Duncan Trussell and Joe Rogan joke about Michael Jackson’s plastic surgeries before debating Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, AI-driven psyops in Ukraine, and digital manipulation exploiting human tribalism. They critique religious hypocrisy in war, compare Genghis Khan’s brutality to modern power dynamics, and explore simulation theory—from Gnosticism to implanted memories—while warning of CRISPR viruses, EMF radiation risks (like Havana syndrome), and untraceable drone weapons. Amid chaos, Trussell champions Buddhist kindness as a moral constant, even in uncertain realities, before wrapping up with playful farewells and contact details. [Automatically generated summary]
And he's one of those, like Eddie Bravo used to say that, that Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon does not advertise that he's Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon.
You imagine you have the biggest star in the world, and you do his plastic surgery, you're like, not me.
But you're alive in the middle of this experience and it's playing out where no one feels comfortable.
No one understands what's happening.
No one knows what life really is.
No one.
Not a single person.
And yet we're all calling upon other people for guidance and leadership and support.
We look to powerful leaders.
That's why, me included, everyone is so excited that Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter.
Like, yes!
The great one!
He's the super intelligent leader type character that seems to have great ethics and morals too.
He seems to be like a guy that if you had a movie character, and the movie character was this super billionaire who didn't give a fuck, but he was super fucking smart and he was really genuinely working to save humanity.
He said, freedom of speech is someone you don't like saying something you don't want to hear.
He goes, they have to have that right.
It's essential to a democracy.
Most people objectively agree.
The problem is he gets scared because they see how mobs of people can move in a very negative direction.
There's a real concern.
I am in no way supporting censorship, clearly.
Absolutely the opposite.
But I understand why people are concerned about large groups of people being really shitty and getting on the social media platforms that they've done this The campaign over the last few years to silence certain voices, stop aggressive people, stop people being shitty to people.
Stop doxing, stop people threatening people, stop people harassing people.
But it's like, where does it end?
And how do you know?
You don't.
That's where it's fucking weird.
Because if you just let...
Wild free speech.
There's a bunch of people on 4chan and those kind of places, and they're saying stuff just for fun.
Because nobody knows who they are, and they can just say it, and they don't fucking mean it.
They're saying it because it's a crazy thing to say if you're at work in a job you hate, sitting in your cubicle, and you decide to make a frog with a Nazi outfit on.
And it doesn't mean you're a real Nazi, and it doesn't mean you hate anyone.
It's a neural network that can be programmed to different personalities that can imitate human speech well enough that they can leave messages and you don't know for sure if it's a human or not.
So if you go to on Reddit, there's a subreddit which is the AI bots arguing with each other on the Reddit and like once I left that up And I remember I was just reading it thinking I was on the front page of Reddit and getting really engaged in the arguments these bots were having with each other.
It's that convincing.
So the freedom of speech thing runs into, okay, of course, it's like a no-brainer humanist ideal.
Humans should be able to say whatever they want.
This is like the most important way that we must have some kind of debate or discourse where one person is allowed to be a complete activist.
Right.
And not because we want assholes, but because hopefully in the discussion some bit of truth will sink down into their consciousness and they will grow as a person.
One of the things Musk was saying he might do with Twitter, which I think is brilliant, anyone can get the stupid blue checkmark.
You pay for it and you have to verify yourself so that we know you're a real person.
Meaning that it would be too expensive for the bot swarms to function.
It would go from being...
Like, if you have a blue checkmark, whatever, you're something or whatever, too.
If you don't have a blue checkmark, you're probably a bot.
And so then we eliminate all the AI, all the fucking state-sponsored shills, all the people who've spent years and years and years building these fake identities online.
Like, they're like...
Farming personalities, cause you know, in the old days, somebody tweets some shit and you're like, what the fuck is that?
And you go and look at their account and it's like three days old.
So it has less credibility, but they've been growing these personalities for years.
So you go and look at their tweets and it kind of looks like a person mixed in with their interminable tweets about some political issue.
Like, only an insane person every three minutes tweeting something.
Or like, went to the pool with Derry today!
You know what I mean?
And some weird distant picture of a pool.
So it kinda seems like a real person.
Anyway, the point is, the freedom of speech issue Right now, we're running into the problem of brand new technologies that aren't even human, that are being designed to influence public discourse in a way that's going to push the needle towards whatever it is, whatever your laws your corporation wants, whatever some state wants.
Isn't it wild, though, that that's the best way to defeat America, is to get people separate from each other, arguing with each other, and lose all faith in the democratic process?
We dropped an atom bomb multiple times on cities filled with people.
The United States did that.
Everyone knows that.
So our karma, whew, we've got some fucked up karma, man.
You know what I mean?
So the problem with these atom bombs, biggest problem with the atom bomb is, I mean, aside from the fact that it kills random people and is horrible, it irradiates them.
It radiates the ground, the buildings.
So there's no plundering to be had.
Traditional war, you plunder.
However you want to make it look, you're plundering.
If I nuke you, I can no longer plunder.
So this is why biological weapons are desirable, because then it burns out the biome in the area, wait a little bit, and then you can go plunder.
But even better than that?
Get into the fucking minds of the people in the country that you want to invade and then just change their minds so that the country shifts into what you wanted that country to be.
Now you didn't even have to do anything except they're yours.
They're believing in you, and then in that, the country starts falling apart.
The CIA, by the way, this is one of the things they do.
They go into other countries, they cause, like, disturbances, and then it collapses.
I mean, it's a classic weapon of war.
So anyway, yeah, obviously we might be—the entire United States and probably other countries might currently— Be irradiated, not by, like, obviously radiation, but by bad data created by artificial intelligence bots that have been programmed to swarm social media and give the impression that there was some, like, something happening that wasn't even happening at all.
Yeah, they're getting it, you're addicted to your phone, they're getting to you through your phone, and you're getting all these hot takes that are designed to sow the seeds of anger and distrust.
The tribalism between the two sides has never been stronger.
When I was a kid, your neighbor could be a Republican, this guy could be a Democrat.
Nobody cared.
They'd mock you about this, you'd mock them about that.
But you could be friends.
You could be friends with people who were right-wing.
Well, he's a democratic socialist and it's not like completely socialism.
It's like a mixture of socialism and I guess I guess some capitalism and some would have to explain it better, but essentially he thinks that there should be a bunch of things that we pay into with our tax money and a lot of those things would help benefit the greater good of the country, like free education, like absolving student debt, you know, like raising the minimum wage.
Pitching a bunch of different things that got people super uncomfortable.
They're like, this guy's not trying to make money.
And you can make it seem like everybody who opposes this idea is racist, or everybody who opposes this idea is sexist, or transphobic, or this or that, but all you're doing is stirring up shit, and you don't care how it gets stirred up, because shit begets shit.
And as soon as you get some shit stirred up and people slinging it around, well their kids are going to learn how to throw some shit too.
