Sept. 3, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
02:28:23
| 
| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
| A high school principal in Texas has been suspended over accusations that he held quote | ||
| extreme views on race and was pushing critical race theory. | ||
| This is another example of parents being outraged over what their kids are being taught or told to do. | ||
| And as I've stated now probably 50 billion times because we had Bannon on the show and he said he predicted this. | ||
| We're now seeing more similar things. | ||
| There's a development in the Loudoun County school protests. | ||
| More parents are seeking to join a lawsuit over trans pronouns. | ||
| And that just goes to show, along with mask mandates, critical race theory, and critical gender theory, It's something well beyond one thing, right? | ||
| You hear from conservatives all the time, it's like, oh, critical race theories in school. | ||
| I'm like, well, that doesn't explain the protests over masks and the similarity between the, you know, the groups of parents that are for or against these ideas. | ||
| It's like an overarching culture war or tribalism. | ||
| So how about we talk about all of this and talk about potential alternatives? | ||
| And with that, we are being joined by Chloe Valdery. | ||
| Valdery? | ||
| Yes, Valdery. | ||
| I said it wrong. | ||
| You want to introduce yourself? | ||
| Hi everyone, I'm Chloe. | ||
| It's good to be here. | ||
| I run a really dope startup called Theory of Enchantment. | ||
| We teach an awesome anti-racism practice that is not critical race theory. | ||
| So that's what I do for a living and I'm happy to be here. | ||
| We were having a really awesome conversation about Nazis and World War II Germany and New York and authoritarianism. | ||
| And I'm just thinking like, we should just do this on the show. | ||
| It's a really good conversation. | ||
| And I think this is going to be a fantastic discussion about all of this stuff. | ||
| Liberty, indoctrination, school. | ||
| So glad to have you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for inviting me. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Happy to be here. | ||
| It's still summer. | ||
| Feels like fall. | ||
| Especially in this room, guys. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| It feels like fall. | ||
| Chloe and I are wearing our winter jackets. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Happy to be here. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Glad you're here, Chloe. | |
| Good to see you. | ||
| And I'm really hoping, now that he's mentioned that, that I survive the evening, because I'm not wearing my winter jacket. | ||
| But I think we're adjusting the temperature. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh, yeah. | |
| I'm excited to have a nuanced conversation about critical race theory. | ||
| And I really love the idea of having an alternative to that kind of stuff. | ||
| So I'm stoked for this evening. | ||
| Yeah, I think a lot of like there's an interesting thing where they use the phrase anti-racism all the time Yeah, typically referring to like CRT ideas or whatever. | ||
| Yeah, and I think most people in this country don't like racism So yeah approaching that we had we had Papa John on you know Papa John and he kept saying that he was anti-racist but it sounds like a direct reference to Ibram Kendi and very specific ideologies and more like how do we navigate that so I It'll be fun. | ||
| We'll jump into all this stuff. | ||
| We'll talk about all that. | ||
| But before we get started, my friends, go over to TimCast.com, become a member, and you'll get access to exclusive members-only segments from the TimCast IRL podcast, this one, and you will support our journalists. | ||
| We just hired another journalist. | ||
| We're looking to expand. | ||
| We're also going on a big adventure into some haunted towns starting tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to be off for Labor Day because trying to work on Labor Day is the most insane thing. | ||
| We've tried it before. | ||
| It just doesn't work. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| It doesn't work. | ||
| So, like, last year we were like, no, I'm not taking a day off for Labor Day, and then, like, there's no news, no one's working, nobody's talking, nobody wants to come on the show, and I'm like, okay, we're taking Labor Day off. | ||
| So, yeah, we'll be going on an adventure, and we'll be having that on the Castcastle vlog, so thank you for all your support. | ||
| Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends. | ||
| Let's talk about this first story I found particularly interesting from just the other day. | ||
| CNN reports this Texas high school principal was put on administrative leave after being accused of promoting critical race theory. | ||
| James Whitfield, principal of Colleyville Heritage High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was placed on leave Monday, a month after a community member at a school board meeting publicly accused him of having extreme views on race and called for him to be fired. | ||
| Now the school district says he wasn't removed due to complaints by community members. | ||
| At a July 26th school board meeting, Stetson Clark, a former school board candidate, said he was concerned about the implementation of critical race theory in our district, and named Whitfield as someone with extreme views on race. | ||
| Because of his extreme views, I ask that a full review of Mr. Whitfield's tenure in our district be examined, and that his contract be terminated effective immediately, Clark said at the meeting. | ||
| Clark said a friend shared a letter that Whitfield sent to parents and students last year, which Clark claims showed the principal promotes a conspiracy theory of systemic racism. | ||
| The controversy at the high school and around Whitfield comes as a number of parents and community members across the state have urged that critical race theory not be taught in schools. | ||
| So this is interesting. | ||
| We have freedom issues, and we have culture war, you know? | ||
| You've got a large group of people in this country who want to teach these things to kids. | ||
| I want to get semantic for a minute. | ||
| Oh, here we go. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Teaching critical race theory, what does that mean? | ||
| Does that mean that they are teaching it like the philosophy of the critical race theory, like a philosophy of communism course, where they're teaching this as a philosophy? | ||
| Or are they... | ||
| Are they critically race-theorally teaching students about whiteness and things as part of the math class? | ||
| Is it part of the indoctrination of the teachings? | ||
| That's my question. | ||
| What's the difference? | ||
| Yeah, this description sounds very he-said-she-said, so I don't know what to think about this story. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And especially when they're even saying, the school, like, he wasn't removed because of the complaints. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But to go back to what you said real quick, and you can, well, you can agree or disagree. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. | ||
| I think there's actually three different views over what it means to teach critical race theory. | ||
| And depending on the politics of the individual involved and what they're trying to achieve, they'll adhere to one of them. | ||
| So you have Teaching critical race theory, which is the left always jumps on this one and says no one is reading Derrick Bell and Kimberly Crenshaw to children. | ||
| This is not happening. | ||
| Critical race theory is not a book on these schools. | ||
| No one talked about it. | ||
| Conservatives aren't making that point. | ||
| They're making the point more about critical race applied principles. | ||
| Which is the next two. | ||
| There is the implementation of the principles, meaning they take action in the schools that are rooted in critical race theory and this idea of inequities and Marxist ideology. | ||
| So they're actually applying the teachings of critical race theory to the kids and having the kids exist in this environment. | ||
| And then there's teaching critical race. | ||
| So that would be critical race praxis, I would say. | ||
| And then you have the teaching of critical race theory through surreptitious means, whereas in the math questions, they have injected theories of critical race theories, but it's not a quote, right? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Like, assuming that white people have, or whiteness is a problem, how would you get from point A to point B? | ||
| And you're like, they're like inserted as part of the assumption is the part of the theory, the theory is part of the assumption. | ||
| The example actually was this viral video, viral, sorry, photo, where it showed a picture of like a cartoon of a white guy and a black guy. | ||
| And it said, you know, Daryl is a white man who gets stopped by police 17 times every year. | ||
| You know, Daryl is a black man who gets stopped 236. | ||
| What percentage, you know, so they do things like that. | ||
| That's very surreptitious. | ||
| But that's the third one. | ||
| That's the second one I mentioned, where it's like, they're just putting these ideas into play. | ||
| I consider that praxis also. | ||
| Is that praxis? | ||
| It seems like a type of praxis. | ||
| That's where they're like teaching the thing, what critical race theory claims, but doing it not through the books. | ||
| Like you don't know you're learning it. | ||
| And then what I mean about the third way is when they say things like progressive stack and the teachers are like, I want all the kids to say their race and what they feel and things like that. | ||
| So there's like differences. | ||
| So that is the definition of praxis is no one knows that it's happening. | ||
| You're sneaking it in under the radar. | ||
| You're not standing in front of the class and reading Derrick Bell and Krimmerly Crenshaw. | ||
| Crimberly. | ||
| Crimberly, yeah. | ||
| But yeah, it's very subtle. | ||
| It just means theory and practice. | ||
| Yeah, it's applied. | ||
| It's exactly what we call it. | ||
| Critical race, applied principles. | ||
| That's praxis. | ||
| And how common do you think the praxis is as opposed to the other? | ||
| How would you describe the other one where like, so there are stories where the teacher will say, okay, or there's one viral right now where it's like, she put the skin color tabs on a chart. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then like had the kids line up by. | ||
| So that's like, I guess they're very similar in a certain way, but that's overt, right? | ||
| That's when like, hey, we're going to take all the kids and line them up by race. | ||
| Whereas the secondary one is like the math question implies some critical race is real, but they don't, it's surreptitious. | ||
| So there's like, I guess it's the subliminal and the superliminal. | ||
| Yelling it in their face. | ||
| When it comes to teaching the theory, I don't think it happens that much yet. | ||
| A nice 10th grade course on the philosophy of critical race theory where you learn about from 1911 or 1920 when it began, and all the things James Lindsay talks about with the history of the theory, that'd be cool. | ||
| If they knew they were learning it and they were interested in studying it, as opposed to just being told whiteness is a thing when you're 7. | ||
| I don't know the numbers, though. | ||
| The classrooms don't have cameras in them. | ||
| It's kind of disturbing that it's happening in secret. | ||
| It is kind of crazy to imagine there'd be cameras in classrooms and all the kids are being watched or whatever, but... All these body cams on cops, you know what I'm saying? | ||
| That brings up another complication. | ||
| So then we would have another freedom, liberty complication. | ||
| Well, so what are your thoughts on this? | ||
| Well, I don't know about this case specifically, because it seems very vague. | ||
| Let's talk in terms of, like, you know, generalities. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Give me a generality. | ||
| Should teachers who implement critical race theory or engage in the praxis, should they be fired? | ||
| Well, it's interesting because if an institution is being inconsistent, meaning if an institution has decided to bring upon a policy where they're teaching this to their staff, and they're saying, you know, this is what is in vogue now, and this is what we're doing, and then, let's say, a new culture cycle occurs, and people rail against it, And from there, teachers who were already in that institution, who were, let's say, inculcated in critical race theory, continue to teach it. | ||
| It's a bit inconsistent for an institution to sort of switch gears. | ||
| So I think it's, obviously, this probably didn't happen in Texas with this particular teacher, because schools in Texas, I imagine, aren't teaching critical race theory. | ||
| So I don't know about this particular case. | ||
| But for other schools and other states, I think it might be wrong to place the burden upon the teacher if the institution brought this to itself in the first place and then switched gears. | ||
| But isn't there a deeper problem, I guess, if parents hate this stuff? | ||
| If you have the average person saying, we don't want this for our kids, how is it that a school comes to be teaching this? | ||
| Well, that's a larger issue. | ||
| The institution not actually being in community with its parents and really not even caring about what parents have to say and the input of the parents. | ||
| And I think that probably goes beyond critical race theory. | ||
| And it's probably been an issue for a long time. | ||
| So you have a startup that teaches anti-racism? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But define your anti-racism because it's not the same as like Ibram Kendi's, right? | ||
| No. | ||
| So, Ibram Kendi defines racism as basically the presence of inequity. | ||
| So, he defines inequity as material outcomes between groups. | ||
| So, if there's a difference in outcomes between different races, then that's proof of racial inequity and that's proof of racism. | ||
| Whereas our understanding of racism is psychological. | ||
| We understand that racism or supremacist ways of thinking occur when an individual or group of people experience some kind of insecurity and then project that insecurity onto others in order to feel worthy. | ||
| And our approach teaches people how to practice dealing with themselves in a holistic, healthy way so that they will be less likely to overcompensate. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| So what do you think about critical race theory? | ||
| I know you're not a big fan. | ||
| I mean, I really don't think about critical race theory, I have to be honest with you. | ||
| And there are probably many different reasons for that. | ||
| You know, as I said, I've said this before the show, but I try not to be counter-dependent in my identity because that's also a form of dependence. | ||
| People tend to think that co-dependence is the only form of dependence, but actually counter-dependence is also a form. | ||
| So counter-dependence is when your identity is dependent upon countering someone else or something else. | ||
| I, you know, I'm not a fan of critical race theory because I'm not a fan of post-modernism. | ||
| I think that there's no transcendence at the heart of post-modernism. | ||
| I think that post-modernism has a point in that it critiques dominant structures in society which are susceptible to corruption just by nature of being. | ||
| But the problem is that it becomes parasitic and begins to eat itself and so there's no actual transcendence at the heart of it. | ||
| So I'm critical of critical theory in general. | ||
| But I don't really think about critical race theory because I'm just trying to get our anti-racism program out there. | ||
| If you avoid counter-dependence, why do you say you're anti-racist? | ||
| This is a great question. | ||
| I love this question. | ||
| Because we define racism not as another person or as an analysis of outcome, but as a state of being. | ||
| Racism is a defect in relational ways of being. | ||
| You're not relating to yourself properly and you're not relating Do you like meditation and stuff? | ||
| to be able to counter that presupposes adopting a set of practices, a kind of lifestyle. | ||
| And I think in that sense, it's less parasitic because at the heart of it, | ||
| where you're trying to reach is transcendence. | ||
| Do you like meditation and stuff? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, cool. | ||
| Well, how would you define racism then? | ||
| Again, for me, racism is a kind of relational defect. | ||
| uh... | ||
| Um, and it happens when a person is not in the right relationship with themselves. | ||
| So they're feeling a lack of self-worth or contempt or, um... But so like, how does that present itself in society, for instance, right? | ||
| So just to clarify, you have, you know, Ibram Kendi's view about unequal outcomes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You have the dictionary definition of prejudice or discrimination, positively or negatively, on the basis of race. | ||
| Yeah, I would say that we're more of that ladder definition, but we're also more interested in psychological underpinnings of what causes that prejudice, what drives that prejudice in the first place. | ||
| And where's that prejudice coming from? | ||
| From, again, a deep psychological perspective. | ||
| So like, if a guy was walking down the street in LA and He kicked a piece of the sidewalk that was up and busted his toe and was like, ah, who's supposed to fix these sidewalks and looks? | ||
| And it's like, I bet it was this race of people and looks. | ||
| And those workers in the city tend to be percentagely, mostly a certain race. | ||
| And then they're like, I knew it. | ||
| It's that race. | ||
| That person is not well with himself. | ||
| And then you'd have to go deep into their individual psychology. | ||
| Just like what happened to you when you were a kid? | ||
| Why are you blaming people for kicking? | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| There's something else going on here. | ||
| So here's my issue, right, with the reason why I do, you know, think critical race theory is bad. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Or, I should say, critical race... I mean, I also think it's bad, by the way. | |
| I'm just not... The reason I do focus on it is because I think it's overt racism. | ||
| Yeah, but again, that's the beauty of it. | ||
| That's what we ultimately tackle. | ||
| Because it doesn't matter whether you're black or white, you could be feeling some kind of weird self-worth issues and project, and it can manifest in different ways, but that's ultimately what's at the heart of it. | ||
| So in a way we're kind of addressing critical race theory also. | ||
| I love that! | ||
| Yeah, because when you think about these young people and their animosity and the things they project, you know, it's rooted in this misunderstanding of what race is and then a projected anger towards a certain race. | ||
| So when I look at critical race theory and applied principles, I think they're overtly racist. | ||
| They want, they certainly against Asian people who are a small minority in this country, but yes, also against white | ||
| people. | ||
| They blame someone else. | ||
| But many passionate critical race theorists are white. So what do you think is going on with that? | ||
| Well, I think it's a lot of these people, it's tribal. | ||
| So Ibram Kendi, for instance. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| His belief is basically that if there's a law or policy that creates an unequal outcome based on race, it's a racist, systemically racist policy. | ||
| Yet when it comes to New York's vaccine mandates, which disproportionately impact black people in New York, he's nowhere to be found. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because his whole thing is actually more, you know, I'll put it this way. | ||
