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https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/55705854 Speaker 1 (0s): Hello, my friends. Hello everybody. How's your day going so far, you live in the dream out there. Are you doing whatever you can? Are you living on the edge of what is possible? Are you looking around trying to find out from trying to find a way to make the people around you better? Isn't that a good recipe for success? If you can make everyone around you better, more successful than aren't you, in fact, making yourself successful.
That's what I try to keep in my mind. I'm not always successful and making people around me successful. However, I entertain that thought. I try to do it. I think it's a good recipe. I think is something that you can find helpful in your life. Additionally, I think if you are to do that, people will find you helpful. We want to be around you.
Which leads me to the point I was thinking about today. My thought of the day, my idea Maybe of the week. This would be my thought of the week. Let me know what you think.
Speaker 0 (1m 27s): <inaudible>
Speaker 1 (1m 31s): First off in order to set this up. Let us think about our economic system. Are you thinking about it? Good. Now think about language. Okay. Now think about the merging of the two. Are you doing it right now? Okay. Or your eyes closed either mind. Think about capitalism, capitalism, competition, wall street money.
It seems to me that the focus of our economy right now is a digital economy. The focus of our economy is into artificial intelligence. We believe the future of our world lies in robotics, in digital communication, and that these technologies are going to fundamentally radically change society forever.
Speaker 0 (2m 45s): Okay.
Speaker 1 (2m 46s): In fact, there is a Race according to
Speaker 0 (2m 52s): Well.
Speaker 1 (2m 55s): I am clearly not an authority on the source, but it seems to me that there a race between China and the United States for technological superiority, the race to AI, Google Ray Kurzweil, All of these new technologies, just competing to get there first and the money being poured into this industry and getting behind different agencies to when the races
Speaker 2 (3m 30s): Staggering,
Speaker 1 (3m 34s): The pace at which we are moving forward into this digital digital future is also a staggering. In fact, the pace is so rapid. We're leaving most people behind And there's people that do not want to look back. Oh, well, we left those people behind adios, Amigos. You can stand the heat. Get out of the kitchen. No Mosse Bert, huh? Nope, no Mohs. Roberto Duran.
I almost said no Mohs burrito. And that's crazy because I definitely want more burritos, but you understand what I'm saying? Right? The pace at which we are advancing leaves behind not only people in our country, but the majority of the third world country, what do we do?
Speaker 2 (4m 26s): There seems to be no slowing down.
Speaker 1 (4m 29s): There seems to be no taking a break. In fact, if you listen to the pundits, if you listen to the money, if you look at the critical infrastructure for the future, It is the only path forward. According to our financial system, unlimited growth
Speaker 2 (4m 56s): Quicker, faster, stronger.
Speaker 1 (4m 58s): We got to get there. Hurry. We're going to get there. Now hurry
Speaker 2 (4m 60s): Up,
Speaker 1 (5m 4s): Argue that there's a very technology that we're pursuing Is changing our language. The financial system that we currently are under, It goes hand in hand with this particular technology goes hand in hand with our language
Speaker 2 (5m 26s): And
Speaker 1 (5m 26s): It started with McLuhan in a printing press. Now we have the internet and it's just like this
Speaker 2 (5m 35s): Quickening
Speaker 1 (5m 38s): Incredible pace at which every one is being forced to run. You could say that's evolution. You could say, well, look the slow. We're going to get caught there, going to be the goo under your shoe. And that's just how it is.
Speaker 2 (5m 57s): It seems Maybe
Speaker 1 (6m 1s): Maybe it's the turn of the century. You know, maybe it was the Mayan calendar, 2012. Maybe it's something we are unable to understand, but we are at the corner of revolution and transition. And we can't see around that corner, but everyone has this sense of, Oh shit.
Something's about to happen.
Speaker 0 (6m 37s): I'm hopeful that
Speaker 1 (6m 42s): We're going to turn this corner and things are going to be more visible. You know, I feel like we were just in this race car, we're just flying down this road and we're going to have to make this 90 to a return in a minute. And like, we know we have to however were too sick. We were like, we're not, we don't want a slow down. I was like, Hey, we got to turn up here. Okay. I'm just gonna pull the e-brake and we're going to say, we're going to slide into this turn. I don't know. Maybe it shouldn't.
We slow down and take a little look. People are like, no, we need slowing down. We're just going to get, we're just going to get on it. We're going to steer into the skid man. I think if we continue the path we're on with this particular form of capitalism, turning into state capitalism, which is the Chinese model, it's just going to lead to incredible chaos. And I don't see how this doesn't lead to a world war if we could turn down this path.
