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Everything's there. I want to welcome everyone back to the

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Peaking yona show Stormy's back, and yeah, we're gonna we're

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gonna go in a completely different direction. And let me

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put this out there right up front, right up front,

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because whenever I do an episode like this, I'm going

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to get comments saying, you should have this person on

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to talk about this, You should have that person on

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to talk about about Marcus Aurelius and the meditations and stoicism.

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Now the Stormy and I are going to talk about this.

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So how you doing, Stormy doing well?

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Speaker 2: Doing well?

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Speaker 1: How about yourself doing well? Man? So you mentioned you

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mentioned Marcus Aurelius. You it was a few months ago.

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You said, you know, we should read and discuss you know,

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some of the meditations, go through, go through some of

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the meditations, and I just put it in the back

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of my head and I was like, Okay, when the

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time comes, you know, when I think about it, when

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I remember again, when it comes back to the forefront

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from the back, it comes back to the front from

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the from the back, We'll do it. But why do

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you why did you talk about this? Why did you

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think we should talk about this on the air?

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Speaker 2: Well, because it I don't know how Marcus Aurelius came

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to a lot of his ideas, but it's basically the

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I don't want to call it like Eastern mysticism, right,

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he could have arrived at these entirely organically, but well

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in establishing Stoicism in in ancient Greece, but later Romans

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picked up on it, like Seneca episod epic Teta, I

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epictet epic Tetus. I'll go with that. And Marcus Aurelia

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is built on the foundations, but they're not considered the founders.

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a Roman form of Stoicism that he got from Greek

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Greek fathers, I would say three hundred years before he

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deep histories of mysticism, and not from like the from

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the content of it, but basically who said what and

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when and how these ideas propagated. So something magical happened

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when Alexander got to Egypt, because you had two groups

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months and months to pull apart and to find out

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how the man views his emotions as separate from him, right,

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external processes, right His you know, the question is for

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him is how one reacts to these external processes. So

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it's not like, you know, you're going to get rid

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of emotion. You're not going to get your emotions under control.

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Like all these things are impossible. You have no control

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over the emotions, the emotional information and the content that

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comes to you. The only thing you do have control

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over is how you respond or react to these emotions,

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you know. And Marcus's take is the same as no God,

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I can't believe I'm blinking lautsuit, the eternal doubt, these things,

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these are things to be observed, studied, let them wash

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over you and wait till they're gone, right, and then

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internalize each time more and more information. And then these

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emotions that you are socking away, you know, in your

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knowledge bank, become so something you can pull from later

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and use almost like a power source of infinite immovability, steadfastness,

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or strength. And I think that would be something that

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would be very valuable for people in our day and age,

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specifically our guys when we have to interact on the

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Internet and are interfacing with algorithms that are deliberately designed

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to elicit emotional responses and get them into very non

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productive moods. Right, it teaches it'll teach you how to

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not be a reactive, you know, loser, jumping from current

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thing to current thing. These things don't mean anything. The

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emotions they give you are not yours, right, They're not

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innate your conscious mind, and the strength to not react

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to them and to study them, like why am I

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having this? Why is this particular thing making me feel

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this particular type of way would benefit our guys a lot,

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because I think our information environment is extremely more hostile

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than one in any other age. I think it's actually

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the biggest hurdle to us making change.

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Speaker 1: Well, I also think it's important to know if something

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is if you're having trouble, if something is causing you

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to get emotional, get upset, whatever, whatever it might be,

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then to avoid that. And I think that the problem

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is is like one of those things that I know

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causes a lot of people because sometimes I have to

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just get off of it for long periods of time.

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As social media, it can be daunting because it is

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designed to bombard you with information and if it's information

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that is going to upset you, if it's information where

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you've you feel like you have a stake in it,

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like you're invested in it and it's not going your way, which,

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let's face it, most of the time things aren't going

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to go your way, especially if you have no power

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over them, then you should know to avoid it. I

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mean that's just really the beginning of knowledge. And I

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fail often at that because I feel like, oh, if

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battlefield in the world. And no, actually, the biggest battlefield

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in the world is in your skull.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't have said it better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what you have to make, you know. You

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have to try to learn to master. You'll never master it,

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but at least you know you're on the path.

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Speaker 2: It also creates what's necessary for leadership. Like I think

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people misunderstand, like what leadership is. It's like it's not

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like a learned thing. You can't like learn to be

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a leader. Like it's a thing that you study. Right,

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you could jump up in at like I know everything

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about leadership. That does not mean people will look to

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you as a leader. You don't get to decide whether

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you're the leader or not. Right, That is a decision

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that everybody around you makes independently inside themselves. And what

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are they basing that decision on. They're basing it on

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your presence. Like people want a leader because that person

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is unmoved, unchanged by you know, very negative externalities by crisis.

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The person that is always of a cool head, right,

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a leader, we call it. Like leaders. These are just

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men that are internally ordered inside. Right, they are integrated

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their conscious mind, their unconscious mind, their physical self.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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they are firm and immovable. And when they are these things,

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how they order themselves internally projects externally right. I guess,

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for lack of a better term, it's a vibe and

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everyone around you will pick it up. So ordering yourself

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there's many people that can disagree with me, but I

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and oftentimes without even knowing you. In a crisis, people

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decide in an instant who the leader is. And if

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our guys are ordered internally, when crisis hits, which it will,

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they will be the ones who will be looked to

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as leaders because they will be the ones calm, firm,

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and immovable, and they will project the type of safety

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that everyone is going to be attracted to. So I

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because I think it's an internal thing and not an

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external thing, not something that you can, like, I'm going

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to learn and you know, take a crash course in leadership.

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I think that to waste of time weaving even lad

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the book. Yet this is already a pretty good discussion.

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prey tour, so yeah, he's he comes after Hadrian's adoptive son,

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mind what the emperor of Rome, how the Emperor of

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Rome would act, and how he would think. But Marcus

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I have learned to be religious and bountiful, and to

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forbear not only to do, but to intend, but to

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intend any evil, to content myself with a spare diet,

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and to fly all such excess as is incidental to

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great wealth of my great grandfather, both to frequent public

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schools and auditories, and to get me good and able

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teachers at home, And that I ought not to think

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much if, upon such occasions I were at excessive charges.

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So this already flies in the face of what most

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people think a leader is a modern what it's what

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most people most people think a modern leader is a sociopath.

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And this is an Emperor of Rome, and obviously he's

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not a sociopath. He's telling you to do the exact opposite.

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So Part two, I'll just do here real quick. Of

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him that brought me up not to be fondly addicted

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to either of the two great factions of the coursers

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in the circus, called Parsini and Venezzi, nor in the

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amphitheater partially to favor any of the gladiators or fencers,

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as either the par Parmulari or the Secutorus, and those

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are two classes of gladiator. Moreover, to endure labor, nor

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to need many things. When I have anything to do,

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to do it myself rather than by others. Not to

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meddle with many businesses, and not easily to admit of

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any slander. I'm starting to feel seen here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is how you get men like Cincinnatus. Yeah,

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it's thinking like this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Moreover, twins or labor, nor to need many things,

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and when I have anything to do, to do it

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myself rather than by others. It's too easy in the

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modern world to have other people do something for you.

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Of diagenetis not to busy myself about vain things, and

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not easily to believe those things which are commonly spoken

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by such as take upon them to work wonders, and

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by sorcerers or presi, prestidigitators and impostors concerning the power

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of charms, and they're driving out of demons or evil

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spirits and the like. That's keep quails for the game.

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Nor to be mad after such things, Not to be

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offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply

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myself onto philosophy. Him Also, I must think that ever

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I heard first Aias, then Tendasus and Marcianus, and that

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I did write dialogues in my youth, and that I

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took liking to the philosopher's little couch and skins, and

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such other things, which, by the Grecian discipline are proper

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to those who profess philosophy. Not to be offended with

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other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself onto philosophy.

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What do you have to say to that?

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Speaker 2: I don't see a single modern leader. It really this particular. Yeah,

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there's a lot to say. This is a person that

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is very, very particular about how he keeps his mental space, right,

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if you like, So that the verse three talks about

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all of the things that he does and does not do.

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But the common theme with the other the other two

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verses is what he thinks and what he does not

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allow himself to think, and most importantly, what he allows

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others to see. This is a person that is completely

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sovereign in his own mind. He's not if he doesn't

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want to think about something or think a certain way

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about something, he doesn't if he wants to think about something.

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His mind is doing what his mind is tasked to do,

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and not what it wants to do. Right. Not to

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be offended by another man's liberty of speech, Well, he

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can't decide whether he's offended or not initially, so what

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does he mean? He means, I'm going to have control

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over how I express myself because you can't decide to

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be offended or not, so you can decide how you

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can react, how you react or not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not that's not something in the modernity as

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it tells us to just react to everything in a

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very feminine in a very feminine way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where the we're supposed to be the passive recipids,

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And this man is not a passive anything. I mean.

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So he's constantly talking about like all of the things

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he doesn't do. I don't want to show favor to anyone, right,

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I want to do things myself. I don't want to

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bother anyone. I want to give thanks to each and

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every person that has helped me along the way, and

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think about and remember them. Right, I don't think a

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lot of us, especially nowadays, give thanks. I mean, we

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do when we pray, but there's a lot of people

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in our lives that do a lot of things for us.

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How often do we take time to remember all of

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those people and what they have done to help us?

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And before I came across the text, I don't think

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I ever had. There's an ordering to him thinking taking

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the time to give thanks internally for every single person

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that has helped shape him to the person that he is.

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Is hand and tied to him, not busy himself with

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vain things, him not favoring any excess. How do you

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be humble? Well, he's telling you. He's doing it in

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front of you. He is recognizing each and every person's

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contribution to them himself. Well, if you do that, it's

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really hard to be an ego maniac, isn't it. This

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is him checking He is checking his ego. He's humbling

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himself by recognizing each individual person's contribution to what makes

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him up. The man that's writing it today or on

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the day that he wrote it, and he's actually what's

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actually I forgot was like how detailed he is in

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like this person taught me to do this or behave

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in this way, and now this is how I behave

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in all of these instances. And I was brought up

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to not be addicted to either of the great factions.

