1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,700 As we're coming into contact with different spiritual around different 2 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:10,380 spiritual domains in spheres of authority. 3 00:00:10,470 --> 00:00:12,840 And in those they carry thoughts. 4 00:00:12,870 --> 00:00:17,640 And when those faults fly over our head, we have the authority 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,530 to either accept or reject. 6 00:00:19,530 --> 00:00:24,600 We can grab onto and say, these are mine, or we can say, Hmm, I don't know. 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,570 I don't, I don't know if that's really my thought, but we have. 8 00:00:28,439 --> 00:00:35,400 To be aware of the thoughts going through our head, because if we're not aware, we 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:43,050 will begin to accept every thought that goes rolling through our mind as our own. 10 00:00:43,950 --> 00:00:52,319 And what happens when the spiritual gates of a region or a nation is opened? 11 00:00:53,920 --> 00:01:00,010 To thought systems and thought patterns in the spirit realm have had, or are 12 00:01:00,010 --> 00:01:03,400 physically being released because remember that they have physical 13 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:08,220 substance, what happens when all of a sudden these thoughts are and how 14 00:01:08,220 --> 00:01:11,800 fine through your head that are, are. 15 00:01:13,020 --> 00:01:16,710 Potentially very destructive for your life and society. 16 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,820 Welcome to the Lucas Skrobot show I'm Lucas Skrobot, and this 17 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:25,830 is where we uncover purpose pursue truth and own the future episode 284. 18 00:01:26,220 --> 00:01:29,970 It is May 26th, 2022. 19 00:01:30,210 --> 00:01:32,610 And today we have a little bit of a different episode. 20 00:01:32,610 --> 00:01:39,449 I've put together a montage for you of a number of segments and clips from the. 21 00:01:40,905 --> 00:01:42,945 284 episodes. 22 00:01:42,945 --> 00:01:47,805 Not all of them at one time, but there's a lot of, lot of content 23 00:01:48,195 --> 00:01:50,295 that's buried in the archives. 24 00:01:50,655 --> 00:01:56,025 And we pulled out some of the best of clips, some clips that I've 25 00:01:56,055 --> 00:02:01,035 even forgotten about that as I've looked through the content and cold 26 00:02:01,035 --> 00:02:05,655 through the content, I've realized, man, this is, this is really gold. 27 00:02:05,655 --> 00:02:06,285 This is helpful. 28 00:02:07,679 --> 00:02:15,990 To us today in May, 2022, to understand where we're going to understand how to see 29 00:02:15,990 --> 00:02:24,660 the world and how to own our futures in the midst of the chaos and in the midst 30 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:31,110 of the amazing, positive things that are happening right now in the world. 31 00:02:31,470 --> 00:02:34,280 It is an oftentimes we focus. 32 00:02:35,130 --> 00:02:39,150 Um, the crazy and the chaos and the insane that is happening. 33 00:02:39,150 --> 00:02:43,290 It's often quite entertaining to focus on the insane. 34 00:02:43,650 --> 00:02:51,450 Let's just be honest, but truly we live in incredible times across the earth. 35 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:59,940 The times that we live in are so amazing that you and I would not trade 36 00:03:00,030 --> 00:03:02,340 our lives for the life of a billion. 37 00:03:03,165 --> 00:03:08,175 Billionaire that lived a hundred years ago, people who lived a hundred, 120 38 00:03:08,175 --> 00:03:13,275 years ago, they would die because they didn't have simple antibiotics. 39 00:03:13,995 --> 00:03:17,775 They didn't have refrigerators life. 40 00:03:18,075 --> 00:03:23,955 And the world that human time is really getting better. 41 00:03:24,345 --> 00:03:28,725 Our life, our life expectancy is getting better and that is good 42 00:03:28,725 --> 00:03:31,125 news that we should focus on. 43 00:03:31,605 --> 00:03:32,025 And remember. 44 00:03:32,820 --> 00:03:39,420 And celebrate and rejoice in because one of the biggest keys to living a 45 00:03:39,420 --> 00:03:47,520 fulfilled satisfied life is gratitude because gratitude takes us off the 46 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:53,100 throne of our hearts, gratitude, strips away, all of our entitlements, all 47 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:57,540 of our, our thoughts that we are the ones who make our self built life. 48 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,900 And it brings us back to the source, to the. 49 00:04:01,665 --> 00:04:09,135 That all things come from God, all blessings come from above gratitude. 50 00:04:09,735 --> 00:04:14,745 So I hope that you enjoy this series of clips in today's epic. 51 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:18,870 And we'll see you next week back here on the show. 52 00:04:20,459 --> 00:04:27,720 Everything we do by spend to address our deep seated feeling of not being enough. 53 00:04:27,750 --> 00:04:29,880 That's what I call the insecurities exchange. 54 00:04:30,150 --> 00:04:31,440 Let me go buy something. 55 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:32,610 Let me go take a course. 56 00:04:32,610 --> 00:04:36,390 Let me go get a piece of paper from somebody that says, oh, 57 00:04:37,125 --> 00:04:39,465 You are good enough to do this. 58 00:04:39,765 --> 00:04:41,715 And then all of a sudden, then you realize, oh, wait a minute. 59 00:04:41,745 --> 00:04:43,365 There's an advanced course in this. 60 00:04:43,995 --> 00:04:46,275 I'm not good enough until I get the advanced course. 61 00:04:46,275 --> 00:04:47,895 And then there's another advanced course. 62 00:04:48,105 --> 00:04:51,135 So this is how the world is propped up today. 63 00:04:52,115 --> 00:04:52,665 And Dr. 64 00:04:52,665 --> 00:04:53,745 Seuss wrote about this. 65 00:04:53,745 --> 00:04:56,475 I mean, you don't, you know, I liked your disclaimer that you're not. 66 00:04:57,095 --> 00:04:59,945 You know, a social psychologist therapist, but Dr. 67 00:04:59,945 --> 00:05:00,905 Seuss wrote about this. 68 00:05:00,905 --> 00:05:05,705 I don't think he, maybe he was, I don't know, but the stars upon stars, right? 69 00:05:05,705 --> 00:05:09,155 So there's the stars, belly Sneetches and the non-start Belize niches. 70 00:05:09,155 --> 00:05:13,655 And it's this, this, creating this cognitive dissonance to get people, 71 00:05:13,655 --> 00:05:17,465 to get the stars on them, and then you can get the stars off them. 72 00:05:17,465 --> 00:05:18,545 And it's this whole. 73 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,510 Cycle of looking for that gatekeeper to essentially give you the 74 00:05:23,510 --> 00:05:25,220 stamp to say that you're okay. 75 00:05:25,430 --> 00:05:26,270 You're ready enough. 76 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:27,440 You've arrived. 77 00:05:27,710 --> 00:05:31,700 You have enough knowledge that you can now begin to go out into the 78 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:34,280 world and, and make a difference. 79 00:05:34,820 --> 00:05:35,000 Yeah. 80 00:05:35,570 --> 00:05:35,750 All right. 81 00:05:35,750 --> 00:05:43,010 So E Cummings now I am not a, I am not a big consumer of poetry, but 82 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:47,900 I read some, and this is what I've committed to memory, but just the line. 83 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,420 To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best night 84 00:05:54,420 --> 00:05:56,400 and day to make you everybody. 85 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:01,770 Else's the hardest battle we ever fight and never stop fighting coming. 86 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:03,150 Can you say that again? 87 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,790 And just a little slower, say that one more time so we can let it 88 00:06:05,790 --> 00:06:10,890 sink in to be nobody but yourself. 89 00:06:12,090 --> 00:06:20,010 In a world that is doing its best night and day to make you everybody 90 00:06:20,010 --> 00:06:28,469 else is the hardest battle we ever fight and never stop fighting, man. 91 00:06:30,150 --> 00:06:30,630 You know? 92 00:06:30,630 --> 00:06:34,109 So w w we've we have these ideas? 