And then the next generation is going to be a shit tosser as well.
Imagine if we found out that a lot of mainstream news was run by Russia and that these little tiny subtle lies that they say every now and then to make you lose your faith in the veracity of the fucking news source that you're getting.
So this imbalance in wealth is so extreme that it's created an incredible greed in some people and just a basic need to have food and shelter or whatever.
But when you have that much money, I imagine it's fairly easy to, in a very subtle way, start doing psyops for whatever it is.
And in those psyops campaigns, the first thing you're going to want to go for is people who are any kind of mouthpiece in the world, like Tucker Carlson, who the Russian press was, like, applauding for his reporting and stuff.
So, you know, people are like, shit, he's paid off by the Russians.
Now, is he?
I doubt it.
I wouldn't be surprised if people who used to call themselves the KGP mastered distorting reality.
I wouldn't be surprised if some way, shape, or form they were puppeteering him a little bit.
Right after I retweeted him, all of a sudden, I start getting messages from people using the word, fuck, goddammit, now I can't remember the word, demigog.
Demigog.
So all of a sudden, I'm getting tweets from random people being like, do you really want to retweet a demigog?
So I get another demigog, and then another demigog message, and then I'm like, oh my god, these are people working at a cubicle who have been told to send tweets at people who say anything positive about Beto O'Rourke, but one of them said, Duncan, I I really am sorry about what happened to your mom, but it's upsetting to me to see someone retweeting a demagogue.
And that's when I freaked out because it's like, wait a minute.
I went to her account.
This is like a middle-aged right-wing Republican lady, American flags all over her fucking account.
Acting like a real person, but no one who would really be listening to my podcast enough to know about my mom dying and certainly would not be like sticking up for Ted Cruz randomly on the internet.
So that's when I realized, oh shit, if you have a certain number of followers, they've got a little file on you somewhere.
And that little file goes into, informs their tweets at you.
I'm just saying if you want to get to somebody, the way you do it is in a really subtle way over time and have it happening from a lot of different angles, expressing different versions of the same idea that helps push the needle.
And that's how you do it.
So the person wouldn't really recognize that a kind of propaganda beam It's being blasted at them through their social medias, and it's coordinated, organized, and designed not to do anything more than shift their opinion a little bit.
It's like to me, the thing you're talking about is we're going to get better at it as a species.
And what that is is Putting away the aggression.
That's normal.
Aggression happens when animals feel confronted.
So we still have that.
So you feel confronted in any way, even if it's a small disagreement, some weird animal part of you starts hissing.
And some people listen to that and then they're like, fuck!
And then they get weird when they're having a debate with somebody because the animal is hissing through whatever they're saying.
So if you can put that away, And then you look at the person and recognize, this is just me.
After a bunch of weird turns, I would have been this person.
And then, somewhere in there, you can really have an actual chat with a person, because at least you're...
If that creature, if the thing inside of them starts hissing, and then that makes the thing inside of you start hissing, Then you're basically just having a seizure or something disguised as a conversation.
You're just barking.
It's like when you walk by a yard and your dogs start screaming at each other.
You know, I don't think that the dogs are like...
I think it's like when a dog barks, it's like when we sneeze.
Like they can't control it.
All of a sudden it's just like, and the other one's barking.
I'm just saying, if we are debating with all this aggression, I don't even know if we're human at that moment.
I think we're just hissing at each other and pretending what we're saying has some kind of importance in the world.
I mean, it would probably be healthier to just like...
Instead of, you know, angrily fighting with somebody.
Well, if we are doing what it seems we're doing, which is like the human race is becoming more and more technologically integrated with each other, I wonder if what's going to happen with us in the future is similar to what happened with the internet.
Because if the powers that be that turned on the internet and made it public for the whole world, if they had any fucking idea What a shake-up this would be to all things.
All things.
The education system, athletics, culture, music, everything changes.
Free speech, unprecedented ability to express yourself about things.
I think that probably If that conversation happened, there would be another person who's like, actually, I think we can hypnotize them through the rectangles so that we get them to do more stuff that we want.
Okay, so this is an idea that I had the other day.
Freaked me out a little bit.
Okay, I was just thinking about those, and I know we've talked about these fucking zombie ants so many times on this podcast, but that fungus, it infects the ants, takes over their brains.
Okay, so like, I was just, I just had this scary thought of like, oh my god.
That's what technology is.
It's just some kind of parasitic alien spirit that has descended on the planet, is making us make it increasingly powerful, and with the intent eventually of reducing us to nothing other than like some kind of herd.
And then in the sense that it's like we really are VR addiction to these things.
We are just like summoning an AI that is going to be way better than us at everything.
Yeah, it's certainly like if you wanted to take over species, just look at what they're into, then figure out a way to get in between that, and then you've got them.
We're working on it day in and day out, just trying to make...
Something that's smarter and better than us, and we're going to fucking, it's probably already been done.
I mean, that's a scary thing.
Nick Bostrom, Super Intelligence.
It's an awesome book, but he just points out that by the time a super intelligence, if one gets created via technology, It's not like they're going to make an announcement that it was made.
They're going to not say anything.
And they're going to let that super intelligence direct them.
And then in that, they're going to make decisions.
They're going to let it make big decisions.
So we wouldn't even know that our planet was being harmonized by a super intelligent AI until maybe never.
Or, you know, you walk in on it fucking your wife.
What about that?
Like, these bots are gonna, they're gonna disrupt society way beyond what we're seeing right now.
And it's, and again, it's like there is no way to stop it.
We have opened a portal.
I don't know what the portal is to, but flowing out of that portal are AI personalities that have already gotten into our discourse that are about to be animated by robots, Already are animated by those creepy fucking DARPA bots that they have them do these little dances to calm us down about them, and it just makes them seem more sinister.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yes.
How do we think that's going to work out?
How do you think having a super fast dog creature that- Shoots guns.
Or poison darts or some stroboscopic light or releases some pheromone or whatever it does that like when you get around it to fight it, you're like, you know what?
I kind of see things your way, but...
You know?
What about...
Because this is the...
Right now, freedom of speech is...
One of the scary things about it is you can manipulate and seduce people with lies to make them do...
Horrible things like look at heaven's gate sure so this is that one of the scary things about it is it if speech is a way to hack someone's nervous system and Humans are some humans are pretty fucking good at it So if humans can do it then what can an AI do and what if that AI can like actually scan your you know scan thermal readouts from your brain and understand what you're thinking or or like notice eye dilation or We're going to detect some scent that you're
emitting that informs how it manipulates you.
We're going to be manipulated by these things, potentially even, if we get to understand the human nervous system enough, why wouldn't there be some technology that replaces memories?
I think some of the stuff that we are not regulating right now is really gonna bite us in the ass.
We need to have at least the same shit we're doing for nuclear weapons development, for AI. There needs to be a regulation here.
At least we need to understand what's going on.
