In a stunning turn of events, the cyber pandemic has ended the
pandemic of miss information, but the ruling new leads quickly
rebooted their mind control program.
As he realized that in the process of running the world of misinformation and
disinformation, they also shut down.
And killed their own ability to program the children with their
progressive liberal globalists agenda.
Hey, it's the Lucas Skrobot and you're listening to the Lucas Skrobot show
where we uncover purpose, pursue truth and own the future episode 263 coming to
you late in the evening of October 6th, 2021 from the heart of the middle east.
We have survived hurricane Shea.
Very little damage and today's episode 263.
It's a prime number, which seems to be fitting since we were not only struck with
a hurricane here, but the entire globe.
Oh, no, the entire globe was struck with a cyber pandemic that took out
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all in the same time for six hours, the world
was without their precious information.
Can not scroll on your feet for six precious hours.
I don't know if you survived.
Um, I'm sure there are going to be groups on clubhouse where you can
talk about your traumatic experience and how you didn't know what to do
with yourself for those six hours.
But in all seriousness, I think a lot of people did freak
out that Facebook went down.
What happened.
Well, according to Facebook's vice-president of infrastructure, they
said that a configuration change on the backbone routers that coordinated
the network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted
this communication in English.
There's something called the G the BGP, the border gateway
protocol, which is a system.
That the internet uses to pick up and route packets of data to where they
need to go in the fastest manner.
Well, that's crashed somehow and it took them forever to get it up because
when they crashed their system with an update, it locked all of their
engineers out and actually locked people out of the staff buildings.
Cause their card entry cards wouldn't be.
And then the way their data centers are set up, there are some people who
had the knowledge of how to fix it, but didn't have access to fix it because they
got locked out of their own platform.
Uh, there was a lot of, uh, controversy, um, conspiracy going
around this, this shutdown of Facebook and Instagram as a whistleblower.
Has come out to do Congress.
Uh, her name is Francis Francis Hagan, and she has been spilling all the
beans about how horrible Facebook is.
We're going to get into just that.
But one of the conspiracies is that.
They shut down their servers to delete a bunch of data and purge their
system so they wouldn't get caught.
I think that's a load of baloney.
I think it's a it's human error that they made a mistake and it crashed.
And, uh, luckily it did because you had six hours of freedom, whether
you realize it or not, you were given six hours of your life back.
The globe was given six hours of their lives back it's, but it is starting.
To think how, how reliant a majority of the world is on those three platforms,
WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
They were a bohemoth people weren't able to log into other platforms
because their log-ins were via face.
People's businesses were shut down because their businesses are run entirely
on Facebook or entirely on Instagram.
And it's something we've talked about here multiple times on the show D
centralization decentralization.
If, if your all your baskets are in Facebook or WhatsApp or
Instagram, that's where your life is.
That's realistic.
That is where your, your pathways of communication.
Or if it's all on the iOS system, if it's all on any singular point, if you don't
own your list, if you don't own your email list, if you don't have a backup of
that email list, if you're not broad and decentralized, you are, you are voting.
You were vulnerable.
If you are not able to have, if you're not establishing and having face to
face phone relationships, SMS texts, a telegram telegram actually went from
being, I believe 56 most downloaded app in America to fifth in a matter of
six hours, telegram, you can find me on telegram links in the show notes, but it's
a great place to be able to decentralize.
You're you're you're modes of communication because what happened this
week on Tuesday with the shutdown, it shows you just how fragile and how complex
the systems that we live in are today.
The logistics that enabled me to have this cup of tea right now, but logistics that
enabled me to have coffee every morning.
The logistics that enable.
Us to have food from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world
dearly any point in our lives that have fresh fruit year-round these
are our, our modern day wonders.
The lifestyle that we are able to live, the Kings of old would have been jealous.
They would trade the biggest key from 200 years.
Would trade the life of any lower middle-class person, anywhere in the
globe, a hundred percent hands down, just this, our spice cabinets alone.
