1 00:00:00,210 --> 00:00:01,860 What does Kazakhstan. 2 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:06,510 The metaverse and the person in front of you have anything to do with the gender. 3 00:00:07,350 --> 00:00:11,280 Hey, it's Lucas Groba and you were listening to the Lucas scroll bot show 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:18,509 where we uncover purpose, pursue truth, and own the future it's episode 266. 5 00:00:19,174 --> 00:00:24,125 The first time that we're doing this episode live on YouTube. 6 00:00:24,395 --> 00:00:28,415 It's one of the changes that we said we were going to make, as you move 7 00:00:28,415 --> 00:00:34,325 into 20, 22 and a last year, we are, uh, pretty nervous doing it live. 8 00:00:34,325 --> 00:00:39,545 Normally I have recorded live to tape in the studio and then, you know, 9 00:00:39,605 --> 00:00:41,135 able to go back, clean it up in post. 10 00:00:42,180 --> 00:00:46,110 But I felt that this is really the way to move forward. 11 00:00:46,110 --> 00:00:50,070 So alas, here we are 2022. 12 00:00:50,070 --> 00:00:53,489 We've been on a little bit of a break, as I'm sure you are aware 13 00:00:53,489 --> 00:00:56,460 of, but we're kicking off this year. 14 00:00:57,180 --> 00:01:01,050 And the main change that I have been wanting to. 15 00:01:01,845 --> 00:01:08,115 To this show is to be less reactionary to what's happening in the new cycle 16 00:01:08,505 --> 00:01:15,914 and to begin to form and shape thoughts and culture in more of an actionary way. 17 00:01:16,335 --> 00:01:20,265 So many of us, I, I know, and I believe from people that I talk to, 18 00:01:20,745 --> 00:01:24,705 we are leaders in communities of some sort, whether it's leaders in our 19 00:01:24,705 --> 00:01:30,405 family leaders or influencers in, in our peer groups who look up to. 20 00:01:31,590 --> 00:01:38,340 And I believe in this, in the millennial generation and generation generation, 21 00:01:38,370 --> 00:01:41,190 Z, we want to leave an impact. 22 00:01:41,250 --> 00:01:45,510 We want to make a difference this generation and I'm blending 23 00:01:45,570 --> 00:01:50,190 millennials and gen Z together is one of the most impact driven 24 00:01:50,190 --> 00:01:52,560 purpose driven generations ever. 25 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,990 That's really how we, we started this podcast two years ago, three years, 26 00:01:58,050 --> 00:02:00,150 three years ago, 2018, whatever that was. 27 00:02:01,065 --> 00:02:06,434 We started with these monikers, like own your story and own the future, these 28 00:02:06,434 --> 00:02:09,164 monikers of, of what is your purpose? 29 00:02:09,164 --> 00:02:10,755 How do you uncover your purpose? 30 00:02:10,755 --> 00:02:16,394 Because we are a generation that is driven and hungry to, to have a 31 00:02:16,394 --> 00:02:23,105 purpose, to leave a purpose behind us to leave an impact behind. 32 00:02:24,195 --> 00:02:27,225 So that is the biggest way that we're changing the direction. 33 00:02:27,255 --> 00:02:29,805 Not really even changing the direction of the show, but we're really 34 00:02:29,984 --> 00:02:32,265 changing some priorities in the show. 35 00:02:32,555 --> 00:02:35,145 And I hope that it serves as a benefit to you. 36 00:02:35,145 --> 00:02:38,355 As I said, in the previous episode, we're still going to be 37 00:02:38,355 --> 00:02:39,735 doing, yeah, that makes sense. 38 00:02:39,735 --> 00:02:41,025 We're still going to be doing Weaver, loom. 39 00:02:41,025 --> 00:02:45,375 We're still going to be covering social geopolitical events and how 40 00:02:45,375 --> 00:02:48,255 that pertains and impacts our life. 41 00:02:48,885 --> 00:02:50,475 Uh, but more, more than that. 42 00:02:51,525 --> 00:02:53,385 I personally, and I hope that you do too. 43 00:02:54,829 --> 00:03:01,310 Want to move out of this, uh, reactionary metaverse anxiety driven, 44 00:03:01,460 --> 00:03:06,440 social media induced clickbait world of the 24 hour news cycle. 45 00:03:06,799 --> 00:03:11,150 I mean, can you get more, more taglines in one sentence and move 46 00:03:11,180 --> 00:03:13,340 into a place where we're life on life? 47 00:03:13,670 --> 00:03:18,019 Actually leaving a real impact in difference in the people around 48 00:03:18,019 --> 00:03:20,570 us, because what good is it? 49 00:03:20,959 --> 00:03:24,100 If we have millions and millions of followers, But our 50 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:25,810 friends think that we're jerks. 51 00:03:25,990 --> 00:03:26,770 What good is it? 52 00:03:27,010 --> 00:03:34,510 If we have a huge social, social media footprint, but our kids don't like us 53 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,350 and they think that we're, you know, annoying to be around and we have 54 00:03:38,350 --> 00:03:42,430 horrible relationships with our kids or a wife or our husbands or a family. 55 00:03:43,420 --> 00:03:45,310 That's the last thing that I want in my life. 56 00:03:46,060 --> 00:03:49,300 And I'm pretty sure it's probably the last thing that you want in your life. 57 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:56,340 That is again, a little bit of the vision of, of where I hope to continue to go. 58 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,270 I don't know exactly how to get there and that's, it's paused me 59 00:04:01,270 --> 00:04:05,310 and moving forward because I don't know exactly how to get there. 60 00:04:05,310 --> 00:04:10,320 I don't know exactly the path to take, but unless you take steps forward, unless 61 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,740 you walk forward, you'll never get there. 62 00:04:13,740 --> 00:04:16,140 I've I've shared this analogy many times on the show. 63 00:04:17,489 --> 00:04:21,719 Just as if, if you know where you want to go, you have, you have the map in 64 00:04:21,719 --> 00:04:23,159 front of you before you want to go. 65 00:04:24,630 --> 00:04:27,659 You can tell me all the right turns, but unless I get in the 66 00:04:27,659 --> 00:04:31,710 car and drive there, I won't know how hard to press down on the gas. 67 00:04:31,739 --> 00:04:35,580 It won't know exactly how many turns they need to make on the steering wheel. 68 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,450 And so if you're feeling stuck in your life, you know where you want to go, 69 00:04:39,719 --> 00:04:42,080 but you're not quite sure how to get. 70 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:47,160 The answer is to get in the car, to get in the vehicle that you know, that it's going 71 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:51,600 to bring you there and start driving, even if you don't know quite how to drive yet. 72 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,610 And this is one of the things we're actually going to be 73 00:04:53,610 --> 00:04:55,920 covering on today's episode. 74 00:04:56,190 --> 00:04:59,610 And as I said in the intro, we're going to be starting with positive. 75 00:05:00,630 --> 00:05:05,310 We're not going to be doing a deep dive into Kazakhstan as we normally 76 00:05:05,310 --> 00:05:12,690 do by, I do want to intro with what happened in Kazakhstan in the early days 77 00:05:12,690 --> 00:05:19,170 of 2022, because it really lays a, a picture of foundation of the question 78 00:05:19,170 --> 00:05:21,240 that we're raising in this episode. 79 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:25,200 What happened in Kazakhstan? 80 00:05:25,229 --> 00:05:31,830 Well, in short Kazakhstan is a large, massive land in central Asia. 81 00:05:32,099 --> 00:05:34,260 Next ditch, China and Russia. 82 00:05:34,289 --> 00:05:38,460 They gained independence in 1991 from the Soviet union, 83 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,950 and it is an oil rich nation. 84 00:05:40,950 --> 00:05:45,119 It produces 1.6 million barrels a day. 85 00:05:46,034 --> 00:05:51,375 Of oil, 1.6 million that compares with oil, rich nation, like Qatar, which 86 00:05:51,435 --> 00:05:54,435 produces 1.9 million barrels a day. 87 00:05:54,645 --> 00:06:01,724 The differences, the in Kazakhstan, that wealth that has been generated through oil 88 00:06:01,844 --> 00:06:04,574 has not trickled down to its 19 million. 