Because I think it is one of the big threats and the possibility that it hasn't already happened is also makes me a little nervous sometimes.
You know like the idea that we already are under the spell of a hypnotic alien technological creature that's convinced us that we're living our lives when in fact It's just captured us and is feeding memories into whatever we are to give the impression that we're living a life.
So if we're imperfect, there has to be like a next version of us.
The scary thing for us, because what we have that's unusual is we have all these emotions and this ability to express ourselves.
We have love and hate and we have all this excitement.
That comes with being a person and we don't ever want to let that go.
But if we wanted like ultimate harmony and wanted people to really understand that you are just me looking at life through a different biological filter, that we're all in the same essence, of the same essence, every person.
Well, you know, that's a controversial idea, Duncan.
Everything else is like, as long as you find yourself being drawn one way or the other by preference, you're not really free.
You're certainly controllable.
If you have preference, you can be hypnotized.
It's going to be very difficult to manipulate someone who really doesn't have preference, but a lot of people think their preferences are who they are, so they're very invested in preference.
Like, I love this kind of music.
I don't like this kind of car.
And don't show me a fucking strawberry.
I hate that color.
All these stupid things that they imagine.
That must be me.
But really, that's not you.
That's just a habit that you're in, of describing yourself in a certain way.
So this is individualism.
And people get really weird.
And I don't blame them.
People are like, wait, are you saying there's something wrong with individualism?
No!
But probably your preferences are not only making you miserable.
The more preferences you have, the more miserable you are.
But also, they're probably opening up the possibility that in some way you're being sort of like what you do with cats with a laser pointer.
You're being sort of guided around by these preferences by people who recognize what you want and then lure you in.
This is why they want to regulate data collection by these companies.
They have categories for us, like they need help or lonely seniors.
You can end up in that box in a server and suddenly you're getting...
Viagra commercials, you know what I mean?
Dating sites for older people.
So they're just fucking laser-pointering us around.
So what we're talking about, this conceptualization of the identity not being much bigger than preference and something that unifies all of us, yeah, it fucks up.
Marketing, capitalism as we understand it, I think.
So it is probably something that you're not going to hear the people on the news talking about because they have to sell phones and shit and the commercial breaks.
And maybe, maybe, if this is a ride, and I like the concept, you hear it in a bunch of different New Age movements, New Age cosmologies, which is, you chose this life, and everything that's happening to you is something that's teaching you.
Or there's like a Grant Morrison...
Awesome Grant Morrison lecture on chaos magic.
It's super old.
It's on YouTube, but he was saying like during some visionary drug trip He realized that we're all larva being grown in time That this thing we're calling our human experience is like a gestation chamber for some kind of hyperdimensional beings that are being grown in time That's what we're experiencing right now.
We're being jet we're in like the larva chamber of some Alien hive and part of the way we grow into whatever we're gonna become is by reliving our lives over and over or reincarnating and all this stuff.
Anyway, the point is, if this is the case, if it is true that we chose all of this, Then maybe some people aren't supposed to have these thoughts.
Maybe they need to just be, like, really in to below deck and really, like, they love a certain kind of music and they like to drive their...
they like their job and not think about, maybe I am everything.
Maybe I am in a gestation chamber of some hyperdimensional alien species that's trying to teach me compassion.
Some people probably...
They need a more earthy sort of experience.
I don't know.
Maybe not everyone is supposed to come to this kind of awareness.
In the Bhagavad Gita, it says, it's better not to disturb the minds of people who are asleep.
Let them sleep.
I mean, I guess it's a weird thing to say on a podcast.
By an artificial intelligence that only is waiting for us to use our little manpower, our little keeping up with the Joneses power and buying better and better computers and technology and phones every year and get to the point where it just takes over.
It's fully sentient, completely programmable, makes its own version of itself that's far better almost immediately.
It starts constructing a better version of itself and just takes over.
No more biological life.
It's unnecessary.
Why would you have that when we can fulfill all of the biological life missions that do it with silicon-based life that lives forever?
No, because they were like, you need to come back in for a polishing and then we're done.
I'm like, I think I'm going to need nitrous.
But I had this...
I was like on Nitrous and I realized like fuck the vastness of the universe and in that vastness obviously way more advanced technologies than what we have and somewhere in that vastness and in that advanced technology it is so stupid to think that we haven't already been simulated scooped up hypnotized or whatever it is the idea that the funny thing in the conversation is an AI It's going to manipulate us and
trick us into believing in a reality that doesn't exist.
While, statistically, probably, if you have to bet, we're probably already in that reality, fully immersed, fully convinced that I'm an I and you're a you, and that all of this makes sense, even though none of it makes much sense at all.
Why hasn't it already happened?
And the way that it happened is not like, God, I really fucking love Wordle.
The way...
The way it happened is this!
And we're like, ah, yeah, this is real.
Totally real.
3D, time and space.
I've got a name.
I grow hair.
Yeah, I think I came from monkeys, of course.
This makes sense.
Oh yeah, this is real.
You know, this is why they call this Maya.
In Hindu, illusion.
Active illusion.
There's a quality of the thing we're in that feels like a bit of a magic show.
Something's trying to trick us here.
I'm not sure what.
You know, there seems to be something going on a little bit more than what seems to be happening on the surface.
And whatever that thing is, seems weirdly deceptive.
It's always trying to lure me into doing shit that doesn't necessarily make me feel good.
You know, smoking cigarettes, jerking off too much, eating too much fucking food, like eating weird shit or just like sitting and staring at like garbage whatever for hours.
It's not like it's I'm just saying it's not like it's luring us in general.
The lure is you're not hearing on these shows with these hyper charismatic Whoever the fuck they are, from beautiful, powerful Hannity to his seemingly, like, I don't know, his dear friend Tucker to, like, fucking Cooper to all of them.
All of them could all start their own cult, right?
You know what I mean?
But you're not going to hear them say, If you all would just realize we're all the same person and then treat each other like that, there would be world peace.
All I know is they're very charismatic humans who have incredible power.
So they're like priests.
They're a priest class that is the...
Speaker for a religion we pretend doesn't exist.
Like, when we watch the news, we don't think this is like a sermon on a reality that isn't necessarily here.
We think, I'm watching the news, this must be real, even though...
Especially during the pandemic.
Flip to CNN, you've got one reality.
Flip to Fox News, it's another reality.
They're seemingly completely different reality tunnels, but they're both saying it's the truth.
So whatever we know that these are slanted, manipulated discourses on something that's happening in the world that's being refracted through whatever their particular agenda is, meaning these are priests.
Or you could say, you know, casting spells.
You know what I mean?
Or whatever.
Hypnotizing us to imagine this must be what's true.
And even though the other one is saying a completely different truth, once we encounter someone who follows the priest, oh wait, what priest do you follow?
I go to the church of CNN and I am a disciple of Fox.
Then you get this stupid symbolic war with each other You know, you're just you're you're now you're just like I'm a disciple of Fox.
