How To Distinguish Lower vs Higher Perspectives - Part 1

Summary

In "How To Distinguish Lower vs Higher Perspectives - Part 1" by Actualized.org, the video delves into the complexities of understanding and evaluating differing perspectives on reality. It discusses the importance of distinguishing between lower and higher quality perspectives and presents a comprehensive examination of the criteria that characterize lower perspectives. Through a series of thought experiments and critiques of common belief systems, the video challenges viewers to critically engage with their own worldviews and biases, encouraging a more nuanced and objective understanding of reality.

Highlights

• Identifying higher and lower quality perspectives is crucial in making sense of reality. 🤯
• Lower perspectives often rely on ideology, bias, and emotional attachment, lacking objectivity. 🧩
• Higher perspectives emphasize open-minded inquiry and understanding over belief. 🙌
• Many perspectives are shaped by social and cultural environments, influencing biases. 🌐
• Understanding epistemology is key to evaluating the validity of different perspectives. 👓

Key Takeaways

• Perspectives vary in quality, and not all are equal. Some are more open-minded and analytical while others are biased and limited. 🧠
• Higher perspectives encourage genuine inquiry without attachment to beliefs or ideologies. Lower perspectives often cling to these. 🤔
• The goal is to differentiate between lower and higher perspectives based on criteria like open-mindedness, intellectual curiosity, and epistemic awareness. 🔍
• Be cautious of perspectives rooted in emotional attachment or tribalism, as they often ignore objective truth. 🌍
• Developing a higher perspective requires constant self-reflection and openness to new information and experiences. 🌟

Overview

The video begins by posing a significant question: how can we distinguish between higher and lower perspectives on reality? Actualized.org encourages viewers to recognize that not all perspectives hold the same value or truth. From challenging popular ideologies to examining societal biases, the show highlights the importance of critical inquiry and the dangers of accepting perspectives based solely on cultural consensus or personal beliefs.

As the video progresses, it delves into numerous criteria that mark lower perspectives, such as a lack of intellectual curiosity, closed-mindedness, and emotional attachment to ideologies. The presenter, Leo, navigates through these criteria with practical examples, illustrating how easily perspectives can be influenced by external factors and internal biases. There's a strong emphasis on the necessity of epistemic awareness – understanding how we know what we know.

Ultimately, Actualized.org's video serves as a call to action for viewers to engage deeply with their own worldviews. By critically reflecting on the beliefs they hold and the information they consume, viewers are encouraged to move towards higher perspectives that prioritize open-mindedness, self-reflection, and a commitment to genuine knowledge-seeking. This foundational episode sets the stage for further exploration in subsequent parts, advancing towards even higher levels of cognitive development.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Perspectives The chapter titled 'Introduction to Perspectives' begins with a discussion on the complexity and elusiveness of reality. It touches on how individuals encounter numerous perspectives daily, which makes understanding the true nature of reality challenging. The chapter sets the stage for a deeper exploration into how different perspectives shape one's understanding and interpretation of the world.
• 00:30 - 01:30: Subjectivity and Beliefs The chapter discusses the flood of varied perspectives in the Zone, emphasizing the influence of bad faith actors, grifters, fools, and ideologues. It points out the resulting confusion, loss, and false equivalencies that people face. It raises questions on how to discern and make sense of the different perspectives, noting that not all perspectives are equal, as some are of higher quality than others. The chapter delves into methods on how to distinguish higher quality perspectives from the lower ones.
• 01:30 - 02:30: Recognizing Quality of Perspectives In this chapter titled 'Recognizing Quality of Perspectives,' the focus is on understanding that not all perspectives are of equal quality. There is a discussion about the existence of higher and lower quality perspectives, challenging the notion that all perspectives are the same. The chapter encourages questioning this assumption, particularly targeting individuals who are relativistic and may hold the belief that all perspectives are inherently equal.
• 02:30 - 03:30: Common Lower Perspective Traps The chapter titled 'Common Lower Perspective Traps' explores the subjective nature of perspectives. It delves into the idea that beliefs are relative and that there is no clear standard for determining what is right or wrong, or better or worse. The section emphasizes the inherent bias in the criteria used to evaluate perspectives. Through thought experiments, it challenges the notion that all perspectives are equally valid, suggesting a more nuanced approach to understanding different points of view.
• 03:30 - 04:30: Evaluating Worldviews Objectively The chapter titled 'Evaluating Worldviews Objectively' discusses the challenge of assessing different worldviews and perspectives in an unbiased manner. It questions whether all perspectives should be considered equal, using examples such as comparing the Neo-Nazi viewpoint to that of academics or scientists, and comparing Wahhabist Islam with other worldviews. The chapter suggests that not all perspectives hold the same level of quality, value, or legitimacy.
• 04:30 - 05:30: Quiz on Real-Life Perspective Comparisons The chapter titled 'Quiz on Real-Life Perspective Comparisons' explores the intuitive levels at which individuals place different types of work or thought, such as those presented by actualized.org. It encourages readers to engage in thought experiments to understand where their minds naturally categorize these perspectives. The discussion reveals that people often have inherent distinctions in their thinking, labeling certain worldviews as ridiculous or delusional, indicating the presence of subjective judgment in assessing the validity of various perspectives.
• 05:30 - 06:30: Criteria for Lower Perspectives The chapter explores the importance of having objective criteria for evaluating different worldviews and perspectives, particularly focusing on identifying the most delusional, wrong, and toxic ones. The author suggests that rather than relying on personal biases to determine the validity or quality of a perspective, a more impartial and systematic method should be developed. The goal is to create a list of the lowest quality perspectives as a reference to aid in this evaluation process.
• 06:30 - 07:30: Role of Education and Misinformation The chapter explores the structural commonalities among various belief systems, regardless of whether the beliefs are personally agreeable or not, illustrated through the example of Nazism. It investigates the psychological, epistemic, and meta features that contribute to the low quality of some belief systems.
• 07:30 - 08:30: Experience and Belief Attachment The chapter titled 'Experience and Belief Attachment' delves into the common sentiment against Nazism and aims to uncover the deeper, structural epistemic issues underlying it. The emphasis is on approaching this exploration with caution to avoid echo chambers and the reinforcement of preconceived biases. The goal is to maintain an open-minded perspective without assuming Nazism is wrong from the start.
• 08:30 - 09:30: Epistemology and Inquiry The chapter discusses the importance of having quality standards in epistemics, psychology, and methodology. It emphasizes that these standards should focus on the structure rather than the content of ideas. The text uses the example of Nazism to illustrate how low-quality structures can appear in various worldviews, suggesting that poor epistemic structures are not limited to any single ideology.
• 09:30 - 10:30: Addressing Cognitive Biases This chapter discusses the concept of addressing cognitive biases by examining various forms of nationalism around the world, such as German, Hindu, Islamic, and Slavic Russian nationalisms. The emphasis is on observing the underlying structures of these ideologies rather than getting caught up in their content. In particular, the chapter aims to explore perspectives or worldviews, using the example of Flat Earthers to explain how cognitive biases manifest in different beliefs and ideologies.
• 10:30 - 11:30: Self-Deception and Introspection The chapter 'Self-Deception and Introspection' explores the theme of how extremist ideologies, such as Nazism, white supremacy, various forms of ethnonationalism, and Wahhabist Islam, share similar structures in terms of their worldviews or perspectives. These ideologies often lead to radical activities, including terrorism. The chapter aims to delve into understanding the philosophical underpinnings of such extremist beliefs and their implications on individual and collective consciousness.
• 11:30 - 12:30: Ethnocentrism and Self-Centered Ethics The chapter titled 'Ethnocentrism and Self-Centered Ethics' explores a variety of philosophical perspectives on politics and dating, including potentially toxic philosophies about women. The discussion encourages open-mindedness and the evaluation of these different worldviews through structural criteria, without prejudice.
• 12:30 - 13:30: Cognitive Development and Rationality This chapter explores the dichotomy between creationism and science, emphasizing that people often align with one side and may find it challenging to objectively determine which is superior. It questions the ability to articulate why science might be considered better than creationism even if one intuitively feels it's the case.
• 13:30 - 14:30: Nuanced Thinking and Distinctions The chapter delves into the concept of higher and lower distinctions in various dichotomies such as science versus postmodernism, liberal versus conservative, and woke versus anti-woke. It questions the criteria that can be used to objectively determine which side, if any, holds a higher value beyond personal or political biases.
• 14:30 - 15:30: Conformity and Independence The chapter discusses various worldviews and philosophies, including the manosphere, red pill, black pill, incel, and pickup ideologies. It questions how to assess the quality of these perspectives. Additionally, the chapter touches upon Zionism, conspiracy theories, feminism, neoliberalism, capitalism, Marxism, and new age beliefs, contrasting and comparing them.
• 15:30 - 16:30: The Role of Emotional Attachment This chapter explores the influence of public intellectuals and influencers like Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk. It delves into examining the quality and credibility of their perspectives, as well as when to consider or dismiss these views. Integral Theory by Ken Wilber is also mentioned as an example of a framework to evaluate the substance of public discourse. The chapter illustrates how emotional attachment to these personalities can affect judgement and the perception of their ideas.
• 16:30 - 17:30: Truth vs. Survival In this chapter titled 'Truth vs. Survival,' the content delves into the critical examination of media outlets such as Fox News. The discussion centralizes around the idea of presenting a specific worldview and perspective, questioning the deeper issues beyond the surface-level conservative content. The analysis is not about the political leaning itself, but rather about the underlying implications and potential problems that arise from such a narrowly defined narrative.
• 17:30 - 18:30: Information Pollution The chapter titled 'Information Pollution' delves into the various dimensions of misinformation and its consequences. It questions what is epistemologically, cognitively, ethically, morally, and developmentally wrong with outlets like Fox News. Highlighting a significant event, it notes that Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit for $780 million just a year or two ago. This settlement is presented as evidence of a deeper issue with the way information is disseminated and perceived by the public, inviting readers to critically assess the role of media in shaping public opinion and the truth.
• 18:30 - 19:30: Structural Theories and Misconceptions This chapter discusses the legal challenges faced by Fox News in relation to defamation and misinformation cases, highlighting a specific billion-dollar lawsuit. It points out that this lawsuit is merely a fraction of the numerous legal issues the network encounters. Moreover, the chapter implies systemic problems within Fox News and touches upon the difficulties encountered when attempting to establish criteria for addressing higher-level concerns related to these issues.
• 19:30 - 20:30: Echo Chambers and Responsibility The chapter discusses the concept of 'Echo Chambers' and the responsibilities individuals have when engaging with media. It emphasizes that everyone has inherent biases and worldviews that influence their perception of information. Fox News is used as an example to explain how these biases can lead to a distorted understanding of information. The focus is not on critiquing specific opinions from Fox News but rather on highlighting a deeper structural issue within media consumption.
• 20:30 - 21:30: Diversity and Non-Duality The chapter discusses the quality of perspectives presented by Fox News, distinguishing between high-quality conservative views and the low-quality nature that the network reportedly represents. It questions what factors contribute to this perceived low quality and aims to articulate specific criteria distinguishing lower and higher perspectives, beginning by listing the lower ones.
• 21:30 - 22:30: Collective Survival Agendas The chapter 'Collective Survival Agendas' discusses the process and effort involved in creating deeply considered survival strategies. The author mentions spending months brainstorming, thinking deeply, and running thought experiments to come up with the ideas presented in the chapter. Advanced techniques, possibly including AI evaluations, are utilized to refine these strategies. The chapter aims to present the author's final conclusions after this intensive process.
• 22:30 - 23:30: Mental Health and Perspective Quality The chapter titled 'Mental Health and Perspective Quality' emphasizes the importance of personalizing the understanding and application of given insights. It encourages individuals to critically engage with provided lists of concepts related to mental health, urging them to add or remove parts based on personal validation and understanding. The focus is on personal adaptation and evaluation to make the insights impactful and relevant to individual mental frameworks.
• 23:30 - 24:30: Conclusion and Future Topics This chapter discusses the implications of poor education and its impact on individuals' perspectives. It highlights a lack of basic knowledge and an inability to point out countries on a map as examples of educational deficiencies. The chapter serves as a critique of such educational gaps, using public figures like Donald Trump as hypothetical examples. Additionally, it suggests a dire need for improvements in education to broaden perspectives and enhance factual understanding. Future topics will presumably address how these educational improvements could be systematically implemented to cultivate more globally aware individuals.

