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Aug. 14, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Liberty Compromised

Freedom is a term that we use frequently and swear we have a grasp of in terms of context and application. But do we?

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Good day, my friends.
Good day.
I want to begin by touching on something which is part of our collective world.
And I want to say that we have to step back sometime and look to see how we as humans respond.
I'm always into behavior.
Why do we do certain things?
How do we comply?
I did a series of Little stories, little vignettes for LionelMedia.com on cognitive infiltration, this corrupted epistemology, the Cass Sunstein rearing its ugly head.
I love behavior and I love, I love, I was a psychology major and there was clinical, experimental.
An I.O., industrial organizational.
That was even more interesting.
The way we utilize behavior to sell things, to deal with human behavior.
May I ask you a very simple question?
Very simple question.
We'll get to the serious stuff about storm trooper shock troops.
I love that.
Jack-booted thugs.
But before we do this, and you see the corollary, what do you do for a living?
May I ask in just a couple of words, what is your job?
What do you do?
When somebody says, what do you do?
And I hate that.
What do you do?
Because it's so inextricably connected sometimes to our self-worth.
What do you do?
Who are you?
Who am I?
Yeah, what do you do?
What do I do?
What do you do?
There's G-Rex joins us.
Tahuya.
What do you do?
Chiropractor.
Ah!
Fascinating.
May I say that I love to watch snapping.
Be very careful of, you know, you don't get too many paralysis, but I love Chiropractic.
And I love that.
Those ring-a-dingers.
Draftsmen.
Carpenter.
Contractor.
Oh, I love that.
Homemaker.
Say it loud.
Hazel Ann Alexander.
You say that loud and proud.
I am a homemaker.
Domestic goddess engineer.
One of the most.
A home.
Keeping things going.
It's an art form.
That's why what do they call that?
Home economics and all that is so critical.
Aircraft mechanic modeling.
Interesting.
Patient account rep.
Musician.
Do you know what I heard?
Do you know we were listening the other day to an old well it was an interview with Nellie Conley.
John Conley's wife.
Who was in the car with Kennedy and Jackie on November 22nd.
And when she was sitting outside with her husband.
Shot.
He was really shot.
And she's outside in a chair.
And Jackie is next to her.
Remember this?
Somebody brought her.
She says, ma 'am, here's some forms you're going to have to fill out.
And she looked at me.
A nurse rather said, you've got to fill out forms.
Musician.
Top Gun.
Okay.
I'll take your word for it.
Hospitality.
Legal document preparer.
The backbone of everything.
And e-discovery changed everything.
Retired refinery worker.
Retired contractor.
Undocumented pharmacist.
I love this.
Nurse.
God bless nurses.
Med-surg.
They're like angels.
Senior services.
No longer employable.
Okay.
Produce clerk.
Excellent.
See, you're the kind of guy I want to talk to because I'm into fruits, vegetables, and knowing.
We have a guy here, Produce Pete.
I love to watch him.
This is the time for strawberries.
Here's what you're looking for.
Incident manager for AT&T.
Retired English professor.
Excellent.
Finnish carpentry.
Two N's.
Finnish.
Is that from Finland or did you mispronounce the spell?
Finnish.
I don't know.
I watched Parkland last night.
I think that's where they got the idea to put the paper in the toilet.
Okay.
Future Prime Minister of Australia.
Thank you, Peter.
Retired firefighter, nurse practitioner.
See, I love, I love, I love what you do.
And if I met you, I'm going to drive you crazy with what you do.
Great operator!
I love that!
When I see somebody just do just a regular backhoe or one of these, it's artistry.
Director of sales.
See, I love your job.
I love journeyman.
I don't even know what that means, but I like that.
Sounds like a rambler.
James is a lawyer.
What do you practice, James?
What's your area?
Lawyers.
Would you ever ask somebody to be a lawyer?
Retired computer scientist.
A lot of retirees here, which is good, you know?
Raul is a morning.
Just kidding, of course.
Construction superintendent, project manager, New York City.
A likely story, CS.
A likely story.
I have a friend of mine who owns a salon.
Owns a salon.
Hair salon.
Very, very, very successful.
And I say, tell me the things you have to know.
What do you have to know about this?
Another friend of mine owns a very popular restaurant bar in New York.
And I always ask him, when you're hiring somebody, What do you look for?
What's the worst part about your job?
What's the best part?
How do you do this?
I love to know.
What does a teacher do?
What does a doctor do?
Not your job, but the personality.
We love to go to farm stands.
