually going to be able to relate better to women a lot of Highly masculine men have problems relating to women simply because they don't know how to be emotional how to be spontaneous how to deal with feminine energy so incorporating that more into yourself will actually make you more secure this sort of like Macho attitude that many masculine men aspire to and think is the ideal it's not the ideal this is actually an immature form of masculinity true masculinity is secure enough to also incorporate the feminine in a paradoxical sense all right next issue is transgenderism the liberal perspective look the reality is that gender is a is very much a mentally constructed thing it's not give God given that there's two genders um some plants and fungi have many different genders Beyond two some fungi have hundreds and thousands of genders um all throughout the animal kingdom gender Norms very you know the male seahorse carries the young and gives birth for example um people are born with different brains different genetics different metabolisms different numbers of chromosomes even so all this stuff is highly variable there there's no um uh there's nobody that says what your gender should really be gender open your mind to the possibility that gender is much more fluid than you've ever thought it to be even though traditionally there was just two genders and we had very strict masculine feminine roles in today's society we no longer need those simplistic categories and we should expand our mind and allow people to experiment with their with their gender in in in safe ways there are some going to be some safeguards you're not just gonna let anybody do anything they want there's safeguards for children there's going to be safeguards for when you can use hormones and when you can get surgery you have to wait a certain age get certain you know um medical recommendations and agreements and and authorizations and then if you want you can you can transition and the reality is that 95 percent of transgender folk who go through transitioning seem to have a positive results and they don't regret their transition there's only about a five percent regret rate so that's a pretty good pretty good rate as far as surgeries and uh Medical Treatments go so um uh we need to be open to experimenting with the stuff and you know in the future in the future humans are going to be experimenting with mixing different kinds of DNA eventually you're probably going to have humans that are half [ __ ] human half cat or half dog or a mixture of all sorts of weird stuff and that's literally coming so you might as well metaphysically epistemically prepare yourself for that um don't see it as a bad thing see the see the good in it don't be afraid of it next issue is religion the liberal perspective on religion the problem with religion is that it's so structured and so stifling really what we need to be talking about is not religion but spirituality religion is just a subset of spirituality spirituality can include religion or it can include a new age it can include Orthodox versions of spirituality or unorthodox versions of spirituality and the reality is that look people need um as a spiritual teacher I can tell you one of my biggest lessons from studying all this spiritual stuff for years is is that people are very unique spiritually people are born at different levels of consciousness they have different reactions to psychedelics they have different reactions to meditation techniques or to breathing techniques or other medical I mean other spiritual practices so really you have to customize your religion so to speak your spirituality to yourself what will work for you a cookie cutter approach the way that many Christians or Muslims approach Christian approach religion simply doesn't work for most people and um as a liberal it's not that we want to do away with religion in fact we value spirituality a lot uh as a liberal we want to open spirituality to be effective to be more than just ideology and dogma and stuff that you recite but don't experience the focus of spirituality and religion should be on helping people to experience God to experience mystical States and expand their consciousness and this is going to include psychedelics meditation a mixture of all sorts of different traditions and there's beautiful stuff within all religions and so what we need to do is we need to create sort of a a religious mixing pot take the best from all the religions there's also some crap in all the religions and all spiritual teachers are to some degree full of [ __ ] including myself so you have to separate the signal from the noise throw away the noise amplify the signal and um and don't worry about us losing connection to God through this process we will be more Godly and more spiritual uh and more jesus-like than we've ever been in the past through following the Ten Commandments or any kind of Orthodox practices right next issue is gay rights and gay marriage uh well just like with transgenderism you know when it comes to to sexuality the reality is that for the last couple thousand years most major civilizations on this planet have had very repressive attitudes towards sex and this is dysfunctional because sex is one of your most uh potent motivating drivers in life you know this you know how horny you are and how um How Deeply you crave sex and how it drives you crazy and you can't you can't really help yourself so the reality is is that this attitude of trying to control sex through repression through denying it through not teaching it not talking about it through demonizing it through putting all sorts of laws against it this it it doesn't work it doesn't work it's like trying