Leo D.M.J. Aurini - The Tale of the Socialist Professor

00:00:00.000 so I'd like to tell you guys a story it's a story from many years ago back

00:00:09.240 when I was still a dashing young rake enrolled at McMaster University it's a

00:00:15.720 story whose punchline I only recently figured out you see back then I was

00:00:27.160 taking all manner of elective courses one of which one of which was a understanding

00:00:37.480 society political science in retrospect it was a course on socialism and the

00:00:47.480 professor gave the students an option for your final grade you could write a

00:00:54.660 really boring essay or he also gave us the option of participating in some

00:01:02.400 social activism so of course I picked the latter now the activism in particular

00:01:10.900 that we were engaged with was trying to establish more funding for halfway houses

00:01:16.680 in the city so we went out and we interviewed some of the men at these

00:01:22.500 halfway houses who outright said that while they didn't have everything they

00:01:27.340 wanted it was a lot better than living on the street which to my mind at the time

00:01:34.180 said well we're doing our due diligence by these people aren't we we're getting

00:01:41.040 indigents off the street what more do you want do they should they be getting 1.00

00:01:45.660 filet mignon for every meal it wasn't until years later just recently that I

00:01:56.960 figured out that that was a test a test that I failed a test that I'm proud to have failed

00:02:08.660 let's talk for a moment about the different the three different types of people you'll find on

00:02:22.460 this planet and the three different ways of apprehending knowledge the hilux the psychics and

00:02:30.620 the pneumatics or the appearance of reality the symbolic reality and the

00:02:41.100 true reality now your high look can only see what's right in front of them they

00:02:49.300 mistake the map for the territory and so they embrace these truisms as if

00:02:58.420 they're true they embrace their sensory impressions as if those sensory impressions

00:03:05.140 are reality itself and so the high look might say something like if you don't

00:03:13.120 work you don't eat and they'd look at these halfway houses and be quite upset 1.00

00:03:18.040 about it another one might say it's our duty as a society to take care of each

00:03:24.380 other and so they want more funding for these halfway houses but that would be the

00:03:32.420 full extent of their pondering on the matter what you see is what you get with no

00:03:41.660 understanding of what symbols are so now we get to these psychics we get to those who do understand

00:03:56.460 that there are these abstract symbols which can be manipulated there's the reality as we perceive it

00:04:06.460 it but if we manipulate the symbols of reality then we could look at it another way a lot of the empty

00:04:20.120 platitudes and affirmations of the new age movement a lot of this fits into symbol manipulation instead of a

00:04:31.840 negative experience it was a growing experience these are the people become very clever with

00:04:38.500 their words very good at being manipulative with their words they they make fantastic attorneys

00:04:45.400 but they're unaware of the truth behind the reality the pneumatic is where you understand that there's your sense perception

00:05:00.840 your sense perception your sense perception which can be encoded into symbols symbols which can be moved

00:05:09.840 around rearranged experimented with but behind these symbols is the true reality itself there's what we perceive

00:05:26.840 there's how we draw meaning and symbol from it and then there is the truth

00:05:35.840 and thus you get the half wit mid wit full wit mean where the full wit and the half wit often have far more in common

00:05:53.840 with each other than the mid wit who just plays around manipulating symbols

00:06:00.840 now what's the point of talking about this what does this have to do with some socialist professor trying to raise money for poor people

00:06:14.840 you see at the time at the time I thought he was just a misguided socialist

00:06:26.840 right maybe it died in the wall socialist and there are complex arguments there there's there's a good 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

00:06:41.840 there's times and places for both you can argue till the cows come home I thought it was just an intellectual disagreement that I had with this professor

00:06:56.840 professor

00:06:59.840 and of course I myself and you align far more with the school where we realize that there is this world of inequality

00:07:15.840 there is the symbol of money which is an abstracted form of wealth

00:07:24.840 but behind behind that past that is production that you cannot have wealth without people producing and simply playing around with these symbols moving them around moving money from the wealthy to the poor

00:07:44.840 the poor is not going to increase production all it's going to do is make everybody broke

00:07:53.840 I thought that was the disagreement I was having with this professor

00:08:02.840 that this misguided old socialist was simply trying to help people that didn't need help 0.98

00:08:15.840 it never once occurred to me that this man does not give a damn about old loser men in a halfway house 0.97

00:08:28.840 no what this professor was doing was scouting for talent the hilux which is at the time 20 years ago it's probably worse now

00:08:47.840 probably about 30% of the university students at minimum they just go along to get along you know professor tells them something is good

00:08:57.840 they believe it's good the psychics would be aware of counter arguments 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

00:09:16.840 these people were ready to be middle management

00:09:23.840 but what he was really looking for was the pneumatics the people that could see the truth behind the argument

00:09:35.840 and I guarantee that he identified me as one of these but the wrong type

00:09:42.840 I'm the type you're the type that we see this nonsense fundraiser that's not going to help anybody

00:09:54.840 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

00:10:07.840 maybe the textile plant will help get those people out of poverty as opposed to the diversity seminar 1.00

00:10:13.840 you say that as a student who's hoping to be recruited well you just said the wrong damn thing

00:10:24.840 no what he was looking for was the people that figured out that he didn't give a damn about the impoverished indigents

00:10:40.840 but that there's a lot of money to be made pretending to care about them

00:10:49.840 that every time there's a transfer of wealth between the productive to the unproductive

00:10:54.840 there's somebody in the middle getting a paycheck

00:10:58.840 and if you're really smart about it it can be a very large paycheck indeed

00:11:04.840 that's what he was looking for a protege in fundraising a protege in charity manufacturing

00:11:20.840 somebody that he could work with to transfer even more funds from rich to poor while siphoning out of the middle

00:11:32.840 i've often felt as if well to be fair i didn't work as hard as i could have in university

00:11:45.840 i did treat it as a free dating app to a certain extent

00:11:50.840 i got by in my intelligence a little bit too much as opposed to actually working and studying as i ought to have

00:11:57.840 but even if i'd done that even if i had busted my hump

00:12:04.840 university was never for me

00:12:09.840 university

00:12:12.840 increasingly

00:12:16.840 is not about studying history to explain it to the public

00:12:20.840 it's about getting a sinecure

00:12:23.840 it's not about becoming educated on social systems

00:12:27.840 so that society can thrive

00:12:30.840 it's about learning tricky language

00:12:33.840 so you can get yours

00:12:35.840 while pretending to be a good person

00:12:39.840 university is not a place

00:12:45.840 for people like you or me

00:12:51.840 quite frankly folks 1.00

00:12:54.840 it's a place for parasites 0.99

00:12:57.840 and the game was rigged from the start 0.98

00:13:00.840 you're not going to get ahead

00:13:02.840 pursuing a humanities degree or a political science degree

00:13:06.840 it's not for people like you

00:13:09.840 if we want to see a change

00:13:13.840 we're going to have to use that ability to perceive and apprehend

00:13:19.840 truth directly

00:13:21.840 our noetic capacity

00:13:23.840 to create hyper sigils

00:13:25.840 that alter reality itself

00:13:27.840 carpe futurum teni traditum

00:13:32.840 this is

00:13:34.840 erini

00:13:35.840 out

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - December 02, 2025

The Tale of the Socialist Professor

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