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And this is how I don't favor these groups in

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the amphitheater, and this is how I don't favor these

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groups in the gladiatorial arena. As an exercise in humility,

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go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as a leader, I'm yeah, I'm going to jump

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to this. I probably would have held this comment for

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a little longer. But this is the kind of person.

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And you've known people like this in your life, the

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quiet person, the person who's a man of few words.

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You get the idea that writing this was him was

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an outlet for him, because he's somebody who's not going

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to speak many words. He's also the kind of person

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who if he's not choosing sides in the most in

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things of it don't matter, like the you know, like

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the the arena and what happens if you're what happens

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if you're invaded, say the barbarians are at the gates.

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How do you act towards that. Do you start to panic?

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Do you lose your mind? Are you such a stoic

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that you don't care? No, that's not it at all.

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The thing is this is somebody who is in the

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face of problems is not going to think about how

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solving them makes him look in the eyes of others.

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He's just going to solve the problem and it's not

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going to be for any other reason. Then there's a

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problem that needs to be solved, and I'm not going

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to get worked up over it. I'm not going to

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be emotional over it. I'm just going to solve the problem.

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And once the problem is solved, we move on, and

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that's it. That's one of the reasons why, you know,

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when we say hating your enemies, oh I hate them?

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Why why are you expending that energy? Why do you

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think Why do you think that that emotion is profitable?

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Do you think that one day you're going to have

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to kill and that that by hating it'll be easier

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to do that. Someone like Marcus Aurelius doesn't, He doesn't

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need that. He just knows that if he has to kill,

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he has to kill, and that's it. It's just a

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decision that he has to make. It doesn't have to

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be emotional. It is just something that needs to be done.

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And I think hate and emotions as such just weaken you,

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and it weakens your vision for sure. And I think

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we're taught to hate. And I think, really, if you

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really think about it, our enemies have taught us to

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hate because they know it makes us weak.

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Speaker 2: Yep, and it makes them strong. They need it. But

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it's also really interesting. As I kept on, well you

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were saying that, I kept thinking about justice must be

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delivered dispassionately. If not, then it is not justice, it's vengeance.

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This is a man that could meet her out justice.

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There's lots of men that will, you know, commit acts

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of revenge, But then you're not actually doing anything.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Other if you're committing acts of revenge, maybe people will

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be afraid of you, but they won't come to you.

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If you're dispassionate. Then when you do kill someone, whether

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yourself or by order, it's justice. It actually means something

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to everyone, where vengeance means something only to you, it

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means nothing to anyone else except for this guy just

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murdered somebody. And you could apply that to pretty much

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every aspect of leading. Right again back to him thinking

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each and every person he will go on to do

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more of it. Is this an emperor that heeds his

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advisor's counsel? Is this a person that thinks that he

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knows more than everyone in the room. So what Pete

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has talked about as far as hatred right, or whether

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this is a person that is going to take counsel

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from his advisors when offered, isn't going to dismiss them

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as like, oh no, I know more than you, I

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am the smartest guy in the room. These are very

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similar things. Even though they have they sound like they

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have nothing in common unless you're a leader than what

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Pete has described and I just described are blind spots,

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places where you will make the wrong decision for selfish reasons,

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whether it be to fulfill your own hate or to

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fulfill your own ego. Right, this is how you're supposed

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to rule and not for your own benefit. You can

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be a macia like Pete was just saying, does this

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guy sound like a sociopath or not? He doesn't, Oh, well,

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then how is he going to get into power and

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be all machiavellian? This is about exercising power, having the

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right to rule. I think the Bronze Age, barbarianism shit

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has kind of poisoned a lot of people's minds to

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what having agency is, to what being a leader is,

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to what governing is. Having power is. All those things

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are duties. Having power over your family, over your wife

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and children. Yeah, they have to listen to you, that's

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one thing they have to do, But that means you've

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got about like three or four different duties to them. Right,

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It is you having power over them. There's a lot

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more duties in your column to have that power. Then

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there is duties in their column. Their column is listened

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to you do as you say. Yours is protect, provide, lead, plan, Right,

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you have a lot more duties than they do. And

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that's what ruling. That's what leading is. It is duties,

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it is obligations. It's leading correctly. Being a leader is

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should be an act of selflessness. Like the eagles nest

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that was built for Hitler's birthday. You never think he

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spent he was there once, right, the only person outside

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of that, the only house that was his or that

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was you know that he had built bill for him,

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was I believe for his mother or his sister. On

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a cop, the same one that was issued to the Wehrmacht.

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Hitler slept on the entire length of the war. Right,

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so for five years, four years, the most powerful man

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in Europe slept on a cop. This is a person

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who thought it was his personal obligation to fix the country. Right.

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What Hitler was doing was a selfless act. And until

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you understand that, understand why it is people won't love

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you like they love him. Right, people, The most common,

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the most potent thing in this is from my mother.

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I have learned to be religious and bountiful and to

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forbear not only to do, but to intend any evil.

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It's about intent, right. You can say a lot of things.

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Politicians say a lot of things to us, but we

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don't believe them. Right. Their words are the same words

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as someone else. But in certain people, when they say

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the identical words, we believe them. Why is that if

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person A and person B can say the same exact words,

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the same exact cadence, even the same exact accent, how

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do we know who's telling the truth or not? We

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just know we can feel it in our gut. We

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can sense their intent. And that's something that you see

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again and again and again throughout the text. It's it's

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intent anyways. That's all I've said about that. That was

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a lot longer of a rant than I planned.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could add on to it, but I'll keep reading.

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I'm sure what I have to say well will be uh,

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will make sense as we move four to Rusticus. I

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am beholding that I first entered into the conceit that

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my life wanted some redressing cure, and then that I

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did not fall into the ambition of ordinary sophists, either

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to write tracts concerning the common theorems, or to exhort

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men into virtue and the study of philosophy by public orations.

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As also that I never, by way of ostentation, did

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effect to show myself as an active, able man for

472
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,719
any kind of bodily exercises, And that I gave over

473
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,760
the study of rhetoric and poetry, and of elegant, neat language,

474
00:39:04,039 --> 00:39:06,920
that it had not used to walk about the house

475
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,360
in my long robe, nor to do any such things. Moreover,

476
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,199
I learned of him to write letters without any affectation

477
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,360
or curiosity, such as that was which by him was

478
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:23,960
written to my mother from Sinuessa, and to be easy

479
00:39:24,039 --> 00:39:27,360
and ready to be reconciled and well pleased again with

480
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,239
them that had offended me, as soon as any of

481
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,000
them would be content to seek unto me again to

482
00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:35,880
read with diligence, not to rest satisfied with a light

483
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,199
and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken,

484
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,519
of whom also I must think that I ever lighted

485
00:39:44,679 --> 00:39:54,360
upon Epictetus his hypo nemata, or moral commentaries and common factions,

486
00:39:54,719 --> 00:40:01,559
which also he gave me of his own from Apollonius,

487
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,960
true liberty and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything

488
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,320
at all, though never so little but right and reason,

489
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,719
and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the

490
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,159
loss of a child, or in long diseases, to be

491
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,519
still the same man, who also was a present and

492
00:40:19,599 --> 00:40:22,559
visible example unto me that it was possible for the

493
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:25,679
same man to be both vehement and remiss, a man

494
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,960
not subject to be vexed and offended with the incapacity

495
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,519
of his scholars and auditor and auditors in his lectures

496
00:40:32,519 --> 00:40:35,320
and expositions, and a true pattern of a man who,

497
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,519
of all his good gifts and faculties, least esteemed himself

498
00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:42,960
in himself that his excellent skill and ability to teach

499
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,880
and persuade others the common theorems and maxims of the

500
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,480
Stoic philosophy of him. Also I learned how to receive

501
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:54,039
favors and kindnesses as commonly they are accounted from friends,

502
00:40:54,559 --> 00:40:58,280
so that I might not become obnoxious unto them for them,

503
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,880
nor more yielding upon a case that in right I ought,

504
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,760
and yet so that I should not pass them neither

505
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:17,519
as an unsensible and unthankful Man's Yeah, that is, let's

506
00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:24,719
stop there, Yeah, true, Yeah, from Apollonius. Let me see here, Yeah,

507
00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:29,119
this part true liberty and unvariable steadfastness, and not to

508
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:32,039
regard anything at all, though never so little but right

509
00:41:32,199 --> 00:41:36,880
and reason, and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or

510
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,599
after the loss of a child, or in long diseases,

511
00:41:40,159 --> 00:41:43,559
to be still the same man, who also was a

512
00:41:43,599 --> 00:41:46,920
present invisible example. Unto me that it was possible for

513
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,280
the same man to be both the vehement and remiss,

514
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,039
a man not subject to be vexed and offended with

515
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:54,800
the incapacity of his scholars and auditors in his life.

516
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:02,320
How many people can can even find that strength anymore?

517
00:42:03,599 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, or be as humble as to what Rusticus taught

518
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:18,599
him in the passage above, and it's all about him purposely.

519
00:42:20,039 --> 00:42:25,639
There's like that famous scene you know, where Caesar comes

520
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:28,679
in triumphant into Rome and they paint his face red

521
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,880
and they have a servant ride in the chariot with

522
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,039
him as he takes his triumph and whispers in his

523
00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:39,800
ear the entire time, you are not a god, You

524
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:49,440
are not a god. He's basically doing that in every

525
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:59,760
aspect of his life. He is functionally policing his humility

526
00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:14,400
and the where is itself terms about how to take

527
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:22,440
basically where does he say it? Here where he talks

528
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:29,119
about reconciling. Moreover, I learned of him to write letters

529
00:43:29,159 --> 00:43:33,519
without any affection or curiosity I think you're talking about

530
00:43:33,559 --> 00:43:38,760
like intrigue or gossip such as that was which by

531
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:43,920
him was written to my mother from Sinuessa, and to

532
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,280
be easily and readily as are easily easy and ready

533
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,320
to be reconciled and well pleased again with them that

534
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,519
had offended me, as soon as any of them would

535
00:43:56,559 --> 00:43:59,320
be contingent to seek it unto me again.

536
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: That's it. That's uh. Most people don't have the temperamented

537
00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:12,119
to that anymore.

