Lionel Nation - Embracing the Heretic in You
Aired: 2022-10-10
Duration: 12:28


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[00:01:31]  Every now and then, I have to explain to somebody what it is that I am.
[00:01:38]  What do I believe in?
[00:01:40]  How do you explain my philosophical belief system?
[00:01:43]  What is it?
[00:01:44]  How do you work it out?
[00:01:47]  Well, it's simple.
[00:01:48]  I'm a heretic.
[00:01:50]  And that bothers people because it sounds bad.
[00:01:53]  But it's not really.
[00:01:55]  It's exactly who I am.
[00:01:58]  And heretic, like I am, is basically somebody who follows heresy.
[00:02:04]  Now heresy, to be fair, let me read to you.

=== Groupthink Conventional Wisdom (10:20) ===

[00:02:09]  Heresy is a belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious, especially Christian doctrine.
[00:02:16]  That's not me.
[00:02:18]  I'm not talking about that at all.
[00:02:21]  Here is my way of thinking.
[00:02:24]  Opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted.
[00:02:32]  That's it.
[00:02:34]  Let me make it very clear to you.
[00:02:36]  I would venture to say that anything that is crowdsourced, any opinion, and let's exclude medical science, For the most part.
[00:02:48]  I know where you're going with that.
[00:02:50]  But I mean, there are some things which are fundamentally agreed to that are correct.
[00:02:59]  There are some basic things.
[00:03:01]  But I don't even involve myself in that.
[00:03:05]  I'm not a contrarian to everything.
[00:03:08]  I don't dispute everything.
[00:03:11]  When it comes to politics, philosophy, the usual thought or opinion du jour, that is where I am profoundly opposed to that of conventional ideology, to that which is generally accepted.
[00:03:29]  If the majority of any group tends to agree with something or think that something is true, it's wrong.
[00:03:37]  It's wrong.
[00:03:39]  It's been watered down.
[00:03:41]  It's milquetoast, it's anodyne, it's saccharine, it's unimportant, it's unexciting, it's dull.
[00:03:49]  You know it, I know it, we all know it.
[00:03:52]  So I'm a heretic, and I have no problem with that.
[00:03:56]  But I don't start off being like that.
[00:03:59]  There's a word we use sometimes too, which I don't like, is that's skeptic.
[00:04:04]  And a skeptic is somebody who is a denier.
[00:04:06]  Now, I hate that word, denier, because you know denier is a very popular word, but a denier is somebody who deniers almost, the denier I'm talking about, is somebody who does it almost reflexively.
[00:04:16]  It's almost like a patella reflex.
[00:04:18]  Nope.
[00:04:20]  Wait a minute.
[00:04:21]  I don't do that.
[00:04:21]  I don't necessarily say that everything is wrong before I even hear it.
[00:04:26]  What I tend to do is to reject, after an initial consideration of that which is presented, I tend to reject what people say.
[00:04:34]  Because it's not true.
[00:04:36]  Or it's not good.
[00:04:37]  Or it's not well thought.
[00:04:39]  Or it's lazy.
[00:04:40]  Or it's sloppy.
[00:04:42]  Or it's this Pavlovian patellar obeisance to that which everybody believes.
[00:04:50]  That which is usual.
[00:04:51]  That which is understood.
[00:04:53]  That which is the generally accepted understanding regarding things.
[00:05:02]  If schools did a better job, if people did a better job, I think, in trying to cull and breed and harvest and collect people who think like me, the world would be a better place.
[00:05:21]  Because I'm telling you right now, let me give you an example.
[00:05:27]  I've been saying this for so long, it's...
[00:05:30]  Starting to, I mean, not boring me, but even I'm thinking to myself, I can't keep saying this, but I'm going to keep saying it.
[00:05:39]  I believe in the absolute value of critical thinking.
[00:05:42]  And critical thinking sounds kind of, well, it sounds highfalutin.
[00:05:46]  It sounds like, oh, critical thinking.
[00:05:50]  What it means is applying a particular way it means a structure of thinking as to issues and the like.
[00:05:57]  And it normally...
[00:05:59]  Follows what we used to call in law school the IRAC method.
[00:06:04]  Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion.
[00:06:06]  What's the issue?
[00:06:08]  What is the rule that is purportedly, allegedly applied to this?
[00:06:13]  Let me analyze the two.
[00:06:15]  Let me make some form of conclusion.
[00:06:18]  Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion.
[00:06:23]  Invariably.
[00:06:24]  If you follow that way of thinking, you will disagree with virtually everybody who opines.
[00:06:31]  Because, let's face it, when people...
[00:06:34]  And again, I'm not talking about how to build a building or how mold forms on bread.
[00:06:44]  Like I said, there are some scientific things which we pretty much agree.
[00:06:48]  I'm not talking about that.
[00:06:50]  But when it comes to political ideology, when it comes to applying a way of thinking, most people crowdsource and they look to see what is everybody thinking.
[00:07:01]  And they tend to think much like birds think or starlings think when they follow patterns of murmurations.
[00:07:10]  You've seen these birds that fly in these beautiful swarms.
