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What does Kazakhstan.
The metaverse and the person in front of
you have anything to do with the gender.
Hey, it's Lucas Groba and you were
listening to the Lucas scroll bot show
where we uncover purpose, pursue truth,
and own the future it's episode 266.
The first time that we're doing
this episode live on YouTube.
It's one of the changes that we said
we were going to make, as you move
into 20, 22 and a last year, we are,
uh, pretty nervous doing it live.
Normally I have recorded live to tape
in the studio and then, you know,
able to go back, clean it up in post.
But I felt that this is really
the way to move forward.
So alas, here we are 2022.
We've been on a little bit of a
break, as I'm sure you are aware
of, but we're kicking off this year.
And the main change that
I have been wanting to.
To this show is to be less reactionary
to what's happening in the new cycle
and to begin to form and shape thoughts
and culture in more of an actionary way.
So many of us, I, I know, and I
believe from people that I talk to,
we are leaders in communities of some
sort, whether it's leaders in our
family leaders or influencers in,
in our peer groups who look up to.
And I believe in this, in the millennial
generation and generation generation,
Z, we want to leave an impact.
We want to make a difference
this generation and I'm blending
millennials and gen Z together
is one of the most impact driven
purpose driven generations ever.
That's really how we, we started this
podcast two years ago, three years,
three years ago, 2018, whatever that was.
We started with these monikers, like
own your story and own the future, these
monikers of, of what is your purpose?
How do you uncover your purpose?
Because we are a generation that
is driven and hungry to, to have a
purpose, to leave a purpose behind
us to leave an impact behind.
So that is the biggest way that
we're changing the direction.
Not really even changing the direction
of the show, but we're really
changing some priorities in the show.
And I hope that it serves
as a benefit to you.
As I said, in the previous
episode, we're still going to be
doing, yeah, that makes sense.
We're still going to
be doing Weaver, loom.
We're still going to be covering
social geopolitical events and how
that pertains and impacts our life.
Uh, but more, more than that.
I personally, and I hope that you do too.
Want to move out of this, uh,
reactionary metaverse anxiety driven,
social media induced clickbait
world of the 24 hour news cycle.
I mean, can you get more, more
taglines in one sentence and move
into a place where we're life on life?
Actually leaving a real impact in
difference in the people around
us, because what good is it?
If we have millions and
millions of followers, But our
friends think that we're jerks.
What good is it?
If we have a huge social, social media
footprint, but our kids don't like us
and they think that we're, you know,
annoying to be around and we have
horrible relationships with our kids
or a wife or our husbands or a family.
That's the last thing
that I want in my life.
And I'm pretty sure it's probably the
last thing that you want in your life.
That is again, a little bit of the vision
of, of where I hope to continue to go.
I don't know exactly how to get
there and that's, it's paused me
and moving forward because I don't
know exactly how to get there.
I don't know exactly the path to take,
but unless you take steps forward, unless
you walk forward, you'll never get there.
I've I've shared this analogy
many times on the show.
Just as if, if you know where you want
to go, you have, you have the map in
front of you before you want to go.
You can tell me all the right
turns, but unless I get in the
car and drive there, I won't know
how hard to press down on the gas.
It won't know exactly how many turns
they need to make on the steering wheel.
And so if you're feeling stuck in your
life, you know where you want to go,
but you're not quite sure how to get.
The answer is to get in the car, to get in
the vehicle that you know, that it's going
to bring you there and start driving, even
if you don't know quite how to drive yet.
And this is one of the things
we're actually going to be
covering on today's episode.
And as I said in the intro, we're
going to be starting with positive.
We're not going to be doing a deep
dive into Kazakhstan as we normally
do by, I do want to intro with what
happened in Kazakhstan in the early days
of 2022, because it really lays a, a
picture of foundation of the question
that we're raising in this episode.
What happened in Kazakhstan?
Well, in short Kazakhstan is a
large, massive land in central Asia.
Next ditch, China and Russia.