to ban alcohol it doesn't work so the reality is is that um we need to help everybody to be comfortable sexually with however they are uh this includes gay sex and other forms of sex and so you just need to become comfortable enough not to be bothered by people having weird quirky Alternative forms of sex around you uh once you're comfortable with your sexuality you won't be threatened by the sexuality of others and once you're comfortable with that then you'll be comfortable and okay with gay marriage and so forth and you'll realize that um people who have sex in different ways than you they're not threatening you they're not threatening civilization this is not going to lead to the end of the world it's going to be all right um and in fact maybe you'll discover that you have some sexual Cravings that you've been denying and you'll feel better about yourself once you integrate those and are able to express those in a healthy Manner and also as we do all this we can um we can create some sort of infrastructure for ensuring that these Alternative forms of having sex are are healthy and safe because when we keep it underground we create sort of a dark market for it and then the stuff on the dark Market is is is dangerous uh even though it could be done otherwise in a safe manner same same situations with psychedelic drugs okay next issue is capitalism the liberal View capitalism is just a stage in our Economic Development and all of us even if you're very conservative you've you've experienced some of the problems with capitalism capitalism even if you're an Ardent capitalist so to speak and you're anti-socialist and anti-marxist you can't deny that um many of your favorite companies have exploited you your favorite Brands influencers celebrities or the boss at work has exploited you not paid you enough screwed you over in some business deal this kind of stuff um and so obviously these things need to change and you have to admit that there's structural problems within capitalism so why don't we start thinking about what comes next after capitalism it doesn't have to be Socialism or Marxism or communism although we could borrow ideas from those systems in the end it's not really about a system it's about identifying the Corruptions and the inequalities and problems and fixing those with whatever methods will work and we've got to test which methods will work and which ones won't and we can do those tests um but clearly capitalism has not delivered on its promise of providing for everybody equally I mean it probably never even promised that but the reality is that we want economic fairness isn't that what you want you want economic fairness especially if right now you're in a position where you're not succeeding and a lot of that could be systemic not because you're not working hard enough maybe you work really hard but the reality is is that under this current system working really hard doesn't necessarily make you wealthy and mean and then at the same time there's a lot of people on Wall Street in in crypto and other places that don't work at all basically or work very little but then they become Millionaires and billionaires this is not proper and correct and so we need to find a system Beyond this obviously capitalism is not the end-all be-all system so start opening your mind thinking about what comes next with caution being aware that um you could engineer a system that's worse than capitalism right but just because that's the case doesn't mean we shouldn't try right we got to try we got to try to make something better it's inevitable next issue environmentalism if you look at the majority of the most serious climatologists and scientists and intellectuals on this planet and academics which will quickly realize if you're honest with yourself is that they are very concerned about the effects that mankind is having on the environment and on the planet it's not just about global warming it's also about pollution it's also about Mercury in our rivers and in our fish supply it's also about overfishing it's also about over over deforesting um nature exploiting nature strip mining nature polluting the ocean with plastics microplastics other sorts of chemicals in the water and in the food how can you not be an environmentalist how can you not care about these things this planet is all we really have to sustain us and if we keep going um and not treating this issue seriously look maybe some of the environmentalists are a little bit overboard maybe they're a little bit in a panic about it too much maybe they're fear-mongering a bit but also just consider that if they're wrong and we act on environmentalism and we clean up the rivers we we stop overfishing we we clean up the microplastics and the Mercury and we stop raising the temperature and polluting what's going to happen is that going to be a negative for us in the end if we if we handle all those issues sooner that's only going to be better right we're not going to lose by doing that but if they are right in their panic then we could really screw ourselves in irreversible ways or ways that are going to take thousands of years to correct and it's much easier to address those problems early than it will be once we're already there upper you know Upper Creek up [ __ ] creek without a paddle as they as one of my old uh teachers in in fifth grade would say that phrase oh [ __ ] creek without a paddle um so we don't want to be in that situation and all these environmental problems they contribute to world problems they make our politics difficult they make more war they might make more famine they make more droughts they make a worse crop yields and um um more tribalism um destroy species destroy