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Feb. 11, 2023 - Lionel Nation
11:18
The Most Cosmically Important Question to Ask
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I want you to imagine the following.
And I want you to listen to my question.
And I want you to act accordingly by answering the questions in the comment section below.
It's very, very simple.
Then I want you to think.
I want you to clear your mind, clear your mind of every predisposition, any anecdotal Pavlovian, patellar, obeisant response that you have, all the trite bumper sticker, echo chamber, cookie cutter, you know, playbook answers.
I want you to think about this.
And I want you to think, what is the biggest problem facing the world?
Now this is the toughest question.
You've got one answer.
One answer.
How do you answer that question?
Do you point to a particular issue?
Do you point to one claim as to one situation?
No.
You think bigger.
What's the biggest issue today?
The biggest.
And I want you to remember, you've got one chance.
Your words are going to be forever, forever emblazoned or carved on some granite obelisk in the middle of nowhere.
You've got to think very carefully.
You can't waste time.
You can't waste work.
You can have a long answer, if you will, but you have to have something that is so poignant, so scintillating.
So perfect, so relevant, that it lasts forever.
That people, generations from now, generations are going to say, that was the question.
And that question answered the question.
That makes any sense to you.
And I've thought this long and hard.
I have thought about this.
And remember, the hypothetical is you've got one statement to make.
Let's say you're going to be meeting with the president or the king or the whoever.
Whatever situation.
The world is sitting there waiting.
These are your words of wisdom.
They're going to write this down.
They're going to write this down.
What would it be?
And every time I come close to...
Okay.
Here's the problem.
I think, no, that's not even remotely the problem.
That's not even it.
I start off with something like critical thinking.
I think critical thinking, now that's the issue.
That's the issue.
The ability for us to address the issue.
That's it.
The problem is how we deal with the problem.
That's it.
Then I think, that's not it.
Something more.
Because what if people are torpid?
What if they're insouciant?
What if they're concretized?
In this kind of a frozen room.
What good is the question if they don't care?
Ah, so it's motivation.
Aha!
The key is motivation.
Motivation what?
To ask a question?
To understand?
No, that's not it.
That's not it.
Okay, so understanding the issue is motivation.
Motivation to do something.
Now we're kind of back to square one again.
That's not it.
Motivation to react.
No, that's not it.
Motivation to react.
What does that mean?
I don't know what that means.
Motivation to alert representative governments and to alert those who...
No.
What does that mean?
Alert them?
And what?
Marching.
Be demonstrative.
Demonstrate.
Maybe liking.
Maybe tweeting.
What is it?
What is it?
Let's assume you understand the issue.
You understand the multiplicity of issues.
You understand this stream of issues.
Oh my God, you understand all of them.
And you know what needs to be done, but then you've got to be able to convey this to other people because you, knowing the answer alone, isn't going to help.
So what do you do?
How do you fix this?
You get people to understand.
You get them to lose this ennui.
This nonchalance.
You want to anger them and motivate them to do something.
I'm going down the list now of what I just said.
To do something.
To enrage.
To threaten through the vote.
Peacefully, of course, but to tell politicians there will be political repercussions if you don't act accordingly.
But then again, You also have to get around the political aspect of it because your movement in a Newtonian fashion will be stopped, will be dealt with a contrary kind of action, reaction from the opposition.
They're going to want to stop this.
So, then there's reaching out.
Perhaps neutralizing by virtue of some type of intellectual Committee, C-O-M-I-T-Y, some cooperative measure.
See where we're going with this?
See how complicated this is?
It starts off so simple.
What's the number one issue?
And you might point to a particular incident aspect.
That's not it.
That's not it.
Okay.
Every time I get involved with it, every time I try to get out of it, it's like that little finger trap, you know, where you put in, you know, this, whatever, you pull it and you can't get out of it.
It's like being in a quicksand.
The more you think and the more you slash about, the more you get ground down into it.
Maybe, maybe that's it.
I don't know.
But either way, either, either way, either way.
It's overwhelming.
And this week, my wife and I went to D.C. for some lobbying efforts, meetings and the like, and you go there, and you're overwhelmed.
You're overwhelmed by all of the institutions, all of the agencies, all of the buildings, treasury, the library of Congress is enough to make you say, wow, And that's helpful.
Nobody's against, you know, the...
Nobody says, what's the Library of Congress doing anyway?
The Smithsonian, by the way, Smithsonian Institution.
Like the Geneva Conventions.
Not convention.
Anyway, one of those wonderful examples of misidentified names.
And you go there and you think, is anybody doing anything?
Does anybody do understand what's happening?
And that's just here.
Then you look at the globe.
Oh my God!
What's the number one issue on the globe?
Where do we go?
How do we do this?
And when you find yourself completely overwhelmed by the complexity and by the enormity of the issues, you realize, I'm back to square one.
I don't know how to explain this.
I know it clearly.
I know there are issues, but it's a bigger thing.
It's how do we handle the issues?
How do we handle problems?
How do we analyze issues?
How do we critically think?
How do we mobilize ideas?
How do we take what we think?
It's great that we think these things.
It's great that we know them.
Oh, I can give you expert advice and positions on so many things, from science to politics to medicine to international, to name it.
Crime, social, just go down the list.
That's just one little, one little cellular piece, one little tile of the mosaic.
One part of the pastiche, the mosaic, this huge tapestry, this double helix of problems.
My God!
So we start off again.
What is the main thing wrong?
What do we need to fix first?
Now, I would be honored, honored beyond belief, for you to share your genius below, to answer accordingly, to write down specifically what it is that you would do, the problems that you think are necessarily a part of this, this, this, this calculus of chaos that we're in.
And of course, it goes without saying, I would most appreciate for you to like and subscribe.
Subscribe, oh yes.
And hit that little bell, that notification that says you will be notified forthwith and standard whenever anything that I say drops from the heavens.
Think about this, my friends.
Think for the sake of thinking.
It's fun, but it's painful.
Now comment.
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