93 00:06:35,295 --> 00:06:40,125 Of, oh gosh, if I could be more like in fill in the blank, whoever that 94 00:06:40,125 --> 00:06:46,065 is in your sphere of influence, you know, in, in your, in your circles of 95 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:50,865 the people you respect and admire and want to be like and whatever that is. 96 00:06:50,985 --> 00:06:56,145 And I know people that, you know, that they study people to be more like them 97 00:06:56,145 --> 00:07:01,035 and learn their mannerisms or pickup and made in sometimes it's unintentional. 98 00:07:01,965 --> 00:07:03,225 But when we realize. 99 00:07:04,594 --> 00:07:12,185 That you and me trying to, I, I fall short any time. 100 00:07:12,215 --> 00:07:17,195 I am trying to be any body else, but you know what? 101 00:07:18,335 --> 00:07:21,215 I really am the most remarkable Kevin money. 102 00:07:23,475 --> 00:07:24,045 There is. 103 00:07:24,945 --> 00:07:29,355 And so I need to just recognize, I don't need to try to be somebody 104 00:07:29,355 --> 00:07:32,985 else what the Cummings point and what I was talking about. 105 00:07:33,015 --> 00:07:37,665 Th there are all of these ads that just aim at us. 106 00:07:37,695 --> 00:07:38,955 I heard Bernay brown. 107 00:07:38,955 --> 00:07:40,095 Didn't say this. 108 00:07:40,095 --> 00:07:41,385 She was quoting someone. 109 00:07:41,805 --> 00:07:45,435 She said, I had a friend that, that said this to me, that our 110 00:07:45,435 --> 00:07:49,575 first thought of the morning is I didn't get enough sleep last night. 111 00:07:51,585 --> 00:07:56,325 Our last thought of the day is I didn't get enough done today. 112 00:07:57,674 --> 00:08:03,075 Our days are bookended with scarcity thinking scarcity mentality. 113 00:08:03,075 --> 00:08:05,924 That's how most of us start and stop our days. 114 00:08:06,344 --> 00:08:10,604 And then between then it's just this mad dash trying to be somebody else. 115 00:08:10,844 --> 00:08:13,424 So what if you just realize. 116 00:08:14,790 --> 00:08:18,750 No I'm created to be me and I have gifts, talents, and 117 00:08:18,750 --> 00:08:20,490 abilities that the world needs. 118 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:26,570 And if I can just learn to show up authentically, uniquely as me. 119 00:08:27,390 --> 00:08:30,510 It's going to be much better than me trying to be somebody else. 120 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:34,919 So we are a really bad imitation of anybody else. 121 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:41,760 And when we can find the freedom to be authentically ourselves and to get 122 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,510 comfortable, what, which you mentioned a moment ago, you know, getting older, 123 00:08:45,510 --> 00:08:51,300 getting more comfortable in your own skin and that that's, that's the. 124 00:08:52,530 --> 00:08:55,680 Um, Kevin, how did we get there, Kevin? 125 00:08:57,990 --> 00:08:59,760 How did we get there, Kevin? 126 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,970 I love, I love what you said just now. 127 00:09:04,245 --> 00:09:09,135 About gratitude, abundance about how so often we, we live in this 128 00:09:09,135 --> 00:09:14,145 scarcity mentality, um, just from the first thought, the last thought 129 00:09:14,145 --> 00:09:15,855 of our day to everything in between. 130 00:09:16,365 --> 00:09:22,035 And then how you, how you said that that gratefulness gratitude thankfulness is 131 00:09:22,095 --> 00:09:24,735 the door that opens abundance to us. 132 00:09:25,875 --> 00:09:31,635 I said, I heard it said that it is, it is gratitude and gratefulness 133 00:09:31,665 --> 00:09:33,825 that breaks the back of humanism. 134 00:09:34,035 --> 00:09:34,215 Right? 135 00:09:34,215 --> 00:09:40,305 So humanism in this idea that we are self-sufficient that we need to take 136 00:09:40,305 --> 00:09:45,075 care of ourselves, that, that everything rises and falls on our shoulder. 137 00:09:45,075 --> 00:09:45,735 But the moment. 138 00:09:46,695 --> 00:09:51,335 And even it breaks the back of a entitlement of entitlement to, because 139 00:09:51,365 --> 00:09:57,125 I did X, Y, and Z, I deserve a, B and C, um, this entitlement that we have, that 140 00:09:57,395 --> 00:10:03,665 when we step into gratitude, it also then breaks this back of, of entitlement. 141 00:10:03,665 --> 00:10:04,295 It breaks the. 142 00:10:05,730 --> 00:10:09,270 Of this idea that we deserve something and all of a sudden 143 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,160 puts us into this place of wow. 144 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:18,360 Everything that I have around me is a gift that, that I don't deserve that 145 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:25,200 this is a blessing from God on my life, that my family, my health, my, my, my, 146 00:10:25,350 --> 00:10:28,560 my job, my relationships, these are all. 147 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,390 Blessings that I, I didn't do anything to deserve. 148 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:39,960 And that frees us, that frees us from this, this striving, um, by 149 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:45,720 the sweat of our brow mentality, that, that plagues so many of us. 150 00:10:50,175 --> 00:10:54,135 As my friend, Steve Foran puts it in his book. 151 00:10:54,344 --> 00:10:56,055 And I'd love to introduce you to Steve. 152 00:10:56,084 --> 00:10:58,125 He'd be a great guest on your show Lucas. 153 00:10:58,545 --> 00:11:06,854 Um, when I realized that everything in my life is a gift, my only 154 00:11:06,854 --> 00:11:08,115 response is to be grateful. 155 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,350 When I realized everything in my life is a gift. 156 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:18,540 Our response is gratitude because the things that we believe, the 157 00:11:18,540 --> 00:11:22,550 things that you believe, the things that I believe will drastically. 158 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:28,770 The decisions that we make on an every day basis, it will drastically shape the way 159 00:11:28,770 --> 00:11:34,230 that we raise our kids will drastically shape the culture of our households, the 160 00:11:34,230 --> 00:11:40,320 culture of, of our friendships in the communities, around us, the ideas that 161 00:11:40,590 --> 00:11:43,920 we adopt and not all ideas are equal. 162 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:46,770 Not all ideas lead to the same place. 163 00:11:46,770 --> 00:11:50,310 Not all ideas have the same re. 164 00:11:52,354 --> 00:11:57,245 But the question is how can you and I, with a simple, quick framework 165 00:11:57,545 --> 00:12:03,395 discern which direction an idea will take us, because most of what I 166 00:12:03,395 --> 00:12:09,780 see out in culture today, Our ideas that sound good, that feel good. 167 00:12:09,780 --> 00:12:14,099 That make you warm and cozy they're ideas that are promoting mankind or 168 00:12:14,099 --> 00:12:22,050 ideas that are embracing our humanity fighting for the common good of mankind. 169 00:12:23,459 --> 00:12:28,109 But if you follow them just a few steps forward and that trajectory, 170 00:12:28,109 --> 00:12:31,050 that those thoughts and ideas bring us. 171 00:12:31,050 --> 00:12:36,000 If you follow those, you'll find that they actually do bad. 172 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:36,250 They feel. 173 00:12:37,319 --> 00:12:39,569 But they do bad. 174 00:12:41,939 --> 00:12:49,410 We are going to be speaking about the pro human ideologies and anti-human 175 00:12:49,410 --> 00:12:53,189 ideologies and how we can discern the difference between them, because that 176 00:12:53,189 --> 00:13:00,180 is a really easy litmus test that I have found when, when taking an idea and 177 00:13:00,209 --> 00:13:04,949 understanding where it comes from and where it is going in, whether or not. 178 00:13:05,790 --> 00:13:12,060 I want to let this operating system function in my life. 179 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,280 Now, here is a quick shortcut. 180 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:19,050 If you want the 1 0 1, the too long, didn't read shortcut of this episode. 181 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:25,230 It is this most ideas out in the world today in culture that's 182 00:13:25,230 --> 00:13:31,770 propagating themselves as being pro-human or actually anti-human at. 183 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:39,329 Let me say that again, that the too long didn't read most ideas 184 00:13:40,199 --> 00:13:44,970 in culture that are being pushed and promoted throughout culture. 