environments you know Florida could be underwater in 50 years a hurricane can come and destroy your house in Mississippi or in South Carolina or you know now nowadays on the TV I've even seen hurricane warnings like even like on the west coast there's hurricane warnings occasionally now so if you listen to the scientists they say that this is getting worse NASA actually has satellites that are tracking there's now now a climate change satellite that's actually tracking precisely where all the CO2 is coming from on the planet you can actually watch this thing and it shows you you can see which regions of every country generate how much CO2 we can track this stuff we can track how much the temperature is rising on the planet so even if it's not as serious as they say it is it's better to treat this problem as though it were serious than just to pretend like it's not there and in the meantime as we do all that we're also going to create green jobs amazing new technology New Opportunities new investment Ventures all that kind of stuff so good stuff will come from this it's not just going to be all gritting our teeth and pain this technology is inevitable we need this technology anyways and if we delay on it some other country will take the spot like China Take the Lead China might take the lead or Germany might take the lead we could be the first okay next issue immigration I've sort of already made the case my best case for immigration earlier where I said that look um actually um when we enter a breed we create more beautiful humans so that's one that's one great point for immigration um another good uh positive for immigration is that the more immigration you have the more of a mixing pot the more ideas the more creativity there's actually a book I read in the past about which analyzed um where great ideas come from and one of the amazing facts from that book is historians actually looked at historically where have the greatest ideas in human civilization come from they did not come from rural rural Villages they came from bustling urban areas the most bustling urban areas at the Times why is that because you had a lot of mixing of different perspectives when you mix a lot of different Source material it's almost like one of those art AIS these new art AIS are amazing they create amazing art how do they do it they take a a billion different photos and pictures and then they combine them together mix them up together they have a lot of Base Source material that allows them to be very creative and create a lot of cool stuff that's kind of how it works if you're sitting alone in your you know your country house you have no one to be creative with and you're going to have a lot less innovation whereas if we allow immigration our Cuisine will become richer our entertainment industry our music industry will become richer our education system will ultimately become richer our media will become richer because we have a more diverse set of perspectives they're all going to intermingle and intermix and from that a lot of new innovation will come new technology new patents new inventions this is one of the strengths of America that I think conservatives underestimate a lot of conservative streaming is like no America is degrading because more and more immigrants are moving here no it's actually the opposite of all this the reason America is so powerful so Innovative we have the most patents we have the best research universities we have some of the best culture the most influential culture um some of the best films the best music you know hip-hop rap all this kind of stuff like this is all Multicultural stuff amazing cuisine some of the best restaurants in the world are in America because we're a Melting Pot this is good this is what you want this is actually a strength not a weakness so look at the positive make sure you don't overlook the positives of this immigration stuff now should there be some controls and limits and stuff yeah of course we don't want to just open the Border entirely it has to be done in a sustainable logical reasonable legal framework it needs to be done in a way that doesn't completely freak people out um obviously you don't have a bunch of illegals running around and so forth um but also understand that a lot of the the work that these immigrants do no Americans want to do it and that America in a sense runs on immigrants immigrants clean all your toilets and make all your beds and hotels handle your your lawn work and this kind of stuff so immigration is a win-win it's a win for us and it's a win for them because people are really suffering in these poor countries and look you don't have to be afraid America is a huge country there's so much land so many resources here you don't need to worry like if we were a tiny island nation like maybe Taiwan or Japan or something like that you might worry about lack of resources but America has so much land so many resources you know we could take in millions of immigrants and you're basically not even going to feel it so stop being paranoid about that and the last issue is punishment of criminals the purposing here's the liberal perspective the purpose of punishing of criminals is not retribution or getting evil or punishing evil doers it is about rehabilitation even criminals deserve sympathy and deserve respect a lot of these criminals simply were born in bad situations they made mistakes they didn't know what they were doing they didn't know the law or they're very sorry about how they behaved and they can correct themselves as long as we give them an opportunity to do so and in fact we have uh already examples of how this works really well in Scandinavian countries where they