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https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/60389202Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome back, everyone. Welcome back to number two of 2021. The true life podcast.
Speaker 1 (10s): Things
Speaker 0 (11s): Are really heating up out there. Am I right? It's getting nuts with the Colvin. I'm out here in Hawaii and I just witnessed the storming of the congressional houses. Wow. What a year? It's going to be anybody, anybody invested in Bitcoin telling you that's the move? I think pretty sure that's the move. I think if you have a little bit of extra now is the time to start putting your future into the new monetary system, which I think is big
Speaker 1 (48s): Coin. Why am I opening up with this? Because of me
Speaker 0 (52s): Getting into Culture today's talk podcast is going to be about Man in Culture
Speaker 1 (1m 3s): We're at
Speaker 0 (1m 3s): A pivotal point right now, I believe in 2021. Isn't it, it seems that maybe 20, 21, I should have been the Mayan calendars 2012. Maybe it was Maybe. Things began to happen in 2012 and they've just been rapidly increasing. And now it's time. So when I talk about culture, let me break it down a little bit, kind of break the ice and move our way into what Culture is, how it influences us.
Speaker 1 (1m 38s): And let me ask you this question. Do you think that for me,
Speaker 0 (1m 42s): People can socially engineer and environment
Speaker 1 (1m 47s): By changing
Speaker 0 (1m 48s): The culture Can people shape the culture that shapes the behaviors of the people.
Speaker 1 (1m 58s): Culture is the way that we are.
Speaker 0 (1m 60s): Do you see and do things as a society? The term incorporates the social norms, values, traditions, knowledge and technology. I think technology is very persuasive. Food, language arts, there's tons of other things. It's an important
Speaker 1 (2m 22s): Part
Speaker 0 (2m 23s): Of the way. All of us experience our lives. Whether we stay at home or travel the world engaged with the latest news in political debates, or simply enjoy reading a good book or watching a good movie were actively engaging in the culture that surrounds us. There was a couple of quotes that I think will help kind of get the juices flowing Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear that's by Walter Littman Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolf, let us begin at the beginning, when you were brought up
Speaker 2 (3m 10s): And in this world,
Speaker 0 (3m 16s): The light and the doctor picks you up, picks you up by the feet and smacks your bottom. And you started crying from that day. We were brought in to this world in a helpless condition, the helpless condition of the new born human arises from the fact that it is neurological and muscular systems are largely undeveloped and uncoordinated. His nervous system is in particular is like a telephone system of a great city in which almost none of the connections from phone to phone or from phone to switchboard are closed.
Speaker 2 (3m 54s): We were sorry. All circuits are busy. Please try again. Later.
Speaker 0 (3m 58s): Of course, this comparison is by no means perfect for the human nervous system is much more complicated, much more adaptable and much faster than any telephone system. The human brain alone, as a kind of central switchboard has millions of neural connections. Other millions are distributed throughout the body the way in which these are connected up, or even the fact that they come to be connected up at all, depends on what happens to the child, how we use trained, how he grows.
Speaker 2 (4m 35s): Okay,
Speaker 3 (4m 37s): Well, we run, there is some industrial strength, electrical cable from the top of a clock tower down. So spending you get over on the street between these to lampposts, meanwhile, we don't have to fit in with the type of vehicle with this big pole and hook, which runs directly into the flux capacitor at the calculator. The moment you start off down the street, driving directly to where the cable accelerated to 88 miles per hour, hoarding with a flier at a precisely 10:04 PM. This Saturday night, lightning will strike the clock tower, electrifying the cable just as a connecting hook, makes contact thereby sending one point 21 gigawatts into the flux capacitor and sending you back to 1985.
Speaker 0 (5m 18s): The things he is capable of becoming originally we will speak of as his potentiality is the things he does become as the result of experience and training we can speak have, as actualities pretend nothing about that, there is a two differences. There are the, some of his potential realities. We're going to call a human nature while the sum total of his actualities we're going to call his human personality is quite clear that human nature potential quality's is very much wider than human personality actually developed qualities.