I love farms.
Farm stands.
Love them.
The mentality behind it.
What's a farm stand?
What am I trying to convey?
Something yesterday, this week, drove me not nuts, but I was fascinated by this to the point where I couldn't get any work done.
I was so fixated on this because it was brilliant.
We got this coffee maker.
Brand new.
I'm not going to mention a brand.
If they want to advertise, they know where to come.
But all of a sudden it said Descaler or Scaler.
What's it called?
Descaler?
Descaler.
So what is this?
It's a light that came on.
What's this lighting?
Ooh, Deborah Fox is a chef.
That's another fascinating thing.
Anyway, there's this...
Well, what do you do?
Well, you've got to buy Descaler.
We just got this.
What are we descaling?
Got to do it.
The light's on.
Check engine.
Brilliant.
What's this light?
Do you ever have one of these seats?
Better have it turned up.
You're a hundred miles over.
Somebody sat there and said, I have to do this.
I have to.
We're going to do this to drive people crazy.
I'm reading the instructions.
This isn't working.
Finally went to YouTube.
Found out how to do it.
The light went off.
I felt like, yes!
Isn't that something?
Use vinegar.
It's safer, yeah, but it smells.
Worst part, finding health care fraud.
Best part, improving patient outcomes.
I love that.
A chef.
Deborah, being a chef, It's a mindset.
Have you ever seen a chef cook at home?
It's genius.
I love that.
To watch somebody who knows what they're doing.
I love to watch.
I could be at a diner and just watch the counterman.
I love what people do.
I love masons.
There's no more mechanics anymore.
I love to see what people do.
Do.
I love this.
And I'm so fascinated, fascinated by what people do and what it is that you're trying to accomplish.
Even boiling water leaves residue.
Remember that one right there.
Mr. San Martino, the most incredible repository of Arcana.
That you will ever find.
And I mean that.
Absolutely incredible.
Yesterday I was driving around doing some things and I just, I look at different places.
And I look at a, and I just love to see Costco, TJ Maxx, DSW.
Look, I could sit there and just watch.
Where do they come in?
How do they look?
Why do people go up and just touch?
Do you ever see women go to this?
They're just touching things.
What are you touching?
I don't know what this is.
What is this shopping thing?
Shopping to me is like, I have to go.
If you have to go, it's not fun for me.
It's not fun.
Food shopping, I love.
I love a new store.
I love that.
I don't know why.
I have no earthly idea.
But the idea of when you walk in.
We have in New York, and I'm convinced of this, I wish somebody would do a study.
When you walk into every store, there's always some Asian-looking person in charge of the sushi.
I wish, I'll bet you anything.
They're Filipinos, they might not even be Asian, they know nothing about sushi, but they put a white, a little garrison white thing, and some kind of a martial arts thing, and they're rolling.
I'll bet you anything.
They're not Japanese or Chinese or Asian or whatever it is.
I love stores.
I love the produce guy.
I just...
The most important thing in my life, the most important talent that I have, bar none, bar none, is I find everything interesting.
Not people.
Well, let me rephrase this.
Not people, but their boredom is interesting.
My new thing is, I want to know how people are...
Work with me on this one.
This is a tough one.
People who are abused.
Do you know this?
Do you have somebody in your family, a friend, maybe you, pushed around, pushed around by the job, pushed around...
I've got a kind of an...
Remote kind of a friend of a friend.
Everybody she dates cheats on her.
She has this thing.
How does this happen?
Another one, too, is there are people who say, well, I don't want to make any waves.
What?
You're pushed around.
What's the matter with you?
It's learned helplessness.
It's learned helplessness.
Retired medical laboratory tech, 39 years.
Excellent.
I just...
How do you do this?
Why is that important?
I'll tell you why.
Because I take it and I apply it to us.
Look at how we have all been so indoctrinated, so incredibly made used to this notion of insanity with politics and the like.
just just I know you're probably finding this absolutely the most boring topic there is, but you know what?
Something tells me you don't.
Something tells me you don't.
Something tells me that you find this, because this is exactly what we need to be talking about.
Very, very quickly, I've got to say this.
I don't mean to...
Let me see.
Where's my stuff here?
Where is my stuff?
I've got so many incredible...
Stand by.
Talk about yourself.
Ah, here we go, here we go, here we go.
Good, good.
I've got to get this out of the way because this happened yesterday.
We're out driving around, looking around, and I'm seeing food.
And I'm seeing food, and I'm talking, of course, to farmers.