Our, our, our healthcare system alone are our length of life alone.
It rivals every other time in history while at the same time, the way
that our societies are placed in.
There are highly complex systems.
And if something gets wrong, if something is out of whack, things
can start to get a little lopsided.
So that's just the.
To open us up this morning on defending ourselves from centralization and
moving to broad and decentralized places and platforms, which is
one reason that I love podcasting because it's broad and decentralized.
You can listen on the platform that you want.
You can go and get an RSS feed you can download, and you can listen
to this at your time as you want.
There is not an algorithm.
Standing between you and this show.
Now, as I said, the shutdown, the shut down of the, the face
bookings, IgG WhatsApp ended the pandemic of misinformation
because of the cyber pandemic.
If you remember all those malware attacks and it was being labeled
the cyber pandemic, well, the cyber pandemic has taken out.
For at least a short period of time, all of that misinformation
that is plaguing the world.
But at the same time, as we said in the intro, just also taken out big tax ability
to shape and mold the minds of the future.
Do you program the minds of the future for better or for worse?
Well, a whistleblower, as we said, Francis Francine's Francine Francis.
Francis is poisoning Francine.
I'm going to call her Francy Hagan.
Oh my gosh.
Francine Hagen.
She was testifying before Congress in the United States.
And I know most of the listenership of this show is not in the United States,
but these things, these things matter.
And this is going to relate to, uh, in the United States in section
two 30, which is what enabled.
Enables social media platforms to operate as social media platforms
and not journalists or publishers.
And the same thing is in India with section 71, these, these sections,
these articles, article 70, uh, they enable these platforms to operate with
impunity when they can't get sued for something that you post, which is a
great thing in many ways, because it enables you to post what you want.
You don't have to have someone checking to make sure that it's okay, but it has
moved from just us being able to publish on these platforms to the platforms
then curating and having algorithms and having fact checks below, because
remember there's the pandemic of misinformation, ladies and gentlemen,
but this whistleblower has come out and is sharing.
How Facebook, how Instagram, how these platforms are reprogramming
our minds and causing extensive damage to youth and young adults.
Our mental health is at war because of our addiction to these
platforms, our addiction to the phone last week, a study came.
Uh, from Facebook citing that they have data pointing to the fact that their
platform is harming teenagers and women.
And then Facebook goes on to deny that, well, this whistleblower
Francis Francine is coming out in.
Refuting all the Facebook slides saying that no, they in fact
do have data on teens and young women and how it is affecting
their mental health for the worst.
Here is a Hagen in front of Congress, uh, Ms.
Hogan last week, w the committee heard directly from Ms.
Davis, the global head of safety for Facebook during the hearing,
the company contested their own.
Internal research as if it does not exist.
Yes or no.
Does Facebook have internal research indicating that Instagram
harms teens, particularly harming perceptions of body image, which
disproportionately affects young women?
Yes.
Facebook has extensive research on the impacts of its products on
teenagers, including young women.
Remember there are billions of people on this platform.
Billions of.
Between the three, especially on Facebook and Instagram.
And it's not just teens, but children, children are also on these platforms.
Now Facebook says, well, they ask a question and say, are you under 13?
If you are, you can't get on.
But we all know.
That kids are on these platforms.
We all know that kids are extensively using these platforms
are addicted to their phones.
Now that is not solely the responsibility of Facebook.
That is a parent's responsibility, ultimately to make sure that your kid
does not have access to a smartphone day and night or at all, because it is
studies are showing how these smartphone.
When kids are addicted are connected to these phones, it is re wiring your brains.
And we don't know the long lasting side effects and massive
longitudinal studies of 80 years because this technology is new.
But what we have seen in the short amount of time that these phones
cause anxiety, they cause fear.
They cause insomnia.
And they caused a massive amount of addiction because
they were programmed this way.
They were created this way with social psychologists, figuring out how to rewrite
our dopamine cycles so that we can not put it down so that each buzz you're
picking up the phone and we get another dopamine hit and another dopamine hit.
