Davis Aurini critiques modern education for failing to match IQs with practical careers, urging listeners to analyze Big Five traits and natal charts instead. He contrasts this with self-defense realities in Canada and exposes "Corporate Feudalism," where bankers seek singularity while ignoring the abyss of death. The host rejects the "prison planet" theory yet fears Larry Fink could enforce it, advocating for gender-specific roles like weightlifting and cooking. Offended by Christopher Nolan's casting choices in The Odyssey, he vows to read the Iliad and recommends Heinlein's contradictory works on hippie culture and fascism before ending the stream. [Automatically generated summary]
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IQ Nuances and Realities00:14:30
It's been the right path for me.
So don't be afraid of looking up your IQ.
But also look up the nuances of your IQ.
If you got an IQ of 80, you're not going to be a computer programmer.
I'm sorry.
Stop dreaming about that.
That's a bad dream.
Get a dream catcher.
20 years ago, I could have been a great computer programmer.
Not anymore.
But yeah, like, to reinforce what Tom Downs said, dude, you've got at least a three digit IQ.
So, you're on the winning half of the curve.
Anybody's listening to the stream, you've got an IQ over 100.
So, chill out.
Don't get too.
Don't worry about it.
Understand yourself.
Oh, God, what's the Greek?
I cannot remember the Greek, but know thyself.
Know thyself.
Learn who you are.
Know your strengths, know your weaknesses, and thou shalt be victorious in a thousand battles.
Trevor says, It sounds like there's a jet engine in the room.
Like, is the audio that bad?
Bear spray doesn't always work.
Oh my god, Lord of Mercy.
That's why you carry a short sword with you.
Or a rifle.
I mean, if you're an American, you got the right to bear arms.
Carry a pistol with you anytime you're hiking.
Me and my buddy, we carry swords with us.
Because we're in Canada.
I mean, there's also rifles, but they're only allowed in certain areas.
It's a whole thing.
Oh, Trevor had another tab open.
Okay, thank goodness.
Tom Johnson says I never paid attention in school.
Spent the entire time drawing and listening to music.
Somehow, all the teachers grouped together agreed to pass me regardless.
Alright, Tom Johnson.
Education has almost nothing to do with IQ at this point.
This is actually the huge fucking problem with education right now.
Is that.
Like, you want a smart boss.
You don't want a boss that passed a bunch of meaningless courses.
You want a boss that understands what H2S is.
That understands, like, under.
God.
You want a boss that knows what the fuck is going on.
You want an engineer that sets things up properly.
You don't want somebody that passed courses but doesn't understand shit.
Now Tom Johnson, I'm pretty sure your IQ is at least over 100.
And I would say you've got very high openness on the big five if you're enjoying listening to this live stream.
Which is not the same thing as intelligence, but it's correlated to intelligence.
Like, you're not a stupid fucking guy.
It's kind of a hallmark of people above 100.
They know what they don't know.
Stupid starts happening when you think you know things that you don't know.
I don't think you're one of those, Tom.
I don't think you're stupid.
And I think you would benefit from, I think everybody would benefit from having accurate assessments of their IQ and their personality and the sorts of things they're good at.
You know, high school was supposed to be about this.
I used to be of the opinion if I had kids that I would private school them for like one to eight, but for the last four years I'd put them in public school.
So the whole idea of public school is like, where do you fit in?
Are you a jock?
Are you a nerd?
Where do you fit in?
What are you good at?
Who do you get along with?
And we're gonna take that information and we're gonna try and find you a place that you're.
you make some money, you provide value to society, and you get to live a life that's worth a goddamn.
Right?
That's not a terrible idea, is it?
So that's sure as fuck not what high schools are doing these days.
So become your own high school guidance counselor, become the guy.
That analyzes your IQ, analyzes your natal chart, analyzes your Enneagram, your MBTI, your Big Five.
Go analyze those things.
Figure out who the fuck you are, man.
Who are you?
What are you all about?
What do you like?
What are you good at?
What are you bad at?
Figure that stuff out about you and go figure a way to integrate.
to the system that gives you a maximum return for minimum expense.
I want to read something here.
So, Top Hat Jack says, I was a good kid in school, I'd say.
I didn't always get A grades, but I tried to be a good person and treat the teachers as people, which was really beneficial.