| I would say, I think he believes a lot of what he says. | ||
| Yeah, I think so too. | ||
| I think he's sitting there going, yeah, but I'm not going to challenge this one instance where it's happening because the people who pay me also like that too. | ||
| I don't know, but what I'm wondering is, I get all that, but you just said critical race theorists are tribal and they're anti-white people, but a lot of the people who buy into this are white. | ||
| So what's going on there? | ||
| They're tribalistically espousing an ideology regardless of their own race. | ||
| And in fact, they say things like, as a white person, I recognize these things because they care more about what their tribe says than about who they are, what they experience, and what the actual problems are. | ||
| So what is their tribe? | ||
| Who is their tribe? | ||
| Who belongs to their tribe? | ||
| So in the culture war, it's very strange, but there is very overarching tribal factions. | ||
| There's the left and the right, but that doesn't actually get to the heart of what the factions are. | ||
| So Bill Maher is considered to be kind of in the left, but he's kind of in the middle of the culture war because he's very anti-woke. | ||
| He's very critical of the booster shots, but he despises Trump. | ||
| And so he's kind of in the middle. | ||
| On the right, you actually have liberals, people who are economically left. | ||
| So it's all scrambled. | ||
| Yes, but it may actually just be authoritarian versus libertarian in a large way, not completely. | ||
| Because you certainly have people on the right who are authoritarian, who are, you know, defying critical race theory, you know what I mean? | ||
| But there's like a big component of it is authoritarian versus libertarian. | ||
| It may have a lot to do with individualist versus collectivist, but again, not absolute because there are elements of the fringe far right, ultra, you know, Nationalists, they're collectivists to a certain degree. | ||
| So it really is hard to figure it out, but I would say it's kind of like yin-yang, you know what I mean? | ||
| It's not like there's two equal spaces that are opposing each other. | ||
| It's like they actually swirl around and have similarities and differences. | ||
| When I look at Kendi and I look at Rob and D'Angelo, Yeah. | ||
| but also just the democratic party there's something that's very you know | ||
| very obvious in that there's a substantive lack of principle substantial lack of | ||
| principles and you know to all shot shout out texas for instance for | ||
| instance they did the the the heartbeat bill | ||
| and all of a sudden we have people screaming my body my choice | ||
| OK. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Once again, I'll throw back to New York. | ||
| I'm like, yo, what about them mandating vaccines? | ||
| Because I'm pro-choice. | ||
| You know, even though I don't like abortion, I think it's bad. | ||
| And I agree with a lot of conservatives on their on their suppositions. | ||
| The problem is the government intervening for medical reasons. | ||
| And it's like a very scary. | ||
| Getting into nuance is difficult. | ||
| But I look at Texas and I'm like, yeah, I understand the exemptions. | ||
| I don't like having to go to the government for a medical, you know, something that has to do with a very serious, embarrassing, humiliating or troubling medical procedure. | ||
| I'm gonna say the same thing about New York City, but all of a sudden now I see this establishment and this like left | ||
| faction in the culture war has no interest in defending bodily autonomy or racist policy, which is the vaccine | ||
| mandate in New York City. | ||
| So when it comes to throw it back to what we were talking about, the overwhelming amount of white people who are anti | ||
| white. | ||
| I think it's mostly because they don't care about the ideas. | ||
| If they did, my buddy, my choice would mean Vax Mandate's too. | ||
| What they care about is just being part of a collective that vies for power. | ||
| It kind of, it makes me think of self-flagellation, like a religious, because we tend to talk about a metaphor like this sort of religion. | ||
| There's this lack of religion in society. | ||
| So we've kind of, some people have adopted a new faith and People would beat themselves on the back with whips and stuff as part of this self-flagellation. | ||
| Like, I'm suffering. | ||
| I'm so horrible. | ||
| Original sin. | ||
| I'm a sinner. | ||
| I must punish myself so that I'm not punished in hell or whatever. | ||
| And I think these people kind of have that same self-punishment mindset. | ||
| I don't know if this self-flagellation is just part of the human psyche that needs to be agitated from time to time or something. | ||
| I think there's a few different things. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Definitely. | |
| It's like working out, you know? | ||
| A few different things happening here. | ||
| Some of these people, the less prominent white people who are anti-white, probably don't | ||
|
unidentified
|
Okay. | |
| actually care, but they're scared. | ||
| They want to fit in. | ||
| There are several prominent activists who were always on the left, but the left as of | ||
| today is fundamentally different from the left of 10 years ago. | ||
| So my favorite shoutout is to Rap News by Juice Media. | ||
| They had a video 10 years ago, if it was end of 2010, where, oh man, it's almost 11 years ago now, where they say, you know, Hillary Clinton is bad, Alex Jones is calling out the commie Nazi fascists, the Democrats and the Republicans, the establishment are trying to turn back the clock on freedom of speech and all that stuff, and I'm like, wow, if you were to make that today, you'd be a Trump supporter. | ||
| If you said Hillary Clinton is bad and we need free speech, Julian Assange is good, | ||
| and Alex Jones is speaking the truth, that was 10 years ago. | ||
| That was the left. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So there's been this very serious shift. A lot of people all of a sudden are just like, | ||
| Jay Leno said it the other day. A story came out, Jay Leno said, | ||
| either you get in line with the woke or die. | ||
| Do you think that's true? | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| I mean, if you want to be Jay Leno and be on TV, yes. | ||
| Right? | ||
| We're lucky enough that there exists an economic space where this show can function. | ||
| But if the internet didn't exist, these conversations would be happening in secret. | ||
| But if the internet didn't exist, would any of this be happening? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| So, it's a double-edged sword. | ||
| But to be fair, something else would be happening, right? | ||
| War, for instance. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Iraq War. | |
| The lies in the media. | ||
| So it's factions emerge out of the chaos. | ||
| We narrowly avoided 1984 because we had the internet. | ||
| The whole like never ending war overseas where it's a different enemy. | ||
| And then now you're fighting a different enemy one day. | ||
| And all of a sudden, 20 years later, they're like, and now we've always been at war with your Eastern, you know, did you ever read 1984? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so we that would have been Afghanistan and Iraq. | ||
| But since we had the internet, we saw it all. | ||
| We're like, nope. | ||
| Just to mention, so the first group I think are people who are scared. | ||
| I shouldn't say the first group, but there's a group of people who are scared and they'll just be like, whatever you say, leave me out of it. | ||
| Then you have true believers who are just white people who are like, wow, I can't believe this is what, you know, has really happened and I'm woke, I've awakened to the world. | ||
| Then you have grifters. | ||
| I genuinely think Robin DiAngelo is a grifter. | ||
| You don't think she believes what she's writing? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| Okay, why don't you think she believes it? | ||
| I think fundamentally her ideology, at least the way she espouses it, is absolutely contradictory. | ||
| So if you are a white person who believes white people should step back... But plenty of people believe contradictory things. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Genuinely. | ||
| And so that's a cognitive dissonance where I will challenge someone's, you know, whether they actually believe something. | ||
| And boy, do people go nuts when they realize it. | ||
| One example of the difference between me and someone like that is I had been saying for a while that, I think if a business wants to mandate vaccines, depending on the scale of that business, I think it's actually fine because I don't want to impose my will on a mom-and-pop shop where it's like an older guy and he's like, look, I'm hiring two or three people. | ||
| I want them to be vaccinated. | ||
| I'm like, I don't want to infringe on the rights of just a regular working class dude. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Then, a week later, I said, it is the people of New York who are upholding the edict, making this happen. | ||
| If the regular people said no to the mandates, all of this would stop, and then I said, well certainly both of those ideas can't be true, so perhaps it's wrong for businesses to mandate their employees get the vaccine. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| As opposed to what we see with the, you know, My Body, My Choice people, where they completely just say, F you, I'm not gonna argue about New York, it doesn't exist to me, or they won't even bring it up. | ||
| Yeah, but I don't think that makes a person a grifter. | ||
| Not to be semantical. | ||
| I just, I, that doesn't make you a grifter. | ||
| I suppose, I suppose I can then say about D'Angelo is that based on what I've heard from her and seen from her, I just believe she's lying. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Like I do not feel that what she says is genuine. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| So fair enough. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, it's all trying to read people, I guess. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I think she had a hard, hard childhood. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I think that plays a huge role. | ||
| Elaborate. | ||
| Well, I read in passing somewhere that she, her father wasn't in the picture, abandoned the family. | ||
| She grew up in going from like moving constantly and also her mother was sort of incompetent and she dealt with issues of abandonment and identity issues at a very young age. | ||
| And I am like, I have almost no doubt that that is playing a huge role in, in all of this. | ||
| So it's possible she's just not that smart. | ||
| Or, and or, it's possible that she is spiritually suffering, and this is how it's manifesting. | ||
| High intelligence, but with a lot of pain. | ||
| That's a very dangerous recipe, too. | ||
| I don't think she displays high intelligence. | ||
| Anakin Skywalker. | ||
| Well, so how do you deal with that? | ||
| You have very prominent people, very wealthy people, and big institutions that are implementing these ideas at an ever-escalating rate of, you know, Well, I think one of the ways you deal with it is you guard yourself as much as possible from falling prey to some of the shortcomings and I guess blind spots. | ||
| But you don't do that simply by propositional exposition of facts, who's right, who's wrong, but you actually do it by recognizing the complexity of the human condition, your capacity to fall prey to that, your capacity to become susceptible to that way of thinking, and giving yourself the practices required to not fall prey to it, because it's so easy to fall prey to it, in a way. | ||
| What are some of those practices? | ||
| Meditation, for sure. | ||
| Shadow work, like Carl Jung's philosophy. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Shadow work is when you recognize what's triggering your ego. | ||
| Usually our egos are triggered by other people when they're doing something that we don't like, and that thing is present within us. | ||
| Now, there's a difference between saying to a person, your behavior is reckless, your behavior is problematic, and saying to that same person who engaged in that reckless behavior that you're trash. | ||
| Those are two very different things. | ||
| Once you start engaging in the latter kind of vocabulary, you set yourself up on a pedestal. | ||
| And you set yourself up as better than that person. | ||
| As if that behavior is foreign to you. | ||
| As if you're not capable of engaging in that same behavior. | ||
| And you've actually started down the path of supremacist ways of thinking. | ||
| In the literal sense, you think that you are supreme. | ||
| You think that you're superior to that person. | ||
| So you do shadow work by, you can do it in many ways, but one of the ways you can do it is noticing when your ego is triggered and recognizing how the behavior that someone else engaged in or the impulse that someone else is operating out of is also existing within you. | ||
| And you'll see that same behavior the next time. | ||
| You'll still say it's reckless and problematic, but your ego won't be triggered by it. | ||
| So you'll be less likely to other that person when you critique that person. | ||
| And then I would imagine your criticism will be more likely to be taken by them. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| They'll be able to receive it, more likely to receive it. | ||
| There's no guaranteed anything, but there will be more likely to receive it. | ||
| Sounds like we just need to replace CRT with philosophy in these schools. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Self-reflection. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, that's our motto. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| So instead, I think what we end up getting is too many people in the United States don't want to be involved in any of this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fighting is hard. | ||
| It's taxing. | ||
| And I think you can look to the animal kingdom. | ||
| Fighting is never the first choice. | ||
| So here's something interesting. | ||
| The aggression of an animal can be determined on where it lives or where it operates. | ||
| So burrowing animals, for instance. | ||
| When you encounter them in a burrow, they will fight you. | ||
| They're aggressive. | ||
| They have one dimension to move in. | ||
| So there's no escaping. | ||
| Birds don't attack you because birds can just leave. | ||
| And leaving is way easier. | ||
| So what ends up happening for regular people is that there are vested interests in spreading CRT and its ideology. | ||
| There's money to be made for sure. | ||
| There are true believers. | ||
| There are people who are scared of just going along with it thinking they'll fit in. | ||
| And then corporations say, look, this is what's on social media. | ||
| We think this plays well. | ||
| You know, we don't want to rock the boat. | ||
| And then it creates this social pressure where over time people are just like, I don't want a fight. | ||
| So they give in to the most aggressive ideology. | ||
| And that leads us down a very, very dark and authoritarian path. | ||
| But then that thing actually blows up in their faces. | ||
| And then they come call us. | ||
| No, but, I mean... In many cases. | ||
| They've brought in CRT into the staff, into the training of their people. | ||
| It wreaks havoc in the workplace. | ||
| And then they have to start all over again. | ||
| Do you have any specific examples? | ||
| Like a story? | ||
| You don't have to name the companies or anything like that, but do you want to give us an example? | ||
| I mean, I can just tell you, in general, we do demo interviews with companies all the time, and they report back to us. | ||
| It's a very simple script that they report back to us, and it's repeated all the time. | ||
| We brought in this very typical approach to diversity and inclusion training, and it did not go over well, and now we are trying to figure out what to do, and we heard you on some podcasts. | ||
| That is the life cycle, in many cases. | ||
| Just like what happened in specifically like like people were self segregated. | ||
| The diversity consultant told them to segregate themselves based upon race. | ||
| A lot of people don't like that. | ||
| Oh, yeah, that's standard. | ||
| That's standard. | ||
| The consultant tells them or just assumes the lived experiences of all these people based upon skin color. | ||
| A lot of people black and white don't like that. | ||
| So I wouldn't underestimate the amount of rumblings that may be happening in these companies, even though they're not necessarily, you're not necessarily seeing that on Twitter, but it's definitely happening. | ||
| That makes me laugh and it kind of makes me happy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like to hear that the things that we see as bad for the reasons we see it as bad are being reported back to you as that they are bad and they don't work. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And it's like, it's like vindicating. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But it's also cool that you guys can come in and kind of fix that. | ||
| Yeah, try to. | ||
| So what advice would you give? | ||
| How do you work with a company that contacts you? | ||
| So we have online courses, but we also have workshops. | ||
| Ultimately, we are a startup, and we're trying to get to the place where we can create a suite of practices for organizations. | ||
| So, you know, a one-time workshop. | ||
| And our workshops are pretty dope, I have to say. | ||
| But it's like a full-day workshop, and that doesn't translate into sustainable practice. | ||
| It's just not the nature of a workshop. | ||
| So what we want to ultimately do is get our stuff into, as of training, into the learning management systems of corporations so that when they're onboarding their employees they can use our practices, eventually be able to service them with some of our coaches who can check in to make sure they're doing those self-awareness practices throughout the months, weeks, quarters, etc. | ||
| So, ultimately, we want people to start practicing. | ||
| I mean, the emphasis is on the practice. | ||
| I had a conversation recently with someone who was talking about policy and they were like, we wrote a statement, because this is also very popular, as I'm sure you know, like, let's make a statement about how we are super anti-racist and we'll And I'm like, that's not a policy. | ||
| That's a statement. | ||
| A policy is a set of practices that an institution operates according to. | ||
| So we can have a long-term conversation about what those practices should look like, again, with the objective of affording that sense of self-awareness, not overcompensating for your insecurities, creating a culture of belonging. | ||
| We can actually talk about how to create those practices, but this is not a policy. | ||
| It's just a statement. | ||
| I remember that famous George Carlin sketch where he just goes on stage and says every single racial slur he can think of, and then he actually calls Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor the N-word, which like- Before my time. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I think it was like early 90s. | ||
| How old are you? | ||
| I'm 28. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh, okay, so maybe... | |
| I was probably too young to watch. | ||
| watchers. But it might have been like 94. | ||
| I was one years old. Right. | ||
| Exactly. But, you know, even even when I see that, I'm like, wow, I can't believe he would even jokingly say that about | ||
| these guys. | ||
| Yeah. But everyone in the crowd laughs. | ||
| Yeah. There was no big controversy over him doing it because the point he was making when he said it was that | ||