538
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 2: No, when somebody comes on the timeline, it's like, hey,

539
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:25,199
I think this, this, and this, Rather than congratulate and say,

540
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,800
oh awesome, this person has changed their mind. They think

541
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,840
like us now, Without fail, I will always see a

542
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,719
comment and then many of them. But it's always one

543
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,199
of the first couple ones of somebody going back on

544
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,679
their timeline to like three or four years ago or

545
00:44:44,679 --> 00:44:49,239
whatever and taking a screenshot of something that they said

546
00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:56,039
before when they thought something different and said, oh this

547
00:44:56,199 --> 00:44:59,880
you this, you bro. How the fuck is anyone's a

548
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,559
sposed to change their mind? Were you born here on

549
00:45:05,599 --> 00:45:10,159
the far right? Like? Yes? Like did you always exist here?

550
00:45:12,039 --> 00:45:15,480
If no one can change their mind, how can anyone

551
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:19,679
come to agree with us that doesn't always already agree

552
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:28,679
with us? Right? If someone expresses your opinion, who once

553
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:37,840
expressed the opposite of it? All right, why are you

554
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:47,400
not reconciled and well pleased again with them? Right? This

555
00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:53,000
is not how men act. It's more important for people

556
00:45:53,079 --> 00:45:55,719
to hold a grudge and or get a dunk in

557
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:00,079
on someone rather than congratulate them for changing their mind and.

558
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:06,199
Speaker 3: Encouraging them to go further and you know, and eleatic behavior. Yeah,

559
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:11,039
and I'll add real quick that We can all do this.

560
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,000
We all fall victim to it every once in a while.

561
00:46:14,679 --> 00:46:17,199
You know, where have you been? You know, I was here.

562
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,639
You know I learned about this five years ago. What

563
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,400
took you so long? The thing is, you don't want

564
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,920
you want to recognize when you're doing that and stop

565
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,639
and apologize for it. And you also you also want

566
00:46:30,679 --> 00:46:34,360
to you don't want that to be who you are.

567
00:46:35,639 --> 00:46:36,679
You guys, there are a lot of.

568
00:46:36,639 --> 00:46:39,119
Speaker 1: People that you can see on social media and you know,

569
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:41,320
this is something that people don't do in real life.

570
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,519
They don't do it to people's faces. And which is

571
00:46:46,559 --> 00:46:52,320
why social media is such a curse to many because

572
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,159
a lot of people don't even know how to talk

573
00:46:54,159 --> 00:46:56,800
to people in real life anymore, but they sure do

574
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,320
think they know how to talk to people on social media.

575
00:46:59,599 --> 00:47:03,280
And we all fall into it. But if this is

576
00:47:04,159 --> 00:47:06,960
if this is like your personality, if this is your

577
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:12,880
if when people think of your account, this is the

578
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,199
first thing they think of, Oh, this person is just

579
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,480
going to try to own people the whole time. And

580
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,440
you know, I mean like I had somebody reach out

581
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,039
to me the other day and say, and then I

582
00:47:25,079 --> 00:47:27,880
haven't contacted you in like five or six years. It

583
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,159
took me a long time to get here. But you know,

584
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:36,440
now I'm reading you know, I'm reading Henry Ford, and

585
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:41,320
I'm like, awesome, man, okay, you know, welcome, and he's like, well,

586
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,000
he actually said, he said, let me pull this up

587
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:50,119
because I really let me see where this is. It

588
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:56,920
was this, this was awesome to me, he said. He said,

589
00:47:57,199 --> 00:47:59,559
it took me too long, but must admit you were

590
00:47:59,639 --> 00:48:04,239
right about the JQ currently reading Martin Luther and Henry Ford. Apologies,

591
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,000
my friend from my quiet skepticism. I'm retarded. And I said,

592
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,440
we all reach touch points at different times. It's a

593
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,760
never ending race. There is no finish line. And he said,

594
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:21,119
appreciate your grace. I appreciate your grace. That's it. That's it.

595
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,519
The guy came and said, Maya Kulpa should have been

596
00:48:25,519 --> 00:48:30,400
here all along. But I mean, the only.

597
00:48:30,639 --> 00:48:34,679
Speaker 2: What am I expecting you to be an assphole? Well?

598
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:41,039
Speaker 1: And and what how did it affect him by taking

599
00:48:41,119 --> 00:48:47,199
this long? I'm sure he was still he's still living

600
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,119
his life, he's still loving his family, he's still taking

601
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:54,679
care of his family. Now he gets to see the

602
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:58,559
way the world works, you know, a little clearer. It

603
00:48:58,679 --> 00:49:01,800
just took him a little bit longer. So what.

604
00:49:04,119 --> 00:49:06,199
Speaker 2: And the type of people we're trying to attract to

605
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,280
our coalitions are going to be busy. Right. The more

606
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:15,960
tools that they have at their disposal is a one

607
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,119
to one of how much busier they are in their

608
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:27,480
day to day life. Right. So like the type of

609
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:32,880
guys that you want on your side, you're going to

610
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:37,280
want them to be too busy to learn all this shit.

611
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,840
Just drop what they're doing and learn all the shit

612
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:45,000
that you don't, right, because they'll have means and tools

613
00:49:45,199 --> 00:49:48,239
and relationships at their disposal that they built by doing

614
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,559
other shit than not learning about this every day. So

615
00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:54,800
the type of people you're going to want are going

616
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,599
to be the type of people that take longer to

617
00:49:57,679 --> 00:50:04,079
get here. I like the CEOs, the entrepreneurs, Like these

618
00:50:04,119 --> 00:50:08,800
people have already very stressful days and if something looks

619
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:10,800
to them like a rabbit holism, that's going to be

620
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,079
like upsetting are going to require a huge amount of

621
00:50:13,079 --> 00:50:17,360
mental investment, which this does. Then they're going to put

622
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,559
that off because they have to because people depend on

623
00:50:19,599 --> 00:50:23,840
them to do things. So it's the people that come

624
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,599
to this late that are going to be people that

625
00:50:27,639 --> 00:50:31,400
you want to congratulate and think about how hard that

626
00:50:31,559 --> 00:50:33,960
was for that person to write, because he was full

627
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,119
well expecting you to dunk on him and talk shit.

628
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:41,960
So he wrote that to you knowing, or at least

629
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:44,440
he thought he knew that he was going to get

630
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:48,800
nothing but scorn in return, and it was still important

631
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:54,360
enough for him to tell you. I want that guy

632
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,880
on my team. I don't want somebody that would excoriate

633
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:04,360
him or frankly, you know, be an asshole. Because that

634
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,320
person that sent Pete that message as a bigger person

635
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:14,440
then I would say most people I see. So, yeah,

636
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,280
it took him longer to get here. You probably had

637
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:16,719
shit to.

638
00:51:16,679 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: Do, And I would much rather have him as an

639
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:28,719
ally at this point in his learning stage than somebody

640
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,360
who's known this stuff, who's been reading this stuff for

641
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:37,400
ten years and is in their black pilling, you know,

642
00:51:37,599 --> 00:51:43,440
just negativity spewing negativity stage.

643
00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I find I find it funny that all of

644
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,800
those people, right, the guys that are always crowing about

645
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:55,400
how long they've been here for and how much more

646
00:51:55,440 --> 00:52:00,320
they know than everybody. What's really interesting is that those

647
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:06,039
are the people that can't see the ground shifting underneath them.

648
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,519
The people that crow about how long they've been here

649
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:15,079
and oh, oh you fell for it again. Ah. Those

650
00:52:15,079 --> 00:52:17,920
are also the same people that can't see the shifting

651
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:22,360
sands underneath their feet, which I find just deliciously ironic

652
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:29,920
to steal a quote from Thomas so Pete's right, that

653
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:35,000
dumb shit will blind you because all of those guys,

654
00:52:35,039 --> 00:52:39,000
we all know who we're talking about, there's a whole

655
00:52:39,039 --> 00:52:43,719
bunch of them. They can't see the change that's happening

656
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,639
right now, and they're going to be the most surprised

657
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,840
and the last to realize it. So what use are

658
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:52,199
they then?

659
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 1: I don't even know if they're going to be the

660
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:01,840
last to realize that. I think they'll might never I think, well,

661
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,800
I think many of them, many of them could see

662
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:09,679
the destruction of their enemies and not realize it's happened,

663
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,719
or the beginning of the destruction of their enemies, and

664
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,920
their hatred has just blinded them.

665
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then jam rettya who has had to do

666
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,880
seven little videos, little table talk videos to try and

667
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,920
convince you that he didn't kill Charlie Kirk. Does that

668
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,800
sound like a person that's in charge to you? Does

669
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,039
that sound like a person who has everything going according

670
00:53:31,079 --> 00:53:33,960
to plan? Did he plan to do all of these

671
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,280
emergency little fireside chats?

672
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:44,599
Speaker 1: They're spending billions of dollars to buy CBS News. I

673
00:53:44,639 --> 00:53:50,559
mean that who watches CBS news find a person? Yeah, TikTok?

674
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:55,440
What like? People aren't just going to figure out ways

675
00:53:55,480 --> 00:54:01,760
to get around the sensors. I mean that's what isn't that?

676
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,920
What like the meme Warris we're all about.

677
00:54:05,559 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's god damn Galatians. They can spend a lot

678
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,159
of money, but they sure can't stop people from talking

679
00:54:10,199 --> 00:54:17,159
about them. Ah. What's really interesting is that, Like you'll

680
00:54:17,159 --> 00:54:20,639
watch Tucker Carlson come out and say something and then

681
00:54:20,679 --> 00:54:23,639
the fucking Prime Minister of Israel has to rush in

682
00:54:23,639 --> 00:54:26,679
front of a camera in his office, sit down to

683
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:29,360
sit down in front of his desk and try and

684
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:35,320
bullshit his way around something that Tucker said a media

685
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:40,639
person in America and he sends it out and then

686
00:54:40,679 --> 00:54:44,719
some random black lady that lives in England does another

687
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,000
video and there it is, that fact. It's running back

688
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,800
to his office, setting up the camera again, trying to

689
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:56,239
come up with some more bullshit. That is rear guard action.

690
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,599
That is a person who is no longer are able

691
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,159
to set the tempo of battle and is no longer

692
00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:09,719
able to determine the place and time of battle. That person,

693
00:55:12,119 --> 00:55:16,800
if we were looking at any type of conflict, that

694
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:22,519
person has lost dominance over a key part of the battlefield.