185 00:13:44,970 --> 00:13:46,829 That saying, this is pro-human. 186 00:13:46,829 --> 00:13:48,660 This is kind, this is compassionate. 187 00:13:48,660 --> 00:13:49,500 This is loving. 188 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:54,240 This is good for, for, for mankind, for the environment for the world. 189 00:13:55,260 --> 00:13:57,600 They're actually, when you play out. 190 00:13:58,380 --> 00:14:04,680 The implications of these ideas are inherently anti human at its core. 191 00:14:05,849 --> 00:14:07,890 And that is the way that we're going to there's. 192 00:14:07,890 --> 00:14:13,709 There's many ways to discern there's many ways to understand what ideas we 193 00:14:13,709 --> 00:14:16,589 should object or reject or should accept. 194 00:14:16,770 --> 00:14:21,750 But this is one really easy litmus test, a framework to quickly 195 00:14:21,780 --> 00:14:26,069 evaluate the quality of an idea. 196 00:14:26,189 --> 00:14:26,910 Is it pro. 197 00:14:27,824 --> 00:14:36,570 In actuality or anti human in actuality now, as I said, A lot of these frameworks 198 00:14:36,570 --> 00:14:40,800 that are anti-human have positioned themselves as being pro-human why, 199 00:14:40,950 --> 00:14:43,980 because if you can play with words and that's what's happening right now 200 00:14:44,189 --> 00:14:50,160 throughout society and largely due to the postmodern movement that we are in, as 201 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:56,310 it's really striking right now, across culture, across the globe, this idea of 202 00:14:56,310 --> 00:14:58,740 postmodernism words do not have meanings. 203 00:14:58,980 --> 00:15:05,689 And therefore, if we can manipulate the meanings of words, We can push 204 00:15:06,170 --> 00:15:11,479 our agenda and there is no channel of communication outside of. 205 00:15:13,204 --> 00:15:17,194 Of this thought system, because we've changed the definition of the word. 206 00:15:17,854 --> 00:15:24,125 And we see that with, with, uh, kind of woke racism movement. 207 00:15:24,125 --> 00:15:27,935 That's been happening, where, where we went from being, we should be not. 208 00:15:28,910 --> 00:15:33,439 Just moving to a positioning and saying, we need to be anti-racist. 209 00:15:33,740 --> 00:15:37,220 And what anti-racism is, it's not saying don't be racist, but to 210 00:15:37,230 --> 00:15:40,699 saying, actually you are racist and you can't help being racist. 211 00:15:41,380 --> 00:15:43,250 You must fight your racism. 212 00:15:43,699 --> 00:15:50,120 And the only way to end racism is by being racist and having reverse racist. 213 00:15:51,345 --> 00:15:55,095 And it's changing the definition of racism saying that, well, you know, 214 00:15:55,125 --> 00:15:59,355 certain minorities groups can't be racist and the more, the more 215 00:15:59,565 --> 00:16:04,245 lower you are on the totem pole, the less racist you could possibly be. 216 00:16:05,145 --> 00:16:08,265 And so we've, we've changed the terms and we actually created a 217 00:16:08,265 --> 00:16:15,105 hierarchy within, within culture to say, one form of racism is. 218 00:16:16,065 --> 00:16:20,655 Those at the bottom, having racist ideologies towards those who 219 00:16:20,745 --> 00:16:26,535 supposedly are above them on the totem pole, but the other form is bad. 220 00:16:26,535 --> 00:16:28,305 One form is actually not possible. 221 00:16:28,305 --> 00:16:33,285 It's not possible for someone in the intersect of 222 00:16:33,285 --> 00:16:35,925 intersectionality to be racist. 223 00:16:36,315 --> 00:16:37,185 It's not possible. 224 00:16:37,875 --> 00:16:43,845 So we've, we've changed the definition of words to be able to promulgate ideology. 225 00:16:44,610 --> 00:16:45,720 In the world. 226 00:16:47,490 --> 00:16:55,890 Now, there is one main philosophical idea that we sit on that enables 227 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:01,589 society to even move in a direction of seeing one another equal. 228 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:06,720 And this idea, again, it's found in most major religions, at least 229 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:11,520 monotheistic religions, which that is that we were created by. 230 00:17:12,270 --> 00:17:17,400 Now, this is a very important idea that we were created. 231 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,170 This idea is that the core of the declaration of independence for 232 00:17:22,170 --> 00:17:25,950 the United States of America, which says we hold these truths to be 233 00:17:25,950 --> 00:17:29,550 self-evident that all men are created. 234 00:17:30,375 --> 00:17:36,255 Equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable 235 00:17:36,315 --> 00:17:42,135 rights that among these are life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 236 00:17:43,395 --> 00:17:53,865 So this, this idea that we are created and that we are all endowed with 237 00:17:54,135 --> 00:17:57,885 equality and, and unalienable rights. 238 00:17:58,935 --> 00:18:05,085 To pursue life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is really an idea throughout 239 00:18:05,115 --> 00:18:11,655 Western society that has now empowered capitalism across the world, which has 240 00:18:11,655 --> 00:18:19,565 empowered millions of people to leave poverty and enter into education and 241 00:18:19,575 --> 00:18:22,385 build a better future for their families. 242 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:24,345 It's this idea that we were creating. 243 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:32,460 And that we were created equal when we depart from one or both of these ideas, 244 00:18:32,970 --> 00:18:37,260 we will fall into anti-human ideology. 245 00:18:38,639 --> 00:18:42,149 Now, why can't we have one without the other? 246 00:18:42,149 --> 00:18:44,940 Why can't we say, well, we were all. 247 00:18:46,820 --> 00:18:48,649 Evolved to be equal. 248 00:18:48,649 --> 00:18:52,280 We, we, maybe we say, okay, we don't have God, God's not in the picture. 249 00:18:52,459 --> 00:18:54,469 Let's just take him out, wipe him out. 250 00:18:54,679 --> 00:18:56,360 But we can still say we're equal. 251 00:18:56,929 --> 00:18:57,290 Actually. 252 00:18:57,290 --> 00:19:02,300 We can't because the moment that we do away with God, we do away with the fact 253 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:08,030 that we were created in a certain manner, in a certain form kind and likeness. 254 00:19:09,650 --> 00:19:16,130 Then we've evolved out of the swamp of history, the swamp of billions of years. 255 00:19:16,130 --> 00:19:18,710 And we were just a highly evolved animal. 256 00:19:18,710 --> 00:19:23,510 If we're a highly evolved animal, we are nothing but a sack of chemicals. 257 00:19:23,510 --> 00:19:25,940 And if you're nothing but a sack of chemicals, then 258 00:19:25,940 --> 00:19:28,220 life really has no meaning. 259 00:19:28,550 --> 00:19:33,410 And we can begin to make judgment calls on well, who is actually more human. 260 00:19:34,110 --> 00:19:38,459 Who is actually more positioned who should actually give, be given more 261 00:19:38,459 --> 00:19:44,850 rights than others, because if we've evolved, that means that we're not equal. 262 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:48,780 It means that you and I may be in different places because maybe 263 00:19:48,870 --> 00:19:50,340 you are more involved than I am. 264 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:55,709 Maybe you've reached a, a higher level of enlightenment and, 265 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,439 and, uh, humanity than I have. 266 00:19:58,439 --> 00:20:01,560 And therefore I am now less human. 267 00:20:02,504 --> 00:20:08,685 So the moment that we take away God, from the picture we have sought 268 00:20:08,685 --> 00:20:10,074 off the branch that we sit on. 269 00:20:10,074 --> 00:20:13,695 And likewise, the moment that we take away equality from the picture at the 270 00:20:13,695 --> 00:20:18,104 moment that we take away, the fact that we were all created as equal 271 00:20:18,284 --> 00:20:22,425 as humans, we see we were created, but we're going to all created. 272 00:20:25,645 --> 00:20:26,845 We cut off that branch too. 273 00:20:26,845 --> 00:20:30,835 So these are when I look at an ideology or when I look at a thought 274 00:20:30,835 --> 00:20:35,155 system or a pattern in a breed in, and I judge it before adopting. 