Those are orthogonal skills.
So, when I was a.
I took the optional calculus class in grade 12.
And my teacher fucking hated me.
I seriously drove him up the fucking wall.
He would spend half the goddamn class explaining grade 12 math before he got the calculus portion.
And I'd missed one question on my grade 12 math.
Because I misread the question, for fuck's sake.
I answered plus one when I should have said plus negative one.
Understood arithmetic.
And so I had this calculus teacher that would spend half the class explaining arithmetic, and by the time he got to calculus, I'd be zoned out.
So I started skipping all of his classes, and I still got the highest marks in his class.
God, I love calculus, it's beautiful.
Like, I would just go home and read the damn textbook to pass the tests, and then.
And it pissed him off so much.
He was.
He fucking infuriated him.
The most disrespectful student was also the highest scoring in his class.
You can feel for the guy, can't you?
I wasn't deliberately disrespectful.
But I also kind of hit the point where I didn't give a shit anymore.
And so I walked out of class a few times.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
I'm high in disagreeableness.
Respecting the teachers is not the same thing as being a good student.
That's the point I'm trying to make.
The ideal student from a teacher's perspective is intelligent and respects the teacher, but it's also less intelligent than the teacher.
These things are at 90 degrees, right?
You could be good at the class, bad at the class, respectful of the teacher, disrespectful of the teacher.
They are not the same thing.
So, don't mistake them for the same thing.
Let me get some more ice.
I'll be right back.
The point
is that you could be good student, bad student, smart student, stupid student.
They're separate axes.
Don't mistake them for the same thing.
Butterfly ballerina hated dodgeball.
I love dodgeball.
That's like the only thing I liked in sports class.
Point being, if I took an IQ test, I wouldn't get an accurate reading.
I could ballpark you pretty well after an hour of conversation.
Not 100%, but.
Keep in mind, do you know what?
Here's a joke.
Do you know what they call the guy that got the lowest score in medical school?
They call him Doctor.
The music's too motivational.
No, actually, I kind of agree.
I'm going back to the first one, it's more chill.
It's good music, though, isn't it?
The Suspicious Rhinelander Nature00:07:50
Oh, God.
I am so deeply suspicious of putting kids on Ritalin, but I've also worked with guys that have.
It's like we put our son on Ritalin, we had a lot of misgivings, but it's turning out pretty well.
So I am very anti putting your kids on speed, but I'm also not a parent.
I'm not in a situation, so I don't judge anybody.
That does that.
It might even be best.
Like, it's.
I'm really suspicious of it.
I don't like doping up kids.
Matthias says...
Matthiasm says.
Happy to see you got that Rhinelander back there.
Is that the one you are bringing in the woods?
I have sometimes.
Honestly.
So, this is the Rhinelander I'm talking about, folks.
And.
I'm gonna be honest, it's a little bit too long.
It's about half a foot too long.
I have a short sword.
Do I have my.
Where is my short sword anyway?
Not sure where it is right now.
I've got a short sword.
Also, blessed by a Catholic priest.
Which is about 18 inches long.
It costs almost as much as the Rhinelander there.
But I always have something when I go into the woods.
Now I'm pretty sure a sword would do something against a grizzly.
I mean, I've got bear spray on one hip, sword on the other.
Wiz Noah, 125.
That's an intelligence score of 15 in Dungeons and Dragons terms.
That is nothing to be ashamed of, my friend.
That's a lot of skill points you got.
Butterfly says, no matter how sweet an animal is, it can still bite your nuts off.
It feels threatened, frightened.
People tend to forget that.
Oh, yeah, like respecting the.
Also, the reverse as well.
You can also dominate the animal.
That if an animal is being aggro.
You stand up straight and you say, No, no, you sit down.
We're not doing it.
No.
And it works.
It does work.
I've been in multiple situations with animals before.
One of the best things about carrying a longsword with you is that you're not afraid.
If you're not afraid of the animal, then the animal will be afraid of you.
Oh, good.
Thank God you went to school when you did.
I know, things are getting worse.
They're not getting better.
Tom Johnson says Education has almost nothing to do with IQ at this point.
I was referring to taking an IQ test.
IQ tests, SAT tests are biased in favor of the educated.
I can barely math because I haven't paid attention in math class since grade school, but I can read and fully understand Dostoevsky.
