Latest / Black Box Theory Podcast / The Power of Positive Change
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- Malcolm: so much going on, but yet the energy is in the wrong place. And I look, I'm sitting here talking to a camera, right? I'm not I'm not out on the street making differences, you know. But it's the same reason we don't have ⁓ this, we don't have a lot of things. We don't have superheroes, we don't have ⁓ Positive role models, like they control the stuff. Everyone who tried to make a difference, who tried to really do something, look at what happened to them. Look look at where they are now. You gotta you gotta dig about six feet to find them. But all this the stuff that survives, the stuff that keeps the systems going, the companies that survive the dot-com bubble, the companies that are surviving this AI thing, the ones who don't get bought out, look at where they are. All the people who do things. positively or trying to actually help, they fade away. I mean, this is controversial for some. Some people think Michael Jackson was a horrible guy and that he was, you know, doing what they accused him of, but there's a there's a reason that he's not here now. You know, it's a reason that he was over prescribed medication. ⁓ I mean, I'm not to get into all that. I personally don't think he was doing what people said he was. I think he was on the the the right side of things. ⁓ but there's a lot of people online that are also racist saying that he was a you know a PDF file and all these other things and that he was doing things with kids and blah, blah, blah. Not getting into that right now. But there's a reason that these people aren't around. And that all we have is villains and the people that who are who have been around super long, they're popping up in these files. It's not even that you live long enough to see yourself become a villain. You live long enough to show what you really were the entire time. That's just all all that's happening. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, it's ⁓ I don't know, man. I I just I never take like these ⁓ kind of like government rulings or kind of like quest, like a face value. I think there's always a deeper layer, just like some more ⁓ you know, kinda like that that that comes along with it. But yeah, no, I agree. I mean I think people do kind of gravitate to things like the the Knicks finals to like distract themselves from the kind of like like how things are right now. think that you know things like sport and entertainment are people's distraction from like the day to day kind of like chaos that kind of ensues us ⁓ like across the things you mentioned when it comes to economics, finances, politics, like all those things. Like some people need an escape and and for a city like New York, like I feel like the Knicks being back in the championship for what first time in twenty some years. So it's like this is their escape. This is their like you feel me, like revitalization. Like like this is them like, you know, getting back. So I get it at the same time. it's the Roman circus, man. Yeah, no it's it's it's just I always say every episode, man, it's crazy times we living in, bro. So ⁓ Let's think about the last time the Knicks were in the champions or championship game. It was in what, ninety nine? I think so, yeah. And and think about everything that happened between ninety nine and like two thousand five. I'm not saying that the obviously I'm not saying that the Knicks are the reason. I'm not trying to draw no conspiracy there. But I'm just saying ninety nine is a critical time frame. A lot of things happen, a lot of decisions that didn't go in the way that some powerful leaders wanted. And then two years later, all of a sudden, the world changes forever. I out the blue, you know, I'm not saying that that is the reason why. I'm just saying it's interesting.