275 00:20:36,225 --> 00:20:39,525 I judge it before adopting it and say, okay, where did this come from? 276 00:20:39,765 --> 00:20:41,655 Where's it going in a evaluated? 277 00:20:41,985 --> 00:20:46,215 These are some of the two main indicators that I can look at to say, wait, 278 00:20:46,395 --> 00:20:49,635 this will lead me down a bad road. 279 00:20:51,075 --> 00:20:55,905 This is what happened in Russia with the Gloxmin when Russia really adopted this 280 00:20:55,905 --> 00:21:00,315 idea that we were all just, uh, a sack. 281 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:02,310 Chemicals. 282 00:21:02,370 --> 00:21:08,250 And we adopted the, the ideas of, of marks and Ingles in saying that well, 283 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,290 there's no such thing as morality. 284 00:21:10,290 --> 00:21:12,240 There is no such thing as right and wrong. 285 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:13,440 It's only powering. 286 00:21:15,169 --> 00:21:18,500 And we look at a certain segment of society and say, well, these 287 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:21,320 people are the way they are because of their upbringing. 288 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,209 They are the way they are, because if their genetics and their, their 289 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,770 culture that they lived in, and we can't change them because it's just 290 00:21:27,770 --> 00:21:31,969 been determined by their environment and by who they are, what happens. 291 00:21:33,014 --> 00:21:37,215 Well, if it gets sent to the gulags and when the reeducation camps of 292 00:21:37,215 --> 00:21:39,435 the gulags don't work, what happens? 293 00:21:40,605 --> 00:21:46,304 They get sent to the back of the building, to the firing squad. 294 00:21:46,575 --> 00:21:53,115 Now this is happening again in current culture, gulags are happening 295 00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:57,794 across the world, Krantz it, where we look in with the weaker people. 296 00:21:58,935 --> 00:22:03,824 In China, where there there's this idea that they're less than human 297 00:22:03,824 --> 00:22:07,605 and they're putting in concentration camps and re-education camps. 298 00:22:09,165 --> 00:22:14,475 We can see it throughout mainstream media in America, where there are 299 00:22:14,985 --> 00:22:20,774 certain people who say even the most liberal well-intentioned white 300 00:22:20,774 --> 00:22:27,044 person has a, a virus, uh, in his or her brain that can be active with. 301 00:22:27,870 --> 00:22:34,680 At an instant, when these ideas are accepted by us and saying that a 302 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,060 certain group of people have been predetermined to think and act a 303 00:22:39,060 --> 00:22:41,850 certain way and it's, it's not curable. 304 00:22:42,630 --> 00:22:46,920 Well, then what happens, what happens when we decide what we 305 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,600 need to fix and cure these people, because they are a danger to society. 306 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,700 What happens when we need to fix and cure you? 307 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,310 Because you're a danger to society. 308 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,020 But then remember you're not curable because you are just 309 00:23:03,020 --> 00:23:05,450 an evolved sack of chemicals. 310 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,800 And so the thing that would be most merciful, the most compassionate, 311 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:17,060 not only for you, but for others would be to finish it for you. 312 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:21,730 So here we started off with. 313 00:23:22,710 --> 00:23:27,930 Kind and humane idea of trying to create and build a better society. 314 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,780 And in turn, we end up destroying. 315 00:23:31,995 --> 00:23:36,375 The humans who live in that society, we become anti-human 316 00:23:36,495 --> 00:23:39,014 for the sake of being pro-human. 317 00:23:39,284 --> 00:23:41,774 It just doesn't work. 318 00:23:42,345 --> 00:23:45,225 And we're not going to be talking so much about trans dimensional 319 00:23:45,225 --> 00:23:47,895 beans or gin or a demon or angels. 320 00:23:48,044 --> 00:23:49,544 We're not talking about any of that stuff. 321 00:23:49,544 --> 00:23:55,814 We are going to be talking about thoughts because our thoughts or thoughts. 322 00:23:56,885 --> 00:24:03,814 Have substance in the spiritual realm or in the aspheric plain with whatever 323 00:24:03,814 --> 00:24:07,264 terminology you wish to call it. 324 00:24:07,264 --> 00:24:11,554 Now, just like in the natural realm, this microphone right here, 325 00:24:12,635 --> 00:24:14,584 I can touch it and I can feel it. 326 00:24:14,584 --> 00:24:20,375 It has a physical substance, but in the spirit, in the 327 00:24:20,375 --> 00:24:23,405 spiritual realm, thoughts, ideas. 328 00:24:24,255 --> 00:24:31,425 Have physical substance, there is a bigger implication of all of this besides. 329 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,760 You know, hyper spirituality or something that actually comes 330 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,310 back into our every day life. 331 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:41,580 The way that we view the world, the way that we walk in the world, the way that 332 00:24:41,580 --> 00:24:46,680 we raise our families, the ways that we operate art in our, and our companies 333 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:54,120 and our jobs, the way that we engage in cultural issues, that this one idea. 334 00:24:55,450 --> 00:24:59,110 This one fact that ideas have substance. 335 00:24:59,110 --> 00:25:05,290 They are physical items in the spiritual realm is actually quite important. 336 00:25:05,290 --> 00:25:10,030 Now, rarely have I heard this? 337 00:25:10,875 --> 00:25:13,875 Talked about when it comes to geopolitical situations. 338 00:25:13,875 --> 00:25:19,845 There's very few people that I have listened to that have articulated how 339 00:25:19,905 --> 00:25:25,274 in the spirit realm, there are angels and demons or trans dimensional beans, 340 00:25:25,274 --> 00:25:31,185 whatever you wish to call them gin that are Shabbaton and a law fighting 341 00:25:31,544 --> 00:25:34,475 for the souls and the destiny of. 342 00:25:35,834 --> 00:25:38,145 Very few people talk about this. 343 00:25:38,145 --> 00:25:42,554 Cause it normally falls into just like very kind of religious overtones. 344 00:25:42,554 --> 00:25:47,804 And I want to do my best to stay away from religious overtones because that's 345 00:25:47,804 --> 00:25:51,165 really not the point of this episode. 346 00:25:51,165 --> 00:25:57,554 The point of this episode is to bring up the fact that there are power. 347 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:04,940 That are affecting the way that you and I and entire nations, entire 348 00:26:05,330 --> 00:26:12,379 regions of the earth think because they have been given authority because 349 00:26:12,379 --> 00:26:19,570 someone has opened the door and welcome specific thought systems into. 350 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:21,990 Their life or their culture. 351 00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:27,720 And so there, there is, of course, the, the practical outplay of when we 352 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:32,640 introduce legislation or an idea into culture, into society, whether that 353 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:37,379 comes through Hollywood and movies, or whether that comes to, um, uh, re 354 00:26:37,470 --> 00:26:42,870 reforming the education system, of course, that also happens there in culture in 355 00:26:42,870 --> 00:26:49,140 very practical ways, but there's also the spiritual aspect where there's a. 356 00:26:49,905 --> 00:26:55,725 There's an opening of a spiritual realm that affects the hearts and minds, 357 00:26:56,055 --> 00:27:01,155 the thought patterns of people across the globe who are sitting underneath 358 00:27:01,305 --> 00:27:04,545 those specific domains of society. 359 00:27:04,545 --> 00:27:10,275 So there are two points that we are going to touch on today. 