Indeed, we might assume that everyone at birth or even at conception has the potentiality for being aggressive, submissive, selfish, generous cowardly, or brave masculine or Finland pugnacious, or peaceful, violent, gentle, and so forth. You get the picture and that, which of these potential qualities becomes actual or to what degree it does.
So depends very largely on the way in which each person is trained or on the experiences he encounters, as he grows up. The fact that there are societies or tribes in which almost everyone is aggressive, like the Apaches and that there are other closely related tribes in which almost everyone is submissive like the Zuni and the fact that infant's taken from one such a tribe and read it in the other, grow up to have it in full measure.
The typical characteristics of their adopted tribe would seem to indicate both that all such people are potentially about the same at conception and that their personalities are largely a consequence of the way in which they are reared. If this is so it is clear that the way in which people are brought up is a very important, I think that we can all agree with that. This is of course evident from the consideration already mentioned, namely, that humans are helpless at birth and must be cared for and trained during a period of many years, the way in which they are cared for.
And train depends very largely on the personalities of the people whom they encounter as they are growing up. But these personalities, again, depend on the way in which these adults were reared. You beginning to see the relationship there in the cycle. Thus there appear in any society, certain patterns of action,
Speaker 4 (8m 21s): Right?
Speaker 0 (8m 21s): Certain patterns of belief and certain patterns of thought that are passed on from generation to generation, always slightly different, both from generation to generation and from person to person in any single generation, but possessing a recognizable pattern. This pattern depends not only on the way people are trained to act, to feel and to think, but also on the more concrete Man at the stations of their social environment, such as the kind of clothes they wear, the kind of shelter's in which they live, the kind of tools they have for making a living, the kind of food they eat and how they eat it, the kind of toys they have to amuse themselves, as well as the kind of weapons they have to defend themselves.
All of these things, patterns of action, feeling thought as well as concrete objects used in these activities are known. And the social science as a culture, this culture, form's the environment in which a child grows up as the natural environment that surrounds the baby Man is surrounded by natural environment to be sure, but it is much more remote in man's case.
Culture intervenes as a kind of insulation between him and as a natural environment. In fact, the surrounding environment of Culture penetrates both into him as a person and into his natural environment, changing both
Speaker 5 (10m 9s): Environmentalists say, mother nature is wonderful and beautiful. Culture is rapacious and destructive and human beings are cruel and destructive. It's like, it's absolutely true. Human beings are cruel and destructive Culture is rapacious. And while we were patients we'll do in nature is beautiful, but that's only half the story 'cause nature is doing her best to kill you constantly. Culture protects you from freezing and starving and human beings are just struggling to survive as well as being, you know, throwing plastic everywhere and being messy.
Is it
Speaker 0 (10m 45s): Neurological reactions and behavior and feeling and, and thought are largely determined by his cultural environment. And at the same time, this cultural environment modifies his natural environment by such activities as heating his home, cooking his food, cutting down forests, draining swamps, killing off animals, and generally modifying the face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (11m 12s): The ceramic model of the universe is based on the book of Genesis from which Judaism, Islam and Christianity derived that basic picture of the world. And the image of the world in the book of Genesis is that the weld is an artifact. It has made as a Potter, takes clay and forms pots out of it, or as a carpenter takes wood and it makes tables and chairs out of it.
Don't forget. Jesus is the song, have a copy of that. Also the son God. So the image of God and all of the world is based on the idea of God as a technician,
Speaker 0 (12m 2s): The individual's reactions and behavior and feeling, and in thought, what I call his personality are largely determined by his cultural environment at the same time, his personality as part of the cultural environment of those people, whom he meets and has already said, only by such relationships is his personality developed from his human nature. All of this makes a human being so different from a turtle that nothing very relevant to human behavior can be learned from this study of turtle behavior.
With the human being. We are dealing with a three-fold situation, the human being surrounded by as Culture and both together surrounded by the natural environment and by other cultures,
Speaker 2 (12m 60s): Right?