And I'm talking to farmers.
What am I doing?
What am I seeing?
What am I learning?
What am I learning from this?
I'm asking, what is it like to be a farmer?
What is it like right now?
How are you doing?
How is this?
What about food?
And then, as we're standing there, and I love, have you ever seen farmer's hands?
There's this, like you could light a match on them.
It's not a callus.
It's like they're just, they're not even hands.
They're just mitts, and they're working their whole life.
They're beautiful.
There's a beautiful part to it.
So I'm asking myself, What about food shortages?
What about ESGs?
What about nitrate problems?
What are you thinking about?
And farmers know more about the world than you will ever imagine, because they have to.
They have to know, government, who's in charge, what is happening regarding food problems, fertilizer shortages, forest regulations.
How about people selling off farms?
People selling off cattle?
People, farmers, farmers who've been doing this their whole life.
It was like a given.
It was a given.
You say, of course you're going to be a farmer.
You're going to do great.
And there's these farms that have been here a hundred years.
You know, they've been around forever.
And I'm thinking to myself, what is happening right now?
My friends, if you listen to what I'm saying about anything, you're going to listen to this.
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Food, as you know, takes time to grow.
When there's any kind of an interruption, the slightest little glitch, it catches on.
It's like a domino effect.
And then panic sets in.
And then the media will write whatever they are told.
And when that happens...
People will do food runs and stores and then they'll close and then it'll go on TV and then you'll start hearing, you'll start seeing this.
We see this with toilet paper.
I still don't know why.
We see it with a variety of things that just confound me.
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I'm a capitalist.
I believe in helping businesses.
I always want to help people.
If you have something you want to sell, I'm the guy to come to.
That's the way I do it.
I'm an advertiser.
That's what I do.
I like to take your idea and I like to say, here's what it is.
This is why it's important.
This is the thing.
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I am fascinated by our behavior.
Your behavior, something happened to you.
Something happened to you when you had something in your life, some event that kind of makes you go like this.
Many people do not even have any kind of political inclination whatsoever.
Most people do not.
I hate to say it.
Politics to them is like dance to me.
I have no dancing inclination.
Dance means nothing.
I would never think about dancing in my life.
I would never think like, oh, I have to express myself through dance.
No.
No.
I have no interest in dance whatsoever.
That's what people are with politics.
Two things are happening right now.
Two things are happening.
First, Because I always talk to everybody, and because I happen to live in a city where we've got so many foreign people, I talk to a friend of mine from Poland, and you cannot believe the amount of Ukrainian citizens and soldiers and people and Americans, American military, in Poland.
You have no idea what's going on.
None.
They are so aware of what's happening.
In Poland, he said, you would never know there's anything going on in the world.
Nothing.
You have no earthly idea.
Remember in the old days when people would say, well, you know, in Cuba, we're from Cuba, we're from China, we never knew.
We never knew what was going on.
We had no idea.
We're like that.
We have no idea what is going on in the world.
The number of people that I talk to who have no idea how can this be?
Why am I interested and nobody else is?
Let me ask you.
Why is the news?
Why are these issues fascinating to you and not anybody else?
Why?
And look at the variety.
Look at the heterogeneity here in terms of what you do for a living.
Various people, incomes, parts of the world.
Parts of the world, if we all met, and some of us may not even speak the same language, we may be different ages, different parts of the country, different parts of the world, different mindsets.
But yet, when it comes to this, we all share the same interests.
Why is that?
Why is that?
Fascinating to me.
To be an American is to be insulated.
To be an American means you don't know anything.
And please, don't take it the wrong way, but you must understand.
To be an American means you don't know anything.
I can tell you so many people that I...
Seriously.
If I could show you pictures of them and do like a Chiron or a lower third that they can't see, this is what they do for a living.
This is where they live.
People got money.
These are people who...
This one thinks...
He's really smart.
Knows nothing.
This one...
I would introduce you.
This one is a professional conservative.
Watches Fox News only.
Doesn't know anything.
Thinks Judge Jeanine is a branch of government or something.
Knows nothing.
Swear she's a Christian.
Never goes to any kind of service whatsoever.
Wears a cross, but that's about it.
Complete blowhard.
Complete blowhard.
A waste of time.
An absolute waste.
Boring.
But, if I showed you her...
Another friend of mine, Fascinating.
Muslim from Ghana.
Love the guy.
Love the guy.
He does something one would consider maybe menial.
Knows more about what's going on in the world than this one does.
Incredible.
Incredible.
I don't know.