695
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:28,199
Ukraine right now cannot set the tempo of battle. Ukraine

696
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:33,199
right now cannot determine the time and place in which

697
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:37,840
their forces fight, and that is because Russia has total

698
00:55:39,199 --> 00:55:43,559
air dominance over Ukraine. There is a field of battle

699
00:55:43,599 --> 00:55:48,320
which Ukraine can exert no control over, and that is

700
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:53,719
forcing them to respond a different way that is very

701
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,280
noticeable on the field that they can still engage in.

702
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:05,599
Benjamin and Yaho's behavior is a man that is suffering

703
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:14,840
from total information dominance by his enemies. He does not

704
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,840
get to determine the time and place of battle. He's

705
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:23,079
running around doing little TikTok videos trying to put out

706
00:56:23,079 --> 00:56:26,079
fires his enemy set whenever they decide to set them.

707
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:32,360
Not him, and none of the fucking guys that'll you know,

708
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,440
swagger around about how much longer they've been here and

709
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,360
how much you need to shut the fuck up. Because

710
00:56:37,679 --> 00:56:39,639
I was hearing this, that, and the third thing, all

711
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:49,039
those fagots can't even see it, but they'll tell you

712
00:56:49,079 --> 00:56:51,199
how much smarter than they are, they are than you,

713
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,280
and how wrong you are because of how long they've

714
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:59,880
been here. Well, have you ever seen the prime minister

715
00:57:00,159 --> 00:57:03,119
of a country, like arguably the most evil, most powerful

716
00:57:03,159 --> 00:57:06,800
guy in the world. Were you bracketing for them doing

717
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,840
six you know, fireside chat videos about how I pinky

718
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:16,039
pinky promise I didn't kill somebody in a period of

719
00:57:16,079 --> 00:57:19,920
less than two and a half weeks. No, they didn't

720
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:28,199
because they can't physically even see when they're winning. They

721
00:57:28,239 --> 00:57:37,559
don't have the humility, which is I think the overarching

722
00:57:37,639 --> 00:57:46,159
theme of this text is thus far and self reflection.

723
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,639
That's another thing that we see again and again and

724
00:57:48,639 --> 00:57:51,559
again and again and again. It's almost like he lives

725
00:57:51,559 --> 00:57:53,199
in a constant state of self reflection.

726
00:57:55,760 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there have been many times in my quote

727
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:07,599
unquote it's quote unquote public life. You know, since I

728
00:58:07,639 --> 00:58:11,239
started podcast, since I put myself out there, that I've

729
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,920
been wrong and had to you know, maya culpa change

730
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:21,599
my mind and say, yeah, I just don't see it

731
00:58:21,599 --> 00:58:25,239
that way anymore. And you always get attacked for that

732
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:30,800
because you know a lot of people are they seem

733
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:36,199
to have to. And what's funny is it's outside of religion.

734
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,639
It's politics. Put themselves into this political bubble that they

735
00:58:40,639 --> 00:58:46,800
can never allow themselves to extricate themselves from, mostly because

736
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:53,360
they've made their version of politics their morality because they

737
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:59,239
don't have a morality that's based in anything other than materialism.

738
00:59:00,159 --> 00:59:06,119
So they have to find materialistic morality. And yeah, I'm

739
00:59:06,119 --> 00:59:09,599
not saying that that makes me any better than anyone else,

740
00:59:09,719 --> 00:59:14,960
but you know it, once you do it the first time,

741
00:59:16,079 --> 00:59:19,440
you realize I'm never going to get this right. I'm

742
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,559
never going to get it one hundred percent perfect. I'm

743
00:59:21,599 --> 00:59:28,320
constantly going to be adjusting here and tweaking there, and

744
00:59:28,679 --> 00:59:31,199
you know, there may even be some seismic shifts. You

745
00:59:31,199 --> 00:59:37,400
know what's funny, this is just Scott Horton and Daryl

746
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:42,199
Cooper have this new podcast Provoked and they had Orn

747
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:46,079
McIntyre on the last episode talking about the hit piece

748
00:59:46,159 --> 00:59:49,119
that reason ran on or In and mentioned Darryl in

749
00:59:50,559 --> 00:59:55,280
and one of the things Darryl said, And what's funny

750
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:59,000
is Daryl came off even more radical in that episode

751
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,239
than Orrin because Oran's like, oh, we got to do

752
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:07,119
everything within the law, and Daryl's gone to defeat our enemies.

753
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:11,360
And Daryl's like, He's like, I don't know about that.

754
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:17,400
But something Darryl said was he said, look, I would

755
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:23,199
love to still be a libertarian. And I think Courton

756
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,960
asked him, you know, what do you believe now? And

757
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,119
he's like, well, it's hard to say what you believe

758
01:00:29,239 --> 01:00:35,519
because things are constantly changing. When things are constantly changing,

759
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:39,960
you have to change with them. You can't deal with

760
01:00:40,679 --> 01:00:47,719
you if you have people being killed openly for their beliefs.

761
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:53,440
You're non you're you're non aggression thing where you're like, oh,

762
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,679
I'm not going to aggress against anybody unless they you know,

763
01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:01,480
unless they aggress against me. First, well, basically there's a

764
01:01:01,519 --> 01:01:05,840
whole class of people out there now who are threatening

765
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,719
to kill you if you don't agree with them. So

766
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,320
how do you deal with that? How do you put

767
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:17,920
yourself into a box when things change? If you know,

768
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:19,159
let me put it this way.

769
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,199
Speaker 2: Do you sit by and watch everybody else get killed

770
01:01:21,199 --> 01:01:22,679
because they haven't aggressed on you yet?

771
01:01:23,719 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: Right?

772
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:24,199
Speaker 2: Well?

773
01:01:24,239 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: Also, you know how about this, say you are forced

774
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:33,239
to move to England and you're forced to live in London,

775
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:39,719
what are you taking your political sensibilities with you. Are

776
01:01:40,199 --> 01:01:44,840
you taking your ideology with you? You're talking about a completely

777
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:49,599
different system of government. Now, how's that going to help you?

778
01:01:49,599 --> 01:01:53,400
You think you've you think you've created this political ideology

779
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:57,000
that helps you get through the American landscape in twenty

780
01:01:57,079 --> 01:01:59,480
twenty five. It's not the same thing as the British

781
01:01:59,559 --> 01:02:02,599
landscape in twenty twenty five, or the Japanese landscape in

782
01:02:02,599 --> 01:02:06,519
twenty twenty five, or the Indian landscape in twenty twenty five.

783
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,760
It's here, and it's for a certain time. It's for

784
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,480
certain you know. It's like talking about one of the

785
01:02:14,519 --> 01:02:17,320
things that Daryl said that you know it was, you know,

786
01:02:17,519 --> 01:02:22,119
just you would hope people would, especially libertarians, would hear

787
01:02:22,119 --> 01:02:24,920
it and a light bulb would go off. Is this

788
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,920
whole article was basically saying, they talk about Karl Schmidt,

789
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,840
Karl Schmidt was a Nazi, these people are Nazis.

790
01:02:32,599 --> 01:02:37,639
Speaker 4: Well, did James lindsay write this, Yeah, Well they talk

791
01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:44,159
about Carl Schmidt like Carl Schmidt was writing in Vermont.

792
01:02:46,039 --> 01:02:46,639
Speaker 1: That's how they.

793
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,079
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember that. That was a really good point.

794
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're they're judging Carl Schmidt like he was

795
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:57,199
living in Vermont in nineteen twenty, you know, in nineteen

796
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:02,239
thirty three. No, he was living in fucking Germany in

797
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:06,079
nineteen thirty three, where there were gun battles in the

798
01:03:06,199 --> 01:03:12,679
streets between communists and the National Socialists, where they were

799
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:16,840
literally having battles in the street. And you want to

800
01:03:17,039 --> 01:03:21,199
judge him, like he lived in all white Vermont in

801
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,440
nineteen thirty three.

802
01:03:24,639 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were hundreds of people dying in Berlin, hundreds

803
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:32,239
more dying in Munich. Like we had one guy get

804
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:36,559
shot and it was a total paradigm shattering event for

805
01:03:36,639 --> 01:03:38,840
most of the country. Now, imagine what it's like having

806
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:42,239
hundreds of people shot, running gun battles in the street.

807
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:49,519
Like Daryl is really, really, really really good at taking

808
01:03:49,559 --> 01:03:52,480
like something that would probably take me five minutes to say,

809
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:58,079
and just whipping it out in a punchy sentence that

810
01:03:58,239 --> 01:04:03,000
is also contextualized. He's very good at that, and I

811
01:04:03,039 --> 01:04:05,039
think I hope he leans into it more because I

812
01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:08,960
think it's one of his one of his greatest weapons

813
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:12,519
in his in his toolbox that he has. For me,

814
01:04:12,599 --> 01:04:15,880
I'm oh, yes, I'm a nationalist for me, I'm a

815
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:20,079
globalist for you, I am pro life for me, and

816
01:04:20,119 --> 01:04:24,159
I am pro choice for you, and so on down

817
01:04:24,199 --> 01:04:26,400
the line where it's like, yes, these things are index

818
01:04:26,519 --> 01:04:29,679
to a people, right, my political I don't have any

819
01:04:29,719 --> 01:04:34,159
political beliefs. I don't. It is this is a core

820
01:04:34,199 --> 01:04:36,119
group of people that I care about and love deeply.

821
01:04:37,119 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: Yeah.

822
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:39,840
Speaker 2: Is this good for them? Or is this bad for them?

823
01:04:40,039 --> 01:04:40,239
Speaker 1: Yeah?

824
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:40,719
Speaker 2: And that's it.

825
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:45,039
Speaker 1: That's politics. And I think something else Darryl's really good

826
01:04:45,119 --> 01:04:50,000
at is what we've been talking about, what we've been

827
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:55,679
reading about. Because at the end of that, Horton asked

828
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,960
Orrin about the people mentioned in the in the artic

829
01:05:00,039 --> 01:05:03,360
call like Jarvin and you're a MAZONI and Darryl, and

830
01:05:03,559 --> 01:05:07,360
and Orrin said, look, there are a lot of things

831
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:10,679
I disagree with with Daryl On because I think Daryl's

832
01:05:10,719 --> 01:05:13,239
a bleeding heart on some things. If you look at

833
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,920
Darryl's face, he he just smiled. He just smiled a

834
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,800
little bit. You'll let it bother him. He's not gonna

835
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,480
take It's not like he's not going to take Oran's call.