Speaker 0 (13m 0s): We're a turtle leis, dozens of AICGS in hopes that some turtles from those eggs can be carried to maturity by obedience to fairly rigid instincts. The human has almost no rigid instincts and adapts his personality to his culture. The culture intern must adapt itself to the natural environment. Thus, if the natural environment changes, the turtle must change his nature while Man merely changes his Culture and thus his personality.
But this beautifully flexible relationship requires such a long period of training and learning during which human nature becomes a human personality. And the individual becomes able to care for himself. That humans are dependent on their parents for many years, accordingly humans have a few offsprings and each offspring is very valuable. This is kind of getting into the R versus K reproductive strategy. I'm sure most of you are aware of that for those of you who may not know the R versus K, I'll give you a little quick synopsis.
There's two evolutionary strategies termed our selection for those species that produce many cheap offsprings and live in unstable environments and case selection for those species that produce few expensive offspring and live in stable environments, think of a rabbits that just are constantly pushing out babies. And once the baby is born, it pretty much funds for himself and they're are so many natural predators for them. That evolution has decided the best way to keep rabbits around is just to continually have lots of them and some are gonna die.
And so be it where if you look at a Wolf or a as a human baby, let let's just stay with animals. If you just do the Wolf, they have a much smaller amount and some die. However, they spent a lot of time raising their pups in a pack, and that pup learns the rigid rules of the pack. It learns its spot in the pack. It learns maybe it's the alpha Maybe, it's the beta.
However, it is going to find its place in the world and learn the rules of the Wolf pack much. Like now some people will say that people humans, you and I different groups because of their Culture have different reproductive strategies.
Speaker 4 (15m 43s): The ladies, I don't mean to interrupt, but I'm writing a term paper on the final things in life. I was wondering, could I read it? I'm sorry, but you've must be global warming because there is no denying. You've been making my world hotter. Would you grab my arm? It's all I can let them know what it's like to be touched by an angel.
Speaker 0 (16m 1s): Some of which are to have as many kids as you can, because some might die and others are to have maybe a single child or two children or very few children in order to give that one child, all the resources. Interesting to think about Right it's a lot of, there was a lot of information there that you can go through and check out for yourself, but I kind of digressed let's move back to Man and Culture accordingly humans have a few offspring and each offspring is very valuable since the survival of the species does not depend as with turtles or rabbits on the more or less accidental survival of a very few out of the many reproduced, but depends.
Instead on the ability to bring up almost all who were born and a train them so that they can take care of themselves, have the intelligence to modify their Culture, including their personalities. When it becomes necessary to adapt to the environment. And at the same time, develop the capacity. Do you use the freedom to change their behavior, which this whole situation assumes is such a way that it will be beneficial to themselves and to the group on which they depend for the continuation of their culture.
Speaker 6 (17m 29s): Oh, Holy Jesus. What is that? What the fuck is that a private pilot? Sorry, a jelly donut. Sorry, you sir. How does it get here? So we took it from the mess hall as Joel out in the barracks. Private pilot. No, sir. How are you to eat jelly donuts, private bias? No, sir. Not private. So because I'm too heavy. Some Hey because you are a disgusting private pilot.
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So whenever a private pile fucks up, I will not punish him. I will punish all of you always see it lazy, you know, me for when jelly doughnut now and get it on your face.
Speaker 0 (18m 55s): All of this leads to a certain tentative assumption about human nature, about the nature of Culture and about the nature of human society. In regard to human nature, it would seem that we have to deal with two things. Number one, a wide range of potentiality, and be a drive to make these potential realities actual the range of these potential realities seem to run a full gamut from the most concrete and material activities such as eating or moving about through a broad belt, have emotional and social activities to a fairly broad range of spiritual and intellectual activities.
It would be rash to say that this range of potential realities has a very specific quality's or needs in It or that there are any intrinsic dividing lines separating. One potentiality from another, a study of human personalities and human cultures would seem to indicate that these potentiality is a blur into one another, that each person has opposing or even incompatible extremes of each potential quality.
And that there can be a good deal of substituting of one potential quality for another. As these qualities develop into actual characteristics. Let me give you a list of some of the, the range of human potential realities, military political, economic, social, religious intellectual. Although this division will always be made with the full realization that it could with good justification, be made otherwise, you know, material needs food, clothing, shelter, Maslow's hierarchy.