360 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:14,475 These two points are one, as I've already said, thoughts have 361 00:27:14,475 --> 00:27:18,315 substance in the spirit realm and. 362 00:27:19,175 --> 00:27:24,845 We are going to be talking about the domains of authority and how. 363 00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:32,730 The things that we let into our domain of authority or household or our family 364 00:27:33,030 --> 00:27:38,550 or our workplace, the places that we have a level of authority outside of 365 00:27:38,550 --> 00:27:46,710 us that actually opens up those things that we have taken, um, ownership of 366 00:27:46,710 --> 00:27:48,360 thoughts that we have taken ownership of. 367 00:27:48,570 --> 00:27:51,450 It affects other people around us. 368 00:27:51,540 --> 00:27:54,240 The first idea here is that. 369 00:27:55,215 --> 00:27:58,875 Not all thoughts are your thoughts. 370 00:27:59,355 --> 00:28:04,065 I'm going to say it that again, not all the thoughts that run through 371 00:28:04,065 --> 00:28:07,335 your head, originally, your thoughts. 372 00:28:07,815 --> 00:28:11,024 There's actually thoughts that are floating around this room. 373 00:28:11,055 --> 00:28:13,784 Thoughts that are floating around the zeitgeists. 374 00:28:14,024 --> 00:28:17,985 If you will, of society, there are thoughts that are out there. 375 00:28:18,175 --> 00:28:19,845 There I, when I was growing up. 376 00:28:20,775 --> 00:28:22,545 It was quite the, quite the loner. 377 00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:27,015 And I had way too much time to think, but during my time to think 378 00:28:27,075 --> 00:28:31,065 I began thinking of philosophical thoughts that I had never heard 379 00:28:31,065 --> 00:28:33,945 before, but were actually very common. 380 00:28:35,115 --> 00:28:38,745 Throughout history that philosophers have thought about whether, you know, 381 00:28:39,014 --> 00:28:42,225 how can we even perceive the world would offend the only person in the world. 382 00:28:42,525 --> 00:28:48,345 These are things that are floating around in the zeitgeists of culture 383 00:28:48,345 --> 00:28:50,504 or the spirit realm, wherever you are. 384 00:28:51,315 --> 00:28:55,305 There are other thoughts that pass through your head that aren't yours. 385 00:28:55,335 --> 00:29:00,254 And then there are thoughts, thoughts that are yours, but what can happen is 386 00:29:00,615 --> 00:29:02,775 a thought will flip through our minds. 387 00:29:04,155 --> 00:29:08,235 And we'll say, oh, I never had that thought before and we take 388 00:29:08,235 --> 00:29:10,185 it and we own it as our own will. 389 00:29:10,185 --> 00:29:15,405 The moment that we own a thought as our own, we accept that thought. 390 00:29:15,764 --> 00:29:20,175 We essentially have given permission and authority for that thought 391 00:29:20,355 --> 00:29:26,715 to build a, a place in our minds, a strong hold, if you will. 392 00:29:26,715 --> 00:29:30,675 It begins to form thought patterns and, and. 393 00:29:31,455 --> 00:29:36,764 And ways of operating behavioral operations within our mind. 394 00:29:36,795 --> 00:29:45,524 And that then begins to affect our aura or the, the, the space of energy around us. 395 00:29:46,155 --> 00:29:50,475 The next point under this thing, uh, this first idea that thoughts 396 00:29:50,475 --> 00:29:55,045 have substance, is that word. 397 00:29:56,265 --> 00:30:03,405 Are powerful words, create realms words, have power to affect and shape someone's. 398 00:30:03,405 --> 00:30:03,825 Life. 399 00:30:04,695 --> 00:30:10,245 Words are very important because words carry ideas with them. 400 00:30:10,575 --> 00:30:11,535 And those as. 401 00:30:12,689 --> 00:30:15,270 They have substance and the spirit rum. 402 00:30:15,270 --> 00:30:16,290 So they're so important. 403 00:30:16,290 --> 00:30:22,199 So the words that we say over ourselves, over our marriage, over our kids, over our 404 00:30:22,199 --> 00:30:27,300 business, over the projects that we do, the things that we say about ourselves, 405 00:30:27,810 --> 00:30:33,379 it is reaffirming our thoughts systems. 406 00:30:33,979 --> 00:30:35,659 So if we're, if we are continuing. 407 00:30:36,795 --> 00:30:41,295 Talking down about ourselves, cursing ourselves, saying Lucas, you know, 408 00:30:41,295 --> 00:30:44,415 you're such an idiot, Lucas, why can't you get yourself together? 409 00:30:44,655 --> 00:30:50,025 You know, if I'm continually talking down to myself, I'm actually agreeing with 410 00:30:50,925 --> 00:30:55,755 something that's in the spirit realm, an assignment that is against my life. 411 00:30:55,785 --> 00:30:58,425 And by agreeing with that, we know from. 412 00:30:59,685 --> 00:31:01,125 That our thoughts becomes our words. 413 00:31:01,125 --> 00:31:02,355 Our words become our actions. 414 00:31:02,355 --> 00:31:06,405 Our actions become our behaviors, behaviors, or habits or environments, 415 00:31:06,405 --> 00:31:08,535 and then our character and our destiny. 416 00:31:08,535 --> 00:31:11,085 So we need to watch our thoughts. 417 00:31:11,085 --> 00:31:13,725 And we talk about that relentlessly here on the show. 418 00:31:13,725 --> 00:31:15,135 We need to watch our thoughts. 419 00:31:15,135 --> 00:31:15,645 Why? 420 00:31:15,645 --> 00:31:19,035 Because it becomes our reality. 421 00:31:19,425 --> 00:31:23,745 And so first we need to watch our thoughts and then it's out of 422 00:31:23,745 --> 00:31:25,875 our hearts that our mouth speaks. 423 00:31:25,965 --> 00:31:27,185 So when we're speaking. 424 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,149 It's because we've already been thinking about. 425 00:31:32,155 --> 00:31:35,125 And so we need to watch our words because when we speak those words, 426 00:31:35,125 --> 00:31:37,825 that actually creates environments. 427 00:31:37,825 --> 00:31:42,655 Now, there, there are, you can have hexes, you can have vexes, you can have 428 00:31:42,655 --> 00:31:44,305 word curses, you can have inner Val. 429 00:31:44,335 --> 00:31:49,615 So when we vow, I'm never going to do this, or I will never, or 430 00:31:49,615 --> 00:31:53,635 I could never, we're actually creating these vows over our life. 431 00:31:53,635 --> 00:31:53,725 That. 432 00:31:54,455 --> 00:31:56,735 Strongholds and power over our lives. 433 00:31:56,735 --> 00:32:00,544 That keeps us from probably doing things that you are actually 434 00:32:00,544 --> 00:32:03,125 created and designed to do. 435 00:32:03,274 --> 00:32:05,885 When we speak something over our children and over our 436 00:32:05,885 --> 00:32:07,655 spouse, you're always like this. 437 00:32:08,165 --> 00:32:09,725 Why can't you ever get it right? 438 00:32:10,205 --> 00:32:13,475 You're so fill in some curse. 439 00:32:15,425 --> 00:32:16,054 We're actually. 440 00:32:17,085 --> 00:32:22,035 Speaking something physical over their life that has power because 441 00:32:22,035 --> 00:32:28,755 we have given a power who is exactly is shaping the way that you and your 442 00:32:28,755 --> 00:32:32,745 children will end up viewing the world. 443 00:32:34,365 --> 00:32:35,925 Most of us would like. 444 00:32:36,930 --> 00:32:41,850 That well, we self shape our world so we can decide what we want to believe 445 00:32:41,850 --> 00:32:45,960 or don't want to believe, or we think, well, it is the education system. 446 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:46,800 It's education. 447 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:47,370 That's the problem. 448 00:32:47,370 --> 00:32:53,430 If we can only advocate people, if we can only revamp the school system, some 449 00:32:53,430 --> 00:32:57,600 people believe well it's government policy it's government that is 450 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,170 shaping the way that people view the world and an operating through the. 451 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:02,670 Others. 452 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,370 Well, it's the parents, the parents are having a huge influence on the 453 00:33:06,630 --> 00:33:08,850 upbringing of the world, around them. 454 00:33:08,850 --> 00:33:14,610 Some it's the peers, your friends are shaping the way that you view the world. 455 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:15,810 But guess what? 456 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,250 There is actually data. 457 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,480 There is studies that have been done that says, what are the greatest 458 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,620 shapers of at least Western society. 