89 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:08,900 It roughly has stayed in the upper echelons of, of 90 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,340 the ruling elite in society. 91 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,130 And that has caused a lot of frustration. 92 00:06:14,159 --> 00:06:15,480 It costs a lot of poverty. 93 00:06:15,599 --> 00:06:16,770 People are unhappy. 94 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:23,520 Well earlier this year, January 2nd, this year oil prices, gas 95 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:30,060 prices inside Kazakhstan shot up, which led to a domino effect where 96 00:06:30,060 --> 00:06:33,539 there were riots across the nation. 97 00:06:34,695 --> 00:06:35,745 Many people died. 98 00:06:35,775 --> 00:06:41,985 44 deaths have been confirmed, uh, both on people who were writing the 99 00:06:41,985 --> 00:06:47,625 civilian side and the government side, 20,000 of quote unquote, bandits who 100 00:06:47,625 --> 00:06:49,905 attack the city have been arrested. 101 00:06:50,805 --> 00:06:52,425 Thousands have been injured. 102 00:06:52,425 --> 00:06:55,335 Hundreds, 400 have been treated in hospitals. 103 00:06:55,365 --> 00:06:59,475 8,000 people have been detained according to the Casa government. 104 00:07:00,015 --> 00:07:03,075 Uh, and these riots all began with. 105 00:07:03,885 --> 00:07:07,185 Just one little match of gas prices rising. 106 00:07:07,604 --> 00:07:11,864 This is one of the more stable nations in the region. 107 00:07:11,864 --> 00:07:16,245 It is, you know, when my friends visit, I see the imagery from it 108 00:07:16,245 --> 00:07:18,554 and it's beautiful parks everywhere. 109 00:07:18,914 --> 00:07:24,195 It looks wealthy, it looks stable, look safe, people are happy, but 110 00:07:24,195 --> 00:07:26,145 all of a sudden we see in a moment. 111 00:07:28,035 --> 00:07:32,535 Uh, nation shake in a moment we see, uh, tensions flare. 112 00:07:32,535 --> 00:07:37,445 Now of course there was so many things that play into this. 113 00:07:37,445 --> 00:07:39,345 So I know I'm going to get. 114 00:07:40,305 --> 00:07:44,265 Taxing comments of like, well, you know, this really the way what really 115 00:07:44,265 --> 00:07:46,635 happened was sure there are PSYOPs. 116 00:07:46,905 --> 00:07:47,295 Sure. 117 00:07:47,325 --> 00:07:48,465 Russia could have involved. 118 00:07:48,525 --> 00:07:48,854 Sure. 119 00:07:48,854 --> 00:07:51,224 It could have been America that's involved or China. 120 00:07:51,405 --> 00:07:55,395 It could be, it could be that people are fed up with nepotism, with 121 00:07:55,395 --> 00:07:59,955 corruption, with not feeling like the government is actually serving them. 122 00:08:01,125 --> 00:08:05,175 Pseudo dictators who have been ruling the country for decades 123 00:08:05,235 --> 00:08:06,525 and not really letting go. 124 00:08:06,555 --> 00:08:11,655 There are a lot of reasons that built up to this moment of boiling over the 125 00:08:11,655 --> 00:08:16,755 point is that I believe is important for us to take away from this of what 126 00:08:16,755 --> 00:08:23,925 happened is we do not live in as steeple of an environment or a society, as 127 00:08:24,225 --> 00:08:28,135 we might think it doesn't take much. 128 00:08:28,979 --> 00:08:33,510 For entire nation to flip upside down on its head. 129 00:08:33,780 --> 00:08:34,709 It can happen in a day. 130 00:08:34,890 --> 00:08:39,630 We've seen this with 2020 and the pandemic across the world. 131 00:08:39,630 --> 00:08:43,199 We've seen how fragile the systems of society is. 132 00:08:43,380 --> 00:08:50,189 We saw this in America with, uh, George Floyd and the riots that took place in the 133 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:52,800 uprising that took place across America. 134 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,400 In 2020, we, we have seen. 135 00:08:57,195 --> 00:09:02,565 The riots and protests that are taking place across Europe and Australia due 136 00:09:02,565 --> 00:09:09,165 to these lockdowns, we can see probably more clearly today than we could. 137 00:09:09,465 --> 00:09:16,245 Uh, two, three years ago, the fragility of society that we live in. 138 00:09:16,935 --> 00:09:21,135 And that leads me to a question that I want to pose to you. 139 00:09:21,945 --> 00:09:24,975 How are we building? 140 00:09:26,340 --> 00:09:28,020 Strong infrastructure. 141 00:09:28,380 --> 00:09:32,280 I hate to use that word, but strong infrastructure in our lives, in 142 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,630 our community, in our family. 143 00:09:33,630 --> 00:09:41,520 How are we building a resilient culture within our immediate surroundings so that 144 00:09:42,210 --> 00:09:49,050 if, and when those days come, we have the ability to rise up as a leader to 145 00:09:49,050 --> 00:09:51,630 rise up as a source of hope and strength. 146 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:52,860 What are we doing? 147 00:09:53,955 --> 00:09:55,875 To build that in culture. 148 00:09:55,935 --> 00:09:57,915 How are we building culture? 149 00:09:57,915 --> 00:10:04,485 Last year, we spent a large amount of time reacting to a leftist culture, 150 00:10:04,545 --> 00:10:06,855 relaxed reacting to progressivism. 151 00:10:07,335 --> 00:10:14,745 Um, and this year I believe we are moving into simple foundational 152 00:10:15,225 --> 00:10:19,095 tools and strategies in ways that. 153 00:10:20,055 --> 00:10:25,605 Can build stronger foundations in our life so that we can weather 154 00:10:25,605 --> 00:10:29,535 those storms, whether it's in our personal purpose and vision. 155 00:10:29,655 --> 00:10:32,625 So we don't, we're not flooded with anxiety of what we're doing with the 156 00:10:32,625 --> 00:10:37,215 person or lives, whether it's in our relational aptitude, making sure that we 157 00:10:37,215 --> 00:10:39,495 have strong and healthy relationships. 158 00:10:39,705 --> 00:10:43,215 How many of us walk through life with embittered relationships? 159 00:10:43,995 --> 00:10:48,435 How many of us walk through life with broken relationships, struggling 160 00:10:48,435 --> 00:10:52,155 marriages, struggling relationships with our kids or our parents. 161 00:10:53,205 --> 00:10:59,175 Those are not healthy relationships that enabled us to move forward with certainty. 162 00:10:59,385 --> 00:11:04,335 Those are toxic potentially damaging relationships that are 163 00:11:04,335 --> 00:11:09,314 fragile, and these are the most important relationships in our life. 164 00:11:09,345 --> 00:11:10,515 Then finally, financial. 165 00:11:11,714 --> 00:11:13,935 How, how are we positioned financially? 166 00:11:13,964 --> 00:11:17,354 Are we a source and a resource to people around us? 167 00:11:17,655 --> 00:11:23,594 Or are we always needing something from the community around us? 168 00:11:23,625 --> 00:11:27,915 Always needing more, never stable, never in a safe place. 169 00:11:27,915 --> 00:11:32,334 Now I will say this there's no. 170 00:11:33,270 --> 00:11:36,720 There is no such thing as guaranteed safety. 171 00:11:36,990 --> 00:11:40,860 And that is what we, I think we can really see from what has happened in Kazakhstan. 172 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,040 It's safety is an illusion. 173 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:51,330 Yes, we need to take caution, but if we go too far in trying to be safe, rather 174 00:11:51,330 --> 00:11:56,520 than trying to build strength within our community, there's a difference between 175 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,940 being safe in our community and being in. 176 00:11:59,699 --> 00:12:01,189 Building strength in our community. 177 00:12:01,229 --> 00:12:02,189 We want to build strength. 178 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:07,680 If we go too far in that way of trying to be safe, we become precautionary 179 00:12:07,770 --> 00:12:08,910 rather than taking caution. 180 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:15,660 And that is one thing that I think we learn from this what's happening in 181 00:12:15,660 --> 00:12:20,910 Kazakhstan and really sheds light on the fragility of each and every one 182 00:12:20,910 --> 00:12:22,620 of our communities across the globe. 