But this is happening to young kids.
As their brains are still developing our brains, continue
to develop until we're about 25.
So even in these teenagers, These phones are creating new neural pathways that
are going to have devastating damage on the mental health of this generation.
Well, Hogan goes on to do share that Facebook is actually doing
research on children that they deny or on their platform.
I want to emphasize how vital it is that Facebook chapter publish the mechanisms
by which it tries to detect these children because they are on the platform in far
greater numbers than anyone is aware.
Um, I do believe that, or I am aware that Facebook is doing research on children
under the age of 13 and they have those studies are included in my disclosure.
Of course.
Doing a study on, uh, on a group under the age of 13 or under the age of 18, that
is not a crime that happens all the time.
However, this is our private data.
These are your kilt, children's private data.
If you're allowing them on these platforms, these are private.
That they are scraping that they are using to create profiles it's to
create understandings of psychology of how these platforms are affecting
them for better or for worse.
These are tools that can be used for good or for bad,
but children's should not be on these platforms to begin with.
And you, you, at least I do.
I stop and question.
As I said before, what is the long term effects of these?
Are these platforms using our data responsibly or are they
using our data to make the money?
Because it make the money to make money off of you because you are the product.
Our children are the product.
These, these platforms are free and the more that we scroll, they are selling
your time, your attention to marketing.
And it's coming at the expense of our mental health.
It's coming at the expense of our attention span.
It's coming at the expense of our ability to focus and do deep work.
It's coming at the expense of our memory.
It might seem like our memory is graded and improving because
we can look at Google and we can find anything in a moment.
But in reality, Our memory is declining.
Our cognitive sharpness is declining as we become more and more addicted to
our phones and using them as a crutch.
Well, Hogan goes on to answer a question from Congress saying what would be
the one thing, uh, uh, legislation piece that she would put in place.
What regulations or legal actions by Congress or by administrative
action you think would have the most consequence or be feared most by
Facebook, Instagram, or allied company?
Um, I strongly encourage reforming section 2 32 exempt
decisions about algorithms, right?
So I'm modifying two 30 around content, I think has, uh, it's,
it's very complicated because, uh, User-generated content is something
that companies have less control over.
They have a hundred percent control over their algorithms.
The moment that they have a hundred percent control over through algorithms
and they all do, they are a publisher.
They are publishing and curating your feed.
My feed everyone's feed those blue checks that is them curating and seeing
these are the pre-approved sources.
And that is a form of of fact checking that is a form of putting their
credence behind something and pushing something so that it is accepted more
widely, all the little fact checks, anytime that you post something, that
fact check that is them exercising, uh, their, their editorial, right.
Over their platform, but that violates the moment that they do that.
It violates section two 30, if violates article 70 in India, which enables these
platforms to act as bulletin boards, but they're no longer acting that way.
So.
I fully agree.
Something needs to be done about these algorithms because they are
shaping the way that we think they are polarizing people by and large.
Now the argument then becomes if there aren't these algorithms, if you don't
have the algorithm controlling your life and controlling your feed, you will
become so miserable with a platform.
You won't like it you'll hate it.
And you'll just end up bleeding, leaving.
But these platforms.
And these algorithms really are helping your life so much.
And by us having this algorithm, you're actually enjoying the platform.
This is not entirely true.
However, here is Hogan is again, essentially creating a rebuttal
to that common argument that Facebook and Instagram get.
Facebook is going to say, you don't want to give up engagement based ranking.
You're not going to like Facebook as much.
If we're not picking out the content for you.
That's, that's just not true.
There are a lot of Facebook lives to present things as false choices.
Like you have to choose between having lots of spam.
Like let's say, imagine we ordered our feeds by time, like on iMessage
or on, um, there are other forms of social media that are chronologically.
They're going to say, you're going to get spent.
You're in it's spammed.
Like you're not gonna enjoy your feed.
The reality is that those experiences have a lot of permutations.