459 00:33:25,620 --> 00:33:27,540 Now, this study was done by the Barnum group. 460 00:33:27,660 --> 00:33:29,310 They measured the impact. 461 00:33:30,465 --> 00:33:36,405 On individuals on society, based on the amount of time contact points that 462 00:33:36,405 --> 00:33:41,864 the different industries or different spheres had on people and the amount of 463 00:33:41,864 --> 00:33:45,135 money that was spent on these things. 464 00:33:45,135 --> 00:33:51,104 Because the things that we spend our time on, the things that we spend our money on 465 00:33:51,375 --> 00:33:56,985 is an indicator of where we put value and an indicator of what is actually shaping. 466 00:33:57,870 --> 00:34:02,040 The way that we view the world or operate within the world 467 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,850 or value inside of the world. 468 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,530 So they broke it down. 469 00:34:08,250 --> 00:34:12,360 This study broke down the significant sources of influence on American culture. 470 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:17,070 So we're speaking, speaking specifically about American culture, but I 471 00:34:17,070 --> 00:34:22,199 think it can be extrapolated most likely with exceptions, I'm sure. 472 00:34:22,650 --> 00:34:24,090 To Western culture. 473 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,389 And then beyond that, as we looked into the rest of the world and 474 00:34:27,420 --> 00:34:32,159 Asia Africa, sub continent, we can begin to see that a lot of the. 475 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,380 Trends of behavior is beginning to happen among the youth. 476 00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:42,780 And I suspect that over the coming decades, we will see that these 477 00:34:43,350 --> 00:34:49,560 sources of influence on global culture will remain similar the same across 478 00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:52,139 cultures due to globalization and. 479 00:34:52,975 --> 00:34:56,545 To digitalization across the globe. 480 00:34:56,695 --> 00:35:00,085 So they split it up into three tiers, the top tier middle and 481 00:35:00,085 --> 00:35:06,085 bottom tier of influence in society in the top tier of influence. 482 00:35:06,625 --> 00:35:13,255 They cited movies, television, music, and books followed by social media and 483 00:35:13,255 --> 00:35:18,085 internet as being the top five influences. 484 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:24,420 On American culture underneath that still in the first tier was 485 00:35:24,450 --> 00:35:26,820 law and public policy government. 486 00:35:27,210 --> 00:35:30,060 And then below that was the family and the parents. 487 00:35:30,570 --> 00:35:38,130 So the greatest influence it is movies, TV, media, media, media, 488 00:35:38,130 --> 00:35:42,660 social media, followed by some policy and then followed by parents. 489 00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:46,170 So there were laws that are set in place, the policies that are set in place. 490 00:35:46,980 --> 00:35:53,730 By a nation important to shaping a culture, the family and the parents, 491 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,560 they still have a significant impact on the culture that is set within a 492 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,830 family and within the nation of America. 493 00:36:02,490 --> 00:36:05,010 But above that, we see it is all media. 494 00:36:05,460 --> 00:36:06,540 It is the media. 495 00:36:07,485 --> 00:36:09,045 Children are consuming. 496 00:36:09,375 --> 00:36:12,735 That's shaping the way that they view the world. 497 00:36:13,245 --> 00:36:17,505 When you go on to the second tier, you'll see that it's school, then print 498 00:36:17,505 --> 00:36:23,685 media and video games, friends, or peers followed by large corporations. 499 00:36:24,075 --> 00:36:27,675 Coca-Cola Disney and affinity groups. 500 00:36:27,675 --> 00:36:31,485 Who's who's your friend groups who are, you'd like your broader 501 00:36:31,485 --> 00:36:34,905 circle center, media friends, but those broader circles of. 502 00:36:36,765 --> 00:36:39,855 And the bottom tier you'd have non-nuclear family. 503 00:36:39,865 --> 00:36:44,565 So your extended cousins you'd have promotional events, uh, protest events, 504 00:36:44,565 --> 00:36:49,455 live theaters, advertising literature, and then finally your local church 505 00:36:49,485 --> 00:36:52,095 or the religious sphere of society. 506 00:36:53,205 --> 00:36:55,455 So what is shaping culture? 507 00:36:56,415 --> 00:36:57,225 Is it school? 508 00:36:57,405 --> 00:36:57,765 Yeah. 509 00:36:58,665 --> 00:36:59,895 Is it corporations? 510 00:36:59,925 --> 00:37:03,135 Is it big business? 511 00:37:03,465 --> 00:37:03,825 Not really. 512 00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:06,390 Is it your extended family? 513 00:37:06,450 --> 00:37:06,870 No. 514 00:37:08,535 --> 00:37:13,575 Is media, as I said, your mileage may vary culture to culture. 515 00:37:13,575 --> 00:37:18,705 I suspect that here in the middle east media still plays a large 516 00:37:18,705 --> 00:37:23,535 role by a suspect that religion still has a huge impact on culture. 517 00:37:23,745 --> 00:37:28,845 I suspect that government as a larger impact family has a larger impact, but 518 00:37:28,904 --> 00:37:31,335 we still see the way that they measured. 519 00:37:31,335 --> 00:37:34,395 This study was touchpoints spent. 520 00:37:36,090 --> 00:37:40,259 Children on these different spheres, w where's the most time exposure. 521 00:37:40,650 --> 00:37:46,050 And we can see here in the Gulf, in the sub-continent the time 522 00:37:46,050 --> 00:37:52,560 exposure that kids have to media across the globe now is absorbent. 523 00:37:53,759 --> 00:37:59,370 For instance, by the time a child is 14 years old, they will have 524 00:37:59,370 --> 00:38:04,800 consumed on average 18,000 hours of. 525 00:38:06,105 --> 00:38:13,725 It exposed to 18,000 hours of media that is equivalent to 6.2 years 526 00:38:14,115 --> 00:38:16,845 of eight hours a day on media. 527 00:38:17,085 --> 00:38:22,425 By the time you're 14 6.2 years, eight hours a day. 528 00:38:23,385 --> 00:38:31,575 Of media saturation that is mind boggling by the time the normal American is 18. 529 00:38:31,785 --> 00:38:36,195 That number jumps from 18,000 contact hours of consumption, 530 00:38:36,225 --> 00:38:39,795 hours of media to 33,000. 531 00:38:40,185 --> 00:38:43,245 That is nearly 12 years. 532 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,010 Of eight hours a day consuming media. 533 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,180 Now, as I said, this is America, but what about the rest of the world? 534 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:53,850 Maybe other cultures are different. 535 00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:56,430 Well, yes. 536 00:38:57,885 --> 00:39:04,665 In 2011 in UAE, the national news published an article saying that a 537 00:39:04,665 --> 00:39:12,255 team led by booed Hameshi surveyed 638 UAE nationals from the ages of 538 00:39:12,255 --> 00:39:15,915 16 to 25 at schools and universities. 539 00:39:16,245 --> 00:39:17,655 They said that almost. 540 00:39:18,420 --> 00:39:24,540 Of the young MRDs are addicted to the internet and spend nearly 10 hours 541 00:39:24,540 --> 00:39:27,720 a day on social and other media. 542 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:34,590 A new survey suggests they say that young people live a highly mediated 543 00:39:34,590 --> 00:39:37,920 existence spending more than 9.9 hours. 544 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:38,820 On average a day with me. 545 00:39:40,005 --> 00:39:42,525 More time than they spend sleeping. 546 00:39:43,095 --> 00:39:48,135 And they spend twice as much time on the internet as watching 547 00:39:48,195 --> 00:39:50,055 TV, according to researchers. 548 00:39:50,835 --> 00:39:56,025 Now, when we dropped down into the lower ages, I'm sure that number drops from 549 00:39:56,055 --> 00:40:01,545 10 hours a day to something smaller, but still, if you're at 3, 4, 5 hours 550 00:40:01,545 --> 00:40:06,839 a day, when you're in your early teen years from eight to 12, That is 551 00:40:06,839 --> 00:40:08,580 going to have a significant impact. 552 00:40:08,850 --> 00:40:09,990 What are you watching? 