So because of my love for the world, and I love for you and my love to have a podcast, I thought I would throw out this idea of Looking at a new economic model in a biological way, right? We'd been looking at it like in this mechanistic, futuristic Silicon artificial way. And it's gotten as far we've explored so many new technologies we've explored so much so rapidly.
However, you can see what this road goes. Maybe this road is inevitable, but I think we can at least take the long way around maybe or a more scenic path or maybe a route that kind of comes close to the edge, but not it doesn't take us over. And that road is a more biological economic system. When we focus on biology, when we focus on seeing the world
Speaker 2 (8m 59s): As a part of us,
Speaker 1 (9m 3s): It changes the way we feel about extracting resources is that kind of makes sense. Like if we just have unlimited competition,
Speaker 2 (9m 16s): Then we, it
Speaker 1 (9m 19s): Ultimately throw away our values. If it's only a limited competition, if it's only the survival of the fittest,
Speaker 2 (9m 31s): Then there's never
Speaker 1 (9m 33s): Any real And working together is that kind of makes sense. The only reason I do you think the only reason people worked together is to benefit their own personal goals. It might be, Are we truly capable of cooperation? I don't know. I'm not sure that I would like to believe we are.
However, I don't know. It seems to me that we're so far splintered right now because of competition Because of our philosophy on life of having more, what are you more you a little bit more Can I have some more Hey he wants more. I want more, what about that guy that didn't have any fuck that guy he's lazy.
I think we have a real opportunity right here. I think if we could get our shit together, like we have an opportunity right now with COVID and this whole election nonsense, like we have an opportunity to be living in a new Renaissance. We could be artists and philosophers and sculptors and mathematicians, and we could create a world of unlimited beauty. We could create that now in this, in this time of momentary chaos in this time where every one is somehow just stopped and looking around now is the time for us to begin our move and a new direction that if we're all sitting around taking a break right now, it's a good time to start a chit-chat in Macon may be asking some questions.
Speaker 2 (11m 36s): Yes,
Speaker 1 (11m 39s): I think right now the common person has the opportunity to add to the conversation. But instead were fighting amongst ourselves
Speaker 2 (11m 53s): Rather than
Speaker 1 (11m 55s): Fighting arm and arm against the problems. I think we're going to be up against some really difficult questions in the future and by future. I mean the next few years, I believe that this whole COVID idea is a contrived notion to reset the system and their, and right now we're having conversations about resetting the system. There is a fascinating article on critical race theory right now.
And it's like, look, it's not for the faint of heart. It's a real issue that has real solutions. And that if we choose to put our head in the sand and do nothing about it, we'll you can kind of see where it's going to go. It doesn't take a whole lot of foresight to see
Speaker 2 (12m 57s): Where the plan is headed to.
Speaker 1 (12m 59s): All that takes for a huge shitstorm is for good people to say nothing. And I know a lot of really intelligent, smart people that are going to self-censor themselves. We just don't want to say anything because they don't want to seem a certain way
Speaker 2 (13m 13s): The way, but here's the thing you don't know.
Speaker 1 (13m 19s): And what was that old quote from world war II? When they came for these people? I didn't say anything. When they came for these people, I didn't say anything. When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything.
Speaker 2 (13m 38s): I don't know if
Speaker 1 (13m 40s): It's some huge conspiracy where people are trying to promote their ingroup preferences and in order to divide the world, or if that's just what happens when resources get thin. I know some guys would have been to prison and shoot. I know some of you knuckleheads out there,
Speaker 2 (14m 10s): Right?
Speaker 1 (14m 10s): When you end up going to jail, you're going to be immediately divided into your tribe. Whether you like it or not, whether the weather will be fine or whether the weather would be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we'll weather, the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not. We can sit in here and pretend that we're all equal. And Hey man, we're just, we're all equal.
We're all exactly the same. Isn't it beautiful? Like what are these people talking about? No, we're not. None of us are equal. We're exactly the same. Only different. Some people are fat. Some people are tall, some people are high. Some people are small. There's different levels of intelligence, whether it's emotional intelligence or,
Speaker 2 (15m 7s): You know,
Speaker 1 (15m 9s): I cues are different. Some people are naturally good with their hands. And some people are visual learners. Some people that are audio learners and guess what would you like it or not? It breaks down by race. There are some races are better at this than other ones. And that's an issue that nobody wants to talk about. Hey, let's pretend that's not real. Hey man, don't, don't talk about that. Well, if you don't talk about it, then you're going to get what we have now.