There are ways that we can make those experiences where
computers don't regulate.
What we see.
We together socially regulate what we see.
Um, but they don't want us to have that conversation because Facebook knows that
when they pick out their, the content that we focus on using computers, we
spend more time on their platform.
They make more money.
Um, and it's all about dangerous of engagement based ranking are that Facebook
knows that content that elicits an extreme reaction from you is more likely
to get a click, a comment or reshare.
And it's interesting because those clicks and comments and reassures
aren't even necessarily for your benefit it's because they know that
other people will produce more content.
If they get the likes and comments and read.
They prioritize content in your feed so that you will give a little
hits of dopamine to your friends.
So they will create more content and they have run experiments on
people, producer side experiments, where they have confirmed this.
This is, this is the hamster wheel of big tech, the hamster
wheel of social media sites.
And as a crater, you know, I'm a crater.
The reason that I am here during this long form podcast is precisely
because precisely because I want to do deep work and I find myself when
I'm caught up in the producing micro content after micro content on these
platforms, I'm not very good at it.
I know a lot of people who are excellent at it, they're able
to build their audiences on.
The way that I think the way that I communicate, I don't
feel like it suits its best.
And I haven't, I haven't developed that skill as well.
At the same time.
I love long form content.
I love being able to unpack an idea, take time, break something down, look
into something at detail, but the way the algorithm works, the way the
producer side of creating content.
Is that Facebook wants you.
Instagram wants you to create content for them for free, and then
pay them to promote your content.
Why so that they can have content to push out to people so that there can be more
engagement so they can sell ad space.
It's we all know that.
But this is the racket that we are all caught up in rather than breaking
free from shallow distracted.
And going into deep work, going into something that is substantial going into
the depths of our brain, the depths of our craft and bringing something out
in the world that wasn't just created in seven hours or seven minutes or
in the spur of the moment, but taking our time to develop and nurture some.
It has qualitative work that stands the test of time.
There are people who do that, but it's growing few and far between because.
Are so pressured by these algorithms to show up daily twice a day, three times,
four times a day, because if we don't, we can't break through the algorithm.
Well, this is all creating in people.
What's called nomophobia.
We've talked about nomophobia on the show before, which means the fear of
not having your mobile phone on you.
This is a growing phenomena.
That many people suffer from.
I found one study, a recent study on this, where it looked at high
school, college, age, and young adult people across the globe from Bahrain
to Kuwait, India, USA, Iran, Italy, Pakistan, Israel, Australia, Turkey.
So widespread, not totally cohesive across the globe.
They do say it was a small study.
It wasn't a large scale.
But the core focus of the systematic review and the med and analysis is
on severe nomophobia since it is associated with a serious impact on.
Because it promotes the development of mental disorders, personality
disorders, and increased risk of developing depression, anxiety,
anger, aggressiveness, stress, nervousness, and sleep disorders.
This phone that we think is our friend, because it's glued to our hand, 24 7, 365
or wherever we go, our closest comrade.
It's not our friend.
Many of us have an addictive, abusive relationship with that phone.
Every moment that it buzzes and it's causing mental disorders, personality
disorders, depression, anxiety, anger, aggressiveness, stress,
nervousness, sleep disorders, insomnia.
The study showed that the prevalence of moderate to severe nomophobia among
all populations using this research.
And the tool that they did was 70.7, 6%, 70% of everyone that they had purchased
a bait in the study and then measuring it out to the global population.
They estimate 70% of people have moderate to severe nomophobia,
the prevalence of severe number of nomophobia in all populations using this.
Is 80 or sorry, excuse me.
20.8, 1%.
20% notable.
This finding is similar to the lifetime pooled prevalence of anxiety
disorder, which is estimated at 16.
Percent overlapping prevalence rates between anxiety disorders and
nomophobia point to the potential bi-directional relationship between
nomophobia and anxiety disorders, suggesting the importance of considering
another psycho metric co-morbid.
When evaluating them phobia and vice versa, AKA, it seems that
these two are interconnected.
