THC -- The Higherside Chats: Alex Tsakiris | Scientism, Spirituality, & Why Evil Matters

so if you were asking if I think they are sanctioned by the state. No. I think government is intended to be a bulwark against massive wealth. And we have studies to show that in America at least the only people who have a say now, is the ultra wealthy. The common citizen has no voice. And that hasn’t been because of socialism. Quite the contrary. That’s been because of the corrosive and eroding powers of wealth constantly pressing to remove regulations and sanctions and lines so that the American government has become a transferal of the citizens money into the hands of the billionaire few.
One of the other great misunderstandings from Americans is that, this is the way of the world. But it is not. Nor does it have to be.

This is not just an American problem nor one new to recent history only. Every government around the world exploits the ‘WE’ (not ME, the government here, who I do not support by my own will, but only through the coercion of taxation and fees on everything from growing food to getting a driver’s license to braiding hair) just as every society in the world, east and west alike (with perhaps only a few tribal peoples excluded) exist as a Mafia, exploiters and false protectors against the violence they commit and then force the citizenry not only to collude with but even to honor. We learned it from the East India Company, who learned it from the Roman Empire, who learned it from the cult of Mithras, etc. etc. Nothing new here, for better or worse, except that the Plebes keep falling for it.
 
See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. Why should we focus on evil again Alex? How far down the mountain do we actually go before we nauseate ourselves and retreat back to the monastery?
 
See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. Why should we focus on evil again Alex? How far down the mountain do we actually go before we nauseate ourselves and retreat back to the monastery?

haha... I get yr point.
 
See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. Why should we focus on evil again Alex? How far down the mountain do we actually go before we nauseate ourselves and retreat back to the monastery?

What is evil without wonder? What is wonder with wander? I think that we need to look at all avenues of all things, be it explained as evil or not. Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil....the little monkey still gets eaten by the big snake. I think that Alex's work is important because he is pulling the veil off of modern pretense. We need to be real with each other. Evil matters because we must see what it is in order to erase it.
 
Also, thanks to you, Alex, I have become a fan of Greg and The Higher Side Chats! Without you, I would not have found him!
 
Hasn't someone done a study on computers malfunctioning more often around a person when they're having a bad day? If not, they should.
Anecdotal, but in my IT career MANY times just walking up to a computer intending to do whatever it took to fix it .. fixed the damn thing before I touched the keyboard. Spooky. Its like it got intimidated :) [edit: on reflection mostly occurred at a few locations. maybe being punked, idk]
 
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Anecdotal, but in my IT career MANY times just walking up to a computer intending to do whatever it took to fix it .. fixed the damn thing before I touched the keyboard. Spooky. Its like it got intimidated :)

Interesting… haven’t experienced or heard much about “healing” electronics before, but there is clearly some mechanism by which emotional energy - particularly frustration - can be transduced into electrical voltage.
 
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Sounds like this isnt a NDE argument. It more like hard rock materialism. Cowen's guest Veda Austin will prove you wrong. And you can replicate the science in an afternoon with a freezer. BLOWYOURMINDIDAREYOU
Check out that link above. Veda Austin talks about emotional energy changing ice expression. Fascinating.
 
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