They gained independence in
1991 from the Soviet union,
and it is an oil rich nation.
It produces 1.6 million barrels a day.
Of oil, 1.6 million that compares with
oil, rich nation, like Qatar, which
produces 1.9 million barrels a day.
The differences, the in Kazakhstan, that
wealth that has been generated through oil
has not trickled down to its 19 million.
It roughly has stayed in
the upper echelons of, of
the ruling elite in society.
And that has caused a lot of frustration.
It costs a lot of poverty.
People are unhappy.
Well earlier this year, January
2nd, this year oil prices, gas
prices inside Kazakhstan shot up,
which led to a domino effect where
there were riots across the nation.
Many people died.
44 deaths have been confirmed, uh,
both on people who were writing the
civilian side and the government side,
20,000 of quote unquote, bandits who
attack the city have been arrested.
Thousands have been injured.
Hundreds, 400 have been
treated in hospitals.
8,000 people have been detained
according to the Casa government.
Uh, and these riots all began with.
Just one little match
of gas prices rising.
This is one of the more
stable nations in the region.
It is, you know, when my friends
visit, I see the imagery from it
and it's beautiful parks everywhere.
It looks wealthy, it looks stable,
look safe, people are happy, but
all of a sudden we see in a moment.
Uh, nation shake in a moment
we see, uh, tensions flare.
Now of course there was so many
things that play into this.
So I know I'm going to get.
Taxing comments of like, well, you
know, this really the way what really
happened was sure there are PSYOPs.
Sure.
Russia could have involved.
Sure.
It could have been America
that's involved or China.
It could be, it could be that people
are fed up with nepotism, with
corruption, with not feeling like the
government is actually serving them.
Pseudo dictators who have been
ruling the country for decades
and not really letting go.
There are a lot of reasons that built
up to this moment of boiling over the
point is that I believe is important
for us to take away from this of what
happened is we do not live in as steeple
of an environment or a society, as
we might think it doesn't take much.
For entire nation to flip
upside down on its head.
It can happen in a day.
We've seen this with 2020 and
the pandemic across the world.
We've seen how fragile
the systems of society is.
We saw this in America with, uh, George
Floyd and the riots that took place in the
uprising that took place across America.
In 2020, we, we have seen.
The riots and protests that are taking
place across Europe and Australia due
to these lockdowns, we can see probably
more clearly today than we could.
Uh, two, three years ago, the
fragility of society that we live in.
And that leads me to a question
that I want to pose to you.
How are we building?
Strong infrastructure.
I hate to use that word, but strong
infrastructure in our lives, in
our community, in our family.
How are we building a resilient culture
within our immediate surroundings so that
if, and when those days come, we have
the ability to rise up as a leader to
rise up as a source of hope and strength.
What are we doing?
To build that in culture.
How are we building culture?
Last year, we spent a large amount of
time reacting to a leftist culture,
relaxed reacting to progressivism.
Um, and this year I believe we are
moving into simple foundational
tools and strategies in ways that.
Can build stronger foundations in
our life so that we can weather
those storms, whether it's in
our personal purpose and vision.
So we don't, we're not flooded with
anxiety of what we're doing with the
person or lives, whether it's in our
relational aptitude, making sure that we
have strong and healthy relationships.
How many of us walk through life
with embittered relationships?
How many of us walk through life
with broken relationships, struggling
marriages, struggling relationships
with our kids or our parents.
Those are not healthy relationships that
enabled us to move forward with certainty.
Those are toxic potentially
damaging relationships that are
fragile, and these are the most
important relationships in our life.
Then finally, financial.
How, how are we positioned financially?
Are we a source and a
resource to people around us?
Or are we always needing something
from the community around us?
Always needing more, never
stable, never in a safe place.
Now I will say this there's no.
There is no such thing
as guaranteed safety.
And that is what we, I think we can really
see from what has happened in Kazakhstan.
It's safety is an illusion.
Yes, we need to take caution, but if we
go too far in trying to be safe, rather
than trying to build strength within our
community, there's a difference between
being safe in our community and being in.