It seems that people who have a predisposition to anxiety disorders
are going to find themselves on phones more because it's the way that they're
trying to cope with their disorders.
And.
These phones are actually causing an increase of anxiety
in young people's lives, as they totally rewrite their brain.
There's a second study that was, that was done.
And the conclusion of the study showed that both nomophobia and addictive
use of social media are potential risk factors in adolescents, in.
The present study seems to be the first longitude digital investive investigative
relationship between nomophobia addictive, use of social media and
insomnia among adolescents, healthcare providers, and others should consider
the importance of reducing nomophobia and addictive use of social media and
adolescents to improve their sleep.
And we know what happened.
If you don't get sleep, if you're not getting enough sleep, you're
going to have a shorter life.
Your body is going to be unhealthy.
Your mind is not going to think clearly.
And if you are in that cycle of not getting enough sleep, you are going to
wake up and turn, turn to your phone because you're already struggling.
You're already just trying to get through the day.
You're just coping, trying to get through life.
This is what our youth is growing up in.
And we have to, I mean, I'm a youth as well.
I for sure, probably have some nomophobia because I'm connected to
my phone, but I, I yearn a long I'm working and taking active steps in my
life to break away, to set boundaries where the first hour of the day.
I wake up.
I'm not on my phone for a full hour, not checking a single text message,
text message, not scrolling through anything, not looking to see what
messages I got while I was sleeping, but saying for the first hour, I am
going to set the rhythm of my day.
I am going to set the rhythm of my life instead of being reactive to
everything in my inbox, in my emails, my text messages and the news and the.
Whatever is happening on Instagram.
I'm going to take a step back and become proactive rather than being
reactive and taking steps to create deeper rhythms of work, to create deep
work, rather than, rather than being distracted with the shallow clickbait
of social media that spins on and on.
And I challenge you.
I want to challenge you as well, that if you want to uncover your purpose, if
you want to shape and own your future, that is done through pushing aside
distractions, pushing aside, shallow work and diving deep into your creative
work, whatever that might be, whether that's being a baker, whether that's
being a lawyer, whether that's been, uh, a father or a mother or writing.
A photographer, an artist, a school teacher diving deep into your work and
pushing the distractions aside because that is where we will uncover our purpose.
We will uncover the richness and the pleasures of life and will break free
from that the meaningless anxiety.
Of social media
in a post-truth society where we have exchanged truth for lies and
reason for postmodern rationality, the absurd finally make sense.
We a couple episodes back, we had just been true dough on the show and he
was stumbling over LGBT DQ element of.
Well, Justin Trudeau is back.
And this time he's back with a tweet.
Oh my goodness.
It says across the country, people are lighting candles to
honor indigenous women girls.
And this is a mouthful.
This is the whole point of this segment right now.
Two S L G B T Q Q I a plus that's 11 11 2 S L G B T Q Q I a plus I don't even know
what the L stands for people who have, who have, are missing or have been murdered.
We must continue to work together to raise awareness and advocate to
end the ongoing national trends.
Of course there, he's making a reference also in this to the, the
young white girl that was missing what missing and was murdered in America.
And the progressive were all up in arms because, you know, it's
missing white girl syndrome.
So it's only right that we, you know, we have a tweet and add some more letters
to the alphabet to S LGBT, I mean, again, getting out of him, but it's this.
To those who are deep into this progressive ism, it's, it's not
instinct, then they, it's not something that they're putting on.
It's not a show that they're putting on.
They believe it to their core.
When you listened to some of these activists, Here is
a, a pro abortion activists.
Makilah Aziz has as-is.
I'm not good with names, tier Lord.
I need to work on that.
Here's Kurt speaking in front of Congress, United States, Congress about.
How, when we use the word pregnant woman, it's quite offensive and
it's not inclusive to all people who are really in this conversation.
I just wanted to acknowledge a lot of people are being left out of this
conversation today because as we know people get pregnant and not just women,
but I hear people over and over and over again, say women get pregnant,
but that's excluding people that should be a part of this conversation.
