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https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/55417488Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome back to the podcast. My friend, hope you're all enjoying the day, or I hope you're enjoying the evening. I wanted to talk to today. Not only do the most amazing people that are listening, there would be you. However, I wanted to talk today about a certain subject that I found really interesting. And that subject is the crossroads of conformity.
Sounds like a mouthful of words. Doesn't it. Let me try and explain exactly what it is I'm thinking about. It seems to me that humanity is at the crossroads, the crossroads of conformity, a cursory glance back in history. Be it the history of your life, a history of your parents' life or history in general, regardless of how true that history is.
One of the major flaws of humanity is also its greatest asset in that is the emotional drivers that make us human love, passion, hate anger, animosity, jealousness, all of these powerful emotions that we have. These, this irrational exuberance, the inability to see things clearly the pathway to abstraction all of these things, our inability to see the opposite sex at times clearly as an individual, as an equal, our inability to see things clearly because our mind is clouded with emotions.
Be it lust or desire, be it guilt or animosity. These are the things that hold us back from truly embracing one another as part of the same organism. When you listen to policymakers being in the past or the day, they have this grand idea for this utopian world view of We, we can unite the world and we can extract a resources and distribute them fairly.
And it's so naive to me, don't get me wrong. It's beautiful. It's just naive. If you listen to the meditations of Marcus or really is, you will see, even then he was speaking about the issues with emotions, how it clouds your judgment, it makes it unable for you to accomplish your goals.
At times that driver those drivers, these tools of creativity, these ideas of inspiration, these methodologies for moving forward or at a point where they can be corrected. If you look at them as if there is a problem, or if there is a disease, and that is the crossroads, I'm talking about artificial intelligence, although I don't think that's the correct term, or I think it's a poor choice of words to describe the idea of computers being, thinking entities.
They are without emotion. They are without the drivers of humanity. It, as much as people want to get rid of those, some people would like they get rid of them. Not all people as much as some of these policy makers or, or even those of us who live day to day in our not making conscious choices as much as technology would like us to be seen that way.
I'm not sure if I'm saying that, right, we are not robots. We are not computers. However, it is possible for us to move towards an evolutionary change without emotions. It is possible for us to evolve into a less critical thinking, less evolved set of organisms.
I think that is what technology is doing to us or better yet. That is the fork in the road. And in which the economic model of technology is pushing us and Britain a little something. And I'll let me know kind of, I'm trying to flesh it out here, but let me just read you this rough draft have kind of what I have put down.
We are on an evolutionary. We are at an evolutionary turning point. As far as human emotions go, it is true that our emotions, our in fact, the roadblocks that stop us from grand utopian dreams, grand utopian dreams of a peaceful, pragmatic harmony, which one of us can not see the organized brilliance of the hive. Mind this hive, this cooperative brood, this, this highest level of organization.
Do you not understand how productive we could be? How fair life could be, how equally we could divide the Earth's resources. Am I the only one who sees this as a dystopian nightmare? Have we not been warned by the likes of Orwell, Huxley and Patrick Wood? We are all far from perfect.
We are all far from being the best versions of ourselves. We are all far from rational because we can never be these things. This is what it means to be human, imperfect, irrational, emotional. We are all in a process of evolution, the same process of evolution. It's not a pretty picture, but it is necessary if the path where as smooth as the rocks and the rocks, as few as the handholds and the handholds, a soft as a breeze, there would be no reason to climb the mountain.
There would be no sense of accomplishment once you've climbed them out. Humanities leaders' at this point in time, it's seems to me have this naive idea that they can make the world, this peaceful place of harmony. You can't, you can't.
No, we are. We are animals on some nature and it's such small thinking. It is such a naivete. It is such small mindedness for people who find themselves making policy or our in fact, in positions of authority to try and move to that level of Globalism and then not learned from the past.
Do they not understand they're driving us to war it's seems to me, regardless of the angel rules of our better nature, regardless of what Stephen painter, how does that the next war fought by a major power will be brutal. I think if you are right honest with yourself, and you've read some history about world war II and two, you can see that one of the most, you mean driver's in world war II.
He was in fact Globalism versus nationalism. Here we are again today, do they? Not only are they purposely driving us towards this, do they have any idea how dangerous Americans can be have provoked? Think about who lives in America. Every one of us have scratched and fought to get here.
Maybe not each individual today, but each individual has a relative that did that be it the original indigenous Indians make no mistake about it. They were fighters. They were warriors. Be it. The first pilgrims that came over or the first people that manifest destiny moved towards the West, this slaughtered and murdered and raped be it, our friends from Mexico, the struggle to get past the border.
The rest of the world should be very, very careful when provoking America, even with their ad hominem attacks and they are Americans are fat and lazy. They have no idea what lies inside the minds of Americans. And they should be very careful about provoking us. I believe even though we are in the midst of a crazy election cycle, I believe that a minute of foreign troops sets foot on American soil, they will be slaughtered.
Make no mistake about it. Have you ever tried to get into the middle of family business? I once knew two brothers, great friends of mine, and they would fight horribly. I mean, just punch each other and they would be horrible. However, if they were out and somebody said something negative about one to the other, they would both beat the living shit out of that person.
I think it's a great metaphor for American. Like that's what we do. We are fighters. We are survivors. And if there's one thing our country does as well as we do go to war. Well, it's probably fair to say that every American knows someone in their family who has gone to war and fought be careful when you let slip the dogs of war.