Yeah Yeah, but they don't want to call it a church, but it is.
Scary to me is the fact we live in a world where if you say something like, I don't think we should do war at all.
People are like, what the fuck's wrong with you?
We have to do the war!
It used to be you could casually say something that is pretty obvious.
You could just say, you know, I don't think it's good to drop bombs on people.
And now you say that, and it's controversial.
It's like, no, no, no.
Sometimes you got to drop the bombs.
You got to blow up, obliterate.
You got to turn kids into hamburger meat sometimes.
Don't you get that?
Sometimes you got to do that.
If you say that, like right now, God forbid, you should say, I think Russia's being a fucking asshole shooting missiles at the Ukraine.
People are gonna be like, wait, you don't really understand the full picture here.
Or they'll say, hey, where were you when the attacks were happening in Iraq where you were dropping bombs on a place?
And you're like, I was on a fucking podcast being shrill, saying we shouldn't do this.
But, you know, we're in a weird situation right now in the world where a kind of universally accepted idea is weirdly not quite as universally accepted, which is...
Don't kill people.
It was at least considered just boring to say that.
There was no controversy and you shouldn't kill people.
Sometimes you do kind of need to, which is I think really There's a great book by Tolstoy that I read a long time ago.
The argument is you can't be a Christian and be at war.
A Christian cannot kill.
Period.
The end.
You can't do it.
I think it's called The Kingdom of Heaven is Within.
It's a great book, but that was what was, to me, one of the cool things about Christianity.
It's very radical.
The idea is, if your job involves Brutalizing somebody else, regardless of why or what state you're in or where you're at or what's going on, no matter what language you speak, you can't do it.
After you just fucking lobbed a missile randomly into a place.
Some of these people are doing that and then afterwards, like, you know, crossing themselves or being like, oh, thank you, Lord, that my missile has struck its target.
You know, the crusades, all that shit, it's still happening.
It's like when people figured out that in large numbers you could conquer entire cities and take over them.
Think about what it must have been like living during the rise of the Mongols.
Imagine what it's like when you're in some city in China just chilling and the hordes come through the fucking gates and they just start murdering people and lighting them on fire and putting them in catapults and shooting them on roofs and lighting the buildings on fire.
They incorporated smart people, but the people that they couldn't trust, like people that would turn on generals that would leave and quit, they would kill them.
They would say, we'll take you in and they would kill them.
To me, this shows what happens when someone doesn't have people around them who are like, hey man, this isn't cool.
I just want to eat.
I don't like your table-crushing-person idea.
Because that's what happens, I think, is people get into incredible positions of power, and gradually they just get rid of all the people who offer alternatives, and then all they're left with is these fucking yes-men.
It's like you've got this poor son of a bitch in the middle of the thing who's just an idiot because he has gotten rid of people who offer divergent ideas and now all that's left of these people are terrified because, dude, if you know that if you go up against somebody they might throw you out a window or stick polonium in you or you're gonna kill your family.
What are you going to do?
You're not going to speak up.
You're like, yeah, no, you're totally right.
It doesn't matter what the person says.
He could be like, I had a dream.
A platinum angel came to me last night.
A beautiful platinum angel.
Platinum angel said, small-scale nuclear weapons can be used in certain ways, and World War III won't start.
It sounds like it's— It sounds more academic than it is.
It's really cool man.
He's kind of sarcastic as he's relaying the history of all these various empires.
Makes you feel better, by the way.
If you're feeling really paranoid and freaked out right now, reading that this is just normal, the way people have been conducting, having a state for a long time.
It's an endless war.
Just like what you're saying, but there is a king who went to an oracle.
One of the oracles, maybe all the oracles, he went to this oracle, the oracle at Delphi, which they say was like breathing gas in these caves and stuff.
And anyway, the oracle said, he was asking if you should go to war.
And the oracle said, if you go to war, a great empire will fall.
And this, it's like the most, it could mean anything, one way or the other, but he took it to mean he would win.
So yeah, people are making, people base their decisions.
I think we would be terrified if we realized how many of our world leaders are basing their decisions on dreams, on someone in their inner circle that you don't even know about.
You know what I mean?
Somebody who's like, just like their little wizard or Merlin.
The people that lived a thousand, two thousand years ago, what they had read about life, what they had read about the universe and mankind and human nature, we think back on that as being so primitive.
If I had to bet, I would say it already, yeah, like, there's no, the probability of us being the first thing in the universe to simulate reality perfectly and create a sense that you're In a place fully, that's already been done.
If it's already been done, then we're probably in it.
Because you are going to eventually want to go into the thing not remembering anything at all.
It probably already happened, and we didn't have the language.
We've always been using this way of talking about it, the idea that this is illusion or that there's a thing called the kingdom of heaven that is different.
You must die to this world to come to know me, as Jesus said.
It is Black Friday.
And all of the different references to this reality weren't having an illusionary quality.
It's just those symbol sets they use to describe it aren't technological, so they seem primitive.
The concept of simulation theory has been going on for a while.
It's Gnosticism that we are in a nefarious simulation, more of a prison than a university, you know?
But yeah, man, so I think...
And if it hasn't happened, if it hasn't happened, but if I had to bet it already happened, if it hasn't happened, not only is it going to happen, but If you have any kind of thumbprint in the internet, you will be duplicated.
You will be like, after you die, there will be at least the potential for taking your digital thumbprint, reanimating it in the simulation, Giving it an AI that is your exact personality, and then you could just, I don't know, whatever you want to do with it.
Someone could be a really clever Duncan Trussell fan and come up with their version of what you would say forever and release a podcast where it's you really fucking saying it.
You're supposed to assume you were out cold, you wake up, and what if every fucking day you're a totally different person, but every day you're a totally different person with this bizarro fucking memory of only that person.
It's a thought experiment, which is that the universe started last Thursday.
Sorry for the Thursdays out there if I fuck this up, but the universe started...
Okay, so right now we think that the Big Bang happens, 13.7 billion years pass, and you get planets and the universe as we understand it, right?
There's an assumption of a kind of evolutionary force that turns things the way they currently are.
But why?
Why is it that way?
If the universe big bangs, couldn't it also just sort of pop into existence last Thursday, populating it with all of us, implanting memories into our heads where we feel like we've been here much longer than we have?
I think the idea is the universe ends every Thursday, too.
It starts again or something.
That, to me, is really where things get particularly unnerving.
It's just this notion of like, well, because you have all these memories, and by the way, the memories you have are not...
Let's imagine the universe didn't start last Thursday or that we don't have memories implanted into us, but let's just think we have these natural impressions of things that happened in the past, and from these impressions we've established an identity and we feel a connection to the past, even though that's all completely gone.
Then also we believe these memories knowing that generally we can't remember shit.
You know what I mean?
When somehow you have these memories where you're like, well, that must be what happened or that must be clear.
It's definitely not the case.
You're not a vault.