How To Distinguish Lower vs Higher Perspectives - Part 1 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] so you're trying to make sense of reality but reality is a very tricky and complicated thing you encounter hundreds of
• 00:30 - 01:00 perspectives and it's nice to be open-minded as an ideal but the Zone has been flooded with [ __ ] by bad faith actors grifters fools and ideologues so people are confused loss and false equivalents there's all these perspectives floating around how do you make sense of all of them you start to notice that not all perspectives are equal some are higher quality than others how do you distinguish the higher from the lower
• 01:00 - 01:30 that's what this whole next two episodes are going to be about there's a lot to say about this firstly do you understand that there are such a thing as higher and lower quality perspectives that they're not all the same this is not obvious and you should question this some people are very relativistic maybe you are in the absolute relativist camp and you believe you know Leo well um there's all these
• 01:30 - 02:00 perspectives out there but in the end it's all just subjective it's all relative people believe whatever they want to believe and who's to say what's right and what's wrong and what's better and what's worse isn't that subjective after all what criteria are you going to use and aren't you going to be biased about the criteria that you're using yes ultimately that's the that's the real epistemic conundrum here but it turns out that if you just do a few thought experiments you start to quickly realize that this idea that all perspectives are on the same field on
• 02:00 - 02:30 the same level um doesn't quite hold water for example do you really want to say that Neo-Nazi the Neo-Nazi perspective is the same as the perspective of a academic or a scientist is that really the same level of quality there probably not uh do you want to say that for example wahhabist Islam is at the same level of quality of worldview and perspective as for example the that I
• 02:30 - 03:00 teach through this work here with actualized.org it would be kind of strange to put those on the same level intuitively right so you can do a few thought experiments just to kind of see where your own mind Falls but pretty quickly you'll realize that you do make distinctions at least you operate that way there's a lot of perspectives out there in the world that you consider to be ridiculous crazy insane delusional and so forth forth right but here's the
• 03:00 - 03:30 trick is that we don't want to just claim that something is delusional or wrong based on our own biases and prejudices we want something more objective we want some sort of like set of criteria that we can use to evaluate quality that would be valuable if such a thing exists and could be found so what I'm proposing here is that we compile a list of all the lowest most delusional wrong and toxic worldviews and perspectives and then we ask the
• 03:30 - 04:00 question what are the structural similarities they have in common what are the psychological epistemic and meta features that make these low and this is not a question of the content of a belief system or whether you personally like it or agree with it or don't agree with it so you could say that you know Nazis are distasteful you don't like it
• 04:00 - 04:30 generally people don't like Nazism don't have a high opinion of it but that's not really the problem with Nazism there's something deeper structural epistemic and structural that's the problem with Nazism and we want to explore what that is and of course we want to be very careful to do this in a way where we're not just creating a sort of an echo chamber where we where we are reinforcing our own preconceived assumptions and biases we don't want to start assuming that Nazism is wrong uh uh we want to be open-minded
• 04:30 - 05:00 right but also we do want to have standards we want to have quality standards in terms of the epistemics and the psychology and the methodology and what what I'm going to call the structure not the content right because the structure of Nazism see that's just one form of it but then those structures the lowquality structures of Nazism those can be found in all sorts of other worldviews it doesn't have to be the sort of classical
• 05:00 - 05:30 uh you know German World War II style Nazi there's a lot of ways that it manifests around the world you got Hindu nationalism and you've got um you know Islamic nationalism maybe Slavic Russian nationalism whatever that that looks like and so we want to look for the structures not get hung up on the content so what do I mean by perspective or worldview since we're going to be using that word a lot here throughout this talk I mean stuff like for example Flat Earth flat earthers constitute a
• 05:30 - 06:00 worldview or perspective or as we've said Nazism white supremacy various forms of ethnonationalism these are all different variations on the same structure wahhabist Islam which stems from Saudi Arabia and uh and uh is responsible for a lot of the sort of radical Islam terrorist activity that's the philosophy underlying that for example forchan on for sh in
• 06:00 - 06:30 the politics section and in their dating advice section you have all sorts of philosophies about politics toxic philosophies about dating and women that's a perspective or a worldview and again I don't I don't want to bias it with my own Prejudice so maybe forchan is correct right maybe it is Let's Be open-minded to that but we'll we'll figure that out by evaluating various kinds of uh structural criteria
• 06:30 - 07:00 how about creationism versus science that's sort of like a dichotomy of perspectives usually you fall on one side or the other how do you tell which one is higher and which one is lower it might not be obvious and uh you might know in your heart that science is is better than creationism but but like can you articulate why or fundamentalism versus Atheism which one of those is is the higher
• 07:00 - 07:30 which one is the lower or if that seems too easy and obvious for you how about science versus postmodernism how do you tell which one of those is higher or lower how about liberal versus conservative left versus right is there a higher and a lower amongst those or are they even how do we determine that in a more objective way than just our own personal political biases how about the woke versus anti-woke perspective
• 07:30 - 08:00 and worldview how about the manosphere red pill black pill incel pickup worldviews how about Zionism how about various kinds of conspiracy theories that are out there how do we gauge the quality of those how about feminism neoliberalism how about capitalism versus Marxism how about various new age worldviews and persp
• 08:00 - 08:30 perspectives how about the the views and perspectives of certain public intellectuals and influencers maybe uh Jordan Peterson or uh Elon Musk you hear a lot of their perspectives how do you determine if this is a quality perspective that you should be taking seriously or that you should be dismissing how about integral Theory from Ken Wilber what's the quality of that so these are just uh some examples that we're on the same page as to what
• 08:30 - 09:00 we're talking about another way to look at this is like this consider Fox News Fox News presents a certain worldview and a certain perspective so the question is what's wrong with Fox News and I don't mean that in a shallow way I mean that in a deep way I don't mean the content what's wrong with the content of Fox News or the fact that it's conser a conservative perspective that's not the problem I mean what what is wrong
• 09:00 - 09:30 epistemologically what is wrong cognitively what is wrong ethically and morally and what is wrong developmentally now you might say well Leo nothing is wrong with Fox News I agree with a lot of their opinions you might say but there is something wrong because just a year or two ago Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit for $780 million that's it's not a little thing a
• 09:30 - 10:00 billion dollars a billion dollar lawsuit over defamation and misinformation that's and that's just one example there's more they face other kinds of lawsuits and that's just the tip of the iceberg of what's wrong with Fox News so uh now you might say well Leo the the the the lawsuit was all [ __ ] I mean again here you see the problem here is that even to Broach this issue of figuring out criteria for higher and
• 10:00 - 10:30 lower worldviews already as you're coming into this topic you have a set of biases you're subscribed to some kind of worldview and perspective and that's going to color and distort even how you receive some of this information now I'm just bringing up Fox News just as a as an obvious example hopefully you see that this isn't this isn't about me taking personal objections to certain opinions that Fox News has there's a deeper structural rot
• 10:30 - 11:00 within the entire Enterprise of Fox News and it's not that they're conservative because there are high quality conservative political perspectives and commentators and Analysis but Fox News is not that it's low quality it's really low quality but how do you articulate what that is why it is that way what makes it that way so here we go here's a list of criteria for distinguishing lower and higher perspectives we're going to start by mentioning all the lower ones first
• 11:00 - 11:30 and then we'll go to the higher ones these are very deep lists I spent months brainstorming thinking deeply about these lists running various thought experiments in my mind even running these ideas through AIS multiple times uh this is deep stuff so here we go and and again um I'm gonna give you my conclusions and
• 11:30 - 12:00 my answers but what I want here for you is not to just take this in as as a given but to really question and think through this stuff and really make these lists your own add to it remove parts that don't make sense or that you haven't validated um this is something you need to actually work through in your mind for these lists to be powerful and to have the impact that we want okay so first point is just a lower perspectives are
• 12:00 - 12:30 distinguished by a basic lack of Education reading and facts there's just a lack of fact under education poor education such a person with a lower perspective cannot even for example point to a map uh point to a country on a map uh for example I'm willing to bet that if you take like Donald Trump and
• 12:30 - 13:00 you ask him to find Nigeria on a map he won't be able to do it now that might seem like a trivial sort of nitpicky thing like oh well he doesn't know Nigeria so what what what does it matter but it does matter if you're going to be a leader of you know of the world and of a of a big country that has dealings with all these other countries you should not just be able to point out where the countries are on a map but you should know about their geography their background their history
• 13:00 - 13:30 their geopolitical situation their military situation like all these things are important to know which is why it's important that when you elect politicians and leaders that they actually have a factual historical understanding of things which is another aspect of this point of lack of basic education is just a lot of people are ignorant of basic history just ignorance of basic history his they don't know it or their history
• 13:30 - 14:00 is very one-sided for example just American history not world history not European history never mind Asian history African history it's like for many people even America for many Americans even American history they don't know very well they don't know it accurately they don't know the realities of slavery they don't know the realities of certain conflicts and uh and so on they might not even have
• 14:00 - 14:30 ever read the Constitution and yet they have very strong political opinions but completely ignorant of even what the amendments in the Constitution are stuff like that or ignorant of basic science there's a lot of people with a lack of scientific know knowledge Bas just like the basic stuff basic biology basic chemistry basic physics even basic mathematics and then these people go and they try to make sense of the world so
• 14:30 - 15:00 imagine somebody who doesn't have a good understanding of History then goes into politics that's going to create some lowquality worldviews or imagine such a person goes into uh various sorts of theories about the universe like maybe Flat Earth flat Earth theory but then a lot of these flat earthers you can tell that their perspectives are low because you can ask them basic science questions they they don't have answers to and I I don't mean stuff that pertains to necessar neily the the question of the
• 15:00 - 15:30 shape of the Earth but I mean just basic they might not know basic math they might not know just like basic geology which you should know in order to start to understand how we could know the shape of the earth so just don't underestimate how many people in the world are severely undereducated and even those who supposedly seem educated because maybe
• 15:30 - 16:00 they went to school they finished high school and they even went to University but that's not a guarantee that they're well educated on some topic they might you could finish University you could still be ignorant about history and basic science that's very very common so if you don't have that just basic Foundation of Education you're going to make all sorts of epistemic mistakes in your understanding of reality because look in the end what your mind is trying to do is to make
• 16:00 - 16:30 sense of reality education helps you to do that because the education system even though it has its corruption and it has its flaws and of course but still there's a there's just like basic quality standards that are set within Academia for example if you make it to University you will be inculcated into these quality standards there's going to be standards for how to write a research paper how to site your sources just even the fact that you need to look
• 16:30 - 17:00 for sources and how to distinguish for example between lowquality and high quality sources when I went to University they taught us that if I didn't go to university I wouldn't know these things and the majority of mankind did not go to university doesn't know these things hasn't been educated and trained in these sort of like basic fundamentals of uh knowledge acquisition
• 17:00 - 17:30 because there's a lot of bad information bad knowledge out there how do you distinguish them between the good and the bad well part of the answer is that you go to university and they teach you a set of standards they hold you to those standards they test you on those standards and if you don't pass a test you don't get a degree you don't pass your classes you don't go on to even higher education beyond that the next point of lower perspectives is lower perspectives are misinformed
• 17:30 - 18:00 they get information from lowquality sources and they just have the the facts wrong just the facts wrong and you need the basic facts in order to then go on to make better sense of the world if you got your basic facts wrong if you don't understand Evolution you don't understand basic science and math and history well how good is your sense making going to be the next distinguishing criteria of lower perspectives is a lack of
• 18:00 - 18:30 experience people who hold lower perspectives just lack experience in the domain about which they hold opinions or beliefs they don't have the direct experience they haven't actually done the thing they haven't been to the place and yet they have opinions they have beliefs about it for example you might have beliefs about the shape of the Earth or you might have beliefs about EV ution but
• 18:30 - 19:00 you've never actually done any like field research in geology you haven't actually gone out and looked at rocks climbed them studied them so geology influences your thinking about Evolution influences you're thinking about the Earth ultimately and then you haven't had the experience of um I mean this applies in so many ways right to to so many different domains you need
• 19:00 - 19:30 to have experience with a domain to be able to have good opinions about it and even very intelligent people so-called experts and intellectuals they can fall into the Trap of starting to speak outside their domain of expertise you might have a psychologist who's really experienced in Psychology but then he's going to be rendering his opinions about politics and about religion and about science and about climate change and about Evolution but he's a psychologist
• 19:30 - 20:00 see these these are very different things so uh lack of experience this is where a lot of mistakes happen because to say anything intelligent about reality any domain of reality you need to be experienced in that particular thing and a lot of what we have today especially in the sort of social media ecosystem is we have a lot of people who have made a profession out of talking about everything anything because they need endless content every day they need
• 20:00 - 20:30 to release a new video or a new podcast or something they need to keep their mouth yapping about something and it's hard to have experience about everything but they get paid a lot of money to have opinions about everything so they talk about everything even though they have no no experience with do you have experience with climate science no do you have experience with Evolution study of of evolution of how fossils and stuff work no do you have experience with astronomy looking at the stars and
• 20:30 - 21:00 calculating distances and stuff no right so then why are you opining on these things that's the issue a really critical point of distinction between the lower and higher perspectives is that the lower ones are always based on belief and ideology because that's so much easier than the alternative belief and ideology is how you tell a lower perspective and a lot of people people they don't have enough epistemic
• 21:00 - 21:30 awareness to even understand that they're holding a belief or an ideology and they think that any worldview just is a belief and an ideology and there's no other alternative but that's not the case and so the lower perspectives are distinguished by a preoccupation with defending a belief system might be a Christian perspective uh a Muslim perspective might even be scientific beliefs science is also based on
• 21:30 - 22:00 beliefs uh it might be a political set of uh beliefs that you have whether you're sort of a free market uh La Fair capitalist or a Libertarian or a Marxist these are belief systems this is ideology and so once your mind is filled with these beliefs and ideologies then
• 22:00 - 22:30 the dynamic is that the mind gets attached to them these these turn into mental attachments and then the mind is always in a sort of a mode where it needs to defend these beliefs against the onslaught of contradictory evidence and reality itself which is like water seeping in through the cracks of your mind and then you're constantly battling this and when you find yourself in that state that is what lower perspectives are and so what you see
• 22:30 - 23:00 amongst all a lot of these lower perspectives is that the holders of these perspectives they're just in a constant battle against reality and they are constantly working double time you know backpedaling or doing mental gymnastics to try to justify rationalize and defend some belief systems they were programmed with early in life and that they're attached to that their survival is hitched to and now
• 23:00 - 23:30 they need to be defending it and so this uh presents a very serious conflict of interest because once you have this belief system that you need to defend you're attached to it you can't really do a genuine inquiry into the nature of reality because you need it to be some particular way and what's going to happen as you do a lot of sense making is that you'll realize that the way you thought reality was that it just isn't anything like that and um that's going to be very painful
• 23:30 - 24:00 for you the more attachments you have to various belief systems so uh the lower perspectives do not do genuine inquiry and they don't understand its importance uh in a lot of for example Christian religion and um Jewish religion Islamic religion the the very notion of asking
• 24:00 - 24:30 questions and doing a genuine inquiry to the nature of reality or God or your own religion is anathema it's Taboo it's discouraged this shuts off genuine exploration genuine development of the mind because they just want you to believe what you were told and questioning it is like blasphemy heresy so the lower perspective doesn't
• 24:30 - 25:00 doesn't know the difference between belief and insight that's the key distinction belief and insight I have an episode called what is Insight which explains that difference a bit more in more depth uh but that's a key distinction there's a very big difference between a belief in the shape of the earth versus having an insight into the shape of the
• 25:00 - 25:30 Earth or a belief in God and having an insight into what God is or why it does or doesn't exist huge difference huge difference so the higher quality perspectives are going to be based on insight and the lower ones are going to be based on belief and the difference is that Insight is not man-made whereas as belief is you can make up a belief right
• 25:30 - 26:00 now about anything you can believe anything but having an Insight is not something you can just [ __ ] yourself around you need to actually have a particular Insight that's not even something you're consciously in control of an Insight hits you it comes to you you don't even know when it's going to come it may never come so that's a big difference it's much harder to have Insight than it
• 26:00 - 26:30 is to invent and to hold beliefs lower perspectives start with conclusions and seek confirmation of those conclusions so they kind of Reason backwards from their conclusions or what they need to be true I need for there to be a God and then I'm going to rationalize and look for evidence of why God exists or I need for Islam to be true and therefore I'm gonna my mind is gonna look for explanations of why Islam must be true
• 26:30 - 27:00 or must be the best religion and so on that's not genuine inquiry into the nature of reality a genuine inquiry starts from a place of not knowing what's true not even caring really what's true not having any attachments or biases and just being open to a genuine exploration and then just see what will come to you see what experience what Insight will come to you as you're exploring and don't try to uh
• 27:00 - 27:30 confirm what you want so the lower perspectives always make this mistake is that they're so fixated on what they want reality to be what they need it to be emotionally what they need out of it what would serve and benefit their survival and then of course they sort of just assume that that that's what it has to be and then they they go through a process of confirming that and if you do that you
• 27:30 - 28:00 will confirm it if you need something badly enough your mind will invent ways to confirm that it's true that's uh your mind is very powerful in that regard can convince you of anything if you haven't noticed if you look throughout history you know humankind has believed all sorts of ridiculous things which shows you how easy it is to convince yourself of anything your mind can convince you of anything if as long as you need it to be so badly