| you need to understand the person behind the words because the words themselves don't affect you. | ||
| Sticks and stones, etc. | ||
| So I made that up because I wonder, in a lot of these corporate settings, someone might say an off-color joke, you know, without the intent to actually demean someone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But then someone might get offended by triggering these sessions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I don't, I don't think that's what's triggering. | ||
| Primarily. | ||
| You don't think so? | ||
| No. | ||
| Like we've heard stories about people who are like, oh, I said a joke at work and now they're making me go to like a diversity training. | ||
| I think that companies are conservative and they're like, oh, we don't want you to sue us, so that's why they're doing that. | ||
| I don't think it's driven by any real thing. | ||
| No, I completely agree with you. | ||
| I just mean like, uh-oh, someone said a naughty word, we might get sued, quick, put them in a diversity training to protect ourselves. | ||
| Yeah, but I don't think, I agree, but unfortunately or fortunately, whatever, the end of critical race theory doesn't solve for that problem, because institutions will always be like that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Not to mention, CRT segregates people, which I think makes that worse. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it does make it worse. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh, good. | |
| Little fact. | ||
| Objectively. | ||
| George Carlin did that seven words you can never say on TV in 1972. | ||
| Oh, so I definitely was not born. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| On Class Clown. | ||
| I'm not talking about seven words. | ||
| That's the first album. | ||
| Oh, you're talking about something different. | ||
| I'm talking about in the early 90s, George Carlin has a routine where he says like a hundred racial slurs. | ||
| He repeated this act over and over through the years, and I think he developed it. | ||
| The bit he did on racism was, The word doesn't matter. | ||
| It's the racist a-hole behind the word you gotta watch out for. | ||
| Because he's like, I can say, and then he says, you might be a, and then he just starts saying racial slur. | ||
| That might be dirty words. | ||
| He's done a bunch of this kind of stuff. | ||
| It's not the seven words you can't say. | ||
| It is a bit from the early nineties. | ||
| And then he ends by calling Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy the N-word. | ||
| And I'm like, wow. | ||
| But so I bring this up too because I'm just curious as to the way, uh, I have people who make Asian jokes, you know, at me throughout my whole life. | ||
| And I think they're hilarious. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Because I know my friends are just like ribbing on me or, uh, the, you know, they're just making fun of the stereotypes and the absurdity and it doesn't affect me because I'm secure in who I am. | ||
| And I'm just like, oh, that's a funny, funny thing. | ||
| Like if there's a stereotype about Asian people and then I ended up doing something and then people point that out, I'll be like, ah, geez, you know, it's like, it's fun. | ||
| I'm only a quarter Korean, part Japanese and Korean. | ||
| But I'm curious as to what would your approach be in circumstances where someone might be like, someone made a racist joke, I'm upset about it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Honestly, that's my honest question. | ||
| It really depends on the context and situational details. | ||
| I do think it's interesting that they just took down the first episode of The Office. | ||
| It was the first episode? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Fact check me on that. | ||
| Yeah, which I saw coming. | ||
| I saw it coming. | ||
| Unfortunately, no one asked for this, but here we are. | ||
| Is it the first one? | ||
| I'm not pulling up Snopes on this. | ||
| No way. | ||
| Alright, so here we have it from Metro. | ||
| Are you a big fan of The Office? | ||
| Yeah, especially that episode. | ||
| Central removes Diversity Day episode from schedule. Are you a big fan of The Office? | ||
| Yeah, especially that episode. That is one of the most brilliant episodes of The Office. | ||
| So they say Diversity Day is the second installment of the first season, | ||
| second installment of The Office US, and follows Michael as he forces the | ||
| staff at Dunder Mifflin to undergo a racial diversity seminar. | ||
| A consultant, Larry Wilmore, arrives to teach staff about tolerance and diversity, but Michael insists on imparting his own knowledge, aggravating both the consultant and the entire office staff, and creates his own diversity seminar. | ||
| He eventually assigns each staff member an index card with a different race on it, causing tempers to slowly simmer until they finally snap. | ||
| So what do they say? | ||
| Comedy Central is removing diversity episode from the rotation is so corporate and stupid. | ||
| Why was it removed though? | ||
| They said they say it was taken down. | ||
| They don't really explain exactly why it was taken down or was there an official statement or anything. | ||
| Just says video unavailable. | ||
| Did you hear like why it was removed or what the reason was? | ||
| They say from time to time they'll not play certain episodes in rotation from time to time. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I mean I It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out why this is... Listen, maybe there's something we don't know. | |
| We can give them the benefit of the doubt, but I suspect it is the reason that we think it is. | ||
| That is a funny episode. | ||
|
unidentified
|
It's such a great episode! | |
| It's tough to say because when it comes to comedy, if you're making someone the butt of the joke, that in general is kind of hard for me to swallow. | ||
| I get kind of like... | ||
| Why would you hurt that person to get a laugh? | ||
| Michael Scott is a ridiculous human being. | ||
| That's the whole point. | ||
| You see an idiot making mistakes. | ||
| That's the point of that show. | ||
| And you also learn to fall in love with that idiot. | ||
| That's the whole point. | ||
| See, this is why I ultimately think so much that's happening with regards to critical race theory, broadly speaking, is going to lead to the death. | ||
| Well, hopefully not the death. | ||
| A suppression of art and the arts. | ||
| And we at Theory of Enchantment use the arts to teach everything. | ||
| So like if you enroll in our online course, we use philosophy and music and poetry and film to actually teach people our three main principles. | ||
| Because we know that the purpose of the arts is to remind people of the complexity of the human experience. | ||
| As opposed to, in my opinion, politics these days which reduces and stereotypes and caricatures human beings to one label or the other. | ||
| The entire purpose of the arts is to be expansive and so I'm not surprised if in fact this is the reason why that happened with the office. | ||
| I'm not surprised because that is the inevitable, that's the logical conclusion and what's ultimately ironic about this is that that means that a lot of things that are coming out of critical race theory or critical race theory light or whatever you want to call it are ultimately antithetical to the african-american ethos and that is one of the greatest scandals that no one is talking about what do you mean the african-american ethos what is that like so there's a great author albert murray who wrote this book the omni americans or alternatives to the folklore of white supremacy he wrote it in like the 70s or something like that he was this really dope jazz critic | ||
| And he talked about how within African-American culture there is what he calls a kind of idiomatic expression which he defines as impromptu heroism culture. | ||
| Another synonym of this is the hero's journey. | ||
| So if you're familiar with like Joseph Campbell or Carl Jung and that sort of thing. | ||
| And he talks about how in jazz as an art form and in There's this philosophy that affords musicians the ability not only to literally play with the music, but metaphorically, play with anything that life brings them. | ||
| Both the negative potential and the positive potential. | ||
| And that is a part of the artistic art form that is central to African-American culture. | ||
| And so once you start going down the path of the death of metaphor, the death of context, and all of these things, you're talking about the death of art, and you're talking about the death of something very central to African-American life. | ||
| I love this about jazz is because you'll start on a note, you're in a key, and you'll hit all the wrong notes that aren't in the right key, and then you'll end on the right note in the key, And that's like the hero's journey. | ||
| All the mistakes along the way and then you're- Which are necessary! | ||
| Which are necessary. | ||
| There's this recording I was listening to recently of Norm Macdonald. | ||
| He was on a radio show apparently with like a woke producer or radio host. | ||
| Or maybe she's just one of those people who's like, I'm just gonna say what I'm supposed to say because I'm on the radio and it went cancelled. | ||
| And Norm Macdonald, have you ever listened to this guy? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I mean, I know of him, but I don't think I've heard of him. | ||
| He's got this thing where he talks in a very slow and blunt way, and that's how he drives his comedy. | ||
| So he's talking to her and he goes, you two might get mad at me, but I'm quoting Norman Donald. | ||
| Oh no, is this one of these? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| He says, black people are poorer than white people, and poor people are dangerous. | ||
| And he was quoting information, right? | ||
| That's what he says. | ||
| And then the host goes, no, oh, whoa, whoa, you can't say that. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| And he was like, what do you mean? | ||
| And she's like, you can't say that about black people. | ||
| And he goes, you think black people are richer than white people? | ||
| No, no, I'm not saying that. | ||
| And he goes, poor people commit crimes. | ||
| That's what they keep saying, isn't it? | ||
| He's like, I don't think, I think systemic racism is a real thing. | ||
| And that means you, and so the way he said it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Shocked and offended people they started getting calls and people were calling in like you can't say that you know I went to school with two black people and they were they were way richer than I was and then he goes Yeah, and a guy in a wheelchair could probably be faster than me but if I said I'm typically faster than people in wheelchairs I'd be telling you the truth. | ||
| Yeah And so what I found really fascinating about what he said when he said that is, we often hear from the critical race theorists things like, systemic racism is a real problem, which creates generational wealth gaps, which results in a disproportionate amount of black people being impoverished relative to white people. | ||
| However, there are more white people who are impoverished. | ||
| Then they say poverty breeds crime. | ||
| And actually, my understanding is it's all true, right? | ||
| Crime isn't based on race. | ||
| It's based on poverty levels. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Circumstances. | |
| But when Norm Macdonald just says it that way, it actually made them argue against him because the way he said it was so blunt, it came off as kind of offensive or racist, you know what I mean? | ||
| I don't know, I was curious about it when you had mentioned something before the jazz thing came and kind of threw me off track. | ||
| That's what jazz does. | ||
|
unidentified
|
That's right. | |
| You'll be back though. | ||
| In talking about like, you're making comment about diversity trainings and like critical race theory and it's like removing... Arts. | ||
| The arts. | ||
| Fundamentally. | ||
| That is my biggest issue with it. | ||
| I guess the reason I wanted to bring up this Norm Macdonald thing is that I think it shows that there's something about the way you say things. | ||
| It's less to do with what the idea is for a lot of these people who are claiming to be, like, anti-racist or whatever. | ||
| That the way Norm Macdonald could come out and say this offended people. | ||
| So you think if he would have said it differently, it wouldn't have offended people? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I think if Norm Macdonald said, you know one of the challenges we face is systemic racism, which has resulted in a disproportionate amount of the black community being impoverished. | ||
| And then you find that racists blame them when the poverty leads to crime. | ||
| And people say, oh yes, I agree with that. | ||
| That's very intelligent. | ||
| But when Norm Macdonald, the regular guy, is like, says what he said, they're like, whoa, whoa, you can't say that. | ||
| And all of a sudden, like, their own idea brought back to them, like, from a mirror of a regular guy is all of a sudden now offensive. | ||
| But in a different form. | ||
| Is he intentionally offensive? | ||
| Does he aim, does he try to offend people? | ||
| Well, yes, but in this capacity, I think it's just who he is. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's like he's the kind of guy who's just gonna whittle it down very basically, and then he was kind of shocked that they were like, you can't say that. | ||
| No, he was like, what do you mean? | ||
| He's like, we say it all the time. | ||
| Like, what? | ||
| Yeah, that's interesting. | ||
| That's art. | ||
| I mean, they say often, I've heard, that people, when they think back, they remember how you made them feel. | ||
| They don't necessarily remember what you said. | ||
| Exactly, exactly. | ||
| There's another George Carlin bit where he talks about the changing of language. | ||
| He said, we used to say shell shock. | ||
| That when people go to war, they would come back with shell shock. | ||
| Wait, I think I remember this. | ||
| I think I've seen this one. | ||
| And then he's like, now we say post-traumatic stress disorder. | ||
| And that's interesting because the way you say something could be offensive to someone regardless of the idea you're trying to convey. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| It also depends upon that person's state of mind, which is why it's complicated to put all the onus on the person who is presumably giving offense. | ||
| It could be that a person is actually empty inside, and so because they're empty inside, they will take everything to offense because they have low self-esteem. | ||
| I think we see that very prominently among the woke, the establishment left. | ||
| I think they're very insecure, and that's why they tend to be more collectivist. | ||
| Do you think more insecure people are collectivists? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yes. | |
| What's the relationship between collectivism and insecurity? | ||
| Finding validation from someone else instead of themselves. | ||
| Well, but let me ask you this question. | ||
| Don't you think there's a hyper-individualistic problem within America? | ||
| Or do you think that? | ||
| So I'm trying to see what the balance is between hyper-atomization of the individual and collectivism. | ||
| So I would say, I think there is a problem with individualism in the United States. | ||
| And it forms itself in that nobody's willing to stand up for a common set of values. | ||
| They're like, look, I can't lose my job. | ||
| I'm not going to speak up. | ||
| And that results in, you know, kind of chaos. | ||
| If you have, you know, an element of what we would refer to as the left and the culture war, that are absolutely willing to just say whatever the tribe says even if the you know the change of the wind or whatever like one day they're making fun of asian people the next they said stop asian hate yeah yeah and they started canceling their own activists because a year ago it was okay to hate on asian people and call them white adjacent right and so for them their willingness to stand up and speak up and yell no matter what because they seek validation from others results in them gaining territory in institutions | ||
| I guess what I'm wondering is though, Reinhold Niebuhr has this wonderful quote in one of his essays, I forgot the name of it, everyone should read Reinhold Niebuhr though, he's awesome, where he says, man needs liberty, but also man needs community. | ||
| And there will always be a tension between those two. | ||
| So I'm just wondering what, where does community in and collectivism begin for you? | ||
| Um, collectivism in my critique is more about disregarding fundamental principles and values for the sake of just fitting in. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Finding your value in someone else because you don't find any within yourself. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I think I would say something like, hey, here are the things that I believe in. | ||
| I believe there's, you know, intrinsic rights that human beings have no matter what, even if you try to take them away. | ||
| And I think we should protect those rights. | ||
| But I also recognize at a certain point, we have to have common missions. | ||
| One of the big problems we have in the United States is actually the right has lost their sense of collective in a lot of ways. | ||
| And the left has lost their sense of principle. | ||
| You know, so now it's just like, People on the right don't protest. | ||
| They've started to more so in recent times, but it's still typically the same groups and not the average person who finds themselves on the right, as it were. | ||
| The left protests for anything, even if it makes no sense. | ||
| Like when Antifa comes out and says, we're against fascism, but then actually beats people in defense of state mandates, which is like, what? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Because they'll come out for anything! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, I don't know, I think, obviously, one of the greatest times in American history, like the space race going to the moon, we had a national mission. | ||
| We all came together, we all believed in it, and now we have lost social cohesion. | ||
| The left has some kind of weird social cohesion, but it's not rooted in... I don't know about that. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I mean, you know the way I... I wouldn't call that cohesion. | |
| Maybe that's fair. | ||
| Maybe that's fair. | ||
| But they are connected somehow. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like they follow... It's a swarm of bats. | ||
| I think much of it is superficial. | ||
| I think a lot of it is superficial. | ||
| I don't think it's like... I think you like strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter sort of thing. | ||
| On the left? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I went to a Black Lives Matter protest last year in Brooklyn and I held up a sign that had a Kendrick Lamar quote that said on it, a fatal attraction is common and what we have common is pain to try to spark a conversation about how in many cases the same fears, traumas, what have you, that communities are | ||
| experiencing also exists within the police officers that are policing those | ||
| communities. | ||
| So, but that didn't actually spark any conversation. | ||
| But what I did notice was that there was no actual spiritual underpinning. | ||
| Uh, people knew what they didn't want. | ||
| They didn't know what they wanted. | ||
| And so that was not... I mean, yes, I met people who have become my friends, for sure. | ||
| But that was not, for example, in comparison to the civil rights movement, something that created actual sustainable community. | ||
| So I'm curious. | ||
| I would question the stability and sustainability of some of the movements today. | ||