I know.
How many people do we know who know what's going on?
Any?
None.
None.
We were toying one day.
We'd love to have an idea of a salon where people would come and say, let's just talk about stuff.
Bring a bunch of different people together and people that we know.
I don't know five people who I would want to who would know.
Maybe a few.
I know some people who are very smart, very interesting.
One I think is a communist.
I think.
I'm not sure.
Very smart.
Knows everything.
depending upon world view um I don't know anybody.
I don't, honest to God, know anybody.
I know people who know issues.
Maybe you know these as well.
They know issues.
Like, we're talking about guns.
Like, for example, somebody says, guns.
Okay.
And this one is interested in...
I was a woman, and she's very interested politically, and I went, guns, guns and carry permits.
Okay, okay.
Why?
One in particular.
What, what, what, why do you want to have a gun?
What did you think?
And I realized in 30 seconds, it was, she didn't, she had no idea.
But it was part of the role as a conservative.
It was the role of the conservative.
Had no idea.
And I said, do you have a gun?
Do you have a gun?
Well, I said, do you?
Do you have a gun?
Well, I think I should have a gun at home.
Do you really think so?
Yes.
And if you have a gun at home, if you have a gun at home, are you ready to kill?
If somebody enters your home, are you ready to kill?
Do you know what to do?
Well, I said, well, this is important now.
This is important.
There's a noise.
Your wife, husband, whoever wakes you and says, honey, there's somebody downstairs.
What do you do?
You grab your gun.
Where do you keep your gun?
And immediately they're looking at me like, what are you talking about?
Where do you keep your gun?
Well, I have it in a...
It's next to the bed.
In what?
In what?
Well, it's in a...
It looks like a cigar box, but you can open it.
What if the guy comes up there first and grabs a gun and moves it?
Takes the box and says, oh, that's a gun case.
Moves it.
Now what are you going to do?
You got it next to the bed?
Well, it's in the...
Yeah, I know there's a code, but somebody just takes it and moves it.
Okay.
Let's assume you got it.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to say?
Somebody charges you.
What are you going to do?
Are you going to shoot them?
Are you going to shoot somebody?
Can you do that?
You know what that is?
And you keep shooting until they're dead?
Now, they say this.
They say this.
Are you going to shoot until you're dead?
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
What kind of gun do you have?
How far away are you?
Do you live in an apartment, in a home?
Do you have kids?
Is the kids next door to you in the wall?
What if the bullet goes through the wall?
What do you have?
Protocol board?
What have you thought?
I had no clue!
What kind of gun do you have?
Semi-automatic?
You know how to use this?
Can you grab it right away?
Can you make it safe?
Does it have grip safety?
Can you know how to do it?
Do you know how to rack around, chamber around?
Is it ready to go?
Is it lock and load?
What is it?
Lock and load.
Cocked and locked, ripped and stripped.
I mean, do you...
And when you keep shooting, what happens?
What happens if it's the wrong...
When somebody makes them...
I think I told you this.
Not too long ago, we were...
We have a friend of ours.
They have a...
Like a townhouse.
I went to the house.
I came back in.
I don't know what...
They all look alike to me.
I swear to God.
They all look exactly alike.
I wasn't paying attention.
Everybody leaves their door open.
I walked in.
I looked down.
I'm thinking, I don't remember this.
That's weird.
And as I'm realizing I'm in the wrong place, I hear, can I help you?
I said, oh, I'm sorry.
Pardon me.
I walked out.
Now, the guy could have killed me.
Right?
I'm in his.
Could he have?
Could he have?
If he killed me, if I walk in, I'm dead.
Three o 'clock in the afternoon.
Am I dead?
Is that okay?
I'm in his home.
Do you think he could sell that to a jury?
If he went there and said, what happened?
He goes, I shot this guy.
He came in.
He was obviously in the wrong place.
Yeah, but I didn't know.
It was three o 'clock in the afternoon.
What difference does it make?
See, he walked in and he's looking around.
See, all of these things never, ever, even remotely entered her mind.
Ever.
But...
She's guns.
Guns.
And we're going to have guns and a carry permit and we're going to open carry and constitutional carry and we're going to do this.
Are you sure about this?
Do you know what you're talking about?
I can't.
No idea.
No idea.
Have you tried to explain Mar-a-Lago to anybody?
Have you tried this one?
I cannot watch anything on any TV, especially today.
They have run out of things to say.
And it goes like this.
This is an unconstitutional usurpation of the rights of President Trump.