836
01:05:23,639 --> 01:05:32,039
If Oron calls, it's one man's opinion. And he also

837
01:05:32,239 --> 01:05:35,480
knows that that man doesn't want it, doesn't want ill,

838
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:39,639
it doesn't want anything bad to happen to him. He

839
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:45,159
just has different opinions on him on different things, you know,

840
01:05:45,159 --> 01:05:48,760
on different things. But as a whole, I think Oran

841
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:52,559
would rather have Darryl as a neighbor than some Antifa

842
01:05:52,719 --> 01:05:56,719
fuck from Portland, you know.

843
01:06:00,039 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 2: Table.

844
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of our guys talk about Darryl like

845
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,440
he's no different than than someone Antifa. They're so black

846
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:12,480
and white like he Well, he's just he's just a

847
01:06:12,559 --> 01:06:17,199
leftist like all the other leftists. Oh really, you're that ignorant?

848
01:06:21,239 --> 01:06:25,039
How'd you get this way?

849
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 2: And now he'll take one take. Oh, he doesn't agree

850
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:32,599
with me on how we structure our mass deportations. He's

851
01:06:32,639 --> 01:06:37,559
a leftist, Okay, but what about the other ninety nine

852
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:42,280
of his beliefs? Well, yeah, it doesn't matter because he

853
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:46,679
doesn't agree with me on this particular thing. Well, is

854
01:06:46,679 --> 01:06:49,400
that thing being discussed right now? Is that thing a

855
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:51,599
possibility that's on the table right now? No, it's not

856
01:06:52,039 --> 01:06:54,440
so right now, he's your ally, you fucking retard.

857
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: Well, I mean think about this. Would you would you

858
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:01,880
rather live next to some libertarian that you probably agree

859
01:07:02,039 --> 01:07:05,920
seventy percent on? But they're a degenerate scum bag and

860
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,679
you're going to have to deal with degenerate scumbag behavior

861
01:07:08,719 --> 01:07:14,000
from them as a neighbor or a Jewish banker, Jewish banker,

862
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:19,519
like every day, all day, every day, every day, all day. Yeah,

863
01:07:19,519 --> 01:07:22,400
because this is real life. This isn't the Internet. Well,

864
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:24,480
it's kind of the internet. We're recording over the internet.

865
01:07:24,519 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know who's going to make my neighborhood

866
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:32,320
a better place and throw a bunch of money at lawyer?

867
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:34,519
Seems like that if anybody tries to make my neighborhood

868
01:07:34,519 --> 01:07:39,239
a bad place, that guy. But the libertarian is going

869
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,639
to be like, oh no, well these people doing shooting

870
01:07:41,679 --> 01:07:43,840
things in our neighborhood, they're doing it on their property

871
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,960
with it. No, the Jewish guy and me are going

872
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:49,320
to team up to make sure that libertarian gets evicted.

873
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:50,840
That's what's going to happen.

874
01:07:55,559 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: You sound you sound like a trader.

875
01:07:58,519 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, really, Like they have no power over any

876
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:06,840
individual person.

877
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: The only power power over the power over themselves.

878
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:16,039
Speaker 2: This is true. But because and people, oh that you's

879
01:08:16,039 --> 01:08:18,279
gonna try and subvert you. Yeah, but I can say no,

880
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,840
he's going to try and tell you these things and

881
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:21,840
I'm going to not listen.

882
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 1: That was another thing Oran said on the on that

883
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:30,880
So that was another thing that Orin said on that episode.

884
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:33,520
He said that a lot of people on the right

885
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,119
were really pissed off at me for having Urim Hozoni

886
01:08:37,319 --> 01:08:41,199
on because he was going to try to sell me on,

887
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:45,520
you know, on his Zionism. You can try and sell me.

888
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:47,960
I can talk to a Zionist on my show if

889
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:49,680
I want to, and he can try and sell it

890
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:53,479
to me. I ain't buying. It doesn't mean that I'm

891
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:57,399
going to be buying. I mean, maybe you're too weak to,

892
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:01,520
you know, refuse. It's like people who don't want to

893
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:06,119
hear other opinion, opinions other than their own. They don't

894
01:09:06,159 --> 01:09:08,720
want to read outside of whatever. It's like, you know,

895
01:09:09,039 --> 01:09:11,520
Christians who don't want to read the Koran because they're

896
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:16,079
scared they'll be convinced by it or something like that. Oh, well,

897
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:18,119
you don't want to really, you don't want to read

898
01:09:18,159 --> 01:09:21,079
one of the most read religious texts, like they probably

899
01:09:21,119 --> 01:09:24,199
the second most religious red religious text of all time

900
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:26,760
and know what's in it and there's like a billion

901
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:28,920
of them in the world. You don't want to know

902
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:29,159
what's in.

903
01:09:29,359 --> 01:09:31,279
Speaker 2: That's so left, it's it's that's what the left does

904
01:09:32,239 --> 01:09:34,399
I talk to our British friend about this all the time.

905
01:09:35,359 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: All right.

906
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 2: The left cannot do strategic empathy because they know that

907
01:09:41,119 --> 01:09:49,039
our worldview is kojin, at least subconsciously. They explain it

908
01:09:49,079 --> 01:09:53,920
away because you know, our worldviews are old fashioned and

909
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:57,560
we've disproven those ideas and moved past them. But they

910
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:01,880
will resonate with you culturally or you know, basically with

911
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,159
your soul that they also think doesn't exist. But whatever,

912
01:10:04,359 --> 01:10:12,680
it doesn't matter. They as doctrine, refuse to engage with

913
01:10:13,199 --> 01:10:18,680
any of our material or ideas, even in a strategic sense.

914
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:22,479
This is why they're always wrong about us, and this

915
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:27,520
is why they are constantly surprised and fall flat. Is

916
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:31,319
because they are not allowed, They don't allow themselves or

917
01:10:31,359 --> 01:10:34,720
others to read our stuff, to dialogue with us at all.

918
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,479
And that's why that's why they lose, and that's why

919
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:42,800
they're always wrong. So the same thing that we cry

920
01:10:43,199 --> 01:10:46,319
that we mock in the left, I see just as

921
01:10:46,359 --> 01:10:48,479
much of it, Like like in the example you just

922
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:52,479
gave on the right, Oh no I can't read this text, Well,

923
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:55,279
then you're never going to understand these people, and then

924
01:10:55,279 --> 01:11:05,560
you're gonna lose. Yes, we we have no discernment At times.

925
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:07,000
It really frustrates me.

926
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:16,720
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's yeah, I don't know what it is.

927
01:11:17,239 --> 01:11:23,279
And I'm and look, I've I'm trying to talk about

928
01:11:23,279 --> 01:11:27,439
things that I know, places where I've changed my mind, things,

929
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,600
but I know I'm still wrong. I still have a

930
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:32,199
bunch of things wrong that I have to work on.

931
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:36,600
I'm not perfect. I'm trying and I'm not. I hope

932
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,199
no one thinks that by talking about I'm talking about

933
01:11:39,239 --> 01:11:41,920
things that I know now, things that I've worked through,

934
01:11:42,039 --> 01:11:47,039
things that I've struggled with, things, things that like literally

935
01:11:47,159 --> 01:11:51,479
caused me loss, like not only like emotional loss, but

936
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:55,680
like monetary loss in the past, by changing my mind

937
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:59,000
and and and saying, you know, I was wrong here,

938
01:11:59,399 --> 01:12:01,600
and I really think this is this is the wrong path.

939
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,279
I think I'm leading people down the wrong path by

940
01:12:04,399 --> 01:12:08,239
talking about this. And people will be like, no, this

941
01:12:08,359 --> 01:12:11,880
is my religion. So you know, you're you're a heretic now,

942
01:12:12,159 --> 01:12:16,279
and you're you're immoral now, and you have no principles now,

943
01:12:16,359 --> 01:12:20,159
and you're like I I literally had somebody in the

944
01:12:20,239 --> 01:12:22,800
comments and I didn't say anything about it because I'm

945
01:12:23,079 --> 01:12:27,439
I've resigned myself to ignore comments and not even really

946
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:30,239
even unless somebody starts spamming it, so not even blocked

947
01:12:30,279 --> 01:12:32,640
during my live streams. But someone said, oh, you used

948
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:37,880
to be a libertarian, now you're a neocon. How do

949
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:40,720
I argue? How? What what am I to argue?

950
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:41,560
Speaker 2: Am I supposed to.

951
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 1: I'm I supposed to argue there? You know it's like,

952
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:51,600
I mean, I'm sorry that I offended your religion. But

953
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:57,079
you have to understand what Stormy said. There is political ideology,

954
01:12:57,399 --> 01:13:02,760
is it's fleeting. I mean it never you know, Sam

955
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:06,000
Francis said, it just never manifests itself. You know, it's

956
01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:12,439
channeling James Burnham from from Uh was it Suicide of

957
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:14,319
the West? I think that's what it was yet, Yeah,

958
01:13:14,359 --> 01:13:20,079
suicide of the West where he says, yeah, political ideology

959
01:13:20,199 --> 01:13:25,000
is great until it gets introduced to the air. As

960
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,399
soon as it gets introduced to reality, it you know,

961
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:32,760
it's like like Mike Tyson said, everyone's got a plan

962
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:34,399
when they come in the ring with me until they

963
01:13:34,399 --> 01:13:39,359
get punched in the mouth. Then they're planning synthesis. Yeah,

964
01:13:39,399 --> 01:13:43,640
that's political ideology. The only political ideology is what is

965
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:47,159
good for me and my people? Is this good for

966
01:13:47,199 --> 01:13:48,840
me and my people. If it's not, we need to

967
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,960
change it or we need to fight against it. And

968
01:13:52,039 --> 01:13:53,720
if you get to the point where you can take

969
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,640
power and you can get your people in power, and

970
01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:00,359
maybe you can start from a legit at them at

971
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:10,439
standpoint trying to shape shape policy or shape things in

972
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:14,359
your area that lend itself to your people. You know,

973
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:18,560
one of the most important things I heard, you know

974
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:23,880
a long time ago, was the way America was set

975
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:28,600
up in the beginning, was it was set up so

976
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:34,479
that white Europeans, you know, mostly Northern Europeans and Wasps

977
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:39,239
and Scotch Irish and people can thrive in As soon

978
01:14:39,239 --> 01:14:45,199
as you introduce a group of people into that that

979
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:50,960
can't thrive in that environment, one or two things is

980
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:55,720
going to happen. Either they're going to fail miserably and

981
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,800
it's best for them to leave, or somebody's going to

982
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,359
come up with the idea that what you built for

983
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:03,960
the people who found it, it needs to be changed

984
01:15:04,359 --> 01:15:07,319
so that it's easier for these people. And as soon

985
01:15:07,359 --> 01:15:12,840
as you change it for those people now the founding stock,

986
01:15:14,279 --> 01:15:16,600
it's harder for them to operate in it. Now it

987
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:21,319
doesn't benefit them anymore. And what should happen is wherever

988
01:15:21,399 --> 01:15:25,279
these people are coming from. Even if you need to

989
01:15:25,359 --> 01:15:27,479
help them, if you feel like you need to help them,

990
01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:31,960
if you're some kind of you know, Captain Savahoe with

991
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:36,840
frigging an African nation or something like that, figure out

992
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:40,800
a way to design a system that they can benefit from.

