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  Speaker 1: A lot of the fundamentalists of windows and an individual loss.
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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome to your run book show on
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  Speaker 1: this Saturday, December sixth. I hope everybody is having a
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  Speaker 1: good weekend, had a good week and uh yeah, enjoying
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  Speaker 1: your time off. All right, Today we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the crisis of meaning that it exists out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're told it exists out there. No, I think it
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  Speaker 1: does exist out there. We'll talk about what it means
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  Speaker 1: and where it comes from and kind of what the
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  Speaker 1: solutions are to it.
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  Speaker 1: show all of that good stuff. Let's jump into the
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  Speaker 1: crisis of meaning? What what what is the crisis of meaning?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's basically this notion that people out there
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  Speaker 1: in the world feel that there's no meaning to their lives.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, a certain direction less less direction less.
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  Speaker 1: They feel hollow. They they might be able to, they
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  Speaker 1: might have access to and they might have kind of
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  Speaker 1: the material needs that they want. They might even make
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  Speaker 1: a good money, uh, and have a nice house and
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  Speaker 1: and and have stuff. But in spite but in spite
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  Speaker 1: of that, they.
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  Speaker 2: What's the point of it? What's the point of life?
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  Speaker 2: What's the meaning of life?
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  Speaker 1: They're generally unhappy, they go through midlife crises, or really
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  Speaker 1: most of the people right now, I think that where
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  Speaker 1: this crisis of meaning is applying.
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  Speaker 2: Most of these people.
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  Speaker 1: Are young. They're young, and their life has been fairly comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: and they're educated, and they might even have good jobs,
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  Speaker 1: and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them have made a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so I know people in Silicon value who
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  Speaker 1: who go out there and they make they make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, very young, and then it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but what's it awful? What's the purpose of life? What
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  Speaker 1: am I going to do with all this? And and
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  Speaker 1: they lost, they drift or young people who they don't
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  Speaker 1: like work, you know, as a consequence, I think of
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  Speaker 1: at educational system. They don't they haven't found anything.
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  Speaker 2: They really like.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, they just want to drift. They want to be
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  Speaker 1: in there, you know, in the basement playing video games.
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  Speaker 2: I got, I got.
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  Speaker 1: I got blamed for hating video games, so saying this,
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  Speaker 1: but this is not anything about video games. This has
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  Speaker 1: to do with the people, and a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with, well, what's the point I go
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  Speaker 1: to work, I make money? What's the point? I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, part of it is. And it seems when
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  Speaker 1: you look, so what happens is they start looking for causes,
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  Speaker 1: they start looking for places where they can find meaning.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll get to that. And it does seem to
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  Speaker 1: me that this is striking men much more than it
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  Speaker 1: is women. It's it's much more prevalent, prevalent. It seems
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  Speaker 1: that it's trunts more prevalent among young men than among
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  Speaker 1: young women, and you can see that there are all
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  Speaker 1: these movements that claim to provide meaning, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's religion, or whether it's nationalism or any of
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  Speaker 1: these things primarily, or whether it's Jordan Peterson who identified
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  Speaker 1: this crisis of meaning early on. They're almost predominantly they're
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  Speaker 1: predominantly male. They're predominantly men, and they are they are
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  Speaker 1: seeking meaning, purpose. They don't know what life.
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  Speaker 2: Is about it.
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  Speaker 1: It is interesting that it's striking men more than women.
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  Speaker 1: I think will get to why. I think that is.
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  Speaker 1: You probably heard me talk about this before, but there's
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  Speaker 1: been a real shift that men have not adjusted to
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  Speaker 1: and and that you know, women are far more I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, comfortable with. So so what's going on and
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  Speaker 1: what's the cause of this crisis of meaning? And is
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  Speaker 1: it new? Is it happening new? I mean it's not new,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean Nietzsche talks about this in the nineteenth century, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he talks about the crisis of meaning. And
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  Speaker 1: for Nietzsche, and I think for a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: for Jodan Peterson, for example, much of the crisis of
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  Speaker 1: meaning has to do with the loss, and the loss
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  Speaker 1: that they identify is a loss of religion. So Nietzsche says,
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  Speaker 1: you know God is dead, you know humanity in a
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  Speaker 1: sense killed him. And now what.
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  Speaker 2: Without God? What is the purpose of life? Without God?
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  Speaker 1: What is the meaning of life? How do we find it?
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  Speaker 1: And how can they be one? If the world is
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  Speaker 1: just guided by I don't know, by by physical physical characteristics,
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  Speaker 1: by by inertia, by nature.
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  Speaker 2: If there's no.
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  Speaker 1: If there's no other life, if there's not a kind
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  Speaker 1: of an eternal, eternal afterlife that one achieves, if one
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  Speaker 1: lives a certain life, then what is what is the meaning?
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  Speaker 1: And I think Jordan Peterson agrees with him, I mean
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Peterson basically says that the concept, the reason for
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  Speaker 1: the particular crisis of meaning we're living in right now
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  Speaker 1: among men is it's multi dimensional. But one of the
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  Speaker 1: causes is the loss of religion, the loss of this tradition,
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  Speaker 1: the loss of these guiding principles that told us exactly
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  Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do and what we're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: live for from some kind of external authority, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be the authority of family, whether it be the thought
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  Speaker 1: of God, whether it be the authority of other institutions.
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  Speaker 1: We've lost that authority and Therefore, you know, men have
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  Speaker 1: lost meaning. And part of it is it manifests in
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  Speaker 1: aimlessness and unwillingness to take responsibility over their own lives
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  Speaker 1: and then responsibility over the lives of others.
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  Speaker 2: For Jordan Peterson, responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: Over that lives of others is a crucial element in
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  Speaker 1: attaining meaning.
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  Speaker 2: But responsibility for their own lives.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the thing about make your bad and
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  Speaker 1: stand up straight, and and and and be a man.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's taken responsibility for your own life. But they've lost
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  Speaker 1: all this because.
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  Speaker 2: This external force. Religion, tradition.
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  Speaker 1: Have basically became irrelevant in the modern world. And once
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  Speaker 1: they become irrelevant in the modern world, we're aimless.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know where to search.
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  Speaker 1: And John tells us look out there for meaning, find
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  Speaker 1: a cause that some finds something you can be responsible for,
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  Speaker 1: Find something that you outside of you, that you can
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  Speaker 1: take responsibility for, and make that, in a sense, your meaning.
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  Speaker 1: But it has to be outside of you, and to
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  Speaker 1: find it you have to connect with and often with
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  Speaker 1: the tradition, with some kind of dogma, with the god,
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  Speaker 1: with a religious authority. Now, I think this whole explanation
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  Speaker 1: is fundamentally false, and I think it's false because I
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  Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous to assume it's ridiculous to hold that
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  Speaker 1: religion provides you with meaning, or the tradition provides you
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  Speaker 1: with meaning, or that ever it ever provided most people
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  Speaker 1: with meaning. I mean, the reality is that in the
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  Speaker 1: pre industrial age, in the pre pre industrial evolution age,
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  Speaker 1: of the population were barely surviving. They had no conception
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  Speaker 1: of thinking about meaning. And the people who considered meaning,
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  Speaker 1: you know, found it in the pursuit of their own values,
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  Speaker 1: found it in the pursuit of their own life. The
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  Speaker 1: people who followed religious dogma and believed that they would
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  Speaker 1: find meaning in religious dogma were just unhappy, miserable people.
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  Speaker 2: There was no meaning in the dogma.
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  Speaker 1: There's no meaning in living for an afterlife because there
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  Speaker 1: is no after life. So, you know, living for a purpose,
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  Speaker 1: living with meaning that it's false. That is a fantasy,
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  Speaker 1: that is nonexistent. It's not a meaningful life. It's a
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  Speaker 1: pretense for meanings for life. It's fake, it's pseudo, it's
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  Speaker 1: made up. It's a fantasy. I mean, God didn't die.
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  Speaker 1: God was always dead. The difference is that at some
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  Speaker 1: point people came to realize there was never any God,
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  Speaker 1: and they're all being a sham and all fake. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people were sacrificed for some greater cause
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  Speaker 1: that didn't exist. A lot of people were sacrificed for
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  Speaker 1: some afterlife there wasn't there. A lot of people lived
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  Speaker 1: their life in great anticipation of an afterlife that isn't there,
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  Speaker 1: and wasted their time, wasted their lives, wasted the potential
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  Speaker 1: for meaning in their life, for the sake of a fantasy,
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of something that wasn't real. And to
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  Speaker 1: some extent, the same is true of all the other
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  Speaker 1: kind of sources of meaning that people claim exists, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in a traditional sense national identity, well, it doesn't exist,
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  Speaker 1: not in any kind of meaning for sense. Sure, I'm
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  Speaker 1: an American, you're French, you know, East German, but it
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  Speaker 1: can't give you any meaning. It's just where you happen
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  Speaker 1: to be born or where you emigrated too. And you
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  Speaker 1: might you might be, you know, pretty happy with where
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  Speaker 1: you live, and you might, you know, be pretty happy
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  Speaker 1: that you know, share a lot of values with the
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  Speaker 1: people around you. But that in and of itself cannot
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  Speaker 1: give you meaning. And when people try, just like with religion,
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  Speaker 1: when people try to get gain meaning from the national identity.