Well, thank you.
Mahayla for reminding us that.
Trans women, trans men, biological men who decide that they're women now,
they can't, they can't have babies.
It's biological women who decide that their men are now the men who
supposedly are men that can have babies.
So we need to say birthing people or pregnant people, uh, because we,
you know, we have to be inclusive.
As I said, they.
They believe this, they believe that the emperor has no clothes.
That if you change a definition, if you change the semantics, it is
what it is, what you make it to be.
It is what you believe that it is because you are the one that defines your truth.
You are the one that defines your reality, live your truth, live your truth.
You are a queen, you're a king.
Well, and the reason that we're going through this is because.
These ideas, they are pathogens.
They, it is a pandemic of these ideas and they're not isolated to one country.
They are spreading over this phone, over the media.
These ideas are spreading through the airwaves they're spreading
through the media and there is not a single corner of the.
Were these ideas are not being adopted.
As you listened to this show right now, there's not a single place across the
collegiate cross that the golf, if you live in the golf, you know that there are
people who are beginning to adopt these ideas who are beginning to talk like this
across Africa, across India, across Asia.
These ideas are gaining traction.
And really in my mind, it is we are witnessing the fall and the moral
decline of the west is not all in the west, but when my wife and I are back
in the states, our family is spread.
Our family is spread pretty thin.
So, so we ended up having to go to lots of different states while we're there.
And it gives us the opportunity to really see the broad spectrum
of America and little, little segments and little slippers to see
the way that people are thinking.
And the people are talking and wherever you go, you walk into a target or a
Walmart, and you hear the conversation that people are having on the phone.
And you're thinking, what world are we living in?
You see the rainbow flags down, every single bullet.
And you think to yourself, what sort of society has America become?
Now?
Those, those people who are living in America, if you're living
in America, you probably it's.
As if you're in a pot, that's slowly warming.
But when we come back, it's like it's culture shock every time, because we live
very much isolated from these pathogens that are so potent outside of the
internet, but these ideas are spreading.
Well, there was a proposed law made in Pennsylvania by a Democrat law maker.
And it's supposedly this is satire.
I am pretty sure this was a satirical wall that was aimed at, um, attacking
the, the, the heartbeat bill in Texas.
The heartbeat bill in Texas was saying that once eight heartbeat is detected in a
baby in the mother's womb, which normally happens around six, six and a half weeks.
You're able to detect a heart.
At that point, you're not allowed to electively abort the baby, unless there
is a dire medical situation where then there are exceptions that are made.
So it, this bill is satire.
I do believe that is making fun and pointing at this heartbeat bill.
But really when you, when you read.
It is truly the way that people are thinking that this is truly
the language that people are using in all seriousness in the west.
Right now, it is a complete collapse and moral decline.
I want to read a couple of lines from this bill that eight U S Congressman, uh,
presented to, to the state of pencils.
For, for too long, the public debate around abortion contraception and
related reproductive matters have thrust government into the center
of restrictions on bodily autonomy of women and girls rarely is there a
meaningful dialogue around public policy focusing on the personal responsibility
of CIS gendered men in this.
It goes on in order to improve public health outcomes and release sweet
justice into our households and bedrooms.
We must wrap our love of individual Liberty and moral
imperative of the greater personal responsibility and acknowledge
men's essential role in procreation.
Therefore, I will be introducing legislation that will we
cry choir all inseminate or.
Because remember an inseminator can now be a woman.
It no longer matters your, your actual biology and seminate is to undergo
vasectomies within six weeks from having their third child or 40th birthday.
Whichever comes first.
Okay, I'll finish reading and then I'll give my, uh, my thoughts here.
As long as state legislature continues to restrict reproductive rights of
CIS women, trans men, and nine, nine binary, non binary people, there
should be laws that address the responsibility of men who impregnate.
And he shouldn't have said men.
They're the responsibility of, uh, inseminate who impregnate them.