993
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,000
Help them do that if you feel like you're an

994
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:47,880
Albert Schweitzer or something like that, because they're not going

995
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:50,960
to be able to thrive in this system. They need

996
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,760
to find their own system. And there needs to be

997
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:57,960
multiple systems for multiple people and multiple cultures and multiple

998
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:02,039
not every That's why when people say, oh, capitalism is

999
01:16:02,079 --> 01:16:08,560
the greatest for who who is capitalism? I mean for Somalia,

1000
01:16:09,359 --> 01:16:14,000
for average sixty three you know, sixty five IQ country,

1001
01:16:15,359 --> 01:16:19,079
And that doesn't work. Capitalism doesn't It doesn't even really

1002
01:16:19,119 --> 01:16:23,319
work for what we have now. Capitalism really didn't work

1003
01:16:23,359 --> 01:16:27,079
for I mean once you got very much past the

1004
01:16:27,159 --> 01:16:32,760
founding because capitalism more whatever you were calling capitalism, and

1005
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:36,960
the getting morphed into something else, and whatever it morphed

1006
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:42,720
into was not conducive to the actions and the beliefs

1007
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:47,800
of the founding stock. So if you're not willing, if

1008
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:50,600
you're not willing to look at politics in a way

1009
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:56,760
of how does this benefit my people and be willing

1010
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:02,600
to say, and those people over there, I don't hate them,

1011
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:05,880
but they need to figure out whatever system works best

1012
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:10,159
to benefit them. In Singapore, the best way it benefits

1013
01:17:10,239 --> 01:17:16,079
them is to have a system of authoritarianism, because that's

1014
01:17:16,159 --> 01:17:21,000
what they need. But they also have a very open economy.

1015
01:17:21,359 --> 01:17:24,399
Somebody told me that you can pass through the airport

1016
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:27,039
and go to a bank in the airport and not

1017
01:17:27,119 --> 01:17:32,159
even be from there, and open a bank account and deposit.

1018
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:35,399
Speaker 2: Money, not even leave the international terminal. Your passport never

1019
01:17:35,399 --> 01:17:36,159
even gets stamped.

1020
01:17:37,119 --> 01:17:40,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they have this open economy and it works

1021
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:44,039
for them because the people get along. Well why do

1022
01:17:44,079 --> 01:17:48,079
they get along? Because if they don't get along, there's consequences.

1023
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:52,119
Maybe that's the way it needs to be in some places.

1024
01:17:53,279 --> 01:17:56,399
I don't know. All I know. The only question I'm

1025
01:17:56,439 --> 01:18:00,640
asking is what's best for my people, people who think

1026
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:01,119
like I do.

1027
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:09,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to sirt back on the difference in beliefs,

1028
01:18:09,279 --> 01:18:16,159
basically creating strife that there's no coalition building happening or

1029
01:18:16,239 --> 01:18:23,880
just a circular firing squad. I want to remind everybody

1030
01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:29,560
that there is no set of beliefs on the right

1031
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:34,720
right now, and this is actually a huge problem for

1032
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:41,319
us strategically. All Right, I can pull one hundred right

1033
01:18:41,319 --> 01:18:44,640
wingers and say, okay, can you describe to me what

1034
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:47,600
it looks like when we win? And I'll get a

1035
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:59,000
hundred different answers monarchists, Christian nationalists, wig nats. And it's

1036
01:18:59,039 --> 01:19:02,479
going to stay that way for forever until we learn

1037
01:19:03,039 --> 01:19:08,960
to do what Pete is describing. And this is everyone's like, oh, well,

1038
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:12,359
we need, you know, right wing billionaires to fund all

1039
01:19:12,399 --> 01:19:17,199
these things. Okay, why the fuss did they do that?

1040
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:19,920
You can't even convince them what it looks like when

1041
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:20,359
they win.

1042
01:19:21,359 --> 01:19:22,239
Speaker 1: I say that often.

1043
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 2: Sorry, but unless we can agree upon what it looks

1044
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:34,600
like when we win, they can't make that investment because

1045
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:37,760
you can't tell them how it will benefit them or

1046
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:44,880
how it will protect them. Everybody, and like, Pete, you

1047
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:48,439
know this because I think, as I probably chimped out

1048
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:52,319
to you privately, Darryl and I disagree on something. I

1049
01:19:52,319 --> 01:19:54,199
don't even know if he still even has that opinion

1050
01:19:54,239 --> 01:19:56,640
or whatever, but there's an opinion that he had that

1051
01:19:56,720 --> 01:20:03,079
kind of cut me. But the quick I don't know

1052
01:20:03,119 --> 01:20:05,680
if that's a term people still use anymore. But it

1053
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:07,560
got under my seat. It happened to hit like all

1054
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:17,199
of my sensitivity buttons. And I will still champion his stuff.

1055
01:20:17,399 --> 01:20:21,359
He is brilliant and he's doing fantastic work. And I

1056
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:25,640
will never say I won't even air our disagreement. I won't.

1057
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:28,520
I won't tell anybody what we disagree about. That's for

1058
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:30,600
me and him to talk and we sit down privately

1059
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:35,239
and we can actually discuss that. But he's on my

1060
01:20:35,399 --> 01:20:41,840
side and I'm on his side, just like Orn is

1061
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:47,760
on Darryl's side and Daryl's on Orrn's side even though

1062
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:56,159
they disagree, because they can prioritize things. Daryl knows that

1063
01:20:56,920 --> 01:21:00,359
having a neighborhood full of Oron's is great, and Oran

1064
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:05,079
knows having a neighborhood full of Daryl's is great. Daryl

1065
01:21:05,119 --> 01:21:08,960
knows having a government full of Oran's is great, and

1066
01:21:09,159 --> 01:21:11,680
Oran knows that having a government full of Daryl's is great,

1067
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:16,920
And that whatever the thing that they don't agree on

1068
01:21:17,159 --> 01:21:23,000
doesn't fucking matter. And I think we need to I

1069
01:21:23,039 --> 01:21:25,840
think we need to do that at scale. I think

1070
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:31,560
that basically what we saw on that episode of What's

1071
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,279
It Called, I always forget the name. It's like, oh,

1072
01:21:33,319 --> 01:21:37,079
it's a one word name. Provoked, provoked, there we go.

1073
01:21:38,279 --> 01:21:41,399
What happened on that show in real time is something

1074
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,319
that we need to be doing all the time, because

1075
01:21:44,319 --> 01:21:47,359
it's only when we can do that that we can

1076
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:51,439
eventually settle on a cohesive picture of this is what

1077
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:54,720
is attainable in the short term, this is what is

1078
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,800
attainable in the long term. This is how we structure

1079
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:02,119
things after that, how you can paint a worldview that

1080
01:22:02,199 --> 01:22:06,600
you can sell people with money on. The One thing

1081
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:09,439
about the left is if you ask them roughly what

1082
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:12,760
it looks like when they win, they have enough slogans

1083
01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,760
memorized where they can most of the time convince you

1084
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:19,319
that they're an agreement on this. And that's what gives

1085
01:22:19,359 --> 01:22:22,840
people the ability to donate tons of money to them,

1086
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:26,039
because they can paint a picture about what that money

1087
01:22:26,079 --> 01:22:28,439
is going to be used for and how great it's

1088
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:31,399
going to be for the person that's giving that money

1089
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:34,279
and for the people receiving that money when they win.

1090
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:38,720
And that's why they get money to win, and that's

1091
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:46,079
why we don't A billionaire will never not be an investor,

1092
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:53,199
no matter what they have a million people pitching them

1093
01:22:53,239 --> 01:22:57,520
a million ideas all the time, and you need to

1094
01:22:57,520 --> 01:23:01,359
be able to paint a picture of what it looks

1095
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:07,720
like in the future, to pitch like what are you pitching?

1096
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:14,039
And I think the more serious people in our in

1097
01:23:14,119 --> 01:23:18,000
our thing, Pete, I think we're doing that. And I

1098
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:23,720
think the people that don't want to do that are

1099
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:28,199
gonna whether they know it or not, or whether they

1100
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:30,279
do it with intent or not, are going to find

1101
01:23:30,319 --> 01:23:35,039
themselves not in the mechanisms of what's going to happen next.

1102
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 1: Well, they'll benefit from what happens next to be bitter

1103
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:49,880
about it. Yeah, yeah, they'll never say thank you to

1104
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:54,279
those who came up with the ideas and everything, and

1105
01:23:54,359 --> 01:23:59,000
you know, and really, I think everybody knows. I'm not

1106
01:23:59,159 --> 01:24:02,840
the uh not a big fan of Ronald Reagan, especially

1107
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:07,399
the amnesty and the making machine making machine guns go

1108
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:14,359
from seven hundred dollars to thirty thousand dollars for achieve Yeah. Yeah,

1109
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:18,920
but he did say, you know, it's amazing what you

1110
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:23,680
can what you can achieve and get done if no

1111
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:27,840
one wants to credit for it, you know, And that's

1112
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:31,199
something I think that's really important, because that's not I

1113
01:24:31,199 --> 01:24:40,880
mean that there are things that I've done and people

1114
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:44,800
I know have done and no one knows that they

1115
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:51,359
did it. Yet a lot of people celebrated it. And

1116
01:24:51,439 --> 01:24:54,600
I think part of the reason it got done is

1117
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:57,600
because no one everybody was like, we don't need credit

1118
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:01,039
for it, just get it done. And you know, if

1119
01:25:01,079 --> 01:25:03,680
you get credit for something, puts a bulls eye on

1120
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:07,520
the next thing. If you're like, yeah, I did this,

1121
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:11,000
puts bullseye on you the next time you try to

1122
01:25:11,039 --> 01:25:16,760
do something. So you know, humility is Humility is important.