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  Speaker 1: What happens, well, a lot of people die, they're sacrificed
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  Speaker 1: for that nation.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that gives a nation, provides meaning
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  Speaker 1: for people in nationalism is war. The progressive thinker was
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  Speaker 1: something quality in the late nineteenth century early twentieth century
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  Speaker 1: in the United States. You know, often said that a
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  Speaker 1: nation needs war in order to you to muster the resources,
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  Speaker 1: the passion, give people meaning, give people a cause to
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  Speaker 1: unite around something. Indeedeok, Peter Brooks, not Peter Books. Books
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times write the new conservative was a
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  Speaker 1: new conservative, writer.
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  Speaker 2: Wrote just before nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: As it mattered what was his first name Brooks something
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  Speaker 1: Brooks famous, famous kind of conservative. David Books, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: David Books wrote right before nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote, he wrote, what.
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  Speaker 1: American people need, what they need to unite us and
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  Speaker 1: to give purpose and meaning is a war. Well they
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  Speaker 1: got the war nine to eleven. Don't think it helped
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  Speaker 1: with purpose and meaning, But a bunch of people died,
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of Americans died.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he literally wrote that.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those stunning pieces that you find and
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  Speaker 1: you go really that he really said this right before.
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  Speaker 2: Nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't think he brought it about, but he
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  Speaker 1: got what he wished for, and I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: turned out the way he expected. Certainly didn't out well
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  Speaker 1: for America or Americans, and certainly didn't turn out well
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  Speaker 1: for the soldiers who landed up having to go fight
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  Speaker 1: for this war. Nationalism, when that becomes meaning, there is
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  Speaker 1: no meaning. You cannot gain meaning from a group by
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  Speaker 1: absorbing yourself into a group, by becoming part of a tribe,
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  Speaker 1: by becoming part of a group, What you actually are
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  Speaker 1: doing is destroying meaning in your life, subverting meaning in
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  Speaker 1: your life. And I'm not against patriotism, but patriotism, even patriotism,
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  Speaker 1: is not going to give you a meaning. Patriotism might
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  Speaker 1: be a consequence of the values you choose and of
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  Speaker 1: them meaning you're ultimately find in your life or making
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  Speaker 1: your life. But nationalism, nationalism, the placing of the state
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  Speaker 1: above all as the source of meaning for your life,
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  Speaker 1: is going to lead to the sacrifice of a great
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  Speaker 1: number of people in some kind of war for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of the nation. Some people get meaning from or
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  Speaker 1: claim to get meaning. They don't get meaning from religion.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get meaning from national identity, and some people
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  Speaker 1: think they get meaning from family structure. Again, family is
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  Speaker 1: very important and a beautiful thing and important to pursue.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great value in life. But do you think
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  Speaker 1: you're just gonna get meaning from being in a family,
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  Speaker 1: getting married, having children. This is why people at midlife crisis.
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  Speaker 1: This is why people feel like they haven't really done
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  Speaker 1: what they wanted to do in their life, haven't really
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled their life because family is not enough. It might
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  Speaker 1: be an important element in a good life, but you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to get meaning from others, even your children, none,
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  Speaker 1: unless well you can't. They could be part of your meaning.
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  Speaker 1: If again, as we'll talk about you, you find meaning,
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  Speaker 1: discover meaning, create meaning in the right kind of way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, community or whatever, it's all the same garbage.
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  Speaker 1: It's all wrong. And of course, religion, nationalism, community and
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  Speaker 1: even family structure when it's done for the sake of meaning,
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  Speaker 1: and when it's done, you know, for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: tradition or for the sake of this this has to be.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you're supposed to be, This is what
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. It's all external and it's all
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  Speaker 1: basically dogma and authority dictating what you should and shouldn't do,
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  Speaker 1: what your purpose should be. So you see this, you
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  Speaker 1: see secularization being blamed for a loss of meaning. No,
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  Speaker 1: secularization is the realization the true meaning, the only kind
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  Speaker 1: of meaning, real meaning, actual meaning, is to be found
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  Speaker 1: in this world. How you do that it is still
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  Speaker 1: an open philosophical question we have to answer, but it
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  Speaker 1: has to be in this world. The secularization is just
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  Speaker 1: a recognition that the fantasy humanity lived under for thousands
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  Speaker 1: of years doesn't actually provide meaning. Nobody actually lives a
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  Speaker 1: better life by pursuing a fanta see, by pursuing an
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  Speaker 1: afterlife that doesn't exist, by pursuing a god that is
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  Speaker 1: not there. So secularization is just this waking up to
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  Speaker 1: the need for meaning and replacing dogma with real meaning,
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  Speaker 1: with real meaning. Other people might blame individuals. Sorry, individualism, individualism.
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  Speaker 1: You know, now you're all alone and and now you're not.
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  Speaker 1: You can't find meaning in the collective, in the group,
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  Speaker 1: in the tribe, in the nation, and the fill in
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  Speaker 1: the blank.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Only individuals can find meaning, and they need to find
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  Speaker 1: it in themselves. Meaning cannot be a product of dogma,
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  Speaker 1: cannot be a product of placing others above yourself. Meaning
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  Speaker 1: has to be a product of you placing yourself as
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing in the world for you, and
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  Speaker 1: therefore figuring out what your values are for you. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's hard, you know, releasing yourself from dogma and just
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  Speaker 1: following orders. It is challenging, but that's life. That is
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  Speaker 1: truly the meaning of life. It's the liver as an individual,
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  Speaker 1: it's the liver's a valuer.
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  Speaker 2: So the conventional.
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  Speaker 1: Approaches to solving the meaning the search for meaning problem
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  Speaker 1: which exists today because I think what happened, what's happening
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  Speaker 1: today is materially we're comfortable. More and more and more
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  Speaker 1: people are reaching the stage are in life can ask
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  Speaker 1: the question validly asked, the question.
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  Speaker 2: What is life full? What is the meaning of all this?
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  Speaker 1: What should be my purpose? They're not struggling to survive
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  Speaker 1: as their ancestors will. They're now wealthy enough and educated
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  Speaker 1: enough in a sense that they can actually ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually in a position to ask those questions. And
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  Speaker 1: it's almost everybody's in a position to ask those questions.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, the guidance they get from the world around them.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrible. It's horrible. I mean, Nietzsche is right.
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  Speaker 2: In a sense that.
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  Speaker 1: If people don't get an answer to the question, if
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  Speaker 1: they don't get an answer to a question they can
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  Speaker 1: embrace define meaning, then they many of them, will lose
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  Speaker 1: interest in values broadly. And this is kind of the
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  Speaker 1: source of nihilism. The source of nihilism is the conclusion
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  Speaker 1: that yeah, it's all meaningless, nothing matters. What the hell
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  Speaker 1: values don't matter. I don't care about values. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a short step from there to be to become an
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  Speaker 1: active destroyer of values, particularly when you're young and want
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  Speaker 1: to do something, but you can't do something for the
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  Speaker 1: cause of something meaningful, for the cause of values, because
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  Speaker 1: you don't believe in values, because you've written them off.
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  Speaker 1: So in a secular world where you can't send the
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  Speaker 1: young men to go die for a false cause nationalism, religion,
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  Speaker 1: go fight and die for that cause, those young men
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  Speaker 1: would likely to sit around and become nihilistic or just
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  Speaker 1: turn it all off. I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: just turn it off, you know, meaning they become cynics,
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  Speaker 1: but not quite cynics enough to engage in nihilism. They
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  Speaker 1: just turn off the whole idea of meaning and purpose.
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  Speaker 1: They go and they live life kind of the life
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  Speaker 1: that's expected of them. They get a job. They kind
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  Speaker 1: of like their job, but you know, not super enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 1: They create a family and they're okay with the family,
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  Speaker 1: and they live okay lives. And generally they turn around
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  Speaker 1: and anytime they hear an ideal or value or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, they put poo it and they embrace the cynicism.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see so much?
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  Speaker 1: Some and a growing number embrace, you know, nihilism. And
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  Speaker 1: I think nihilism becomes more and more common and popular
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's hard to be nihilistic alone. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: suicide is probably the result of lonely. People who are
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  Speaker 1: lonely are nihilistic. It's much easier to be nihilistic in
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  Speaker 1: a group. And I think social media and communications generally.