This is an unlawful excess of blah, blah, blah.
And it is an encroachment upon...
Okay.
And it is the...
Okay.
Yep.
What else?
And it is a...
Okay.
Very good.
Very good.
And it's the same thing.
And it is the most boring commentary I think I've ever heard in my life.
It's the same stuff.
Over and over.
Let's go through this.
It's simple.
Number one, why did they do this?
It wasn't necessary.
This is ridiculous.
There's no need for this.
Why didn't they just subpoena this?
This is an usurpation.
They went over there, and it's wrong, and it's some huge last-minute gasp.
Let's go through all the arguments.
All the arguments.
All the arguments.
The usual stuff.
The same thing.
What are we doing?
What are we talking about?
There was something the other day.
I'm watching this.
Oh, here's Tulsi Gabbard.
Got that one.
Got that.
Same thing.
Same thing.
Got it.
Got it.
Okay.
We all know that.
Are you going to keep saying the same thing over there?
Yes.
Okay.
What's the Republicanism?
Nothing.
What is the American legal profession saying?
Nothing.
What is anybody saying?
Nothing.
What are we doing?
Well, we're on TV.
And you're going to be telling me?
Yes.
And you're going to have one more person, and I feel the problem.
Always auditioning for some new gig, right?
What are we doing?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Stormtroopers, shock troops, this is the most horrible encroachment of a former president.
What are you doing about it?
Nothing.
We're going to maybe talk about it.
Maybe.
And the media, that you know, will say something like, I saw something, I didn't even, I couldn't believe this.
Bill Maher slams, this is where we are right now?
Bill Maher.
Bill Maher.
We are at an impasse.
Nobody's in charge.
Nothing is happening.
Nothing.
Nobody is in charge.
It's like we're on this ship and it's running aground or it's heading towards the iceberg and nothing.
Nothing.
I don't understand what's going on.
I don't understand.
We just sit and complain.
What are you doing?
And who is it?
Chuck Grassley said, well, I'll tell you what.
If we get to be the majority, by God, we're going to investigate this.
Nothing.
Now, here's the good news.
The good news is, there is good news.
The good news is that there is, on the internet, some of the best stuff.
Ever.
That is great for you to read.
And by the way, nothing's being done.
But the best analysis you have ever seen.
At so many levels.
And I was reading something, and I just did a brand new video on cognitive infiltration.
Oh my God!
It was...
It is still...
One of the best, listen to this, those of us in the know, all of us, the ones who, the people who know, the ones who are, you know, the ones who are hip, who are, as we see in wrestling, smears art.
This is the one that is so terrific.
This was, and you may or may not have known this, this is one of the greatest, this is called conspiracy theories.
And it was penned by Cass Sunstein, husband of Samantha Power, and Adrian Vermeule, V-E-R-M-E-U-L-E.
Now listen to this.
This is the abstract.
This is from 2008.
One of the best...
You know how you meet people and you say, okay, you know about Harp?
Yeah.
You know about this?
You know about Bilderberg?
You know about...
Cognitive infiltration?
No.
See ya.
Or Cass Sunstein?
I'm talking to you.
You know what you're talking about.
Listen to this.
This is the abstract.
Many millions of people, many millions of people, hold conspiracy theories.
They believe that powerful people have worked together in order to withhold the truth about some important practice or some terrible event.
Imagine that.
They believe that powerful people have worked together in order to withhold the truth about some important practice or some terrible event.
Yeah.
That's a conspiracy theory?
Right.
First sentence.
They're telling you, University of Chicago Press.
A recent example is this belief, widespread in some parts of the world, that the attacks of 9-11 were carried out not by Al-Qaeda, but by Israel or the United States.
Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence, and the existence of such theories raises significant challenges for policy and law.
The first challenge is to understand the mechanisms By which conspiracy theories prosper.
The second challenge is to understand how such theories might be undermined.
Now, not if they're true.
Not if they're true, but just how to do it.
Such theories typically spread as a result of identifiable cognitive blunders.
Ah, see, you're not thinking correctly.
Operating in conjunction with informational and reputational influences.
A distinctive feature of conspiracy theories is their self-sealing quality.
Conspiracy theorists are not likely to be persuaded by an attempt to dispel their theories.
They may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy.
Because those who hold conspiracy theories, listen to this, typically suffer from a crippled epistemology.
In accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them or explore it.
Now this was one of the most important Was the blueprint.
Let's assume you came to me and said, I believe in Jesus, God, Allah, Abraham, whatever.
I'm a religious person.