And you know, I, I don't believe that there was this huge group of white nationalist, racist people. And I don't think there's a huge group of black nationalist people. I don't think either group hates the other group. I think that there's fringes. Of course, of course there's people on the far right. And people on the far left, but this exhausted middle, I think, I think that the majority of people are willing to look at other people as individuals and base them on the way they carry themselves.
Right? The color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes when you are dealing with people on an individual level. But when you run and hide behind your group and you play identity politics, all white people, or this all black people or this all Jews or this, Well, it doesn't take a whole lot of those people to run and hide behind their tribe.
Before that, now that tribe has a decision or we're going to protect this guy, that's out here running his fucking mouth,
Speaker 2 (17m 7s): Or
Speaker 1 (17m 7s): Where are we going to sit that guy down and be like, Hey, you got to knock this shit off. We got to running your mouth like that. And you sit in there and shut up or go face those people. Cause when you got to protect you, I often wonder like, are, does guy, you guys have listened to Brett Weinstein. Like that guy. I don't know what to think, man. Like that guy is so fucking smart. He said so many things that are incredibly enlightening, but then he says other things, maybe it's me.
I don't understand. Like I heard him say the other day, like I consider myself a radical
Speaker 2 (17m 46s): And I'm like, okay. So we're like, what
Speaker 1 (17m 50s): Does that mean? Like think about it from this perspective. So here is here is Bret Weinstein who teaches at evergreen college and he is devoted a large part of his life about teaching underprivileged people, minorities, and people who come from really low income areas. How to fight against the oppressors on one level I get. And I'm like, wow, that's I think that's awesome. Like you should your teaching, the oppressed, how to fight the oppressor and that's admirable.
Right? I get it like that part I can get. And there's multiple Cause. I can see myself on both sides. I can go Okay if I am oppressed here's some here is, you know, Salah, Lynskey teaching me these tactics of how to move forward in a world where I'm being oppressed. And I can learn like there's a lot of lessons I can learn there. I can learn that I do have power.
Even when people are taking the power away from a here's, what I can do. And that process allows me to begin understanding the dynamics of a power relationship and the position of the oppressed oppressed person. I can also understand that as the oppressor or That what I'm doing is wrong. I like I can understand it from that level too.
Like, you know, as someone who has authority to abuse, that authority makes you a person who
Speaker 2 (19m 39s): This is not
Speaker 1 (19m 43s): Worthy of having the authority. Does that make sense? Like, I can understand the profound learning experience that an oppressor could take away and met someone who was being oppressed can take away. What I don't understand is what is the profound learning experience for the radical? Like, what is, what does he like?
What would Brett Weinstein get out of? It he is clearly from Try that. I don't know. I don't know, like it's seems to me, if I were going to have a conversation about race and you'll have a Jewish guy that's going to the black community and telling the black community and the minority community, Hey, it's the white people that are horrible.
You get all these white people. They don't understand, man. There, they are swimming in their whiteness. Right? What was the joke? Do you guys see the debate between Jordan Peterson and gosh, darn it. I can't think of this guy's name. Eric Dyson and Eric Dyson tells a joke. They're talking about Race obviously Eric Dyson, who was a tremendous speaker in a tremendous intellect is having a conversation or debate with Jordan Peterson in his, his debate style is much different than Peterson's.
However, he drops this joke to kind of open the door to Jordan Peterson's in ability to understand racism in that joke is there's these two young fish swimming in the ocean and this, this swim by this older fish and the older fish is, Hey boys, how's the water. And the two young fish look at the, the, like the big fish and just kind of swung when in like what's water, you see, they don't the two young guys don't understand water.
'cause it's just a bun. It's all around them. They don't even understand what water is. So Eric Dyson says the Jordan patient. That's what whiteness is. Like, you don't even understand your privilege because you were a swimming in it.
Speaker 2 (22m 9s): And so,
Speaker 1 (22m 14s): You know, it's a, it's a pretty good jump off. And I would urge everybody to go watch that debate. I think it's on intelligence square. Jordan Peterson comes back with some really good rebuttals about, okay, what do you want to do about it then Eric, what should we do? Should, should I give you money? How me and Eric Dyson's like, Yeah you should give me all kinds of money. He goes Okay how much let's talk about your Theory mr. Dyson, how much money should I give you? Do We he's like you do, we base it on how old I am.