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  Speaker 2: Where and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, online personalities can get people who roused up
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  Speaker 1: around a kind of a nothing matters, let's go burn
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  Speaker 1: it all down kind of cause.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And you see that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: You see that with fo Intus and casting on the right,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you know, particularly for Indus with young people, and you
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: see that with the with the woke kind of attitudes
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: on the left. It's it's basically just a things down,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: burn values down, destroy values. The whole agenda of egalitarianism
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: as a as a ism is.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: The destruction of.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Values, of being able to differentiate good from bad, which
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: is crucial to valuing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so you get a rise.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So again I think Niche is right, and that you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: get a rise in a real rise in nihilism as
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a consequence of people searching for values, searching for meaning
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and not being provided with a false meaning, not being
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: brainwashed into pursuing false meanings but s don't and as
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a consequence, but not being provided with any true meaning,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: so becoming cynical and rejecting everything and losing it all.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And you're seeing that in young people today, particularly young men,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: because in the past, I think for men, and again
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you've heard me say this before, but for men, in
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the past, a lot of men got this sense of meaning.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I don't think they got real meaning, but they got
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a pseudo meaning, a pretense of meaning, or at least it,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: oh yeated.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: It focused their attention.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Through a certain view of masculinity, a certain view of
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you know, creating a family and protecting the family and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: providing for the family that gave them some sense of satisfaction.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's meaning in a sense of what's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: available to human beings in our full potential, but it
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: gives you something. And you know, as that has gone away,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: as women have said, you know, we don't need you
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to protect us, We don't need you to provide for us.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Men are little adrift because that last piece of tradition,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: right if religion, nationalism, but then family and particular role
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in the family is part of the traditional source of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: meaning goes away, or at least appears to go away,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: because women are basically saying we don't need your traditional role.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: We might need something else but that you have to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: discover and that you have to earn. But the traditional
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: role we don't need anymore, because hey, in a modern
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: society where mind is valued instead of muscle, we can
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: take care of ourselves, we can earn a living. We
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: don't need you as much as we used to. Men
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and more drift than ever. I mean, you see this
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: that much of this search for meaning is among what
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: people call in cuels, you know, guys that just don't
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: want to have anything to do with women because they
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: don't know how to do it, how to deal with them,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: They don't know, they don't know how to relate to them,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: they don't know how to approach them, and they feel
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: completely insecure in their presence. Nihilism is big there again
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: because this last source of meaning coming out of tradition
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: has been taken away from them, has been eliminated.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Some men more than women are drift. I think women.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe women are drift too, but they express a differ
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and maybe I just don't know how they're expressing it differently.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, partially it's their attraction maybe to kind of
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: radical left nihilistic views. You know, women are attracted more
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: to kind of nihilism of the left. Men seem to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: be more attracted the nihilism of the right. Nihilism of
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the right is more viewed as more muscular, more masculine,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: more action oriented.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Nihilism of the left is.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: More emotional and you know, intellectual, pseudo intellectual. But you know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: both men and women. I mean, but the nihilism is there.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: But I think part of the reason women are less
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: troubled by or less engaged in in this conundrum around
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: meaning is I think they find it again. I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: for women over the last forty years, the fact that
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: so many opportunities open up to them, the fact that
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: they can go out there and have a career, live
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: an interesting life as women of career, the fact that
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: they can now materially take care of themselves. That's where
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: they found meaning. They found meaning in work and career,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and you know, also in family and the creation of family,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: but on their terms rather than on terms that were
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: dictated to them in the more distance past. So I think,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to a logic extent, what we're seeing as a crisis
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: among men more than anyone else.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: A right.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: So what is the solution to the crisis of meaning?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: And here I think it's important note I mean people
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: need a meaning, They need purpose, they need a reason
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to do stuff, they need a reason to live. Life
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: requires an answer to why and what for. And the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: crisis that we're seeing is not a psychological crisis. It's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: not a spiritual crisis in the sense of a crisis
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of religion. It's not an individualistic crisis in the sense of,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: oh God, when we had collectivism, wasn't life so much better?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: It wasn't. It's not a crisis of modernity or technology.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: It's a crisis of philosophy, because philosophy is the field
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that has to answer these questions, what fall, why should
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I live? What's the purpose of life? And you know,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I think the people who ultimately, you know, escape this
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: crisis of meaning find meaning in their life, find meaning
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: in their life because they you know, even in spite
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of the bad philosophy that they're being taught. And maybe
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: maybe some of them Readine Rand and maybe you know
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of them don't. But they because people found
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: meaning before in man. They embrace reason, They use reason
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to choose values. They recognize the centrality of their own life,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and they choose to live flourishing lives. They recognize implicitly
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: or explicitly, usually implicitly, that in a sense, life is
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: its own reward if you live it well. A good
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: life is its own reward, A flourishing life, a successful life,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: being good at living capital l remember capital l living
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: is its own reward. The ward is ultimately happiness and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a way to achieve the good life. I mean, at
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, meaning, what is the meaning
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of life? The meaning of life is life. The meaning
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: of life is living well.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: It's flourishing, It's.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: To live with everything everything that entails for human being
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to live to your fullest capacity. A meaningful life is
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a purposeful life, a life a purpose. Everything that you
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: do should have a purpose. The purpose is ultimately your happiness,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: your success, your well being as a living entity, your survival.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: But survival in the broadest sense possible is survival in
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the sense of success at living. And that means having
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a central purpose, and your central purpose, your central purpose
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that integrates it all is that which makes your survival possible,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: which means your productive endeavors, your productive work. So recognizing
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the importance the primacy, not importance, the primacy of your life.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Recognizing that to pursue your life requires reason. This is
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Einran's Great Revolution, intellectual revolution, that pursuing that life requires reason.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: That reason is the tool by which you must choose values. Values,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the things you actigate and keep. Values, the things that
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: you want that you want rationally, that is, you want
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: because they make your life meaningful, They add to your life,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: they make your life better. And among those values the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: centrality of productive work of a career, that is meaning
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: you know. In Jordan Pedison's ruminology, taking responsibility, Yes, it's
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: taking responsibility to live the best damn life you can
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: for yourself. You make your life meaningful by living a
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: good life, by pursuing rational values, and by being a whole,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: integrated human being. A meaningful life is, at the end
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of the day, a purposeful life, goal directed life, a
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: life connected to reality, to facts, a life that you
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: have chosen, that you have chosen based on your personal
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: values and based on your nature as a human being.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: So you get a sense of meaning when you live.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: You live consciously in pursuit of your goals, in pursuit
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: of your values. If you're rational and if your reality oriented,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and if you're committed to the pursuit of values, you
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: will have no crisis of meaning.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: You will have no mid age crisis.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I mean you will constantly be rethinking your values and
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: reevaluating them and judging them and evaluating them, and two
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: different stages in life, accommodating different stages of life. But
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the meaning of life is living, and as long as
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: you're living, living in the full sense of the word,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: you're not going to suffer from a crisis of meaning.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: So to an extent that there's a crisis, it's a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: crisis of the rejection of reason. Rejection of ration. There's
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: a crisis, a crisis of meaning today because there's a
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: rejection of individualism, and not just individualism, not primarily political identification,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: but a rejection of individualism is a moral foundation. I mean,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: altruism makes it impossible to have a life of meaning.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: You don't get meaning from sacrificing to others. You get
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: meaning from self, and altruism tells you the self is unimportant.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: You get meaning from pursuing values, not from duty. Altruism
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: teaches you the duty is what's important, not your happiness,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: not your values. Altruism makes you suspect productivity. Productivity is
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: about pursuit of your values, your income, your wealth, your actions,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and ambition, ambition which drives anybody who is serious about
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: his career or productive endeavors. Ambition is selfish, after all,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and altruism rejects ambition.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, meaning requires that.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Your life matter to you, really matter.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I'll say that again.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Meaning requires that your life matter to you, really matter.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: So the crisis of meaning is just the crisis of philosophy.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: It's the crisis of rejection of reason and the crisis
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: of rejection of egoism. To embrace meaning is to embrace egoism,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and to embrace reason is the only way to manifest
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: that egoism. So we must to solve the crisis of
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: meaning in our world. We must rebuild reason, confidence and reason,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: reject altruism, and embrace rational self interest, choose the central
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: purpose and integrating purpose career for most of us, and
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: then pursue achievement and pride. Pursue pride. Pride is an action.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Pride is not just something you feel. Pride is something
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you have to act.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, surround yourself.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: With the values that matter to you, with the people
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you love, with the work you're passionate about, with art
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that inspires you, with friends that excites you that you
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: know a real values to you. It goes back to
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: your own's rules for life. You know, love, embrace love