| I question whether or not they actually know what they don't want. | ||
| Well, that's fair. | ||
| They claim to know what they don't want. | ||
| I'll say that. | ||
|
unidentified
|
that I talk about a bit is they claim to know what they don't want. | |
| I'll say that right. | ||
| Well, they claim sometimes claim to know what the solutions are. | ||
| Abolish the police or defund the police. | ||
| They clearly don't want that because then when the police show up and arrest their political | ||
| opponents, they cheer for it. | ||
| One of the things I think we see that I bring up often, what the root of the culture war, | ||
| in my opinion, or one of them was how algorithms were feeding people shock content for money. | ||
| And so what happened is, let's say you're 10 years old in 2009, and you get on Facebook, even though you're not supposed to because it's for 13-year-olds and up, but kids are on it anyway. | ||
| All of a sudden you see in your Facebook feed a police brutality video of black men being beaten by a cop. | ||
| There were websites that were making millions of dollars posting nothing but police brutality videos because it's shocking and it gets clicks. | ||
| Outrage, yeah. | ||
| So now, you're 10. | ||
| You see these videos and you click on it. | ||
| So Facebook says, let's give you more. | ||
| Then, 10 years later, these videos have become dominant because it made so much money for people that now there's someone who's voting who genuinely believes the world is nothing but police hunting down black people. | ||
| Their whole worldview is built upon this fictional reality of these extreme instances that are actually exceedingly rare. | ||
| They're bad and we should stop them, no doubt. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But exceedingly rare, then they show up at a protest and quite literally verbatim they say, police are hunting us down. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And if you try and tell them like, hey, that's not true. | ||
| They get angry, they get violent. | ||
| And then how do you calm someone down whose whole life has been built into this broken worldview? | ||
| Well, that's not the space, first of all, to try and calm someone down. | ||
| For sure, but I don't mean, like, go to a protest and walk up to somebody who's angry and screaming and say, hey, you're wrong. | ||
| I mean, like, even my friends, where it's like, I've been, I would hang out at their house and I would say things like this, they'd be like, you're wrong, you don't understand, and I can't believe you would say this stuff. | ||
| Like, I thought you, I can't believe you're a racist. | ||
| And I'm like, dude, why are you getting angry? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I'm not mad. | ||
| I'm just, these things are reality. | ||
| Well, I think it's... I don't know. | ||
| You might be having an overly cerebral response to an emotional expression... form of expression. | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| And I don't think you will... that doesn't match. | ||
| Those two will never match. | ||
| You need an emotional expression to respond to an emotional expression. | ||
| For the right balance of cerebral and emotional. | ||
| Here's the challenge I face with this. | ||
| So when I used to do nonprofit fundraising, canvassing, stuff like that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Oh, hands down, I knew absolutely the emotional pitch was always better than the factual pitch. | ||
| When I was working for a homeless shelter, I didn't go up to people and say, did you know that 17 children per day are found blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And if we work together, the average annual budget of the homeless shelter will come. | ||
| Nobody cares. | ||
| But if I said, yo, We had a kid last night. | ||
| His parents both died in a fire, and now he's sleeping in the ditch. | ||
| I want you to think about that for two seconds. | ||
| Like, what is that? | ||
| Could you imagine not having parents? | ||
| And then they'd be like, oh my jeez, what do I gotta do? | ||
| The emotional was always better, but you know what? | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because it's disingenuous. | ||
| Why is it disingenuous? | ||
| When you're honest with someone, you can be nice to them, you can be compassionate, empathize, and say, I am going to lead you to water, and I'm gonna be nice about it. | ||
| But if you've got someone who's like, fervently locked in a worldview over a decade of believing that cops are hunting down black people, and you try to say to them, you know, listen, I understand these things are horrible. | ||
| I would like to help you in stopping them from happening. | ||
| I would also like you to consider that, you know, these instances are exceedingly rare. | ||
| And though we definitely should focus on fighting them, we should try to do it from a level-headed perspective. | ||
| And they'll be like, no, you're wrong. | ||
| You're wrong. | ||
| I see the videos all the time. | ||
| I go on Reddit and it's nothing but these videos. | ||
| You're trying to downplay. | ||
| But why should your reaction be dependent upon theirs? | ||
| Meaning, just because they're maybe lost in a worldview, you're not changing your reaction because they're going to be stuck or paralyzed. | ||
| You're changing your reaction or you're responding in a way that's empathetic because you believe in empathy. | ||
| You're responding in a way that's compassionate because you believe in compassion, not because You say, oh, well, compassion didn't work, so I'm just gonna throw it all out, throw my hands up. | ||
| Imagine trying to tell someone 2 plus 2 equals 5. | ||
| I don't think that's a good comparison. | ||
| Telling some- I think you're comparing, like, a mathematic equation to, like, things that fundamentally involve human beings, and which goes beyond the abstractions. | ||
| I'm not talking about the equation, I'm talking about the reaction people would have to being told something that they hold is fundamentally true, and you're contradicting it. | ||
| Okay, fair enough. | ||
| So I think if you look at a person like Daryl Davis, the guy who successfully got dozens of members of the KKK to leave the KKK, right, by going to their rallies and being literally in community with them, his approach was not simply to go up to them and say, let me tell you why you're wrong. | ||
| His approach was to genuinely, deeply listen to them. | ||
| and to hold space for them for the purpose of holding space for them. | ||
| This is tricky. | ||
| Not for the purpose of convincing them that they were wrong. | ||
| They just so happened to be convinced that they were wrong by the mere presence, continuous presence. | ||
| But he wasn't simply spewing facts at them. | ||
| He was choosing to be in community with them, and that's not a purely cerebral, fact-based approach. | ||
| You are correct. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I did an event with some friends. | ||
| We had Daryl Davis speak, and you're absolutely correct on that. | ||
| There were instances where he did challenge them, though. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Sure. | |
| Because being their friend, he would... Right! | ||
| He could challenge them, you know. | ||
| At a certain point, the challenge is no longer a threat to your identity. | ||
| But you have to pave that road first. | ||
| I think you're absolutely right. | ||
| I think we should just try to have more friends who we disagree with and just invite them into our spaces. | ||
| It is difficult. | ||
| It's extremely difficult. | ||
| But again, this is the key. | ||
| This is the hard part. | ||
| Not inviting them in order to persuade them to change their mind. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, just invite people to be friends. | ||
| Just in the spirit of fellowship. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, the challenge is, though... | ||
| I think when you look at someone like Daryl Davis, there's a certain kind of realization about who those people were who were nasty and racist, because not all of them were converted. | ||
| A lot of them were converted. | ||
| And the people who were converted were the people who weren't necessarily true believers, but they were in a community and they just held things to be true because that's all they ever heard. | ||
| Many of the guys that Daryl Davis met with never even met a black person before. | ||
| And so when they were like, oh, I know about this, but they weren't like evil. | ||
| So they were like, by all means, you can, I believe in freedom and you can talk and say what you want, but I hold these views. | ||
| And then they realized a lot of those things weren't true just by talking to them. | ||
| One of the challenges is there's an, when it comes to like the wokeness and the culture war, you can't even get through to these people. | ||
| You, let me tell you something. | ||
| When we, we did this event in, uh, it was in, it was in, I can't remember the name of the town. | ||
| So I lived in I used to live in South Jersey, okay, and we there was this little theater Just it's about an hour outside of Philadelphia at the very last minute Self-proclaimed anti-fascists threatened to burn the theater down because we were holding an event called Ending Racism, Violence, and Authoritarianism. | ||
| We had an array of speakers, libertarians, conservative, we had no identitarian speakers, either left, actually no, we had some progressive, you know, CRT activists, we invited them, but we didn't invite any right or white identitarian types. | ||
| Daryl Davis was the headline speaker. | ||
| He was one of our huge fans. | ||
| It's an amazing story. | ||
| And they threatened to burn the theater down. | ||
| We had booked the thing almost a year in advance. | ||
| The manager was like, don't worry, we've had Ann Coulter here before. | ||
| We can deal with protest. | ||
| He couldn't deal with the violence. | ||
| So he terminated our contract and said, we will not welcome you in. | ||
| If you come, we will call the police to have you arrested. | ||
| And so he was like, sue me. | ||
| And there's nothing we can really do. | ||
| We moved the main event to a casino on the other side of the river which cut our capacity in half and did cause us financial damage. | ||
| People weren't able to buy tickets. | ||
| But we had the event. | ||
| We had Daryl Davis. | ||
| However, a very brave couple Or, I'm sorry, they had divorced a very brave man and woman who had a bar across the street, refused to cancel the after party in the face of threats and violence and protest, and we told them, like, we are here for you, we got your back, we, you know, don't worry, we will take care of you no matter what happens, like, we're in this together. | ||
| And they said, we're having the after party. No one's gonna bully us. We know who you are. | ||
| We know who Darryl Davis is. We're we're proud. We agree. | ||
| And this is insane. Antifa and CR like, you know, woke activists, Black Lives Matter showed up. And | ||
| Darryl Davis. This is the craziest thing. | ||
| thing. | ||
| A black man who walked into Klan rallies, shook the hands with white supremacists and converted them, walked across the street to Antifa, and they all started screaming Nazi at him. | ||
| And they wouldn't let him speak. | ||
| He ended up posting on Facebook a very viral post where he said, I am shocked in all of my efforts meeting with white supremacists as a black man. | ||
| They have at least given me the chance to speak, to have the conversation, to become friends. | ||
| But by simply walking across the street, they won't even let him talk at all. | ||
| The mob is not an individual. | ||
| We're going back to this individual versus collectivism thing. | ||
| It's crazy when a mob does that. | ||
| I guess what I'm trying to emphasize here is there's something fundamentally different about what's going on now versus... I disagree. | ||
| I mean, I knew that that is what you were saying, but I mean, I feel it's necessary that our mind people of the civil rights movement and of the circumstances of the civil rights movement I mean churches were being bombed and Ruby Bridges had to walk to school where white people were yelling racial slurs and coming to her with literally ropes around a black doll's neck to tell her that they wanted to hang her and schools were being threatened with all of the very similarly and so I disagree with this notion that | ||
| Woke fervor is somehow radically different from, say, the things that were happening during segregation in the Jim Crow South. | ||
| I mean, I think it's just not objectively true. | ||
| And, you know, you brought this point up earlier about history. | ||
| I think we tend to forget how intense that was. | ||
| And equally intense and philosophically undergirded the response to it, and it needed to be because of the intensity of the circumstances that many of the civil rights leaders found themselves in, but it was absolutely similar, if not worse, to everything you're describing. | ||
| But in this story where, you know, you reference Darryl Davis and his ability to go and talk to... Sure. | ||
| But the Klan is in disarray and... Sure. | ||
| It's in a weakened state, they have no strong tenets, and so it's very different. | ||
| So the stronger argument is the civil rights movement. | ||
| But then you mentioned this young woman who had all these white people screaming at her. | ||
| Do you think she could have walked up to one of them and shook their hand and said, we ought to have a conversation? | ||
| I don't think that the proper thing to do, strategically, is to try to go shake- like, when people were protesting segregation in the Jim Crow South, they weren't going up to white supremacists to try to shake their hands. | ||
| No, I mean like if you went to a white rally, like a Klan rally, and they were saying, don't allow- No, because I'm saying that at that time, at that time, the circumstances were similar to what you're describing with Antifa. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| So we agree? | ||
| Yes, but you said it's very hard to persuade these kinds of people, but I'm saying the civil rights movement, the philosophy of the civil rights movement understood that what was at bottom fundamentally of what these racist people were doing was a lack, a vapid lack internally that they were | ||
| projecting onto the other. | ||
| And so the entire point of the nonviolent movement stemmed from this understanding that | ||
| even as I protest you, I know that you are my brother and that you are my sister and | ||
| I'm not going to do you harm. | ||
| And that moved the culture fundamentally. | ||
| Not only because of the visuals of that, but again, the philosophy was deeply spiritually rooted. | ||
| And so I'm saying that is precisely the kind of response that is required in these days and times. | ||
| We've had a few leftists on this show, and it's very difficult. | ||
| For a few reasons. | ||
| It's not just about fundamental disagreements. | ||
| Some people just want to exploit the show and potentially cause it harm, and we watch out for that. | ||
| So we might book someone who'll come on and then starts breaking all the rules on purpose and trying to get us banned. | ||
| That's wild. | ||
| Oh, yeah, there are people who have tried to exploit the show and we're like, I know their game, we're not gonna, you know, because they don't like us. | ||
| And I think the other is there's a fear of, I guess, excommunication, cancel culture. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So there have been instances where people are like, look, I'd love to come on the show, but I just can't deal with that | ||
|
unidentified
|
Sure. | |
| kind of heat. | ||
| And other people have dealt with this, too. | ||
| Very prominent figures on YouTube in the culture war have their guests get harassed relentlessly for coming on. | ||
| And it scares them away and say, I can't do this. | ||
| But we have had a few different leftists on the show who've been willing to come on. | ||
| And we're absolutely, I thought they went very, very well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know if we can say we're, you know, we're friends because I wouldn't want, I wouldn't impose it on them. | ||
| But I thought we got along swimmingly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And we've had Vosch friends on the show a couple times. | ||
| And Ian's a big fan. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| He's a big fan of me, he's a big fan of Ian also. | ||
| He's a big fan of Ian. | ||
| Well, you're both fans. | ||
| Yeah, he's a big fan of Ian. | ||
| And so I actually, I've, I've, I've really enjoyed, uh, you know, Vosh, you know, | ||
| coming on, he's a socialist. | ||
| He's very left. | ||
| He was pro Biden. | ||
| You know, a lot of things I disagree with. | ||
| Um, he's, he's, I think it's fair to say he's pro CRT and all that stuff. | ||
| And you know, what happens is after the show, we're talking D and D and video | ||
| And that's always what happens. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| It's like, hey, you know, like, we're not... You might notice we have this poster here back there. | ||
| Shout out to Brent Lengel of Snow White Zombie Apocalypse. | ||
| So we argue on Facebook all the time. | ||
| And he's a lefty guy. | ||
| And I'm like, kind of, but I'm not authoritarian. | ||
| I'm very libertarian. | ||
| So like policy comes second to freedom to me. | ||
| And, uh, you know, he put up a Kickstarter for this and I was like, I thought it looked really cool. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I was like, I liked the art. | ||
| I thought it was fantastic. | ||
| So I was like, I'll, I'll, I'll pitch it for this Kickstarter. | ||
| And I posted about it saying, look, me and this guy, we argue all the time, but I have no animosity or hard feelings towards him. | ||
| I actually enjoy, you know, having these discussions and it's never, uh, I think in this instance, we're not screaming at each other and insulting each other because we're good people. | ||
| And there are bad people on Twitter who just want to say nasty words. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But my point was like, if we focused on the things that we had more in common, maybe we'd actually better understand each other on the things we don't have in common. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Or actually just learn how we can live together to get through these certain things. | ||
| But I gotta tell you, it's really, really challenging with a mainstream media apparatus that would say something like, Joe Rogan took horse medicine. | ||
| That kind of stuff, the example I always use, sorry audience for beating a dead horse. | ||
| No pun intended. | ||
| Democrats believe the economy is good. | ||
| Independent voters and Republicans believe the economy is not good. | ||
| Oh, I saw you posted this. | ||
| You tweeted this. | ||
| Yeah, it is objectively true the economy is not good. | ||
| I suppose there's some metrics where you could, like, isolate one specific thing, like, well, the unemployment rate went down by 0.2%. | ||
| Yes, but that doesn't make a good economy. | ||
| When you have 500,000 below-expectation jobs, how is it that Democratic voters think the economy is good right now? | ||
| I mean, New York businesses are losing money because of the mandates. | ||
| They're speaking about it, they're complaining about it. | ||
| Major shortages, price increases. | ||
| It's just bad. | ||
| I mean, we had record job openings. | ||
| 10.1 million last month. | ||
| And then we only filled 235,000 when they expected 800 or whatever. | ||
| Like, we still have a massive, we have mass resignations. | ||
| People are quitting their jobs. | ||
| But people live in the matrix. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So that, what makes it really, really difficult is when you try and even invite someone to come on. | ||
| And they're like, I'm not gonna go on a Nazi show or something because the media said bad words. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you gotta take it all in stride. | ||