Most people, myself included, would say, I see.
I wouldn't be shocked, wouldn't be alarmed, wouldn't be anything.
I've met many people who are devoutly devout.
But if I take that, if I say, let's talk about why people believe in religious beliefs.
What is it that makes them...
Forget faith.
I haven't even gotten to that.
Is it a crippled epistemology?
Is it the fact that they are...
No.
What I do is I approach your particular ideology as though you're a lunatic.
So you're crazy.
You're a nut.
You're a loon.
You're a fool.
A rube.
You're crazy.
There could be nothing to this.
The other day, I think I told you this.
Maybe I did.
I was listening to an old...
It was Don Hewitt.
Don Hewitt.
Was the executive director, producer of 60 Minutes.
And he said, one of the things which was the most important, one of the worst things he ever remembers was the lie regarding the Gulf of Tonkin.
This is Don Hewitt from liberal, Fred Friendly, Bill Bailey, CBS, Walter Cronkite.
Walter Cronkite said this.
Cass Sunstein would call this a conspiracy theory.
They called it a fact.
They said the Gulf of Continent was a lie.
It never happened.
There was no event.
You see what they're doing?
You see what they're doing?
They have weaponized this term, conspiracy theory, like nobody's business.
They have treated anybody, they have decided, I will tell you what a conspiracy theory is and what isn't.
Is it a conspiracy theory to believe that Donald Trump wanted to systematically and single-handedly destroy?
No.
No, that's okay.
No, that you can think.
That's not a conspiracy theory?
No.
Because I like that.
That's a good one.
That's exactly the truth.
Donald Trump is evil and Donald Trump, yes.
So that's not a conspiracy theory?
No.
Well, why not?
Well, it's not because that's what we like.
Conspiracy theory means something we don't like.
We don't like this theory.
We don't like what you're saying.
We don't care for what you're saying.
We don't like it.
We don't like anything about it.
You're espousing something which is contrary to our particular ideology.
We don't want to hear this.
But you just said, well, I know what I just said, but you see, Sometimes the government can do things, sometimes it can't.
And in this case, it isn't.
And we're going to treat you like you're crazy.
And what happens is, we then create within the world of social media, which you have become so dependent upon, you do everything in your power never to stray from the particular rules.
So consequently, if they say to you, if they say to you that you're Kind of delving into some kind of dangerous areas of thinking, whatever it is.
In order for you to maintain the rules of this, you'll say, okay, well, I'm going to think that.
And then you'll self-censor.
You won't think that.
It's the most incredible.
It's the most.
The smartest thing I've ever seen was how they used the words conspiracy theory and also disinformation, data information, misinformation, lies, racism.
It's brilliant.
Then they'll throw in denier.
You're a climate denier.
You're a truther.
And this very interesting, brilliant people.
Cass Sunstein, who I will never understand how anybody can listen to five seconds of him.
I swear to you.
And it's not just me.
I find everybody interesting.
I mean, I can listen to Joy Behar.
That's interesting how she says that.
Cass Sunstein, I do not.
There is nothing.
But this theory is so perfect because it's just, it's not the government.
The government's not saying this.
This is when you work by proxy.
It's the most brilliant thing in the world.
You use other people to do the bidding for you.
You shut people up and shut people down by other groups of folks.
Not the government.
So everything that we normally use, First Amendment, all this stuff doesn't apply.
It's brilliant!
It's...
And we just keep getting closer and closer and closer within this acceptable little box.
Can we think this?
No.
Okay.
Fine.
Okay.
What do I think about Trump?
He's a bad man.
Okay.
What else?
He stole nuclear secrets.
Nuclears.
What was he going to do?
Sell them on the black market?
Doesn't matter.
Shut up.
Are you questioning us?
No, no, no.
Trump is a bad man.
Trump is bad.
Yes.
Yes.
Right.
Exactly.
If they even get to that.
If they even get to that.
These are the most brilliant people I have ever met in my life.
How they have done this, you don't, maybe you do, because I think, I can tell by some of your ages, remember when we were younger, in our generation, where it was great to know what was going on, where you would watch, watch an old Woody Allen movie, and they would always talk about these idealized Upper West Side, Upper East Side, whatever, these cocktail parties, or some guy played the piano.
And somebody would say, well, you know, I'm working on my dissertation.
I'm comparing the Jungian transformation theory vis-a-vis a Schopenhauer...
Ooh, and intellectuals were considered sexy.
And education was sexy.
And knowing what was going on.