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: for everything that is meaningful to.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: You, your work, your partner, your friends, the art that
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: you have.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Surround yourself with beauty inspire yourself. All right, So that
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: is my view on the crisis of meaning. Not you know,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the solution is not what almost every conventional thinker tells
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: you it is.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: The solution is.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: You individualism, you really caring and taking responsibility for your
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: own life and doing it rationally. And it's the crisis
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: meaning is the same crisis we have in every other
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: aspect of the world in which we live. Again, it's
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: origin is the rejection of reason and rejection of rational
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: self interest or egoism, and therefore the solution has to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: be the embrace of egoism and reason. All right, cool,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: let's see where are we. All right, We've got about
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes for the first hour. To remind you again,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you know, we have goals for each hour of the
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: show about sixty seven dollars sixty seven dollars short of
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: of our first hour goals. So first our goals, So
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: please consider coming in with a question. You can ask
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: a question about meaning, purpose, or you can you can
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: ask a question about anything else, So answer any questions.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Gonna look quickly about around of the questions see if
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: any of them relate to what we just talked about.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: And if you have a question that related relates to
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: what we just.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Talked about, then I jump in with the question because
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I'll answer those first, and then after that I will
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: go and do the the reviews I promised you. I've
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: got some reviews so we've got star Trek and or
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and uh and uh yeah, something gonna learn musk, which
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: you might find interesting.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: All right, so let's see.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: No, that's not a meaning, that's a meaning. That's not
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: a meaning. Uh all right, so Ian says, He says,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: have you read have you read the article why do
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: so many people think Trump is good? By David Brooks.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: His diagnosis has to do with the crisis of meaning,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: is focused on authority and community. It's totally wrong, but
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: it's interesting. I've not read it, but I'm not surprised. Again.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, Trump is a manifestation of the crisis of
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: meaning in the sense that people, when they can't look
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: to themselves to find meaning, they look outside themselves. And
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: this is what, of course, people like Jordan Peterson have
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: taught them to do. They look to join tribes, They
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: look for authority figures to tell them what they should
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: do and how they should behave And I very much
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: think that that is the orientation of Trump's supporters. This
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: is a cool try to belong to you know, you
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: can you share common goals, and you you share a
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: common I don't know, passion around Trump and the groups
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: where you can chat about this and talk about this,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: and and you can yell at the people who disagree
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: with you. I think people who are searching for meaning
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: and can't find it a much more susceptible to tribalism,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: and and and and again. Donald Trump is just a
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: manifestation of a certain type of tribalism. And so yes, uh,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: I think that it doesn't surprise me. David Brooks is smart,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, wrong on pretty much everything he believes, and
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: he's very very much become a communitarian, much more than
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: he used to be, and is quite wrong on the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: solution to the problem of meaning. But I do think
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: that that people find meaning. And you know, in a sense,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Trump has called them to a crusade, you know, drain
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: or swamp, you know, make America great again. These all
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: crusading kind of a purpose greater than yourself, which every
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: politician tells you. Trump has called you for something greater
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: than yourself, and it's a pseudo meaning. It provides you
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: with pseudo self esteem. And of course it's all fake
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: because Trump doesn't care whe iota about making America great again,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: about draining the swamp. He is the swamp, and his
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: swamp animals are bigger than the previous swamp animals. But
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: you know, people believe that they're part of a crusade,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: and crusades don't provide meaning, they provide pseudo meaning. They
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: provide a pretense of meaning. They'll leave his supporters empty
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day. They'll feel betrayed because
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: they are being betrayed by the fact that they don't
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: gain any meaning from this as they discover that, you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: the Trump is an empty vessel. There's no there there.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: There's a long rant I think today or yesterday by
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Nick Foyenttis to his people about how horrible Trump is,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: how much of a swamp animal Trump is, how he's
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: betrayed everything they believe in, how he's not America first,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: how you know, and and I Nick Foyts is doing
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: that because I think that's a lot of people a
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: feeling that it's become so obvious even they can't ignore it,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and that'll that'll lead them to become more cynical and
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: even more nihilistic. It only plays into Nick for Intus's hand,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: into his into his nihilism, the fact that even Trump,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: even Trump, couldn't live up to it. So, you know,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: that's my interpretation again. Religion is is is a source
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: of fake meaning, and America First, or the tribe of
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Trump or whatever you want to call it, is another source.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: MAGA is another source of fake meaning.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: They're not happy. Indeed, if you.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Know people who support Trump, they're typically angry, very angry.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: And that is that that is the main emotional driver.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to read this cho about even though it's
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: not related. You missed my superchat at the end of
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: yesterday's show, in which I explained what contrahibularities means. Now
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: the word may never know in the world, may never
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: know hints what's the most pointless book since How to
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Speak French was translated into French. Well, actually have your
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: super chat from yesterday, and I was going to read it,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: but you know, I'm I'm gonna start skipping your superchat shows.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: But if you come back the next day with a
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars reminder of the super chat that we had yesterday,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: so I'll just skip them and guarantee my fifty dollars
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: chasbad road yesterday that contract. Fibu Ritise is the nonsense
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: would the black Adder invented in order to be fuddled
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Dr Johnson after he claimed to have every English would
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: in his dictionary in one of the funniest episodes of
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: any show ever made in human history. The dictionary episode
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: of seeing season three of Blackadda has to be one
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: of the funniest things ever done. And one aspect of
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: it is this confra whatever would the Black Adda invents
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: in order to completely refuddle doctor Johnson. If you've never
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: seen Black Adda, you got to see Black Adda. It
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: is truly, you know, again, one of the funniest shows ever,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and this is one of the funniest episodes ever. So
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: thank you Chazbot for reminding me of that. I did
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: not remember the word.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jennifer says, I mean, I mean out in the
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: workforce for many years and it still amazes me how
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: good it makes me feel when I do something smart
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: at work. Yeah, I mean. The reality is that we
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: get most of our self esteem from the things we produce.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: It's where we spend time, It's where we spend our
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: productive effort. It's where we apply our minds and you know,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: our talents, our skills, abilities, and when we achieve something,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: that's when we get a boost. Oh yes, I can achieve.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I am of this world, for this world, I can
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: do stuff, so absolutely.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Uh the dumb.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Right right, Andrews says, what do you think causes the
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: notion that many have the meaning is only to be
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  Speaker 1: found outside of work? Well, I mean, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a direct consequence, a direct result of altruism.
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  Speaker 2: As so many things are right.
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  Speaker 1: Work is fundamentally self fish. It's self interested. Work is fulfilling,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a it's a requirement of your
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  Speaker 1: survival as an individual human being. An altruism demands is
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  Speaker 1: that it's others, and this is why so many thinkers
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: have tried to frame work in terms of other people.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Even the Austrians tell you that you don't work for yourself.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: You know, capitalists or business owners actually work to serve
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: their customers, and that the purpose of your work is
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: service to your customers, which is completely God completely nonsense,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: but it's a way for them to fit in their
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: advocacy for capitalism with their altruism. And God forbid. You
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  Speaker 1: work for yourself, for your own values, for your own purposes,
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  Speaker 1: for your own meaning. The Protestant work ethic is like
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: work is you're working for God in the service of God.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: So you know, they have to rationalize work some way
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  Speaker 1: because it's self interested, and you can't get meaning from
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: self interest. Meaning is something that comes from outside of you.
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  Speaker 1: It comes from you doing duty, not pursuing your chosen values.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we've got a few other questions. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep those for after I do these reviews. So
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: let's focus on the reviews now. You can keep asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: It's encouraged to ask questions. We're forty dollars short of
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  Speaker 1: out one hour goal, so keep asking questions so we
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: can make that goal. You can also do stickers if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to ask questions, that's great as well.
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  Speaker 5: Let me do what am I doing. I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to do that. I want to do the opposite. I
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  Speaker 5: want to do this.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I have a few things to review and
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: then we'll go back to answering questions. You know, I
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: was going to review Blackada two episode Beer from Drinking Beer,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: but my wife wants to watch it as well, and
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't find a time where we were both gonna
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  Speaker 1: watch it, so that shot was about we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: wait until next week. But I promise next week we'll
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  Speaker 1: have Black auted two Black Out of the episode on
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  Speaker 1: the Beer and I'll review that. That'll be fun. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think my I think Black Added is one
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite shows. So we'll watch it together.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Why is it doing that? That's weird? Just give me
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  Speaker 5: one second. I have to change something here page with
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  Speaker 5: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the first the first one is a episode
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  Speaker 1: of Star Trek Star Trek the Next Generation. This is
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: season five, episode twenty one. It's called The Perfect Meat,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: The Perfect Meat. And this is an episode in which
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: in order to establish a peace between UH two fighting
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  Speaker 1: factions who used to be united but fell out over
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  Speaker 1: a woman, they are now they are now at war
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  Speaker 1: and and UH the Enterprise is involved in in in
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  Speaker 1: a ceremony is going to establish peace between them. One
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: of the parties has they have a a A I guess,
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  Speaker 1: the ability to mutate women, to mutate UH to a point,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to be empathetic, to read other people's emotions. And then
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: they in a sense are conditioned, I think, by by
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: their genes to fulfill the desires of.