Building strength in our community.
We want to build strength.
If we go too far in that way of trying
to be safe, we become precautionary
rather than taking caution.
And that is one thing that I think we
learn from this what's happening in
Kazakhstan and really sheds light on
the fragility of each and every one
of our communities across the globe.
No matter where we are.
So what are we doing to prepare?
Well, one of the things that I have
been doing over the last three months
is, and thinking through is that I
want to be more integrated into my
local surrounding my local society.
Now, as someone who does consulting
and works in media and online
and clients across the globe,
I find myself increasingly.
On, not necessarily on the metaverse as
the real metaverse, but on the internet,
connecting with the relationships over,
uh, Instagram or email or zoom in these
mediated, digitized relationships.
And I've been forced to think
of how can I make changes?
In my life in my world do not have so
many relationships mediated by click bait.
Social media last year got into
a lot of problems on social media
because I was making provocative
statements that were going against
things in the status quo on Instagram.
And I was looking back a few weeks
ago on some of those comments.
And the amount of bickering and back
and forth, and just insanity that
was happening was not worth my life.
It was not worth the anxiety was not worth
the time in many ways, but whenever I
moved those relationships from back and
forth bickering with, you know, strangers
on the internet, into talking with people.
With my voice.
Face-to-face about these issues,
these hard and complex issues that
we see things from a different way.
All of a sudden.
Tension between us in
the relationship melted.
And we began, began to see
each other sides and we grew
in empathy for one another.
Now there were a few different
relationships where the people
decided I don't really care, even
though we have relationship, even
though we have friendship, I don't
care to talk to you face to face.
I'm just going to cancel you and
further isolate into my tribe
and my tribalism rather than.
And build a relationship
and build empathy.
Well, what is coming in the
next decade is the metaverse.
It is further digitalization of pulling
all of us humans into the matrix of the
metaverse, where our entire existence
will be mediated by digital screens
in one way, shape, form, or another.
Now whether that will happen.
There is a lot of skepticism of whether
this will actually take off the ground.
And we're going to be playing a
few clips from Phil Libin, who is
the founder of Evernote and the CEO
of who is really not so bullish.
He's not very positive about the
metaverse and we'll see why, but
there is something in here that is
tying back into this greater thing.
Here's this opening clip of Phil.
He was, uh, on a podcast hosted by
the tech journalist, Eric newcomer.
And so this is a, a
clip from their episode.
I think it's kind of bad that, um, we
don't have a shared reality anymore
where that there was that our shared
reality, or even like our shared stomach
infrastructure, like the way that we.
Uh, it hasn't advanced.
It's stale.
It's skeuomorphic it's stupid.
No one wants it.
It's worse than every way.
From actual reality, it is a gloss that
uncreative people and companies put over
a phone, fundamentally lack of good ideas.
So this is.
Main point that's the metaverse
is merely a gloss that
corporations put over bad ideas.
As he says in this interview, he's
talking about really how the things in
the metaverse or ideas from the seventies
and eighties, they're they're ideas
from scifi novels, which warned about
the big catastrophes that a metaverse.
We'll create in society.
We see it in the matrix.
We see it in multiple Saifai books and
novels, and they're all cautionary tales.
And he's saying the meta
verses it's really to just this
illusion of gloss over our life.
And that's what so many of
us are doing on these phones.
We're, we're escaping through
reality around us to gloss over
life and it's not building true.
Connection what it does though.
It builds and stewards,
tribalism and division.
That's what these social media platforms
have been designed to do and do by nature.
Here's the second clip by Phil.
I think it's kind of bad that,
um, we don't have a shared reality
anymore where that there, that our
shared reality, or even like our
shared like epistemic infrastructure.
The way that we understand things
like we can't even agree on how we
go about understanding something.
And I think anything that, that kind
of pulls us further apart from a shared
reality, it's just, it's really damaging.