Norman Mailer had radical chic.
No, Leonard Bernstein.
He would bring in the...
I might have been wrong, but it was the...
Black Panthers.
Black Panthers.
And they show up at his apartment.
He's got a gun.
But it was cool to know things.
And the more you knew, the higher your status in the community was.
It might have been left or right, but you had to know a lot of stuff.
You had to know things.
You had to be able to say, well, you know, Caesar Chavez.
Ooh, Caesar Chavez.
Ooh, I like that.
Great.
Even William F. Buckley, George Plimpton.
Erudition was cherished.
Brains were lauded.
I listened to Walter Cronkite describing the He did this little thing after the Tet Offensive.
And he went out of his way.
He says, for the first time, I'm giving you my opinion.
And he basically said, we've got to get out of Vietnam.
So monumental.
Today, what we have said, Walter Cronkite slams.
It would have meant nothing.
It would have been just deposited.
Bill Maher would have...
Bill Maher...
You know...
Louis C.K. responds to...
Most incredible thing in the world.
It is...
I...
I'm fascinated.
We knew so much.
And in just a generation, half a generation, whatever that particular period of time was, we have gone into the most stupid, muddle-headed, Ignorant.
Stylishly ignorant.
I've never seen anything.
And we took these people and somebody said, okay, I'm the engineer.
I'm the behavioral.
I'm the guy in charge of this.
Okay, bring me COVID.
Shut them down.
Keeping people imprisoned.
I know more people who went Nuts during COVID.
Went nuts.
They were nuts to begin with, but they really went nuts.
Mrs. Allen and I were talking this morning and said, you know, during COVID we were doing what we do normally.
We're looking at this, reading, paying attention, commenting.
I'm going to tell you something right now.
I'm going to jump ahead of myself.
I'm going to tell you something I haven't told anybody, but I'm going to tell you.
I do thought experiments all the time.
And I imagine me telling people things.
I imagine, let's think about, what would this look like?
And I'm always thinking to myself, what would I tell a class, like a high school class, you know, words for the future, makes me think about what's important.
But I was thinking one day about as follows.
So I was watching an old, was it Bertrand Russell or some of these old people, Robert Frost.
You know, how do you keep going?
George Bernard Shaw, how do you keep going?
Noam Chomsky, who, Noam Chomsky looks like he died.
Like he's a corpse, a decomposing corpse who's talking, but still brilliant, still whatever it was.
Actually said some things, believe it or not, in favor of.
By the way, views, 1984.
Is that odd?
Propitious?
Numerologically speaking, no.
Anyway, so I had this thing where somebody said to me, what's your secret?
Let's imagine I'm at that stage and I'm still going.
I'm older and whatever it is.
And I would say, let me tell you what I did that nobody else did.
My colleagues don't do this.
Every single day for two hours based upon everything that I'm doing, I'm constantly thinking.
I'm constantly evaluating.
I'm constantly analyzing.
I'm constantly commenting.
I'm constantly reviewing.
I'm reading.
I'm talking about it.
This is L2.
Going through this.
Reading this.
Did you know this?
Did you know that?
We start off with a, did you know this?
I'll send her things.
She sends me things.
We're right there, but we're looking at the article.
Always thinking.
Always talking.
Brains working.
Constantly.
How do I say this?
How do I say that?
How do I explain this?
How do I try to keep you interested?
How do I try not to make you just say, Jesus, God.
And maybe you are.
I can't help that, but I try my best.
Nobody I know in my school, my framework, my class, my contemporaries, nobody does that.
Nobody does that.
They don't do that.
Nobody does this.
They sit back and they just watch.
They don't think.
They don't muse.
They don't articulate.
They don't evaluate.
They're not going through, this one said this, this one said that.
And by the way, the saddest, the laziest person is somebody who says, here's something, you've got to see this.
No.
No, I don't want to see this.
Give me an analysis of something.
What?
Give me an analysis.
Show me something where somebody is thinking differently about something.
Not...
Give me an example.
The other day we're having lunch and I'm looking at this table and there's this kid and the mother said, here you go, and they put him down there and they give him the iPad or whatever it is and they go like that and the kid's...
I don't blame the parent because the kid's driving them nuts and they just want to have lunch and the kid's like...
And the information is coming and I'm like that.
That's what you send me.
You send me somebody just saying something.
No, the guy who told me how to descale, that was very good.
That I liked.
And the reason why people can't read today as kids is because they have this thing thrown at them and they don't know how to track.
They don't know how to track.