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  Speaker 2: Their mate, to fulfill the desires.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Of UH the you know, the the other side who
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: asked for this. Shawsbud asked. It wasn't Shawsbud who asked
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  Speaker 1: for this.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Who asked for it. This was.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Evan Evan asked for this. Evan Evan grass As
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  Speaker 1: for this review, he had originally asked for a different review,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: the manager of a Man, but somebody else had asked
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: for measure a man before him, so he shifted to
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the perfect Meat. Anyway. I mean, it's it's a it's
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a fascinating episode. So so anyway, you
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: know the supposed to on this on this planet, men
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: being born like this is pretty frequent, but a female
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: being born with this capacity is very rare. This female,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: when she's born with this capacity, goes through a process
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: because she's going to be you know, sex is going
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: to be a big part of fulfilling.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: The fulfilling the desires and wishes of the male.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: They go through a period in which they become they
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: emit pheromones and they become super desirable to a man.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Above and beyond the fact that they adjust. Everything they
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: do is geared towards the man's the everything this woman
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: does is geared towards the man's desires.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: That she consents, so it's you know, she's completely.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Malleable. Every a new man comes in, she changes in
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: order to become the ideal of this new man who's
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: just entered into her life. And at some point a
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: particular male is imprinted on her and she becomes she
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  Speaker 1: only desires him and his and and fulfillment of his wishes, passions, desires.
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  Speaker 1: And the idea is there's going to be this ceremony
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  Speaker 1: where this, uh, this female, this woman is going to
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: be presented to the leader of one of the worrying
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: the other worrying group, and she is going to be
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: She's going to have him as the imprint, and she
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: is then going to be the perfect mate for this
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: other party. Right, She's going to be the perfect mate
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: because she will fulfill or the desires. She'll know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he wants when he wants them, and she'll you know,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: this is some male fantasy of the perfect women.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: They can read emotions.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: And she's also incredibly knowledgeable, so very well educated, very knowledgeable,
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  Speaker 1: knows everything, uh. And part of this is that she
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: and she spends a lot of time with Picard the
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: of course, the captain of the of the enterprise. Before
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  Speaker 1: the ceremony happens before she meets up with this h
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  Speaker 1: leader of the other group. And uh, he is of
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: course very drawn to her because I mean she is
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: she knows exactly what to say, she knows exactly when
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: to say it. Also again she she's releasing the for
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: these pheromones which enhance her desirability I guess towards him.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: But you know, she she knows what he's interested in.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: So Picard is very intellectual and and therefore she she
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: can have a conversation with him about things that interest him,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: right about the things that he is interested in, the
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: things that he is passionate about. So it's not just physical,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: it's an intellectual attraction.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: And he's constantly fighting this desire to sleep with her,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: the desire to make her his own versus his responsibility
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: as you know, as as part of the you know
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  Speaker 1: federation to see this peace treaty go through. She is
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: of course obligated by duty not to be a she
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a virgin for this, so she
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: could and she's eager to sleep with because and she's
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: trying to seduce him constantly, but she is committed to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: ultimately having this relationship and becoming the permanent mates of
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: this other other planet's leader. And there's a sense in
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: which by so there's very much this idea of duty,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: her duty.
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  Speaker 2: She is duty bound no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: And and this is this particularly you get with the
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  Speaker 1: with the kind of ending of the episode, and the
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  Speaker 1: ending of the episode, she it's it's the morning where
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  Speaker 1: she's going to go to the ceremony and this new
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: leader is going to be imprinted on her and become
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: in a sense, her mate for life. But something happens,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: and uh, it's early, and she what gets imprinted on
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  Speaker 1: her is not this other ruler, but what gets imprinted
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: on her is becaud and basically, and yet even though
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: because is now her soulmate for all intents and purposes,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: and and she is in love with him, a true love,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: I guess to the extent that something exists for a
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: being like this, she now must, out of a complete
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: sense of duty, go with the guy, because if she'd
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: been imprinted with this new guy, she would have loved him.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: But now she will never love him. She will always
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: love be caught. And yet she's obligated by duty to
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: fulfill this other guy's every whim and wish every fantasy,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: every desire. So in many respects, this is incredibly tragic
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: because you know, she will never be happy. She is
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: doing what duty demands of her. She is being sacrificed
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: if you will buy her people. Yeah, that's standing. She
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: goes off with this other guy, that's the end. She's
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: being sacrificed with other people, because who is you can
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: imagine in a different context, would be you know, is
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: in love with her. But of course he's also realizing
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: that it's very hard to draw a line and what's
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: real and what's not right, And the fact that she
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: gets imprinted on something means she has no free will
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: with regard to it. So it's very much uh this
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: you know, fantastical, uh kind of creature if you will,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: a woman, but really without free will. And yeah, I
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: mean it was interesting, it was fun to watch. It
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: was interesting. Uh, it's definitely provocative. The uh, the it's
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: definitely a fantasy for I guess a lot of men
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: who just want a woman who will I guess Matt
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: Walsh would love a woman like this, right, a woman
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: that will do everything that he wants, that has in
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: a sense no values of her own, all her values,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: I mean she's a creature of it's not even altruism
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: because because it's it's it's not that this is a sacrifice,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: because to sacrifice, she has to have sacrifice your own values.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: But she has no values of her own. Everything is
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: the whole way in which she's built biologically, I guess
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: is that her value is the only value, is to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: satisfy her partner, her male partner's desires. That's what she's
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: built full, that's all she wants. So incompatible with her
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: own happiness because she's not, you know, incompatible with his
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: happiness because he's not getting it because she you know,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: she's not getting it out of a sense of her
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: free will, but her duty, her automatic necessity. But the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: story is interesting, I mean, it's it's very enjoyable. I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: think a lot of Star Trek, certainly the original Star Trek,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: but I think also the following Star the next generation
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: are very philosophical. They create interesting situations, interesting circumstances. They
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: don't always solve them and address them the way you
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: would want them solved. But look here it is ultimately
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: presented as a as a tragedy.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: It's definitely a tragedy.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: So here she sacrifices everything for the goal of this
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: peace treaty or life, because you know, whatever value she
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: actually has, again, they're not real values because they're not
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: attained through free well, they're not attained through choice.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: They're attained in a sense automatically.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: All I remind you, you get to set the topics
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: that I'm going to be talking about in a little
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: while once I finish these reviews by asking questions. So
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: please cander doing a super chat and asking questions. Okay,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: So these are two from Chasbat that have to do
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: with Andor. These are two clips on YouTube, and you
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: can find there are these great clips on YouTube from
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: and Or. And is a series, a TV series on
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: Disney Plus. Uh, it's it's in the Star Wars universe.
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  Speaker 1: But I actually think that of everything I've seen in
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Star Wars, and granted I haven't seen a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of Star Wars, I think
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  Speaker 1: by far, and Or is the best thing I've seen
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  Speaker 1: coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the of the Star Wars universe.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most intellectual, it's the best representation of kind
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: of the fight for liberty and the fight for freedom
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: what it means. It also has a great concretization, representation
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: of the way in which authoritarianism, the way in which
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  Speaker 1: it manipulates, the way which controls and takes over, and
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: how the extent to which often it's the silence of
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: good people. It's the passivity of good people that makes
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: it possible for evil to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really focused.
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  Speaker 1: On a hero, on a reluctant hero and a man
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: who doesn't want to be involved. This is exactly the
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  Speaker 1: kind of good guy who just lets things happen, who
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to get involved. You know. It reminds me
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: of kind of movies from a long time ago which
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: had always these kind of common man, reluctant heroes. They
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: don't want to be involved. They were a little cynical.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: It's like cas a blanca, you know, in a sense,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: or to have have not if you've never seen that,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: a Humphy Bogot movie, which is excellent to have I
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: have not. But then when they become heroes, they become
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: real heroes.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Because they know what they transition.
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  Speaker 1: They they find the values for which it's worth fighting for,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: and everything then becomes over in and around the value.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: So it's really really good. No, the hero is not
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: Hans Solo.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: The hero here is Ando, who's a much better, I
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: think hero than.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: Hans Solo is. So these are two scenes.
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  Speaker 1: The first one is from and O episode ten, which
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  Speaker 1: is a scene in which the leader of the revolution,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: the leader of the people, trying to undermine the empire,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: fighting against the empire, is confunded by one of its
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: agents by like in a sense, you know, what are
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: you sacrificing for this?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: The leader of the Revolution is this odd kind of
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: relics dealer, antique delay, if you will, who lives a
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: seemingly pretty luxurious life, goes to big parties, interacts with
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: all kinds of people, and he gives the spiel two
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: or three minutes long about what he's given up to
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: be the revolution leader, and and it's very dramatic, very powerful.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: I think it's way too negative in many respects because
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't talk about what he's gained and what he's
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: living for. But it's it's it's really really powerful. What's
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: he given up for the revolution? Everything life? I mean,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: he knows he's going to die in end, he knows
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: he's going to be caught, he knows that's inevitable. But
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: he's given up friendship and and love and and uh
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: and uh kind of uh every you know aspect of life.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: And what's he given it up for. He's given it
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: up for a fight for freedom. And one of the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: things he says is really tortures him is that he
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: is condemned. He says, he's condemned to use the tools
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: of the enemy in order to defeat them. In other words, violence, deception, manipulation,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: and you know that that makes it hard. And that's
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: a theme that goes through and Or Is, particularly this
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: particular character, the extent to which he is.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: He is, he is like that.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: It's powerful, it's strong. It needed to have some positives
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: in terms of okay, so why are you doing it?