have um very liberal prison systems which are all about Rehabilitation and not just punishment incarceration and um we can learn a lot a lot of lessons from that and in the end these criminals can become upstanding members of society we waste a lot of energy and money trying to um incarcerate these criminals and they cut they go out and they commit more crime then they we put them back in and they come out again they commit more crime why play this this game if we can rehabilitate many of them now some of them we can't rehabilitate in which case we might even have the death penalty for those worst divorce Defenders that are beyond help but maybe 80 or even 50 let's say of criminals can be rehabilitated we should invest resources into that and um this is also going to be a win-win situation um for us and for them because we're going to have less crime and not only will we have less crime we'll all we're also just going to have more workers more taxpayers um uh more fathers and mothers more children all right so we're done with that the next section is I want to help you to visualize the emotional appeal of liberalism so we're going to quickly go through some visualization exercises here very quickly here we go number one imagine growing up under an authoritarian father who was such a stickler he didn't allow you to have any fun he was anal he never expressed his love for you and he was impossible to please and this was a very traumatizing experience for you when you think about how traumatizing that is you understand what it's like to govern somebody else without love and empathy without care and sensitivity and femininity if it's just all pure masculinity that's not enough to feed the soul and to raise a healthy child or a healthy adult or a healthy citizenry next Imagine creating a society where everybody gets along everyone accepts each other world peace no borders no dictators no exploitative bosses no grinding work weeks plenty of vacation time to play and to explore imagine that what can be better than making that our life purpose to create that collectively next imagine an advanced alien civilization they are too intelligent to resolve their differences with violence everyone's needs are taken care of money Fame sex and power are not objects of pursuit for them their only purpose for existence is to help each other to evolve to higher Consciousness intelligence and love why can't that be us do you have a better way of living collectively than this next just think about the kinds of social progress and improvements that we've made in the last Thousand Years 500 years 100 years let's accelerate this progress let's keep doing this why hit the brakes why resist this it's inevitable next imagine being so close-minded that you refuse to change and then you go extinct like the dodo birds next imagine a communist Utopia where everyone is equal no oppressive power structure exists no bullying no money everyone's needs are met why can't we create that do you hold such a low opinion of mankind that you believe we cannot create that really how do you know how do you know that's impossible what if it's possible next imagine being stuck as a minority in a system that bullies you how do you feel about that is that right is that fair is that just imagine if we eliminate all the bullying in the world all war all conflict all racism all sexism all hatred all genocide all enslavement all exploitation all Empire all colonialism imagine permitting your children to play and to self-express and to follow their highest Passions without giving them a bunch of rules to follow imagine them deriving their own rules for themselves ones that suit them perfectly like a glove next imagine being totally comfortable with your sexuality and not being bothered by anybody else's no more guilt no more shame no more judgment next imagine all the suffering caused by all the unfairness in the world what else is more worthwhile than making it our purpose to end that next imagine being so open-minded that you explore the mind your own mind so deeply that you transcend the limits of Being Human you access transhuman dimensions of consciousness you access mystical Realms of Consciousness and God reaching levels of consciousness like the Buddha or Jesus or Muhammad and living from that place next imagine a world where everyone is allowed to practice spirituality however they wanted to without imposing it on anybody else true freedom of religion next imagine everyone lived with uh imagine everyone lived their passion their life purpose and that Society enabled that and how much more happy productive and Innovative mankind would be in that situation think about all the people who are not able to live their passion and their life purpose right now not because they don't want to but simply because the economic system has stifled them and has not given them the required support and education this wouldn't just be increasing their happiness this would also be about contributing to civilization because when people are not working on their passions and on their life purpose then they're not at their strongest they're not contributing their best they're maybe only working at 10 percent of their productive capacity think of the 90 percent that we're losing right now for most people in the world we're losing amazing medicines amazing Technologies amazing art because people are not able to live their passions next Imagine The Thrill of exploring new alien planets new alien cultures alien biology alien science alien technology think of how exciting that would be next Imagine teleporting a thousand years into the future and walking around New York City try to imagine what that would be like