I have to correct his pronouns there.
My goodness.
I'm a little offended myself.
Thus, my bill will also codify wrongful conception to include when a person
has demonstrated negligence towards preventing conception during intercourse.
As crazy and as satirical as this sounds as this is, you know what,
I bet if they could get this past the Progressive's would be cheering.
Finally, we, we have a three child policy in the state of Pennsylvania.
Finally, men are being thrown in jail and having vasectomies at
40 or thrown in jail if they do.
And after three kids by law, you know, the government will have the full
rights to just go in and snip, snip it's, even though it is satire, it
is truly the way that this movement is thinking is truly the way that
the progressive ideology thinks, because it is the logical conclusion.
Of their axioms of their pre their, their adopted premises and truths.
It is the logical conclusions in our plane of the way they see
society working together, fitting together and not fitting together.
And it is not only is it district.
But it's sad and because it truly, it truly is the, the moral decline of the
west, the moral decline of America that has been happening for decades, but
it's been exported all across the world.
As I said, they, they believe this heart, soul, mind embody.
To the point where Laurel Hubbard, who was the transgendered, uh, male
competing as a female in the Olympics.
Didn't mettle didn't place was beaten by many women, actual women.
He, she won, he won the trans gender w one, the sports woman of the year.
This is how much they believe it, that eight, a man, a 40 year old man that was
beaten by a bunch of 20 year old girls in the Olympics, won the woman of the
year award sports woman of the year.
You can't, you can't make it up.
And they fully believe these it's more than lies.
They fully believed this decision.
They're fully swimming and breathing and drinking this water at, they
believe this to be the truth of society.
The truth of reality.
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Welcome back to Weaver and loom a part of the show where we take ancient wisdom
and we weave it in with our everyday lives so that we can own our future.
And we've our destinies today's quotes.
It's not so ancient, but it is.
I found it from Steven Hicks who has been on the show.
Who's a professor of philosophy.
And he wrote this.
You could go to Alaska, get mauled by a grizzly bear and die.
You could travel to the Brazilian Amazon, catch a virus and die.
You could climb a Himalayan mountain, fall off and die.
Or you could sit safe on your couch.
Eat chips.
Everything that we do involves risk.
And at the end of the day, we will each die.
A bold man will go out on the streets.
The, the fool that the anxious, the fearful will say there is a lion outside.
There's a line on the streets, but a bold man will go out and face that lion.
But, uh, A foolish, a spineless person won't even go out because there might be a
lion on the streets, but they're not you.
And I let us be people who face our fears.
Who face the lions that are in our paths, the ways that the risks that we have to
face to reach our goals to summit those mountains, because the alternative,
the alternative would be to sit on our couches, to sit on our butts, to eat
chips, and we're going to die anyways.
And we'll probably, if we're living that sort of life, Uh, visionless
purposeless lifestyle will probably die much earlier than if we risked our lives.
We risked it, all that in the face of hardship, in the face of trial and the
F in the face of friction and sorrow and grief, we stood up, we woke up
and we said, I'm going to give it my all again, I'm going to step forward
again because the alternative is pre-K.
The alternative is regret and people around you see w when we stand up, when
we face our fears, when we risk our lives is not for ourselves, but it's
for people around you and the destiny of other people are locked inside of you.
And whether or not you will stand up.
And fulfill your calling, fulfill your purpose, because if you do that will
unlock the purpose and the destinies of others to enable them to own their future.
So, one way you can do that actively is by building a community around you,
brick by brick, building language, building ideas, building camaraderie.
Building community building shared value and shared meaning.
And one of the ways you can do that is talk about the ideas on the show
or better yet even share this show with a friend and then talk about it.
And you can do that by texting them.
You don't need to post it on to social media.
That is all for this episode.
Thank you.
For being here this week, go out face your fears, do something that scares you,
that maybe you won't physically die, but it might feel like you went emotionally
die because that is the way that we can uncover our purpose and own our future.