183 00:12:22,620 --> 00:12:24,780 No matter where we are. 184 00:12:24,780 --> 00:12:27,000 So what are we doing to prepare? 185 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:32,160 Well, one of the things that I have been doing over the last three months 186 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:38,220 is, and thinking through is that I want to be more integrated into my 187 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:40,680 local surrounding my local society. 188 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:46,230 Now, as someone who does consulting and works in media and online 189 00:12:46,230 --> 00:12:50,640 and clients across the globe, I find myself increasingly. 190 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:56,550 On, not necessarily on the metaverse as the real metaverse, but on the internet, 191 00:12:56,550 --> 00:13:03,330 connecting with the relationships over, uh, Instagram or email or zoom in these 192 00:13:04,020 --> 00:13:06,900 mediated, digitized relationships. 193 00:13:08,190 --> 00:13:13,800 And I've been forced to think of how can I make changes? 194 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:21,300 In my life in my world do not have so many relationships mediated by click bait. 195 00:13:21,390 --> 00:13:26,790 Social media last year got into a lot of problems on social media 196 00:13:27,420 --> 00:13:32,700 because I was making provocative statements that were going against 197 00:13:32,910 --> 00:13:35,670 things in the status quo on Instagram. 198 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,410 And I was looking back a few weeks ago on some of those comments. 199 00:13:42,110 --> 00:13:46,820 And the amount of bickering and back and forth, and just insanity that 200 00:13:46,820 --> 00:13:51,170 was happening was not worth my life. 201 00:13:51,470 --> 00:13:55,790 It was not worth the anxiety was not worth the time in many ways, but whenever I 202 00:13:55,790 --> 00:14:03,320 moved those relationships from back and forth bickering with, you know, strangers 203 00:14:03,350 --> 00:14:06,140 on the internet, into talking with people. 204 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:07,860 With my voice. 205 00:14:07,950 --> 00:14:12,420 Face-to-face about these issues, these hard and complex issues that 206 00:14:12,420 --> 00:14:14,910 we see things from a different way. 207 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:16,050 All of a sudden. 208 00:14:17,535 --> 00:14:21,015 Tension between us in the relationship melted. 209 00:14:21,285 --> 00:14:24,615 And we began, began to see each other sides and we grew 210 00:14:24,615 --> 00:14:26,775 in empathy for one another. 211 00:14:26,775 --> 00:14:29,625 Now there were a few different relationships where the people 212 00:14:29,625 --> 00:14:33,195 decided I don't really care, even though we have relationship, even 213 00:14:33,195 --> 00:14:36,735 though we have friendship, I don't care to talk to you face to face. 214 00:14:36,765 --> 00:14:41,595 I'm just going to cancel you and further isolate into my tribe 215 00:14:41,625 --> 00:14:44,255 and my tribalism rather than. 216 00:14:45,180 --> 00:14:47,430 And build a relationship and build empathy. 217 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:53,610 Well, what is coming in the next decade is the metaverse. 218 00:14:54,030 --> 00:15:02,310 It is further digitalization of pulling all of us humans into the matrix of the 219 00:15:02,310 --> 00:15:08,700 metaverse, where our entire existence will be mediated by digital screens 220 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,100 in one way, shape, form, or another. 221 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:12,030 Now whether that will happen. 222 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,400 There is a lot of skepticism of whether this will actually take off the ground. 223 00:15:17,790 --> 00:15:22,140 And we're going to be playing a few clips from Phil Libin, who is 224 00:15:22,140 --> 00:15:28,350 the founder of Evernote and the CEO of who is really not so bullish. 225 00:15:28,350 --> 00:15:32,460 He's not very positive about the metaverse and we'll see why, but 226 00:15:32,820 --> 00:15:38,730 there is something in here that is tying back into this greater thing. 227 00:15:39,795 --> 00:15:41,955 Here's this opening clip of Phil. 228 00:15:41,955 --> 00:15:46,725 He was, uh, on a podcast hosted by the tech journalist, Eric newcomer. 229 00:15:47,055 --> 00:15:51,075 And so this is a, a clip from their episode. 230 00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:57,315 I think it's kind of bad that, um, we don't have a shared reality anymore 231 00:15:57,375 --> 00:16:01,365 where that there was that our shared reality, or even like our shared stomach 232 00:16:01,365 --> 00:16:03,795 infrastructure, like the way that we. 233 00:16:05,535 --> 00:16:06,854 Uh, it hasn't advanced. 234 00:16:06,854 --> 00:16:07,515 It's stale. 235 00:16:07,515 --> 00:16:09,165 It's skeuomorphic it's stupid. 236 00:16:09,165 --> 00:16:09,915 No one wants it. 237 00:16:09,915 --> 00:16:10,844 It's worse than every way. 238 00:16:10,844 --> 00:16:16,935 From actual reality, it is a gloss that uncreative people and companies put over 239 00:16:17,235 --> 00:16:19,395 a phone, fundamentally lack of good ideas. 240 00:16:19,785 --> 00:16:20,714 So this is. 241 00:16:21,615 --> 00:16:26,834 Main point that's the metaverse is merely a gloss that 242 00:16:27,015 --> 00:16:29,505 corporations put over bad ideas. 243 00:16:29,865 --> 00:16:33,975 As he says in this interview, he's talking about really how the things in 244 00:16:33,975 --> 00:16:38,625 the metaverse or ideas from the seventies and eighties, they're they're ideas 245 00:16:38,655 --> 00:16:45,735 from scifi novels, which warned about the big catastrophes that a metaverse. 246 00:16:46,485 --> 00:16:47,925 We'll create in society. 247 00:16:47,925 --> 00:16:48,944 We see it in the matrix. 248 00:16:49,275 --> 00:16:54,645 We see it in multiple Saifai books and novels, and they're all cautionary tales. 249 00:16:54,855 --> 00:16:57,645 And he's saying the meta verses it's really to just this 250 00:16:57,645 --> 00:17:00,405 illusion of gloss over our life. 251 00:17:00,495 --> 00:17:04,155 And that's what so many of us are doing on these phones. 252 00:17:04,425 --> 00:17:09,795 We're, we're escaping through reality around us to gloss over 253 00:17:09,855 --> 00:17:12,974 life and it's not building true. 254 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,200 Connection what it does though. 255 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,010 It builds and stewards, tribalism and division. 256 00:17:20,130 --> 00:17:25,440 That's what these social media platforms have been designed to do and do by nature. 257 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,150 Here's the second clip by Phil. 258 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:32,250 I think it's kind of bad that, um, we don't have a shared reality 259 00:17:32,250 --> 00:17:35,580 anymore where that there, that our shared reality, or even like our 260 00:17:35,580 --> 00:17:37,350 shared like epistemic infrastructure. 261 00:17:38,535 --> 00:17:42,525 The way that we understand things like we can't even agree on how we 262 00:17:42,525 --> 00:17:44,235 go about understanding something. 263 00:17:44,805 --> 00:17:47,895 And I think anything that, that kind of pulls us further apart from a shared 264 00:17:47,895 --> 00:17:49,575 reality, it's just, it's really damaging. 265 00:17:50,205 --> 00:17:53,985 And, you know, Facebook started doing this way before the Metro was just core 266 00:17:53,985 --> 00:17:57,585 Facebook, like the whole, the Facebook lie that, oh, we just connect people. 267 00:17:57,975 --> 00:17:58,665 It was never true. 268 00:17:58,755 --> 00:18:00,075 Facebook doesn't connect people. 269 00:18:00,075 --> 00:18:04,695 Facebook connects you to your own prejudices and opinions. 270 00:18:05,445 --> 00:18:09,580 Uh, Facebook doesn't connect people. 271 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,780 It connects you to your own prejudices and opinions. 