• 28:00 - 28:30 enough okay here's the next criteria point which is probably one of the biggest on this list so a lower perspective is distinguished by bad or no epistemology at all no awareness of epistemology it's not enough to know a thing you have to know how you know it why you know that it's true so this is a sort of a meta step a meta
• 28:30 - 29:00 awareness are you or is your worldview meta aware of the epistemics of how worldviews and belief systems work how they propagate where they come from how justification Works how reason works the pitfalls of reason the pitfalls of beliefs the difference between a belief and an Insight scientific method or other kinds of epistemic methods that are out there
• 29:00 - 29:30 they're Pros cons their limitations and trade-offs right this is all epistemology and that's a lot of what I spend my time teaching you and talking about is because it's so fundamental without a deep grasp of epistemology and the problems within epistemology that apply to any kind of sense making that you want to do whether it's religion politics health and nutrition medicine health
• 29:30 - 30:00 care business science philosophy spirituality all of this requires sense making sometimes very deep sense making and so before you can say that you know something about the world really you have to take a step back and you have to say well how do we know anything at all how is knowledge even possible what are the pitfalls of knowledge and there's a deep field that you can
• 30:00 - 30:30 study philosophically called epistemology which which points out how difficult it is to acquire knowledge of even the most fundamental and simple basic things like how do you know that even arithmetic is is valid how do you know mathematics is valid based on what is mathematics true is mathematics just a human invention is it a belief system is it something more than that is mathematics something that's true for the human mind or is it true more generally more universally how do
• 30:30 - 31:00 we know that see usually in school and really even in University the education doesn't go that deep it teaches you facts and methods but it doesn't teach you how to derive the facts and the methods so you're taught Newton's three laws but you're not really taught how to derive them you're taught geometry but
• 31:00 - 31:30 you might not be taught how to derive certain truths within geometry or truths within mathematics you might be taught the scientific method but you're not taught to question the method or how to develop the method or what the limits of the method might be because in a sense that takes you off track that's a big tangent from like let's just get to work on doing stuff right right like if you're learning
• 31:30 - 32:00 science chances are you're learning science not because you want to understand the the Deep foundations of science it's just because you want to get into the laboratory and start doing science and start finding stuff start finding results start developing you know interesting technology using your findings publishing research papers and getting grants and getting research and awards for your research getting published in magazines and so forth getting padded on the back for your good work so it's a tangent to say wait a minute
• 32:00 - 32:30 let's pause for 10 years and research the foundations of science that's that's a tangent for most people and uh and so it is with other fields not just science but with all Fields right people just want like quick results they don't want to waste 10 years in Phil philosophical you know thought experiments and so on so lower perspective Ives take knowledge for
• 32:30 - 33:00 granted they're not even aware that epistemic problems exist they don't care about them either they just want the result it's like I just want to believe in God I don't care about what method is going to be used to question and inquire about the nature of God whether God exists or doesn't I don't I don't want to go through all that I just want to believe in God and get the benefits right I just want to pray to God and get get my benefits I want to feel happier I want to feel spiritually connected conected I want to have mystical experiences stuff like
• 33:00 - 33:30 that or I don't want to go to hell see religion is very tricky because religion religion is so sneaky as an epistemic system because it doesn't even let you question it because as soon as you start to question it somebody will come along and say well if you question God too much you're going to hell see that's how they get you right there so one of the uh criteria of of lower perspectives is that lower perspectives they don't want you to do a genuine inquiry and why is that because
• 33:30 - 34:00 there's a danger there and a threat from genuine inquiry so a lower perspective will have mechanisms built into it that prevent you from questioning it or reflecting self-reflection a perspective will prevent self-reflection from actually happening and that's how you know that it's a low perspective because if a perspective was deeply truthful it wouldn't mind self-reflection because it would be secure in knowing that if you
• 34:00 - 34:30 question all of Christianity eventually you should realize that it's all true so then go ahead question it question hell and question God and question what method by which you know that God exists question everything but see that's not how Christianity behaves they have all sorts of punishments and they use fear emotional manipulation techniques to get you so when a perspective or a world World viiew uses emotional manipulation techniques that's
• 34:30 - 35:00 one way that you know that it's not a very high perspective because you got to wonder why why is this emotion why is this worldview trying to emotionally manipulate me if it was true why would it care well as it turns out it's not an accident that this emotional manipulation that's happening it it needs to happen because if it didn't happen nobody would buy into these
• 35:00 - 35:30 systems now look sometimes here I'm speaking about these worldviews or perspectives as though they are a person or an individual that holds them that you're dealing with and sometimes I'm speaking about the system or worldview in more abstract sense right so we can speak of a Christian who you're having a debate with that's a Christian let's say who's a fundamentalist and has a low quality ology hasn't even thought about
• 35:30 - 36:00 why he's a Christian he's just a Christian he was just like raised that way doesn't even question it so that that's an individual and then you have Christianity as a system you know that spreads around the whole world as sort of a mimetic system and then that system itself has these lower quality aspects to it right so when we're talking about these aspects in this criteria it can apply to a system in the abstract or it can apply to an individual for example you can find an
• 36:00 - 36:30 individual who doesn't care about doing inquiry or epistemology you come to him and you talk about hey let's talk about epistemology and they just don't care it's obvious to that they don't even care they're not even interested in that that immediately tells you the rough level of quality of the kind of worldview this person can have because there's no way that you can have a high quality worldview if you don't even care about epistemology and that stuff that's like oh it's your your ey glaze over and roll in the back of your head cuz you're so bored by epistemology you want to do
• 36:30 - 37:00 something fun well that kind of person can never have a great understanding of reality because it's just not possible with that kind of attitude so your attitude matters very much so you can gauge the quality of of perspectives of people for example maybe you're dealing with some influencer maybe you're listening to some podcast and some podcaster is giving you his opinions or perspective his worldview well how do you determine
• 37:00 - 37:30 whether you should listen to this podcast or not well one of the ways is you can assess what is his attitude towards epistemology does he talk about it does he care about these kinds of meta issues or is he completely oblivious to it right like if you watch Fox News if you watch some political commentator on Fox News are they ever talking about epistemology are they they ever talking about going meta are they ever talking about philosophical inquiry are they
• 37:30 - 38:00 ever talking about questioning the foundations of their own belief systems never right never never so that tells you something and if you bring up this kind of topic to them how are they going to react that's a really good test what would happen if you went on Fox News and you start to talk about some of these criteria with one of these Fox News hosts what would happen would they Cut You Down probably that's most likely what would happened they just cut
• 38:00 - 38:30 your mic um how would they debate you would they get angry would they get defensive would they start a lot of drama emotional drama would they start yelling at you calling you names see these are all little Clues to where their ego mind is at cuz you're not just dealing with this sense making in a way where it's like um
• 38:30 - 39:00 it's just pure facts and pure Logic No no no no it's like your ego is wrapped up with all this so ego is a big factor so people who have no or a bad epistemology they are lost in content and they don't have any awareness of the structure of how the mind works and comes to understand reality the next criteria is that low perspectives are closed minded they're stubborn like an old
• 39:00 - 39:30 mule you've run if you run into a person like that or a belief system like that that's a huge clue because there's no way you're going to understand reality with that kind of attitude another criteria is that low perspectives simply don't care about the truth there's zero interest in the truth doesn't take the truth seriously but there's a little extra twist a little wrinkle here which is very sneaky is that even though these
• 39:30 - 40:00 people or these perspectives don't care about the truth at all they don't announce that to you in fact what they do is they they posture and they do the opposite which is that they put on they sort of puff themselves up and they put on a cloak they love to cloak themselves in the truth so very ironically the people who care about the truth the least will make a big Act of
• 40:00 - 40:30 being of actually caring about the truth and they will say that they have the truth the truth is on their side right so like if you talk to a fundamentalist Christian they they when when you speak to them and you say hey you don't care about the truth really do you they'll say no the truth is the most important thing to me so you can't trust their words but what you can do to determine how much does truth matter to somebody is are they willing to go through theep syic process and steps like are they really willing to evaluate and question
• 40:30 - 41:00 their own beliefs if they're not then they're not really interested in the truth it's just posturing of course almost by definition anything anybody believes any worldview anyone holds they're going to hold that as the truth and it's going to feel true to them so you can't just believe them and how passionate they are in fact they're going to be compensating uh the more doubts they have about their worldview the more they're going to try to posture and act as though they're passionate about the truth but really you can tell by talking
• 41:00 - 41:30 to them and questioning them that they're not serious about doing inquiry instead what they're interested in is they're interested in defending a belief system which they believe is true but that's very different from a genuine seeking of the truth because with a genuine seeking of the truth there is an open-mindedness that is necessary there and there's also evidence that one has been do doing the work the epistemic
• 41:30 - 42:00 work like you can ask a Christian what's the epistemic work that you did to become a Christian right and you for most of them what'll happen is that they'll just look at you like a deer in the headlights they won't even know what you're talking about because they haven't done any of the work because it's just a belief system they're just hoping that it's true I would have a lot more respect for those Christians if they could actually outline the epistemic process through which they came to believe what they believe but they can't do that because
• 42:00 - 42:30 they didn't get to Christianity that way right see nobody gets to Christianity through a process of deep genuine truth seeking inquiry that's it doesn't happen that way because you're just taught it at Birth you're indoctrinated into it and then later you you can posture as though you went through some sort of process to get there but in truth you did not go through a process it was just indoctrination there are a lot of very intelligent Christians who can make very good
• 42:30 - 43:00 Arguments for God and against atheism and against uh Evolution and for creationism and so forth they can make very good arguments very academic sounding arguments but even they themselves don't recognize how they got to believe what they believe they have fooled themselves into thinking that they got to Christianity through some sort of logical rational process that is not how they got there that's all backwards rationalization and to be able
• 43:00 - 43:30 to be have enough self-awareness and honesty to admit that to yourself that is what distinguishes higher from lower perspectives the ability to do that which most people don't have they don't have that much self-awareness or self- honesty because it's difficult to do that the next criteria is that lower perspectives have some other agenda besides truth or pure understanding
• 43:30 - 44:00 there's something else that they're after they want salvation they want happiness they want security for their family they want a job they want money they want fame they want sex they want status they want to be a preacher they want to be looked up in their for up to in their Community they want to defend their Community something like that which is different than truth and pure understanding another criteria of lower perspectives is that they have low intellectual
• 44:00 - 44:30 curiosity just there there's not a care for Learning and if there is learning it's motivated by an agenda I'm learning arguments against my enemies and my opponents so that I can defeat them in in in a debate that's not genuine learning that's not genuine inquiry see so this is also very tricky because a
• 44:30 - 45:00 lot of people are into learning a lot of people who hold diluted worldviews are into learning you know if you talk to if you talk to a Nazi a Neo-Nazi or a flat earther they will posture as though they're really into learning yeah I'm learning so much about the Flat Earth and that's why I believe the Earth is flat or yeah you know Leo I'm reading so many books about the nature of race the science behind race and that really you know um there's so
• 45:00 - 45:30 much to to this racism stuff and to the ethnocentrism stuff of of you know of white supremacy there's so much there's so much science behind it there's so much reason logic and there's so much history behind I've been reading all these history books that justify and make sense of this Neo-Nazi perspective but there's something deeper going on there that's a motivated kind of learning you're doing you're doing that learning because you had some kind of agenda that you started
• 45:30 - 46:00 off with and then now you want to keep reinforcing that agenda and building upon it and see you're not doing genuine learning and in this way your mind is actually cherry-picking sources and books and historical facts and figures and little bits of science here and there you're you're picking and choosing to justify some preconceived agenda that you had and that's what makes your perspective low cuz you're not considering the Alternatives you're not trying to
• 46:00 - 46:30 falsify your perspective lower perspectives also have a lack of intellectual Integrity for a lower perspective truth is defined as anything that serves some emotional need or survival need that the perspective or the individual has
• 46:30 - 47:00 for example when a Neo-Nazi is learning reading books and so forth they're not doing a genuine inquiry because really this whole Neo-Nazi project is coming from a deep emotional lack or need a survival need that this ideology is serving for example the need
• 47:00 - 47:30 for making sense and dealing with the immigration that is happening around you or the cultural diversity that is arising around you and you don't like it you don't feel comfortable you don't feel comfortable with who your neighbors are they're A different race you don't feel comfortable with the language that people around you are foreign languages that are being spoken around you you don't feel comfortable about maybe homeless people living near you whatever that is you don't feel comfortable about the power that women women have more power in the hierarchy these days than they did in the past and you don't
• 47:30 - 48:00 you're not happy with your you know with how much sex you're getting you're not happy with how women are treating you you're not happy that they're rejecting you and then this this now leads to emotions of bitterness anger sadness frustration and then now you need some way to make sense of it your mind needs some way to make sense of it and to figure out what are we going to do about this indiv individually and collectively politically what are we going to do and also individually what am I going to do
• 48:00 - 48:30 um and so now from this point of view you can build up an ideology but really what's going on is that that ideology is serving some sort of personal needs that you have it's not about the truth so a lot of people and lower perspectives they conflate the truth with personal needs personal survival needs as if those are the same thing which they're
• 48:30 - 49:00 not another criteria of the lower perspectives is a lack of responsibility there's just a fundamental avoidance of responsibility and intellectual responsibility so taking responsibility in life in general is difficult and requires maturity that's one of the Hallmarks of maturity is how much responsibility you're willing to take in life but there's this other aspect of responsibility which I'm going to call intellect ual responsibility which means how much responsibility do you take for the
• 49:00 - 49:30 Integrity of your own mind and intellect to train it to educate it to look for contradictions within your own worldview for example if you were a Christian and you had intellectual integrity and you took intellectual responsibility then you would owe it to yourself to question your Christianity where did it come from why do you believe it how do you know that it's true what if it's not
• 49:30 - 50:00 true so taking intellectual responsibility is skepticism genuine inquiry being open-minded opening your mind to the possibility hey you know maybe Christianity is just one religion out of many how do I know that that's the true one and then if you took intellectual responsibility you would have to say to yourself well you know if I'm honest with myself I learned Christianity when I was very very young too young to really consent too young to be able to question it before I even had reasoning
• 50:00 - 50:30 abilities I was taught Christianity therefore I have to assume that maybe I was just programmed with it indoctrinated into it therefore I need to go through a epistemic process you know maybe Christianity is true but I need to go through an epistemic process to verify that so I should go study some Islam study some Buddhism study some atheism study some existentialism and nihilism and postmodernism and and comp fairly and evenly objectively compare all these different
• 50:30 - 51:00 worldviews read some books listen to some experts do some debates so forth and then if Christianity turns out to be the best worldview then okay good fine then I'll keep it and if it's not then I'll I'll set it aside and I'll I'll go with something else see this would be taking intellectual responsibility now how many Christians actually do that less than one in 100 and look I don't mean to pick on Christians here this can apply to Muslims can apply to Buddhists can apply
• 51:00 - 51:30 to atheists whatever the fact that we're talking about Christians is irrelevant right we're talking about structural stuff not content Christianity is just content there's a deeper structure there which is very similar Christianity has a very similar structure to every religion such as Islam Judaism and uh whatever else I'm forgetting uh the next criteria is lower perspectives are resistant to new information they tend to reject it deny
• 51:30 - 52:00 it and use various kinds of mechanisms they tend to ignore dismiss Dodge and rationalize away contradictory evidence for example if you're a creationist you believe the Earth is 5,000 years old how do you explain the existence of dinosaurs fossils I had a friend in high school we were we were sitting I remember very vividly like like it was yesterday we were sitting in AP Biology class and he
• 52:00 - 52:30 was one of these kind of Christians and I didn't even know I just we were just talking and just somehow randomly I I figur I found out from him that he believes the Earth is 5,000 years old I'm like what I'm like what are you are you kidding me at that time I thought he was joking because it was so laughable to me here we are sitting in a biology class you know studying Advanced biology um but he was serious about it I'm like what what about dinosaur bones how do you explain that a dinosaur bone is like 100 million years old and he's like well those oh
• 52:30 - 53:00 that's easy he said um God placed those bones these fake bones these are fake bones placed in the Earth by God in order to trick man mankind into you know testing Mankind's Faith to see if mankind really has the faith and those people who believe the bones are real those people they're the ones who lack the faith and those people who know that the bones are fake and that the Earth is actually 5,000 years old those people are the true Christians
• 53:00 - 53:30 and they're going to heaven and the rest of you are going to hell that's literally what he told me it blew my [ __ ] mind that somebody could believe this so that's what I mean by a lowquality perspective now why is that perspective low quality well you can just see you can see how much like mental gymnastics one has to go through to invent a scheme like that now now look if you really take a step back and you want to be truly neutral and objective here and you want to do like quality epistemology here then you got to you got to take his
• 53:30 - 54:00 perspective seriously at least one time in your life you got to take it seriously is it possible that God put fake fossils into the Earth to test Mankind's you know commitment to God and to the Christian faith um I mean it sounds pretty farfetched and outlandish but hey maybe that's possible we can't rule it out cuz we we don't know right when we're beginning our inquiry we don't know so we have to be openminded to it CU if we weren't open-minded then we would have a low perspective a high perspective means