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: If it's so bad, if you're sacrificing so much, if
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: you're giving up so much, what's it for?
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: What's the positive value?
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: That is? I think missing shows what might correct me.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: But I think that's missing from it. But again, I
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: highly recommend the show. It's it's really it's really really good.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: The second kind of scene is a scene one second,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: it's a scene from episode twelve of Andor. It's a
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: scene where is it Ando's mother. It's it's it's somebody
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: related to Ando himself who has been killed. But I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: guess take the message before she died, and this message
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: is not projected at a hologram in the middle of
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: this planet town city that is being oppressed by the
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: by the Empire. It's his mother shows about to it's
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: his mother, and it's quite a beautiful scene. I mean,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: she makes this argument that we mean sleeping. We've let
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: them take over. We've let this wound, which is the Empire.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: You know, we fester in the middle in the sense
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: of the galaxy. We've done nothing to fight it.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: She says.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: The Empire is a disease. It thrives in the darkness,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: and it's in the dark because we refuse to shine
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: the light on it, you know, and we pretend that
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: they that we can continue to live under the boot
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: of the Empire. You know, they go away and then
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: they come and they go away, and when they go away,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: we think we're free, and we're not. We're still under
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: their boots. She says. The dead have lifted me with
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: their truth, and the truth ultimately is you have to fight.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: You have to fight the empire because you know your
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: life can have no meaning. There's meaning again being under
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: the boots of this oppressive force of this you know
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: wound that that that you know it's not going to
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: heal itself. The only way the galaxy or whatever it
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: is can heal is if we shine a light on
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: the empire. And the only way to shine a light
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: on the empire is by fighting it. So really powerful,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: really good in a sense, the combination of the two
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: work well because she is giving more of the reasons
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: why we fight, Why it's worth it, why you have
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: to give up, what you give up, what's the purpose
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: of it, and that is healing. It's it's to live
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: in freedom, to live, to be able to live a
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: good life, which is impossible.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Under authoritarianism.
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  Speaker 1: All right, one more review.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: This one is from John and it's let me just
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: see you one second.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: Uh, let me just make sure and I've.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: Got it right.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: This isn't from John Gloyd and who did a lot
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: of the songs from Last Time.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: This is a documentary kind of expose, a forty minute
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: expose that you can find on YouTube called the Elon
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: Musk cheating Scandal. It starts off we're talking about the
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: fact that.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: Eln mask I don't know if you know this.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: But Alonmusk claimed that he had been unbelievably successful on
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: this video game called Path of Excel, and people really
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: challenged him because it was clear that, I mean, it
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: was clear that when he played, he lacked basic fundamentals.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: He wasn't that good at it. And to get to
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: kind of the level that he claimed he was at
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: a Path of Excel, you had to be really really
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: really good, and to be really really really good you
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: have to devote huge amounts of time to these games,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: and a loon Musk is not totally busy, so he
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: didn't know how to play at the high level. He
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: lacked basic skills, and people called him out on it.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: And it turned out that Musk was paying people to
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: play the game for him, and then he took credit
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: for their success, and he supposedly admitted to all of this.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: I remember when this broke and it really made me think, God,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, if he needs to lie about success at
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: a video game to create some kind of pseudo self esteem.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: That is not good.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: That is not good and unbelievably weird, given he's the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: richest man in the world and has obviously been successful
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: in so many other kinds of things. It's just strange,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: but it really indicates, I like of self esteem, that.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: A self esteem is not automatic.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: When you succeeded something, it requires you to recognize it,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: evaluate the significance, and it requires a moral code. It
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: requires self esteem requires that you uphold a certain moral
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: of you. And here you've got one of those productive
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: people on the planet not appreciating his productive nests and
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: not living up to the mall standards that life requires,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: and then getting caught lying about a video game in
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: order to what boost some pseudo because he can't get
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: self esteem because he's lying now. And then when you
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: you know, when he was found out, he had a
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: really childish response, but ultimately he admitted to it. Now,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: what this documentary really focuses on is another of musks lies.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: The latest video games.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Muskin, several interviews, has claimed that he a long time ago,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: was one of the world's best quake players Quake as
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: a video game quake players.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: He claims that this was in the nineties.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: He's been making these claims, supposing for decades that he
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: was one of the best players in the world, that
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: he was a part of a team that won a tournament,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: that there was in a tournament, maybe the first semi
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: pro tournament in video games, and he won second prize,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: and that prize was thousands of dollars. Anyway, the documentary
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: analyzes this claim and tries to figure out is it
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: toore is it not? And you know, at the end
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: of the day, so he goes through and it's kind
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: of interesting how he figures it out, and you learn
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit, just a little bit about the whole
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: gaming culture and these competitions and tournaments and stuff like that.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: But it turns out that Musk is half line or
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: half misremembering this. I found this part not particularly interesting.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, musc is clearly exaggerating. He was never one
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: of the best players of the game. He probably did
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: come in second in a pretty small and relatively insignificant tournament.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: The second prize was seven hundred and fifty dollars, not
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: thousands of dollars. I don't know. This video makes a
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: big deal out of this. Now granted Elan an interview
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: after interview after interview after interview says the same thing.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: But you know, o case, he's exaggerating. So it's clear
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: that he wasn't one of the best players in the world.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: There were lots of other better players who just didn't
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: participate in this tournament because it was a kind of
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: a second rate tournament, and the video goes into all
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: of that. He might have come to but he probably
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't that good in spite of coming in second. One
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: of the reasons he came in second was he had
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: better internet connection, and the quality of the internet connection.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: Mattered in those days. In that particular tournament.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter. In other tournaments they adjusted for internet speed.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: This one didn't. When asking the best player of Quake
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: in the world at the time, he remembers playing against
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: Musk and he thinks Musk was not very good, so
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: to me, this one. It's weird that must keep saying this.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: It's weird that so much of a self esteem is
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: tied up in this idea that he was a great
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: video game player. But this seemed less than.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: The first one.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: The first one he just made something up boldly and
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: literally had other people. He paid other people to play
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: the game for him. I mean that one was a
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: con that he set up and ultimately had to admit
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: to it because everybody so through it. This one is
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: like a you know, he kind of you could easily
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: think that he did coming second in this tournament. He
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: might misremember the prize money, and he might not realize
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: that there were much much better players. I don't know,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: or maybe he's just exaggerating, or maybe he's lying. He
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: could be just plain old line. So it was interesting.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: It tells you something about Elon Musk's character, which is
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: not positive.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: What it tells you about his character, it's not positive.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: It's again that he has this need to be He's
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: also claim to be a top twenty Diablo player, another
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: video game. Of course, if you followed Elon Musk over
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: the last year, you know he lied constantly about Doge.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: He lied about how much money they would cut, he
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: lied about particular cuts when they happened. He lied about
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: what they could and couldn't do. I mean, he lied
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: nonstuff for about a month about Doge, and now it
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: was obvious. So it looks like Trump. It looks like
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Trump lying Trump. Yeah, that would make sense that subconsciously
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: I would say that, But it looks like Musk lies. Now.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: He can't be lying all the time.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: You couldn't build SpaceX, Tesla and these other companies if
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: you really were dishonest constantly, But there's a part of
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: him that requires, I don't know, affirmation that I guess
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: drives him towards lying about some of these things.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: And it ultimately is pretty sad.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: And pathetic really for somebody as successful as he is
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: to lie about things like this. But there you have it.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: It is what it is and definitely definitely sad. But
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: the evidence is pretty I think, pretty strong that he
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: lies about video games, and particularly given that we know
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: he lied about Dogit, I don't find it that's surprising.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: It's not that shocking. Ultimately, all right, that is the
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: review for today. I still have and if I haven't,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: I still have one of the.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: Short stories and Folks in.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: The Road to review Black Adda, the episode on Bea.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: I have the movie Ford versus Ferrari, the twenty twenty
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: four biopic Better Man Write the Tiger book by Evola,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: which I've started.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Reading, so.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: You know, Ali, we're going to get to it by
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: the end of the year.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: I will be.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: Reviewing right the Tiger by Ivola by the end of
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: the year. I don't know if Ali's listening on now.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: And then we have a new one that was added
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: by John Glue again that is a song by Incabus
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: called Drive, so we'll try that one as well.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: So that's what I've got to laugh now.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: If I'm missing anything, please let me know if you
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: if you send me money to to review something and
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: I haven't, then tell me, and I'm happy to. I'm
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: happy to do it. So and of course you can
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: do new reviews. It's one hundred dollars per song, two
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: fifty first episode of a TV show, five hundred for
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: a movie, five hundred plus for book, particularly if it's