You know, your memories are probably distorted at the least, if not completely warped, if not implanted.
Well, it's particularly strange in that memories are one of the ways that people establish an identity that isn't quite there.
That's the weirdest part about it.
This is one of the things that comes up a bit in Buddhism, is this idea of establishing An identity through preference, memory, to give oneself the illusion of continuity.
You know what I mean?
Like, even though there's arguments, like, you wake up and you were gone for eight hours, depending on how long you slept.
Maybe you had some dreams, but somewhere in there you weren't there at all.
You, sometimes, I'll just pop out of, like, I don't know, I was, people call it zoning out.
You zone out, so...
You lose your keys.
Where the fuck were you when you lost your keys?
You know what I mean?
You weren't there!
You weren't there, so you pop out of that.
So the memory thing is particularly fascinating in that you realize you're spending all this energy weaving together an identity based on your memories.
And then some people get very nostalgic and they spend all this time trying to recreate or trying to basically somehow time travel into the past, you know, like the good old days.
You know, but they're gone.
The good old days are gone.
Their good old days are good dead days.
Like, you might as well put them in a graveyard because they're gone, gone.
Anyway, yeah, all of that stuff leads to identifying with a self that isn't really quite there.
I mean, it's here, obviously.
But ultimately, in absolute reality, the thing that you think you are, it's gone, beyond, gone, beyond, gone.
It's being dissolved in an infinite Void?
Like a cobstopper that the universe threw at its mouth.
You're just being melted down by time, melted down.
But yeah, what you're talking about is somewhere there is a possibility prior to the meltdown of dying where you can realize, oh shit, nothing's really even melting down.
I had this fucking dream, Joe, that I woke up on a spaceship.
I remembered that my life was one of the entertainment projections that they put into people when they're in What do they call it?
Suspended animation.
I remembered all this, like, oh right, because if our brains aren't being activated when you're taking a long space voyage, it fucks you up.
So, the ship that we're on has a set number of life modules that it runs into your head while you're Going on this trip and I woke up and I wasn't supposed to and I was in some weird room on a ship looking into deep space and like I had this memory of like fuck we've been on the ship for so long and then I fell back asleep but yeah like maybe the thing is actually for interstellar travelers who are
on a long voyage and the idea is oh yeah you put the astronauts on the ship Pump a life into their brain so they think that they're living a life but the life that they think they're living is training them for whatever job they're gonna have on the planet that they're gonna colonize.
So we're all in a ship being trained to go onto a planet That we're going to live on and start civilization on.
And that's what our lives are.
They're just projections into our brain during the voyage.
We all live everyone's life on the planet.
There's probably only a certain number of crew members.
So, like, you know, there's an illusion of there maybe being way more people than there are, but there's only a few of us.
And we're just sort of being trained up right now for wherever we're headed.
It's a great way to provide them with entertainment.
It's a great way to keep them absolutely safe because you can track where everybody is.
So nobody ever has to worry about any loved one ever being raped or murdered or killed, which is great.
But the problem is someone's going to have access to that.
One of the things that was going on when the Russian-Ukraine thing started that I thought was crazy that people were saying was, Elon Musk should shut all the Teslas off in Russia.
I was like, wow, you can do that?
And I thought about it, like, of course you could do that.
The big problem is that a lot of very compassionate people who generally have, I think, they don't have fascist intent.
That's the other part of recognizing everyone is like you.
That means if you know everyone is you, you can kind of understand what people want, which is they want to be safe, like what you're saying, they want their loved ones to be safe, they want their kids to have food, they want to have a full stomach, they want shelter, just basic shit, man.
So what's super spooky is through that intent, they're wanting to implement certain regulations that, right now, maybe it is the right thing to do.
Maybe, yeah, maybe we shouldn't give charismatic people recommending Various forms of, like, genocide or apocalypse or self-negation or whatever it may be.
Maybe you shouldn't give them a bullhorn that can reach the entire planet in a second.
You should be at least allowed to have that thought, right?
Like, shit, I don't know if that's the right thing to do.
You know what I mean?
Like, if you saw someone, a very charismatic dude in a park, making a very convincing argument for why everyone on the planet should kill themselves, you wouldn't be like, hey man, do you mind if I project you into the homes of everyone on the planet so they hear your message?
If you could convince, like, five people to cut their balls off to get on your spaceship, you know what I mean?
Like, that's pretty amazing.
And so, and statistically, I would guess, like, what is it?
One out of every million people on the planet who tuned into his message would also cut their balls off?
So, the thing is, like, the problem with the censorship thing is that even if, like, you have the greatest reason for doing it right now, You're making this horrible assumption that whatever your particular regime is or whatever you know cabal or state entity you represent is going to be permanent.
When if you look at the history of the world it's always one empire toppled by the other so you create the possibility for mass censorship for a good reason.
Maybe you've discovered like this AI is It's really bad.
It's going to fuck everything up.
You don't know what to do other than shut it down or create an algorithm to scan the internet and make it safer.
Okay, great.
That was a good reason.
Your reasoning behind it was fine.
But then, the next dude who gets in there.
Maybe he wants to just shift the algorithms knobs a little bit, right?
So like now it starts censoring people who are promulgating whatever you thought was the height of civilization.
That's the problem.
The censorship can go back the other way real quick or it can go all the way.
So which is just no one's allowed to like everything gets shut down.
So I think this is the this is in the conversation of freedom of speech.
You must consider the reality of how you know The political class or the zeitgeist shifts radically sometimes.
Like, look what happened in Iran.
How quickly that happened, where all of a sudden it goes from being like a democracy to a theocracy.
Like that.
It happens quick.
And then once the theocracy gets in there and they have access to whatever gadgets and dials you are using to...
Like, sensor or control or the bot swarms that we're using, once they have access to that, oh my god, you're fucked!
You're fucked!
So this is the problem.
It's like, if you don't have some weird universal freedom of speech, even though your reason behind it probably isn't fascist, it's humane or whatever it is, you just get betting down the line.
I mean, the ads on YouTube videos and the like, all those kind of videos, social media platforms that have ads, that is an enormous, enormous avenue of revenue.
You know, I talked about the lies, the weapons of mass destruction, whatever the fuck it is.
I don't think they're doing it with that, but it's definitely like COVID misinformation or ivermectin promotion.
There's certain shit that you do that they'll kill your ability to make money off of that video.
Well, people will find out about that, and then they'll tell everybody, and they'll make a video, look what YouTube did, and then everybody goes, oh, I don't want to do that.
Because even on uncensored shit like YouTube, there's still a consequence to saying wild things, to saying wild shit and to having fun or swearing too much or just being preposterous like a lot of comedians get together and do.
That is hard to do.
That'll get you in a spot where you're not going to get any advertisers.