553 00:40:10,290 --> 00:40:11,970 What are those kids listening to? 554 00:40:12,779 --> 00:40:21,089 It doesn't take much observation to see that parents are using screens as 555 00:40:21,089 --> 00:40:28,230 babysitters from all you have to do is go to a mall and see how many kids have 556 00:40:28,259 --> 00:40:30,900 a screen clued in front of their face. 557 00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:32,350 As their parents are. 558 00:40:34,745 --> 00:40:39,095 Because our media consumption is not going down. 559 00:40:39,125 --> 00:40:40,025 It is increasing. 560 00:40:40,025 --> 00:40:44,975 Here are some startling facts on media consumption in the west. 561 00:40:45,095 --> 00:40:48,065 Adults spend more than 11 hours a day. 562 00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:52,715 This is from the Nelson report in 2018 teenagers spend an estimated 563 00:40:52,715 --> 00:40:55,415 of 10 hours a day on screens tweens. 564 00:40:56,100 --> 00:41:00,690 Six to seven hours a day, absorbing media, eight to 10 year olds are spending 565 00:41:00,690 --> 00:41:02,670 about five hours a day with media. 566 00:41:03,029 --> 00:41:06,629 And the typical 18 year old will have been exposed to over 567 00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:10,319 32,000 hours of media content. 568 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,370 And it's increasing, but what does all of this mean? 569 00:41:14,370 --> 00:41:15,509 What does this mean? 570 00:41:15,509 --> 00:41:19,140 What impact does this have on culture? 571 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,140 Well, we see that in the way. 572 00:41:23,395 --> 00:41:29,545 That there is been a huge shift from traditional values to what 573 00:41:29,545 --> 00:41:31,435 I'm calling social media value. 574 00:41:31,435 --> 00:41:35,995 So we have shifted in American culture from valuing hard work, 575 00:41:36,115 --> 00:41:42,625 civic duty, humility, living in moderation, the importance of family 576 00:41:42,625 --> 00:41:48,985 and faith, the rule of law obeying the rule of law for galleries. 577 00:41:50,115 --> 00:41:53,444 Living within our means and living simple lives. 578 00:41:53,625 --> 00:42:00,315 Those were the traditional American values, but it has changed if you look in 579 00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:05,505 modern American culture today, we see that the values have drastically shifted to 580 00:42:05,505 --> 00:42:13,005 values that have been promoted on social media, on TV, on reality TV in movies. 581 00:42:13,095 --> 00:42:13,815 And what is that? 582 00:42:14,745 --> 00:42:18,045 It is comfort living for experiences. 583 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:25,250 For feelings, having an expression, expressing ourselves and in a way that 584 00:42:25,250 --> 00:42:28,310 makes us feel free rather than humility. 585 00:42:28,310 --> 00:42:34,550 We just want to be expressive, happiness, not moderation. 586 00:42:34,700 --> 00:42:35,540 We want to be happy. 587 00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:39,470 I want to do what makes me feel good independence. 588 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,520 I don't want to be bound to my family values. 589 00:42:43,910 --> 00:42:45,380 I'm going to do what I want to do. 590 00:42:45,380 --> 00:42:45,830 Forgive my. 591 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:49,770 Entitlement. 592 00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:51,900 I'm entitled to things. 593 00:42:52,230 --> 00:43:02,210 The world owes me something control, acceptance, and freedom, not simplicity 594 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,600 for Galilee or obeying the rule of law. 595 00:43:05,630 --> 00:43:07,130 It's I want to be in charge. 596 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,690 I am king of my own world and I will do what I want. 597 00:43:11,990 --> 00:43:12,230 It's. 598 00:43:13,620 --> 00:43:17,700 And we see that these are the values that have been pushed and 599 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:20,430 pressed across media platforms. 600 00:43:21,404 --> 00:43:24,015 Whether intentionally or unintentionally, it doesn't matter. 601 00:43:24,285 --> 00:43:27,854 These are the values that the new generation, the coming generation 602 00:43:28,064 --> 00:43:33,075 generation Z, and even the millennial generation have adopted have embraced. 603 00:43:33,404 --> 00:43:36,555 Now we could say, well, what, ah, come on, Lucas. 604 00:43:36,555 --> 00:43:37,455 What's so bad with that. 605 00:43:37,484 --> 00:43:41,045 I mean, Every once to be comfortable, we want want happiness. 606 00:43:41,045 --> 00:43:42,185 I want you to be happy. 607 00:43:42,395 --> 00:43:43,715 We should be independent. 608 00:43:43,715 --> 00:43:45,875 And yeah, freedom is a good thing. 609 00:43:45,875 --> 00:43:49,895 We should all be freedom and into an independent, and we should express 610 00:43:49,895 --> 00:43:54,995 our feelings, not just, you know, bottle them all up, not to live in, in 611 00:43:54,995 --> 00:43:59,695 moderation, not to harness our emotions. 612 00:44:00,145 --> 00:44:03,925 And you self-control instead, I just want to express the way 613 00:44:03,925 --> 00:44:06,415 that I feel like, why is that? 614 00:44:08,405 --> 00:44:13,265 Well, let's look at the effects that this change of value has. 615 00:44:14,174 --> 00:44:15,495 On society. 616 00:44:15,944 --> 00:44:19,575 And majority of adults believe that the following things are now 617 00:44:19,605 --> 00:44:21,825 morally acceptable in the west. 618 00:44:22,005 --> 00:44:24,105 They believe that divorce is okay. 619 00:44:24,585 --> 00:44:29,205 Having a sexual relationship when you're not in a marriage. 620 00:44:29,355 --> 00:44:30,045 It's okay. 621 00:44:30,255 --> 00:44:30,944 Gambling. 622 00:44:31,265 --> 00:44:31,995 That's fine. 623 00:44:32,415 --> 00:44:35,535 If you have sexual thoughts or fantasies about people besides 624 00:44:35,535 --> 00:44:37,095 your spouse, that's okay. 625 00:44:37,095 --> 00:44:38,085 It's no big deal. 626 00:44:38,325 --> 00:44:39,255 It's just in your mind. 627 00:44:39,674 --> 00:44:42,255 Um, LGBTQ plus. 628 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,880 Relationships are acceptable. 629 00:44:45,420 --> 00:44:52,320 Those LGBTQ T uh, relationships should be embraced across the board. 630 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:58,650 Doctor-assisted suicides, acceptable, LGBT identity, acceptable 631 00:44:59,010 --> 00:45:04,380 cohabitation living together, uh, outside of a married relationship. 632 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:05,430 Totally fine. 633 00:45:05,850 --> 00:45:08,640 Having a child without the parents being married. 634 00:45:09,030 --> 00:45:09,720 That's fine. 635 00:45:09,750 --> 00:45:11,190 And we see it in the. 636 00:45:12,625 --> 00:45:16,615 We see that it's not just people accepting these things, but people have 637 00:45:16,615 --> 00:45:19,795 begun to live in this sort of lifestyle. 638 00:45:20,125 --> 00:45:23,185 Now, again, to play the devil's advocate. 639 00:45:23,815 --> 00:45:24,265 Well, Luke. 640 00:45:26,490 --> 00:45:30,990 Why not, why, why not live in these type lifestyles? 641 00:45:31,009 --> 00:45:35,459 What's so wrong with thinking that gambling is okay or having pure 642 00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:40,439 promiscuous relationships or having a child outside of marriage times 643 00:45:40,439 --> 00:45:42,149 are changing values, changing. 644 00:45:42,660 --> 00:45:46,080 We're becoming more open-minded and more accepting. 645 00:45:46,350 --> 00:45:51,359 Isn't it good that we're becoming more tolerant and more loving to people 646 00:45:51,629 --> 00:45:53,879 that are in the LGBTQ community? 647 00:45:55,020 --> 00:45:55,950 Isn't this a good thing. 648 00:45:55,950 --> 00:46:00,630 Why, why are you coming down hard on those who decide not 649 00:46:00,630 --> 00:46:02,100 to get married traditionally? 650 00:46:02,910 --> 00:46:04,110 What's wrong with this? 651 00:46:04,380 --> 00:46:06,690 Well, let's talk about that. 652 00:46:07,050 --> 00:46:11,910 What effects do these things have on society? 653 00:46:11,910 --> 00:46:13,680 What is the cascading effect? 654 00:46:15,030 --> 00:46:17,790 As you can see, it's like a domino that has been pushed. 