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: a thin book.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the ones.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: H All right, let's jump to the questions again. You
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: can ask me about anything but the topic of today
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: or anything else, and.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: Let's see, all right.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: Michael Oncome made a great point that racism is a
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: form of automatic superiority.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: No matter how big of a loser you are.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: As an individual, you still have ranking over others automatically
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: just from your biology. Yeah, absolutely, I mean on call
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: is always a.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: Great way to phase these things.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: But it's really it's a point i am rand has
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: made made earlier on I mean, you gain pseudo self
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: esteem from the achievements of other people. I'm a jew,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: choos win lots of Nobel prizes. I must be really good. No,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: there's no relationship between me and the people who want
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: Nobel prizes because we happen to be of the same
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, genetic lineage or something. No relations. I
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: can gain no pride from their achievements. I can gain
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: no benefits from their achievements. I mean I get benefits
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: from their achievements co achievements, not from the fact that
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: they happen to belong to the same tribe I do
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: A long time ago. And you know, so, I think
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: that people who are attracted to racist ideologies, people with low
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: self esteem. People are looking to gain self esteem from
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: the achievement of other people. And you know inferiority complex. Yeah,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: it comes from the low self esteem from inferiority complex
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: about themselves, the individual identity, and therefore they must look
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: for others to give them a sense of any kind.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: Of sense of achievement they don't have. Thank you, Michael.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: By the way, in the second hour, we've got quite
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: a bit to achieve.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: The goal for the second hour.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: You can just stick up two dollars, five dollars, ten dollars,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars as a trade value for value with me.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: And yeah, so feel free to do that. You can
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: also ask a question, of course, which is great. I
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: love questions because then we get content Michael, who asks
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: lots of questions and contributes a lot to the show,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: both in content and in funding. You said yesterday that
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: wealth doesn't make society more benevolent, as evident by America today,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: freedom does. But the only way to create wealth is
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: through freedom. In America still the fierce country and Earth.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: Well that's not really true, right, So Saudi Arabia is
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: very rich, at least a subcultural within Saudi Arabia, Uae
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: and Katta are very rich places. They're not free. They
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: happen to be on top of oil and if they
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: are very rich from selling that oil, and I don't
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: think they're particularly benevolent. So it's the freedom that makes
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: you benevolent. So again coloration causation, it's a freedom that
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: makes you benevolent. Yeah, it's the freedom for most places
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: that makes you wealthy. And indeed, it's the freedom in
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: the West, in a place like America that makes the
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Saudis rich because it's our freedom that is made as
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: consumers of their oil. Alessa say this, maybe maybe it's
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: more than freedom. It's a saying individualism that is the
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: caring about the individual and his life. Because Europeans are free,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: relatively speaking, they're not particularly benevolent, and I think that
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: has to do with the fact that they're much more inherently. Inherently,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: they're much more culturally collectivistic. Collectivism breeds resentment, resentment towards
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: the other because you're supposed to live for the other.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: Individualism when you're living for yourself is a benevolent ideology,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: and you know the other is living for himself, and
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: you interact with them based on trade. It's mutual benefit.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: And if you don't want to interact with the other person,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: you don't. You just don't interact with them. So it's
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: it's the it's it's self esteem and individualism and freedom
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: that make you benevolent. Egoists are the most benevolent people. Andrew,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: I find Marxism Christianity connection interesting in that Marxism is
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: essentially a materialistic philosophy. Yes, Rand said, then materialism is
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: mystical in that denies consciousness. Is that relevant to Marxism? Yes,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: I mean Marxism denies free will, it denies the consciousness
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: we are automatons basically being driven by historical necessity, by
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: the necessity of our class, necessity of the genes, necessity
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: of our economic circumstances. But individuals don't matter anyway. It's
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: the class that matters. And the class interactions are determined
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: by the necessity of history, which is all mysticism. It's
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: all the negation of thought, of anything concept. Sure, it's uh,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: the the placing this force that is driving history as
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a completely mystical, irrational force. So in
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: that sense, it's God that is driving this process.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: And and think about it.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, according to Augustinian Christianity, you have no free will.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: You're predetermined to go to heaven or hell. Nothing you
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: do in life really matters in terms of determining whether
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: you go to heaven or hell. So it's it's it's
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: it's all predetermined. God has predetermined everything because he's omniscient,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: omnipotent and yeah, and and so he's determined.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: Everything is determined. It's the same kind of mysticism.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: You know, Marxism just replaced class and and historical determinism
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: for God. Andrew, Yes, today I said, I got righteously
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: pissed at the YBS News show. You said, fine, but
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: hope it's not a primary value to get pissed. It
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: isn't aside from entertainment. I use YBS to learn to
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: be a better thinking person. I know I'm not alone.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: Thanks Edrew. I appreciate that, and I yeah, I had
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: no doubt that that was the primary so, but I
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: appreciate you saying it. I was more concerned about you
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: going away from all my show was pissed, and that
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: was that being too big of a big of a
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: part of life. All right, Michael. If Nick Frantis is
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: so concerned with the next generation of Americans that they
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: won't be white enough, why is he so anti women
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: in dating? Well, I think he is anti women and
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: dating because because, well because he can't handle women, because
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: you know, he lacks, uh, the rationality and the self
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: esteem and and kind of the the basic masculine traits
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: to be able to deal with a woman. I mean,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: he I think he has h you know, he doesn't
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: know how to deal with him. I don't think generally
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: he knows how to deal with other people, certainly not women.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: I think they intimidate him, they scare him. He's afraid
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: of them, and he also sees them as beneath him.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: He sees women as inferior.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: He has said this.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: Almost with disgust.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine me actually kissing and and and and
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: having sex with with a woman like like the disgusting inferia. Now,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's he's gay, but I think he's.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: Asexual in essense.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: And of course he there's a sense in which Nick
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: is he takes his Cathoicism maybe seriously maybe, And what
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: does Catholicism teach us about sex? Sex as dirty? Sex
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: is the source of original sin. The purpose of sex
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: ultimately is procreation, but you have to go through this
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: dirty thing in order to procreate. Nick, like monks in
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: the past, just doesn't think it's worth it.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: He'd rather be celibate at this point.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: So I think he's putting his personal preferences above the
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: benefits of the white race. Yeah, let's see, Daniel. Can
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: you give the optimistic compessimistic argument for bitcoin and your
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: take on where you think the truth lies? Well, I
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: mean the optimistic case of bitcoin is that God, how
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: to you know? I need to convince myself of this
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: right to be able to articulate it.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: It's that.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: At some point people become so disabused, disgusted by h
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: fiat money that they or maybe there's a financial crisis
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: and fiat money collapses and fiat money loses its value
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: and people are looking for a new medium of exchange,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: a new thing to use as money, to replace it,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: and that they The optimistic case is that at that
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: point they turned to bitcoin. Now it's hard to imagine
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: that happening. This is why it's a superly optimistic case.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: And to do that, Bitcoin would have to, you know,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: it's it's purchasing I would have to stabilize, and that
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: would mean so everybody would rush the bitcoin in order
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: to replace fiat money. That would drive its price way up.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: But at some point it would stabilize. Demand for bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: would stop and it would start. It would start being
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  Speaker 1: used as the medium exchange, the thing we use to
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  Speaker 1: buy stuff. And in order to become a medium in exchange,
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  Speaker 1: it would have to replace every dollar in circulation. In
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: order to replace every dollar in circulation, it's price in
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  Speaker 1: dollar terms, but also in purchasing power terms would have
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  Speaker 1: to go through the roof. Or think about it differently,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: it would have to there would have to be enough
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  Speaker 1: bitcoins to make it possible to buy everything in existence,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's it's it would have to go up
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  Speaker 1: in value dramatically. I think the calculation is to do this,
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  Speaker 1: bitcoin would have to be somewhere around I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between one to three million dollars per bitcoin, probably
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  Speaker 1: closer to three dollars in today's dollars. Now, they're lots
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  Speaker 1: of reasons why that is unlikely to happen. There are
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  Speaker 1: lots of reasons why. Inherent in the structure of bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: is volatility, and because there's volatility built into the structure bitcoin, basically,
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  Speaker 1: because bitcoin has a finite number of bitcoins, you can
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  Speaker 1: never go over a certain number.
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  Speaker 2: But the demand for.
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  Speaker 1: Bitcoin fluctuates, the supply doesn't change, can't adapt to the demand,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore it will always fluctuate in price. I think
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  Speaker 1: it makes it a less effective, less effective money. I
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  Speaker 1: think that if stoci had built bitcoin with a mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: I guess nobody's figured out how to do this with
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  Speaker 1: a mechanism by which you know, the mining of bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: becomes hotter and horter at some point, but it's but
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  Speaker 1: more bitcoin is being mined at the rate of productivity increases,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe that could be related somehow to energy price,
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  Speaker 1: so that the supply of bitcoin is infinite, but it
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  Speaker 1: can only be mined at a certain pace, a certain
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  Speaker 1: very determined pace, and that determination is linked somehow with productivity.
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  Speaker 1: That would make bitcoin much more useful as money if
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  Speaker 1: it's going to become money. At some point, you're not
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  Speaker 1: mining any more bitcoin. At some point, all the bitcoins
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  Speaker 1: that exist exist. Bitcoin is capped at a certain number
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  Speaker 1: where there's no more beyond it. So that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the flaws and bitcoin now there is it depends on
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  Speaker 1: electricity and the existence of electricity, so it's not particularly
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  Speaker 1: good for kind of end of the world scenarios, for
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: dark ages scenarios, and you know, you could have lots of.