What percentage of white I am. And then that just shuts Eric Dyson up. He's got no answer. You know, he's got this great intro and he's got all of these ad hominem attacks about whiteness and how unfair it is for him. And when he is given an opportunity to produce solutions, he's got fucking nothing. He's all he's got is a fucking Brown blahblahblahblah listening to me is not fucking fair, bad about it. Okay. How much should I pay you? Oh I don't know what let's talk about it.
So I don't wanna talk about that. They don't want to talk about fucking solution's just want to bitch and complain. And if you think about it from that angle, like yeah, you're right. I agree. It's fucking easier for me. Yeah, you're right. It's fucking easier for me. So how do I give you money? How much money should I give you all? We want to talk about that. Why not? Because think about this argument. If it's easier for fucking a group of people, that means that, that those people are better adapted to that system.
What does that mean? It means those people are going to be more successful in that system because there are better at that system that when it comes down to a critical race theory, it's basically admitting that one race is inferior to the other, Like, think about that. That's where we're at right now. And that's why there's all this talk about like white supremacy and riots in the streets and black lives matter.
And you know, the They ch do you know that they changed the terminology for affirmative action? If they, if they've changed the language around them,
Speaker 0 (24m 47s): Got it.
Speaker 1 (24m 50s): They've changed at all. Like I said of it being that term now is just called like opportunity. And to me, it's so fascinating to just hear the way people change the language and they change the language. So will think about it differently. There's some real issues coming up, I think right now with how we see each other
Speaker 0 (25m 17s): <inaudible>
Speaker 1 (25m 21s): And not only is there are changes to that, but there is changes That are going to forever facilitate how we educate our kids, how we see the world. And I think it's important that all voices be heard.
Speaker 0 (25m 43s): <inaudible>
Speaker 1 (25m 47s): I think it's important to have an adult conversation about this because it's not going to go away.
Speaker 0 (25m 55s): Okay.
Speaker 1 (25m 60s): Maybe that's maybe that's what Brett wanted. Maybe that's what the radical gets out of it. Maybe the radical, the guy stirring the pot between the different races. He gets to be the guy who says, look, I had to go in here and get these guys to fight each other. So they finally talk about it. Maybe that's what the radical gets out of it. Like when I say like taking it back full circle. When I look at Bret and Eric Weinstein, they, they clearly don't talk about themselves being Jewish, not at all.
Like they don't want to talk about that. And I get it. Like, they're probably afraid for another Holocaust. They probably have people in their tribe. They were like, shut up, man. We're going to get us back in these goddamn. We're going to be fucking lamps again, quit talking about this. This might be what landed them in hot water. This might be why there's antisemitism. This might be why a lot of people hate Jewish people. You know, I've been trying to read history.
Like I don't, I don't hate anybody.
Speaker 0 (27m 8s): Got it.
Speaker 1 (27m 9s): But I don't understand why we can't have adult conversations about race and why we can't have really intelligent people sit down and have a discussion about here's what we think about our race. Here's where we come from. Here's why we do this. Here's why we do this. Like, I don't think that conversation has to end up and people punch each other on the face.
I think there's a lot of incredibly intelligent articulate people that could have even a humorous conversation about it. I think people are ready for that. And I think that if we don't have that, then we're going to have the other thing and that's going to be an all out war.
Speaker 0 (28m 4s): <inaudible>
Speaker 1 (28m 7s): Right. You can't just move people into positions because of the color of their skin or their gender or their sexual orientation. Hey this guy is going to be in charge because he's a black hermaphrodite. Okay. But is he qualified? Of course he's qualified. He's a black hermaphrodite. Yeah. Yeah. But does he have any experience in this particular field? What do you racist? What do you hate hermaphrodites? No. I just want to know if there's any, if the guy's experiences in this field, we, you racist son of a bitch.
Why would you bring that up? Why I'm just bringing it up because I think it's critical to us moving forward. No, it's not your, a racist. Do you see that idea of being censored and unable to challenge people because of their skin color, their skin tone, their religious affiliations or their sexual orientations. Like that is a huge problem.
And the people that are most outspoken, right
Speaker 0 (29m 16s): <inaudible>
Speaker 1 (29m 20s): Should be able to back up their claims with facts instead of just racist, bigot, homophobe, like those aren't arguments, those are ad hominem attacks. And as I was looking at the electoral map, there may be, I'm also pretty sick of this people up in their ivory towers, talking about uneducated white people.
There might be a lot of uneducated white people, but the fact it's so condescending for some white liberal to talk down to other white people. Its so condescending four people in positions of authority to speak down upon other people. And it seems to me that, that you have parts of the nation that are just look at these uneducated redneck white people. Like be careful what you say, be careful with your language, be careful what you were accusing people of there's this thing called a self fulfilling prophecy.