And, you know, Facebook started doing
this way before the Metro was just core
Facebook, like the whole, the Facebook
lie that, oh, we just connect people.
It was never true.
Facebook doesn't connect people.
Facebook connects you to your
own prejudices and opinions.
Uh, Facebook doesn't connect people.
It connects you to your own
prejudices and opinions.
The same thing with Instagram, the same
thing with TechTalk the same thing with
all of these infinite scroll communities,
where you find people who think like you,
you agree with people who you think, think
like you, you comment on people who think.
And then the algorithm continues to
feed you that, because that is what is
keeping you engaged, which then puts
us in these echo chambers and division,
which is detrimental to society.
As Phil goes on to explain, it
says, well, okay, your community is
people who agree with you and that's
not connecting you with people.
That's reinforcing your own
beliefs and it's actually driving
you further away from people.
The whole point of an actual community
is you've got to be people with
all sorts of different viewpoints.
You know that you are in community with.
Um, so I think like just good old
fashioned Facebook has made that
problem worse than not just Facebook.
I mean, social media in general.
Um, and the Metro versus just like
taking that to an extreme, the idea
that you would like substitute a
significant portion of actual shared
reality with something where you can
choose, you know, who you're with in
an, in an almost quasi real wages.
It feels like it's just going to make
every problem that we have worse and
none of the problems better, really
what we're seeing in social media.
As he said in the beginning, it's a gloss,
not only a gloss for companies who have
subpar products or subpar experiences
and they put your slap metaverse on it.
And now it's the hot button topic
that the buzz word, the catch
phrase, but also in our lives.
Because this way, we don't have to
engage with the human beings in front of
us and the hard relationships in front
of us, we can engage on our screens.
And then when we don't like
someone, we can cancel them.
We can ignore them, we
can mute their posts.
We don't have to face those relationships
and their quasi relationships.
It's one reason that I like long form
combat content that I like a podcast.
And I like listening to
long form content because.
I moved past the click bait moment,
uh, buzz words of social media, and I
can actually listen to something that
is thoughtful and has depth to it now.
And with that, all of that isolation
is causing more tribalism and tribalism
causes more bickering between people.
Phil goes on.
He fell actually grew up in the
Soviet union and he makes a point
about how, what we're seeing in the
messaging of the metaverse is very
similar to what we are seeing or
did see when it comes to communism.
And we still see it when people
are pushing socialism or communism
or Marxism, which is, well, it
hasn't really been tried before.
W we haven't really, communism
is never really been done.
Right.
And then you cite a bunch of places
where communism was done, like, well,
that wasn't really communism, you know,
don't, don't worry about the millions
of people that were killed in Cambodia
or China or Russia or Venezuela.
That's not real communism here.
Put me in power and I'll show
you what real communism is.
That's what they're saying.
Here is here's Phil again
from the same interview.
Uh, I was born in the Soviet union.
It used to be the Soviet union, a
city that used to be called Leningrad.
Now St.
Petersburg.
It was a long time ago.
I went to first grade in the Soviet
union and I was subjected to a lot
of, you know, Soviet propaganda.
And, uh, I was told as a little kid
repeatedly, communism doesn't exist yet.
You know, we haven't built communism yet.
We're building towards.
But it's not communism yet.
What you see around you?
This horrible, horrible place.
Isn't communism.
That's like, we're building towards it.
It's going to be great when it gets
here, we're building towards it.
And like, you know, you can smell a
bad idea before it's like fully built.
So like, I don't want to hear like, oh
yeah, the metaphors doesn't exist yet.
No, no, no, no.
All this stuff, all this
like stupid, useless, crappy
stuff that exists right now.
That's not the metaverse
like the metaverse is coming.
It's coming.
The point that he's making here
is in reference to people who say,
well, the metaverse isn't built yet.
Once VR reaches its tipping
point, everyone's going to onboard
and it's going to be amazing.
This experience that you're having right
now, it's not so great, but we kind of
know what the metaverse is going to be.
We've seen Snapchat.