[00:07:15]  They look like a...
[00:07:16]  Like a Rorschach test that flies.
[00:07:18]  And they fly perfectly.
[00:07:20]  You don't have one that flies off and loses direction.
[00:07:24]  They're like the most intricate marching band you've ever seen.
[00:07:27]  Because they follow each other.
[00:07:30]  And they follow each other and they collect for various reasons.
[00:07:34]  Some people think that maybe it's a means of...
[00:07:39]  Saving or preserving energy, you know, warmth, the energy of the group.
[00:07:44]  It's another way of perhaps making the group look larger to predators.
[00:07:49]  There are all kinds of reasons.
[00:07:50]  And the best reason is that some predators just like to follow others.
[00:07:56]  Well, humans do that too.
[00:07:58]  They really do that.
[00:08:00]  Humans love to be a part of the team, the tribe, the unit, the group.
[00:08:08]  The family, the class.
[00:08:12]  Remember that kings play chess on Friday, generally speaking, that wonderful mnemonic?
[00:08:18]  Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, you know, that kind of thing.
[00:08:25]  Well, we love to be in groups.
[00:08:27]  We love it.
[00:08:28]  We love to be in a group, and we love to meet other people in the group, and we love to say the things that other people in the group Like us to say.
[00:08:36]  We use shibboleths.
[00:08:37]  We use phrases.
[00:08:38]  We use expressions.
[00:08:41]  We use a nomenclature.
[00:08:43]  We use an argot or argo, depending upon where you're from, a lexicon.
[00:08:48]  That's what we do.
[00:08:49]  And when you put enough of those people together, you get a conventional way of thinking.
[00:08:53]  And a conventional opinion.
[00:08:55]  And the opinion of the group regarding something.
[00:08:58]  And that, by virtue of the fact that that has amassed, is wrong.
[00:09:03]  Don't follow it.
[00:09:05]  Because that's not the way critical thinking applies.
[00:09:07]  You don't do it by committee.
[00:09:09]  You do it by an exhaustive application of review.
[00:09:14]  You look at things little by little, bit by bit.
[00:09:16]  You ask yourself, does this make sense?
[00:09:18]  Let's test it again.
[00:09:19]  Let's dispute this.
[00:09:21]  Wait a minute.
[00:09:21]  There's something wrong here.
[00:09:23]  Do we really have a valid opinion, a valid outlook?
[00:09:28]  Do we really?
[00:09:29]  Are we at that point?
[00:09:31]  Are we?
[00:09:32]  And that's critical.
[00:09:35]  That's not the way people think.
[00:09:36]  Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:09:38]  We have opinions that are collectively sourced.
[00:09:43]  And we love phrases.
[00:09:45]  You have your phrases.
[00:09:46]  I have mine.
[00:09:48]  And every group, every group, every iteration of humanity, every religion, every political aspect, they all follow the same rules with their same language.
[00:10:03]  And their same nomenclature.
[00:10:06]  So remember, if you are finding yourself in agreement with the majority of a particular unit or population, for the most part, again, not, not, not, I've said this enough, but I'm talking about new ideas regarding politics and philosophy, you are wrong.
[00:10:27]  Because remember, to be, to be a heretic, To oppose ideas which are generally thought of, generally agreed to, generally approved of by the group is something that makes you special.
[00:10:44]  And let me tell you something.
[00:10:47]  Take it from me.
[00:10:49]  When you buck the system, when you go rogue, when you say no, no, I don't believe that.
[00:10:58]  No, I don't, I don't, I'm not following that.
[00:11:00]  No, I don't think that's true.
[00:11:01]  No, I don't think your level of proof has been adduced correctly.
[00:11:05]  No, I'm not buying that theory.
[00:11:06]  It will call you every conceivable name you can imagine.
[00:11:10]  Not because you're wrong, necessarily.
[00:11:12]  And you might be wrong.
[00:11:13]  There's always that possibility.
[00:11:15]  But because you dare to go against the team, the tribe, the pack, the group, the family, the order.
[00:11:22]  You dare to do that.
[00:11:24]  And they don't like that.
[00:11:26]  You're a troublemaker.
[00:11:28]  And they will mock you and chide you and call you everything you can imagine up to and including your suggesting or questioning your sanity.
[00:11:36]  So be a heretic.
[00:11:39]  Embrace the heretic in you.
[00:11:41]  Heresy.
[00:11:42]  Give it a shot.
[00:11:43]  It's one of those words.
[00:11:45]  It's one of those things.
[00:11:46]  Like the word epitome or epitome as my friend once called it.
[00:11:51]  Epitome sounds like, oh, it's great.
[00:11:53]  You're the epitome.
[00:11:54]  You're the epitome of musicianship.
[00:11:56]  You're the epitome of singers.
[00:11:58]  It means the most average, the most representative.
[00:12:00]  You mean the quintessence.
[00:12:02]  That's what you're trying to say.
[00:12:04]  But that's not the way we speak.
[00:12:05]  We speak in a more pedestrian way.
[00:12:10]  So heresy.
[00:12:11]  Heresy's cool.
[00:12:13]  Heresy's in.
[00:12:14]  Embrace the heretic in you.
[00:12:16]  And if you would be so kind and be so wise and be so great.
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