655 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:23,070 The first one was all of a sudden we had this inundation of media immediate begins 656 00:46:23,070 --> 00:46:28,680 to shape and transform the minds of a new generation, replacing traditional 657 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:34,680 values with a new set of values, a set of values that is exalting the self. 658 00:46:35,310 --> 00:46:36,200 And rather than. 659 00:46:36,990 --> 00:46:41,100 Teaching and putting on a pedestal of value of restraint 660 00:46:41,130 --> 00:46:43,500 and moderation and self control. 661 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,490 It is saying, let your feelings run rampant, do what you want. 662 00:46:48,300 --> 00:46:50,850 Be happy at all costs. 663 00:46:51,420 --> 00:46:55,650 From that we see the next step, which is there's a massive change in the way 664 00:46:55,650 --> 00:46:58,230 that people believe other things in life. 665 00:46:59,555 --> 00:47:04,595 When it comes to the traditional family values are malleable and they're 666 00:47:04,595 --> 00:47:10,595 accepting that we're seeing a spike in kids that are born outside of. 667 00:47:15,259 --> 00:47:17,810 And what is the effects of those? 668 00:47:18,109 --> 00:47:21,980 Well, we talked about this actually just a few episodes ago. 669 00:47:22,490 --> 00:47:28,040 In episode 1 93, with Robert Henderson, he came on the show and he talked about 670 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:34,100 how family values being destroyed, how the, the uncertainty that happens in 671 00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:39,439 kids' lives between the ages of zero and five is the greatest predictor. 672 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:48,680 Of further violence in their life of being arrested in their life of being, 673 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:50,990 putting themselves in a risky situation. 674 00:47:50,990 --> 00:47:54,590 When they're in their teens, it's further evidence. 675 00:47:54,650 --> 00:47:59,960 There's evidence saying that if you do not have a stable childhood, you will 676 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:02,660 grow up to not be a trusting person. 677 00:48:02,660 --> 00:48:03,800 You won't trust your friends. 678 00:48:04,010 --> 00:48:05,090 You won't trust the government. 679 00:48:05,150 --> 00:48:07,640 You won't trust the relationships that you have around. 680 00:48:09,470 --> 00:48:12,520 Is this a positive thing that we want in culture? 681 00:48:12,670 --> 00:48:16,550 Do we want to sow seeds of mistrust and doubt and culture? 682 00:48:16,730 --> 00:48:21,110 Do we want to sow seeds in the next generations life to have 683 00:48:21,140 --> 00:48:23,000 a chaotic young adulthood? 684 00:48:24,140 --> 00:48:26,150 That's only going to breed more destruction. 685 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:26,880 Is this. 686 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,980 Here's the clip from Robert Henderson. 687 00:48:32,670 --> 00:48:38,060 What are the predictors of, um, sort of juvenile delinquency, criminal behavior, 688 00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:42,810 teen pregnancy, sort of doing risky things that could get you hurt or in trouble. 689 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,130 Um, and so the, the two, the two key things that we're looking at, 690 00:48:47,130 --> 00:48:49,350 one was a environmental harshness. 691 00:48:49,350 --> 00:48:51,330 Would they call it environmental harshness, which is essentially 692 00:48:51,330 --> 00:48:52,890 low socioeconomic status. 693 00:48:54,570 --> 00:48:55,410 How much money do you have? 694 00:48:55,410 --> 00:48:56,520 How much money does your family have? 695 00:48:57,090 --> 00:48:59,580 The other question or the, the other factor they were looking at 696 00:48:59,580 --> 00:49:02,790 was environmental unpredictability, which is basically measuring. 697 00:49:03,615 --> 00:49:07,005 Um, how many different kinds of family structures you 698 00:49:07,005 --> 00:49:08,595 lived in, in your childhood? 699 00:49:09,015 --> 00:49:13,305 Um, you know, how many divorces, just how many different homes, how many sort 700 00:49:13,305 --> 00:49:17,214 of, uh, marriages and remarriages and so on that you sort of go through or, 701 00:49:17,214 --> 00:49:18,944 or foster homes in my case, I guess. 702 00:49:19,605 --> 00:49:23,055 Um, and what they found was that the ladder, this sort of unpredictability, 703 00:49:23,325 --> 00:49:27,944 uh, that kind of disorder and chaos and early child, Is much stronger 704 00:49:27,944 --> 00:49:32,565 predictor of later criminal behavior and getting into trouble, getting 705 00:49:32,565 --> 00:49:36,734 hurt then, uh, than poverty, which I think might surprise some people. 706 00:49:36,734 --> 00:49:39,015 I think we talk a lot about poverty and society, but we very rarely 707 00:49:39,015 --> 00:49:41,895 talk about stability and care and security for young children. 708 00:49:42,855 --> 00:49:45,404 Um, and I think this is what's going on. 709 00:49:45,404 --> 00:49:48,435 You know, there's a sort of broader question of what's going on in the 710 00:49:48,525 --> 00:49:54,120 us and maybe in Western society more broadly is, um, The breakdown of the 711 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:59,100 family in a situation where you don't have a stable two-parent family. 712 00:50:00,210 --> 00:50:04,260 Um, you don't, I think it's, it's harder to learn to trust people. 713 00:50:04,260 --> 00:50:08,610 It's harder to sort of learn early on how to, how to establish and build 714 00:50:08,610 --> 00:50:13,080 relationship, have that sort of sense of safety and emotional connection, 715 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:17,070 and that willingness to be vulnerable, uh, that, you know, children can have 716 00:50:17,070 --> 00:50:22,170 when they have a secure and stable home environment, but you know, 717 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:23,670 fewer and fewer people have that. 718 00:50:24,030 --> 00:50:26,310 And I think this is giving rise to a lot of. 719 00:50:30,194 --> 00:50:32,055 And I believe Robert is right. 720 00:50:32,654 --> 00:50:39,044 This is the leading factor of the rise in cynicism and nihilism in this generation, 721 00:50:39,315 --> 00:50:41,984 the breakdown of the family unit. 722 00:50:42,315 --> 00:50:45,645 So you might ask yourself, or you might ask me, well, 723 00:50:45,645 --> 00:50:49,214 why are these liberal values? 724 00:50:49,245 --> 00:50:49,634 Why is. 725 00:50:50,355 --> 00:50:55,755 Open-mindedness and this tolerance towards things that directly impact the 726 00:50:55,755 --> 00:50:59,895 stability of a family, especially if you believe that the stability of the 727 00:50:59,895 --> 00:51:04,845 family or a family unit is something to be looked down on is an oppressive 728 00:51:04,845 --> 00:51:07,425 function of the patriarchal society. 729 00:51:08,925 --> 00:51:10,365 You can believe that. 730 00:51:10,695 --> 00:51:18,295 And you can say that, but the problem is that when these ideas are implement, 731 00:51:19,290 --> 00:51:26,609 When there's a breakdown of the family unit, does it leave the next generation 732 00:51:27,689 --> 00:51:32,759 in a better place with better mental health, with better options on the 733 00:51:32,759 --> 00:51:39,060 table for employment with stronger, more healthy relationships, more 734 00:51:39,060 --> 00:51:48,250 trusting, or does it lead to more chaos and destruction in their life? 735 00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:56,500 And the studies would show the data would show that it's the latter. 736 00:51:59,020 --> 00:52:07,990 And so if we want to win the war against nihilism, if we want to stem 737 00:52:08,350 --> 00:52:14,439 the tide that is destroying this generation of suicide, rising suicide 738 00:52:14,439 --> 00:52:16,240 rates, rising depression and anxiety. 739 00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:20,990 Then we must begin with the youth. 740 00:52:21,170 --> 00:52:26,720 We must begin at a young age and we must begin with media because it is. 741 00:52:29,330 --> 00:52:34,670 Media that is shaping the hearts, the minds and the 742 00:52:34,670 --> 00:52:37,549 lives of the next generation. 743 00:52:37,580 --> 00:52:39,020 Thanks for listening to this episode. 744 00:52:39,020 --> 00:52:39,890 I hope you enjoyed it. 745 00:52:39,890 --> 00:52:42,649 Remember, this is a value for value podcast. 746 00:52:42,649 --> 00:52:46,520 If you got value out of the show, please add, ask you, give value back to the 747 00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:48,740 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