| But how would you navigate? | ||
| I agree with you on a lot of what you said about meeting people as just a person, not for the sake of winning or persuading, but how do you navigate people who are constantly inundated by lies and deception to keep them away from you? | ||
| You understand that you are not and cannot be omnipotent, and you cannot control everything, and you accept the good and the bad, and you roll with the punches. | ||
| But what if you're trying to make sure and you're like, I mean, look, it's, I suppose I agree. | ||
| Stoicism. | ||
| But it might be a bit pessimistic. | ||
| Like as if to say that I'm watching a building fall down knowing there's nothing I can do to stop it. | ||
| You see, that's very interesting because I do think that I'm pretty optimistic. | ||
| And I know there are no guarantees with anything, but I do believe in culture. | ||
| I actually believe in culture these days far more than I believe in politics. | ||
| And I think that the culture is actually far more robust and gives us the space to have conversations with people with whom we disagree and And I think that maybe if you, in addition to meeting | ||
| people in order to get to know them and things like that, leaned into the culture more | ||
| than the politics, I would be curious where that would get you in terms of how you | ||
| perceive others and how others perceive you. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| You know, so we have the Castcastle vlog, which is the next, it's the latest show that | ||
| we launched. | ||
| We've got a couple of other shows we're launching. | ||
| One's going to be like Mysteries. | ||
| We've done like recordings of it and we're doing music and editing and stuff. | ||
| It's gonna be fun. | ||
| And the reason we started doing the vlog, there's two big reasons. | ||
| One is like, man, the new stuff we do is so negative all the time. | ||
| I know like Ian points it out. | ||
| It's like, all we do is highlight this bad stuff. | ||
| And I'm like, we got to highlight fun, good stuff. | ||
| Yeah, and so the vlog is like we have baby chickens. They're cute. They are they're growing up | ||
| They're getting big and now they're looking goofy because they're in that puberty stage where they have some feathers, | ||
| but not Really weird. Yeah, and so the goal of the vlog is just to | ||
| be like fun and inspirational for sure building culture That's dope | ||
| and I one of the complaints I have about the | ||
| Republicans because I you know, I I think I think we used to have a uniparty the Democrats are Republicans were like | ||
| the same thing Yeah, then the you know, the right-wing populist kind of | ||
| busted in the Republican Party But the Republicans still very much think the path towards | ||
| victory is like appointing judges. Yeah, I I think Trump supporters understand that's not the case. | ||
| It's the cultural institutions. | ||
| That's going to shape the future. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And what are the cultural institutions? | ||
| The Apprentice. | ||
| That was one of them. | ||
| The Office. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| The Office. | ||
| So TV shows, for example. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| And film. | ||
| Colleges. | ||
| Colleges. | ||
| Media. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Man, I've been watching reruns of 30 Rock. | ||
| You ever watch 30 Rock? | ||
| I literally just restarted watching 30 Rock. | ||
| That is uncanny. | ||
| Maybe Netflix just, like, recommended 30 Rock? | ||
| I was thinking about it for some reason. | ||
| It's the first show I watched when I moved to New York. | ||
| And so, yeah, I love that show. | ||
| And it's a show that couldn't be made today. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And that's the issue. | ||
| You know, what really was like a knife in the heart was when I'm watching, I think it's like the third episode and Tina Fey, or no, maybe it's like the, I don't know what episode it is, but, um, Jenna is doing a photo shoot for Maxim and there's like loud noise and a fan or whatever. | ||
| And the guy interviewing her asks her about the war and she says something, but you can't hear it. | ||
| And he writes down, I hate the troops. | ||
| Oh, and so there's this big thing in a magazine saying that she hates the troops and Tina Fey is like, you know, | ||
| Why did you say that? I didn't say that he misheard me in those protests. But anyway, she says okay, you know Jack Donegay | ||
| He goes we're putting you on hardball with Tucker Carlson and Chris Matthews to debate this so good and then Liz says | ||
| something like Just say the war was started under false pretenses | ||
| and it was horribly planned and that you respect the troops and don't blame them for this and | ||
| And I was just like, man, where did that rhetoric go? | ||
| Where was that left? | ||
| Obama. | ||
| He came in saying he was going to fix it and then didn't. | ||
| And a lot of it got left. | ||
| The baggage got left in his garage. | ||
| I will just add to finish the joke because it was amazing. | ||
| She calls Tucker Carlson very attractive. | ||
| Because they would never allow that. | ||
| They would never allow Tucker Carlson to appear and be called attractive. | ||
| He was on MSNBC. | ||
| And she says something that's really funny because it's 2007. | ||
| She said, I think the government needs to hunt down Obama. | ||
| And that's why I'm voting for Osama in 2008. | ||
| And that's 30 Rock. | ||
| You couldn't get away with any of that stuff today. | ||
| It's such a good show. | ||
| That's insane! | ||
| No, but the reason why I'm optimistic is because it's starting to eat, like, so much of the art that we love, and I think that artists, like, will revolt against that. | ||
| We have to now, because if it gets eaten, and it's gone, they won't know that it existed in the first place, and then they won't be able to... So we gotta do it now. | ||
| But the artists are still alive. | ||
| Like, Steve Carell is still alive. | ||
| Yeah, but I mean, I understand Jay Leno's always been like an awful shill. | ||
| But he said, get woke or die. | ||
| I don't know why I wouldn't expect him to say that. | ||
| He would be the last comedian I'd expect to say that. | ||
| Look at Rage Against the Machine. | ||
| I don't follow them. | ||
| But you understand the name of it. | ||
| I don't know anything about what they said recently. | ||
| They have a lyric in a song, F you, I won't do what you tell me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Now they've become the band of, F you, you better do what they tell you. | ||
| Well, I think that's because we're moving through a liminal... I just want to give context because I think it helps us to empathize with people. | ||
| We're going through an incredibly liminal phase, stage, right now with the pandemic and everything on top of the pandemic, whether it's, you know, race relations, polarization, constant outrage from social media. | ||
| We're going through a liminal stage where people's rituals have been upended, where people have lost their sense of being connected and things like that. | ||
| And so we're dealing with an incredible amount of emotional scarcity. | ||
| And in a time of emotional scarcity, people become extremists. | ||
| It's like a law of human nature. | ||
| And so on some level, what's happening is like, It's horrible. | ||
| But on another level, it's also expected from like a 10,000 foot level. | ||
| And so the question for me is more, how can we adopt, sorry to keep reiterating this word, how can we adopt certain practices? | ||
| This is certain relational ways of being so that we can deal with this very difficult time. | ||
| And I think a lot of what you're seeing is ultimately a misdirected or misapplied flailing for air in response to many crises, whether that's identity crises, you know, pandemic related crises, all of the above. | ||
| Yes, I agree. | ||
| And I think that's why you'll see there's protests over masks, there's protests over gender, there's protests over race, and it seems like the culture war is a million things at once and one thing. | ||
| Like, there's a left and a right and they're fighting each other, but then you hear people like, oh, parents are protesting. | ||
| Which reason is it they're protesting now? | ||
| Why does the left have these tenets that are, you know what I mean? | ||
| It's like, it seems like there's a bigger overarching Yeah, it's an emotional vacancy. | ||
| I thought that was pretty insightful that you said that. | ||
| Yeah, like the scarcity. | ||
| There's a scarcity. | ||
| And so one thing I'll do is when I'm fasting, I start to get more in touch with my emotions. | ||
| I'll cry more. | ||
| Or if I take psilocybin, I'll cry more. | ||
| Like I get more real. | ||
| And then I'm able to feel other people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm sure there's something. | ||
| This obesity thing is terrifying, man. | ||
| It's hard to feel when you're stuffed with food. | ||
| I just have an idea. | ||
| I think we can solve the problem. | ||
| We need a monk, a shaman, and a priest. | ||
| To walk into a bar. | ||
| To walk into a school. | ||
| A grind bar maybe. | ||
| To walk into a school and have a serious conversation with a bunch of young students just about the great questions of life and humanity. | ||
| Everything that's going on fundamentally has to do with the great questions of life and hardly anyone is tuned into that. | ||
| That is what is at the center of all of this, I believe. | ||
| And I agree, we need some shamans up in here to, like, help us figure this stuff out. | ||
| But I was thinking, first and foremost, just like a straight-up shaman. | ||
| Because they could ask so many questions to people that would challenge their perceptions. | ||
| But I actually, before I even, I was thinking, I'm like, man, you know, because you mentioned psilocybin and stuff. | ||
| But then I was like, you know what, but a monk, you know, would also, and a priest, and a rabbi, and an imam, and like, a Buddhist teacher, I don't know, what do you call a teacher of Buddhism? | ||
|
unidentified
|
I don't know. | |
| I don't know. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah. | |
| But like, but having a bunch of different people of different, you know, backgrounds, | ||
| but with a background in the great questions of life, philosophy and theology, I think | ||
| would be profound for a young person to experience. | ||
| Welcome to the theory of enchantment. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Fundamentally. | ||
| I got, I got this feeling that illegal, making weed illegal has destroyed our culture. | ||
| It's been a hundred years, so we don't, it's kind of new. | ||
| And all these people, like people in jail, people afraid, getting paranoid when they're | ||
| using. | ||
| Something that already makes them paranoid? | ||
| You have cannabinoids in your brain like your brain's ready for it. | ||
| It's been part of our evolution for tens of probably hundreds of thousands of years, if not more, I don't know. | ||
| You think apes were smoking pot? | ||
| Yeah, or eating it, probably more likely eating it all. | ||
| And then they would like make big bushes of it and they'd all sit in a sweat lodge and light this huge bush of it on fire and just chill in the sweat lodge and get really hot. | ||
| No, I mean apes, not humans. | ||
| Apes probably were eating it back in the day and slowly evolved over time, got more intelligent. | ||
| Did you ever hear that thing about like apes ate mushrooms? | ||
| Um, I do think that the story of Adam and Eve is fundamentally a story about like two, like, it's the story of the development of, of self-consciousness among human beings. | ||
| And like the fruit that they ate were like mushrooms or something. | ||
| And then they saw themselves and then they were, uh, paranoid, which is why they were ashamed. | ||
| And that's what, but actually it was necessary to go, it's necessary to go through that phase. | ||
| Was it the fruit? | ||
| What was it called? | ||
| The fruit of knowledge? | ||
| Uh, the, the, yeah, the knowledge of good and evil. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Wow. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's just like... I think it's like a symbolic story about that. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I think you're right. | |
| That's interesting that people, you know, there are people who believe like, you know, some primates ate some mushrooms, started tripping out and like looking at their hands like, wait a minute. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| No, I actually think it's incredibly deep. | ||
| I think it's a deep and profound story, and I think it's more true because it's symbolic, not because it's literal. | ||
| I think the fact that it's a symbolic story makes it more true, not less true. | ||
| There's more likely lots of apes around the world were consuming psychedelics and kind of realizing that they were what they were over time. | ||
| And they wrote one story about it. | ||
| Well, it's interesting because like in the West, our tradition is Hebraic and Greek and Adam and Eve, whereas in the Far East, it's the Buddha. | ||
| But both stories, there's a garden involved and like, I actually think that like, just as an aside, I think that the Far East is in theory, like their wisdom tradition is more equipped to deal with abundance as a curse because the Buddha originally was a prince who was born into a palace and had everything and his father wanted to keep him from the truths of the world. | ||
| He's gonna get old, he's gonna die, he's gonna age and all these things. | ||
| So, you know, eventually he discovers this and this is the part of his path to enlightenment. | ||
| But I do think it's interesting that, like, many stories in different cultures across space and time have an origin story that takes place in the garden. | ||
| And it's this perennial idea of what happens when you discover that there is something outside of yourself. | ||
| People need, like, some kind of fundamental religion. | ||
| Well, what do you mean by fundamental? | ||
| Right, right, right, that's a good point. | ||
| I don't mean, like, fundamentalists, like, extremists. | ||
| I just mean, like, a base. | ||
| Very, very basic. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| I think people need wisdom traditions, for sure. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Okay, so maybe I shouldn't have said fundamental religion. | |
| Too close to the word fundamentalist. | ||
| I mean that they're never gonna it can never be taken away from them like they believe it no matter what It's it's the Substrate of reality of how they understand reality. | ||
| I think I grew up in a religious home Definitely beautiful also dogmatic in many ways very grateful for that experience because of where it brought me today, but I I at this point I'm seeing everything that's happening in the world. | ||
| I'm like my future kids will definitely be raised with some kind of wisdom tradition. | ||
| There's no way like it's gonna be like vapid or like purely secular. | ||
| It's just not happening. | ||
| My issue with A lot of atheists. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you can check out the discussion debate we had on religion. | ||
| We did a bonus segment with Sydney Watson and Elijah Schaeffer. | ||
| So I'm not saying this to be disrespectful to anybody, but a lot of atheists have a very, very limited understanding of great questions. | ||
| And so often they'll say something like, you know, I don't believe there's a bearded man in the sky watching over us. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't think that's what Christians or Muslims believe. | ||
| I think that's like, you actually haven't sat down and had a conversation with a theologist or experienced any kind of wisdom tradition as you describe it. | ||
| And so they have this like, I don't know, Diminished, or maybe that's not the right word, but very, very... Malnourished. | ||
| Yeah, that's probably a better word. | ||
| Maybe a misinterpretation of what God is. | ||
| You've got to kind of define what God is. | ||
| Lack of understanding in these great questions. | ||
| Because I think when you start to think about some of the... I remember when I was like 18, and I'm hanging out with my friends, and they were just stoned off their asses. | ||
| And I don't smoke, I've never been a smoker. | ||
| And it was one of the craziest conversations about time, the origins of the universe, religion... And you remember it! | ||
| That's the good part. | ||
| And then my contacts were in too long, and my eyes were getting bloodshot, so everyone thought I was stoned anyway, so I fit in. | ||
| No, but just asking these questions, and then someone pulled up a picture showing a linear Big Bang timeline, and then I started thinking about it, and just imagining the vastness of the universe, and then we were talking about how the known universe looks very similar to a neuron when we map out, and I'm like, Yeah, I was actually... But I bring that up because there's a lot of people who haven't had those tripped out conversations that make them... expands their mind's eye, as it were, to be like, why would I ever stop and think that God was like a dude with a beard sitting in a cloud? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I was thinking yesterday about individualism and collectivism a lot, and I'm like, I think I'm that what I write, I wrote on mines. I posted this, | ||
| that it seems like life is like a subjective experience. Each person is like life is for me and for you, | ||
| life is for you. But then I'm like, but I feel for like the slaves in China and like the kids | ||
| being trafficked around the world. So there's like, yeah, it's like I'm part of this greater | ||
| collective. | ||
| Like, really, like I am. | ||
| And that's what they call holism. | ||
| Holistic. | ||
| And there's a real belief like holism. | ||
| And then that's like, it coincides with the holofractic graphic universe that Nassim Harriman's been working on. | ||
| It seems like he solved Einstein's field equation and he shows, hey, the universe is connected through the vacuum. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So this collective idea is like, yeah, we're, we're definitely the same. | ||
| At some level, we're the same organism. | ||
| We're parts of the same organism, but it just depends on the scale that you're looking at it, I think. | ||
| You know what we need to do? | ||
| We need to take babies, and then, even when they can't talk or anything, have them just do five years of philosophy trainings and teachings. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yes. | |
| Philosophy. | ||
| Just hook them up to a neural net and... But, no, no, no. | ||
| Like, learn. | ||
| Having someone sit down with them and start very, very, with very rudimentary basics of, you know... I agree. | ||
| And positive reinforcement. | ||
| Obviously, I'm not saying go to a baby and pull up, you know, lock and start talking about liberalism. | ||
| No, I mean like, starting with a baby and just being with a baby and doing what you want to do. | ||
| If you want to instill some good philosophy in kids, tell them they're intelligent, tell them you're good at learning, and you're really good at that. | ||
| That is a deep belief, a religious belief, that you can instill in a human from an early age. | ||
| I just mean like, you know, asking questions of the things like, what did you see today? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Socrates. | |
| You saw a bird. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What did the bird look like? | ||
| What do you think about that bird? | ||
| Have you ever, have you ever, okay, where'd the bird go? | ||
| Did you see the birth? | ||
| You know, like, just very simple things. | ||
| And then once they're a little bit older and about to go into kindergarten and they're actually talking and they're learning basic math and reading, now you can start asking them more serious questions. | ||