We're just gonna go with the, with the six military political economic, social religious, and intellectual. This range of human potentiality is, is also the range of human needs because of man's of vital drive that impels hymn to seek to realize his potentiality is this drive. This force inside us is it's even more mysterious than the potentiality.
Is it seeks to realize if you think back throughout history, men have given various names to this drive. There there have been endless disputes about its names about its extent and nature. The classical Greeks like Aristotle sought to ignore it by merely assuming that everything had a purpose and that everything by its very nature sot to achieve its purpose. This is generally known as a tele, a logical explanation coming from the Greek word, telos, meaning purpose or goal in the Christian middle ages.
This teleological proach was somewhat modified by the belief that while everything had a purpose, things were drawn to seek, to fulfill these purposes by the love of God, by the love of God, about the year 1600 men began to place this drive inside of men, driving them on rather than outside drawing them on
Speaker 3 (22m 37s): <inaudible>.
Speaker 0 (22m 47s): And as before 1600, spinosa about 1670 called this drive the soul and in 18, 18 Schopenhauer called it the will, but 1890. Berkson called it the vital urge. While at the same time, Freud called it sex throughout this later period, many natural scientists called It energy without getting into any controversy about the merits of these various terms. We can agree with them all that.
There does seem to be some force driving men to seek, to realize their potential realities. When these potential realities of human nature are realized they become the characteristics of human personality. It's helpful. Four, we cannot directly observe or study human nature and are compelled to make assumptions as to what it must be from our studies of human personality. Since the characteristics of human personality emerge from the potential realities of human nature, as a result of experience and training.
And since each person's experience and training are different, each personality is different at the same time, since each person in the same society is brought up in the same culture and thus tends to have similar experiences and similar training. Most of the persons in a society tend to have a basic personality pattern with similar general characteristics, either emphasized or subdued, not only is human personality formed by the social environment, the social environment or culture is largely made up of the personalities it has created.
And this way the culture is passed down from generation to generation, always somewhat changed, but always largely the same from this point of view. Culture is known as the social heritage, the passing on from generation to generation, by teaching and learning most of it unconscious. You know what I mean by that? And let me give you an example. When a child, his first trying to walk, he, he may fall down without actually hurting himself.
For those of you have, have kids. You've, you know, you between your first kid and your second kid, when you were first kid falls, you were probably running over me like, Oh no, I'm so scared helping him up about that. The time you have a second kid, maybe even a third kid, excuse me. Well, they fall. There's no big deal. You have seen it before. Okay. But the way you react to those children following the way you react has a, has an immense effect on their personality when right after they fall in, like the next few moments may contribute, right?
Excuse me. So let's say one of your kids falls. If you run over there and see swoop down on them, full of sympathetic sounds and commiseration, the child may decide that he is hurt and begin to cry, right? As soon as they see the level of concern on your face, it's like it instantly transfers to them like your telling them, they should be scared because they fell.
And kids pick that up fast. And anybody who has a kid understands that. And once you pay attention to them and you run over there and you do that, all of a sudden you to teaching them, you are molding them. And That a move could easily become one of the earliest steps towards forming a personality that reacts to the unexpected with so much the pity. On the other hand, if the child falls and say, you are a neighbor, yeah.
Speaker 7 (27m 10s): Hey, get up, Johnny, what are you doing? Get up John. And try it again. You must be more careful and watch where you are going, buddy. This could easily be, you know,
Speaker 0 (27m 18s): Early step towards self-responsibility. And self-reliance sometimes after a kid falls, the child, if ignored will be, you'll see him get frustrated or sometimes even resentful, struggling to his feet. He may strike out at the nearest person or an inanimate object or throw something or get mad. Again, the reactions of yourself or the surrounding adults depended upon the personalities or the patterns of the culture.
And these patterns and personality is served to mold the develop, the developing personality of the child. There are societies where a frustrated child who strikes at an innocent bystander. It might be admired.