How to track a word and this word and that word.
They don't know how to read something.
So what I want is somebody who tells me something.
Read this.
Put this together.
There have been some great stuff.
Oh my God, there was a wonderful piece the other day.
It was great.
I think it was Conservative Treehouse did one on actually looking at the warrant and comparing it to what was done initially during the Trump transition.
And it was great.
They showed this, and then they showed this one.
And it wasn't just somebody just sitting there telling you this stuff.
One of the most worthless pieces of garbage that you will see on the internet today are self-defense videos.
Okay, come at me like this.
Did you ever see a Steven Seagal?
Who's going to come at you like this?
Okay, now grab me.
Now look, I go like this.
I pull.
It doesn't work like that.
Self-defense videos.
That's easy.
That's easy.
Okay, you're going to do this.
I'm going to push the gun out of the way, and I'm going to fire.
I'm going to hip fire.
That's not what's going on.
That's not what's going on.
What's going on is your heart's pounding.
Somebody's screaming.
This guy's charging you.
You have no time to think, and you don't say, wait a minute, hold it.
Wang Chung, Wang Chung, everybody Wang Chung, whatever this stuff is.
What is this?
Life's not like that.
Just like this other stuff.
When I see somebody sitting there at a desk screaming at me, I'm saying, that's not life.
You're not breaking anything down.
You're not explaining anything to me.
I'm not learning from you.
You're just reacting.
I'm not going to mention any names, but they're great at just reacting.
They'll take a headline and they'll just tell you the same thing.
Well, how come they're not going after Hillary Clinton?
Brilliant.
No, it's not.
It's been said a million times.
What am I going to do with that?
And how come Hunter Biden?
My God, Hunter Biden won't.
He's got a laptop.
You're right.
He's got a laptop and they're not arresting Hunter Biden.
That's not fun.
What keeps me going is thinking about it and breaking it down.
And what's happening?
And what's not happening?
And where do we go next?
And who's in charge?
And what do we do?
And how does this work?
And how do we mobilize?
And what's going to happen next?
And let me also tell you something, which is very, very, very, very frightening to me.
If you cannot, and I'll just say this very carefully, because this is considered the source.
Salman Rushdie, I hope he makes it.
God bless him.
Why he wasn't protecting more...
What are we talking more about now?
What are we talking about?
Iran.
Watch carefully what they talk about Iran.
Iran.
Watch.
Listen carefully.
And think.
That's all I'm going to tell you.
Number two.
I'm getting very upset, in my own right, about people talking about terrible things happening to President Trump.
I've never heard such talk like this.
Why are they doing it?
It is irresponsible.
It is irresponsible.
And it's becoming more and more spoken.
And what I'm seeing right now is inhabituation and the conditioning.
To the idea itself.
And that is very bothersome to me.
Very bothersome.
Very scary.
I don't like that.
Anybody talking about that?
No.
No.
Why do you think that is?
I don't know.
Now they're also talking about internecine wars within the family.
Who tipped them off?
They're pointing the finger at Jared now.
Notice how they're doing it.
Who tipped people off?
You think anybody tipped anybody off?
The real question is, why do you take three days to execute a warrant?
Now, the thing is, is that I prefer to discuss that and go a little bit deeper.
But not here.
Never here.
Never, ever, ever here.
Because it's not...
The place.
This is the children's table.
We speak at the children's table.
It's Thanksgiving.
Adults are over there.
We're here at this table.
Got to watch what you say.
Keep it simple.
Don't go too deep.
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I thought to myself, well, they may not care about this.
They may not care about elections.
They may not care about a lot of stuff.
But everybody will drop what they're doing and say, we have got to protect kids.
You know what somebody told me the other day?
Parents are too overwhelmed.
Really?
Overwhelmed?
I see.
They're morons.
Is that what you said?
Oh, I thought you said they're morons.
She says there's a war on.
Yes.
A war on for the moron.
I'm going to coin that.
I've never seen anything like it.
But yet...
I've got this one.
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I've got this.
We've got these friends, kind of Mrs. L's friends.
There's one woman you can sit there and say, you know, the kids are doing this, huh?
You know, the kids are being trafficked, huh?
You know, the kids are having, you know, UPC codes, yeah?
You know, kids are having, yeah?
But the dogs.
The dogs!
Oh, my God!
The dogs.
Dogs.
Now, I love dogs.
Dogs are better than human beings.
Dogs don't traffic in other dogs.
Dogs are great.
But between a human baby and a dog in a kennel, I don't get it.
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