| Like, where do you think I go every day? | ||
| What do you think happens? | ||
| Those are the kind of questions that will, like, make them think and imagine. | ||
| And then you tell them. | ||
| And then you can show them. | ||
| And then as they get older, you start laying on the deep, deep philosophy. | ||
| And I imagine if you did that, we would have an individualist nation that works as a collective when there's emergencies that needs to, that people trust each other. | ||
| My problem was learning about philosophies didn't make me philosophical. | ||
| It was smoking weed. | ||
| It was the THC and the self-introspection. | ||
| I was kind of philosophical anyway. | ||
| People be like, you got to read Jung. | ||
| You got to read this guy and that. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't care, man. | ||
| I am connected with God. | ||
| I'm experiencing it. | ||
| This is like a real thing. | ||
| And that was the philosophy coming out of me because of what I was feeling. | ||
| If you guys are really into this, you should check out the work of John Preveche. | ||
| If you're not already familiar with him, he's excellent. | ||
| He's a cognitive scientist out of University of Toronto. | ||
| And I've learned so much from him. | ||
| He has a podcast series on Spotify called Awakening from the Meaning Crisis where he goes through the whole history of the West from the end of the Bronze Age all the way up to like the 90s. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh man, I wonder if you want to come out. | |
| You should invite him. | ||
| He also has meditation practices that I follow. | ||
| They're free on YouTube, so anyone. | ||
| It's a progressive course, meaning he teaches a new thing every Monday. | ||
| Cool. | ||
|
unidentified
|
What's his name? | |
| John, what's his last name? | ||
| Vervaeke. | ||
| Vervaeke? | ||
| V-E-R-V-A-E-K-E. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He's excellent. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh, cool. | |
| I'm excited. | ||
| Yeah, he's excellent. | ||
| You know what's really funny? | ||
| It's because, like, I've never done any kind of really hard drug at all. | ||
| I drank a bit from when I was, like, 19 to 20, and then I was like... Drinking's dumb. | ||
| 19 to 20? | ||
| Like, for a year, I drank a lot. | ||
| It's a long stink, yeah. | ||
| Well, yeah, if you do that, then you're gonna hate it. | ||
| I was drinking when I was 18. | ||
| You know, I probably started drinking when I was 16, but not like a drunk, right? | ||
| I was like, my first beer, and then some parties when I was 17, and I'd get drunk, but I was never a heavy drinker. | ||
| And then probably like 19 and 20, it was like a party on the weekends, every weekend, and you just get drunk. | ||
| You get like a King Cobra. | ||
| Alcohol blows, dude. | ||
| It does, it does. | ||
| As a drug, it's one of the lowest, in my opinion, of value. | ||
| It's just legal. | ||
| But I've never, I've never, I've smoked pot a couple times. | ||
| I've never done anything else. | ||
| I have no interest in that. | ||
| I have no tattoos, no piercings. | ||
| Acid is very nice. | ||
| Yeah, I wouldn't consider it a hard drug. | ||
| If you do slow doses, those things aren't hard. | ||
| Alcohol is much harder. | ||
| But, I say this because I genuinely believe people, and well, I'll be careful about how I say it, but there are certain psychedelic experiences people have had that I think have greatly benefited them. | ||
| Specifically the research they're doing on, you know, like PTSD and other, you know... Molly with PTSD. | ||
| Yeah, MDMA. | ||
| And so I'm wondering if there is a very great benefit people would experience undergoing some kind of psychedelic. | ||
| There is. | ||
| And the fact that they made weed illegal in 19-whatever it was, 20-something, is terrible because now people don't understand it. | ||
| They don't know what the dosages are for it because a tiny, tiny bit is what you're supposed to do with that stuff. | ||
| Mike, you're going to do it. | ||
| Not a hit of it. | ||
| You don't burn and go... | ||
| And take this huge thing. | ||
| That's an overdose. | ||
| That's why things get all blurry and you're like, whoa, you're overdosed. | ||
| That's not intentional use. | ||
| How much of it are you supposed to take? | ||
| I mean, a tiny, tiny, I don't know the actual micro dosage. | ||
| You'd probably have to talk to a doctor. | ||
| There are like Silicon Valley people do this. | ||
| Yeah, they micro dose. | ||
| All day. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| It doesn't get you high. | ||
| I'm talking about medical research and the data we've got so far and I think it's promising and that's why I think this extended state DMT research is fascinating because I feel like this research could lead to helping people a whole lot with breaking down the barriers, the walls, their own insecurities and all that stuff. | ||
| Have you smoked DMT much? | ||
| No, I've never. | ||
| I puffed on it once. | ||
| It was pretty cool. | ||
| Take ayahuasca. | ||
| I'm one day. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh, you will. | |
| You have. | ||
| I will. | ||
| I will do. | ||
| I am planning on doing ayahuasca. | ||
| And that's the shaman stuff. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, that's the mother. | ||
| Like there's there's, you know, you go to these villages, you might find a shaman. | ||
| He's not gonna be able to tell you anything about calculus, rocket science. | ||
| Maybe, maybe, probably not. | ||
| Well, maybe it's a rocket scientist flight to South America. | ||
| But they can make for a dope TV show. | ||
| I'll tell you this, I remember when I was a teenager, when I was a kid and I was a teenager, that quote, the only thing, like true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing. | ||
| Yeah, Socrates. | ||
| When you finally come to understand what that really means. | ||
| Because you tell it- You would love John Fravici. | ||
| I'm telling you. | ||
| He's fantastic. | ||
| When you're younger- He talks about this all the time. | ||
| And you're so arrogant. | ||
| Not everybody is, but like for me, when I was younger and very arrogant, and I was like, that means that's stupid. | ||
| People are dumb. | ||
| They think they're so smart. | ||
| And then I get a little bit older and meet more people. | ||
| And I'm like, man, I'm so dumb. | ||
| I'm the problem. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Wow. | |
| I realized that in my twenties. | ||
| But it's funny because like, he's like, Socrates is trying to warn me, like, you're not being wise by thinking this. | ||
| And I'm looking straight at the quote being like, what a dumbass. | ||
| And then I'm like, later on, I'm like, man, he was so much smarter than me. | ||
| I'm so stupid. | ||
| Well, one of the reasons why some of these drugs are super cool is because they result in ego loss. | ||
| And the reason why people have a hard time thinking that they don't know everything is because their identity is attached to how much they know. | ||
| And their sense of self is attached to how much they know. | ||
| And if they have to wrestle with the thought, oh, I don't know something, does that mean my life is meaningless? | ||
| And then they go down this rabbit hole. | ||
| So that's ultimately like, that's why like acid is like a great drug because it affords you a sense of ego loss. | ||
| I also discovered fashion when I did acid. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| Fashion, like you got into doing fashion? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Nice. | |
| One of the reasons I've been a big fan of Jordan Peterson for a while was when he went on that Jim Jefferies show. | ||
| And he said, you know, he's like, I don't think that, you know, you should be forcing a person to say certain words and, you know, like telling them how they should run their businesses and who they should invite in. | ||
| And then he was like, but don't you think it was a good thing that they forced businesses and civil rights movement to desegregate? | ||
| And Jordan just went. | ||
| Yeah, maybe I was wrong about that. | ||
| Like, just very simply, like, oh, hey, good point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So many people would be like, what, how did, no. | ||
| It's just like, yeah, I see what you're saying. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Humble. | ||
| I'm like, that's, that's a sign of somebody who's actually thinking, listening, and not so concerned with himself. | ||
| He's more concerned with what is true. | ||
| What is the great, the great questions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In search of the truth. | ||
| And the answer, as we know, it is 42. | ||
| Yeah, of course, yes. | ||
| Wait, what? | ||
| Wait, what did you say? | ||
| The answer to the great question is 42. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, did you ever read that book? | ||
| No, why is everyone insisting that I read this book? | ||
| Maybe because you should. | ||
| He's wonderful. | ||
| In the book, they're like, what is the meaning of the universe? | ||
| They ask this giant supercomputer. | ||
| No, no, they said, what is the great question? | ||
| What is the great question? | ||
| Or what is the answer to the great question? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And the computer at the end is like, you didn't tell me what the question was! | ||
| But the answer is 42, according to that book. | ||
| So they make Earth as a computer, I guess to like, calculate the answer to the great question. | ||
| Already wrong. | ||
| Already starting off wrong. | ||
| I've not read the book, I've seen the movie. | ||
| I have never done either, but I played the video game. | ||
| So basically, in the movie, Earth is destroyed to make way for a superhighway, and they're given like, only like an hour's warning, like, your planet will be destroyed to make way for the galactic superhighway, we're sorry for the inconvenience, have a nice day, and then they kill everybody. | ||
| But then later, like, I guess later, I can't remember, like a group of aliens realize Earth was actually a special project to calculate the answer to the question, so they have to rebuild the Earth. | ||
| Remake it and everyone comes back and whatever. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| And then they go to the computer, what's the answer? | ||
|
unidentified
|
42. | |
| And they're like, what? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Like, you didn't give me the actual question. | |
| Is that how it ends? | ||
| It's a trilogy with five parts. | ||
| Oh, it is a trilogy? | ||
| It is a trilogy with five parts. | ||
| Wait, what? | ||
| Leave it to the British. | ||
| I think that's British comedy. | ||
| Douglas Adams, yes. | ||
| There's a couple other movies that I like. | ||
| I think it's called Anything Anytime with Simon Pegg. | ||
| Peg, yeah. | ||
| Is that what it's called? | ||
| I don't know that one. | ||
| Is it also sci-fi? | ||
| Yeah, it's like aliens... To decide whether a race they discover is worthy. | ||
| Absolutely anything? | ||
| Absolutely anything. | ||
| Grant a random entity on the planet absolute power. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| That's a great test. | ||
| So Simon Pegg just all of a sudden has the ability to do anything. | ||
| What would be the first thing you'd do with absolute power? | ||
| Give it away. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Me too! | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I wouldn't. | ||
| But give it to someone or just make it disappear? | ||
| And you would lose. | ||
| No, I wouldn't. | ||
| What would you do? | ||
| What's the first thing you'd do? | ||
| Ascend to a higher plane. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Perceive the universe from external dimensions and explore and just watch and understand and learn and try to learn whatever I could. | ||
| And then what? | ||
| See, here's the problem with your answer. | ||
| Give the power away. | ||
| Well, I would disperse it. | ||
| I would turn it to zero. | ||
| And all the power. | ||
| Yeah, you would disperse it. | ||
| When you say give it away, To whom do you give it? | ||
| For me, it's like, I'd just go to Mars. | ||
| I wouldn't interfere with anything. | ||
| I'd observe, I'd watch. | ||
| Your very presence would be an interference. | ||
| Why would it be? | ||
| Because it's physics. | ||
| If I have absolute power, I would phase out of sync with existence. | ||
| We're suspending physics in this hypothetical. | ||
| We'll suspend classical physics. | ||
| Did you mean like political power? | ||
| No, absolute power. | ||
| No, no, because we're talking about a movie where the dude can literally do anything at all. | ||
| God-like power. | ||
| Okay, can you define absolute? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Well, hold on. | |
| So it's in the movie, literally anything. | ||
| Absolutely anything. | ||
| So he can chill on the sun. | ||
| He can like... Well, I mean, you could burn your body alive, too, if you wanted. | ||
| I'll spoil the movie for you guys, alright? | ||
| He actually, so the aliens, you think the test is that they want to see what you do with absolute power. | ||
| And Earth fails the test because Simon Pegg ends up being a good guy who gives the power away and doesn't want to be this powerful entity. | ||
| And the aliens are outraged because of course the only thing someone should do with absolute power is cause pain and suffering and control and dominate. | ||
| And only a few races have ever actually used the galactic power in this way. | ||
| So then they try to destroy the Earth, but I guess, like, I can't remember exactly what happens. | ||
| He made his dog intelligent, and then the dog... He made his dog intelligent? | ||
| He gave the power to his dog, he didn't want it. | ||
| But then I can't remember. | ||
| Basically what happens is the power actually destroys the source of the power itself, and kills all of the evil aliens before they can destroy Earth. | ||
| Right, that's why you give it away. | ||
| Because if you don't give it away, it'll destroy you. | ||
| Like the One Ring? | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| If I had absolute power, I would just go to higher dimensions. | ||
| They would be coming after you. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Who would? | |
| The Nazgul. | ||
| They seek you through you. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know that far. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Have you seen Doctor Strange? | ||
| I love Doctor Strange. | ||
| It's one of my favorite Marvel films. | ||
| It is my favorite movie. | ||
| It's one of my favorites in the Marvel Universe. | ||
| Did you just watch the new What If? | ||
| The new What If? | ||
| On Disney Plus, there's a show called What If? | ||
| Oh, cool, what's that? | ||
| It takes the Marvel Cinematic Universe stories and says, what if in this universe X happened? | ||
| So in the latest one, they said, what if, oh man, I'm disappointed in this episode. | ||
| It says, what if Doctor Strange lost his heart instead of his hands? | ||
| So you would die. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| His emotional heart. | ||
| So here's what happens. | ||
| Guys, spoiler alert if you want to watch this. | ||
| Wait, wait, can we just flesh this out on our own and not? | ||
| Because if it sucked, then it's going to devastate me. | ||
| It didn't suck. | ||
| I just think they missed the best version of the story. | ||
| All right, let me break it down for you guys because, you know, I could fix all these movies. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| You have ultimate power. | ||
| Spoiler alert for those that want to watch What If? | ||
| I enjoy the show. | ||
| They could do better, but it's a good show. | ||
| This Doctor Strange episode, I'm gonna give spoilers. | ||
| Okay, so here's what happens. | ||
| In this version of the Doctor Strange story, for those that aren't familiar, in the movie, Doctor Strange is this egotistical, super famous neurosurgeon, and he's driving to get an award, and he tries to bypass a semi on the highway in a storm, and then, you know, there's an accident, he flies off the road, crashes, and his hands get crushed. | ||
| Now he can't work anymore. | ||
| So he spends all of his money trying to get surgeries, and then finally, once he's broke, he seeks out the mystic arts, and then becomes the Sorcerer Supreme. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| In the What If Show, Christine goes with him. | ||
| Christine, of course, is his love interest. | ||
| In the car accident, he survives and she dies. | ||
| Because of her death, he questions his life and decides to seek out answers in the mystic arts as to the nature of life and becomes Sorcerer Supreme and then saves the planet and everything as the movie goes. | ||
| But with the Time Stone, the Eye of Agamotto, he can go back in time and save Christine. | ||
| Huh. | ||
| But every time he tries, she dies in a different way. | ||
| She gets shot, a building explodes, something happens. | ||
| And then the Ancient One comes to the past, because he keeps interfering, and she's still alive in the past, and says, this is an absolute point in time that can't be changed. | ||
| If she doesn't die, you don't pursue the mystic arts. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And because you don't, Dormammu wins, and you can't exist. | ||
| Thus, in this universe, for it to exist, she has to have died. | ||
| So what happens is, Strange becomes evil. | ||
| He says, I will break the absolute point in time. | ||
| He becomes Darth Vader. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so in the end, he destroys the universe. | ||
| And you know what really busted me up? | ||
| The missed opportunity. | ||
| What is the missed opportunity? | ||
| First I'll point out, the reason I brought it, I want to bring it up is, the narrator of the show is the Watcher. | ||
| Love that guy. | ||
| He just watches. | ||
| So in all of these different What If episodes, you can see the Watcher in the background watching. | ||
| Oh, that's creepy. | ||
| But no one knows. | ||
| Cool Marvel character. | ||
| Because regular people don't have that understanding, but Doctor Strange does. | ||
| So Doctor Strange actually calls out the Watcher, watching him do it, and he says, you're a god, help me fix this. | ||
| And he goes, I am not a god, you did this to yourself. | ||
| And he goes, no, but you're here, you can help. | ||
| It was amazing to see him Be the one character who knew the Watcher was watching, because he's Doctor Strange. | ||
| He's an awesome character. | ||
| You know what really busted me up? | ||
| The opportunity was so good. | ||
| It was so good, and they missed it! | ||
| Let me tell you what should have happened, because I was like, oh, I think I know what's going to happen. | ||
| Christine dies, and no matter what he does, he can't save her. | ||
| It's an absolute point in time that sets him on the path to become Doctor Strange. | ||
| So in the end, he shouldn't have become evil. | ||
| He should have kept trying and he should have defied the Ancient One and said, no, I will never give up. | ||
| And the Watcher should have said, there is one universe in which Christine doesn't die. | ||
| It's the universe where you destroy your hands and your life and everything you're famous for. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| I got goosebumps. | ||
| And lose everything yeah, and then he says I will sacrifice everything | ||
| I am and I've ever achieved if it means she lives and then it kicks off the original doctor strange movie | ||
| Where he caused he caused his own hands to be destroyed gonna need to buy Marvel | ||
| I agree. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| No, that's totally, that should have been it. | ||
| Like he calls on the Watcher. | ||
| Instead of becoming Darth Vader, he would have become Jesus. | ||