Speaker 7 (28m 1s): Hey you look at the spirit in that kid, to me a little Man
Speaker 0 (28m 5s): No, this is a survey to encourage the development of a culture based on personalities of irrational aggressions. If on the other hand, a child who displays an early response of aggression to frustration is he immediately stopped. Has his hand slapped or discouraged such a reaction and is sternly warned, you fell 'cause you weren't being careful and you didn't watch what you were doing. Mrs. Jones had nothing to do with your falling. So don't, you dare strike out at her.
And in a case like that, the child's personality will be turned from aggression to self-responsibility. So I know there was a big school of thought that says your kid is going to be who your kid is. And that's truly what agree in my opinion. However, the reactions that you as a parent provide that child, as they're growing, we're going to have a large effect, right? You may not be able to control the car completely, but you can steer it.
You can at least push it on the right direction. It may not go exactly where you want it to go, but you can crank on that wheel and get it to go left or right. So if you think about that particular situation, episodes like that occur many times a day in every single society. And when they occur, the people involved react to them in accordance with their own personality structures. Few of the persons involved in such a situation stopped to think that they are involved in teaching and a teaching situation in our helping to mold the society of the future.
By helping to mold the personality of one of its members. That's an important point. If you can think about that, if you can just be in the present and know that the interactions you're having with the people you love, especially your children or children of the community, every discussion you have with a child is, you know, it's a teaching situation and you are helping to mold the society of the future by helping to mold the personalities of one of the future members in highly integrated societies, such as most primitive.
Tribes' the outcome of each such episode as this will be similar. 'cause the adults involved have similar personality structures. And as a consequence, the children growing up who occasions, such incidents will experience similar reactions and will themselves develop similar personality structures or whatever. These may be in a more complex and more disintegrated society such as our own. The personality structures of adults are already so varied that it is difficult to say how they would react to the event we have described thus quite different reactions might occur.
And the child, the children who are at the center of these episodes by experiencing different reactions will grow up with different personalities, thus, continuing, and probably increasing the disintegration of the society's behavior patterns. There can be no doubt that we could have predicted the social response to any act of childish aggression, a century or more ago, with some assurance, the child would have been punished, but today it would be impossible to guess what might happen.
And just as the possible reactions have become more varied. So the personality is developed from such relations have become more diverse and the society itself has become less integrated. Let's walk down in a different path for a minute. Think about the ways in which different children from different parts of the world are raised. And then think about the large push all the government's have had for diversity. You, you have to ask yourself why, what is the difference between diversity and inequality?
If I have seven cups, let's say I have seven red solo cups,
Speaker 6 (32m 26s): Right? So let's have a party
Speaker 0 (32m 34s): And fill each of those cups with a different level of water. Are those cups filled to different levels? Would you consider those Cubs to be diverse or in equal?
Speaker 1 (32m 54s): What do you think they'd be?
Speaker 0 (32m 58s): Would you say that, wow, this is a very diverse group of cups. Like the level of water in these cups is a very diverse, and that is a good thing. Well, that might not be a good thing if you're really thirsty and you've got the cup with a very low level of water, what else would you say, wow, these cups are, all these cups are in equal. There are unequal. We need to divvy up the water. So it's perfect. Well, if you make them all equal, then there are no longer diverse.
You see what's going on there. So how does this particular topic fit in to the evolution or disintegration of civilizations? I guess I'm having a difficult time deciding if we're being socially engineered to give up our culture, to give up the ways we live, or it's a by-product of unintended consequences on one level, when you get together with people that think differently and you can sit down and have a rational conversation, both people have the opportunity to leave that conversation, knowing more about the world 'cause they were able to see it from the other person's point of view.
That's a good thing. However, when you have large groups of people that are not from the same, Culture thrust together, that will be some people that sit down and have the former conversation. However, there will also be in a larger number, people that won't do that. And instead of it being diverse to people that can sit down and speak with one another and in see the world on the other person's point of view, that's a diverse group.
The people who can't do that are in equal, we were having a difficult time as a world, separating the idea of diversity from any quality. I challenge you to ask people what's the difference and see what they say. Maybe it's just a language barrier. Diversity has like a positive connotation.
