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Sept. 10, 2022 - Lionel Nation
14:50
Giving Away Your DNA to Strangers

Here, take me. Own me. Sell me.

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Let me tell you a true story.
Listen to me.
Recently, a friend of mine, we chatted, and my friend said, guess what?
I've...
Just done a, what are those DNA tests?
One of those, you know, those tests to see where you're from kind of a thing.
She was very excited.
I said, oh really?
That's great.
Sort of.
I was hiding my horror.
What exactly did you find out?
She said, well, I'm Norwegian.
I've got Norwegian in me.
I said, really?
Why did you do that?
Well, I just, you know, I just wanted to.
You wanted to what?
I just, no, I, you know, wanted to...
Why did you do this?
And you could tell she was getting nervous.
What are you talking about?
I said, who has this information?
I said, what do you think this is?
This is your genome.
This is your DNA blueprint.
This isn't a fingerprint.
This isn't, you know, some biometric in your phone.
Why on earth did you do this?
And the look on her face was, what are you talking about?
Are you into some kind of conspiracy?
I said, no.
But who has this information now?
What are they going to do with it?
Can you get it back?
Do you know what you're opening yourself up to?
This is you.
DNA is you.
This is your genotype.
It's you.
It's your unique composition.
The symphony and the libretto of existence.
You can go on any metaphor you want.
And during the course of this, the part that amazed me was the look of...
What's the big deal?
Didn't you research this?
No.
It's on TV.
I want to talk about this.
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For reasons that I guess make sense to some people but not to me, I am considered by some to be a conspiracy theorist.
Somebody who sees dark and nefarious activities when there's really nothing there.
Some type of idiosyncratic reflex that I have.
Always lurking about, wondering what does this mean?
Who's behind this?
You don't know me, but I'm your brother.
No, I think that's taking it to the streets.
I am the...
Put it this way.
I make Occam and his razor look like a blunt spork in terms of their analytical desires to get to the simplest answer because that's my middle name.
What I notice is something that's even more important.
I notice how people react or don't react to certain things.
Somewhere along the line, maybe it's because of our lousy education, maybe it's because of, I don't know, who knows?
But we don't seem to understand what DNA is.
And we don't understand what this is.
What is this mapping the genotype and what it tells?
We have no idea.
But because everybody was laughing about it and doing this, whatever, I don't know the names of the companies, but I mean, why don't you just send it straight to China and say, here it is!
Thank you!
Let me just cut to the middle man.
Can I just send it to some lab in Beijing.
You might as well just get it sooner.
But in any event, there's this thing that people do because it's this herd mentality.
Well, if everybody's doing it, I'm going to do it too.
It's what brought us sleeve tattoos.
See, overnight, a while back, people decided, I'm going to cover my body in hideous bruises.
And these awful, blotched, Not even colorful hues of green and a little bit of red and blue.
They're going to blanch and mottle together in this piebald blech.
And I'm going to do it.
And I'm going to be covered in these.
And by the way, when I'm 60, 65 years old, and my skin loses all elasticity and collagen and hangs and droops like an udder, like some dewlap.
Then, or some challer, then I'm going to say, what the hell was I thinking?
When my message of carpe diem, or only God will decide, or born to lose, or whatever it is, is somehow obscured through the destruction of the dermis.
But in any event, it's this mentality that says, I'm going to do it.
Hey, look at this!
I'm 10% Norwegian!
What does that mean?
Now, this is the other thing to say.
Look, if somebody wants my DNA, fine, take it, whatever.
I don't care.
They probably have it anyway.
What are you going to do?
What am I going to do?
Get upset over this?
Now, not that it matters, but every now and then we got that Golden State Killer.
Huh?
That was good, wasn't it?
Yeah!
Golden State Killer because of some DNA bank?
That's good, isn't it?
Well, yeah, but I don't think that's the selling point, but it's there.
And by the way, if this notion of anonymity regarding the notions or the protections regarding adoption, that's done.
Done!
And if you perhaps Might have, I don't know, had a dalliance somewhere.
All of a sudden, somebody says, you know, I did this match.
And lo and behold, you are my father.
You are not my father.
You know those stories and how those come about.
But one day, somebody somewhere, some shadow government operative is going to say, we have right now a database.
Bigger than anything we could ever imagine.
Voluntarily provided to us by a bunch of people who wanted to see if they were Norwegian.
And one day some military industrial complex guy is going to figure out we know that certain people are susceptible to certain types of toxins and that we Can devise a bomb or some type of a missile or some type of an armament,
something that will only affect people of this particular genotype or this particular chromosomal combination or this particular marker or this particular whatever it is.
And we're going to be able to go on and we can spray some spray.
Did he say spray?
Yes!
We know how to do that.
In case you haven't noticed, we can just cover a particular area.
Who knows, some nanoparticulate stratospheric type of spray that when inhaled by some people through our genetic research, they are susceptible to the toxin poison and they keel over or become crazy or sterile or whatever it is.
Remember that one.
Maybe we can figure out exactly what it is that Is linked to, or the signs for, diabetes, or obesity, or insanity, or gayness, or left-handedness, whatever.
But your insurance company would like to get a hold of that.
The potential for this, you don't need me to go through the litany of possibilities.
But it goes to show you, yet again, through the collective nescience and ignorance of this world, Nobody seems to care.
Nobody even seems to even know remotely.
What are you talking about?
Because when it comes to privacy and biometrics and cell phones and iris scanners, it doesn't matter.
Oh, who cares?
I've got nothing to hide.
That's the attitude I love.
What are you going to do?
It's a brave new world, Sparky.
What am I going to do?
Get upset over this?
But I found out.
I'm Norwegian!
Congratulations, Sven, or whatever.
Good for you.
That's great.
And now, your database, or your particular genetic profile, has now joined the countless millions all over the world.
Feel good about that?
I'm sure you do.
You must, right?
I mean, after all, this is nothing for you to worry about.
Nothing for you to care about.
Nothing for you to concern yourself with.
What could go wrong?
And you had to satisfy the herd.
The murmurations.
The swarms.
The schools.
The passals.
The groups.
The aclocracy.
Whatever they do, you do.
If it's cool, you're there.
If it's a fad, you do it.
From tattoos, to studs, to expressions, to political ideologies, to mimicking and repeating the most absurd and intellectually abstruse nonsense, so long as you sound like you're a part of the herd.
As you graze among your fellow herd mates.
Oh, this is beautiful.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know where it happened.
I don't know.
I think it's a combination of ignorance, notions, scientific illiteracy, but a consistently frightening representation of just this...
I don't know if it's in the water or maybe the psych meds, but the skepticism, the worry, we don't have it.
In any event, my friends, you've got nothing to worry about.
After all, what do you have to hide, right?
No need to lock your door, pull down the drape, or lick the envelope if you still mail things.
Because after all, what do you have to hide, right?
Right.
Now, what you shouldn't hide is your opinion.
Have you taken one of these tests?
Have you been a part of this?
What did you think?
Tell me what your results are.
Are you Scandinavian?
Did you find out that you're really not Irish or that you're whatever?
You're Alsatian?
Isn't that great?
Who owns this information?
Who can sell your information?
What country owns it?
Can you get it back?
Can it ever be used against you?
Put your thoughts and comments down.
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