Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 18
I have a guilty pleasure: watching sovereign citizens getting arrested as aggressively as possible.
These "sovereign citizens" have unlocked a whole new tier of self-deception and epistemic pervertry.
As I watch I sometimes wish police still beat people with sticks, to beat the stupid right out of them. People have become so spoiled and entitled about state power. In the old days you'd just be killed or at least tortured for being this dumb. Without suffering people refuse to relinquish their stupid ideas. In this sense, people are getting softer and dumber because their ideas are shielded from direct contact with reality. These days, in a welfare state, you can bullshit yourself and still live in relative comfort. That's one of the downsides of a progressive welfare state: everyone becomes spoiled and entitled about rights with no appreciation of where those rights come from or what responsibilities they entail. This is the curse of libertarianism.
Ironically, the minds of these so-called sovereign citizens are not sovereign at all but addled with cheap online ideology. Where else would one get such silly ideas of law?
Self-deception is like water, it seeps through any crack. No matter what era, what country, what culture, what race, what gender, what ideology, what platform, what medium, what industry, what level of technology, what level of IQ, what level of schooling and credentialing — self-deception finds a way.
I've mentioned the topic of theft in the past, and I have a video planned about the subtlety of theft.
Notice how many forms of theft hide themselves as other things. Notice that a lot of stuff goes on in society which isn't usually called theft but which is just a sophisticated or subtle form of theft, but it's whitewashed and called something else to make it more socially acceptable.
For example, a Hollywood producer doesn't think of himself as a thief, even though that's what he is. This is an example of how deep corruption runs. The corruption is so deep that the people doing it aren't even conscious that they're doing it. It's just baked into the culture of doing business. A best-selling book could be written about all sneaky forms of theft that mankind has invented.
If you are in business it would be wise of you to make a deep study of all these subtle forms of theft because pretty soon it will happen to you. The "legit" business world is chock-full of theft.
Understand this: theft is not a rare exception done by thugs, theft is the default mode. You should expect people to be thieves, and in ways they do not even comprehend. Theft is a force of nature beyond human awareness. The more unconscious a human is, the less developed, the more a thief. This is one reason why people do not achieve high stages of development: because they don't want to give up their thievery.
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Another of my Fischer Random games. I played as white against a 1500 rated bot.
The middle game got very clogged up and tense as I was in trouble from black's queen. But I was able to fend him off until I opened up the position by flanking black from the right-hand side of the board at move 23. Then things got beautiful at move 36-39 where I found a way to pin black's queen to the king. The bot made a few obvious mistakes which made the game easier for me than it should have been. But black was being very tricky with his queen in the early game. I thought I would lose until I decided to flank around the other side of the board.
The early game in Fischer Random can get very tricky as there are many unusual ways to blunder pieces or cripple your position. In this game black found some sneaky queen play that put me on the back foot.