272 00:18:13,780 --> 00:18:18,220 The same thing with Instagram, the same thing with TechTalk the same thing with 273 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:26,140 all of these infinite scroll communities, where you find people who think like you, 274 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,880 you agree with people who you think, think like you, you comment on people who think. 275 00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:35,220 And then the algorithm continues to feed you that, because that is what is 276 00:18:35,220 --> 00:18:40,320 keeping you engaged, which then puts us in these echo chambers and division, 277 00:18:40,710 --> 00:18:43,560 which is detrimental to society. 278 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,160 As Phil goes on to explain, it says, well, okay, your community is 279 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,070 people who agree with you and that's not connecting you with people. 280 00:18:50,070 --> 00:18:52,950 That's reinforcing your own beliefs and it's actually driving 281 00:18:52,950 --> 00:18:53,820 you further away from people. 282 00:18:53,820 --> 00:18:56,700 The whole point of an actual community is you've got to be people with 283 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:57,960 all sorts of different viewpoints. 284 00:18:58,740 --> 00:19:00,180 You know that you are in community with. 285 00:19:01,110 --> 00:19:03,990 Um, so I think like just good old fashioned Facebook has made that 286 00:19:03,990 --> 00:19:05,250 problem worse than not just Facebook. 287 00:19:05,250 --> 00:19:06,510 I mean, social media in general. 288 00:19:06,580 --> 00:19:11,130 Um, and the Metro versus just like taking that to an extreme, the idea 289 00:19:11,130 --> 00:19:15,960 that you would like substitute a significant portion of actual shared 290 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:22,450 reality with something where you can choose, you know, who you're with in 291 00:19:22,450 --> 00:19:24,210 an, in an almost quasi real wages. 292 00:19:25,064 --> 00:19:27,405 It feels like it's just going to make every problem that we have worse and 293 00:19:27,465 --> 00:19:31,455 none of the problems better, really what we're seeing in social media. 294 00:19:31,814 --> 00:19:36,254 As he said in the beginning, it's a gloss, not only a gloss for companies who have 295 00:19:36,345 --> 00:19:41,504 subpar products or subpar experiences and they put your slap metaverse on it. 296 00:19:41,504 --> 00:19:45,645 And now it's the hot button topic that the buzz word, the catch 297 00:19:45,645 --> 00:19:47,685 phrase, but also in our lives. 298 00:19:48,750 --> 00:19:52,770 Because this way, we don't have to engage with the human beings in front of 299 00:19:52,770 --> 00:19:57,570 us and the hard relationships in front of us, we can engage on our screens. 300 00:19:58,170 --> 00:20:01,530 And then when we don't like someone, we can cancel them. 301 00:20:01,650 --> 00:20:04,320 We can ignore them, we can mute their posts. 302 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:08,880 We don't have to face those relationships and their quasi relationships. 303 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:14,580 It's one reason that I like long form combat content that I like a podcast. 304 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:17,160 And I like listening to long form content because. 305 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:25,860 I moved past the click bait moment, uh, buzz words of social media, and I 306 00:20:25,860 --> 00:20:31,709 can actually listen to something that is thoughtful and has depth to it now. 307 00:20:32,610 --> 00:20:41,010 And with that, all of that isolation is causing more tribalism and tribalism 308 00:20:41,250 --> 00:20:44,760 causes more bickering between people. 309 00:20:46,034 --> 00:20:46,905 Phil goes on. 310 00:20:46,905 --> 00:20:52,425 He fell actually grew up in the Soviet union and he makes a point 311 00:20:53,415 --> 00:20:58,155 about how, what we're seeing in the messaging of the metaverse is very 312 00:20:58,155 --> 00:21:03,465 similar to what we are seeing or did see when it comes to communism. 313 00:21:03,784 --> 00:21:07,304 And we still see it when people are pushing socialism or communism 314 00:21:07,304 --> 00:21:10,064 or Marxism, which is, well, it hasn't really been tried before. 315 00:21:10,784 --> 00:21:13,875 W we haven't really, communism is never really been done. 316 00:21:13,875 --> 00:21:14,205 Right. 317 00:21:14,745 --> 00:21:18,044 And then you cite a bunch of places where communism was done, like, well, 318 00:21:18,044 --> 00:21:21,524 that wasn't really communism, you know, don't, don't worry about the millions 319 00:21:21,524 --> 00:21:25,415 of people that were killed in Cambodia or China or Russia or Venezuela. 320 00:21:25,784 --> 00:21:28,084 That's not real communism here. 321 00:21:28,104 --> 00:21:30,344 Put me in power and I'll show you what real communism is. 322 00:21:30,375 --> 00:21:31,455 That's what they're saying. 323 00:21:32,820 --> 00:21:35,400 Here is here's Phil again from the same interview. 324 00:21:36,090 --> 00:21:37,290 Uh, I was born in the Soviet union. 325 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,800 It used to be the Soviet union, a city that used to be called Leningrad. 326 00:21:40,830 --> 00:21:41,160 Now St. 327 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:41,580 Petersburg. 328 00:21:41,580 --> 00:21:42,330 It was a long time ago. 329 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,540 I went to first grade in the Soviet union and I was subjected to a lot 330 00:21:45,540 --> 00:21:47,130 of, you know, Soviet propaganda. 331 00:21:47,430 --> 00:21:51,450 And, uh, I was told as a little kid repeatedly, communism doesn't exist yet. 332 00:21:52,020 --> 00:21:53,370 You know, we haven't built communism yet. 333 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:54,120 We're building towards. 334 00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:56,760 But it's not communism yet. 335 00:21:56,820 --> 00:21:57,810 What you see around you? 336 00:21:57,810 --> 00:21:59,310 This horrible, horrible place. 337 00:21:59,730 --> 00:22:00,570 Isn't communism. 338 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,070 That's like, we're building towards it. 339 00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:05,040 It's going to be great when it gets here, we're building towards it. 340 00:22:05,250 --> 00:22:08,730 And like, you know, you can smell a bad idea before it's like fully built. 341 00:22:08,820 --> 00:22:11,910 So like, I don't want to hear like, oh yeah, the metaphors doesn't exist yet. 342 00:22:12,330 --> 00:22:12,710 No, no, no, no. 343 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,210 All this stuff, all this like stupid, useless, crappy 344 00:22:15,210 --> 00:22:16,140 stuff that exists right now. 345 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,450 That's not the metaverse like the metaverse is coming. 346 00:22:18,450 --> 00:22:18,670 It's coming. 347 00:22:20,385 --> 00:22:23,264 The point that he's making here is in reference to people who say, 348 00:22:23,264 --> 00:22:25,155 well, the metaverse isn't built yet. 349 00:22:25,155 --> 00:22:29,655 Once VR reaches its tipping point, everyone's going to onboard 350 00:22:29,655 --> 00:22:31,004 and it's going to be amazing. 351 00:22:31,274 --> 00:22:34,544 This experience that you're having right now, it's not so great, but we kind of 352 00:22:34,544 --> 00:22:36,135 know what the metaverse is going to be. 353 00:22:36,825 --> 00:22:38,325 We've seen Snapchat. 354 00:22:38,505 --> 00:22:41,505 We've seen Tech-Talk, we've seen zoom. 355 00:22:41,745 --> 00:22:46,965 We've had our lives mediated over zoom and who wants to stare at another screen? 356 00:22:47,295 --> 00:22:52,575 Now, imagine having that screen taped to your face with a hot sweaty mass, maybe 357 00:22:52,575 --> 00:22:57,315 we'll get, you know, really expensive rooms that you can walk in, but you're 358 00:22:57,315 --> 00:23:02,595 still, you're seeing some sort of 3d figure and the quality is just over. 359 00:23:03,330 --> 00:23:05,580 No one wants to live in that place anymore. 360 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:06,030 Sure. 361 00:23:06,060 --> 00:23:10,560 Games are fun as an escape, but do you want to live in that world? 