• 54:00 - 54:30 we're pretty open-minded but then you have to go through a process to really you know question that and to see how plausible is it and then if you really believe that that has so many other consequences right it has so many epistemic consequences like if God could fake the dinosur bones what else did God fake you'd have to kind of like Wonder and then you have to kind of go through and see what other things did God fake um because that would have enormous
• 54:30 - 55:00 consequences right um so it is good to take such a thing seriously but if you're taking it seriously like you got to go all the way you can't just throw that out there as a one-off kind of like oh well yeah God could have faked the bones and then you can just kind of like go about your day go about your biology normally it's like no no no no wait a minute if this was actually true if you really believe that like this has such massive epistemic consequences that you have to like rethink your entire understanding of
• 55:00 - 55:30 reality if this is true but you can see that that that friend that I was talking to he wasn't into like he wasn't doing that work this was just a rationalization just an excuse a Dodge and so you can if you're doing this work seriously you can you can see that within yourself are you dodging are you doing mental gymnastics and rationalizations are you doing genuine inquiry and taking the epistemology
• 55:30 - 56:00 stuff seriously another criteria of lower perspective is that're they have an inability to admit mistakes because if you admit one mistake within fundamentalist Christianity well the whole thing starts to unravel or at least that's how the mind can feel so there's a sort of a tendency of not wanting to admit mistakes because you need your worldview to be perfect and of course that then makes you very
• 56:00 - 56:30 defensive because any one little mistake could be the end of your worldview and so there's a sort of a fragility here lower perspectives are fragile in this way another criteria of lower perspectives is an inability to change one's view in light of new evidence that's the closed-mindedness an incapability of seriously considering different points of view just a lack of
• 56:30 - 57:00 even desire to consider a different point of view you can tell this in a lot of political pundits and commentators who are partisans if somebody's a is a very staunch conservative or a staunch Progressive or leftist they just don't want to consider they can't their mind literally cannot consider the alternative a hardcore conservative just cannot consider that uh a Marxist could be uh Marxism
• 57:00 - 57:30 could be the true or better higher perspective and vice versa a Marxist just somebody who's a staunch Marxist just cannot believe that capitalism could be a better worldview than Marxism because they're stuck on that ideology so so yeah that that's this is a huge distinguishing characteristic is that lower perspectives they're stuck on a
• 57:30 - 58:00 single perspective and they can't jump out of it and then back into it they they just don't have that mental flexibility they're literally incapable of doing it with their mind whereas higher perspectives are lower perspectives are unable to see partial truth in every perspective for example a lower perspective cannot see the partial truth within Nazism or within Flat Earth or within um libertarianism or within Marxism or
• 58:00 - 58:30 within capitalism the ability to see this partial truth that's that only comes from a higher developed mind lower perspectives are characteristically overconfident in their knowledge and in their beliefs and they overcompensate and then they act that out emotionally low perspectives come from low cognitive development and
• 58:30 - 59:00 rationality a lot of human beings on this planet haven't even reached the rational stage of cognitive development they're at the pre- rational and then beyond the rational there's the post-rational and then beyond that there's even something else but they haven't even reached rationality they don't know how to be rational usually to reach the rational stage you have to go to school not just school but you have to go to university that's really where you learn rationality and uh many people don't go to university so they never learn it they don't really teach it to you in
• 59:00 - 59:30 high school very well lower perspectives make many groundless assumptions they're built on assumptions and they don't question their assumptions lower perspectives are prone to magical thinking Superstition and being faith-based just being based on intuition and this is where intuition can really get you into trouble because a lot of pre- rational people they will convince themselves that they're more than
• 59:30 - 60:00 rational because they're so intuitive and then this intuition though then is never checked against reality it's never actually tested so one of the characteristics of lowquality perspectives is that they don't actually test themselves they're resistant to falsification they either are designed in such a way that they can't be disproven because they're just tautological they're just held is true and then rationalize backwards or um all sorts of cherry-picking of data
• 60:00 - 60:30 and evidence happens to validate um or all sorts of kind of like dodging mechanisms are used to avoid falsification and there is no interest and there's no responsibility taken to falsify one's own perspective so this is where intellectual responsibility comes in right no matter what perspective you hold whether um Flat Earth or round earth or you know integral Theory spiral
• 60:30 - 61:00 Dynamics if that's your worldview it's your responsibility to try to falsify it not to confirm it but to falsify it that means you go out of your way to look for disconfirming evidence you ask yourself questions like how could SP Dynamics be false how could materialist science be false and then you go to work on
• 61:00 - 61:30 that and you can tell that people who are not interested in going to work on the falsification you can tell that those are the low people low perspective people and you you can tell that they will never have a deep understanding of reality it's not possible you have to be able to do this if you want accurate sense making because your mind will come up with all sorts of bad intuitions and bad ideas ideas and bad beliefs you're going to have to sort through that by a long arduous
• 61:30 - 62:00 process so the lower perspectives are prone to Fantasy they come up with the fantasy of how reality works and then they build and build on that fantasy and they invest themselves emotionally into that fantasy and these fantasies even though I say fantasy you might think of something Fantastical like believing in unicorns that's a fantasy but remember fantasies can be much more mundane uh for example I consider
• 62:00 - 62:30 libertarianism to be a fantasy I consider Marxism to be a fantasy I consider capitalist many capitalists have a fantasy of capitalism how is capitalism a fantasy well you construct in your mind a picture of what capitalism is how good it is ignoring all of its fals and problem and then you build and build and you reinforce that fantasy with evidence
• 62:30 - 63:00 from stock market you're you know you're cherry picking stuff from the stock market from The Wall Street Journal from certain philosophers you know capitalist philosophers and libertarian philosophers that you read maybe Milton fredman and whoever else you know you're cherry-picking stuff you're reading books but as you're reading books all of this is contributing to building a fantasy in your mind of what capitalism is and then you believe that this is really how our economy works is this fantasy you confuse the fantasy in your mind of the
• 63:00 - 63:30 economy with the actual economy so fantasy is a much uh much more serious thing than believing in Flying Spaghetti monsters and unicorns lower perspectives reject empirical evidence they are often not even interested in empirical evidence they tend to also be absolutistic when they believe something
• 63:30 - 64:00 they absolutely believe it with 100% certainty it can't be wrong God must exist or for an atheist god cannot exist now there's different versions of atheism I'm not saying all atheists believe that the higher quality atheists they will actually acknowledge that you know what I'm an atheist I don't think God exists but I can't rule it out entirely because you know you can't you can't prove a um prove a negative but see even when somebody says
• 64:00 - 64:30 that already you can tell that's a little bit of a higher perspective because if someone was just a absolute atheist that would be a lower perspective than someone who's a little bit more open because the reality is that you you can't prove a negative you can't absolutely know that God does not exist so you should always leave leave a little bit of room and you don't want to be absolutistic about it so there's different qualities even within a worldview also not this is an important
• 64:30 - 65:00 point there can be different qualities right not everybody is the same so just because we're talking about Christianity there's different qualities of Christian the lowest qualities of Christian are the ones that are the most absolutistic the ones who are the most dogmatic the ones who believe the Earth is 5,000 years old the ones who believe that God put fake fossils and dinosaurs into the ground to trick us um then you have higher quality
• 65:00 - 65:30 Christians the higher quality ones are a little bit more open they they show you that they're not fully certain they are willing to admit that there's certain mistakes within Christianity they're willing to admit that there's contradictions within the Bible they're willing to admit that maybe the Bible is not written by God it was written by man which means there could be flaws and errors in it right see they're they're more open in this respect and with these kinds of uh Christians you can have more a more interest debates and discussions and
• 65:30 - 66:00 um maybe some of them are even open-minded enough to be talked out of their faith not very likely but you know uh the highest quality Christian would be willing to be talked out of his faith the lowest quality ones are stuck in it forever absolutistic so this sort of absolutism comes from an incapacity to handle not knowing that's really what it is lower
• 66:00 - 66:30 perspectives are incapable of admitting not knowing I have a whole episode about the power and importance of this concept of not knowing go watch that um there's a lot to say about not knowing it's such a powerful notion but uh see the mind is uncomfortable not knowing the mind would rather fill in the Gap with some kind of false knowledge or a fantasy rather than just remain open and
• 66:30 - 67:00 empty and so lower quality minds they just can't handle that and they they just need something to latch on to something to cling to right so like um you know the solution to many of these lower quality perspectives like uh fundamentalist Christian Christianity fundamentalist Islam Flat Earth and so on is just you
• 67:00 - 67:30 know the solution is so simple is just to to realize like do some self-reflection and then and then ask yourself do I really know that the Earth is flat and you'll immediately realize that I don't know I don't know if the Earth is flat and that's huge that's a huge Insight right that's an insight it's an insight to know that you don't know
• 67:30 - 68:00 something it's an insight to realize that me thinking that the Earth is flat that's a belief and of course me thinking the Earth is round that's also a belief it's an insight to realize that about the workings of your mind and that is a much Superior higher quality position than to either believe it's is flat or just round or whatever it's better not to know because
• 68:00 - 68:30 the truth is that most people don't know the shape of the earth that's the truth but see that's a difficult truth to admit because um see most scientists are in a position that they don't know the shape of the earth it's a belief that they hold but for them to admit that opens such a big Gap in their epistemology that it's too dangerous so they have to invent ways of
• 68:30 - 69:00 convincing themselves and others that no Leo I really do know it's not just a belief it's not the same thing as Flat Earth and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and they can draw you diagrams and go through calculations to show you that the Earth is actually round and that they know why and that it's not a belief that it's round but it's actually round and that they know it but you don't know it you're just not willing to admit that to yourself and you haven't reflected deeply enough into
• 69:00 - 69:30 the epistemology of of this situation and so just for example from talking to a scientist you know I could take a a scientist from MIT with a Nobel Prize and we can sit down and just have this conversation about the shape of the earth and how he knows that the Earth is round we can have this discussion and just by having this discussion I can already tell his level of low verus high sense making and worldview in just in general because I'll be able to I'll be able to
• 69:30 - 70:00 understand his epistemology I'll be able to tell that he doesn't understand the difference between a belief and an Insight I can tell that he doesn't understand the importance of not knowing and what not knowing really is stuff like that and so the whole point of this conversation that we're having is that I want to develop that capacity in you it's taking me it's taken me like 10
• 70:00 - 70:30 years of doing this work non-stop to um to develop such a fluency in epistemology and how the mind plays all of its tricks that I can listen to somebody for just 30 seconds or a few minutes and I can tell whether it's a scientist a religious person a philosophy person or an academic or a a YouTuber or a podcaster or a or a spiritual Guru what I can just listen for just a few minutes and I can already
• 70:30 - 71:00 understand how low or high is their perspective and there's many degrees of it right so I can kind of Peg them where they're at where they what their understanding of epistemology is because your understanding of epistemology determines everything it's really a question of How Deeply do you understand epistemology and all of these points this criteria that I'm giving you is really just these are just tests for how well one understands the workings of your own mind and so once you know all these
• 71:00 - 71:30 tricks of the mind and you master all of them because you understood how you tricked yourself into believing all this [ __ ] then you can instantly recognize it everywhere around you when people are talking and they will not be able to know but you'll know their place in the hierarchy of things in the hierarchy of truthfulness let's say and Consciousness uh another criteria of lower perspectives is that they tend to be monopolistic they want to monopolize
• 71:30 - 72:00 knowledge they want a monopolistic worldview it's like Islam is the best and truest religion and everything else is inferior that kind of attitude that's what I mean by monopolistic or it could be scientific too science also likes to monopolize knowledge and science will say scientific method is the the best and truest and only way to understand reality see that's a kind of monopolization that happens or it could even happen at very
• 72:00 - 72:30 Advanced non-u levels where people will say you know non-duality is the ultimate truth and that non-duality is the end all Beall and there's nothing Beyond just Enlightenment that can also be a very subtle form of monopolizing another criteria of lower perspectives is of nuance inability to recognize and appreciate subtle distinctions so I have an episode called
• 72:30 - 73:00 learning equals making distinctions hugely important episode and I have an episode called understanding Duality part one part two part three where we talk about dualities which are also identical to distinctions so distinctions are a fundamental notion that I've talked about before but really the mind's ability to make finer and finer distinctions is an honest signal of the
• 73:00 - 73:30 quality of the mind so a lowquality mind has very gross sloppy distinctions and therefore makes a lot of mistakes and a very highquality experienced mind is able to make very fine distinctions for example a lowquality mind will say that all of Christianity is [ __ ] a higher quality mind will say wait a minute not all Christians are the same there's a billion Christians on
• 73:30 - 74:00 the planet some of them are lower some of them are in the middle and some of them are very high and advanced so we have to make distinctions when we're talking about Christians we can't just lump them all together likewise a lowquality will mind will mind will say all black people are intellectually inferior to White People based on IQ science and that kind of thing right this is sort of like standard kind of like U white supremacist ideology a higher quality mind will say wait a minute uh this is a much more
• 74:00 - 74:30 complicated issue you can't just lump all black people together and you can't just do a few simple IQ tests because even IQ is a man-made construct and there's biases within how we measure IQ and what intelligence is and does IQ really track with intelligence so see now you're making distinctions you're making a distinction between IQ and intelligence these are not the same thing but if you have a simple mind it doesn't make that distinction and it's convenient not to make that distinction if your agenda is
• 74:30 - 75:00 to elevate your own race above the other races that you dislike for personal you know prejudices that you have it's very convenient not to make that distinction but if you're intellectually honest and you take responsibility you start to have to make these various kinds of intellectual distinctions between different races and uh IQs and how iq's are measured and then you develop more and more
• 75:00 - 75:30 nuance and uh this becomes harder and harder the Mind becomes more complex and this is really what cognitive development is all about is developing this kind of nuance so lowquality perspectives tend to be black and white uh black and white thinking uh using a lot of oversimplification of complex issues and overgeneralization for example this notion the Jews the Jews run the world where does this come from fundamentally it comes from a lack of just making
• 75:30 - 76:00 subtle distinctions because first of all you're lumping all Jews together into one monolithic Group which they're not Jews disagree about many things many Jews in America for example don't support the Zionist actions that are being taken by conservatives who are controlling Israel so you have to make a fine distinction between Jews and Israel national policy these are not the same things and then when you say Jews run
• 76:00 - 76:30 the world again you have to make finer distinctions there um what does it mean to run the world um who really runs the world there there's there's like so much you can get into there right so this comes from a sort of an oversimplification of a of a complex issue and it can even get to the point where and this is like the problem with Kanye West you know Kanye West went on this sort of like rant a few years ago
• 76:30 - 77:00 where he was ranting against the Jews controlling Hollywood and all this sort of stuff but it was obvious that the reason Kanye West is a great example of a lower perspective is because it was obvious that first of all his whole worldview or perspective in that regard regarding the Jews is was based on personal grievance and he's admitting this himself you know he talks about how Jewish lawyers and doctors and business
• 77:00 - 77:30 people in Hollywood screwed him out of money from his music deals and screwed him out of this and screwed him out of that and sure that might have happened nobody's denying that were there a few Jewish people that Kanye West ran into who um behaved unethically and did bad things to him okay sure okay fine but I mean um what does this really prove right you need to make subtler distinctions just because you had a one bad Jewish doctor or a few
• 77:30 - 78:00 bad Jewish accountants or lawyers and a few bad business deals with with Jewish Executives that does not mean that Jews run the world or that Jews are against you or Jews are against black people this is going too far it's an overgeneralization and oversimplification of a very complex issue there might be important historical reasons why there are many Jews in Hollywood or in the business world and you can research that right but this requires a lot of nuance
• 78:00 - 78:30 thinking but then to come out and say as Kanye West did you know the Jews are doing this and the Jews are doing that again like these gross overgeneralizations because it's not the Jews that did that to him it's individual Jews that did that to him right and then also what he would have to do is he'd have to compare about like how many times was he screwed over by non-jews by just uh regular old American white
• 78:30 - 79:00 people or by black people um or by Asian people right you have to you have to also consider that the business world is very Cutthroat if you do a lot of business you're going to have bad deals people are going to screw you over people are going to steal money from you all sorts of nasty stuff is going to happen and if you have relationships you're going to have a lot of bad relationships people will cheat on you and lie to you right just because you have a a handful of bad relationships with women doesn't mean that all women
• 79:00 - 79:30 are nasty or power hungry or manipulative or cheaters or [ __ ] or whatever but a lot of men they just have a few bad experiences with women over generalize why because they were so emotionally hurt see it's coming from emotional attachment you were hurt by by a few women now you need to get back at them you were hurt by a few Jewish business Executives now you you need to get back at them you need your mind needs to explain it to you somehow and it goes for these overly
• 79:30 - 80:00 simplified low quality explanations another feature of lower perspectives that they're very conformist very very conformist because what's happening really is that the mind is just picking the first worldview or perspective or ideology that comes its way Christianity Islam just like picking it off the shelf libertarianism if you
• 80:00 - 80:30 were exposed to that and you're just basically exposed to one of these ideologies early in your life just by happen stance by by chance of where you were born who your family was who your which which school you went to what friends you hung out with and often times there's a little trick that's played here by the mind which is this is that the mind will trick you to think that oh Leo I'm not being conformist I'm a libertarian that's not conformist we're pretty rare Libertarians are pretty rare or it's like you know I'm a Neo-Nazi neo-nazis are not conformist
• 80:30 - 81:00 it's the the mainstream people who are conformist the neo-nazis were doing something pretty uh in a minority because most people are not neonazis or white supremacists um or you know Leo I'm an antivaxer as an antivaxer I'm the rebel I'm not conformist conformists are are the normies the normies who are taking the vaccine they're the normies this is a trick because all of