| Can the Watcher do that though? | ||
| I don't think the Watcher can interfere like that, can he? | ||
| The Watcher does talk to Strange. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh, cool. | |
| And the Watcher is the one who sees all these universes. | ||
| And Strange could have said, please help me if the universe is being destroyed, and he says, there's nothing I can do. | ||
| And then the Watcher could have said, in one universe. | ||
| Does the Watcher ever give advice like that, historically? | ||
| I don't know. But maybe the one thing. So then maybe it's to always witness and never participate. | ||
| But like everybody, like, like Picard, you know, every once in a while you've been on, | ||
| but he still talked to Dr. Strange. So at the very least, it could have been that as things | ||
| are falling apart, he remembers what the ancient once said about being driven to the mystic arts. | ||
| And then he realizes he has to have a sacrifice that drives him. So he decides to sacrifice his | ||
| entire being in life, his hands, his work, his career, his wealth to save Christine's life. | ||
| And then he uses the agamagamoto one more time, and she's not in the car anymore, and then he crashes and destroys his hands. | ||
| She lives. | ||
| Yeah, you nailed it. | ||
| That would have been 100% nailed. | ||
| Because then it starts the movie off, and you're like, he did it to himself. | ||
| For a good reason. | ||
| But then, I have a question, though. | ||
| Doesn't that change the actual original movie? | ||
| Because in the original movie, he was in fact egotistical. | ||
| So wouldn't that be weird? | ||
| Because if he's really doing it, deep down, because he's not egotistical, No, no, no. | ||
| Like the driving and the thing happens when he's like in his egotistical state. | ||
| He would go back in time and set the path forward where he destroys his own life, erasing his timeline and creating a new timeline where he's still egotistical. | ||
| His hands are destroyed. | ||
| He still seeks out the answers and then comes to better understand reality. | ||
| Never knowing what really happened with the first iteration of Christine's death. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| So it's like a time loop that just ends itself. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I just thought that would have been amazing. | ||
| That would have been amazing. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah. | |
| You do need to buy Marvel. | ||
| Man, I think you gotta buy it, man. | ||
| Anyway, Doctor Strange, awesome. | ||
| Why are we talking about Doctor Strange? | ||
| Because I like Doctor Strange. | ||
| I forgot his... I forgot the connection. | ||
| I forgot the connection we were making. | ||
| Oh, because you cannot have absolute power and that was the whole point of that other movie. | ||
| No, the end of Doctor Strange. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Where he goes to bargain with death. | ||
| And the... Dormammu. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Uh, well, okay. | ||
| But his wise colleague says you always have to pay. | ||
| You always have something to pay. | ||
| And I think that's why you can't have absolute power. | ||
| The bill comes due always. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's legit my favorite movie. | ||
| I love Doctor Strange. | ||
| It's a great movie. | ||
| It's an incredible film. | ||
| I just love the idea of this narcissistic doctor who's like fundamental belief in science and then he discovers hidden meaning and truth after he lets go of himself and goes and becomes a monk and then becomes this great and wise hero. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm excited for the new Spider-Man movie because he's like the main... Oh, is he? | ||
| Yeah, so the trailer shows Peter Parker asking Strange to do a spell to erase everyone's memory. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| And so Doctor Strange is doing the cool stuff. | ||
| My favorite Marvel MCU character is Doctor Strange. | ||
| I love that movie. | ||
| I'm excited for the next. | ||
| Kudos to Cumberbatch, man. | ||
| Fantastic actor. | ||
| Oh, and I was going to say, one of my favorite movies is the first new Star Trek. | ||
| I don't know, what is it called? | ||
| Not Into the Darkness, the first one. | ||
| Oh, also with Cumberbatch? | ||
| Also with Cumberbatch. | ||
| Yeah, he plays Khan, I think. | ||
| That's Into Darkness, isn't it? | ||
| Oh, is that the second one of the new ones? | ||
| Either way, Cumberbatch slayed it. | ||
| The best part of that movie. | ||
| I loved him. | ||
| That was my introduction to Cumberbatch, too. | ||
| I don't know who that is. | ||
| He had a weird, dark voice as Khan. | ||
| I don't know who that is. | ||
| They just like, I guess. | ||
| Benedict Cumberbatch is good. | ||
| He was not a good Julian Assange. | ||
| I thought that was awful. | ||
| But he is a really good Dr. Schroeder. | ||
| He had a weird dark voice as Khan. | ||
| I was like, what the heck is this? | ||
| Yeah, when he says his name. | ||
| And then alternate timeline Spock is like, oh snap. | ||
| Yeah, it was Ricardo Montalban, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Let's read some Super Chats from everybody. | ||
| Wow, we're a little late. | ||
| We went a little bit late because we don't do the bonus segments anyway, and I really wanted to talk about that Doctor Strange episode because it was eating me alive. | ||
| I'm glad you did. | ||
|
unidentified
|
That's awesome. | |
| Yeah, no, that's good. | ||
| That's a good resolution. | ||
| All right, man. | ||
| Can we just make that? | ||
| Because that's what I want to watch. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I want to believe that in the end he like he became corrupted but then truly realized what it meant to be a hero and then created a new timeline. | ||
| Is it that you can't take one of your favorite people like descending into evil darkness? | ||
| You can't take it? | ||
| I felt like it was out of character to be honest. | ||
| Well, you know, the Shakespearean tragedies are always not what you expect. | ||
| It's not just that. | ||
| I'm fine watching Doctor Strange go totally evil and then say, Oh no, what have I done? | ||
| But there was no payoff for it. | ||
| It was just like, well, we were told he was going to destroy the universe if he did. | ||
| He didn't care and did it anyway. | ||
| And the universe got destroyed. | ||
| I'm like, what was the lesson? | ||
| What was, what did we, what happened? | ||
| Other than just that's the end of the universe. | ||
| He wasn't thrown into like despair. | ||
| He was. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's like the universe collapses and then he's just like trapped in a gem or something. | ||
| And Christine, he saves Christine, but then she gets, you know, she disintegrates in the collapsing universe. | ||
| How do you feel about Star Wars? | ||
| Sorry to keep coming back to this. | ||
| The original Star Wars? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Great. | ||
| The prequels, silly but fun. | ||
| The sequels, just the worst trash I've ever seen in my life. | ||
| How do you feel about Darth Vader's arc? | ||
| As a character. | ||
| I think it's so fascinating. | ||
| It's really, really good, but I know that you have to watch Clone Wars to get the full grasp of his transformation. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Okay. | |
| The movies themselves don't do it justice. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And I was not a fan of like... It's more plot-driven in the movies than character-driven. | ||
| I think a lot about it because I think using the dark side is necessary. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| And we have to be more... We have to not fear it, but be familiar with it to control it so that it doesn't take over. | ||
| This is what shadow work is about. | ||
| The Jedi are awful. | ||
| Jedi are awful. | ||
| Like, have you ever played Knights of the Old Republic? | ||
| When you meet the Grey Jedi? | ||
| And they're like... I dated someone who said that the Jedi were awful. | ||
| They are awful. | ||
| They're religious zealots. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Absolutely. | |
| We are no longer dating. | ||
| You'll have to go deeper on why you think that's awful. | ||
| So the Sith are bad because they covet power and they're willing to kill to gain more. | ||
| The Jedi are bad because they're dogmatic and... That's fair. | ||
| It's a dogmatic religion of celibacy and monk stuff. | ||
| And that's fine to an extent, but not when they wield power and try to assassinate a chancellor because they think he's a bad guy. | ||
| But he was a bad guy. | ||
|
unidentified
|
So what? | |
| They knew. | ||
| They could feel it. | ||
| And the problem is, it's very obvious, if Mace Windu did not try to kill Palpatine at that moment... I agree. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| They would have won. | ||
| But their zealotry... I don't think... He's evil! | ||
| He must be stopped! | ||
| I have to kill him! | ||
| Yeah, I agree with that. | ||
| They lost their way. | ||
| You don't think he should have just killed him? | ||
|
unidentified
|
No. | |
| What did Anakin say? | ||
| It's not the Jedi way. | ||
| You're not supposed to arrest him. | ||
| And he said, he's too dangerous. | ||
| I can see that scene in my head. | ||
| A Jedi is supposed to kill a Sith Lord, right? | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| Well, that's the dilemma. | ||
| That's the dilemma. | ||
| Because the Sith Lord was also like an elected member. | ||
| So the problem is they're religious zealots who would throw out the rule of law for their own personal religious drive of what is truly evil. | ||
| And Anakin watched that happen. | ||
| And he's like, it's not the Jedi way. | ||
| He should be tried. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They should have arrested him and told the world, he's a Sith Lord. | ||
| What should we do? | ||
| And yes, they had to prove to the people and resist the powers of the dark side. | ||
| And it would have been the difficult choice. | ||
| But instead, Mace Windu was like, I don't care. | ||
| It's easy. | ||
| I'll kill him now. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| I don't- I don't- He was blocking the Force Lightning. | ||
| I disagree. | ||
| In fact, he could've said, Anakin, help me subdue him. | ||
| And Anakin probably would've. | ||
| And he would've said- I don't know. | ||
| Anakin was almost turnt by that point. | ||
| But Mace didn't know this! | ||
| Mace didn't know what was going on. | ||
| I'm not trying to defend. | ||
| I think it's more of a dilemma than it is cut and dry. | ||
| Mason knows going on. Why don't just I'm not trying to defend | ||
| I think I think it's more of a dilemma than it is like cut and try I think it's more of a dilemma | ||
| No, what it what happened then? | ||
| The Chancellor used the attempted assassination to justify the extreme expansion of powers and to hunt down the Jedi. | ||
|
unidentified
|
If I'd been a Grey Jedi... That one incident that caused that, that's absurd. | |
| If a Grey Jedi had walked in and slaughtered the Emperor in that moment and ended the Sith Chancellor and ended the Sith, what would have been the problem with that? | ||
| You have to, so you're coming at this point, this situation from a state of absolute knowledge. | ||
| Of good and evil, yeah. | ||
| Imagine you walk into a room and you see two people and one's on the ground saying, help me please, help me please. | ||
| And the guy says, don't listen to him, he's evil. | ||
| And then what would you do? | ||
| Read the script, baby. | ||
| No, I'd use the force. | ||
| No, I'm just kidding. | ||
| I don't know what I would do. | ||
| You'd stop the guy who was about to kill somebody. | ||
| That'd be a weird thing to say. | ||
| And so the issue is, Anakin says it's not the Jedi way. | ||
| Mace Windu should have said, you're right. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| But I don't think that's a, you know, a folly on all of the Jedi. | ||
| I just kind of felt like for Anakin to instantly be like, I hate you, to Obi-Wan. | ||
| I was like, that's weird. | ||
| No, that was unbelievable. | ||
| Did Luke use the dark side as well? | ||
| Yes, which is, I think, and George Lucas, who wrote it, disagrees. | ||
| But yeah, because he was learning it from, wasn't he learning it from Little Green Man? | ||
| Yoda? | ||
| He was using force push. | ||
| He was learning to like, to like, fact check me on this, but he was learning to channel, to channel it. | ||
| He was channeling the light side. | ||
| Yoda was teaching him how to use the light side. | ||
| No, but when he went against his father, he could have killed him, but he didn't. | ||
| And that's how, and he was, he was like almost driven to do that. | ||
| And so he, he resisted the dark side. | ||
| He was like in the face of the dark side. | ||
| Or did he resist the light side? | ||
| I think he resisted the light side by being able to accept his father. | ||
| Oh, I see. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're saying the light should have ended the darkness. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Paul Young, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| But by doing so, it ultimately converted Vader back to the light. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Wow. | |
| Right. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Theory of enchantment. | ||
| He resisted his own impulse to convert him, and because of that, he converted. | ||
|
unidentified
|
He converted. | |
| Whoa. | ||
| So basically, Daryl Davis was inspired completely by Star Wars. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I was just going to say, that's also what Daryl Davis did. | ||
| That's also what Daryl Davis did. | ||
| We should read Super Chats, because we're just going wild. | ||
| Yeah, we really should, wow. | ||
| All right, Harry Toast says, I'm so excited. | ||
| I found a farmer that will let me put my finger in a cow's mouth. | ||
| He didn't ask any questions. | ||
| I thought that was strange. | ||
| Find a better, different farmer. | ||
| Talk to your farmer. | ||
| Blue Sea says, I loved when Chloe was on Dark Horse with Brett and they discussed her theory of enchantment. | ||
| What an awesome mind you have, Chloe. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Thank you. | |
| Jesse Meek says Sacramento as a teacher that openly promotes antifa in the classroom and even offers extra | ||
| credit to students for attending protests and such Shout out to amazing tubers Liberty doll and the philosophy. | ||
| So philosopher pholosopher. Sorry All right, let's see we got | ||
| Revan Sheridan says Tim I live in the Deep South in the New Orleans area | ||
| And I I was being taught CRT in elementary back in the late 90s. I | ||
| I was taught black women are the most oppressed and it's my fault. | ||
| Are you from New Orleans? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Do we have similar experiences with that stuff? | ||
|
unidentified
|
No. | |
| Interesting. | ||
| Jimmy Cantos says, I agree with her definition. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Ron Quay says, Chloe is classically woke, the way it should be. | ||
| Wokeism as it's known today is just neo-wokeism. | ||
| I remember when being woke meant seeing the actual truth, not using race to bait and make money. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Jenny's says, does Chloe have a curriculum for homeschoolers? | ||
| So anyone can go to theoryofenchantment.com and enroll in our online course. | ||
| So it doesn't matter who you are. | ||
| It's a self-paced course. | ||
| Anyone can access it. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| Oh, so yeah, we haven't covered this story yet. | ||
| We've all been posting about it. | ||
| Andrew Lage says South Australia is forcing returning citizens to download an app that will send them a | ||
| notification and within 15 minutes They must go to the specified place and take a photo with | ||
| their face on it. If not, the cops come. Do you hear this? | ||
| It's crazy However, my understanding is how it works is you have the app, you'll get a notification saying you have 15 minutes to post a photo from the location you're at using geolocation, which means if you claim to be at a house in this particular area, you take a picture of yourself, it's geotagged with the area and your face confirmed, you're good. | ||
| Geolocation spoofing apps are free. | ||
| I knew this was where you were going. | ||
| Can put you anywhere you want. | ||
| So it's a terrible plan for the government. | ||
|
unidentified
|
It won't work. | |
| I was thinking about this today while I was in the MRI machine, because guess what you can't have in a freaking MRI machine? | ||
| Literally anything metal, including your phone. | ||
| I was thinking about tonight's show when Tim doesn't really look much at his phone because he's doing a show. | ||
| And I was like, how dare a police force think that this is okay? | ||
| Absolutely insane. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Odd Ninja says, Hey Tim and crew first super chat to Ian. | ||
| If a human male gets a human female pregnant, is she carrying a growing human? | ||
| You mean, like, right after, like, 10 seconds after the pregnancy? | ||
| Technically not yet. | ||
| The question is, is the question is. | ||
| I don't know when you would consider the fetus a human. | ||
| I'm not sure what the medical definition is. | ||
| Is she pregnant? | ||
| Is she carrying a growing human? | ||
| I mean, if you're asking for medical definitions, I'm not the guy that would be able to answer that. | ||
| You'd have to look that up. | ||
| Is it a growing human? | ||
| It depends on what stage it is. | ||
| When do you start to consider the zygote a human? | ||
| Is later in the pregnancy. | ||
| It's human father? | ||
| Human mother? | ||
| So is she carrying something that is growing into a human? | ||
| Yeah, it might seem like that, yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is the sperm human? | ||
| Is the sperm a growing human? | ||
| It says pregnant. | ||
| Because it's going to eventually impregnate? | ||
| The question is pregnant. | ||
| Yeah, but the pregnancy doesn't mean that the kid's gonna ever be born. | ||
| The kid could be an abrupt, accidental termination, you know? | ||
| You never know. | ||
| And you could get hit by a car, but you're still human. | ||
| No, that zygote might die before it ever becomes a human. | ||
| So no, she's not carrying a human, technically. | ||
| Ian, are you growing old? | ||
| I don't know how to answer that question, Sam. | ||
| There's solar age and there's genetic age. | ||
| Are you growing genetically old? | ||
| I'm regenerating. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| I'm genetically getting younger. | ||
| You just don't want to admit it. | ||
| Alright, to Tim, ask Knowles about getting in contact with Ted Cruz to come on the show. | ||
| I thought about that. | ||
| That would be super fun. | ||
| Pulling strings with our past guests? | ||
| I thought I might. | ||
| I think Ted Cruz would have stood up for himself on the Cancun thing. | ||
| I think he, like, that was dumb. | ||
| It's culture war stupidity. | ||
| You should tell him about it. | ||
| Like, I need a vacation, follow me on Twitter. | ||
| Alright, SaltyRacer says, I think the shadow work is an excellent idea. | ||
| Problem is that some people literally just slap in the face to change their behavior. | ||
| This has stopped and it's causing serious problems. | ||
| I disagree. | ||
| I don't agree with that. | ||
| Yeah, I was gonna say I don't know about that. | ||
| Yeah, I think that actually will just... Like, when you approach someone as an enemy, you solidify their position. | ||
| If a person already is acting out of a lack of self-worth and you slap them, so to speak, You're actually going to deepen that sense of low self-esteem. | ||