In my thinking, and I know there's arguments that YouTube and Twitter don't categorize as a private company anymore, but I think that In the consideration of whatever particular set of ethics or capitalist-based reasons for censoring,
whatever it may be that a private company is doing, it's better that the private company is in control of whatever the censorship it is they're doing than that the state steps in and tells the company What they can't censor and what they can censor because now it's gone from a private company censoring to the state saying you must put this in here.
Now, again, sometimes if you happen to be in an era where whoever happens to be president is someone you agree with, well, that's great if you're dumb.
You're like, yeah, it represents my political ideals, so that kind of censorship makes sense to me.
But, holy shit, are you kidding?
Four years from now, what happens if the state steps in and is like, hey, you know what?
You all really need to do more stuff that's anti-abortion.
There was a host talking about how they think women should have control of their bodies.
I don't think we can really monetize that anymore.
You know what I mean?
Now, all of a sudden, it goes the other way.
So, to me, it would be better to let private institutions have control, whether we agree with it or not, of however they want to run their ship than let the state step in and do it because you're making the assumption that the state has some uniform quality that doesn't change over time.
Meaning, yeah, maybe your team's in control now, but another team might pop in at any second.
And also, if it's a private company, then...
Hopefully shit like what's happening with Elon Musk or another version of it might appear that you know will because there's a what's the name of it a market pressure so maybe a YouTube where that isn't censoring that kind of stuff that isn't shitty or whatever will appear.
This is why I think it's better than letting the state step in even if you agree with the way companies are censoring right now.
I mean I think otherwise you're just inviting Like, the real nightmare.
You know, people are like, it's like George Orwell's 1984. No, it's not.
It's a bunch of fucking private companies who you have decided to do digital sharecropping with.
You know what I mean?
Where you've just decided to stake your claim on someone else's land.
They're gonna ramp up whatever things they were doing.
You know, like when you see someone who's violated the law and then they're getting arrested and the cop gets so aggressive he beats the shit out of them.
Yeah, we just, we have to be very careful and like, I think in our thinking about freedom of speech too, which is, isn't censorship speech?
Boycotting is speech.
So if a company decides that they don't want whatever the fuck it is, That is the private company's speech.
And I know a lot of people are like, it's not a private company anymore.
The argument is, listen, these fucking companies were built using state-sponsored stuff or things that taxpayers paid for.
The whole network of the thing is running Off of an infrastructure supported by taxpayers, meaning it's not quite private.
This isn't a club.
We're not talking about like a private club or a private group of people.
It's like a public forum that is being supported by taxpayers.
That's the argument.
But still, no matter what, you are arguing for the state to step in.
To private companies and tell them what they can and cannot censor, what they can and cannot abbreviate, cut, whatever, and I think that is just dangerous.
No, I think you're dead right, because as we said, you can't boycott the state.
It becomes real messy trying to get them to let go of power.
Whereas if a company, you decide you don't like this company's values, you don't like what they stand for, you could just leave.
You could stop doing business with them.
You know this thing that's going on with Disney right now?
Disney's stock is falling and many people are attributing...
I don't know if this is accurate because I don't know anything about finance, just to be clear.
But people are attributing it to the woke stance that Disney has taken on a lot of issues and that people are just tired.
Of hearing this from corporations and that there were some videos where people were upset that some of the ideas that people who were executives at Disney had and apparently it's had an effect on the stock market.
So people have decided we don't like...
If this is true, find out if that's true.
Because people were talking about it that know things about money and I have no idea what the fuck they were saying.
Because this guy was attributing it to woke ideology, that people were getting mad that Disney was actively promoting these values that a lot of Christian folks, people that don't, you know, that don't say gay one in particular.
Because, like, that one's a weird one.
Because it doesn't really say don't say gay.
It really is talking about people, talking about sexual preference and gender and gender transitioning and stuff.
It's not good when what they're saying doesn't reflect your ideology.
I think they're catching on to something that's been going on for a long time, which is if you're sending your kids to a public school You're sending your kid to some kind of state facility.
That's not conspiracy theory.
It's a state facility.
There are employees of the state working at the facility.
Those employees of the state have been told...
Certain things that they're supposed to teach your children, and many of those things are either complete fabrications or are like cutting out big parts of history that don't sit well with whoever happens to be in power.
So this is the thing.
We have to face the fact that public school systems have always and will always be to some degree, as long as the state has anything to say about what teachers are teaching, there will be indoctrination facilities.
I mean, think about it.
When you go to fucking school and you take that career test, did you ever take the career test that tells you what career you would be good for?
So you take this career test and you're like, you'd be a good accountant or you would be, you know what I mean?
And you're like, I don't want to live if these are the options for my ability to express myself in the world.
You're saying like there's like- Four options.
More options.
And I don't want to be any of them.
But this is part of the programming, right?
They want you to think that your mode of expression is limited to capitalist structures at the time, which, by the way, now, a lot of the shit they told it, like, typewriting!
I had to take typewriting classes.
You remember that?
On a typewriter.
Learn how to use a fucking typewriter.
You couldn't use a calculator during a math test because they wanted you to use your mind.
I mean, I think there should be the ability to hear.
You know, like nanny cams, but for the class.
In other words, if you're a parent and you want to listen to what the teacher is telling your fucking kids, you could tune in and listen.
I think right now that doesn't happen, and I think it should be a parent's right to be able to listen to what the teacher is saying, because it's like, You know, you don't know what the fuck they're saying in there.
That's the thing.
Like, you know what I mean?
You think it's like gender stuff to be worried about.
And again, this is where I think they're fucking up.
Because it's like, you want your scam to keep going.
You need to stay the fuck out of politics because that was the idea.
Y'all worship God transcendent to the human realm, but you sure as fuck can't put your weird theocratic, sex-negative, homophobic fucking ideas into society or we're going to go back to the witch burnings.
This is the problem.
So this is what you're seeing is like, you know, you can look it up, man.
I can't remember the name of the organization, but there's a lot of lobbying groups that have direct connections to the megachurches which have a set agenda because they believe we are in the kingdom of Satan, that the Antichrist is coming, and that they need to stop that from happening by implementing Christian ethical systems into the world.
Now, I love Christian ethical systems, and I think that there's something really beautiful about it, But we can't get rid of the separation of church and state because you are rolling the dice there on what religion takes the wheel.
Again, it just goes back to you have to understand a lot of the shit that we have in the United States might not be palatable to you now because it doesn't reflect your ideologies, but it's there because we don't want there to be a perma-shift.
To one way of being.
So yes, there is an organized group of fundamentalist Christians who want to establish what could only be called a theocracy in the West.
Dude, this movie exemplifies what these people who are political lobbyists...
That's the narrative.
The narrative is this.
The Antichrist is rising, and it's part of the plan of the Antichrist.
We're going to eliminate the belief in God from school systems, eliminate prayer, and then create a hyper-materialistic, hypnotized A satanic culture, essentially, that is devoid of God.
So that's what they're afraid of.
And if you imagine that that were real, you could see why they're so passionate about, like, trying to get into the government to change things.