• 81:00 - 81:30 these what we might call like minority positions like libertarianism maybe Marxism anarchism um antiva stuff even Flat Earth this is all conformist you didn't invent this ideology you didn't sit and think through and come to to this through independent analysis I guarantee that you didn't um you you conformed to
• 81:30 - 82:00 it just because you think that you're being contrarian like those kids in school you know who who try to be rebellious in a conformist way it's it's very laughable and kind of comical the goth kids the punks the uh emo kids uh they convince themselves that they're being non-conformist but they're being very conformist the only reason you're a goth
• 82:00 - 82:30 is because of conform Conformity there's no no human being would become a goth independently by themselves of their own you know creative um workings of their mind this is a this is a brain dead uh thing you're just being an ape you're just aping somebody else around you you're not thinking independently and so this is one of the key Hallmarks of lower perspectives is that they are conformist
• 82:30 - 83:00 that there is no independence of thought even though you might trick yourself into thinking that you're being independent because of course who wants to admit that they're just conformist nobody does it's just kind of like with truth everybody thinks that their worldview is true and everybody thinks that they're not conformists but that they're an individual and that they're a rebel because this is much more sexy to believe that um so be careful here you can be a conformist in a mainstream way or you can be a conformist in an alternative
• 83:00 - 83:30 way for example Maga is conformist even though it pretends to be rebellious Against The Establishment so the anti-establishment wave this populist wave that we see happening in our politics whether it's Maga or left-wing Progressive populism this is all Conformity it's conformist uh to the extreme but it Mas erades as though it's being something unique and hip and kind of cool and edgy it's like you know Joe Rogan is so
• 83:30 - 84:00 non-conformist right it's like no Joe Rogan is like super super conformist you have to understand all of the mainstream podcasters are super conformist they're not doing anything original they're not really thinking like they're not deeply thinking through their positions so that's a trap uh another aspect of lower perspectives is that they adopt a cookie cutter worldview from pop
• 84:00 - 84:30 culture so they they're very like too almost too in touch with pop culture and this leads to worldviews that are basically memes perspectives that are memes you're thinking in terms of memes all this stuff that is happening on forchan for example the reason forchan is a lower quality perspective is because it's all meme based like it's so so so conformist um even when they're doing like very
• 84:30 - 85:00 edgy political stuff on forchan it's all so conformist and just so tied in with pop culture even the the words and the language the jargon that they use is so cookie cutter yes they're a little micro Community they're little subculture but just because you have invented or joined some sort of subculture like a cult in the most extreme example you join a little cult right a cult is so small how could you call it conformist but of
• 85:00 - 85:30 course when you join a cult of 50 people that's extremely conformist and so it is when you join some community on the internet if you're on some incel Forum that whole incel subculture is super conformist it's super cookie cutter it's super tied in with pop culture that's why these people are into anime and they're into certain kinds of music and they're into certain kinds of like pop cultural stuff and they listen to certain kinds of influencers and they have a certain kind of politics and it's like very very
• 85:30 - 86:00 predictable so one of the Hallmarks of a low quality perspective is that it's super predictable the way that kind of mind works the way a Christian mind works You can predict it you can predict all the objections all the arguments all the evidence it's all very predictable and so it is with Islam with many Buddhists with many new agers um just like at some point you realize that nobody is doing any independent thinking at all no
• 86:00 - 86:30 matter which of these World Views they have true independence of mind is so so so rare that when you actually experience it it's a it's a breath of fresh air it's none of this kind of like Maga stuff antiva stuff Flat Earth stuff qanon stuff um Marxist like no none of that is independent thinking it's all thinking in cliches so another Hallmark of low
• 86:30 - 87:00 quality perspectives is low mental autonomy fundamentally what's going on is that the mind is not independent it is in meshed with its culture and its Social Circle and its um and its tribe low mental autonomy means it's riant on a authority figures and consensus and really fitting in which means that there's a lack of
• 87:00 - 87:30 basic questioning a lack of independence of mind and low questioning of Authority for example and it gets very tricky because you might think like well people who subscribe to Maga the Maga worldview they love to question authority because they're they're challenging the sort of like neoliberal or liberal establishment right so they're challenging Authority but not really because you're subscribing to the
• 87:30 - 88:00 authority of trump and it's becoming a trump cult and also these people are so predictable like it's so easy to predict Maga people because they're mostly all Christians um they're sort of like patriotic there's like a there's like a handful of just like these sort of like cliche that they all hit
• 88:00 - 88:30 on so they're not really challenging Authority they're actually relying on Authority they believe everything Trump says for example they don't question it so a lowquality perspective is one that that questions everything but itself and a high quality perspective is one that primarily questions itself it turns that responsibility inward into
• 88:30 - 89:00 self-reflection lowquality perspectives speak reflexively without pausing to think they speak in cliches and talking points and engage in Endless blabber mouy and unconscious speech to be able to speak intelligently about any domain accurately to make sense of that domain and then to communicate it to others this is much more difficult than people know right now we are in this sort of
• 89:00 - 89:30 like Zeitgeist moment of social media and influencers and podcasters where people are paid millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars to blabber mouth endlessly about everything and anything this is a perversion this is a perversion of culture and of the Mind really what needs to happen is that you need to speak infrequently and very very carefully because when you have a higher
• 89:30 - 90:00 perspective and you reached that higher perspective through a lot of epistemic work what you realize is that it's so tricky to understand reality and any domain of reality that you have to be very careful about what you say you can't just blabber mouth the first thing that comes to your mind because the first thing that comes to your mind and even the third thing that comes to your mind is going to be wrong it's going to be self-deception somebody who didn't go through the process doesn't understand that and they think that what they're saying is brilliant it's gold everything that all the [ __ ] that comes out of
• 90:00 - 90:30 their mouth they think it's gold but somebody who's gone through a deep process of understanding the depth of human self-deception and the ego mechanism that is at work here um the more that I do this work the less that I speak some of you wonder Leo why has there not been so many videos released used to release videos every week very consistently for years and now you're sometimes not releasing for a year why is that there's many reasons but one of the
• 90:30 - 91:00 reasons is that my understanding of myself and the mind and self-deception and epistemology has become become so profound that I hesitate to even speak because I'm so conscious of anything that I say how wrong it is from a certain point of view even when I say the right things and truthful things I'm so cognizant of like well it's true for me in this context from this point of view at this particular point in time at my current
• 91:00 - 91:30 development level at my current Consciousness level and then I'll here from now it won't be true anymore right I'm so cognizant of that therefore I hesitate to even speak whereas in the past 10 years ago I was able to just turn on the camera and start just blabber mouth and stuff that's the process so when you when you you hear somebody who just can't shut up that's one of the ways you know that um
• 91:30 - 92:00 their understanding of reality is quite low because when you really understand what's going on it shuts you up and you're very careful about what you say because you understand how easy it is to misspeak even when you understand even when you've had your Awakenings and so forth still you should hesitate about speaking about God cuz it's very easy to say something misleading about God whereas a fundamentalist religious
• 92:00 - 92:30 person will will pontificate about God even though they haven't even had an experience of God but yet they're pontificating about they know what heaven and hell is really you have no idea what heaven and hell are you have no experience of it no Insight of it and yet here you are pontificating trying to convince others and see trying to convince
• 92:30 - 93:00 others it's actually a a tell it's a giveaway you know in poker they have tells well one of the Tells of the ego mind is that when it's un when it's when it doesn't really know something what it does is that it it overcompensates and it acts like it does and so therefore you might not know anything about God or religion and you become a preacher you might see you might say well that's kind of counterintuitive but actually know it's exactly what you should expect you should expect that a preacher doesn't know what he's talking about why because
• 93:00 - 93:30 he became a preacher to overcompensate for his lack of understanding of God if he understood God he wouldn't be need to be a preacher see that's why a lot of times moralistic people they love to preach to you about how you know how evil you are and how how important morality is usually those are the people who are the most evil themselves and who do a lot of evil stuff in the in the in the shadows and they're
• 93:30 - 94:00 overcompensating because if you were truly moral and good and had not a single evil bone in your body you wouldn't need to moralize to anybody another feature of lower perspectives is ethnocentrism tribalism and extreme ingroup bias US versus them mentality loyalty to your team winning and surviving versus the
• 94:00 - 94:30 truth if your top priority is the survival of your tribe and by tribe I mean your family your friend Circle Social Circle your um your colleagues at work maybe your corporation um your non nonprofit group your religious community or group your city your county your state and your country if
• 94:30 - 95:00 any one of those or a combination of those is your top priority in life you're never going to have a high quality perspective on the world why is that because all of your attention is going towards defending this narrow set of interests as opposed to pursuing genuine inquir into the truth and the truth is a universal thing it's not a local narrow thing it's not a tribal
• 95:00 - 95:30 thing so this is a dead giveaway of lowquality perspectives it's like our team has to win and your team has to lose whenever a perspective frames reality in that way there's the good guys which is us and there's a bad guys as everybody else it's like our cult are the chosen ones and anybody who doesn't join our cult they're the they're the wicked ones anyone in our religion are the good guys they're going to heaven and the ones that are not are going to
• 95:30 - 96:00 hell any of this kind of thing even at the level of like sports teams you know my sports team has to win and yours has to lose and when yours lose I'm happy and when my loses I'm sad this this Dynamic shows you that you're dealing with a lowquality mind because a highquality mind has transcended these Petty human tribal local um distinctions and um
• 96:00 - 96:30 attachments it's Universal because reality is universal truth is universal God is universal no tribe is special with God the Jews don't have a special relationship with God that makes them extra special that's not how it works if if somebody is telling themselves that they're fooling themselves they're not being open like
• 96:30 - 97:00 open enough right they're not being aware enough of their own biases so what happens is that as your mind develops and expands you become aware that oh I'm giving my own tribe and worldview sort of a preferential treatment and that this is really coming from a kind of narcissism not from truth and if you were if you were genuinely inquiring to the truth let's say you were a Jew and your whole childhood you
• 97:00 - 97:30 were taught that Jews are the chosen people the this the favorite people of God you know they got it special with god um at some point you would have to ask yourself wait a minute do Jews really have something special with God as as opposed to everybody else or is that just a sort of a kind of like uh tribal narcissism that is a hold over from thousands of years ago and if you actually honestly investigate that you'll realize that of course there's
• 97:30 - 98:00 nothing special about Jews and God um and that in fact that's that's a Hallmark of a lower quality perspective and again within Judaism we could make finer distinction we could say there are lower quality Jews and higher quality Jews the lower quality Jews are the ones that believe that they really got something special with God only if you're a Jew can you know God nobody else can truly know God some people might know a little bit but only
• 98:00 - 98:30 the Jew the true Jew knows God fully this would be a low quality perspective a higher quality Jew perspective would be like um it would be a little bit more flexible and it would say yeah I mean there's this kind of myth that Jews have a special relationship with God but this is I mean this isn't really what's going on this is just some sort of hold over mythological over from thousands of years ago it's infected with a little bit of bias and you know tribalism going on there a little bit of spiritual
• 98:30 - 99:00 narcissism going on and so um that kind of Jew can appreciate that a Christian and a Muslim can have the same kind of relationship with God as a Jew that would be a more open-minded higher quality perspective more a more Universal perspective so lower quality perspectives have narrow self-centered ethical Frameworks they have a low scope of consideration narrow focus on immediate
• 99:00 - 99:30 and personal concerns their whole MO is to maximize gain for self and for tribe at the expense of others and the environment so lower from higher is also distinguished by how selfish you are the more selfish you are the lower you're going to be the less selfish the higher you're going to be and selfishness here doesn't just
• 99:30 - 100:00 pertain to you individually but also to your tribe so if all you care about is the preservation of your spiritual Community for example your Muslim Community you might say well Leo I'm not selfish I've given my entire life to defending Islam that makes me selfless no that makes you very selfish because true selfishness in this case would be that you're not just fighting for a narrow tribe
• 100:00 - 100:30 you're um you're working for the betterment of mankind and even Beyond mankind you're even transcending the narrow boundary of mankind your your understanding and compassion um extends to animals and and aliens and everything else beyond that would be true selflessness so um and also even the environment right
• 100:30 - 101:00 when you're very selfish you're self- selfish you don't even care about the environment to care about the environment requires a certain degree of selflessness so one way that you can tell how high a perspective is is uh to what extent is it ecologically aware lower perspectives are not ecologically aware they don't care about destroying the physical Earth environment but they also don't care about destroying for example the business environment the
• 101:00 - 101:30 economic environment and they also don't care about the ecological epistemic environment the information ecosystem they don't care about that either because to care about these things would require a pretty Advanced mind to even understand why caring about these things is important so usually a lower perspective is going to actually Lee resources from from the environment from different environments it's going to leech resources from the physical environment Earth it's going to leech resources from
• 101:30 - 102:00 the business environment running some kind of scam this is going to be hurting the environment you know maybe you're like in some industry like you're in the insurance industry but you don't do healthy Insurance you do some sort of scam Insurance pyramid scheme so you're actually when you're doing that you're not only are you scamming individuals but you're also hurting the insurance industry as a whole because people are going to start to distrust insurance if you run too many scam Insurance schemes right so you're doing that as well because you don't care because you're so
• 102:00 - 102:30 selfish and you're also polluting the information ecosystem for example Fox News one of the problems with Fox news is that they they pollute the information ecosystem with misinformation propaganda cherry-picked narratives overgeneralizations demonization tribalism and so forth right so if you actually went through the process of genuine truth seeking you would have such a respect for truth that you would
• 102:30 - 103:00 not be able to do what Fox News does and you would not be able to work at Fox News because to be able to work at Fox News you have to be okay with [ __ ] in the epistemic ecosystem that's like going to the pool and [ __ ] in a public pool see a mature adult cannot do that child can do that and think it's funny a mature adult cannot do that so that's exactly what's going on
• 103:00 - 103:30 with Fox News but see it's much harder to see it with Fox News because most people don't even understand that there is such a thing as an epistemic information ecosystem and how important that is to the development and health of mankind and Society takes a lot of work to to be conscious of that and also you have to let go of your own needs right what if I want to take a [ __ ] really bad but I'm in the pool well
• 103:30 - 104:00 if I'm very selfish I'll just [ __ ] in the public pool but if I'm but if I got to go really bad you know it's an inconvenience to get out of the pool run to the toilet maybe the toilet is broken I got to run to another toilet that's inconveniencing me and so it is when you're you know you're doing a podcast it's inconvenient when you're doing a podcast and uh you know tomorrow you need to do your podcast but you don't any information you don't have any genuine insights to share with people but you still got to do your podcast it's very inconvenient so you're just going to like come up
• 104:00 - 104:30 with some [ __ ] on the Fly you're going to spitball some conspiracy theories on the fly on your podcast and hey good great you sold $10,000 worth of advertisement your audience is happy but you're blissfully unaware of how you've corrupted the epistemic information ecosystem see it's like well Balo if if I if I can't [ __ ] in the epistemic ecosystem how am I supposed to do a regular weekly
• 104:30 - 105:00 podcast yeah that's very inconvenient you'll have to do a lot less podcasts then then you'll understand my situation so um another characteristic of lower perspectives is that um the belief and the world you is based on social survival primarily and fitting in within some kind of Social Circle you're adopting beliefs to fit in with
• 105:00 - 105:30 your friend Circle or with your online Forum community that you're part of 4chan or whatever or your Discord server or your family or your church because the reality for most people is that truth doesn't matter for most people what matters is fitting into their Social Circle as long as you can fit into your Social Circle at work you can get deals you can make money you can get promoted you can climb
• 105:30 - 106:00 the corporate hierarchy with your friends you can get lovers relationships and sex have children and reproduce that's all survival stuff great gets you feeling emotions of love that's beautiful for you you want that um and then if you're a podcaster or YouTuber you have an audience you have a community of followers so you're now incentivized to deliver worldview and beliefs and take on perspectives that
• 106:00 - 106:30 they agree with because who wants to deal with an audience who disagrees with you it's very painful I've gone through that trust me it's it's painful um when your audience is very critical of you um you do things that that they dislike you're losing followers that doesn't feel very good you're losing advertisers that doesn't feel good right so you're always incentivized to deliver and to believe things it goes so deep it's not just that you're delivering perspectives that that they agree with there's a kind
• 106:30 - 107:00 of an audience capture there as it's called but you're even it's so subtle that you're even believing this stuff even way earlier before you even deliver it you're starting to believe it because you need to believe it you don't even know that you need to believe it but you start to believe it because it's just going to make your life so much smoother with your advertisers with your clients with your lovers with your um with your friends online friends with your offline
• 107:00 - 107:30 friends lower quality perspectives use worldview and perspective as a survival tool primarily in order to get money Fame sex approval love power success and influence there's no real interest in
• 107:30 - 108:00 truth that's what it's used for and that's what a lot of Christians and Muslims and frankly even Buddhists and Jews um Hindus use their religion for primarily human religion is not about God it's not about truth seeking it's not about salvation it's about none about it's about none of that stuff it's really about social fitting in that's why you go to church every week from going to church every week you develop social connections you develop friendships you develop business connections you develop lovers and you
• 108:00 - 108:30 get sex from it and that really hits all the main things that a human ego needs and wants and craves really craves and this is where grifting comes from so lower quality perspectives if you wonder you know the word grift is overused a lot these days but also there's a lot of grifters online in the podcast space in the YouTube space a lot of social media influence grifters so who are the grifters the grifters are the people who have low intellectual
• 108:30 - 109:00 Integrity they don't care about epistemology or truth all they see is they see a large audience they can pedal to that audience whatever the audience wants to hear that's the best way to make it in the social influence space just give people exactly what they want don't challenge them don't push them to to be their higher self just feed all of their Reptilian Brain animal desires sell them the kind of products um that their ego animal you know reptile brain wants and that's the