362 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,340 I do think that we will see some sort of metaverse. 363 00:23:14,399 --> 00:23:17,700 I do think that millions of people will be onboarded to 364 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:22,290 that hundreds of hours of life. 365 00:23:22,410 --> 00:23:25,680 Thousands, millions of hours of life will be wasted on it. 366 00:23:26,670 --> 00:23:31,950 But I, I liked the point that he's making, which is if the. 367 00:23:32,970 --> 00:23:33,660 Sucks. 368 00:23:33,930 --> 00:23:39,180 If the means to get to the end sucks, then the end is going to suck. 369 00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:46,020 And he, Phil makes a point of exactly this referring to Amazon. 370 00:23:46,020 --> 00:23:51,090 When Amazon first started, the platform was really horrible. 371 00:23:51,090 --> 00:23:54,750 It was just text HTML, but the experience was amazing. 372 00:23:54,810 --> 00:23:58,230 It was revolutionary that you could go online, you can order a 373 00:23:58,230 --> 00:24:00,520 book and it would show up at your. 374 00:24:01,485 --> 00:24:07,425 Whereas platforms like metaverse platforms, the experience you use it for 375 00:24:07,425 --> 00:24:13,665 a little bit it's novel, but then you're, it's not an experience that is while we 376 00:24:13,665 --> 00:24:16,275 knew that you want to spend your life. 377 00:24:16,275 --> 00:24:18,825 And here's this last clip by Phil, and then we're going 378 00:24:18,825 --> 00:24:20,865 to pull out the application. 379 00:24:21,945 --> 00:24:24,795 I hear a lot of people saying, yeah, the current stuff, socks, but 380 00:24:24,795 --> 00:24:25,905 that's because it's not ready yet. 381 00:24:26,415 --> 00:24:28,745 That's actually never been the case of successful technology. 382 00:24:28,755 --> 00:24:29,175 All the wrap. 383 00:24:29,175 --> 00:24:29,415 Right. 384 00:24:29,415 --> 00:24:31,695 You got to wait for the killer app, but that's never been the case, right? 385 00:24:31,695 --> 00:24:34,635 Like, like, uh, I was playing video games since, you know, 386 00:24:34,635 --> 00:24:36,135 it's already 2,600, I'm sorry. 387 00:24:36,135 --> 00:24:39,705 2,600 games sucked very janky, but they were great. 388 00:24:39,945 --> 00:24:40,455 They were great. 389 00:24:40,485 --> 00:24:41,355 You could tell they were great. 390 00:24:41,385 --> 00:24:44,385 And we were on Facebook when it was barely functioning. 391 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,990 Definitely clearly going to be something people use. 392 00:24:49,260 --> 00:24:54,600 I ordered my first order from Amazon in something like 1998, I think like it 393 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,750 was, it was in the late nineties because they still have it miraculously enough. 394 00:24:57,780 --> 00:25:00,240 Like Amazon still like has my first order in my account. 395 00:25:00,660 --> 00:25:01,830 And yeah, it was late nineties. 396 00:25:01,830 --> 00:25:03,150 I ordered a couple of books. 397 00:25:03,210 --> 00:25:04,890 It was the first time I ever bought anything online. 398 00:25:04,890 --> 00:25:06,240 It was my first e-commerce experience. 399 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,379 It was sometime in the late nineties. 400 00:25:07,379 --> 00:25:11,010 I bought a couple of books, two books by James Randi and it was 401 00:25:11,010 --> 00:25:13,830 super primitive like that Amazon website, it was like all text-based. 402 00:25:13,830 --> 00:25:14,820 There was like blink tag. 403 00:25:15,870 --> 00:25:18,450 You know, we look at it now, like it's pathetic, but like, it 404 00:25:18,450 --> 00:25:20,639 was, it was very primitive, but it was an amazing experience. 405 00:25:20,639 --> 00:25:22,860 I could tell immediately that this was going, oh my God, I just 406 00:25:23,010 --> 00:25:25,350 bought something on a computer and it's going to show up for real. 407 00:25:25,350 --> 00:25:28,530 And like, and I didn't have to go to a store and the selection of books, even 408 00:25:28,530 --> 00:25:31,320 back then, the selection of books was so much bigger than like, you know, 409 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:32,580 the Barnes and noble down the street. 410 00:25:32,850 --> 00:25:37,320 So like things don't start terrible and then become good things start great. 411 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:39,270 And then become like smoother, more advanced. 412 00:25:40,245 --> 00:25:41,294 So anyone who's like, yeah. 413 00:25:41,294 --> 00:25:41,445 Yeah. 414 00:25:41,445 --> 00:25:44,115 The metaverse like it sucks now because it's not advanced enough. 415 00:25:45,074 --> 00:25:47,085 It sucks because it's stupid and it's always going to suck. 416 00:25:48,885 --> 00:25:51,645 I, I love his point that he's making here. 417 00:25:52,064 --> 00:25:55,784 And the point that he's making is that if a product in the 418 00:25:55,784 --> 00:25:58,335 beginning, the idea sucks. 419 00:25:58,335 --> 00:26:00,345 Now it's going to suck at the end. 420 00:26:00,585 --> 00:26:04,245 And a lot of people, it, it goes to the, the famous saying 421 00:26:04,245 --> 00:26:06,225 that the means justify the. 422 00:26:07,290 --> 00:26:10,470 But the means never justify the ends. 423 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:17,880 And more importantly, if the means are not the ends, then you have a broken model. 424 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,290 There are, there are many people like with Marxism, communism, 425 00:26:22,290 --> 00:26:27,480 socialism, and many other worldviews, many other ideological paths. 426 00:26:28,350 --> 00:26:31,440 Let's say, yeah, this, this sucks right now, you know, really? 427 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:31,680 Yeah. 428 00:26:31,710 --> 00:26:33,420 We have to see a lot of bloodshed. 429 00:26:33,660 --> 00:26:34,950 It's a lot of violence. 430 00:26:34,980 --> 00:26:36,540 It's definitely not utopia. 431 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,700 It's a lot of struggle, but if we get everyone to adopt this soon, 432 00:26:41,970 --> 00:26:45,600 the actual thing will be here and we'll actually have peace. 433 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,780 We'll actually have, uh, a brave new world. 434 00:26:48,780 --> 00:26:49,770 We'll actually have. 435 00:26:50,865 --> 00:26:54,554 Social equality, but we just have to go through this really 436 00:26:54,554 --> 00:26:56,175 rough patch to get there. 437 00:26:56,175 --> 00:27:00,344 There's multiple worldviews that espouse, that very thing. 438 00:27:00,615 --> 00:27:06,705 And what he is saying in which I agree is that if the worldview 439 00:27:06,705 --> 00:27:10,395 that is those worldviews that say this isn't the real thing. 440 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:12,375 We're still building towards it. 441 00:27:12,375 --> 00:27:15,554 We have to go through this rough patch to get there, but then don't worry. 442 00:27:15,705 --> 00:27:16,514 It's going to be amazing. 443 00:27:17,740 --> 00:27:19,990 Those are Ponzi schemes. 444 00:27:20,230 --> 00:27:22,000 They are lies. 445 00:27:22,060 --> 00:27:25,090 They lead us down the wrong path. 446 00:27:25,450 --> 00:27:29,650 And if we're doing something similar and likewise in our life thinking, 447 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:36,790 okay, if I do B, C and D, then somehow I'll get a, it doesn't work that way. 448 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:43,510 We, we must, our ends that we want to reach has to be happening. 449 00:27:44,895 --> 00:27:48,165 Th the level, one of our MVP or minimum viable product, that 450 00:27:48,165 --> 00:27:51,405 things that we're starting with, small, those small building blocks. 451 00:27:51,405 --> 00:28:00,195 If we are not having our end result, be manifested and achieved in our beginning 452 00:28:00,254 --> 00:28:05,625 steps in results, then the whole equation is broken and it doesn't work. 453 00:28:06,735 --> 00:28:09,945 Here's a couple of examples and I'm going to use some counterexamples when 454 00:28:09,945 --> 00:28:10,935 people are like, well, what about. 