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  Speaker 2: Competitives to bitcoin.
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  Speaker 1: That is this absolutely the only thing that sustains bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: if and when it becomes money is that people use
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  Speaker 1: it as money. But you know, if people if people
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  Speaker 1: decide that there's some other coin, you could have multiple
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  Speaker 1: and many coins, and there's nothing there's nothing inherent in
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  Speaker 1: bitcoin that makes it better unique as compared to other
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  Speaker 1: potential coins. And indeed, I think you could probably design
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  Speaker 1: a coin a cryptocurrency that is better at being money
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  Speaker 1: than bitcoin. For example, this idea of not having a
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  Speaker 1: finite quantity, but anyway, that's optimistic. The optimistic is fear
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  Speaker 1: councies collapse and and uh uh, people all jump on
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  Speaker 1: the jump on the uh bitcoin to replace fiat money,
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  Speaker 1: and it becomes the global currency, the standard global currency.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember how many. I think it's a long
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  Speaker 1: time before they completely mind out. But of course it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a long time before bitcoin becomes money.
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  Speaker 1: So because every year, every year was it's a four
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  Speaker 1: years something like that. I think every four years the
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  Speaker 1: quantity of bitcoins to be mined a year is cut
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  Speaker 1: in half until it reaches zero. But because it's not nothing,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: it's it's a particular it's a particular combination of of
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  Speaker 1: zeros and ones that can only be created in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way.
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  Speaker 2: It can only be used in a certain.
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  Speaker 1: Way, and and that that that that that is documented
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  Speaker 1: in a certain way. It's not nothing. You know, it's something.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a question of is it worth anything, But
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  Speaker 1: it's not nothingness. You know, a computer program is not nothing.
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  Speaker 1: A combination of computer of bits of a particular program
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  Speaker 1: is not nothing. Kubada says, there are one point five
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  Speaker 1: million more to mine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the pessimistic one is yeah, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's even more straightforward. People realize that a bitcoin is
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: never going to become money, whether it's because governments will
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  Speaker 1: never allow it, central banks will never allow it, or
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: because people are just not going to go for it.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: They'd rather have gold in their pocket than bitcoin in
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: their memory car or there might be a crypto currency
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: that arises that is just better than bitcoin. There's actually
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: no reason why the first has to be the.
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  Speaker 2: Best, and.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: As a consequence, people sell it and it collapses and
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: it goes it goes to zero or close to zero
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  Speaker 1: in value. Of the two, I think the pessimistic is
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: more likely, but I think the most likely is that
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: it continues to be incredibly volatile, that people still buy
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: it and sell it based on passion, you know, and
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: not really based on any kind of economic analysis. I
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: don't know how you do the economic analysis. I mean,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: I have some ideas on how I would do the
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  Speaker 1: economic analysis, but I think it's it's very difficult to
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: get a very high value for bitcoin if you do
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: any kind of meaningful economic analysis. So I'm more on
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: the pessimistics an optimistic side, although I don't think it's
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: just going to collapse to zero, because I think there
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: are true believers out there who will keep it afloat.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: Michael says, while objectivism may not dominate in our lifetime,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: it is likely objectivism will be a household name in
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: our lifetime. It will have a legitimate standing in people's psyche.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, I hope, so. I think it's important for that.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: It's important that that happen. But it's I don't know
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: whose lifetime we're talking about, mine or yours. It's much
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: more likely in yours, Michael, than in mine. My lifetime
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: is not that long. Yours is many decades more than mine,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: I suspect, So, yeah, I think in yours it's that's very.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: Likely, Michael says.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: Nick foinds just when on Stephen Crowder, Yeah, he's doing
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: the rounds we are watching mainstream conservatives shift into normalized Nazism. Well, yes,
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: but he also notice if you watch him on Nick
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Stephen Crowder, he comes off very differently than when he
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: does his own show. There's a really, really good video
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: by Coleman Hughes on this phenomena. Of Nick foyantis presenting
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: himself one way to kind of the popular podcasts and
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: completely differently to his only audience in his own channel.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: But they're buying it. I mean, they're mainstreaming him. Somebody
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: said Crowder made Tucker look like Ben Shapiro. Yeah, they're
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: all treating with kid gloves because they all want his audience.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: They all want his audience, and they all kind of
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: vaguely agree with him. Michael. Can anyone be a millionaire
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: if they want it enough? I don't know if anyone.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: If you're in down syndrome, probably not. If you have
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: a very low intelligence, probably not. But yeah, I think
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: most people with average intelligence can if they wanted, if
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: they wanted enough, and they're willing to work for it
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: and they really invest the thinking that's required to get there.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: The first millionaire in China was the guy who sold
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: sunflower seeds and built like a network of suntaf fleet sellers,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: and he had a special recipe that he came up
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: with and he you know, that was the first millionaire
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: in Chinese history, in modern Chinese history. Andrew. Conservatives often
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: claim that liberals make stuff up to be outraged about
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: and are constantly enraged. But on conservatives too, it makes
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: sense that the facial expression of a tribalist is a
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: small Yeah. I think it's true of both sides. The
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: dominating emotion they have as anger, and they're constantly looking
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: for things to be angry about. They're constantly searching for outrage,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: They're constantly searching for things to be pissed off of it.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: I think that's true of both sides. I don't think
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: that's true.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: It's true of the emotionalism and the irrationality of people generally.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: People out there, Daniel says, how disappointed are you you
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: didn't win the FIFA World Cup Peace.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: Prize this year.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a FIFA World Cup Peace Prize,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: So I guess I'm not disappointed at all because I
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: didn't even know it existed. You have to know something
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: exists to be disappointed you didn't get it. But you know,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: I generally am not.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: The point of whin I don't win prices.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Jason Washington State stop HB twenty one hundred proposed
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: five percent excise tanks on employers when they hire someone
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: making one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars more. God
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: that's insane. St you want to drive out of the
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: state high paying jobs. We don't want high paying jobs
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: in the state of Washington. We want them to go
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: other places. It's just insanity. What the left does, you know,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: to try to squeeze, you know, producers for everything that
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: they have, and they keep coming up with new creative
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: ways to do it and keep ignoring not only the
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: immorality of it, but also the the consequences of the action.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: Raphael from Portugal, how you on many people today are
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: secular but still say they believe in something like some
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: vague spiritual element. So is God really dead? And how
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: do you respond to this position? Well, I mean, I
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean in the United States, certainly God
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: is not dead. I mean seventy percent plus of the
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: population seventy percent claimed to be religious and another fifteen
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: sixteen percent claimed to be believe in something as you say,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: and only fifteen percent atheist agnostics. In Europe, the numbers
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: might be different, but it's still so. In America, God
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: is not dead. God is still there. Organized religion might
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: be dead, but even that, Americans are pretty organized. In
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: Europe the numbers are different. There's more, but yeah, I mean,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think God is dead.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: Sadly, I wish he was.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: He should have died a long time ago, but keeps
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: coming back. And part of the reason he keeps coming
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: back is because people like Jordan Peterson resurrect him, keep
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: resurrecting him, keep bringing him back into people's lives. Now,
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: this belief in something is first of all, I think
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: it's better than believing in religion and God because something
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: doesn't provide you with dogma. Something leaves it open at
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: least for you to consider which values to pursue, to consider,
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: to consider how to live your life. Now, mostly people
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: who believe that fall into kind of patterns of conventionality.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: But again, I think that's better than belief in a
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: religion institutionalized and then but it's still mystical. It gives
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: you no guidance. It is it prevents you from actually
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: fully embracing reason, and therefore it prevents you from actually
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: fully living your life. So that's how I respond to
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: that position. It's crippling you. That believe in something cripples
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: you because it leaves a whole realm of life where
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: you won't let reason go, where you won't apply rationality,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: and that means the whole realms of life in which.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: You cannot be successful.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you really appreciate it.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks for being here.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: I won't have a show tomorrow. I'm going to take
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: the tomorrow's show. I'm going to take take tomorrow off.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: Next Sunday, we'll do a member's only show. I'll let
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: you know what the theme of that is because you'll
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: probably have to prepare them. You'll probably have to read
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: something in advance, but I'll let you know that during
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: the week, so stay tuned. But I will see you
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: guys on Monday. Monday, we've got two shows. We've got
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: the regular show I think it's a two pm East
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: Coast time, the news show, and then we'll have an
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: interview with Gene Moroney, one of your favorite guests, I
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: think with Gene and evening. So if you have any
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: questions for Jane, then prepare them for Monday. For Monday,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: so I will see you on Monday. Have a great
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: rest of your weekend. I hope you enjoyed today's show
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: and create a meaningful life for yourself. Sue values, take
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: your life seriously. Live with the capital L.
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  Speaker 2: Bye, everybody,