And if you want to go out over the airwaves and just spew out this garbage, because you think your punching up about uneducated white people, you might feel the wrath of uneducated, white people Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. And just because someone is smart in one area, just because you're smart in the world of coding, does it mean you're smart in the world?
Have anything else? I think we get that park and fuse. I know I do. Just because your smart in one area, it doesn't mean you're smarter than other areas then just because you have found success on this little niche area over here, does it give you the right to infiltrate other areas and try to take them over because you don't know shit in those areas.
Speaker 0 (31m 22s): Yes.
Speaker 1 (31m 26s): And that's where we get in trouble. People start trying to cross over and especially nowadays when power has been so concentrated at the top in the level of monetary gain in certain areas has allowed these technocratic billionaires to just, Oh, you know what? I figured out how to write code to help computers be protected from viruses. Therefore I can take over the entire health industry.
Okay. First off your software is not even that good cause your computer gets fucking viruses all the time.
Speaker 0 (32m 9s): So I,
Speaker 1 (32m 11s): I just, I know I'm kind of rambling here, but I guess just kind of try to get this out. And what this does for me is this helps me organize my own thoughts. I think you're going to start seeing a lot more about critical race theory. And I think everybody should be thinking about that. Like how do you think about race? What race are you? Why the fuck do they call it a race? And we try to where we, where is it a, was it a Bob Marley? Who said, it's not a, you got a horse race, you got a dog Race you got the human Race, which is a lot like the rat race.
Speaker 2 (32m 47s): Can we just stop for a minute
Speaker 1 (32m 50s): And reorganize and be like the fuck are we racing towards man? You want a piece of cheese that bad, go get it. Then I'll take your piece of cheese, man. I don't want it. Maybe we could redefine the goal of the Race. Maybe the goal of the race shouldn't be to compete with each other. Maybe the goal of the race should be for us to work together. Right? And that this is kind of brings me back to the very beginning of my conversation and that the new economic model, the one in which we become philosophers and mathematicians in the sculptors, that particular model needs to be rooted in bio biology, I think were running from the very thing that would free us.
We don't want to talk about race. We don't want to talk about differences, but we want to ensure the equality of outcome for everybody.
Speaker 2 (33m 48s): You can't
Speaker 1 (33m 49s): Look, I can't be black, no matter how hard I try a black person, can't be white, no matter how hard they try, we're not equal
Speaker 2 (34m 1s): And so forth.
Speaker 1 (34m 3s): I think we need to take a good, long, hard look at that and just accept it. It doesn't mean one person's inferior or one person is greater. But to say we're not different is to close our eyes and put our head in the sand
Speaker 2 (34m 19s): And look at the way biology works. I had a great day.
Speaker 1 (34m 27s): I heard a great, a tidbit of a great conversation. Yesterday was this older gentlemen. He was talking to the young guy and he says they were standing out in the forest and he says, see that tree over there. That's you look at the way that Shree is holding onto the earth. That's you? You are part of this earth and it doesn't matter if you were a Sycamore tree or a pine tree, you're a part of the earth.
But you as that Shree thrive in different areas. Hey I'm sorry, you can't grow tomatoes in the snow. Why would you want to know?
Speaker 2 (35m 8s): So why would you want to,
Speaker 1 (35m 16s): So you were so concerned with trying to import cultures from other areas into and transplant them into areas where the, the climate isn't right. For those cultures. I'm not saying some individual plants might not grow, But that's this, this particular area isn't conducive to the growth of this particular plant.
And you don't have to be a retard to see that Maybe, I'm a retired. Does that even make sense? You don't have to be a retard to see that. What does it even mean? You get what I'm saying though? If I went to Japan and I didn't speak Japanese, I would not do well there Because I'm a 45 year old guy and I don't speak Japanese and I don't understand the culture. So how could I possibly do well there?
How could I possibly do as well as somebody that was born there and speaks Japanese? Like, why do we, why do we think we have to make it easy,
Speaker 2 (36m 29s): Equal? It's not equal.
Speaker 1 (36m 33s): They will never be equal. Yep. It's fucking unfair. You're right.
Speaker 2 (36m 39s): Anyways. How's that for the day, right?
Speaker 1 (36m 42s): I think about this critical race theory. Look it up. Start thinking about your world, started thinking about your life and started thinking about what you can do today to better your life tomorrow because the world is changing forever. I love you guys
Speaker 2 (36m 56s): A lot.