1123
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:19,159
And I think that you know what we see and

1124
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:21,640
you and I have talked about this before that a

1125
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:23,560
lot of the people out there who are quote unquote

1126
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:27,560
content creators, really they just want credit for being right.

1127
01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:31,079
I was right about this. I was right about that.

1128
01:25:31,159 --> 01:25:35,960
See how I predicted this? Now what did their prediction?

1129
01:25:36,079 --> 01:25:40,159
How did their predictions change your life? Well? I knew

1130
01:25:40,159 --> 01:25:41,880
this was going to happen. Okay, so how did you

1131
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:45,319
benefit from that? Did you short of stock? Did you

1132
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:49,640
by a stock? Did what'd you do? Well? I knew.

1133
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:52,640
I get to brag about the fact that I watched

1134
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:55,479
the guy who told me this and I told my

1135
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,439
friends and I was right.

1136
01:26:00,039 --> 01:26:01,239
Speaker 2: Can you pay your mortgage with it.

1137
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:07,159
Speaker 1: Quite the accomplishment, Quite the accomplishment. But no, you know what,

1138
01:26:07,239 --> 01:26:11,479
though that content creator they could pay their mortgage with it,

1139
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:18,640
what did you get from it?

1140
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:21,920
Speaker 2: Astro makes a really good point about this, like basically

1141
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:25,439
like if you're on the right and you're in a

1142
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:32,000
NON you may think you deserve credit or whatever, but

1143
01:26:32,119 --> 01:26:35,640
you actually don't. You're in a NON, so people can

1144
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:39,319
take your ideas and run with them and dumb them

1145
01:26:39,319 --> 01:26:42,800
down and not say them as good as you or whatever. Right,

1146
01:26:43,079 --> 01:26:45,159
by being in a no on, you're making that tacit

1147
01:26:45,199 --> 01:26:48,880
agreement that I don't care if I get credit or not.

1148
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:52,319
I just want to win. And I think we forget

1149
01:26:52,359 --> 01:26:57,600
that a lot. And the more you win, the less

1150
01:26:57,640 --> 01:27:01,760
people will have to be a NON. I think as

1151
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:05,479
things progress, none of us will be. But that only

1152
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:12,039
happens if we win. Right, why do we want to win?

1153
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,439
Is it because of how it will benefit us? And

1154
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:22,079
this is another thing about being ordered internally. One thing

1155
01:27:22,119 --> 01:27:26,279
you could tell almost immediately about Marcus Aurelius, And this

1156
01:27:26,359 --> 01:27:28,720
is another thing, is correct me if I'm wrong, Pete.

1157
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:33,560
But the meditations were never published, They were just his

1158
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:36,319
internal notes. And I'm sure like if he found out

1159
01:27:36,319 --> 01:27:38,960
that they did publish, he'd be probably mortified.

1160
01:27:39,199 --> 01:27:41,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, these this was like a diary of his

1161
01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:46,279
and yeah, probably closest to a diary and stuff he

1162
01:27:46,319 --> 01:27:49,119
wrote down for himself, and it was never meant to

1163
01:27:49,159 --> 01:27:49,800
be in the public.

1164
01:27:51,119 --> 01:27:56,760
Speaker 2: So he is self reflecting daily to himself. No one's

1165
01:27:56,800 --> 01:28:09,520
ever going to read this. He is centering himself every day.

1166
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:19,359
And this is a man. How did Yaki say it?

1167
01:28:20,640 --> 01:28:24,600
No one will die for an idea, but a few

1168
01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:28,880
men will die for an ideal, or a few great

1169
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:33,720
men will die for an ideal. There is a thing

1170
01:28:34,079 --> 01:28:41,439
inside of Marcus Aurelius that is driving him from his soul,

1171
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:45,560
not from his spirit or his body. Right, the ego

1172
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:51,479
is a separate thing from the human soul. Right, The

1173
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:57,319
thoughts in your head, you know, the feelings like these

1174
01:28:57,319 --> 01:29:01,479
are all separate. And you know they're separate because when

1175
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:04,159
a baby is born, it doesn't have any of that

1176
01:29:04,199 --> 01:29:09,960
shit yet. It has no opinions, It has no beliefs,

1177
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:21,880
it has no opinions of others, no thoughts, it's just awareness.

1178
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:29,399
It's just soul and body, and that's where an ideal

1179
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:36,800
comes from. It is a layer deeper than the conscious mind.

1180
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:46,960
The conscious mind wants recognition, the constant mind wants status,

1181
01:29:48,079 --> 01:29:50,680
because the constant mind can think about the conscious mind

1182
01:29:50,720 --> 01:29:56,079
can think about how that status will benefit them, or

1183
01:29:56,119 --> 01:30:02,880
how that credit will benefit them. And what you see

1184
01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:08,239
him doing by reflecting again and again and again throughout

1185
01:30:08,279 --> 01:30:13,000
his life, you can see him pushing that aside, that

1186
01:30:13,079 --> 01:30:22,600
conscious mind aside, right, and what matters to my soul, well,

1187
01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:27,000
that these people flourish, that no evil is done to them,

1188
01:30:29,159 --> 01:30:33,560
that they have the means as God intended to self

1189
01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:39,279
actualize to be the best versions of themselves. None of

1190
01:30:39,279 --> 01:30:43,760
those things benefit him. He's not going to wear fancier robes.

1191
01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:51,720
He's not going to get fancier robes. As you say here,

1192
01:30:57,239 --> 01:30:59,319
To not busy myself with vain things, and to not

1193
01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:04,680
easily leave those things which are commonly spoken by such

1194
01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:10,840
as take upon them to mark wonders by sorcerers or

1195
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:16,880
prestidigitators or impostors concerning the power of charms and the

1196
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:19,720
driving out of demons or evil spirits, and the like.

1197
01:31:20,279 --> 01:31:23,199
To not keep quails for the game, to not be

1198
01:31:23,319 --> 01:31:25,640
mad at such things, or be offended by another man's

1199
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:34,159
liberty of speech. I'm sorry, I grabbed the wrong paragraph.

1200
01:31:35,039 --> 01:31:37,319
And then I did not fall into the ambition of

1201
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:42,520
ordinary sophists, either to write tracts concerning the common theorems,

1202
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:46,479
or to exhort men unto virtue in the study of

1203
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:54,319
philosophy by basically grandstanding by public orations. As also that

1204
01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:59,600
I never, by way of ostentation, did effect to show

1205
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:05,159
myself an active, able man for any kind of bodily exercises.

1206
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:14,279
Marcus Aurelius mogged no one, he showed off. Never, This

1207
01:32:14,319 --> 01:32:17,239
is what he's saying. I have never, by way of ostentation,

1208
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:22,960
what is ostentatiousness, did affect the show of myself to

1209
01:32:23,039 --> 01:32:25,439
be an active and able man in any kind of

1210
01:32:25,439 --> 01:32:29,720
bodily exercises. And that I gave over the study of

1211
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:37,279
rhetoric and poetry and of elegant, neat language by basically

1212
01:32:37,319 --> 01:32:44,800
speaking frankly, that I did not use the walk about

1213
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:51,760
the house in my long robes, nor to do any

1214
01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:57,439
such thing. Moreover, I learned of him to write letters

1215
01:32:57,479 --> 01:33:09,560
without any affectation or intrigue. In gossip, right, he's basically

1216
01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:14,720
telling you that the things he does that Rusticus taught

1217
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:21,800
him right is to not flatter himself, to not show off,

1218
01:33:23,199 --> 01:33:26,880
to not seek, more importantly, to not seek the status

1219
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:32,439
giving of others, to not seek the recognition of others.

1220
01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:38,800
And this circles all the way back to what his

1221
01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:44,079
mother taught him, and of my mother, I have learned

1222
01:33:44,119 --> 01:33:49,039
to be religious and bountiful and to forbear not only

1223
01:33:49,680 --> 01:34:00,680
to do, but to intend any evil right intent. So

1224
01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:08,239
why is he not fall into ambition of ordinary sophists,

1225
01:34:09,199 --> 01:34:14,000
or to grandstand with large public orations to show how

1226
01:34:14,119 --> 01:34:22,279
virtuous he is and how philosophically intelligent he is, or

1227
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:26,840
by way of ostentation, did affect the show of myself

1228
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:29,760
as an active, able bodied man for any other kind

1229
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:38,000
of exercise, or basically stroke himself being a word sell

1230
01:34:39,279 --> 01:34:46,479
doing poetry and talking in neat, flowerly language, or prance

1231
01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:54,239
around his house in his nicest gear. Because that means

1232
01:34:54,359 --> 01:35:04,239
when he does do exercise, when he does do oration right,

1233
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:09,159
or write tracts of theorems, or when he exerts exhorts

1234
01:35:09,199 --> 01:35:14,600
men to virtue and study, the intent behind those actions

1235
01:35:15,239 --> 01:35:21,520
is not for his own benefit. The intention matters. And

1236
01:35:21,560 --> 01:35:25,159
that's why I say like it's it's a it's some

1237
01:35:25,239 --> 01:35:31,520
things that you would read, like mystical texts about why

1238
01:35:31,600 --> 01:35:36,560
you do something right? And in that like reality Isn't

1239
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:39,439
what You Think it is series we did Pete, we

1240
01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:45,600
talked about like consciousness being able to affect random number generators,

1241
01:35:46,399 --> 01:35:53,840
and they also did that test on money, right, So

1242
01:35:55,680 --> 01:36:00,000
why you do things matters right? So God has built

1243
01:36:00,359 --> 01:36:07,239
right and wrong into the universe. It's built into the

1244
01:36:07,239 --> 01:36:15,439
fundamental framework right that undergirds are reality. So one of