455 00:28:11,970 --> 00:28:14,310 And what about the process of working out? 456 00:28:14,310 --> 00:28:15,780 You know, you have to work out. 457 00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:17,700 I don't, I'm not a big fan of working out. 458 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:21,930 I think a little allergic when I work out, you know, my turn, all red, 459 00:28:22,980 --> 00:28:25,919 get short of breath, start sweating. 460 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,149 Can't stand up. 461 00:28:27,180 --> 00:28:28,590 My legs hurt for a couple of days. 462 00:28:28,649 --> 00:28:33,210 I'm definitely allergic to working out and I can say, well, the process 463 00:28:33,210 --> 00:28:36,570 of working out, you know, that sucks. 464 00:28:36,810 --> 00:28:37,770 That's horrible. 465 00:28:37,950 --> 00:28:38,940 I hated the ends. 466 00:28:38,940 --> 00:28:39,840 Don't justify the means. 467 00:28:41,995 --> 00:28:47,245 But in that process of working out right away, you're actually achieving 468 00:28:47,275 --> 00:28:51,175 your goal, which is to get a little stronger and a little healthier. 469 00:28:51,625 --> 00:28:57,235 It happens right then right then in that moment, what about hard work and 470 00:28:57,235 --> 00:28:59,125 savings and delayed gratification? 471 00:28:59,635 --> 00:29:00,265 Same thing. 472 00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:06,505 If I work hard today and I invest today and I delayed gratification 473 00:29:06,505 --> 00:29:08,605 today, I'm actually the system. 474 00:29:09,659 --> 00:29:14,010 Is achieving my goal, which is financial stability and financial security. 475 00:29:14,010 --> 00:29:16,919 I have a little bit more stability and security. 476 00:29:17,220 --> 00:29:21,000 Does that mean I'm instantly cashflow positive? 477 00:29:21,030 --> 00:29:24,570 Does that mean that I instantly have enough passive income to, to 478 00:29:24,570 --> 00:29:26,700 move to The Bahamas and buy a yacht? 479 00:29:26,730 --> 00:29:30,540 No, but it takes me a step further to that end game. 480 00:29:31,889 --> 00:29:41,205 Likewise, uh, I guess not likewise, but in those extremism, Or extremism that leads 481 00:29:41,205 --> 00:29:48,015 to these utopias, like whether it's the metaverse or Marxism or communism or all 482 00:29:48,015 --> 00:29:53,805 these other worldviews that say, well, we just have to pixelate a little bit and 483 00:29:53,805 --> 00:29:56,445 we just need to get the world to join us. 484 00:29:56,445 --> 00:29:58,545 And then we'll have utopia. 485 00:29:59,535 --> 00:30:02,025 We just have to break a few eggs to make the omelet. 486 00:30:02,415 --> 00:30:04,155 Those things are traps. 487 00:30:04,155 --> 00:30:10,210 Those things are like, The same way with people. 488 00:30:10,270 --> 00:30:15,040 And you probably know these people who are looking to build their empire. 489 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:20,200 They're looking to build their, their glorious world, but in their wake 490 00:30:20,230 --> 00:30:25,090 is a sea of broken people, broken relationship and burnt bridges. 491 00:30:26,350 --> 00:30:27,250 The argument is. 492 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,130 You know, they just weren't on board with my vision, but in reality, you're 493 00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:35,490 not going to reach your utopian dream. 494 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:39,990 So how do we then orientate our lives? 495 00:30:39,990 --> 00:30:40,350 Right? 496 00:30:40,980 --> 00:30:46,860 So that what is happening, that, that the means become the ends 497 00:30:46,860 --> 00:30:49,380 and the ends become the means. 498 00:30:49,710 --> 00:30:51,330 And that is something that I've been thinking about. 499 00:30:51,330 --> 00:30:54,630 And I want to challenge you in your life right now. 500 00:30:56,385 --> 00:30:59,625 Are the end goals that you want to achieve? 501 00:30:59,655 --> 00:31:03,855 Are you achieving them via the means of what you're doing? 502 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,750 Day in and day out. 503 00:31:09,370 --> 00:31:09,659 Yeah. 504 00:31:10,020 --> 00:31:10,770 That makes sense. 505 00:31:10,770 --> 00:31:15,180 In a post-truth society, we've exchanged truth for lies and reasons for Pope 506 00:31:15,270 --> 00:31:21,360 reason for post-modern irrationality, the absurd finally make sense. 507 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:26,670 Well, it is no surprise to you or I that in 2020. 508 00:31:27,419 --> 00:31:31,889 And 2021 and probably in 2022, the people who have suffered the most 509 00:31:31,919 --> 00:31:38,189 from this pandemic are the elderly in nursing homes, elderly in nursing homes. 510 00:31:38,370 --> 00:31:41,040 They, that is the segment of the population where you've 511 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,290 seen the most amount of deaths. 512 00:31:43,679 --> 00:31:45,449 And it is a segment of the population. 513 00:31:45,449 --> 00:31:47,610 Who's pretty much been in prison. 514 00:31:47,939 --> 00:31:51,449 They're already in a part place of being in a nursing home. 515 00:31:51,689 --> 00:31:56,250 But then because of that, the level of mortality. 516 00:31:57,629 --> 00:32:03,240 In nursing homes from COVID, they just went on and locked all nursing home, 517 00:32:03,270 --> 00:32:09,300 not all nursing homes, but many nursing homes across the west down, essentially 518 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:17,220 putting elderly people in isolation, chambers as if they're in prison. 519 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:25,110 Well, across Canada, there were a number of deaths not due to. 520 00:32:26,175 --> 00:32:33,405 But due to neglect, two people last year died from dehydration because they were 521 00:32:33,405 --> 00:32:35,145 understaffed and they were in a lockdown. 522 00:32:35,895 --> 00:32:41,565 Imagine you getting your meals alone in your room, not being able to go out 523 00:32:41,565 --> 00:32:43,695 and visit all activities are canceled. 524 00:32:43,695 --> 00:32:49,515 You are literally locked up in a prison in your room and the trauma 525 00:32:51,375 --> 00:32:53,415 and the anxiety that you would feel. 526 00:32:54,990 --> 00:32:56,910 The left has a perfect solution. 527 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,740 The solution is not, Hey, let's maybe rethink these lockdowns 528 00:33:01,740 --> 00:33:02,850 because, oh my goodness. 529 00:33:02,850 --> 00:33:06,960 The who even says that lockdowns aren't a sustainable solution 530 00:33:06,990 --> 00:33:09,210 and clearly don't work. 531 00:33:09,690 --> 00:33:10,110 Clearly. 532 00:33:10,110 --> 00:33:10,680 They don't work. 533 00:33:11,220 --> 00:33:13,860 If you look at the numbers, clearly doesn't work. 534 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:18,960 So maybe we should just rethink the lockdowns and let, 535 00:33:19,230 --> 00:33:21,030 let the elderly see people. 536 00:33:21,030 --> 00:33:22,680 We can stop this fear mongering. 537 00:33:24,405 --> 00:33:29,115 Go on after all, even in Europe, they're beginning to say that we're 538 00:33:29,115 --> 00:33:34,335 going to treat COVID more like we treat the flu, I think is a great idea. 539 00:33:34,335 --> 00:33:39,035 Apparently common sense is indeed becoming more common. 540 00:33:39,945 --> 00:33:45,735 That's not what some people are suggesting or saying in order to fix this problem, 541 00:33:46,155 --> 00:33:48,135 we need to have more euthanasia. 542 00:33:48,345 --> 00:33:52,395 We should just kill off the old people because look at the 543 00:33:52,395 --> 00:33:54,105 life quality it's horrible. 544 00:33:54,105 --> 00:33:55,785 Anyways, just get rid of them. 545 00:33:55,785 --> 00:33:57,225 They don't want to even be alive. 546 00:33:57,225 --> 00:34:02,595 Who wants to suffer in a miserable cell called a nursing home? 547 00:34:02,595 --> 00:34:03,285 Who wants to do. 548 00:34:04,215 --> 00:34:08,114 We should just expand the ability for people to choose, 549 00:34:08,384 --> 00:34:11,025 to end their life with dignity. 550 00:34:11,025 --> 00:34:12,074 Well, this is what's happening. 