We've seen Tech-Talk, we've seen zoom.
We've had our lives mediated over zoom
and who wants to stare at another screen?
Now, imagine having that screen taped to
your face with a hot sweaty mass, maybe
we'll get, you know, really expensive
rooms that you can walk in, but you're
still, you're seeing some sort of 3d
figure and the quality is just over.
No one wants to live
in that place anymore.
Sure.
Games are fun as an escape, but
do you want to live in that world?
I do think that we will
see some sort of metaverse.
I do think that millions of
people will be onboarded to
that hundreds of hours of life.
Thousands, millions of hours
of life will be wasted on it.
But I, I liked the point that
he's making, which is if the.
Sucks.
If the means to get to the end
sucks, then the end is going to suck.
And he, Phil makes a point of
exactly this referring to Amazon.
When Amazon first started, the
platform was really horrible.
It was just text HTML, but
the experience was amazing.
It was revolutionary that you
could go online, you can order a
book and it would show up at your.
Whereas platforms like metaverse
platforms, the experience you use it for
a little bit it's novel, but then you're,
it's not an experience that is while we
knew that you want to spend your life.
And here's this last clip by
Phil, and then we're going
to pull out the application.
I hear a lot of people saying,
yeah, the current stuff, socks, but
that's because it's not ready yet.
That's actually never been the
case of successful technology.
All the wrap.
Right.
You got to wait for the killer app,
but that's never been the case, right?
Like, like, uh, I was playing
video games since, you know,
it's already 2,600, I'm sorry.
2,600 games sucked very
janky, but they were great.
They were great.
You could tell they were great.
And we were on Facebook when
it was barely functioning.
Definitely clearly going
to be something people use.
I ordered my first order from Amazon
in something like 1998, I think like it
was, it was in the late nineties because
they still have it miraculously enough.
Like Amazon still like has
my first order in my account.
And yeah, it was late nineties.
I ordered a couple of books.
It was the first time I
ever bought anything online.
It was my first e-commerce experience.
It was sometime in the late nineties.
I bought a couple of books, two
books by James Randi and it was
super primitive like that Amazon
website, it was like all text-based.
There was like blink tag.
You know, we look at it now,
like it's pathetic, but like, it
was, it was very primitive, but
it was an amazing experience.
I could tell immediately that
this was going, oh my God, I just
bought something on a computer and
it's going to show up for real.
And like, and I didn't have to go to a
store and the selection of books, even
back then, the selection of books was
so much bigger than like, you know,
the Barnes and noble down the street.
So like things don't start terrible and
then become good things start great.
And then become like
smoother, more advanced.
So anyone who's like, yeah.
Yeah.
The metaverse like it sucks now
because it's not advanced enough.
It sucks because it's stupid
and it's always going to suck.
I, I love his point that he's making here.
And the point that he's making
is that if a product in the
beginning, the idea sucks.
Now it's going to suck at the end.
And a lot of people, it, it
goes to the, the famous saying
that the means justify the.
But the means never justify the ends.
And more importantly, if the means are not
the ends, then you have a broken model.
There are, there are many people
like with Marxism, communism,
socialism, and many other worldviews,
many other ideological paths.
Let's say, yeah, this, this sucks
right now, you know, really?
Yeah.
We have to see a lot of bloodshed.
It's a lot of violence.
It's definitely not utopia.
It's a lot of struggle, but if we
get everyone to adopt this soon,
the actual thing will be here
and we'll actually have peace.
We'll actually have,
uh, a brave new world.
We'll actually have.
Social equality, but we just
have to go through this really
rough patch to get there.
There's multiple worldviews
that espouse, that very thing.
And what he is saying in which
I agree is that if the worldview
that is those worldviews that
say this isn't the real thing.
We're still building towards it.
We have to go through this rough patch
to get there, but then don't worry.
It's going to be amazing.
Those are Ponzi schemes.
They are lies.
They lead us down the wrong path.