I think that was a bit of a little sideways rant there. However, let me try to bring it back. I think we, as a world, we, as men, as women have an opportunity right now to choose how we are going to be affected by technology. We can use technology as a tool. We can use technology as a way to build a better life for those who were interested in building a better life for themselves, or we could continue to use technology as a distraction, as a way to distract ourselves from all of that makes us human would be interesting.
See the studies like an FMR, I study of brain chemistry while someone is hooked up to the internet, I think is limiting. Our creative process is narrowing our view as much like the printing press has narrowed our vocabulary, thus narrowing our view of the world.
I think that the internet is the printing press on steroids, and it's going to further narrow condense some people's lives into this tightly focused beam of inability this tight focused beam of abstraction.
Part of me believes that the answers are so easy. When you look at government, at least in the United States, all the government officials are speaking about breaking up the big tech companies. They're talking about monopolies and the amount of power that these corporations have over the American mind over the American economy.
And when you look at businesses talk, they talk about the problem with government having so many regulations. The truth is we can never grow again until we lift the government regulations on the corporate stranglehold of our planet. You see corporations hate with a passion government regulations, unless those regulations make competition unfair, right?
All corporations love the regulations that make it easier for them to do business. No one talks about that. No one talks about corporations lobbying the government for regulations. It's like they're on opposite sides. Have the same coin. If you want is if people in institutions or corporations or government really want growth, all you have to do is lift the regulations on intellectual property.
Think about this antiquated idea of intellectual property. Someone comes up with a great idea and no one else can. In fact, not only can you not use this great idea that can move humanity forward, you can't improve it. You can't talk about it. You can't profit from it only a very small narrow group of people that came up with this idea and then wrote on a piece of paper that they own. This idea only they can move forward.
That's the very foundation of inequality and you hear governments around the world is yap. Yap, yap. In about any quality. Once you get rid of intellectual property to go on a on, we can't do that, right? And then officials, incorporation. They want something so bad. However, they refuse to level the playing field. They refused to allow competition 'cause they know they'll lose <inaudible> it's like someone claiming to be a great swimmer, but clinging to a life raft, telling everybody else how good of a swimmer they are because there are clean in his life raft.
You're not a good swimmer. You have a flotation device. And yet we constantly go to this expert, swimmer clutching a flotation device, right? The truth is if the handful of corporations, the monopolies and their lobbyists and the so-called government officials or the house of Lords and the feudal system, that's Europe.
If they refuse to open up the playing field, not only to the third world countries, but to the middle-class, the middle class is going to a nylon, eat them, and they're going to be happy about it. I think what you're seeing now is an attempt to divide people by race, religion, color, creed.
The people on the top are desperately trying to divide the bottom 90% 'cause they see that as a class warfare is the end for them. It seems to me, class warfare is vastly superior to Ray's warfare, even in the face of such incredible poverty around the world. People on the top, the refuse flat out, refuse to police themselves.
There is no justice for anyone making more. I'm sorry. There is no justice for the billionaires. There is no justice for the multi-millionaires. There is no justice for people that are in our government. They have immunity. Imagine being someone selling weed on the corner, trying to make some money for your kid. You go to jail, Kamala Harris, the so-called black woman.
Vice-president she put more people in prison for marijuana and then went out and bragged about how she smoked marijuana. Look at Joe Biden's family. It's so disgusting. How could anybody possibly vote for a man who is such a horrible father, his son as a crack head that has inappropriate relationships with children. If you vote for that, what is wrong with you?
That man is that even a father. And do you think he should lead our country? Give you any idea. The insanity of that is it's disgusting. If you vote for that guy, you are disgusting. The What either. I get it. Both of these people are inadequate for your voting for a man who doesn't mind his son having an inappropriate relationship with a child you're voting for that.
I can't fathom it. I would rather have someone that's a lot of other things than the father of a child molester that doesn't care. And so disgusting to me. And yet it seems to me that this is look at the Epstein scandal, looking at the Prince Andrew scandal, look at the Harvey Weinstein scandal Ghislaine Maxwell.
None of them go to prison. I guess you could argue that Ghislaine Maxwell IX currently being questioned. You could argue that Jeffrey Epstein who was killed was that justice. What about all the people that they had, that they were a black man? Where are those people? Why is it that all these people have immunity? And if you get up and go to work every day, you're subjected to a set of laws that those people and buy those people.
I mean, people in positions of authority will never, ever be subjected to that's the problem. That's the problem. There's no justice. There's only just us. I think we're headed for dark times. I think we're headed for violent times. And I think we have a choice in individual choice of how you want to move forward in your life with your family.
I think that choice is understanding what technology is understanding what the easy path is. Never the right path. The road less traveled, usually has the best scenery while it may be treacherous. It's well worthwhile.
I know that was kind of a little bit of a meandering pathway. I'm gonna have some more podcasts coming in. I just, I was working on our project, the medieval internet, and it just got me thinking down this road of where we're headed to, why we're headed there and how much longer we have before we get there. And this particular set of thoughts, didn't really mesh with the entirety of that subject of the metal medieval internet.
So I thought I would just do a individual podcast here in and try to get this out. So hope you enjoy it. Oh it was not too much of a too much lunacy. You hope is not too crazy, but I love you guys. Hope all is well a little bit.