Speaker 1 (35m 38s): But any
Speaker 0 (35m 38s): Quality has a negative connotation. Can we be diverse and in equal at the same time, let me give you a real world example. We saw recently a few days ago, the storming of some government houses here in the United States and the message from the media.
I would say the message from the majority of the media is a negative one about the actions of those people. However, I think there's something beautiful in It like these people are from are, these are Americans, and if you're an American, you should love your neighbor. Regardless of what I mean, if you, if you subscribe to the ideals of being a good human being, you should care about your neighbor regardless of where you live, right?
We have that golden rule. And when you listen to the media in the United States, and I'm willing to bet this is everywhere right now, there is just this large focus, like a laser beam weapon of division what's coming from the media is like, these are just white, racist, horrible people that are deplorables. And that's such a broad brush to paint people with. Like, I know people that won't even leave their house because there are scared of COVID cause they don't want to die.
And here's another group of people that are like the in my entire life is being taken away from me. And I've had enough people around me are dying. I am going to go down and go to the Capitol until these people have had enough. Like there was something beautiful in that, right? Here's someone willing to stand up and fight for what they believe in
Speaker 8 (37m 44s): <inaudible>
Speaker 0 (37m 59s): He he's, I don't know. I don't know what I would do in that position. What if you were making millions of dollars and the spicket that was Flo in your money will be turned off. If you say the wrong thing, then you become Julian Assange's right. And then you can either be Tim Poole and build a skate ramp in your house and not tell the truth or tell just a wrong flavor of the truth, you know, just get out there and tell all the people, all of the young kids that might be a problem.
Just tell him that it's a bad idea. You know what? I just take a little subtle sprinkling of propaganda on it. You just a little bitch, you know what I mean? Just a soft little sprinkle.
Speaker 1 (38m 46s): Cool. And that part of sad to me, I think it's a huge problem. And that was
Speaker 0 (38m 58s): Let's tie this back in to culture. So right now were seeing the cultural machine push the agenda of non violence by not Hey you can't change stuff by violence, man. This is not going to work,
Speaker 1 (39m 13s): Work really. Cause I'm pretty sure there was a guy named Rob spear that was famous.
Speaker 0 (39m 22s): I'm pretty sure that most revolutions,
Speaker 1 (39m 25s): They were violent. I'm pretty sure that the, you know,
Speaker 0 (39m 32s): United States, military industrial complex,
Speaker 1 (39m 36s): The dollar is backed by violence. In fact, right.
Speaker 0 (39m 41s): That's probably our number one export is violence were really, really good.
Speaker 1 (39m 45s): Got it. My grandma
Speaker 0 (39m 48s): But killed lots of people. My dad killed people. I'm the only one that hasn't killed people. You believe that they probably think I'm a giant
Speaker 1 (40m 0s): And it's, it's kind of
Speaker 0 (40m 3s): The double standard, right? Hey, it's okay to go to the middle East and just start murdering people so we can take all their stuff because we're going to get that stuff to the corporations. Right.
Speaker 1 (40m 13s): Right but
Speaker 0 (40m 15s): You know, it is not okay. It's not okay to go to the government and tell them that you're not happy. That's not okay. You can store in the house. As in Libya, you can do it in Syria. You can do it in Venezuela, but how dare you have the audacity to go down to your local government and tell them you're unhappy. What's wrong with you. You must be a racist
Speaker 1 (40m 40s): And you see him.
Speaker 0 (40m 44s): I think that that that's the fundamental flaw that's been happening in the U S is that on the coasts and in the areas that are blue, you have this idea
Speaker 1 (40m 58s): That
Speaker 0 (40m 59s): Is not really based in science. You have this
Speaker 1 (41m 4s): Idea of what human nature could be.
Speaker 0 (41m 11s): And then you have in the red States, you have this long term
Speaker 1 (41m 19s): Experience
Speaker 0 (41m 21s): Of what human nature
Speaker 1 (41m 23s): Has been. It's been this way forever. Does it mean it can, but the
Speaker 0 (41m 41s): Way it has changed in the past
Speaker 1 (41m 45s): Has been violent. And I think that,
Speaker 0 (41m 50s): Yes, that is where our culture is. I think that there's a lot of people in positions of authority that would like to get rid of the violent nature as well.