551 00:34:12,315 --> 00:34:18,554 We saw a case this isn't a new case, not breaking news, but in Canada of a 90 year 552 00:34:18,554 --> 00:34:24,435 old lady named Nancy Russell, who she was approved for medical assisted death, 553 00:34:25,094 --> 00:34:27,824 because one, because she couldn't handle. 554 00:34:28,740 --> 00:34:30,930 For isolation chamber in a nursing home. 555 00:34:30,930 --> 00:34:32,700 And frankly, I probably couldn't either. 556 00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:33,720 I would go crazy. 557 00:34:35,220 --> 00:34:37,560 I mean, that's the worst punishment that you get when you're in a jail, 558 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,060 they throw you in a nursing or they throw you in an isolation chamber 559 00:34:42,540 --> 00:34:45,510 to let you lose your mind in. 560 00:34:47,045 --> 00:34:50,525 Well, one report reads that residents eat meals in the room, 561 00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:54,035 activities and social gatherings are counseled in these nursing homes. 562 00:34:54,035 --> 00:34:57,275 Family visits are curtailed and eliminated, and sometimes they're 563 00:34:57,515 --> 00:35:00,695 isolated in their small room for days. 564 00:35:01,145 --> 00:35:07,775 Well, in Canada, you do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to apply 565 00:35:07,805 --> 00:35:10,055 for maize, which is medically assisted. 566 00:35:11,515 --> 00:35:15,325 But you have to have a serious condition and be in an advanced stage 567 00:35:15,415 --> 00:35:21,985 of irreversible decline and experiencing mental or physical suffering that 568 00:35:21,985 --> 00:35:26,904 cannot be relieved and be at the point where your quote unquote natural death 569 00:35:26,935 --> 00:35:29,485 has become reasonably foreseeable. 570 00:35:30,205 --> 00:35:32,755 This is according to health Canada. 571 00:35:33,565 --> 00:35:40,225 Well, when you're 90 years old, your death is quite foresee. 572 00:35:40,935 --> 00:35:41,955 It's coming within. 573 00:35:42,375 --> 00:35:43,845 I don't know, at least two decades. 574 00:35:45,775 --> 00:35:49,555 Well, Nancy, she, before these lockdowns, she was an active 90 year old. 575 00:35:50,185 --> 00:35:53,154 Uh, she had mobility, she'd do her own shopping. 576 00:35:53,215 --> 00:35:57,415 She was able to see her family, the lockdowns happened and she decided it 577 00:35:57,415 --> 00:35:59,634 would be better if she were to be dead. 578 00:35:59,995 --> 00:36:01,285 So she applied twice. 579 00:36:01,705 --> 00:36:06,265 And the second time she was able to convince the doctors that she 580 00:36:06,265 --> 00:36:08,935 had a serious medical condition. 581 00:36:11,385 --> 00:36:15,525 So she was able to commit assisted death, assisted suicide. 582 00:36:16,335 --> 00:36:23,625 Now their family said that they want to underscore the point that 583 00:36:23,625 --> 00:36:27,885 she wanted to have a medically assisted suicide or death. 584 00:36:28,545 --> 00:36:34,155 Long before these lockdowns happened, it was a way that she wanted to die anyways, 585 00:36:35,145 --> 00:36:37,965 but she also said that the lockdown. 586 00:36:39,740 --> 00:36:41,870 Really hastened her decision. 587 00:36:42,379 --> 00:36:44,839 Do you have an early and earlier death? 588 00:36:45,470 --> 00:36:46,759 She was still of sound mind. 589 00:36:47,299 --> 00:36:53,029 She still had mobility, but she had developed quote, unquote more concrete 590 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:58,549 medical health issues, according to her daughter, which allowed 591 00:36:58,549 --> 00:37:01,190 her to have a assisted suicide. 592 00:37:01,819 --> 00:37:03,169 This is, this is the solution. 593 00:37:04,470 --> 00:37:08,040 To a bad choice that wasn't a solution in the first place we have 594 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,560 COVID, let's lock everyone down. 595 00:37:10,589 --> 00:37:13,410 Let's destroy the mental health of our youth and our elderly 596 00:37:13,410 --> 00:37:14,640 and everyone in between. 597 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:20,339 And do God knows what to society and the solution is if you're struggling well, 598 00:37:20,339 --> 00:37:22,020 we'll, we'll help you end your life. 599 00:37:22,860 --> 00:37:27,660 And is that is dark again, ends in means are not lining up well in 600 00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:29,190 New Zealand, it's not much better. 601 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:30,480 According to the ministry of health. 602 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:36,420 COVID-19 can now be eligible for euthanasia. 603 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,760 The defender, put it put in an official information request, 604 00:37:41,940 --> 00:37:46,200 asking the ministry of health in New Zealand, quote could a patient who is 605 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:52,050 severely hospitalized with COVID-19 potentially be eligible for assisted 606 00:37:52,050 --> 00:37:54,480 suicide or euthanasia under the act. 607 00:37:54,600 --> 00:38:00,060 If a health practitioner viewed their prognosis as less than six months. 608 00:38:00,990 --> 00:38:05,070 The ministry of health responded saying there is clear eligibility 609 00:38:05,070 --> 00:38:06,870 criteria for assisted dying. 610 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:10,680 These include that a person must have a terminal illness that is likely 611 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,900 to end their life within six months. 612 00:38:13,530 --> 00:38:17,670 It terminal illness is most often a prolong disease where 613 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:19,290 treatment is not effective. 614 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:24,300 The E O L C act states. 615 00:38:24,420 --> 00:38:26,280 Eligibility is determined by the attendant. 616 00:38:27,090 --> 00:38:32,340 Medical practitioner and the independent medical practitioner eligibility is 617 00:38:32,340 --> 00:38:34,890 determined on a case by case basis. 618 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,150 Here's the kicker. 619 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:42,300 Therefore the ministry cannot make definite statements about who is eligible 620 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:49,230 in some circumstances, a person with COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted. 621 00:38:53,625 --> 00:38:58,215 The article went on to say that if you examine the eligibility criteria on their 622 00:38:58,215 --> 00:39:03,255 website, it's very easy to see how in the right circumstance, someone with COVID-19 623 00:39:03,435 --> 00:39:08,010 could easily be eligible yet to be over 18 permit, citizen or resident of New 624 00:39:08,010 --> 00:39:10,095 Zealand suffering from terminal illness. 625 00:39:11,070 --> 00:39:15,570 That is likely to end your life within six months in advanced irreversible decline 626 00:39:15,570 --> 00:39:19,920 in physical capacity and experiencing unbearable suffering that cannot be 627 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:26,100 relieved in a manner that the person considers tolerable, these make the person 628 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:29,580 able, and they have to be competent to be able to make an informed decision. 629 00:39:30,540 --> 00:39:36,240 This is, this is the law in New Zealand, and this is where many states in America 630 00:39:36,330 --> 00:39:39,270 and countries around Europe and the west. 631 00:39:41,214 --> 00:39:44,424 Medical assisted death euthanasia. 632 00:39:46,524 --> 00:39:56,535 And it's largely been driven by decisions that are of lockdowns that are damaging 633 00:39:56,595 --> 00:40:01,424 again, not only our youth, but the elderly, the solution should not be 634 00:40:01,725 --> 00:40:03,165 let's have people kill themselves. 635 00:40:04,274 --> 00:40:07,875 The solution should be maybe we should rethink these lockdowns, 636 00:40:07,904 --> 00:40:13,380 but again, We live in a post-modern world of irrationality. 637 00:40:13,710 --> 00:40:15,360 That really just does not make sense. 