• 109:00 - 109:30 best way to become famous successful get sex get power get influence all the good stuff get a bunch of followers see if you if you if you're not living for some higher truth seeking then you're just going to fall right down into that lower perspectives have a high degree of emotional attachment this is a really critical honest signal you can't fake this when you have
• 109:30 - 110:00 an emotional attachment this is not something you can fake your way out of and so you can tell that these Christians these Muslims these Jews these zionists these Libertarians these antivaxers these white supremacist to people these Maga people it's all emotional attachment pure emotional attachment that's where their world comes from it doesn't come from truth seeking and you can tell by prodding
• 110:00 - 110:30 them when you prod them you can see they get angry they get emotional they get very defensive they're easily offended they're easily triggered they're easily threatened because what they have is ideological attachment and that ideology is serving some sort of more basic survival they're using the ideology to survive to get sex to get money to get success to get Fame to feel good about themselves to get an ego boost to feel
• 110:30 - 111:00 powerful these kind of people get easily outraged by radical ideas and perspectives they act out emotionally they create a lot of drama why because the drama is a defense mechanism when you stir up a lot of drama it precludes and truncates any kind of genuine truth seeking because now you got to deal with the drama you can't do truth seeking when you're bitter angry outraged
• 111:00 - 111:30 depressed because those emotions are going to twist and distort your entire thinking process you're not going to think straight when you're angry see if you're angry at some racial group or you're angry at women you're not going to have a proper view of that racial group or of women if you're angry at socialist you're not going to have a proper understanding of socialism if you're angry at capitalists you're not going to have a proper understanding of the business world and of
• 111:30 - 112:00 capitalism lower perspectives are egocentric they're infested with egoic attachment they're narcissistic they're very fragile to criticism they take criticism personally not as a point of improvement see if if you were doing genuine truth seeking you would welcome criticism you would welcome when somebody comes and
• 112:00 - 112:30 points out a contradiction in your worldview you would say thank you oh my God I would have been diluted my whole life but you you pointed out to me that my thinking about Christianity was wrong oh thank you thank you you freed me from the delusions of Christianity right see you don't hear Christians talk like this lower perspectives have a tendency to personalize disagreements because they're so based in ego they're so
• 112:30 - 113:00 self-absorbed that everything is interpreted as personal because to them life is personal it's all about personally defending yourself Defending Your Personal relationships with other people and within your community right it's just like your life is so personal it's not Universal you're not living universally you're living selfishly narcissistically you're not questioning yourself you're not questioning how you're living lower perspectives have a
• 113:00 - 113:30 tendency towards aggressive arrogance and pride moral righteousness and this crusading this lesser Jihad mentality let's go on a crusade to to to Smite the evildoers the evil ones the wicked ones this kind of stuff but you see this is an external ization of what should really be an introspective process what needs to happen here is rather than being morally righteous you got to look at your own moral failings this would be
• 113:30 - 114:00 the proper mature approach of a higher perspective the greater Jihad versus the Lesser Jihad look greater and lesser are right in the right in the titles and that's the difference between the greater and the Lesser perspectives the greater Jihad is the higher perspective and the Lesser Jihad is the lower perspective so the lower perspectives are judgmental moralistic demonizing a
• 114:00 - 114:30 lot of demonization the more somebody demonizes somebody else the lower their mind is now look I still have more of these criteria to give you but just a point here a sort of a meta point is that I'm giving this criteria but it's important that you don't just take the criteria as a given but that
• 114:30 - 115:00 you you also think about and start to understand why each of these criteria are the case like so what you should be asking yourself is this you should be asking yourself what is it that makes demonizing others and other perspectives a lower perspective why would that be lower for example why can't there be a very high Advanced developed mind that demonizes some group
• 115:00 - 115:30 of people in society why can't that be the case why would that be wrong what is the actual causal connection between demonizing and lower perspective each of these points that I'm G I'm giving you like 50 points here each of them is so profound that you could contemplate it for for months just to understand why it's the
• 115:30 - 116:00 case right and I don't have enough time here already we've been talking for two hours and I I I there's so much more I could say about each one of these points where I could actually give you the causal connection that would require like many more videos to explain every causal connection but let's just do one really quick here just so that you have an example of it and then you'll do this I expect you to as a homework assignment to do this for all the rest of them yourself because I just don't have time
• 116:00 - 116:30 to explic explicate all of it um so why is it the case that demonizing others and other perspectives necessarily puts you into a low perspective yourself um see I don't even have an answer right at the top of my head I have to think about it what's the actual causal connection um well it's
• 116:30 - 117:00 because in reality nothing is demonic so if you're demonizing something it's a projection it has to be a projection and if you're demonizing something this implies that you're actually believing it you're taking it seriously it's not just like a fake front or a a sort of a just like a game that you're playing you actually believe it assuming that you're actually demonizing someone and you believe it like for example if you genuinely believe that Nazis are demons what's the what's wrong with
• 117:00 - 117:30 that uh well you could say well but Leo nais are bad so what's wrong with demonizing them yeah but like if you really believe that they're demons like there's different degrees of demonization so one degree is just to say that somebody is bad that's not I mean there's problems even with that um because again see even in the case of like let's say somebody is just bad um in a mild way they're not murderers or genocid they're just bad in a in some mild way um even that see when
• 117:30 - 118:00 you when you call something bad and you genuinely believe it what your mind is not recognizing that that that's happening from your point of view the reason something is bad is not because it's objectively bad or absolutely bad it's bad relative to your perspective relative to your selfish needs and ego such that you can realize that if you didn't have a self nothing would be bad you think well no no Nazis are just bad no Nazis are bad because you have a
• 118:00 - 118:30 sense of self which wants to avoid suffering and other things like that it's only because you have certain needs that need to be fulfilled for you to be happy that's why something is bad but most people aren't conscious of this so they will just demonize whatever they H their ego happens to not like that doesn't serve them right so a higher perspective a higher mind is self-aware enough to understand that oh
• 118:30 - 119:00 when I'm calling somebody or something bad what that really means is that I'm being selfish and I have my own biases and needs I have emotional needs even if I'm very Advanced I still have emotional needs right I still want to avoid suffering I still want to Pro protect my family Etc so um a higher mind recognizes that it's projecting its own biases and selfishness into these situations where
• 119:00 - 119:30 it's saying that something is bad whereas a lower mind isn't doing that so in this sense demonization can only happen at a low level of Consciousness at a high level of Consciousness you realize there are no demons and nothing is genuinely bad other than just like what you need for your survival that's the difference okay you see so I just I just derived that right here on the spot I didn't have this prepared I didn't think it I thought it through with you saw me
• 119:30 - 120:00 thinking it through now I want you to do that with every other point for example uh let's take the next point of lower perspectives is that lower perspectives tend to be highly opinionated and take one's own opinions too seriously they're unwilling to let go of it of their own opinions so now my question to you is why is it the case that being highly opinionated and unwilling to let go of opinions puts
• 120:00 - 120:30 you at a low perspective you answer that yourself uh the next point is that lower perspectives are eager to debate argue win and own others and you see this with the sort of online debate bro culture we got got to own the other side it's this again it's this tribal team mentality also you got to wonder like and you can experience this in
• 120:30 - 121:00 yourself if you're if you've ever argued or debated with anybody you've felt this it's like you feel a certain a pleasure when you're winning in a debate it's a kind of a sick pleasure and also you feel a kind of a sick displeasure when you're losing in a debate whether it's an online debate inperson debate doesn't matter um you can introspect and feel into that see my video called developing introspection for that ability you can
• 121:00 - 121:30 introspect into that and you can feel that there's something dirty about it and what's dirty about it is that it's based on ego right because look if you knew the truth let's imagine you were omniscient you knew the truth about everything in the universe why would you care to debate argue or win or own anybody it wouldn't matter to you also if you were totally selfless it wouldn't matter to you either this is a cheap little dopamine hit that your reptile brain gets is to win an argument over somebody right so a
• 121:30 - 122:00 higher mind just completely lets go of that Dynamic it doesn't care it doesn't care about that little dopamine hit why not because knowing the truth is a much bigger serotonin hit than the little dopamine hit that you get from owning somebody online with some nasty snarky little comment also because a higher quality mind understands that argumentation and debate is not the same thing as genuine inquiry and insight and Consciousness
• 122:00 - 122:30 into things you can win a debate but be wrong you can lose a debate and be right so why does a debate matter why does it matter who wins there are many cases of debates where somebody wins in a debate just through sheer Charisma Bluster and performance and just likeability presentation looking good uh but there's no substance there there's
• 122:30 - 123:00 no truth there there's no deep Consciousness there there's no deep insight there there's no deep sense making the next criteria is that lower perspectives are based on Lower emotions this is a huge Connecting Point lower perspectives are based on fear hatred resentment bitterness nihilism vindictiveness xenophobia
• 123:00 - 123:30 cynicism and energetically they feel negative bitter toxic and angry anger is a huge one if somebody or some perspective is coming from a place of anger this is a huge Telltale sign it's a lower perspective for example just watch a speech of Hitler one of those classic Hitler speeches and just look at you don't even need to read the subtitles just listen
• 123:30 - 124:00 to it in the original German you don't need to even know what he's saying if you're a non-german speaker it's fine uh but just like listen to the anger the bitterness the negativity the vindictiveness the kind of xenophobia the resentment the hatred that he is dishing out and intuitively you should be able
• 124:00 - 124:30 to feel that that is wrong now why is your intuition right about that being wrong that's a deeper question you know your intuition can be wrong too so you might wonder here well Leo what if my intuition is wrong yeah that's something for you to contemplate again why is it that anger puts you in a lower perspective perspective why can't you have a very high sophisticated understanding of reality and also be deeply angry as Hitler was why can't those two things
• 124:30 - 125:00 mesh together contemplate that there's deep reasons why see the truth should not make you angry if the truth is making you angry it's for two reasons uh one is it's making you angry because you had some kind of fantasy and the truth is actually disrupting or contradicting your fantasy that's one and two the
• 125:00 - 125:30 truth is making you angry um because it's not actually the truth you're confusing again truth with some sort of personal need you have like if you're if you're angry at some race of people or you're angry at women or you're angry at men you're angry at capitalists that's not the truth that's some personal egoic thing you got going on some
• 125:30 - 126:00 emotional needs you got going on that are not being handled you're just not aware enough yet of that fact that's a meta issue that is running you it's a meta Dynamic that's running you you're like a puppet that is being puppeteered and you're like a marionette and you don't see the strings yet Consciousness and higher development higher perspectives allows you to see the strings that are puppeteering you and these strings are emotional for the most
• 126:00 - 126:30 part So eventually you see the anger string that is attached to your head and to your mouth and then you see that and like oh okay I can't do that anymore I can't just go out and rant angrly about somebody and then believe that I'm being truthful it's like that's that's just silly you become so ious that it's silly for you to believe that your anger is actually something truthful and that you can make sense of
• 126:30 - 127:00 reality from a place of anger you can't you can't understand women if you're pissed off at them for hurting you see and you can't understand Nazis if you're pissed off at them for killing your your grandparents in the gas ch Chambers you can't you can't make sense of Nazism that way because your emotions are going to Cloud your understanding to understand something you have to be
• 127:00 - 127:30 objective and outside of your biases lower perspectives are selfish self-serving manipulative and exploitative they seek to extract value it's about extraction of value right so like Andrew Tate has a certain worldview of about men about women about society and he postures as though he's some sort of champion of truth but that's not what's going on
• 127:30 - 128:00 there what's going on there is that he's acting narcissistically self-servingly to manipulate not only the people who follow him but even himself to extract value from the men who follow him and and the women who he deals with and who he employs in his business he extracts value from them financially but also sexually and in
• 128:00 - 128:30 other ways right so that's what that's about it's about extracting value he ex he's a mastered extracting value from men and from women that's Andrew Tate's game and then everything he speaks with his mouth is just noise to serve that function but his followers and his women and even his own mind is not aware that this is
• 128:30 - 129:00 going on because to become aware of this entire Dynamic one would have to transcend hisself and become conscious of all of these complex mechanics of the mind that I teach with this work which is like 10 years of very painful difficult work because if anate was not able to extract value in the way that he is how would he survive what would he even do with his life he'd need to live in a totally
• 129:00 - 129:30 different way which is very inconvenient for him so what I want you to see is that the world view in the perspective is so powerful is so potent in terms of its survival function that almost nobody who's in the lower perspectives and there's a lot of degrees of lower
• 129:30 - 130:00 perspectives almost nobody in this bottom half of perspectives understands what's really going on it's not that there's some sort of Evil Geniuses who are trying to fool you and the the world it's that they are themselves so deeply fooled by their own perspective they really believe their perspective you know Trump really believes this perspective Andrew Tate really believes this perspective Jordan Peterson Elon Musk flat earther um
• 130:00 - 130:30 Neo-Nazi antivaxer all of these people are True Believers like true true true believers so calling all these people just grifters doesn't it it really underestimates the severity of the problem I wish all these people were just grifters because grifter implies that they really know better um and they're just doing it for the money they're not really true believers
• 130:30 - 131:00 but um the sad reality is that they're they're not even conscious enough to understand that they're grifters that's the real problem lower perspectives are authoritarian in their style they're Co verive and they're dominating why is this again think about it why does authoritarianism correspond with a lower perspective why can't a
• 131:00 - 131:30 really conscious highly cognitively developed truthful mind be authoritarian why not it's because to be able to to dominate somebody else and domination can take many forms it could be sexual domination physical domination political domination geopolitical domination invasion of a
• 131:30 - 132:00 country um you know assassinating somebody beating them up um you know stealing their girlfriend even beating a dog or it can be intellectual domination so um it could be terrorism so why is this slower lower not higher
• 132:00 - 132:30 because to do any of these things you'd have to hold yourself as somehow fundamentally above or more important than whoever you're dominating you believe you're entitled to dominate them if you're dominating your wife in a relationship you believe you're more important than your wife you're better than your wife you know better than your wife your agenda is more than your wife your wife's per perspective doesn't matter her opinions don't matter her beliefs don't matter her sexual um you know autonomy doesn't matter it doesn't
• 132:30 - 133:00 matter when she wants to have sex it only matters when you want to have sex it doesn't matter what she believes it only matters what you believe it doesn't matter what her um opinions about financial decisions in the in the relationship are only matters what yours are right what am I describing here pure selfishness pure self-absorption you're so self-absorbed Abed that you want the entire world and everybody in it to conform to your personal needs emotional needs so everybody in the world is just
• 133:00 - 133:30 a tool to serve your own emotional needs they are there to to titilate you sexually to to solve your horniness problems to give you money so you can extract money from there from them they're there to give you Applause and praise and fame and to prop you up right this this is pure selfishness ego centrism so but if you if you saw if you saw the consequences that
• 133:30 - 134:00 this has on broader society and all of your relationships and how you're actually hurting others if you had the empathy to see all these things you would feel so miserable you couldn't your mind actually couldn't maintain his coherence your mind would you'd have an existential crisis your mind would collapse on itself so in order to behave in this kind of authoritarian and dominating way you have to delude yourself you need to construct a fantasy of how great and wonderful you are how intelligent you are how stupid everybody else is how how
• 134:00 - 134:30 um undeserving everybody else is how below you they are therefore you're justified in dominating them because they're stupid they're weak they deserve it um they're not they're not they don't have the same connection to God as you do whatever whatever the rationalizations are right a higher mind is so Advanced and so conscious of itself that it sees all these games that it's playing and it can no longer justify to itself being
• 134:30 - 135:00 authoritarian towards others for example a higher mind can't just beat his wife and then have sex with her when she doesn't want to can't do that because a higher mind respects the individual sovereignty of the wife a lower mind that doesn't even recognize that the wife has her own sovereignty intellectual sovereignty um that she's a god onto
• 135:00 - 135:30 herself that kind of mind can sexually uh you know abuse the wife and so it is when you're invading you know like Putin invades Ukraine Putin in his mind has to convince himself that Ukraine is not actual entity Ukraine has no sovereignty Ukraine is literally just a part of of of Russia if you convince yourself of that then you're justified in dominating
• 135:30 - 136:00 and um coercing it so lower perspectives lead to violence domination cheating lying and theft and there are many kinds of theft for example uh when Donald Trump during the Iraq War he he published an article in some magazine or newspaper whatever
• 136:00 - 136:30 where he he made a case for stealing the Iraqi oil take all of their oil that's how a lower perspective thinks just why not if we're in Iraq already just take all their oil as well why not who cares I mean it's like it's like a child in a playground who just like sees some other
• 136:30 - 137:00 kid playing with a toy runs up grabs the toy hits him over the head and runs away with the toy I mean that that's the kind of behavior we're seeing here of course this leads to the next criteria of lower perspectives which is low empathy it takes a lot of cognitive velopment to actually inhabit the perspectives of other people besides your own because you have to step outside your own step into theirs see reality from their eyes that's that
• 137:00 - 137:30 takes like cognitive complexity it's emotionally challenging to do that it's much easier not to be empathetic because if you're not empathetic you can kill somebody and not care if you actually are conscious of the suffering you're causing others you won't be able to kill them lower perspectives are prone to conspiratorial thinking because why
• 137:30 - 138:00 because they're avoiding responsibility see what is the real driver of conspiracy theories it's really an avoidance of responsibility that's what a conspiracy theory psychologically the function that it serves conspiracy theories come in all sorts of flavors with all sorts of content but what is the structure of conspiracy theories what its purpose its purpose is to give you a oversimplified narrative to make sense of something without independently thinking about it you're grabbing it from some pop cultural Source even though it's a
