Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 7
This is a rare interview where Kastrup talks about politics rather than metaphysics.
I was pleasantly surprised that his politics is so mature. He's intelligent enough to see right through the BS of populism. Good on him.
For me it's important to compare a public intellectual's metaphysical, philosophical, and spiritual views with his politics. Because most of the time I see speakers with great spiritual views, but then their understanding of politics is 180-degree backwards as they live in some anti-mainstream online echo-chamber. Someone will speak of love and God and health and ending corruption and justice and peace and truth, and then vote for Trump. This kind of shit is intellectually unacceptable. So it's always important to not just hear someone's abstract theoretical beliefs, but to see how that pans out at the end of the day.
Do not underestimate the mind's ability to speak of God, love, and peace, and then vote for Hitler. It's more common than you'd think. Never assume you know how someone will vote. Ask them. It's too easy to sit around and bullshit with niceties, generalities, and abstractions. "The government is corrupt. The system is rigged. The media is biased. The economy is broken. War is bad." Yes, but does that mean you're voting for Hitler or his opponent?
It's not enough to criticize government. That's too easy. You have to ask people what their solutions are. People can have the same criticisms but opposite solutions. "The economy is bad. Egg prices are too high." Okay, but is your solution to regulate and tax giant corporations or to deregulate and give them tax cuts? People are so distracted with self-righteous criticism they have no logic solutions. Government is super easy to criticize and super difficult to improve.
Over the next few years you're going to hear a lot of news about Trump making deals. This deal, that deal. But remember, Trump is a con-artist, so you should not take any of these deals as they are portrayed and hyped up in the mindless media cycles. Most of Trump's deals are going to be fake, just like everything about Trump is fake. Trump does not care about making solid deals, he cares about his image as a deal-maker. Making solid deals is difficult, requiring intelligence, compromise, maturity, truthfulness, patience, long-term thinking, sacrifice, and hard work. Trump is not interested in any of that, only his image of success.
So I'm just reminding you to connect these dots and do not forget his true nature. Do not fall for stories of his deals, since they will mostly be scams designed to make himself and his ignorant supporters feel like they are winners. No Trump deal exists or means anything until at least 6 months have passed and the fruits of the so-called deal have been measured and analyzed. What you'll see is that his deals evaporate like dry ice in the Sahara. That's what happens when you deal with a narcissistic, sociopathic, fake businessman.