Skin Aristotle, I expand on their thoughts.
That is still defined by IQ, but there is.
I'm not a perfect expert on this, okay?
The IQ, I think.
There's a basal nature that gives you basic calculating ability.
It's not a bad way to put it.
Now, you can apply that to math or English, that basal calculating ability.
But if you start committing to one stream or the other, you're kind of committed at that point.
I'm very much on the Dostoevsky stream.
As much as I loved math when I was a kid, I'm not really on the math stream anymore.
Uncle Ted Kaczynski, who had 180 IQ, said apart from the most elementary mathematics, like arithmetic or high school algebra, the symbols, formulas, and words of mathematics have no meaning at all if no one takes them seriously, so the secret is in no danger.
Interesting.
Butterfly Ballerina says she repeated the ninth grade.
But she's certainly enjoying this high IQ conversation, ain't she?
IQ is something useful to know about yourself.
So is your Myers Briggs.
Myers Briggs Resume Mistakes00:06:14
But don't ever post your Myers Briggs on your resume.
There's a simple reason.
Either the employer cares about your Myers Briggs or they don't.
If they don't, there's no advantage in posting your Myers Briggs.
If they do, Then your Myers Briggs only disqualifies you.
Oh my god, Butterfly has never fired a firearm.
Babe, you've got to get out here.
It's going to be the most gorgeous thing.
You're going to stare through those sights.
You're going to go, it's going to be eye to forward to backward to target.
And you're going to gently pull that trigger, and it's going to be the most beautiful bang and then bing sound as your round is perfectly on target.
There's nothing more meditative than firing a rifle, especially a high-powered one.
Scowls McJowls says the tree of life.
Brother, we were talking about that for the first hour.
So, to go back to the theme,
is there a weak point?
Because they skipped it.
The banker magicians and the techno-utopians are...
are trying to vault straight from their lower spheres into Kether.
From control of Malkuth, Yassad, Hod, and Netzach straight to the crown.
They want the singularity, the total ownership, the god mode interface where they sit at the apex and everything below is just data and compliance.
They treat Dayath like it's optional, like it's a bug to be patched.
Like the abyss can be bridged with enough venture capital and enough ESG metrics and enough digital Kool Aid.
That's the Jim Jones you named.
The cult leader with the flavor aid.
Except now the flavor is you'll own nothing and be happy.
Served through neural interfaces and central bank digital currencies.
They're offering transcendence without the crossing.
But Death doesn't work that way.
Death is the place where the integrated self is offered up.
It is the long dark night of the soul.
It is where the ego dies and something larger is born.
It is where the Jedi Master is forged.
The one who can look at Darth Vader, the man who became machine, the one who sold his humanity for power and say, I am your son and I still love you.
The one who can destroy the Death Star not with superior firepower, but with instinct, with the force, with the living current that flows through the abyss.
Instead of around it, the system skipped the abyss.
They built their inverted tree without the void.
So the whole structure is hollow at the center.
One honest crossing, one person who actually walks through Death instead of pretending it doesn't exist, can collapse their entire grid.
I have not tranced.
Sand demon seems to have great faith that I will.
I don't.
She thinks far too highly of me, but I think she's right.
Activating the Heart Chakra00:03:09
That is the answer.
Becoming fully activated in this life to achieve the heart chakra of Tifereth and then to walk forward from there.
Think that is how we do it folks.
Well, I am Unless there's any last questions, problems, concerns, I think it's been a pretty good stream.
Top Hat says, What are my thoughts on the prison planet thing?
So, first of all, you are always going to find the evidence of what you're looking for.
Take that into account with anything.
What I think is happening, I think the Gnostics are wrong.
The Gnostics believe that life has always been a prison planet, the nature of reality is a prison planet.
The world is too beautiful and interesting and chaotic and challenging to be a proper prison planet.
So, no, I don't believe that metaphysically it's a prison planet.
I do believe there are cowards like Larry Fink who would turn it into a prison planet.
I think that's what we ought to be fighting against.
Yes, scales me up.
Heart chakra activation.
That's exactly it.
The community spirit.
Myth says there's no transcendence the side of death, only the way we think.
I'm not going to lie, Trevor, this is a question I struggle a lot with.
Dying End of Institutional Life00:09:44
In some ways, I feel a tremendous amount of transcendence, in others, I am but a mortal man.
I don't have an answer for you there.
But I think it's a question that's still worth...
In Canada, you've got the legal right to grow up to $10,000 of tobacco for personal use every year.
Often when I go to visit Bigfoot, I will bring an offer of tobacco to him.
25 years ago, order of a century, I was studying Latin at McMaster University.
In Hamilton, Ontario.
And the professor, he was one of the oldest men on campus.
He would always show up to class in University Hall.
That was the oldest building on campus.
It was this stone building with vines on it.
Every time I went in there, it felt like a Dungeon Dragons adventure.
Stone walls, old wooden floors.
And he would show up to class with his pipe still smoking the tobacco into the room.
Wheelock's Latin.
Wheelock's Latin was the study guide.
It's been the study guide for Latin for a century at least.
And this professor's name the name of his two dogs were Dextra and Sinistra, right hand and left hand.
God, I love that professor.
This is homegrown tobacco, by the way.
It doesn't have the perfect humidity to it.
Hard to keep lit.
I missed that year.
I miss learning Latin in my first year of university.
You know, I think I was just on the dying end of the institutional period.
Like, if you watch movies, I watched a lot of semi pro, half art film, half comedy movies.
Like, they didn't get box office releases, but they were well made films.
That were all about my experiences in university.
And they were this archetypal cinematic version of the university experience.
And I had some elements of that archetypal university experience.
But I also had everything falling apart.
That Latin professor I mentioned, one time he invited me and one of the female students to the faculty lounge to have a drink with him.
I went to school at the time when it was the early point where the genuine students were being replaced with the game players.
Where the intelligentsia were being replaced with the middle the What do you call them?
the administrators.
I miss that old professor with his dry sense of humor.
I miss his pipe still smoking tobacco illegally in the room in the nicest part of University Hall.
I miss his dry sense of humor.
God, that was the best thing about the classics, the dry sense of humor of those old professors.
When did I started smoking back when I was 17 That professor must have retired not long after I did his Latin course.
Tom Johnson asks, Do you believe in a heavenly pact, something that we agree to prior to birth?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, that actually is one of the things I believe in.
Not because.
not for theological reasons, not for metaphysical reasons, not for scientific reasons.
Feeling a Divine Mission00:03:48
It's.
It's one of those things I believe.
I feel like I'm here for a mission.
I feel like I'm here for a reason.
And this world is very frustrating.
It's very difficult.
It's very unsatisfying at times.
It's all those things.
But I do believe I'm here for a reason, and I think we all are.
It's a.
I don't know how to.
I don't know how to square that with how ugly and difficult reality is.
One of the ways I square that is that we are colonizing a wild, untamed land.
This reality is very.
There's so much fucked up about it.
There's so much that's substandard.
And that's why we're here to get things in order.
So, a colonizing aspect to reality.
I think that's part of it.
That's a way of explaining that.
And I'll tell you something.
It's one of my mother's crazy stories.
I didn't cry when I was born, I just looked around in wonder.
And that sticks with me a lot.
If I'd followed the straightforward path in life, like I was a straight A student.
Kept my head down.
If I'd been a bit more boring.
If I hadn't been so ornery, oh, I could have a lot of money right now.
My concern is less about how much money I have and how difficult it is for the average person to make money.
Reading the Iliad Instead00:14:53
Get gang stalked?
Look at Jordan Owen.
Jordan Owen got gang stalked so fucking hard he apologized to Anita Sarkeesian.
I got the highest marks in my class upon graduation.
I won an award for getting the highest score in my school for calculus.
And I got $1,000 worth of scholarship.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure gang stalking is a real thing.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got identified and removed.
Grade 9 or 10.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure gang stalking is a real thing.
Butterfly, Christ will never steer you wrong.
I'm not exactly a good Catholic these days, but Christ is a force of righteousness.
You know, I half suspect, I half suspect that guy only signed up to be the prophet of the Jews and then got to the other shit.
Like, at least 50% of the animal is from hunger.
Nobody dies from thirst.
Happy love life.
Like, we could be using all of this information for good.
Love life.
That's a big one.
We've kind of hacked the romance system.
Girls want guys that earn more money and they're taller than them.
Guys want women that are skinny and know how to cook.
To grossly oversimplify everything.
But it actually is that fucking simple.
Like, if you're a dude and you're listening to this and you don't lift weights, why the hell aren't you lifting weights?
Lifting weights will make your life so much better.
The girls will like you so much more.
Even if you're married, your wife will think you're sexy if you lift weights.
And it takes 30 minutes a day.
And even you feel good after you do it.
It's like the best life hack ever.
And ladies, cook a meal for your fucking man.
Like us guys, we go out there, we work so fucking hard.
We hate our job, we all hate our jobs.
But we do it because it needs to be done.
And having a woman that thinks we're a hero when we come home, that cooks a meal for us, easiest fucking thing in the world.
Cooking a fucking tasty meal, easiest goddamn thing.
And yet, like, your average woman won't fucking do that.
Like, we've got all the life hacks.
And we're doing the exact opposite, we're making everybody miserable.
That's what drives me up the wall, butterfly.
Like, we're this goddamn close to paradise and this goddamn close to hell.
Nimbut says, here's an irony.
One of the most things that is most terrifying for people nowadays is limbs.
That is a burgeoning.
What is limbs?
The way it's aggregating info is so efficient it runs to bring bounty.
Ninavut, I'm not sure what you're saying.
Will you consider covering the Odyssey?
You know, I'll be honest, I was just ignoring that movie.
I mean, Helen of Troy is replaced with an ugly black woman.
And Achilles is replaced with a trans.
Like, are you kidding me?
I'll be frank, I'm so offended by this.
Nolan is one of my.
No, no, he is my number one favorite director.
I really love his movies, even the ones that have flaws.
I was looking forward to revisiting that movie of his about dreams.
And I kind of decided after this, I'm never watching a Nolan movie again.
Ever.
For any purpose.
The movies I like, I'm never rewatching them.
Interstellar.
Interstellar is my favorite movie made in the past 20 years.
Interstellar.
Prior to that, I can't, like, Matrix or Fight Club.
I can't decide.
I love.
Matrix, Fight Club, and Interstellar are my three most favorite movies ever made.
And I'm never gonna watch Interstellar again.
No, like, fuck Nolan.
Fuck him.
Fuck everything he's ever produced.
You disgusting coward of a man.
There has yet to be a racial slur invented powerful enough to describe how I feel about him at this point.
And also, I don't think it's worth it.
I don't think it's even worth paying attention to.
You know what I should do?
What I should actually do is actually read the Iliad.
Never read it.
I should actually read the Iliad and talk about the Iliad instead of that terrible film that he cursed us with.
What did Nolan do?
He's making a version of the Iliad where Achilles is a trans man, and the beauty that started the whole war is a black woman.
Oh, I'm sure as fuck not reading the feminist translation.
I think this is the right time to end the stream.
You're right, I should reveal it.
I have got to drive up to Grand Prairie to drop off a resume on Sunday.
I've got no excuse to not be reading historical texts for the next three days.
So, I will commit to you, my audience, to actually better myself and read some historical texts.
Have I seen?
No, I've not seen Stalker.
You're gonna have to talk to me about Stalker on another night.
Iliad will blow your mind.
All right.
Well.
I've got no excuse not to read it by Sunday night.
So.
Cave, cave, Deus vidat.
Yes, I've heard that.
I've heard that.
That's something I've been discussing at length with my sand demon.
Butterfly Ballerina, have you read Stranger in a Strange Land?
The first part is great.
The middle is terrible.
The ending is great.
Big fan of Heinlein.
Anyway.
You should order Stranger in a Strange Land and.
Wait, what's the other one?
Give me a sec.
Starship Troopers.
Heinlein.
H E I N L E I N. Robert Heinlein.
He wrote the most hippie novel ever and the most fascist novel ever.
And he wrote them at the exact same time.
You will find flaws with both novels, but you should read both novels.
Starship Troopers Stranger in a Strange Land And that's, you know what?
That's a good place to end it.
Guys, if you haven't read those novels, Stranger in a Strange Land started the hippie movement.
Starship Troopers is on the recommended reading list of the Marine Corps in the United States.
Read both novels.
They are flawed, they are deeply flawed.
But they're interesting.
Carpe futurum tenitratitum.
My brothers and sisters, thank you so much for hanging out all these many hours.