And if we're doing something similar
and likewise in our life thinking,
okay, if I do B, C and D, then somehow
I'll get a, it doesn't work that way.
We, we must, our ends that we
want to reach has to be happening.
Th the level, one of our MVP
or minimum viable product, that
things that we're starting with,
small, those small building blocks.
If we are not having our end result, be
manifested and achieved in our beginning
steps in results, then the whole
equation is broken and it doesn't work.
Here's a couple of examples and I'm
going to use some counterexamples when
people are like, well, what about.
And what about the process of working out?
You know, you have to work out.
I don't, I'm not a big fan of working out.
I think a little allergic when I
work out, you know, my turn, all red,
get short of breath, start sweating.
Can't stand up.
My legs hurt for a couple of days.
I'm definitely allergic to working
out and I can say, well, the process
of working out, you know, that sucks.
That's horrible.
I hated the ends.
Don't justify the means.
But in that process of working out
right away, you're actually achieving
your goal, which is to get a little
stronger and a little healthier.
It happens right then right then in
that moment, what about hard work and
savings and delayed gratification?
Same thing.
If I work hard today and I invest
today and I delayed gratification
today, I'm actually the system.
Is achieving my goal, which is financial
stability and financial security.
I have a little bit more
stability and security.
Does that mean I'm
instantly cashflow positive?
Does that mean that I instantly
have enough passive income to, to
move to The Bahamas and buy a yacht?
No, but it takes me a step
further to that end game.
Likewise, uh, I guess not likewise, but in
those extremism, Or extremism that leads
to these utopias, like whether it's the
metaverse or Marxism or communism or all
these other worldviews that say, well,
we just have to pixelate a little bit and
we just need to get the world to join us.
And then we'll have utopia.
We just have to break a few
eggs to make the omelet.
Those things are traps.
Those things are like,
The same way with people.
And you probably know these people
who are looking to build their empire.
They're looking to build their, their
glorious world, but in their wake
is a sea of broken people, broken
relationship and burnt bridges.
The argument is.
You know, they just weren't on board
with my vision, but in reality, you're
not going to reach your utopian dream.
So how do we then orientate our lives?
Right?
So that what is happening, that,
that the means become the ends
and the ends become the means.
And that is something that
I've been thinking about.
And I want to challenge
you in your life right now.
Are the end goals that
you want to achieve?
Are you achieving them via the
means of what you're doing?
Day in and day out.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
In a post-truth society, we've exchanged
truth for lies and reasons for Pope
reason for post-modern irrationality,
the absurd finally make sense.
Well, it is no surprise
to you or I that in 2020.
And 2021 and probably in 2022, the
people who have suffered the most
from this pandemic are the elderly in
nursing homes, elderly in nursing homes.
They, that is the segment of
the population where you've
seen the most amount of deaths.
And it is a segment of the population.
Who's pretty much been in prison.
They're already in a part place
of being in a nursing home.
But then because of that,
the level of mortality.
In nursing homes from COVID, they just
went on and locked all nursing home,
not all nursing homes, but many nursing
homes across the west down, essentially
putting elderly people in isolation,
chambers as if they're in prison.
Well, across Canada, there were
a number of deaths not due to.
But due to neglect, two people last year
died from dehydration because they were
understaffed and they were in a lockdown.
Imagine you getting your meals alone
in your room, not being able to go out
and visit all activities are canceled.
You are literally locked up in a
prison in your room and the trauma
and the anxiety that you would feel.
The left has a perfect solution.
The solution is not, Hey, let's
maybe rethink these lockdowns
because, oh my goodness.
The who even says that lockdowns
aren't a sustainable solution
and clearly don't work.
Clearly.
They don't work.
If you look at the numbers,
clearly doesn't work.
So maybe we should just
rethink the lockdowns and let,
let the elderly see people.
We can stop this fear mongering.
Go on after all, even in Europe,
they're beginning to say that we're
going to treat COVID more like we
treat the flu, I think is a great idea.
Apparently common sense is
indeed becoming more common.
