How Neo-Nazis Work

By Leo Gura - April 3, 2025

This is an excellent break-down.

Nazism is a stage Red-Blue phenomenon. It’s the bottom of the barrel of Blue. It appeals to people who are Blue with a strong Red streak. People with anger issues and trauma who find violence appealing. It’s pre-rational, pre-scientific, mixing mythology with quack race-science. It’s appealing because it offers a cheap, easy sense of life purpose, but it’s a toxic life purpose. You don’t need to invest serious effort to find your life purpose, you just join a group and adopt their purpose as your own. It gives an easy sense of meaning rather than doing the difficult work of confronting the meaningless nature of existence. It provides a cheap and easy sense of community. Rather than learning how to socialize in a more refined way, you can just meet every week with a group of like-minded friends, get drunk, and bond over your shared racist identity and hate of some out-group. So you can see how Nazism serves many of the lower level needs on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, but in a toxic way.

This is a good case-study in lower vs higher perspectives. See how many of the lower perspective traits I talk about in my video Lower vs Higher Perspectives apply to Nazism. The more examples you study of lower and higher perspectives the better you will train the neutral network in your mind for distinguishing them. But it’s not enough to just study these examples, you want to contemplate what drives this difference in lower vs higher. Why is higher higher? Not in a technical sense but in its existential essence. Why is Nazism a lower form of intelligence? And what does it say about the nature of higher intelligence? Understanding this allows you to get of sense of what the highest intelligence must be, which gives you a North Star to orient your life towards.

In the end you see that Nazism is just self-deception. So just by taking self-deception seriously allows your mind to avoid all these severe life-traps. Nazism is a gross self-deception which is easy to see, but there are much more subtle self-deceptions, like science and rationalism. Intelligence is the mind’s ability to see-through all self-deception, of ever greater subtlety, until even the self-deception of an external material world and human self is seen through.

This is why Actualized.org focuses so much on self-deception. Because if you can solve the problem of self-deception in general you solve a thousand different problems and traps at once. Understanding the mechanics of self-deception is the greatest test of mind’s intelligence. Actualized.org is the comprehensive study of self-deception in ever greater subtlety. Actualized.org is the science of self-deception. By the time my work is done, Actualized.org will have unearthed and analyzed every way the mind deceives itself, because that’s what mankind most needs to learn. It is vital for mankind’s well-being and development that the study of self-deception be integrated into as early in the education system as possible. This is one of the highest levers for uplifting mankind.

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