1245
01:36:15,439 --> 01:36:20,239
the tests that Rupert Scheldric and Dean Rayden did was

1246
01:36:20,279 --> 01:36:29,399
basically they had people concentrate on a certain dollar amount, right,

1247
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:34,239
and then they kept track of them and to see

1248
01:36:34,279 --> 01:36:38,119
if they would buy any you know, instance, this money

1249
01:36:38,159 --> 01:36:43,000
would fall into their lap through unexpected means that they

1250
01:36:43,039 --> 01:36:52,319
did not initiate. And you can measure whether something is

1251
01:36:52,359 --> 01:36:58,359
statistically significant or not right by basically how many how

1252
01:36:58,359 --> 01:37:01,600
many degrees from random? Is it like total randomness like

1253
01:37:01,640 --> 01:37:07,359
winning a lottery ticket for instance. And what they found

1254
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:12,840
is okay to give a really dumb down example when

1255
01:37:12,840 --> 01:37:17,920
a person let's say, wishes for not wishes, but just

1256
01:37:19,520 --> 01:37:22,920
focus their consciousness on one hundred thousand dollars just dropping

1257
01:37:22,920 --> 01:37:26,920
in their mailbox, the chances of that actually happening to

1258
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:32,399
that person were less than random as in, one hundred

1259
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:35,840
thousand dollars will land in the mailbox of somebody not

1260
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:40,359
even thinking about it sooner than it would the guy

1261
01:37:40,399 --> 01:37:47,479
that is. That's funny. But what's even more interesting is,

1262
01:37:48,079 --> 01:37:52,079
let's say the guy who's thinking about one hundred thousand

1263
01:37:52,119 --> 01:37:55,880
dollars landing in the mailbox of his next door neighbor,

1264
01:37:58,239 --> 01:38:02,119
right because his next door neighbor has can't sir, and

1265
01:38:02,199 --> 01:38:08,239
the chemotherapy costs are eating through all of his neighbor's savings.

1266
01:38:09,079 --> 01:38:15,119
And now his neighbor's about to lose his house because

1267
01:38:15,119 --> 01:38:18,359
he was one hundred thousand dollars on his house and

1268
01:38:18,399 --> 01:38:24,199
it's going to get foreclosed on. Those people that wanted

1269
01:38:24,439 --> 01:38:26,840
that thought about having one hundred thousand dollars land in

1270
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:31,520
their neighbors mailbox. Again, I'm dumbing down and you know,

1271
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:33,920
taking liberties with the experiment that had nothing to do

1272
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:41,239
with mailboxes or one hundred thousand dollar checks. The chances

1273
01:38:41,279 --> 01:38:44,199
of one hundred thousand dollars landing in that person's neighbor's

1274
01:38:44,199 --> 01:38:52,159
mailbox was not only more statistically significant, like actually statistically significant,

1275
01:38:52,520 --> 01:39:00,640
so enough multiples above absolute randomness to wear it is

1276
01:39:00,720 --> 01:39:07,279
signaling that something else is happening. Right, So let's say

1277
01:39:07,279 --> 01:39:13,000
if the landing in your your mailbox was negative I

1278
01:39:13,079 --> 01:39:19,079
don't know, five percent, right, random person mailbox zero percent,

1279
01:39:19,199 --> 01:39:25,039
So total randomness landing in the cancer neighbors mailbox ten percent.

1280
01:39:26,119 --> 01:39:28,600
So you've increased the chances of some random event happening

1281
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:32,159
from zero to ten percent because the action, the intent

1282
01:39:32,279 --> 01:39:36,880
behind it was selfless. And they've proved this a bunch

1283
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:42,359
of different ways. So that means the intention in which

1284
01:39:42,359 --> 01:39:47,159
you do in action affects the success of that action.

1285
01:39:51,159 --> 01:39:56,119
So a leader that is acting out of selflessness, right,

1286
01:39:56,239 --> 01:39:59,359
the thing that motivates him is not himself or his

1287
01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:05,720
own self benefit, that person is going to be more successful.

1288
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:09,520
Random chance is going to break his direction far more

1289
01:40:10,279 --> 01:40:14,279
than the leader that is doing any such action for

1290
01:40:14,399 --> 01:40:24,640
his own personal benefit. So God has written morality and

1291
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:30,520
virtue into the very fabric of the universe. Right, there

1292
01:40:30,560 --> 01:40:39,199
is no randomness. Randomness is something that is affected by

1293
01:40:39,239 --> 01:40:42,560
our virtue and why we do things matters, And this

1294
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:44,920
is you'd only you would only are the only places

1295
01:40:44,960 --> 01:40:51,880
you pick this up or in like you know, like

1296
01:40:51,920 --> 01:40:55,560
ac cult, mystic traditions or whatever that the intent in

1297
01:40:55,600 --> 01:40:59,880
which something is done or as a Christian in who

1298
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:07,720
whose name something is done will affect the outcome. So

1299
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:11,840
are you acting selfishly or selflessly? Are you doing it

1300
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:16,239
in Christ's name? Or are in your own? Who has

1301
01:41:16,279 --> 01:41:20,000
the power? Here? Is it you that is making that check,

1302
01:41:20,039 --> 01:41:27,199
hit that mailbox? Or is it God? It's God all right.

1303
01:41:27,239 --> 01:41:31,079
So humility and selflessness are very important. So I find

1304
01:41:31,079 --> 01:41:35,039
that really interesting that the overall theme in his governance

1305
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:43,399
and the way he acts in the world is entirely selfless.

1306
01:41:44,159 --> 01:41:48,439
And he is constantly policing his own mind and reinforcing

1307
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:51,520
this again and again and again, so much so that

1308
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:57,159
he meditates on it daily. He takes credit for none

1309
01:41:57,199 --> 01:42:03,159
of his positive attributes. He is going through and enumerting

1310
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:06,199
all of the good things about him. Even his own

1311
01:42:06,279 --> 01:42:14,079
virtue he does not take credit for because they're not his.

1312
01:42:16,840 --> 01:42:19,279
They were given to him by something out with someone else.

1313
01:42:20,399 --> 01:42:24,720
So even the best things about himself he will not

1314
01:42:24,800 --> 01:42:35,319
attribute to his inate ability or his innate virtue. Marcus,

1315
01:42:35,359 --> 01:42:41,600
why are you so kind? Oh I'm not kind. I

1316
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:44,920
was shown this kind is how to be kind by

1317
01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:51,680
this other person. So even in attributing his own virtues,

1318
01:42:52,520 --> 01:42:58,079
there is selflessness like the order of this person's internal

1319
01:42:58,119 --> 01:43:05,199
state is I think what people should be focusing on.

1320
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:11,800
Speaker 1: Sorry about that right there, That's where we're gonna end it.

1321
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:14,720
I don't think we need to even come back to this.

1322
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:18,560
I think even just the first five five or six

1323
01:43:18,680 --> 01:43:23,399
that we we talked about should be enough to keep people.

1324
01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:27,399
You help people to think in a different way, you know.

1325
01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:28,840
Speaker 2: I mean it's not very fun to read.

1326
01:43:30,119 --> 01:43:33,720
Speaker 1: It's not fun to read. And well, yeah, because self

1327
01:43:33,760 --> 01:43:37,479
examination is hard. Just just ask a certain group of people.

1328
01:43:39,239 --> 01:43:41,039
It's who it's impossible for.

1329
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:45,479
Speaker 2: The vampire can't see his reflection. We were told this, yes,

1330
01:43:46,199 --> 01:43:46,680
but the.

1331
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:52,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I hope nobody comes away from this

1332
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:55,560
thinking we think we're perfect. I mean we I think

1333
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:59,640
we both know that we're works and were works in process,

1334
01:43:59,720 --> 01:44:04,279
and that the uh, you know, we'll change our mind

1335
01:44:04,359 --> 01:44:10,079
on things when we get more information. But knowing that

1336
01:44:10,800 --> 01:44:13,880
you've made mistakes in the past, being able to admit

1337
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:18,239
them and even be able to explain why they were

1338
01:44:18,279 --> 01:44:21,119
mistakes and why you change your mind, I think is

1339
01:44:21,279 --> 01:44:27,479
uh is very important. And to to talk about it publicly.

1340
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:31,439
You know, it doesn't always seem to be the you know,

1341
01:44:31,520 --> 01:44:33,560
something that people want to do. But you know, I

1342
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:38,199
have no problem with it because if my even from

1343
01:44:38,239 --> 01:44:43,199
a personal standpoint a, if you don't want to get

1344
01:44:43,239 --> 01:44:47,079
involved in politics, you don't want to be public about

1345
01:44:47,119 --> 01:44:50,680
anything that you believe, if anything can help you just

1346
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:54,920
to thrive in your personal life, you know, I'll I'll

1347
01:44:54,960 --> 01:44:57,600
put a little bit of myself out there to see

1348
01:44:57,600 --> 01:45:00,800
if it to see if it helps.

1349
01:45:01,319 --> 01:45:06,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, this, this text is going to get really thick

1350
01:45:07,399 --> 01:45:10,079
and not as cleanly broken up as I think the

1351
01:45:10,159 --> 01:45:16,239
other ones are going to be. So yeah, maybe like

1352
01:45:16,319 --> 01:45:18,439
if we we don't have to touch on this again,

1353
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:21,279
or if we have to do one more about like

1354
01:45:21,920 --> 01:45:24,800
other stuff, then yeah, because I think this is also

1355
01:45:24,840 --> 01:45:27,439
something that somebody should read to themselves and work on.

1356
01:45:27,880 --> 01:45:32,359
Like I think you're going to read meditations. Yeah, you

1357
01:45:32,399 --> 01:45:34,279
should read it many times.

1358
01:45:36,239 --> 01:45:39,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not long at all. I mean you got

1359
01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:43,479
when you go to the twelfth book, you're only on

1360
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:46,119
one hundred and thirty ninth page in this pdf, so

1361
01:45:46,439 --> 01:45:49,119
I mean you're talking about one hundred and twenty pages basically.

1362
01:45:49,199 --> 01:45:55,199
So yeah, all right, starmy, have a good night, my friend.

1363
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:56,960
Speaker 2: I will talk to you later.

1364
01:45:57,800 --> 01:45:59,880
Speaker 1: Take care now, right,