Quick shoutout to the always entertaining history podcast, the Duo Stulti; in this morning’s episode on Cicero, Dune detoured into bashing Buddhism for exactly the same reason I would, so I was inspired to join in the fun.

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Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/⁠

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/⁠

The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK⁠

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Duo Stulti, The Worst of History 11: Cicero, The Libtard: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RoNs9tKDOE6ZlJqNUpaEw

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitarTranscript:

The state conceived of as a monopoly on violence is already a totalitarian framing.  Once a monopoly on violence is secured, there is infinite leverage for governmental expansion.  Only when the capacity for organized violence is retained by the citizenry can the government be held to account.  The 2nd amendment is the reason America crawls, rather than sprints, toward full-blown slavery.

Without limits to government growth, any issue that a government is considered necessary to solve is guaranteed to become a bigger and bigger problem, whether that’s war, welfare, healthcare, homelessness, food production, drug abuse, terrorism, or theft of marshmallows.

It needs to be remembered that any organized body of people collecting a paycheck is a for-profit entity, and the government is no exception.  Whatever they’re guaranteed a budget increase to deal with, they’re incentivized to worsen.

Voting is only real to this extent: The political party handed power by the unelected bureaucracy is whichever one can at the moment do a better job convincing the populace of reasons to increase the federal (or state or municipal) sphere of responsibilities (and thereby, the budget).

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[Political Theory Series]

Right now the government takes one quarter of the fruit of my labor.  I don’t get to decide where that money goes or what it gets used for.  We are one-quarter socialist, from where I’m sitting.  Just heard that in New York City, which is not my problem, but a useful example, they’re trying  to raise taxes by another 9%, and trying to pass a law that prevents you from selling your property to anyone but the government.*  Okay, so fast-forward that madness a few generations, and you have a world in which everyone lives in government-owned housing and works without pay.  Someone else decides where you live, what you do, and what stuff you can have.  How is that different from slavery?  Only in one respect: you’re owned by committee, instead of by an individual, so there’s no one to hold accountable when things go too far.  Fork socialism.

*correction: proposed NYC law is about selling apartments, not houses (yet). Certain non-profits would get first dibs on multi-family residential purchases. Still illustrates the trend.

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/

The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

Why do we maintain our positions? I recently caught myself getting defensive about ideas I didn’t even come up with, and so now I present to you the concept of the Plagiarizing Ego.

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Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/

The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

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Ideas, as neural patterns, live in the brain, can regulate and originate behavior, and can spread from one brain to another. In this episode, we’ll think about the concepts of semantic contagion and rational malware.

The Last Word on Anger https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/

The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

How to use conspiracy theories to improve your personality.

TL/DW: The ways governments trick their populations potentially mirror the ways we trick ourselves.

The Last Word on Anger: https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288

Intro/outro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/

The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

“...anyone who considers the basic drives of man.... will find that all of them have done philosophy at some time – and that every one of them would like only too well to represent just itself as the ultimate purpose of existence and the legitimate master of all the other drives. For every drive wants to be master – and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/

The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

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You don’t need to “get in touch” with your feelings. Whim is the polar opposite of conscious self-direction. You need top-down alignment, not bottom-up, or you’ll be reversing the neural circuitry that gives us humans what little autonomy we’ve managed to evolve.

The Podcram Ep32 - Emotions, DrLaith al-Shawath:https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UNtQ3QvZn6Vla75cxkc5O

Psychic Lube Ep13 – EmotionalSnipe Hunt:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kdOhZqZhUNPjW2LOkT3Cz

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook):

https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook):

https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167

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Multiple points in your argument can sometimes mean multiple points of total failure. Here's the case for narrower reasoning.

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/

Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar

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A message of hope for those who choose to hear it, and a warning for those who do not....

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/

The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube