Leo D.M.J. Aurini - December 13, 2025


Ouroborus, Quantum Foam, and the Metaphysics of Evil


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Why is this world so evil? Why is it that the higher up on the food chain you go, the more evil you have to be? When will King Arthur return and save us? Or is there something else we should be worried about?

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00:00:00.880 The year 1919 saw the case of Dodge versus the Ford Motor Company make its
00:00:09.160 way through the American court system. From this case was established the
00:00:15.560 principle of shareholder primacy, that shareholders needed to come first and
00:00:23.600 employees and customers had to come second. You see, Dodge had been upset with
00:00:33.360 Mr. Ford for paying his workers too much and providing too good of a product.
00:00:42.760 That decision has led to this modern situation we find ourselves in where
00:00:49.100 corporations are legally required to be evil. Take the case of Gerber baby food.
00:00:57.780 Gerber baby food is an alternative form of nutrition for children that is
00:01:05.060 inherently inferior to breast milk. But there are many cases where, for various
00:01:12.020 reasons, breast milk may not be available. That's the argument for creating this 1.00
00:01:18.260 product in the first place. But then the Gerber Corporation figured something out.
00:01:24.020 If you give mothers a free three-month supply of baby food, their breasts will dry up, 1.00
00:01:34.780 making the children now completely reliant upon Gerber baby food. This is bad for the
00:01:43.940 children. It makes them weaker immunologically. It lowers IQ. It's just bad for the children,
00:01:52.940 and it's bad for society, but it's good for the shareholders. This practice was
00:02:00.380 eventually banned in American law, but they're still doing it to this day in Africa. 0.53
00:02:08.220 Yeah. As if those poor kids don't need every IQ point they can grab. 1.00
00:02:21.220 Shareholder Primacy
00:02:22.460 Now, there was a joke by the comedian Bill Hicks back in the 90s. He was going on about what awful
00:02:32.980 human being marketers are, and he joked about them making arsenic a new baby food supplement. Well,
00:02:43.140 just a few years ago,
00:02:47.540 they increased the allowable amounts of arsenic, which can be in baby food. Shareholder supremacy.
00:02:56.340 Why is this world so evil?
00:03:06.340 Why is it that the higher up on the food chain you go,
00:03:11.700 it seems like the more evil you have to be?
00:03:14.740 Who's got more freedom of speech? Me or Elon Musk? He's got greater reach.
00:03:29.060 But I dare say that I have greater freedom of speech. There's some things that if Elon said them,
00:03:37.940 well, there'd be absolute hell to pay.
00:03:47.460 Why is reality like that? Why is it that the more power you attain, the more evil you have to be?
00:03:57.860 When will King Arthur return and save us?
00:04:00.100 There were a couple of good articles on this recently, which is one inspired this video by
00:04:09.860 Neoliberal Feudalism. They're linked down below, and they go a bit more in depth. I think we all know
00:04:16.020 about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. I don't need to belabor these points.
00:04:22.900 Instead, what I want to talk about is the metaphysics underlying all of this.
00:04:35.380 Quantum foam.
00:04:39.540 Quantum foam, which was a theory developed in the 1950s,
00:04:43.620 is based upon the Heidegger Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. We should all know that name thanks to Breaking Bad.
00:04:56.580 By one John Wheeler.
00:05:03.140 He posited, if you go down to the Planck length,
00:05:06.900 which is 10 to the 20 times smaller than a proton.
00:05:14.020 If you go down to the Planck length, the Planck time, the Uncertainty Principle predicts that
00:05:23.780 fundamental particles are going to be spontaneously appearing and disappearing. Micro black holes,
00:05:30.580 wormholes, wormholes, that there's this chaotic foam, this, this TV static at the ground of reality.
00:05:45.220 It's almost as if
00:05:48.660 for a brief moment, you can spin up two equally charged, negatively charged, oppositely charged particles
00:05:57.140 and have them exist momentarily before they self-anihilate again.
00:06:07.220 This theory's never been proven.
00:06:12.260 It may have some effects on distant light of different frequencies that we see from stars, galaxies.
00:06:20.820 We haven't proven it yet, and this is not a physics lecture. This is a meta-physics lecture.
00:06:30.340 But bear with me. Let's run with this idea of quantum foam.
00:06:37.380 Because the idea of doing something impossible by cheating physics is what technology is all about.
00:06:46.420 Currently, here on the farm, we have been working on creating a ram pump.
00:06:57.860 The way a ram pump works is if you run water downhill, and you have a little check valve,
00:07:07.060 and you pop out some of the water, and you create a water hammer, that water hammer can force water back
00:07:16.340 up a hill to twice the height it was once set, at the cost of half the water.
00:07:24.180 Damn near a magic trick. 0.71
00:07:25.380 Completely automated. You put it in place, you tap it once with your finger, and boom, you've got a 0.53
00:07:34.900 permanent water pump pushing water uphill.
00:07:42.340 Technology is always about tricking the universe into doing something impossible.
00:07:46.340 So what if the universe itself was an impossible magic trick from the very beginning?
00:07:59.220 What if the premise of this entire cosmos
00:08:03.620 is a quantum fluctuation of two opposites arranged in such a manner that they spiral outwards?
00:08:11.620 What if all of this reality is just pulling apart of two oppositely charged particles to create a current
00:08:24.260 in between them, in a space where nothing exists whatsoever? Just this illusory magic trick
00:08:32.420 of pretending that instead of zero, we've actually got plus one and minus one.
00:08:37.060 What if nothing in reality is real? It's just a bit of prestigitation, a stage illusion
00:08:50.260 of depth and cause and space and time.
00:08:55.060 On its own, it's a pretty useless trick. Because space and time on its own, a space and time that don't exist,
00:09:08.420 is just a space and time that don't exist. It's useless until you add an observer.
00:09:17.060 Why is it? Why is it that eyes are such an inky black color?
00:09:30.980 I mean, of course they're not. I mean, I think we all know that eyes are actually red. Your optical nerves
00:09:38.900 are red like everything else on the inside of you.
00:09:41.300 This, in the old days of camera flash, this is what caused red eye in the old photos.
00:09:55.700 I'm sure all these new smartphones correct for that, but kids, back when you used to take a nighttime
00:10:00.820 shot of your friends, all of their eyes were glowing red.
00:10:04.340 Because that temporary flash reflected off the optical nerve at the back of the eye.
00:10:13.620 Eyes aren't really black, and yet they're all black.
00:10:21.380 Bizarre.
00:10:22.020 Why is it when you look into the lens of a camera?
00:10:29.380 You can't see the optical receptors on the other side.
00:10:40.420 To quote insane clown posse, I ain't talking to a scientist about this, because that's not the point
00:10:46.260 I'm getting at.
00:10:48.260 The fact there is this universal illusion of unlimited, infinite depth in the eyes.
00:10:55.780 And at the very far end of that tunnel is a spark of light.
00:11:03.780 It's absolutely bizarre.
00:11:06.580 It's one of those little clues that are left in reality that all is not as it seems.
00:11:11.300 There's a fractal nature to observation.
00:11:20.340 The higher you ascend psychically, spiritually, the more time you spend observing yourself observing.
00:11:28.100 You observe the smaller bits of yourself.
00:11:30.900 You remember that time as a child when you saw the celebrity on TV do a thing.
00:11:37.940 And part of you thought, I should do that thing that the celebrity is doing, while part of you watched
00:11:44.980 yourself thinking that you should do the thing, understanding that you're only thinking that
00:11:49.780 because a random celebrity on TV did the thing. 0.94
00:11:57.620 The infinite fractal nature of observation itself, the end of that tunnel, is where you find God.
00:12:04.020 He's just an infinite distance away.
00:12:15.540 So if reality is nothing but this magic trick, this artificial division of zero into opposites,
00:12:25.700 opposites through which a current can flow, mixed in with the supernatural act of observation.
00:12:39.620 All of these eyes, all of these spirits enmeshed in the flesh to observe the reality that we're all pretending is real.
00:12:49.060 Might this go some ways in explaining
00:13:00.340 the evil in this world?
00:13:01.380 If reality is this stage magician's trick, this mathematical sleight of hand,
00:13:19.380 if fundamentally nothing really exists, it's just by separating the elements we can pretend that it exists.
00:13:25.940 Then everything within existence is preying upon everything else within existence.
00:13:39.780 It's Ouroboros. It's the Midgard serpent eating its own tail, encircling reality, 0.68
00:13:46.660 pulling apart reality so that reality might exist.
00:13:50.100 And yet there's nothing else in reality from which we might draw sustenance.
00:14:00.340 And therefore, while these spiritual nodes of observation populate the universe,
00:14:07.860 the only way for any of it to exist is to prey upon everything else.
00:14:15.940 And thus, to exist, we need the will to power.
00:14:19.460 We need power so that we can consume other creatures to maintain our own existence.
00:14:31.060 And that's all creatures.
00:14:32.820 It's not just us that have to consume others.
00:14:36.180 All creatures.
00:14:38.020 Plants consume others.
00:14:39.620 They secrete poisons.
00:14:41.140 They engage in war.
00:14:52.260 So either this is just a universe built for souls to suffer in.
00:14:59.460 Perhaps.
00:15:00.020 Or perhaps it's a place for us to experience.
00:15:08.180 So if we start to consider those at the top of the pecking order,
00:15:17.620 those who truly lust after power.
00:15:19.780 But if power is nothing but power over your fellow nodes of perception,
00:15:31.940 if it's just leverage over others,
00:15:36.340 if you're missing the point of experiencing this universe,
00:15:41.060 and you're locked into mistaking this fake hypothetical reality for truth,
00:15:53.380 if it's turtles all the way down and turtles in a giant circle,
00:15:58.660 then the more leverage you gain,
00:16:01.620 the more you will be leveraged.
00:16:04.820 The more millions of dollars that you have,
00:16:14.980 the more millions of watchers you have compelling your behavior. 0.58
00:16:26.740 You no longer have the freedom to be a stainless steel rat crawling through the system
00:16:32.180 and engaging in interesting adventures.
00:16:38.340 You have all the worldly honor and prestige,
00:16:42.900 but none of the freedom.
00:16:56.020 Put another way,
00:16:58.100 in a Dungeons and Dragons game,
00:17:02.340 do you really want to play a character
00:17:05.220 who's being manipulated by the gods for their own ends,
00:17:08.340 or manipulated by high politics for their own ends?
00:17:14.900 No, far more fun to be the courier,
00:17:20.820 to be somebody with just enough freedom to move around,
00:17:26.260 but not so much freedom that you ever enter one of the history books.
00:17:29.140 That seems to be the sweet middle.
00:17:42.020 Let's finish by considering Michael Rockefeller.
00:17:46.020 When it comes to powerful families
00:17:51.380 that are wreaking untold evil upon the world,
00:17:57.860 the Rockefellers are pretty high up there,
00:18:00.500 deliberately ceding destructive social movements
00:18:04.100 to keep the population disunited and antagonistic against one another
00:18:09.300 so that they might profit.
00:18:17.460 Michael was a man born into this family.
00:18:20.500 He studied anthropology.
00:18:26.740 Then in 1961,
00:18:29.940 his boat overturned in Papua New Guinea,
00:18:33.140 and he was last seen swimming for shore.
00:18:37.060 A few years later, he was declared dead.
00:18:41.700 But then,
00:18:42.180 an investigative journalist that was trying to pursue this case
00:18:49.220 wound up taking a photo
00:18:53.540 of a bunch of the natives
00:18:56.340 swimming in their war canoes.
00:19:00.980 And amongst them
00:19:02.660 was a white man with a long beard,
00:19:04.420 wearing nothing but a pair of shorts.
00:19:05.860 officially he's declared dead.
00:19:10.980 As of today, he'd be about 87 years old.
00:19:14.260 He's probably passed on by now.
00:19:17.300 But a man from the richest family in the world
00:19:21.780 took the opportunity
00:19:23.860 to run away from all of it.
00:19:25.940 To go experience things.
00:19:28.340 To go engage with the natives in
00:19:31.540 new and interesting ways.
00:19:32.980 Can you imagine
00:19:35.220 how much the people he met there?
00:19:38.580 How much they gained from engaging with him?
00:19:43.300 What a mystery he must have been to
00:19:47.380 people of that culture.
00:19:57.060 Ultimately, you can't escape the game of power.
00:20:01.380 Even vegetarians are responsible for the deaths of animals 1.00
00:20:05.780 killed by the threshing machine.
00:20:16.100 I suppose you can become one of the living mummies
00:20:19.060 of Buddhism.
00:20:19.860 You can never completely escape evil.
00:20:32.020 But if you lock yourself into the cycle
00:20:34.260 of obsessing over this material reality.
00:20:37.540 Of gaining more and more power
00:20:39.540 over this material reality.
00:20:41.700 Until such a point that you can't even see.
00:20:46.420 That it's all Maya. 0.97
00:20:49.380 It's all illusion. 0.80
00:20:55.140 Eventually, you turn into a monster like Yuval Harari.
00:20:57.860 A man that knows that his brain is nothing but chemicals
00:21:03.780 because the chemicals tell him so.
00:21:07.620 That
00:21:09.700 is hell.
00:21:10.260 That
00:21:12.180 is locking yourself
00:21:14.420 into permanent incarnation
00:21:16.100 in samsera.
00:21:18.180 And so if reality
00:21:26.180 reality is a crucified
00:21:30.900 mathematical formula.
00:21:33.540 Where we crucify zero and drag it out 1.00
00:21:36.340 into negative one and positive one.
00:21:38.580 And perhaps.
00:21:45.620 Perhaps the reason we are here.
00:21:47.540 Here. 0.51
00:21:49.700 Is to crucify ourselves. 0.97
00:21:54.340 To. 0.69
00:21:56.820 See.
00:21:59.140 The evil.
00:22:00.740 Within us.
00:22:04.020 To see the contradictions.
00:22:05.780 To not project the contradictions.
00:22:09.460 On the other Piscean fish.
00:22:18.340 To not label the other as evil
00:22:19.860 and ourselves as holy.
00:22:22.740 But rather to see the holy
00:22:25.940 and the profane within ourselves.
00:22:28.820 To hold those opposite ideas.
00:22:31.860 Those irreconcilable ideas.
00:22:36.740 Without letting them
00:22:39.380 slam back together
00:22:40.660 and eliminate one another. 0.99
00:22:43.460 Without disappearing
00:22:44.660 into the living death.
00:22:48.420 Of an underground Buddha.
00:22:53.220 But to do all of that
00:22:54.580 and still act
00:22:56.020 in the world.
00:22:59.460 For what time
00:23:00.820 we have here.
00:23:10.580 Perhaps God
00:23:11.860 wants us
00:23:14.580 to crucify ourselves. 0.97
00:23:17.380 That we 0.80
00:23:19.540 may become more like him.
00:23:23.300 Carpe Futurum
00:23:24.260 Teni Trattitum
00:23:25.380 This is
00:23:25.940 Irini
00:23:27.380 Out.