That's not what some people are suggesting
or saying in order to fix this problem,
we need to have more euthanasia.
We should just kill off the
old people because look at the
life quality it's horrible.
Anyways, just get rid of them.
They don't want to even be alive.
Who wants to suffer in a miserable
cell called a nursing home?
Who wants to do.
We should just expand the
ability for people to choose,
to end their life with dignity.
Well, this is what's happening.
We saw a case this isn't a new case, not
breaking news, but in Canada of a 90 year
old lady named Nancy Russell, who she
was approved for medical assisted death,
because one, because she couldn't handle.
For isolation chamber in a nursing home.
And frankly, I probably couldn't either.
I would go crazy.
I mean, that's the worst punishment
that you get when you're in a jail,
they throw you in a nursing or they
throw you in an isolation chamber
to let you lose your mind in.
Well, one report reads that
residents eat meals in the room,
activities and social gatherings are
counseled in these nursing homes.
Family visits are curtailed and
eliminated, and sometimes they're
isolated in their small room for days.
Well, in Canada, you do not need to have
a fatal or terminal condition to apply
for maize, which is medically assisted.
But you have to have a serious
condition and be in an advanced stage
of irreversible decline and experiencing
mental or physical suffering that
cannot be relieved and be at the point
where your quote unquote natural death
has become reasonably foreseeable.
This is according to health Canada.
Well, when you're 90 years old,
your death is quite foresee.
It's coming within.
I don't know, at least two decades.
Well, Nancy, she, before these
lockdowns, she was an active 90 year old.
Uh, she had mobility,
she'd do her own shopping.
She was able to see her family, the
lockdowns happened and she decided it
would be better if she were to be dead.
So she applied twice.
And the second time she was able
to convince the doctors that she
had a serious medical condition.
So she was able to commit
assisted death, assisted suicide.
Now their family said that they
want to underscore the point that
she wanted to have a medically
assisted suicide or death.
Long before these lockdowns happened, it
was a way that she wanted to die anyways,
but she also said that the lockdown.
Really hastened her decision.
Do you have an early and earlier death?
She was still of sound mind.
She still had mobility, but she had
developed quote, unquote more concrete
medical health issues, according
to her daughter, which allowed
her to have a assisted suicide.
This is, this is the solution.
To a bad choice that wasn't a
solution in the first place we have
COVID, let's lock everyone down.
Let's destroy the mental health
of our youth and our elderly
and everyone in between.
And do God knows what to society and the
solution is if you're struggling well,
we'll, we'll help you end your life.
And is that is dark again, ends
in means are not lining up well in
New Zealand, it's not much better.
According to the ministry of health.
COVID-19 can now be
eligible for euthanasia.
The defender, put it put in an
official information request,
asking the ministry of health in New
Zealand, quote could a patient who is
severely hospitalized with COVID-19
potentially be eligible for assisted
suicide or euthanasia under the act.
If a health practitioner viewed their
prognosis as less than six months.
The ministry of health responded
saying there is clear eligibility
criteria for assisted dying.
These include that a person must have
a terminal illness that is likely
to end their life within six months.
It terminal illness is most
often a prolong disease where
treatment is not effective.
The E O L C act states.
Eligibility is determined
by the attendant.
Medical practitioner and the independent
medical practitioner eligibility is
determined on a case by case basis.
Here's the kicker.
Therefore the ministry cannot make
definite statements about who is eligible
in some circumstances, a person with
COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted.
The article went on to say that if you
examine the eligibility criteria on their
website, it's very easy to see how in the
right circumstance, someone with COVID-19
could easily be eligible yet to be over
18 permit, citizen or resident of New
Zealand suffering from terminal illness.
That is likely to end your life within six
months in advanced irreversible decline
in physical capacity and experiencing
unbearable suffering that cannot be
relieved in a manner that the person
considers tolerable, these make the person
able, and they have to be competent to
be able to make an informed decision.
This is, this is the law in New Zealand,
and this is where many states in America
and countries around Europe and the west.
