Infinite Love
By Nathan Buckley
Infinite LoveJun 23, 2022
The origin of our name
What is 'Infinite Love'? It's a universal, unconditional love that comes from a place of empathy. In this episode, Teresa and I talk about the origin of the name, what it means to us, and how anyone can cultivate this kind of empathy within them too.
Belief - What's important for social harmony
A willingness to modify our beliefs in the face of new evidence and reasoning is critical to ensuring a common world for us all. To get there, we must understand what beliefs are, how they influence us, and our responsibilities regarding them.
How capitalism poisons innovation
Capitalism, big tech, innovation: how does it all fit together? Does competition help us build better technology, or is a source of waste and redundancy? How does the government fit in? We talk about all these things and more in our latest episode!
We also have the video version here: https://youtu.be/WhuuZqSMbmw
Podcast #8: Introducing Teresa and a new podcast format
A brief podcast with Teresa and I where we introduce ourselves and the goals of Infinite Love and briefly talk about some of the issues we face in getting towards the flourishing world we all want.
At the end we also offer some content recommendations (The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Upload (2020-)) and our thoughts about old popular movies series we watched recently (Ghostbusters), and some tips on how you can introduce some more learning in your life with minimal effort (using free apps like Uptime and Blinkist).
Crime is our failure as a society
Crime is the failure of society to provide the support people need to live happy, healthy, and productive lives. This failure is driven by our implicit acceptance of an exceedingly harmful ideology—one we must understand and shed for the betterment of all.
Blog post: https://njb.fyi/crime
Lying or hiding information from others
Lying or hiding information from others to protect them is almost always a bad idea. We see this time and time again in movies, shows, and in our own lives and in all cases we find that this outdated notion always leads to more harm than good. https://njb.fyi/lying-to-protect
Chapters
00:00 - Topic sentence
00:11 - Why it came up
00:30 - Example from Teresa's childhood
01:25 - Example from Nathan's childhood
02:14 - Raiding Dion (racist teacher example)
03:11 - Locke & Key example
04:37 - Strive for 100% honesty and openness
04:57 - Bloopers
Back from break
A quick update video about my current status, why I took a break and what my plans are coming back.
Honesty - Why you should aim for 100% honesty
Honesty is critical to relationships — whether we're talking about romantic relationships, parental relationships, or friendships. Lying, however small, sets you up for an inevitable break in trust and inhibits growth in relationships, while honesty creates an unbreakable trust and allows people to have the best understanding of one another. This is why it's important to be honest, open, and direct in all areas of your life, except perhaps in rare cases where lying is the only way to protect yourself or others from harm.
👉 Things mentioned in this episode 👈
• We are looking for volunteers who want to help with the Infinite Love mission. If you want to contribute, visit https://infinite.love/contribute
Common Questions about our Vision and Community
In this incohesive mess of an episode I attempt to answer some of the common questions I get regarding our vision, especially for the community we plan to build. I rehash how many of the problems we (humanity) face — especially wage slavery, along with many of the burdens and inefficiencies of modern life — can be solved almost immediately in our own communities; I discuss questions about labor and how necessary it is for a functioning society; and I discuss how the community will make money to pay for things we need to buy from the rest of the world. I also talk about how the drive for money creates lots of problems, about how the best thing you can do to help yourself is help others (egoistic altruism), and about just how everyone's lives — even billionaires — would be vastly improved in the community I propose.
👉 Things mentioned in the episode 👈
- Egoistic Altruism video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
- Discord if you want to reach me directly for further discussion
#2 - Introduction to the idea of Infinite Love and our goals
In this episode I read the introduction to Infinite Love that is currently on our website in which I talk about some of the major issues we want to address as well as one of our key plans for solving those issues: building our own community.
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Article on Modernization referenced in the video (long but enlightening).
Shorter subsection on Work and the Family.
#1 - Introduction to the podcast and topics of discussion
In this episode I offer a brief introduction to Infinite Love and the topics we'll be talking about on this podcast.