what kind of people you would meet there what kind of Technology would exist how people would treat each other what kind of culture there would be how Multicultural and diverse it would be how much more developed and compassionate people would be how much more empathy there would be next imagine having a whole year off to do whatever you want no work no chores no bedtime no no need to bathe no rules nothing complete freedom no structure next imagine having so much money you can do whatever you want buy whatever you want you never have to think about money again you never have to save again next imagine that everyone in the world was radically open-minded and not threatened by new ideas and perspectives imagine if we introduced everybody to the kind of radical epistemology and relativism that I teach and talk about how powerful and transformative that would be next imagine having to go to school or work wearing a uniform not being able to dress however you want and express yourself through your clothing in fact I want you to imagine a society in which the society is so conservative and strict that you have to wear a single uniform your entire life you have no option for how to dress at all how do you feel about that what do you think is lost in that next imagine how it feels when some authority figure is repressing you setting rules upon you telling you what you can can't do imagine the stinginess and backwardness of the Quakers think about how they live imagine if somebody forced you to live as a Quaker for your whole life how would you feel what do you think would be lost what do you think the Quakers are losing in the way that they live the very regimented lifestyle they have next imagine that you were alive in the past and you supported slavery or Nazism or segregation just because you were supporting the status quo or your culture or tradition next imagine living in a theocracy like Iran Saudi Arabia or the Taliban in Afghanistan how would you feel if spirituality was limited to that and government was completely mixed with church state was mixed with church in that way and finally I'd like you to consider this possibility imagine God what is God you might wonder well you could think of it this way imagine that God is infinitely liberal God is an infinitely liberal mind infinitely open-minded infinitely non-judgmental infinitely open to new experience infinitely exploring New Perspectives infinitely relative infinitely merciful and infinitely loving what if love is nothing other than opening your mind to absolutely everything that Consciousness could possibly imagine and not holding one form of Consciousness is any better than any other what if that's God and your mind is too closed to understand it or to experience it what if you're missing out on God simply because your mind is too close then you're too conservative okay now a few questions I'd like you to consider this is uh some homework assignment for you uh a list of questions to contemplate number one where in your life are you liberal pinpoint specific places rather than just saying that I am a liberal I am a conservative find places where you are liberal I guarantee you that even if you identify as a conservative you can find places in your life where you are liberal maybe it's with your food maybe it's with how you have sex maybe it's with your speech or or whatever next where are you idealistic and utopian next question where are you eager to make progress and change where do you love to see innovation where does innovation excite you next question where do you like to explore new experiences next where are you self-expressive individualistic quirky rebellious and artistic where are you open to radical new ideas where are you optimistic about human nature and lastly where do you shake your head at rigid and closed-minded people who are stuck in the past AKA Boomers where do you criticize and ridicule Boomers for being Boomers don't you understand when you call someone a boomer what you're basically saying is that they're conservative and you're liberal that's all that Meme means you're criticizing someone for being too conservative and too rigid and too outdated all right so now we're wrapping up this is the end a couple of final points remember there are many examples of dumb liberals and progressives that you could find online social justice Warriors and feminists and so forth this is um this is not going to give you a proper understanding of the liberal worldview after hearing this you might be in a state right now a bit of a shock because what I've presented as liberalism is very different from what the right-wing media and propaganda has portrayed liberalism to be so I want you to take some time here to really reflect and to allow your mind to experience a paradigm shift liberalism is not what you thought it was you have been misled by the media very few right-wingers understand what liberalism is which is why they can't properly explain it to you which is why they demonize it they're not necessarily demonizing it uh out of some kind of evil they just don't understand they don't have enough perspective to understand to be able to articulate it the way that I've done here it's taken me a lot of development and study years and years of development Decades of development and study to be able to articulate this kind of stuff to you this is this is advanced stuff please understand this is not some sort of you know cheesy political video that you're watching here this is this is serious what we're talking about here is really we're not talking about politics we're talking about something deeper we're talking about political science we're talking about sociology we're talking