Speaker 1 (42m 1s): People in that like,
Speaker 0 (42m 7s): And the frog in the pot, if you can just slowly turn up the water, then you can slow
Speaker 1 (42m 15s): The cookout. Thank you.
Speaker 0 (42m 21s): The violent nature of that frog slowly turned up the heat until the violent nature evaporates out of the pot. I think that that is the long-term plan for a global government. I think that's the long-term plan of the social engineers trying to create a more harmonious
Speaker 1 (42m 44s): Government, but that will never fucking work. That's never going to work.
Speaker 0 (42m 54s): The reason it's not going to work is that the peop the law of unintended consequences, I think it was Jordan Peterson, who
Speaker 1 (43m 2s): They said, we are protected by Something. We can't see
Speaker 0 (43m 12s): It from something we don't understand
Speaker 1 (43m 17s): Culture or culture protects us from Chaos. And it is this set of ideas.
Speaker 0 (43m 32s): Yes. And beliefs and ways that have been passed down from generation to generation. Like we spoke about previously this passing down from generation to generation, largely uncommon,
Speaker 1 (43m 46s): Yes.
Speaker 0 (43m 50s): Somewhat changed, but largely the same.
Speaker 1 (43m 56s): And to try and rapidly you raise that, I think,
Speaker 0 (44m 4s): And at the very best it's going to leave the human soul
Speaker 1 (44m 10s): With the giant scar. Thank you.
Speaker 0 (44m 12s): If you look at the children that have been born in the nineties,
Speaker 1 (44m 17s): I think
Speaker 0 (44m 18s): That their rate of suicide and mental illness is 10 to 12 times higher than those born in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (44m 28s): There's been this uptick of mental illness
Speaker 0 (44m 33s): While our society tries to force the youth into
Speaker 1 (44m 43s): Being engineers and technological widgets. The theory
Speaker 0 (44m 50s): Of interchangeable parts,
Speaker 1 (44m 54s): Humans are not numbers. Humans are not
Speaker 0 (44m 57s): Machines and nor will they ever be machines.
Speaker 1 (45m 1s): I don't see a way for social engineers to eliminate emotions and even Yeah.
Speaker 0 (45m 15s): So they were successful in eliminating emotions would be the worst possible thing for our world. Yes, I get it. People are crazy in the crime there's crimes of passion, there's crimes
Speaker 1 (45m 26s): Terms of violence, but there is also acts of love and acts of kindness. And you can't have one without the other doesn't work. Let's dig a little bit deeper, right?
Speaker 0 (45m 42s): The culture of a society consists of much more than the personalities of the people in this society. It consists of all the material things they use, such as where they live dwellings tools, clothing, it consists of patterns of action
Speaker 1 (46m 2s): Feeling and thought it would be.
Speaker 0 (46m 5s): I just have established social relationships between one person and another, as well as between persons
Speaker 1 (46m 12s): And objects. There are some really cool
Speaker 0 (46m 16s): Thorny issues when it comes to a culture that has to be talked about. And I think race is one of them. If you, if you want to do something that I think is sad and interesting at the same time
Speaker 1 (46m 33s): Is
Speaker 0 (46m 35s): Google are all white people racist. If you Google that, you know what it comes up.
Speaker 1 (46m 42s): It's
Speaker 0 (46m 43s): The very first thing that comes up is yes, my dear, all white people are racist by Marley K,
Speaker 1 (46m 50s): And that's from medium.
Speaker 0 (46m 51s): The second thing is New York post peddling. The idea that all white people are racist for profit,
Speaker 1 (46m 58s): Number three,
Speaker 0 (46m 59s): Examining white fragility, and why some disagree with the claim that all the way people are racist.
Speaker 1 (47m 6s): This is number four. Am I a racist?
Speaker 0 (47m 10s): You may not like the answer.
Speaker 1 (47m 16s): How does that happen? How did that happen? Clearly that right.