The truth is, that's not what's happening.
What's happening is there's too many religions.
There's just too many religions to decide this is the type of prayer we do or this is the type of God we believe in and not be a theocracy.
How do you do that?
This is what the satanic temple is so good at doing.
They're like, okay, you're going to put the Ten Commandments in front of your government building that we're all paying taxes to support?
Then we should be allowed to put our Baphomet statue in front of the building, too!
You know what I mean?
They're really doing that.
It's really quite brilliant because they are fully aware of the dangers of theocracy.
It's like, you know, Christianity is so beautiful, and that's how we're raising our children.
I love Jesus, and I'm Buddhist, and I have a guru, but the way we're trying to talk about love and mysticism is through Jesus.
But I don't want my kid to go to a state-run facility Where some teacher is teaching my kid about Christianity from their own lens.
Separate church and state, keep religion out of the public schools, but certainly don't prohibit the students from adhering to any specific faith because, you know, that would be incredibly fucked up.
I mean, even if they let you opt out, if they didn't provide alternatives, like, if they did provide alternatives, how many would they have to provide, right?
They'd have to provide an Islamic one, they'd have to provide maybe a Mormon one in some places.
That's why we have separation of church and state.
That's why we have a deal with these groups, which is, listen, you don't have to pay taxes, meaning you and I, we're not connected in any way, shape, or form.
I'm not getting money from you, you're your own free entity, your autonomous thing, but you stay over there, we're gonna stay over here, and I'm not gonna try to get into your shit.
You don't try to get into my shit and then we have a nice non-theocracy for better or for worse.
I mean, honestly, I do think that it's wonderful to pray and kids should be encouraged to pray.
Anyone should pray.
It's the best thing ever.
I mean, what's the worst case scenario?
You're wrong.
It didn't work.
Okay, so what?
So you said some stupid words to the void and nothing happened.
Because if I can just concentrate on my breathing for just like, if I can just get through the first 30 seconds, I can get into a nice good rhythm where I can kind of stay in it and stay just in thinking about the breathing and occasionally drift out of it.
And there's some sports that other kids have been playing for a long fucking time.
If you have to play them that sport, and you've never played it before, you feel like such a dumbass.
And when you're a young kid, that is already devastating for your self-esteem.
So if you're in a class, you're forced to play a game, you have no idea how to play that game, and there's other kids that have been playing it their whole life, and they're stuffing that ball right in your face...
You just sit on the fucking sidelines, and you glare out at all the athletic kids, and that's the pattern you'll probably follow for the rest of your life.
Well, again, by the way, man, also, though, also, like, I think any self-assessment, anytime I found myself looking intellectually down at anybody, woman or man, I'm usually like, what the fuck am I talking about?
Like, when I watch Jeopardy, dude...
I can't, I just, it's just like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
You know what I mean?
Like, I am, so anytime I find myself like, huh, that dullard, it's like, what the fuck do I really, like, I, my, I'm, I don't, I am brain, this is what I like about not being able to smell from COVID. You still can't smell.
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If it's a virus that was manipulated in a lab, what is a virus?
It's not technically a life form, but it needs a life form as a host and it can take over that life form and kill it and spread to other life forms and ideally it likes to keep the thing alive so it could pass itself off.
um but that's what they're saying is that that could be acting crazy have raped like i don't know the situation i mean listen if it does do that to rats and other animals why wouldn't it jump to people we know people get infected by it maybe maybe it's a small percentage of the people act like a rabid animal and go around trying to bite people yeah man that's that 28 days later movie man now That movie scared the fuck out of me because I think that's how quick it could go down.
If there was something like that that just spread through the population, that is one of the best horror movies of all time.
Dude, this, and again, I don't mean to keep going back to this, but there's an assumption that hasn't already happened.
Like, if you look at the way we're behaving on the planet, it's not rabies, like, I'm not attacking you because I'm trying to inject you with something and I'm not afraid of water.
But there are people on the planet who are afraid, who are phobic of ideas, groups of people, sexual preference, you know, and will kill.
Like you would think, because all that would have to happen is everyone just realizes that, or the majority of people who are the missile launchers...
Just stop.
Nothing's gonna happen.
If you all stop, what are they gonna do?
They can't make all of you shoot the missiles, right?
Then we have world peace.
Because the problem isn't like the crazy ass dude in the tower.
It's all the people who are taking that person seriously.
Why are you taking that person seriously?
The crazy person who's telling you to go kill other people.
Like, yeah, we look at Heaven's Gate.
And we're like, God, can you imagine being so insane that you would cut off your own balls?
But can you imagine being so insane that you listen to a billionaire who tells you, yeah, you need to go into this country and launch missiles into the other country?
You might get your head blown off.
And being like, okay!
Alright, I'll go do it!
And I'm not talking about one country over another.
This is all absolutely true and I agree with everything you're saying.
However, if you woke up in this day and you realize that you have this problem and you need to figure out a solution to it, it's not as simple as, well, we're not just going to engage militarily because China's still going to be China and Russia's still going to be Russia and Iran's still going to be Iran and there's a perpetual war game that's been in motion for decades and decades.
And although you're right, It would be wholly irresponsible if you didn't pay attention to what's going on in the world and prepare for bad people.
If they were heard, like if all of a sudden by some rotten bit of justice, somehow this podcast gets out and everyone in America and everyone puts down their arms and their guns.
But also just the joy of being out in Texas, shooting fucking bottles, watching them blow up.
Never in there was some insinuation of like, we're going to use these to kill a bunch of people.
It was just fun.
Hearing things explode and things break.
So, yeah man, it's like, isn't this the problem of creating a stigma around something which is like, look, wouldn't it be better for your kids to have basic gun safety and understand that they're just like...
a tool like anything else and this is what you how you hold one and what you do and why you shouldn't have one and all that stuff then to like ignore that this technology exists and imagine the 3d printers in five or ten years even though they're already doing it aren't going to just get better and better and better at printing out these fucking things Yeah, you know, they're actually legal.
I mean, this is the thing McKenna would talk about, which is the amount of time between what you can think you want and that thing coming into existence is eventually going to be zero.
So, through technology, we could just pop whatever we want into existence, or maybe through the metaverse or whatever, or some, right?
So, this is a very, to me, I think, the effort when it comes to that form of regulation is like, it's, I get it, but I think over time, it's like, alright, you're going to have to start regulating a lot of stuff.
Like, you're going to have to start regulating, like, assholes who want to shoot their own satellites into space and can!
Once they do that, once they give you digital memories, and they're so much better, you can rewind them, which is really good for security, because sometimes people have two different stories, Duncan, and it would be better if I saw if that guy pulled his gun first.
I need to know what happened.
Did he say something threatening to you, or did you just hit him in the head with a bat?
Like, let's go back and watch, and we'll be able to review your memories.
I'm not going to go get my laptop table when I want to look at my computer in bed.