about epistemology we're talking about um like some really deep stuff this is heavy stuff also notice how different the tone and the content and the structure of the things that I'm saying are different from the typical political commentary that you find on social media very different and even though this is a long conversation you know three hour conversation you might say well God it's so involved but look recognize this you've wasted way more than three hours listening to stupid trolling straw Manning political commentary on YouTube and elsewhere you've wasted probably a hundred hours listening to this kind of [ __ ] and where has it gotten you has it really gotten you a deeper understanding of mankind of yourself of your neighbors has it helped to actually create a better Society or has done exactly the opposite so just be aware of the straw mans that you find in right-wing media and uh you need to start to upgrade the quality of the sources of media that you watch these right-wing political commentators they're trash they're trash pure trash they're propagandists in many cases they're idiots they're fools they have low levels of development their egotists their narcissists uh they're doing it because it helps them make a lot of money but they're not doing it because they actually want a deep understanding of of anything in reality and this is not a way for advancing mankind I strongly encourage you to find the most intelligent articulations of liberal thought that you can find online perhaps it's known Chomsky perhaps somebody like Daniel schmachtenberger or myself um maybe Ken Wilbur you can find very intelligent articulations of liberalism there are some silly and foolish progressives that you'll find out there who are a little bit radical and a little bit too utopian idealistic and a little bit too demonizing of the right yeah you're going to find this kind of stuff this is kind of standard it's the most popular stuff I recommend you avoid that and go for the go for the serious intellectuals people who really think deeply about this stuff and who are not ideological and they also don't demonize conservatives I recommend the following episodes of mine if you found this episode useful and informative definitely check out my conscious politics part one two three and four that's like a 10 hour long series about politics it'll change your whole understanding of politics super important go watch that go out check out my other episode called how Society evolves I present a lot of research and data in that one check out my series on spirodynamics really powerful will transform your whole understanding of human nature if you watch that series also my series called Nine stages of ego development part one two three that will also be very helpful for you really what we're talking about here is developmental psychology and developing psychology applies not only to individuals but to collectives and so really you can't understand politics unless you understand psychology and specifically developmental psychology so that's why you want to watch that spiral Dynamics series and the nine stages of ego development and you can also check out my episode called understanding democracy versus authoritarianism uh I want to address a couple of just like last little minor points on politics Point number one is that this topic of individualism versus collectivism you might wonder so are conservatives the individualists and the Liberals the collectivists or vice versa sometimes it seems one way or the other this is a common trap that people fall into uh it's not the case that conservatives are are individualists and Liberals are collectivists this alternates depending on the spiral stages and levels of development so there are there are stages of development in which the conservative mind will be more individualist and then there will be stages where it becomes more collectivist and vice versa they oscillate the liberal and the conservative oscillate in this way so for example if you go to the Taliban in Afghanistan is very conservative and it's also very collectivist it's very tribal in America conservativism tends to be more individualistic less collectivist although the fundamentalist Evangelical Christians are a very collectivist uh basically they want a theocracy they want a Christian Nation they want a Christian Collective that's collectivism but then you get uh you get some conservatives that are more Libertarians when it gets into libertarianism then it becomes more of an individualist thing that's like spell Dynamic stage Orange but then you evolve beyond that you get into liberalism liberalism also oscillates between origin orange forms of liberalism like libertarianism can also be considered liberalism um there's Liberal Liberal and conservative forms of libertarianism it can be individualistic um but then stage green which is more of the social justice Warriors and the kind of stuff you see on University campuses progressivism Marxism socialism this tends to be very collectivist but then you can go beyond that you can evolve beyond that into spiral Dynamic stage yellow and that becomes individualist again so don't oversimplify this be careful you know sometimes like Someone Like Jordan Peterson will will get this wrong and he will claim that conservatives are the individualists and and the the Liberals and the marxists and the postmodernists they're the collectivists this is um there's some truth in that but it's it's an oversimplification and it mischaracterizes the complexity of the situation also I want to say it's important to remember that Mo that both conservativism and liberalism ultimately are forms of love that's the unifying characteristic