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A new book just released called Careless People (aff link). It's written by an ex-Facebook executive now turned whistleblower. I just finished reading it. It paints a damning picture of the corrupt ego-minds that run Facebook. I highly recommend reading the book and supporting this whistleblower whom Facebook is right now trying to silence and harass with lawsuits. Facebook is trying to get this book banned, which is the biggest reason you should read it. Read this book if you want a deep case-study in corruption.

The corruption of the entire Facebook ecosystem and the ego-minds who run it is appalling. Facebook is poisoning the epistemology of billions of minds across the globe. Toxic stage Orange epistemic perverts run Facebook. These perverts are now also 100% politically aligned with Trump. Facebook is a platform for oligarchic mind control. Facebook whores out the minds of billions of people to sell to the highest bidder. That's their entire business model, and their management — from Zuckerberg down — is so blind, corrupt, and immature that they don't even know what they're doing. Facebook is directly responsible for people like Trump and MAGA winning elections.

Notice, one of the biggest problem with super-popular podcasts by comedians is that they whitewash corruption. The hosts of these shows do not have enough epistemic seriousness to challenge or pushback on the corrupt celebrities who do rounds across these shows. Powerful celebrities are exploiting the comedian podcast circuit because comedians are not serious people and will not seriously challenge their corruption while at the same time giving these corrupt ideas tens of millions of views and also the tacit endorsement of their personal brand. And so, in this way, the entire culture is slowly poisoned.

I get a lot of whining and push-back when I call out Western Buddhists and meditators for not realizing God.

Here's the proof.

These guys both claim to be enlightened, to have realized no-self, to have accessed all 9 jhanas, to have reached cessation, but neither of them understands what reality is, what Consciousness is, what God is, what Absolute Truth is, what Love is, and much more. These hardcore technical meditators are metaphysically clueless. They have no idea what God is. I reject all this Buddhist talk. It is delusion. These people have not even deconstructed science.

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If you take Buddhism as the truth, you will not realize what I teach. If you think you're going to meditate your way to understanding what I teach, you are mistaken.

The reason I'm not a Buddhist is because it is group-think and it is not a proper understanding of the nature of Reality. This would be obvious to you if you took the issue of self-deception and philosophy seriously. But nobody does, so here we are.

The book publishing industry is corrupt.

Over the last 30 years a deluge of corrupt marketing gurus have taught everyone in the business world that to become a respected expert in any field you must publish a book. So now everyone with any degree of ambition and aspiration to fame writes a book just because they need to in order to establish that they are somebody important. Today we have millions of people writing quick, shitty books with very low substance just as part of a self-promotion racket.

Notice how every celebrity now has their own book. Did they even write it? No. It's written by someone for them just for the purposes of milking their fan-base. Writing books these days is no longer about serious intellectual contribution to mankind, it's about milking your fan-base. The bigger your fan-base, the more needed a book is to milk them to the max.

In the past, being an author used to mean something, it was an honest signal of intelligence, meaningfulness, and originality of thought. This conferred legitimate authority and status to the author. Writing a book was hard because it was supposed to be a serious effort at intellectual contribution. But today, anyone can write and publish a book in 30 days. Many books today are vacuous, padded with fluff to meet page count, full of narcissistic and insignificant personal stories, and regurgitated wisdom simply because book publishing has turned into a corporate slop mill and self-promotion vehicle. It's become so formulaic: publish a book, make it seem like you're an expert in the field, use that to get on TV shows and podcasts, pay for fake reviews and fake sales, tout your "best-seller" status all over the place, build authority, milk and up-sell your followers. Today, every celebrity is a "besting author". Best-seller lists are also corrupt and fake.

What the corrupt marketing gurus learned over the last 30 years is that the substance of the book is irrelevant to selling books, what matters is having a pre-existing fan-base to milk. Celebrities keep writing vacuous books because they know their fans are blinded enough by their celebrity to buy anything with their name on it. If Kanye West wrote a book about How To Be A Nazi, it would sell 20 million copies. That's the low we've hit.