Medical assisted death euthanasia.
And it's largely been driven by decisions
that are of lockdowns that are damaging
again, not only our youth, but the
elderly, the solution should not be
let's have people kill themselves.
The solution should be maybe we
should rethink these lockdowns,
but again, We live in a
post-modern world of irrationality.
That really just does not make sense.
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Welcome back to Weaver Luma, part of
the show where we take ancient wisdom
and we weave it in with our everyday
life so that we can own our future.
And we've our destiny.
We've our destiny own our future.
I have been reading the book,
the brothers Karamazov by Dustin.
I've started this book probably
three times in my life.
This is the one time I'm actually going
to make it through a moving, moving story.
If you've not read Dostoevsky before
I've read crime and punishment
multiple times, I always get to the
end and weep at the how powerful.
Of a story.
It is written hundreds of years ago
in Russian translated into English.
And it is still one of the
greatest pieces of literature
that humanity has ever known.
I strongly, highly recommend if
you're going to read a book this
year, read a book by de-stress.
Uh, he did not pay me for that plug.
I wish he did.
That means you'd be alive.
And that would also mean that would
be talking to him, but alas, he's not.
But I was reading this, this book and
there's a scene in the book where there's,
that there's an elder in a monastery and
all these people are visiting this elder
looking for his blessing, looking to get
approval from this old well-respected.
And a woman comes to him and she keeps
on espousing how much she loves mankind.
And she just loves people so much.
She loves humanity.
Just people are so good.
I just love people.
I just love, I just love humanity.
And he asks her a question and he asked.
Do you love the person in front of you?
How have you been actively
loving people in your life?
And she kind of gives us
like a confused answer.
Like, well, you know, people
around me are horrible.
The world's so corrupt
people are the worst.
And so he says, he says this to her.
I love mankind.
I find to my amazement that the
more I love mankind as a whole,
the less I love man in particular.
And this, this quote struck
me that the more that we quote
unquote love mankind as a whole.
I just love humanity.
I believe in the good of humanity.
The more that we find
ourselves, not living.
People people in front of us
actively loving our enemies,
actively loving people who annoyed
us, people who despises people.
We despise people who are horrible to us.
People that ruin our lives.
Our role in humanity in our life,
success in our life is not about.
Loving mankind and believing in
the goodness of humanity, rather
it is loving, actively loving,
actively serving, actively
sacrificing for the people around us.
The people that annoy us, that
people that we hate and the people
that hate us, our enemies, it is in
that place of a loving, our enemies.
That we begin to build a
strong and a stable society.
I know it's taken us 45 minutes to make it
all the way around to this point through
talking of the metaverse through talking
about nursing homes, through talking about
Kazakhstan and means justifying the ends.
But if we want to make the world
a better place, it's by loving
the person right in front of us.
And that's me.
Detaching and detoxing from the gloss of
the metaverse, the gloss of the are being
glued and encapsulated in our street or
screens that removed from the gloss of
retreating to our tribes and tribalism.
And that means going out and actively
loving our enemies, because guess what?
In one shape, way, shape, or
form everyone around them.
They're going to think
differently than you.
They're going to disagree with you.
You're going to have conflict,
but it is our role to love people
in that conflict and find those,
those people who are our enemy.
Those are the ones that we need to more
actively seek to love, to be friend
and to serve, because that is how we.
A strong and healthy community.
That's that becomes a buffer
against the social upheavals that
we of course will end up seeing.
Now, if you do that, expect people to hate
you even more because people don't like
that, but that is, that is the cost of
pursuing truth that people actually don't
like, they don't like when someone has.
Then as it is, you speeds reality to
them, but we have to see the world.
Rightly we must discern truth
if we want to own our future.
Well, that is all for today's episode.
Thank you so much for tuning into this
very first time that we're streaming
this show live, go out this week.
Find find the one person in front
of you detached from the metaverse
find the person in front of you
and love them and care for them
so that you can own your future.