Speaker 0 (47m 24s): But it's one of two ways, either the search algorithm, that's the most thing searched for. And so
Speaker 7 (47m 30s): It's ranked that way. And so when people go to are all white people, racist, everyone, the majority of people think that. So they go to those articles or, or the algorithm is programmed that way so that when people go there, those are the articles they see which one do you think it is? Is it are all white people racist. And what happens to people when they go, if we use Google as the number one search algorithm and all the kids in school begin using our, you know, they probably do use Google.
That's the first thing they see. The very first thing that you see when you look at our white people, racist is yes. Like that's definitely engineering or a Culture. It's interesting to think about. And it's sad to think about, and it makes the case. Why are Culture is disintegrating?
Is it true? Don't think so. But a lot of people do. And if the majority of people think something's true in the minority of people, don't think it's true. What do you think it's transferred in the handing down, have information from generation to generation.
Speaker 9 (49m 3s): Even though we face the difficult is up to Dan tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day, this nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed. We are holding these tools to be self-evident that all men are created <inaudible>.
Speaker 7 (49m 39s): So we brought slaves to the United States in, and they had no chance. They had no choice. And then not that long ago, stays were given their freedom, but were they really, what do they really give in their freedom? 'cause they didn't have the freedom to create their own Culture sure, sure. We tell, like, they're told that, Oh yeah, you can listen to whatever music you want.
You can wear whatever shoes you want, wear, whatever clothes you want, but here's these models of profession that you can do. And they're all based on white Culture you want to be a lawyer, won't be a doctor. You're going to be this. We won't be that. Well, they didn't the people that were forced to come here. They didn't have a choice of the Culture that they were going to be in. And if you were Culture for thousands of years has based on something different.
You're not going to be able to fit into the culture. You're going, let me give you an example. If I go to Japan, I don't know a whole lot about the culture of Japan. So if I went there
Speaker 1 (50m 56s): <inaudible>
Speaker 7 (51m 6s): Yeah, I would not be able to my, to do function as well. And that culture, as someone who was born in that culture, as someone who's family had been in that culture for generations, that's saying you can't succeed. Clearly you can Yeah regardless of what color or race or gender you are, you can succeed in any culture. If you're willing to put in the hard work and you have to drive and you don't give up, you can succeed.
However, it's not going to be easy. And if you're not from a culture, if you're not familiar with the culture in which you're trying to succeed,
Speaker 1 (51m 53s): It's like
Speaker 7 (51m 55s): Having weights tied to your belt while you go, swimming is going to drag you down.
Speaker 1 (52m 6s): I think that's where we get to the, there should be
Speaker 7 (52m 12s): Opportunities. There should be equal opportunities, but not Yeah equal outcomes. You can guarantee opportunity, but you can't guarantee outcomes. That's where we go wrong. And I think that's where we are going wrong as a society. And I think that that is the very foundation in which a lot of the riots are happening around the world and not, you know, you can see both sides. A large portion of the world has nothing for every one child born in the West.
There can be a thousand born in a third world country. And I think people don't understand that that's where we're at. We're at a, we are in a war of civilization. We can either have the third world come to the United States or we can try to bring the United States, the third world.
And that's been our plan. It's been, it's been bloody, it's been disastrous. But I think that is the goal of the West has been to export the United States, Western democracy to the rest of the world. And it doesn't work very well. All right. It does not work very well. That's fair to say. So now we're going to try to bring in a third world to the United States. And I don't think that is going to work very good. Well, either, however, it might be too late.
It might be too late and you're going to see a lot more of what you saw the yesterday. Oh, God have mercy on all of us. I love you guys. Hope you have an a, a great day. So they're you have all of my friends. I think I'm gonna stop it there for the day. That was a pretty deep one. We got, I think, I think we're going to move into Culture and group dynamics today was Culture in Man.
I was kind of the, a little bit about group. However, it was a lot about how the individual is shaped by culture and navigates the pathway of Culture in everyday life. So I think the next one is going to be on the group dynamics of color. Gotcha. Thanks for hanging out with me today. I love you guys Aloha.