Davis Aurini - The Tale of the Socialist Professor 2025-12-02 18:02
Aired: 2025-12-02
Duration: 12:54


=== Social Activism Option (11:14) ===

[00:00:01]  Understanding society, political science.
[00:00:06]  In retrospect, it was a course on socialism.
[00:00:12]  Now the professor gave the students an option.
[00:00:15]  For your final grade, you could write a really boring essay.
[00:00:22]  Or he also gave us the option of participating in some social activism.
[00:00:30]  So of course, I picked the latter.
[00:00:34]  Now the activism in particular that we were engaged with was trying to establish more funding for halfway houses in the city.
[00:00:44]  So we went out and we interviewed some of the men at these halfway houses who outright said that while they didn't have everything they wanted, it was a lot better than living on the street.
[00:00:57]  Which to my mind at the time said, well, we're doing our due diligence by these people, aren't we?
[00:01:05]  We're getting indigents off the street.
[00:01:08]  What more do you want?
[00:01:10]  Should they be getting flet mignon for every meal?
[00:01:16]  And it wasn't until years later, just recently, that I figured out that that was a test.
[00:01:27]  A test that I failed.
[00:01:30]  A test that I'm proud to have failed.
[00:01:39]  Let's talk for a moment about the different, the three different types of people you'll find on this planet and the three different ways of apprehending knowledge.
[00:01:53]  The Hilaks, the psychics, and the pneumatics.
[00:01:57]  Or the appearance of reality, the symbolic reality, and the true reality.
[00:02:09]  Now your Hilak can only see what's right in front of them.
[00:02:14]  They mistake the map for the territory.
[00:02:18]  And so they embrace these truisms as if they're true.
[00:02:24]  They embrace their sensory impressions as if those sensory impressions are reality itself.
[00:02:33]  And so the Hilak might say something like, if you don't work, you don't eat.
[00:02:40]  And they'd look at these halfway houses and be quite upset about it.
[00:02:45]  Another one might say, it's our duty as a society to take care of each other.
[00:02:51]  And so they want more funding for these halfway houses.
[00:02:56]  But that would be the full extent of their pondering on the matter.
[00:03:03]  What you see is what you get, with no understanding of what symbols are.
[00:03:14]  So now we get to the psychics.
[00:03:17]  We get to those who do understand that there are these abstract symbols which can be manipulated.
[00:03:28]  There's the reality as we perceive it.
[00:03:33]  But if we manipulate the symbols of reality, then we could look at it another way.
[00:03:42]  A lot of the empty platitudes and affirmations of the New Age movement, a lot of this fits into symbol manipulation.
[00:03:56]  Instead of a negative experience, it was a growing experience.
[00:04:01]  These are the people that become very clever with their words, very good at being manipulative with their words.
[00:04:08]  They make fantastic attorneys, but they're unaware of the truth behind the reality.
[00:04:21]  The pneumatic is where you understand that there's your sense perception.
[00:04:28]  Your sense perception which can be encoded into symbols, symbols which can be moved around, rearranged, experimented with.
[00:04:41]  But behind these symbols is the true reality itself.
[00:04:50]  There's what we perceive, there's how we draw meaning and symbol from it, and then there is the truth.
[00:05:06]  And thus you get the half-wit, midwit, Fulwit meme, where the Fulwit and the Halfwit often have far more in common with each other than the Midwit, who just plays around manipulating symbols.
[00:05:30]  Now what's the point of talking about this?
[00:05:31]  does this have to do with some socialist professor trying to raise money for poor people?
[00:05:45]  You see, at the time, at the time, I thought he was just a misguided socialist.
[00:05:53]  Right, maybe a died-in-the-wall socialist.
[00:05:56]  And there are complex arguments.
[00:06:01]  There's quite a bit of space for the psychics to have arguments about whether we should do a free market capitalism or a protective socialism.
[00:06:10]  There's times and places for both.
[00:06:13]  You can argue till the cows come home.
[00:06:16]  I thought it was just an intellectual disagreement that I had with this professor.
[00:06:25]  And of course, I myself and you align far more with the school, where we realize that there is this world of inequality.
[00:06:41]  There is the symbol of money, which is an abstracted form of wealth.
[00:06:51]  But behind that, past that, is production.
[00:06:58]  That you cannot have wealth without people producing.
[00:07:03]  And simply playing around with these symbols, moving them around, moving money from the wealthy to the poor, is not going to increase production.
[00:07:16]  All it's going to do is make everybody broke.
[00:07:24]  I thought that was the disagreement I was having with this professor.
[00:07:31]  That this misguided old socialist was simply trying to help people that didn't need help.
[00:07:43]  It never once occurred to me that this man does not give a damn about old loser men in a halfway house.
[00:07:58]  No, what this professor was doing was scouting for talent.
[00:08:06]  The Hilux, which is at the time, 20 years ago, it's probably worse now, probably about 30% of the university students at minimum.
[00:08:20]  They just go along to get along.
[00:08:21]  You know, a professor tells them something is good, they believe it's good.
[00:08:26]  The psychics would be aware of counter-arguments.
[00:08:33]  And so they would have performed this project to come up with good counter-arguments to people that don't want their tax dollars being taken away from them.
[00:08:43]  These people were ready to be middle management.
[00:08:49]  But what he was really looking for was the pneumatics, the people that could see the truth behind the argument.
[00:09:02]  And I guarantee that he identified me as one of these, but the wrong type.
[00:09:12]  I'm the type, you're the type, that we see this nonsense fundraiser that's not going to help anybody.
[00:09:21]  And we say, you know, maybe instead of having a diversity seminar, what we should actually do is open up a textile plant in the poor country.
[00:09:33]  Maybe the textile plant will help get those people out of poverty as opposed to the diversity seminar.
[00:09:42]  You say that as a student who's hoping to be recruited, well, you just said the wrong damn thing.
[00:09:54]  No, what he was looking for was the people that figured out that he didn't give a damn about the impoverished indigents, but that there was a lot of money to be made pretending to care about them.
[00:10:15]  That every time there's a transfer of wealth between the productive to the unproductive, there's somebody in the middle getting a paycheck.
[00:10:25]  And if you're really smart about it, it can be a very large paycheck indeed.
[00:10:34]  That's what he was looking for.
[00:10:36]  A protege in fundraising, a protege in charity manufacturing, somebody that he could work with to transfer even more funds from rich to poor while siphoning out of the middle.
[00:11:00]  I've often felt as if, well, to be fair, I didn't work as hard as I could have in university.

=== University As A Sinecure (01:53) ===

[00:11:10]  I did treat it as a free dating app to a certain extent.
[00:11:16]  I got by in my intelligence a little bit too much as opposed to actually working and studying as I ought to have.
[00:11:25]  But even if I'd done that, even if I had busted my hump, university was never for me.
[00:11:36]  University, increasingly, Is not about studying history to explain it to the public.
[00:11:46]  It's about getting a sinecure.
[00:11:49]  It's not about becoming educated on social systems so that society can thrive.
[00:11:56]  It's about learning tricky language so you can get yours while pretending to be a good person.
[00:12:09]  University is not a place for people like you or me.
[00:12:16]  Quite frankly, folks, it's a place for parasites.
[00:12:23]  And the game was rigged from the start.
[00:12:26]  You're not going to get ahead pursuing a humanities degree or a political science degree.
[00:12:32]  It's not for people like you.
[00:12:37]  If we want to see a change, we're going to have to use that ability to perceive and apprehend truth directly, our noetic capacity to create hyper-sigils that alter reality itself.