638 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,260 Well, this show is brought to you by listeners like you. 639 00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:22,140 This is a value for value podcast. 640 00:40:22,470 --> 00:40:27,750 As you can tell, we don't have massive advertisers on our show 641 00:40:28,380 --> 00:40:33,810 telling you to buy their products, but instead it's supported by you. 642 00:40:35,235 --> 00:40:39,225 Thousands of people turn tune into this show every month. 643 00:40:39,315 --> 00:40:45,645 And our vision, our mission has never been more clear or critical, which is to 644 00:40:45,975 --> 00:40:52,665 build up strong leaders who then build up their communities, not just in the 645 00:40:52,665 --> 00:40:57,345 digital world and the metaverse because I do think that we need to engage in 646 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--> 00:41:57,405 Welcome back to Weaver Luma, part of the show where we take ancient wisdom 658 00:41:57,405 --> 00:42:01,845 and we weave it in with our everyday life so that we can own our future. 659 00:42:01,965 --> 00:42:03,545 And we've our destiny. 660 00:42:03,645 --> 00:42:06,555 We've our destiny own our future. 661 00:42:06,795 --> 00:42:11,745 I have been reading the book, the brothers Karamazov by Dustin. 662 00:42:12,884 --> 00:42:15,005 I've started this book probably three times in my life. 663 00:42:15,185 --> 00:42:20,835 This is the one time I'm actually going to make it through a moving, moving story. 664 00:42:20,835 --> 00:42:24,615 If you've not read Dostoevsky before I've read crime and punishment 665 00:42:24,645 --> 00:42:29,955 multiple times, I always get to the end and weep at the how powerful. 666 00:42:30,765 --> 00:42:31,455 Of a story. 667 00:42:31,455 --> 00:42:36,345 It is written hundreds of years ago in Russian translated into English. 668 00:42:36,645 --> 00:42:40,455 And it is still one of the greatest pieces of literature 669 00:42:40,455 --> 00:42:42,525 that humanity has ever known. 670 00:42:42,885 --> 00:42:46,575 I strongly, highly recommend if you're going to read a book this 671 00:42:46,575 --> 00:42:48,405 year, read a book by de-stress. 672 00:42:49,695 --> 00:42:51,705 Uh, he did not pay me for that plug. 673 00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:52,455 I wish he did. 674 00:42:52,845 --> 00:42:53,985 That means you'd be alive. 675 00:42:53,985 --> 00:42:57,585 And that would also mean that would be talking to him, but alas, he's not. 676 00:42:58,215 --> 00:43:04,725 But I was reading this, this book and there's a scene in the book where there's, 677 00:43:04,725 --> 00:43:10,785 that there's an elder in a monastery and all these people are visiting this elder 678 00:43:10,785 --> 00:43:16,605 looking for his blessing, looking to get approval from this old well-respected. 679 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:24,759 And a woman comes to him and she keeps on espousing how much she loves mankind. 680 00:43:24,759 --> 00:43:26,650 And she just loves people so much. 681 00:43:26,650 --> 00:43:28,240 She loves humanity. 682 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:30,640 Just people are so good. 683 00:43:31,009 --> 00:43:32,259 I just love people. 684 00:43:32,529 --> 00:43:34,810 I just love, I just love humanity. 685 00:43:35,650 --> 00:43:37,720 And he asks her a question and he asked. 686 00:43:38,910 --> 00:43:40,930 Do you love the person in front of you? 687 00:43:41,550 --> 00:43:44,700 How have you been actively loving people in your life? 688 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,010 And she kind of gives us like a confused answer. 689 00:43:50,010 --> 00:43:52,110 Like, well, you know, people around me are horrible. 690 00:43:52,110 --> 00:43:55,140 The world's so corrupt people are the worst. 691 00:43:56,310 --> 00:43:59,940 And so he says, he says this to her. 692 00:44:02,970 --> 00:44:04,560 I love mankind. 693 00:44:06,555 --> 00:44:11,655 I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, 694 00:44:12,135 --> 00:44:15,345 the less I love man in particular. 695 00:44:16,605 --> 00:44:21,285 And this, this quote struck me that the more that we quote 696 00:44:21,285 --> 00:44:24,135 unquote love mankind as a whole. 697 00:44:24,615 --> 00:44:25,695 I just love humanity. 698 00:44:25,695 --> 00:44:27,885 I believe in the good of humanity. 699 00:44:29,145 --> 00:44:32,505 The more that we find ourselves, not living. 700 00:44:33,780 --> 00:44:37,710 People people in front of us actively loving our enemies, 701 00:44:37,740 --> 00:44:42,180 actively loving people who annoyed us, people who despises people. 702 00:44:42,180 --> 00:44:45,630 We despise people who are horrible to us. 703 00:44:45,630 --> 00:44:47,310 People that ruin our lives. 704 00:44:50,740 --> 00:44:58,510 Our role in humanity in our life, success in our life is not about. 705 00:44:59,370 --> 00:45:03,509 Loving mankind and believing in the goodness of humanity, rather 706 00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:11,270 it is loving, actively loving, actively serving, actively 707 00:45:11,270 --> 00:45:14,240 sacrificing for the people around us. 708 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:18,049 The people that annoy us, that people that we hate and the people 709 00:45:18,049 --> 00:45:24,200 that hate us, our enemies, it is in that place of a loving, our enemies. 710 00:45:25,705 --> 00:45:30,745 That we begin to build a strong and a stable society. 711 00:45:30,985 --> 00:45:36,175 I know it's taken us 45 minutes to make it all the way around to this point through 712 00:45:36,175 --> 00:45:40,555 talking of the metaverse through talking about nursing homes, through talking about 713 00:45:41,215 --> 00:45:44,695 Kazakhstan and means justifying the ends. 714 00:45:45,175 --> 00:45:51,055 But if we want to make the world a better place, it's by loving 715 00:45:51,055 --> 00:45:52,765 the person right in front of us. 716 00:45:52,765 --> 00:45:53,665 And that's me. 717 00:45:54,885 --> 00:46:01,905 Detaching and detoxing from the gloss of the metaverse, the gloss of the are being 718 00:46:01,905 --> 00:46:08,655 glued and encapsulated in our street or screens that removed from the gloss of 719 00:46:08,655 --> 00:46:11,955 retreating to our tribes and tribalism. 720 00:46:12,705 --> 00:46:19,095 And that means going out and actively loving our enemies, because guess what? 721 00:46:19,695 --> 00:46:22,425 In one shape, way, shape, or form everyone around them. 722 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,410 They're going to think differently than you. 723 00:46:25,410 --> 00:46:27,060 They're going to disagree with you. 724 00:46:27,060 --> 00:46:32,520 You're going to have conflict, but it is our role to love people 725 00:46:32,820 --> 00:46:38,310 in that conflict and find those, those people who are our enemy. 726 00:46:38,790 --> 00:46:46,110 Those are the ones that we need to more actively seek to love, to be friend 727 00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:51,180 and to serve, because that is how we. 728 00:46:52,065 --> 00:46:54,495 A strong and healthy community. 729 00:46:55,005 --> 00:47:01,035 That's that becomes a buffer against the social upheavals that 730 00:47:01,035 --> 00:47:03,855 we of course will end up seeing. 731 00:47:03,885 --> 00:47:09,255 Now, if you do that, expect people to hate you even more because people don't like 732 00:47:09,255 --> 00:47:16,515 that, but that is, that is the cost of pursuing truth that people actually don't 733 00:47:16,515 --> 00:47:19,515 like, they don't like when someone has. 734 00:47:20,385 --> 00:47:27,135 Then as it is, you speeds reality to them, but we have to see the world. 735 00:47:27,135 --> 00:47:32,055 Rightly we must discern truth if we want to own our future. 736 00:47:32,085 --> 00:47:33,705 Well, that is all for today's episode. 737 00:47:33,705 --> 00:47:37,905 Thank you so much for tuning into this very first time that we're streaming 738 00:47:38,175 --> 00:47:42,135 this show live, go out this week. 739 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,960 Find find the one person in front of you detached from the metaverse 740 00:47:48,990 --> 00:47:53,880 find the person in front of you and love them and care for them 741 00:47:54,090 --> 00:47:57,120 so that you can own your future.