• 138:00 - 138:30 conspiracy theory and it's sort of like out of the mainstream it's still all Conformity you're not really thinking and on top of that it allows you to avoid responsibility because now you don't have to seriously think about how the world really works now what you can do is you can focus on scapegoating and blaming others low po perspectives would rather blame than take responsibility so that's exactly what they do somebody convenient to
• 138:30 - 139:00 blame the immigrants the homeless people the women the gays the transes the blacks the Asians the Hispanics everyone's doing something wrong to you except yourself that's a low
• 139:00 - 139:30 perspective a high perspective takes responsibility for all this and doesn't blame anybody and goes on making sense of reality from that point of view that's a lot harder lower perspectives are also uncharitable to Alternative views misrepresenting them misrepresenting Alternatives acting as though there are not Alternatives and engage in straw
• 139:30 - 140:00 Manning so a lower perspective is going to strawman other perspectives so if you ask a fundamentalist Christian to present a good faith charitable alternative to Christianity such as Islam they will not be able to do it they're simply going to be incapable of it because their mind doesn't even understand Islam well enough to be able to render it in a charitable reasonable sane way so when you ask a fundament
• 140:00 - 140:30 Christian to you know explain Islam it's going to say that Islam is some kind of form of Satan worship or some sort of demonic uh perspective um and it's going to paint it as crazy and unreasonable and that's it and no matter how much you ask the Christian to steal man the Islamic worldview they're just not going to be able to do it because to be able to steal man a perspective you have to study it you have to step outside your perspective you have to be very
• 140:30 - 141:00 open-minded you have to bother to see it from another point of view which is going to then threaten your perspective because anytime you step outside your perspective you realize that it's just a perspective it's like clothes that you're wearing and you can step out of them see but lower perspectives are not able to to do this kind of jumping because they don't have that kind of mental flexibility so they do a lot of straw Manning and the straw Manning just represents a lack of
• 141:00 - 141:30 understanding because if you really understood Islam and Christianity and Judaism and Hinduism you could steal man every single one of those and that means you would be at a high perspective if you could do that see um one of the reasons that Fox News is a lower perspective is that Fox News is incapable their their anchors and presenters and commentators are
• 141:30 - 142:00 literally incapable of rendering a Steelman of socialism progressivism leftism wokeness instead all they do is they just engage in straw Manning all day long that's what Fox news is it's just strawmanning the left all day long the next criteria for lower perspectives is that they use cheap and intellectually dishonest tactics such as
• 142:00 - 142:30 gaslighting whataboutism bullshitting lying cheating name calling denial Counterattack dodging questions and false equivalency you can find all of these tactics used every day on Fox News it's their bread and butter and see a lower perspective disseminating this kind of stuff is not going to appeal to a higher perspective but it will appeal to other lower
• 142:30 - 143:00 perspectives so Fox News is a low perspective designed for the majority of Americans which also have low perspectives so in this sense is successful and popular that's why it is because they're matching frequency they're on the same wavelength a lower perspective doesn't have enough intellectual honesty and integrity to recognize all these tactics it confuses them for for genuine truth
• 143:00 - 143:30 seeking lower perspective uses Charisma Bluster and bombast as a substitute for truth or inquiry so rather than sitting for hours locking themselves in a closet for hours contemplating their political beliefs on Fox News somebody comes on Fox News and just does Bluster and Charisma and bombast and just the louder they can
• 143:30 - 144:00 Scream the more charismatic they can be the more it feels like they have the truth whereas what I do is I literally lock myself in my closet for days sitting there contemplating my political perspectives that's the difference between a lower and higher perspective see when you don't do the closet thing then you want to go out there and you just want to you know scream and rant and Rave about how right you
• 144:00 - 144:30 are and that's much much easier much more fun than locking yourself in a closet I literally do that I spend days I like over the last week I spent days just locked in my closet because in Pitch Black I just sit in my closet it's a pretty big walk-in closet um I sit in it um and just uh contemplate reality um so you're wondering like what do I do what do I do all day it's very
• 144:30 - 145:00 unglamorous right see like Andrew Tate is out there driving his fast cars and you know doing the Bluster and bombast I'm locked in a in a in a closet um contemplating stuff that's why there's less videos um another criteria of lower quality um perspectives is double standards a lot of double standards are being used see my episode about double
• 145:00 - 145:30 standards in hypocrisy search for that one very important episode so see when you have intellectual Integrity you don't allow double standards in your mind for example what's an example of a double standard like in science a double standard is something like um you know science wants everything to be proven in order to be believed right that's or so they claim but then there's
• 145:30 - 146:00 a double standard because the scientific method itself cannot be proven because you can't know that everything all phenomenon in the universe can be discovered through scientific method that's that's not something you prove or science has ever proven that's just an assumption that's a belief so see if you were really intellectually integrous you would recognize that there's a double standard at play Within science you would also recognize there's
• 146:00 - 146:30 a double standard for example within religion if you're a Christian you give um much more Credence to your beliefs than that of a of a of a muslim with a double standard there so these double standards are everywhere within your own mind and within different worldviews and so a lower perspective has a lot of these double standards it doesn't it doesn't care about correcting them at all it's in fact Shameless about its double standards this is another thing that's wrong with Fox news is that they engage in so many ridiculous double
• 146:30 - 147:00 standards a standard that they hold for the Democrats that they don't hold for their own party like if you think the Democrats are lying a lot and you talk about how how often Democrats lie you have to also talk equally as much about how Republicans lie if they lie equally as much if if Republicans lie more than Democrats then you have to talk more about how much Republicans lie even if you're a republican see this would be intellectual Integrity does Fox new news
• 147:00 - 147:30 do this no why not because it's its agenda is propaganda it's agenda is not truth lower perspectives are engaged in Nile games and Maneuvers intellectual Maneuvers and mental gymnastics lower perspectives are extremely biased and unaware of the biases they don't care about the biases they embrace the biases lower perspectives conflate facts
• 147:30 - 148:00 and data with interpretations a lot of stuff that people who hold a low perspective will call just the facts are not the facts they're interpretations and the mind needs to be able to distinguish between facts and data and interpretations this takes development work to develop that kind of capacity and you also need to care to distinguish them it's very convenient in many cases
• 148:00 - 148:30 not to distinguish the difference between facts and interpretations because everybody wants to present their interpretations as facts I have an episode about interpretations I forget what it's called you can just search actualized interpretations you'll find something um the next criteria is conflating one's own survival with truth goodness and
• 148:30 - 149:00 objectivity lower perspectives do that again a failure to distinguish lower perspectives also uh do a reification of human constructs they take what are human constructs and then they reify them turn them into Universal object so Christianity is a human construct but it's reified as actual reality some sort of higher Divine
• 149:00 - 149:30 reality no Christianity is a human construct so is Islam so is Judaism science is also a human construct capitalism is a human construct so on perspectives succumb to what's called what I call the anthropocentric bias which means just that there there there's an overemphasis on the human Centric style of explanations everything
• 149:30 - 150:00 is explained or made sense of in terms of petty small narrow human biases and perspective what's an example of this for example Christianity has this anthropocentric bias for example Christianity says that human beings have souls that go to heaven and animals do not well how biased is that right talk about a double standard or just think about how ridiculous it is
• 150:00 - 150:30 that Christians believe that you know God appeared on Earth as Jesus U but what about all the other planets there's like trillions of planets in the universe probably many of them have life maybe a lot of them have intelligent life most likely uh and and what God did not appear there only to humans God appeared in the form of Jesus um or if you're Muslim only only to humans God appeared um or sent his
• 150:30 - 151:00 messenger of Muhammad I mean this is preposterous right you you see how deeply human centered just like there's egocentrism there's hum hum homo centrism right you're so like everything everything in these religions is just so comically infested with human bias it's laughable from higher
• 151:00 - 151:30 perspectives but from the lower perspective you're so stuck in the human that you you can't even see animals as having their own Consciousness and their own sovereignty and intelligence because to you animals are just objects for you to to hunt and to to you know to fill your belly with to dominate lower perspectives generalize without regard for context treating facts is independent of context so it
• 151:30 - 152:00 lacks context awareness lower perspectives do not check sources don't bother to do that that takes work also don't bother to do research or factchecking just assumes that everything's true right does the average Fox News viewer bother to check Fox News to fact check them to do research on Fox News to actually maybe falsify some of the things that Fox News says no of course not in fact the average Fox News viewer
• 152:00 - 152:30 is going to do the opposite because the average Fox News viewer is going to subscribe to some secondary source like Breitbart News or o news or Ben Shapiro's Outlet you know daily wire something like that which is just gonna create an echo chamber and reinforce all the stuff that's happening on Fox News and that's going to make that kind of Vier think that well Fox News is doubly true because Fox news said it Breitbart said it Ben Shapiro said it Steven Crowder said it Alex Jones said it so it must be
• 152:30 - 153:00 true right see this is the kind of ridiculous stuff that happens at the lower perspectives these kind of echo Chambers get develop uh the lower perspective Cherry picks research and factchecking as confirmation Buys so you might say Leo I do I do research and I do factchecking as a right-winger I do this kind of stuff but what you really mean
• 153:00 - 153:30 is that you just do the factchecking and the research that confirms what you already want to believe doing objective research and factchecking is quite challenging you have to have a lot of intellectual Integrity to do that well and you also have to be very epistemically aware you have to understand the quality of different sources see there's a difference between the quality of let's say a
• 153:30 - 154:00 source like Wikipedia and Breitbart News these are very different qualities quality standards Wikipedia has editorial standards they're like an encyclopedia level of quality that doesn't mean everything there is is accurate and unbiased but relative to Breitbart News or Fox News or Ben Shapiro news Wikipedia is like in a different League of quality and accuracy and
• 154:00 - 154:30 objectivity but the average Ben Shapiro viewer doesn't know this and doesn't care because the point of watching Ben Shapiro is to have Ben Shapiro tell you exactly what you want to hear not to challenge you it's to feed your reptile brain for
• 154:30 - 155:00 partisanship that's what that is and then you sit there and watch it like a sucker because you don't see the meta of what's really go you don't see the structure of what's going on you're so lost in the content another criteria for lower perspectives is an inability to distinguish between correlation and causation a lower perspective a lower mind sees
• 155:00 - 155:30 that black people score lower on IQ test and says oh well that's because of course black people are genetically inferior intellectually no that's not what it means it could mean a lot of other things it could mean for example that black people have been historically disadvantaged and don't have enough money to send their children to better schools that doesn't mean their intelligence is genetically inferior it just means they haven't been going to different schools for cultural reasons which could be corrected or it might
• 155:30 - 156:00 mean that their nutrition the kind of you know projects and ghettos that they lived in they don't get the the right kind of nutrition and the nutrition has an effect on development of the brain so it's not that their genetics are inferior it's just that if you give them good nutrition the way that uh you know affluent people get then um their IQs will will will equalize and it could mean many other things right so this is the difference between correlation and
• 156:00 - 156:30 causation uh lower perspectives are also characterized by a misattribution of causality they incorrectly identify causes and effects sometimes you see some sort of relationship between several variables but um you can get the causes and effects wrong this is what good scientists are taught how to do is how to distinguish between really finding the right causes
• 156:30 - 157:00 and effects for example some antivaxer might say well you know I know a couple of people in my family who took the vaccine and they died or they had a heart attack or they had some sort of complication but again just because you take a vaccine and you have a heart attack does not mean that the vaccine caused the heart attack there could be a lot of other variables there the heart attack could have been caused not by the vacine but for example by the stress that was created from
• 157:00 - 157:30 losing your job because of the lockdowns see that's different but an antivaxer is so locked into the antiva agenda that they don't care about these subtle cause and affect things in their mind they already know that the vaccine causes lot lots of death and then they they everything else that they do is just reasoning backwards from that conclusion and the whole sort of like vaccines cause autism again just because
• 157:30 - 158:00 you have an autistic child who got a vaccine does not mean that the vaccine caused the autism there's a lot of very complex factors there that need to be sorted out which is why rigorous scientific research and double blind studies and all that kind of stuff is necessary but you know a lower quality perspective doesn't trust science lower quality perspectives also oversimplify causality tending to
• 158:00 - 158:30 attribute Complex events to simple singular Sol uh causes so for example um maybe the economy is not going well and you say well the econom is not going well because um um because it's those those damn Democrat marxists something like that when in fact the marxists are not in power there are no marxists in power in America so
• 158:30 - 159:00 they didn't cause a bad economy or you might say well the war in Ukraine you know there there's a war in Ukraine and during Donald Trump's time there was no war and then when Biden came into Power there was war so Biden it's Biden Biden was weak and that's why the war started in Ukraine this kind of simplistic causality lower perspectives do this
• 159:00 - 159:30 lower perspectives also have a do a misattribution of agency incorrectly assigning intentionality to random or natural events for example um a common conspiracy the that was floated a few years ago is that when there were fires in Hawaii that it was caused by some sort of government space satellite with lasers Jewish space lasers I mean it's ridiculous to even say these things but we have Congress people in Congress that believe this stuff
• 159:30 - 160:00 um again see a natural event like a fire maybe it was caused by some electrical line or somebody throwing a cigarette out the window uh but no a lowquality mind is very conspiratorial right needs somebody to blame it's the Jewish Democrats the Jewish liberals you know they got space lasers that cause this stuff or they create hurricanes this is also one of these rightwing conspiracy theories was floating around there was
• 160:00 - 160:30 some hurricane in Florida and then there was a conspiracy theory that it was some some scheme by some some liberals to create a hurricane you know the government can can create hurricanes yeah it gets this ridiculous here we're talking we're scraping the bottom of the barrel of the lowest of the low here um other criteria for low perspectives is an over Reliance on anecdotal evidence and unreliable methods so again the sort
• 160:30 - 161:00 of Co antiva stuff it's like you know somebody who had some complication after the vaccine it's anecdotal evidence and then from that you you extrapolate out the vaccine is bad for everybody see even if your friend died from the vaccine okay but that that doesn't mean it's bad as a policy doesn't mean it's bad for everybody you haven't taken into account how many lives the vaccine has saved even if your whole family was killed by the vaccine if you were truly
• 161:00 - 161:30 objective you would say well yeah it really sucks that my family was killed by by the vaccine but maybe 10 other families were saved by the vaccine and that was a worthwhile trade-off because again see if you're so selfish that all you care about is your stupid little family then yeah when you lose your family you also lose your mind you can't reason properly that's what it means to be you know attached to some sort of narrow
• 161:30 - 162:00 tribal group that's the problem with it you can't run an entire country of 350 million people based on the particular situation of your one family your family might have some rare unique genetic mutation that causes the vaccine to kill a whole family okay but that doesn't mean that the rest of the population has that rare genetic mutation lower perspectives have a intolerance towards
• 162:00 - 162:30 ambiguity and towards not knowing they need to know they can't just leave things uncertain also a low capacity for contradiction and Paradox also onl IC inflexibility rigid beliefs about the nature of reality and resistant to other ontologies a Christian has a certain
• 162:30 - 163:00 ontology and refuses any other ontology an atheist or a materialist has a certain ontology and refuses to consider other ones doesn't take them seriously another aspect of lower perspectives is a narrow scope focused on limited aspects of reality while ignoring broader context it's much easier to make sense of reality when you only focus on a
• 163:00 - 163:30 small sliver of it and not larger making sense of larger things the the more of reality you have to make sense of the harder it gets so Minds usually lower quality Minds will actually make it artificially easy for themselves by by limiting the field of consideration for themselves for example a scientist working in some sort of laboratory doesn't need to think about all of reality only needs to think about not even physics but like some narrow narrow narrow narrow aspect of physics that's
• 163:30 - 164:00 all he thinks about that makes it much easier for him but it means that his understanding is not going to work more universally more broadly lower perspectives think of reality in isolated Parts not systemically are reductive and non-holistic because that's much easier lower perspectives have a static view of systems and ideas non they're nonevolutionary
• 164:00 - 164:30 so for example Christians many Christians don't have an evolutionary view of their own Christianity what I mean by that is not I'm not talking about the evolution of mankind from animals I'm I'm just talking about Christianity itself as a as a religion and belief system has evolved the Christianity of today in America is not the Christianity of you know 2,000 years ago Jesus's times um so Christianity has changed a lot but
• 164:30 - 165:00 most Christians are just believing the current version of Christianity which is very distorted and corrupted relative to what it was originally they don't even know what it was originally they don't even acknowledge that it changed so uh Christians have multiple problems with Evolution not only is it a problem in terms of man and animals but it's also even a problem just within their own religion if you look at the actual origins of Christianity you see that
• 165:00 - 165:30 it's borrowing elements from other religions that predated it from Pagan Traditions from various mystical and occult Traditions um also with science science is also evolutionary science changes as well in many scientists are are rather ignorant of the significance of this even though they're generally aware of it um another criteria of lower perspectives is a is that they commit
• 165:30 - 166:00 narrative fallacy creating flawed stories to explain random events imposing false meaning misses also patterns and invents selfs serving patterns it's very easy to cherry-pick patterns from reality you can literally walk outside and uh you know see two birds sitting in a tree and then uh interpret that as the the the tree has eyes looking at you and is winking at you something like that
• 166:00 - 166:30 this kind of projection you know or you see Jesus in a pancake sort of thing you see God speaking messages to you in your um spaghettio soup or something alphabet soup you're eating alphabet soup and there's some letters in there with your little spoon God is sending you some messages something like that um lower perspective sense to fall into that kind of
• 166:30 - 167:00 trap uh lower perspectives also do lots and lots of projection just lots of projection they can't distinguish between reality and their own projections onto reality this leads to a lot of epistemic error and self-deception also lower perspectives are resistant to metaphorical and abstract thinking they can't think at high levels of abstraction and more
• 167:00 - 167:30 metaphorically they take things more literally so one way to distinguish lower quality and higher quality forms of religion or religious worldview is that the more literal the religion is the lower it is so when a Christian tells you that literally the Earth is 5,000 years old because that's that's like if you do the math inside the Bible that's literally what it amounts to um that's a lower