of both it's just love expressed with different emphasis Different World Views different survival conditions and different developmental levels but all of it is about love how do you want to love the conservative loves in a certain direction and the liberal loves in a certain other direction so it's very important that you understand that both liberals and conservatives are expressing love with what they're doing with their politics even though they themselves don't really understand what they're doing and they might be doing some some you know some toxic stuff just because something is toxic doesn't mean that it's not an expression of love uh love can be expressed in extremely toxic ways what Hitler was doing was love it's a very toxic love but love and uh what the you know Soviet marxists were doing what Lenin was doing was love his form of love what China is doing is love what Cuba is doing is love what Putin is doing is love yeah that's that's the complexity and beauty of love and finally remember it's not about being liberal or conservative don't try to create these two camps and then try to like identify with one or the other you shouldn't have an identity as a liberal or a conservative ultimately what you want is you want to be flexible and intelligent and to apply the best solutions to the situation at hand whatever that is situation will change depending on what culture is doing what people are doing what what era you're living in what the climate is what your neighbors are doing around you you're going to need different responses sometimes you'll have to be very conservative in a certain situation other times you're going to need to loosen up and be more liberal and so you want to be extra careful to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy functional and dysfunctional appropriate and inappropriate applications of conservative liberal principles throughout your life I don't recommend that you try to be one or the other exclusively this would be stupid you gotta use the right tool for the right situation that you're in you know maybe with your finances it's better to be more conservative and maybe with your social life it's better to be more liberal or vice versa it all depends it's all relative and you gotta actually like work through it there's no Ten Commandments there's no Communist Manifesto here that tells you how to solve these problems which is why these problems are perennial problems political problems notice they've existed since the ancient Egyptians and long before them they have existed and they will exist for another many thousands of years so when you see something existing across such a long time span in all countries all cultures All Peoples and there's war over it and conflict over it over and over and over and over again you have to understand that we're dealing with something here that's extremely complex extremely sophisticated and extremely sneaky it's gonna easily fool you if you don't treat it as something serious and intelligent something very intelligent is going on here namely survival also Consciousness also love that's what's going on here in a nutshell but then the mechanics of how survival Consciousness and love all manifest and play themselves out this is man this you could spend your whole life studying this it's amazing it's amazing to study this stuff I recommend that rather than listening to all this all these blowhards on YouTube you know criticizing and straw Manning each other left and right I recommend you go uh like buy some books on politics buy some books on history study the history of of maoism in China Study the Soviet Union study Germany and Nazism and fascism study the American founding fathers study the United Kingdom in the fall of the British Empire you know study what happened in Africa study colonialism study capitalism study socialism study others have to think deeply about it independently for yourself don't subscribe to any ideology socialism Marxism these are ideologies these are not going to be true solutions to the problems we have going on there's good ideas in many different places you can pick and choose you got to pick and choose the good stuff again separate the signal from the noise there is some signal in Marxism but there's also noise and Marxism there's also signal and capitalism and there's also noise and capitals there's corruption in both capitalism and Marxism corruption is not limited to capitalism that's one of the things you Marxist uh foolishly don't understand capitalism is going to be as corrupt as as as capitalism is corruption's a separate thing go check out my episode about corruption so um uh personally in my life over the last five years like I've gotten really deep into studying history political science um these kind of social dynamics to me it's just it's it's like it's one of the most interesting things that I get to to do mentally is think about this kind of stuff it actually gives me a sort of a medium that I can apply a lot of these abstract metaphysical epistemic spiritual principles that I've discovered and sort of shared with you guys uh over the years like I love being able to apply it to solve and understand human social dynamics really fascinating stuff this gets us into sociology go read some sociology books if you want ideas for kinds of books to read check out my book list and um also make sure you go check out my blog I post so much amazing stuff on my blog I feel like people are missing out on that I I try to share amazing political perspectives there resources like really high quality stuff I try to put on my blog so um it's all free don't don't uh don't miss it alrighty we're done here I'll see in the next one