Many books today are not even written by the author, they are ghostwritten. And of course AI will make this 10x worse. The AI-written book slop has barely begun. This has diluted and corrupted the whole book industry. And the kicker is, book buyers are not aware that this corruption has happened. They just assume a book is a book, and an author is a serious person with serious ideas.

One time I was at a Vipassana meditation retreat and my roommate was an online business/marketing type. I was partnered up with him randomly to share the same room. When he found out I have a sizable YouTube channel, he told me, "Have you written a book yet?" I said, "No". He said, "Why not? You should write a book, it only takes 30 days". He told me the story of how he wrote a book in 30 days and used it to get himself invited to local TV shows and frame himself as an expert. I told him, "If I write a book it will take 10 years to write." He laughed and said, "That's all wrong, just write a book in 30 days and use it to get on TV." I said, "No thanks, I don't want write a book like that." He was baffled. He could not understand it. He keep insisting that I am making a big mistake, that I must write a book in 30 days. This was exactly 10 years ago and my book is still nowhere ready. Only now is my understanding of reality deep enough to even begin writing a book.

There are books and there are Books.

So the lesson here is this: distinguish between books written for substance vs books written for self-promotion. Do not buy or read books written for self-promotion. Take your time carefully selecting the right books to read. Quality over quantity is more important than ever. Stop reading slop. If you find yourself reading what smacks of slop, don't be afraid to stop and throw the book away. Really consider the substance, depth, and originality of the book you're reading before you continue reading it. We have a bad tendency to be completionist when reading books, which is a mistake in this new era.

Toxic Orange has ruined books. The rot of Orange corruption continues to worm its way into every aspect of society. This is just one piece of the larger issue of the corruption of the epistemic ecosystem.

BTW, this issue is also known as the general pattern of the tragedy of the commons.

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This is a nice trip back to the birth of the American New Age:

Corruption IS the point! It's not a bug.

One of the most important insights in politics is to realize that the leaders in charge, even absolute kings, are not really free, they are slaves to the laws of power. A pure, good, loving, truthful ruler is impossible because he was only given the position by other powerful elites in order to serve their selfish needs. As soon as he starts acting for the greater good or truth, he will be booted or killed by the elites who gave him power and expect him to serve their biases. This is why good, truthful, loving men are never in highest power. The whole point of a ruler is to serve corrupt interests at the expense of the masses. The point is to milk the masses, to extract their labor value or rob public resources and move it into the pockets of the top 0.01% of the upper class. This is how all governments have always worked and most citizens are too ignorant to understand this, never mind change it.

Ironically and perversely, the very people who are being milked by this system support the system with a passion because their minds are as corrupt as the rulers. Which is why fools enthusiastically go out and vote for MAGA, thinking they're fighting corruption and elites. The whole system is so diabolically, intelligently yet unconsciously self-reinforcing. It's a circle-jerk of corruption from top to bottom. The rulers, the elites, and the ruled are all unconscious, forming a standing cyclone of corruption.

The only ones who see through it all are the sages, the true philosophers who did the work to reach Truth, Good, Love, and God. And if they speak up, they are demonized or killed, either by the rulers or by the ignorant mob. The true philosopher is the only one capable of seeing through all this corruption. Why? Because she is the only one of the bunch who genuinely loved truth, pursued truth, and realized God. Because corruption is just a lack of consciousness of God.

Notice that every powerful ruler and elite is a godless philosophical-pervert. Sure, they will mouth God's name, but not one of them has a clue what God is. And notice that the further disconnected they are from God, the greater perverts they are. That's because, pervertry just is a measure of your distance from God/Truth.

When you see this, as the philosopher, it's so crystal clear. The entire structure of society makes sense.

Credit: Thanks to forum member Nilsi for sharing this video.

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