• 167:30 - 168:00 level of perspective than some Christian who says a more sophisticated Christian will say that the Bible is more metaphorical allegorical mythological so in this sense for example Jordan Peterson is a higher quality Christian because he's not a strict literalist he doesn't read the Bible literally and he makes in fact good arguments about why reading the Bible literally is um is not a very smart thing to do you need to read it much more abstractly that's correct but um there are many different
• 168:00 - 168:30 levels of abstraction and um there's many Beyond him so keep that in mind um lower perspectives are also characterized by a lack of existential thinking existential thinking means thinking fundamentally from scratch about the nature of reality without any assumptions and without any human biases and without any beliefs but like really
• 168:30 - 169:00 thinking from scratch about the metaphysics of existence or anything for that matter lower perspectives are also non relativistic they do not understand or appreciate relativity and they will demonize relativity this is why conservatives love to demonize relative relativism um it's a common Trope they that they
• 169:00 - 169:30 that they are always parting um because they don't understand the profound nature of Relativity and that this this doesn't contradict things like God or spirituality this actually an essential aspect of it if you want more on relativity see my episode understanding relativism in part one and I'll have a part two soon lower perspectives also misuse and uh selectively apply relativism and
• 169:30 - 170:00 skepticism to defend one's own belief systems so they will use relativism and they will use skepticism but only when it serves their worldview which of course is a double standard if you're going to use skepticism you have to use it equally against other systems and your own and if you're going to be istic you have to apply that equally you can't just cherry-pick and apply relativism in ways that serve you I discussed that in my episode called um what is it called absolute versus
• 170:00 - 170:30 relative truth something like that also lower perspectives flippantly dismiss experts and expertise why is that because they don't really care about the truth they only want to use experts and expertise when it serves their agenda and their ideology if it contradicts then those experts need to be um demonized and ignored so for
• 170:30 - 171:00 example an antivaxer isn't interested in the expertise of real scientists who do research on vaccines and immune immune systems and so forth they don't care about that they don't trust those experts and they have no awareness of the challenges of doing science on the immune system it's way more difficult than these antivaxers understand which is not to say that I'm saying the science is always right
• 171:00 - 171:30 science can also make mistakes and it can also be corrupt that's true but you have to be very careful about talking about a complex science like vaccine research um from a completely inexperienced point of view remember we talked about at the beginning just a complete lack of experience how many vaccines have you designed how much immune system science have you done and yet you're so confident about your views on vaccine see this is the problem another very important aspect of low perspectives is is information
• 171:30 - 172:00 Warfare low perspectives weaponize information to advance a personal or Collective survival agenda they manipulate information and knowledge and they eagerly engage in propaganda and they don't see a problem with this they don't see what's wrong with propaganda in their eyes propaganda is good because it's spreading the message it's spreading the truth right if you have the truth why not propagandize it
• 172:00 - 172:30 on every channel they don't understand the problem with that but you see higher perspective understands when you actually go through the process of acquiring real truth when you go through inquiry you realize truth cannot be disseminated through belief systems or ideology or propaganda truth can only be arrived at through a genuine process of inquiry which is antithetical to propaganda but if you don't care about
• 172:30 - 173:00 truth from the very beginning and you don't care about epistemology then none of this matters to you lower perspectives also misplace loyalty in political activism they prefer to win at political activism versus something more abstract and philosophical like sense making or pure understanding or epistemics or truth seeking right see Fox News people don't
• 173:00 - 173:30 care about sense making or accuracy or epistemology what they care about is political activism they care about their tribe winning their team winning and so one way you can tell very easily lower quality perspectives is that they're politically radicalized and they're
• 173:30 - 174:00 partisan higher minds are nonpartisan and they're not politically radicalized because they understand that the issue is much more complex there's not a clear right and wrong side each side makes mistakes and has flaws in it but also hits upon some truths that they need to be balanced out and not just demonized or defeated a lower mind doesn't understand
• 174:00 - 174:30 that it just wants to its team to win it thinks that that's what life is about just your team winning crushing the opposition through Power and strength and truth but the truth there is not real truth it's just postery and fantasy and selfishness masquerading as truth lower perspectives are concerned
• 174:30 - 175:00 about Optics and winning versus the truth think about Trump does Trump care about the truth no he cares about just the Optics and winning lower perspectives are engaged in prizing in evangelism higher perspectives are not higher perspectives respect other minds and other points of view enough not to try to dominate them see domination is not
• 175:00 - 175:30 just in terms of beating someone over the head with a with a club domination is also about trying to impose your worldview on them rather than you know a higher mind will give space will not want to propagandize children will give children space to grow up and to go through an inquiry process and explore different religions and different perspectives and it come to its own conclusions whereas somebody
• 175:30 - 176:00 who's addicted to an ideology wants their children indoctrinated into their ideology and wants the whole world inducted into their ideology that's what a lot of U wahhabist Islam is like that's why that's low lower perspectives do not distinguish between indoctrination and education or facilitation so there's a difference there to indoctrinate is just to
• 176:00 - 176:30 memorize stuff proper education and facilitation is when you help someone to do an exploration not to have them believe something that you want them to believe but to genuinely explore for example you can do an explore you facilitate a child into exploring mathematics that means you don't teach him the multiplication table you don't teach him to memorize anything you don't teach them formulas or little shortcuts for how to do math
• 176:30 - 177:00 equations you just help him to explore you get a couple of you know objects and you add them together and you see and you let the child discover what is addition just by moving some objects around on a board you can get a child to understand what is addition what is subtraction what is division what is multiplication that's a facilitation rather than just telling your child to here here memorize this multiplication table this is what's true that's the
• 177:00 - 177:30 difference there's a difference between indoctrinating someone into believing in God versus having someone realize what God is huge difference lower perspectives are unconcerned about conflicts of interest they often have a lot of conflicts of interest and they don't mind for example Trump has many conflicts of interest he owns businesses and this sorts of stuff and he doesn't divest from any of them when he becomes president does he care
• 177:30 - 178:00 no do his supporters care no why not because they don't care about conflicts of interest because they're not developed enough to understand the problems that come with that conflicts of interest distort your understanding of reality also they corrupt politics lower perspectives are unsustainable unscalable and they don't care that they're that
• 178:00 - 178:30 way burning fossil fuels is unsustainable but people in lower perspective don't care that it's unsustainable because they don't think that far ahead low perspectives think very short term and also low perspectives have low environmental awareness why is that because they're too self-centered notice something that animals you know we like to think of animals as these beautiful creatures who
• 178:30 - 179:00 wouldn't pollute the Earth but animals don't care about their environment they don't why not because they're not conscious enough to care do beavers care about the impact they have on the environment around them no now you might say well Leo beaver have a positive impact because they build little ponds they they block streams build little ponds that's good for the fish and so forth some of that is true but beavers can also do
• 179:00 - 179:30 damage if beavers are doing damage to the environment do they care of course not they're not conscious enough to care they don't understand what they're doing they're just doing their beaver thing they're doing what's good for the Beavers what's good for the Beavers is to build a pond and then build their nest in the pond and then raise their kids and that's all beavers care about well humans act the same way a lot of times about the environment it takes a lot of Consciousness to start to care about the environment because you have to start to see how your actions and your tribe's actions have negative consequences and
• 179:30 - 180:00 externalities on the environment you have to care about how your corporation which pays your paycheck is negatively influencing and your paycheck is coming from the externalities that the corporation is offloading onto the public right to become conscious of all this takes a lot of responsibility and ethics and integrity it's much easier not to care about that also lower perspectives live in and create media
• 180:00 - 180:30 Echo Chambers not only do they incon themselves in a ideological Echo chamber like I said before you know you can go into the right-wing Echo chamber of Fox News Ben Shapiro Jordan Peterson all that stuff um but then it also perpetuates that e chamber right you then you then become a podcaster who then adds to the to the dynamic whereas higher perspective tend to want to undo Echo Chambers they're careful not to find themselves in an
• 180:30 - 181:00 echo chamber or to create an echo chamber right like for example I do I put a lot of time into thinking about how to not make actualized.org an echo chamber lower perspectives lack self-reflection very fundamentally lower perspectives are incapable of handling diversity because they're too finite that's why for example conservatives struggle with dealing with the diversity of immigrants races
• 181:00 - 181:30 genders sexual orientations Artistic Styles different cultures and subcultures conservatives want sort of a a monoculture they wanted to be Christian they wanted to be white they want it to be kind of like old school the way that it was they don't want to want they don't want a bunch of weird punks and gos and gays and trans and and uh postmodernists and this and that they
• 181:30 - 182:00 don't it's too much complexity their mind literally can't handle this much diversity because they have a very finite limited perspective when your perspective is limited you want to limit reality to that perspective lower perspectives do not have an understanding of non-duality that's a rather Advanced thing to have a lot of even higher perspectives don't have an understanding of non-duality but still recognition of some aspects of non-duality even if
• 182:00 - 182:30 you're not enlightened or awakened or whatever some sense of understanding of non-duality is important just for making sense of reality lower perspectives have no awareness of Developmental stages SP Dynamics or the Susan Cook grer model that that I've shared the EO development model um in general lower perspective do not even know that developmental psychology exists that it's a thing that it's
• 182:30 - 183:00 important or that higher stages of development exist beyond their own for example your average Christian or Muslim does not understand that religion Christianity and Islam are fairly low stages of development psychological development and of course that's very inconvenient for them to know so it's better that they don't know that because if they knew that they would have an existential
• 183:00 - 183:30 crisis lower perspectives are characterized by trying to impose its own needs values worldview and agenda on to others because fundamentally it's deeply insecure and it needs the whole world to reflect back to itself its own fasy so for a Christian it's very important to go out there in the world and to evangelize for a Mormon they need to evangelize why do Mormons need to evangelize because fundamentally their worldview is
• 183:30 - 184:00 [ __ ] so now you have to do work to keep the water from sinking your boat so they work on that every single day of their lives that's what they are committed to to lower perspectives believe that everyone should live by my values and by My My by my morality right everyone should be a Christian everyone needs to be a Muslim
• 184:00 - 184:30 everyone needs to be a Mormon because the Mormons have the best values the best morality is the Mormon morality or no it's the Jewish one you know a Zionist believes that uh everyone should be a Jew well that's actually sort of wrong I kind of overs spoke um it's actually interesting that Jews Jews are one of the few religions that don't really practice evangelism um very interesting and in
• 184:30 - 185:00 that respect I I actually respect uh Judaism a lot in that respect because um they have sort of an actual a taboo against prz um which is actually that that actually puts them higher higher amongst other religions in that respect a religion that prozes and imposes and dominates other people's minds with its religion that's a lower religion than
• 185:00 - 185:30 one that doesn't do that so the lower perspective tends to believe that there's only one right way to live and to view reality their way you know if you don't view reality my way then you're just wrong and you're evil and you're going to hell it's as simple as that how how simple is that that's a simple way to live it absolves you of taking any kind of intellectual responsibility for
• 185:30 - 186:00 making sense of other people's worldviews if that's your world viiew and lastly lower quality perspectives tend to come from mental illness and mentally unhinged or mentally Disturbed Minds now I'm not saying that all mental
• 186:00 - 186:30 illness um leads to lower perspectives but there does tend to be a pretty high correlation between these two I I've noticed this and it just makes sense as well right if you're mentally ill if you have some sort of mental disorder schizophrenia bipolar disorder uh BPD um multiple personality disorder then you're going to have a much much harder
• 186:30 - 187:00 time making sense of reality being emotionally and mentally stable you're going to be tormented you might hear voices from demons in your head uh it's going to be really hard for you to develop a a solid understanding of reality from that point of view because you're going to be so emotionally disturbed um and psychologically Disturbed that you're really not going to be able to just even you're going to struggle to just survive in life never mind to go through through the
• 187:00 - 187:30 sophisticated and subtle epistemics and checking factchecking your own mind against self-deception very very unlikely so people with mental illness generally end up becoming very self- deceived people which is not to stigmatize mental illness because because there's also some interesting truths within mental illness some you know interesting states of Consciousness that you can actually use as a form of spirituality so I'm not demonizing them but generally
• 187:30 - 188:00 speaking um mental illness will will come with low quality sense making low quality epistemics and lower perspectives all right so that's the list of all the criter that I came up with for lower perspectives now there's another list for higher perspectives which we need to get into but we spent so much time just on this that I'm already exhausted and
• 188:00 - 188:30 it's too long for a single episode so we're going to start to wrap it up right here but um just a few concluding remarks about this list that I gave you contemplate this whole list see if you can come up with even more if you do please tell me I'd like to hear post down in the comments section post on my Forum let me know I'm I'm genuinely interested in anything that I missed here in terms of criteria for distinguishing lower perspectives so please do that also
• 188:30 - 189:00 contemplate the validity of these maybe some of these things aren't valid in your mind think about that think about the causal connections why is each of these points true don't just take it as true now as you can see this is a lot of stuff I mean this is like a decade or more of work for you to do how do you avoid all that stuff it requires so much development work see now you see what act eyes.org is really about
• 189:00 - 189:30 it's all about avoiding this it's developing yourself out of that lower kind of perspective so you might also ask like Leo what about what about you I mean it seems like sometimes you don't clear the are in terms of all these points I've seen you be judgmental and I've seen you be moralistic and I've seen you commit some of these you know sometimes you're angry and emotional whatever um sometimes you straw man this position or
• 189:30 - 190:00 that position so I see you sometimes making these mistakes well let me say a few points about that first of all of course I make mistakes and of course I don't I don't perfectly avoid all these issues because this is so difficult to avoid there's so much stuff here you'd have to be like God levels of conscience and developed to avoid all this stuff so yeah sometimes I fall into this also what you see is you see throughout the last 12 years of my work you see a sort of a evolution of myself my mind and so the
• 190:00 - 190:30 further back you go into my work the more you're going to see these errors and I've corrected a lot of them over the last 12 years and I will continue to do that um a lot of the corrections I've made just in the last two years where I haven't been publishing very many videos so a lot of the videos keep in mind is two years older and and older um my new understanding of reality and myself and self-deception and all these mechanics is so profound now so much better and
• 190:30 - 191:00 deeper and more mature than it was even two years ago and I haven't even released that much work based on this new understanding and maturity that I've built up over the last few years so there's that but uh but look I mean avoiding all this stuff is really really uh it's a gargantuan task to develop yourself to these kinds of levels out of all this garbage also I want to point out to you
• 191:00 - 191:30 that there are many degrees many degrees of lower perspectives so not only am I going to help you to distinguish between the lower and the higher but also you got to distinguish between many different kinds of Christianity of Islam qualities of um science there's lower science higher science um lower Buddhism higher
• 191:30 - 192:00 Buddhism so um yeah that's an interesting exercise if you want try to rank these different ideologies and perspectives that are out there some of which I've talked about here make a list of them and then try to rank them in terms of you know what are the lower what are the higher and more importantly like what are the different degrees of low and the different degrees of high in general the big picture of
• 192:00 - 192:30 what's going on here is that your mind is tricking you all the time and if you make a steep study of these tricks and you study these tricks for years and for decades you will come up with a list of all the tricks which is what I did shared this list with you many times in the past I have a whole multi-part series called self-deception part one part two part three where I explain many of these mental tricks um but here we're kind of taking
• 192:30 - 193:00 a different angle at it making a different kind of list um of these various kinds of tricks you can think of each of the points in this list as as a kind of a a mind trick that your mind will play on you and deceive you in this way and it takes a lot of experience within your own mind and self-reflecting to be able to identify all these tricks and overcome them so the reason that all of these different criteria mentioned here are low is ultimately because they are
• 193:00 - 193:30 survival mechanisms of the self and that's what we're dealing with is we're dealing with different qualities of self lower self higher self and everything in between survival corrupts your mind almost nobody is conscious of all of of these tricks because they're so busy surviving they're under so much survival pressure from their environment from their social group their family obligations just feeding their children and all this kind of stuff that you got to do just to
• 193:30 - 194:00 survive that it leaves very little mental resources and time and energy for doing the epistemic work it's much easier just to ignore it and just to go about surviving in life but if you do that then you're going to be stuck at a certain level of low level of development right nobody is born with high development nobody is born knowing all of these tricks of the mind you only learn this through deep experience years and Decades of experience it took me 40
• 194:00 - 194:30 years of experience to learn all this stuff such that I can speak about it now with such you know fluency and still it's just because I can speak about it doesn't mean that I'm totally free of all the traps and so the more your mind tricks you into acting selfishly for Pure survival the more of these traps and tricks you fall into the lower your perspective
• 194:30 - 195:00 is that's what's really going on okay we're going to wrap it up here in the next part we're going to be talking about qualities and features and criteria for the higher perspective I'm going to talk about that and then we have even more to talk about beyond that there's so much material here that we're going to have a part two and even a part three to this whole series and we're working towards something very deep here we're working towards an understanding of not just the high perspectives But
• 195:00 - 195:30 ultimately towards in part three I'm going to talk about perspectives that go not just rational post-rational but beyond the post-rational like what are the highest levels of human cognitive development look like how do you get there what distinguish it distinguishes it from everything else this is very rare stuff extremely few human beings know that these levels of
• 195:30 - 196:00 development exist uh and they don't explain them very clearly as I will do here for you so make sure that you stick around for that e