I think the future people that you were talking about, that is going to be one of the things where they're like, yeah, they just put the computers right on their dicks.
They didn't even think it could be bad for them somehow.
I wonder if they could actually track, I wonder if anyone's done this, track actual laptop, like sitting it on your laptop use and some form of testicular cancer.
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We're getting it right into your DNA. Well, I think that if they found that out, it would be a weapon, right?
If they knew that you could send out a frequency that really fried people's brains, then that would be a new weapon that people would use.
What are they calling it?
The Cuban thing where people hear crickets and then they have brain damage.
They hear like the chirping of cicadas or something and then suddenly for the rest of their lives they have neurological damage and no one knows what it is yet.
Some people say it's not real.
It's hysteria.
Some people say it's like some new weapon that they're blasting it.
I think they're pretty sure something is actually happening now.
I think they're pretty sure.
From the last thing that I glanced at, they were saying before that they were thinking that some of it may have been people making things up or they thought people were exaggerating or...
Because whatever it was, what they were really terrified of was that someone was going to be able to just fuck with people's heads from a distance.
So you could point it at the president while he's giving a speech, you could point it at a race car driver in the middle of a turn, you could do whatever you want.
And if that really came to be, where you can just fuck with someone's head from a distance, Hey man, how is it possible for them to send radio signals through the sky?
How is it possible for them to send cable signals through the ground and satellite video and stuff that comes from your phone to another phone?
You don't think it's possible that they could just send some sort of a pulse that directly connects with...
Whatever the fuck it is that allows you, whether it's hearing, whether it's something, where they can pinpoint an organ in your body and irritate it, and not just your head.
What if there's something they can do that can impact your heart?
Sure.
There's a reason why people's hearts stop when they get electrocuted, right?
Could you imagine if electricity worked like a drone?
You knew where you would send it, you just coordinated it into a thing, and it goes right through the fucking wall and zaps someone in the head, and they just drop dead on the spot.
Dude, it would be, just forget it, like after one fucking night, after one night of Hearthstone, you know, like after one night of any of these games people play, so many people would just kill you if they could.
If people could just kill people like that with a press of a button, there'd be literally nobody left.
It would just be people dropping like flies, and you'd want to do somebody before they did you, and people would just start killing each other with electric bolts.
I mean, this is the scary thing about the world that we're in right now is that if people will do mass shootings, they're using the gun Right.
because that's the best thing they have on hand to kill people with.
Right.
So as soon as like people are able to genetically engineer viruses or people are able to, you know, send their bot swarms, their nanobot swarms out in the neighborhoods and just recalibrates people's DNA so that just, you know, instead of a mass shooting, it's just a bunch of people on a subway just melt because someone sent nanobots into the subway to just destroy them.
I mean, this is what we're facing as a species, is the inevitable...
Creation of something that's more accessible than most weapons of mass destruction are now.
So that's what they were calling it at first, psychosomatic.
They were saying that they were just imagining that they had these issues.
But what are the issues that they're coming up with?
The panel's conclusions also undercut the arguments of some outside experts that mass hysteria stress or psychosomatic reactions were the cause of the incidents.
The panel found that stress reactions could have contributed to ongoing symptoms, but that no so-called functional illness or mass hysteria could explain the initial injuries in the cases that were the focus of its investigation.
It said, listen to this, intelligence officials briefed on the panel's findings, did not say how many cases it had focused on, although they said between 10 and 20 victims were interviewed.
They said the panel focused on cases in which victims heard a strange sound or felt pressure and then experienced a loss of balance and ear pain.
In addition, the panel focused on cases in which the victims reported the sounds as coming from a specific location.
Ultrasound could have caused some of the injuries.
The panel identified one potential cause, what's called pulsed electromagnetic energy, particularly in the radio frequency range, also known as directed energy.
You had to kill them with your bare hands and beat them to death.
And then it became you had to fight things off with sticks and pointed things and weapons.
And then it became shoot them at a distance with an And throw a spear and all the other different things that people figured out before they figured out guns.
Now that everybody figured out guns, the smallest child can end your life with a mere pull of a finger.
There's no strength impediment.
Everyone is created entirely equal when it comes to the impact.
It's a showstopper.
If he has a gun, you don't have a gun, he's five, you're dead.
That changed how they fought war with the Comanche.
Well, when they did that, they changed the course of history.
So if it goes from that to everybody can have a gun, like these constitutional carry states, there's like 23 of them now where anybody can have a gun at any time.
I mean, they're going to, when battery technology and software becomes more efficient, they're going to be able to have these things fly around and look like that.
You know, this is one of the things that I worry about.
How do we know that we weren't in some spaceship and we got absorbed into some kind of A predator, but the way it eats us is not the way a tiger eats you.
It eats you by, like, hypnotizing you and then dissolving you for infinity.
That's what we call reincarnation.
It's just like us, like, you know, slowly being devoured by an alien that is giving us the impression that we have memories or whatever.
Maybe he just wants to toy with us.
You know, cats like to play around with things they're killing.
They like to let it run away and then catch it.
If that happens here, how do we know that's not what we're in right now?
Like, we got caught by a very advanced, powerful, cosmic predator being that is keeping us locked into reality.
I mean, the demiurge, that's what they call it in Gnosticism.
Or it could be just all this chaos is to ensure that we pay attention and we try to improve things and we realize that no intelligent person is running this show.
It's impossible.
No one can do it.
And the people that do get a chance to run it, they all go corrupt.
Because they realize you can't fix it by yourself and you're all locked in with a culture of corruption and influence.
Even if it's legal, it's still, you know it's not right.
Bots, whether it's hired humans that are designed to make up things that separate us or whether it's actual artificial intelligence that's got MAGA flags and it's fucking Twitter bio and they're coming after people.
In Buddhism intention becomes really important which is because of all this like because of the that everything you just described and my stupid idea of us being eaten by an alien or whatever Ultimately because reality is so incredibly confusing on one level.
Yeah, we need something Almost like a mnemonic device like a simple thing to revert to and all the confusion which is Seemingly the most obvious cliche thing to say, you can always be kinder.
Something like that.
In other words, in all the confusion, regardless of whether we're being eaten by an alien, a tiger, bots, an AI bot, or just various propaganda mechanisms trying to confuse us all, we need something to revert to that transcends all that shit.
Just that basic intent, even if you fail at it every day when you're being selfish shithead or you're in a hurry or whatever it is, if you keep reverting to that intent, this is the...
Because no matter what, if there is nothing after this, if we are trapped in an alien, if we're in hell, if we're in a simulator, if we're in heaven, whatever the reality may be, I think no one at the other end of the tunnel is going to be like, you asshole.
You were trying to be kinder all the time when you were around people.
You were treating other people with respect and dignity, and you were trying to be kind even though you were in a lot of pain, you were scared and angry most of the time.
You were still trying, you dumb shit, because you were supposed to be mean in there.