| You can't make a change like that unless you're slapping yourself in the face. | ||
| It has to be you. | ||
| It does. | ||
| Josh Oh My Gosh says, Chloe, what do you think about the idea of opt-in taxes for social legislation, for example? | ||
| I know nothing about that. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I know, I thought it was like a very... I'll read it. | |
| Supporters of abortion pay taxes for it, opposers don't. | ||
| Tim, check out the singer Joff Castellucci on YouTube. | ||
| Deep, deep singing voice. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Cool. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| What are your general thoughts? | ||
| I have none. | ||
| All right, there you go. | ||
| Zero thoughts. | ||
| Brandon Freeman says, Tim, please ask her if she's a Marxist and get a yes or no. | ||
| No, I am not a Marxist. | ||
| I think you actually said that early on, like you're critical of, you know, critical theory. | ||
| I'm critical of critical theory. | ||
| I'm also critical of the Marxist take or what seems to be Marxist take on Like, saying that, like, what's driving certain people in elite institutions to CRT or to wokeness is because it's financially successful. | ||
| I don't think that that's actually what's happened. | ||
| I don't think that's a sufficient driver. | ||
| And that's a very Marxist idea, ultimately. | ||
| Joshua Hickey says white CRT people are white supremacists. | ||
| They believe they're inherently above the level due to their skin color. | ||
| Usually they're just undisciplined and spoiled people who haven't earned what they've been given and they know it. | ||
| Oh, that's interesting. | ||
| One of the things that I've said and Carl Benjamin has said is that many of these white woke people are white supremacists with guilty consciences. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let me think about that for a second. | ||
| But, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| I mean, what is the role of guilt in this particular context? | ||
| The self-flagellation that we spoke about? | ||
| So one of the stories I tell a bit too much, sorry audience for beating the horse, but was when I was in the North Dakota pipeline protests. | ||
| When I was there. | ||
| And I met a guy who told me that Um, Asian culture was influenced by, or, so here's what he said. | ||
| I said, I had a meeting. | ||
| He said, what do you mean you have a meeting? | ||
| I was like, I gotta be in LA in a couple days, so I gotta leave soon. | ||
| And he goes, that's colonial thinking. | ||
| To fly to L.A.? | ||
| Well, I was driving. | ||
| Oh, to drive to L.A.? | ||
| But he was like, to have a scheduled meeting. | ||
| He was like, the Native Americans don't have that. | ||
| They wake up when they wake up. | ||
| Not this again. | ||
| And what I said was, I said, I was like, what are you talking about? | ||
| I was like, how's that colonial thinking? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| And he goes, like, the European colonizers brought that here. | ||
| It didn't exist before they brought it here because the Native Americans didn't have it. | ||
| And I said, dude, Chinese people have schedules. | ||
| They wake up to farm. | ||
| And he goes, well, let's be honest. | ||
| It was the white people who brought that to them. | ||
| And I was like, are you kidding me? | ||
| You're gonna sit here and tell me? | ||
| Dude, we invented the compass a thousand years before you guys did. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| How did he take that? | ||
| He got flustered. | ||
| I called him a white supremacist. | ||
| I said, I am not going to sit here and listen to a white supremacist tell me that my culture, which was thousands of years more advanced than, a thousand years more advanced than yours, is responsible for everything that my ancestors did. | ||
| You had nothing to do with it. | ||
| And then everyone kind of looked at him and he was like, whoa, but that's the, the ideas they espoused. | ||
| They believe that the white Europeans made everything. | ||
| I do think there's an irony to this. | ||
| And I do think that one of the. | ||
| One of my objections to, like, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an article in Atlantic a few years ago called The First White President, I think that was the name of it, where he's talking about Donald Trump, and he basically argued that white supremacy was, I forgot the particular line, so apologies if I misquote, this is a paraphrase, but he was basically like, white supremacy is cosmic in nature. | ||
| And my thing was, if you actually believe that, then you actually believe in white supremacy. | ||
| You would have to believe that white people are, in fact, omnipotent in order to believe that it is cosmic and everywhere in nature. | ||
| And so, yeah, that story resonates with me. | ||
| And I think it's one of the blind spots and the ironies going on in a lot of these arguments. | ||
| Yeah, I see a lot of people mentioning we in the chat because I said we invented it. | ||
| Yes, I'm part Asian. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| Is that I was sitting in front of a guy who was overtly white, and yes, I am still mostly white, German, Irish, British, and I think that's it for the most part. | ||
| But the point I was making was like, this dude was directly insulting my Asian heritage. | ||
| And so I'm like to reference my ancestors and the work they did for you to come here. | ||
| Obviously, I understand, you know, like European colonization. | ||
| This guy was just a white supremacist. | ||
| All right, Scott James Pilkington says, Greetings Chimcast. | ||
| I smashed it for Ian. | ||
| I'm very much looking forward to you looking into the Freedom Phone. | ||
| My phone is only two years old due to all the bloat. | ||
| It's almost useless. | ||
| How to fix bloatware? | ||
| Flash the phone and get like a new operating system. | ||
| Graphene OS. | ||
| Graphene OS, I've heard is good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I'm saying that because, you know, you're Ian. | ||
| And I like graphene. | ||
| And that's right. | ||
| Right now, there is a sad Ian. | ||
| And by simply smashing the like button, you can ensure that today, a sad Ian will not be sad any longer. | ||
| Get your graphene here and now! | ||
| Also, um, the Freedom Phone thing is going to be a while. | ||
| They're on back order until like November, I think now. | ||
| So give us a few months on this one. | ||
| And the problem is we can't expedite it. | ||
| So it's like, yeah, we're not going through Eric on this. | ||
| We're going to go through the company to get, so we're not getting Potemkin phones, basically. | ||
| We don't want things that has been tweaked to look right. | ||
| But, but maybe there's an easier way to do it is if somebody gets a Freedom Phone, we can work with you, uh, or your phone or whatever and something like that. | ||
| The issue is that if we go to them and say, hey, can we get phones? Well, then we're getting phones | ||
| from them and you can't trust it. We can't ask them for phones and we can't even ask for an | ||
| expedited phone. Hey, here are the people we're getting phones delivered to. And you know, | ||
| because then they're going to send them clean, you know, fixed phones or whatever, or it's, | ||
| it's compromising the security. So yeah, well, it just could take some time. | ||
| Well, that's a good sign that they're, they're on back order doing extremely well. | ||
| Yeah, I'm glad they're doing well. | ||
| Ah, okay, so Christopher Lambert says, George Carlin and the use on context, doing it again special 1990. | ||
| So I was not born. | ||
| And I was four. | ||
| I was not born. | ||
| All right. | ||
| C. Hennessy says, Tim, Kevin Paffrath is the real guy you should be looking at for California governor race. | ||
| Dude's JFK-style Dem leading is in state polls. | ||
| He's also known as Meet Kevin on YouTube. | ||
| He should be able to get the Dem votes. | ||
| I did see that. | ||
| He's not beating Larry Elder. | ||
| In in aggregate, there may be a poll showing him ahead, but he is doing really, really well. | ||
| And it does seem like an interesting guy. | ||
| You know, I've seen some of the videos and some of the stuff he's talking to. | ||
| My problem is I don't I don't trust voting for the Democrats after the 2018 midterms. | ||
| They promised in 31 districts they would get away from the culture war and focus on real issues for the families. | ||
| And as soon as they got in, they went to Nancy Pelosi and says, what shall we do, my liege? | ||
| And she said, impeach Trump. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| Do you find there's a lot of cross-contamination between governors and Congress? | ||
| Like if a governor is democratic, is that really that big of a deal? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Relative to their influence? | ||
| Or are they kind of autonomous? | ||
| When California proposed, I don't know if you saw this, was it Prop 42 or something? | ||
| I don't know, Prop 6? | ||
| They proposed removing the non-discrimination clause from their constitution that barred discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex from their... Why? | ||
| Because they argued that it inhibited their ability to engage in anti-racism. | ||
| Yes, because anti-racist discrimination is good in Ibram Kendi's book. | ||
| All of the National Democrats were endorsing it. | ||
| Okay, that's hyperbolic. | ||
| Many national Democrats and Democrats from other states were endorsing. | ||
| So you think that it says Democrat is more of a warning, like, hey, check this guy, vet this guy, because he's identifying with this weird party. | ||
| Not that if someone puts Democrat on their shirt, they're necessarily a bad person. | ||
| What happens to people like Kimberly Klasick and Billy Prempeh? | ||
| They can't get money from the party. | ||
| They can't get support from the party. | ||
| It's hard to fundraise. | ||
| So people in the party, regardless of whether it's a mayor or a state rep or a governor, are still beholden to the DNC. | ||
| The Democratic National Committee, I think it is, right? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah. | |
| Because they want the access to fundraisers, the data, the promotion. | ||
| So they're plugging into the sewage dump. | ||
| So a governor, party member's a party member. | ||
| And I don't like the Republicans either, to be honest, you know. | ||
| I don't like political parties. | ||
| Me either. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I agree. | |
| Alright, let's see what we got here. | ||
| Tassarus says Ian, rights can be thought of simply as the ways you can be wronged. | ||
| They can be derived by observing how life grows and how it can be stunted. | ||
| I don't know about that one. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We've been having kind of an ongoing debate about what are rights, what are natural rights. | ||
| Also about abortion, which is why, where that came from earlier. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I'm of the opinion that natural rights exist and are, some people would say granted due by God. | ||
| The other way to describe that is just that they're an intrinsic part of being. | ||
| Ian thinks that rights are cultural and don't inherently exist. | ||
| Can you split the difference between the two? | ||
| Probably, yeah. | ||
| I feel like the Americans were like, we're going to set up a system where we have what we think of as like rules, like rights based on the Christian Bible. | ||
| So they built the Bill of Rights. | ||
| And they told us it was given to us by God, inherent, inalienable, nothing they ever did had anything to do with it. | ||
| It was just there to begin with. | ||
| And they're kind of protecting it. | ||
| I don't think so because if we got a new government they'd start telling us your right is to wake up in the morning | ||
| Your right is to worship the dear leader. These have always been your rights | ||
| Your grandfather fought for these rights and then eventually you're like my rights have always been that so | ||
| like it seems like cultural brainwashing Well, is it possible that one could just be wrong and the | ||
| other could be right? | ||
| It is possible that there is like an objective reality and there's a way of behavior that serves our propagation and the species. | ||
| And these might be those. | ||
| We might be onto something with that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| OK. | ||
| But I think without the American military to enforce it, they don't exist. | ||
| It's not real. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, it. | ||
| So is your definition of real enforceable? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If it's not enforceable, it won't be there. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Hmm. | |
| Okay, that's interesting. | ||
| I don't know how to feel about that. | ||
| I think that rights exist. | ||
| We have many, many rights, and governments try to infringe upon them for the sake of cohesion, power, stability. | ||
| Yeah, because isn't that an argument for power all the way down? | ||
| Basically. | ||
| It's terrifying, but I feel like that's real. | ||
| The reality is the person with the big weapon has always run the show. | ||
| Yeah, but that doesn't... Why does that mean... That's true, but that doesn't mean that one doesn't have inalienable rights. | ||
| Just because they're not being enforced. | ||
| Or why does that necessarily mean that? | ||
| If they're not inalienable? | ||
| Because if they want to say you don't have them anymore, then you don't. | ||
| I'll ask you this question. | ||
| Would you be upset with a deer for kicking the coyote that was attacking it? | ||
| No. | ||
| Because the deer has a right to defend itself. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| The right exists. | ||
| We recognize it. | ||
| We don't fault the animal. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Would you be upset with someone, with like a woman? | ||
| This is a weird analogy, by the way. | ||
| Yeah, because the way you said the deer has the right to defend itself is kind of a misuse of the word right in the term of natural rights that we're talking about right now. | ||
| How is it a misuse of the term? | ||
| Well, it doesn't, the deer doesn't have natural, just the deer defending itself isn't really, it's not exercising a right. | ||
| It's just defending itself before it dies. | ||
| Would you be upset? | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| If a person was being beaten in the street and a guy was just pummeling him and then he grabbed a wrench off the ground and smacked the guy in the face and killed him, would you blame the guy who was being beaten? | ||
| No. | ||
| He has a right to defend himself. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, God, yeah. | ||
| I mean, he should. | ||
| If he wants to survive, he better defend himself. | ||
| And so the way the law works is that we recognize an affirmative defense for murder, a self-defense. | ||
| It is not murder. | ||
| It is not a crime. | ||
| You're free to go. | ||
| You have a right to defend yourself. | ||
| So there are many rights that we recognize, and there are many rights the government tries to take away from you. | ||
| But the right to keep and bear arms is fundamentally the right to self-defense. | ||
| In this country. | ||
| Not all countries have that right. | ||
| But are you saying that if a person, if the government didn't support a person defending themselves, then that person no longer has the right to defend themselves? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Correct. | |
| Like in North Korea, if a soldier were to kick a guy on the ground and the guy tried to fight back, they'd execute him on the spot. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Because he has no right. | ||
| So if you're being... I think you guys are defining rights differently. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So the problem is that even when I read Ian the definition, he didn't agree with it. | ||
| Well, you read it to me, and then you stated a different definition as the definition of the word. | ||
| It's on video. | ||
| You said ethics in the definition, and then you didn't say ethics when you were redefining it. | ||
| I read a large paragraph giving you a very intricate explanation of where natural laws apply and why, and then you started nitpicking it, so I broke it down to, like, fundamental Truths that are inherent freedoms that are inherent to living beings because no matter what definition I give you you would change the definition This is a clearly a great question. | ||
| Yeah, what are natural rights? | ||
| Are they given by God? | ||
| I mean, let me in the Constitution It says God gave it to you and you're like, I'm an atheist Let me ask you guys a question. | ||
| Is the American government full of it because I'm an atheist Let me ask you guys a question. | ||
| Yeah, if a man Was walking on the street minding his own business and a cop pulls up For no reason. | ||
| Runs up to him and starts mercilessly beating him with Billy Club. | ||
| And the man is on the ground and is being beaten, begging, please stop. | ||
| And then he leans over and grabs a wrench, gets up and cracks the cop, killing him instantly. | ||
| Would you blame the guy on the ground? | ||
| No. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Would you? | |
| I can't! | ||
| These are ridiculous situations you're creating, dude! | ||
| There's no context. | ||
| I don't know what the... I can't blame either of those guys for that. | ||
| I don't know what's going on. | ||
| I gave you the context. | ||
| But you just gave me a limited, from the moment I saw it start to happen to when I did. | ||
|
unidentified
|
All right. | |
| Let's try again. | ||
| What caused it? | ||
| Let's try again. | ||
| Let's try again. | ||
| If a man was selling Lucy cigarettes outside of a bodega and the cops came up and put him in a chokehold and he was screaming, I can't breathe. | ||
| And then he grabs a wrench and swings it, hits the cop, killing him instantly. | ||
| Would you blame the guy being choked? | ||
| No. | ||
| Blame him for what? | ||
| For killing the cop. | ||
| Geez, that's a tough one. | ||
| Because if the cop- if you attack a tiger and the tiger bites your face, I blame the guy that attacked the tiger. | ||
| Would you blame a man putting a chokehold- I blame them both! | ||
| You gotta blame them both. | ||
| If you stick your hand in a tiger's mouth and it bites your finger, it's your fault and it's the tiger's fault. | ||
| I can understand both arguments, but I would still mostly blame the cop. | ||
| So that was the Eric Garner case. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you still... But okay, fine, he defends... I mean, self-defense isn't... It's not okay... Self-defense, I'm not saying that the reason it's okay to defend your life is because you have a right. | ||
| You have to defend your life to survive. | ||
| Now we built a legal... Now you understand what rights are. | ||
| ...infarction for that. | ||
| Is that the... Infarction, is that the right word for that? | ||
| No, infarction is a... That's a heart attack. | ||
| Yeah, it's a blood loss to a muscle. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right, well, I want to make that a political word. | ||
| I like that, yeah. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| The formation or development of an infarct. | ||
| An infarct. | ||
| We'll get to that later. | ||
| I don't want to waste these Super Chatters times because people are giving us money right now. | ||
| The reason why I asked the question about the cop is because you recognized you wouldn't blame someone for defending themselves if a cop was mercilessly beating them and they took the person's life and their intent was to defend themselves. | ||
| But the state would probably still arrest you and charge you. | ||
| Qualified immunity. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Well, I think that's mostly about lawsuits though. | |
| I think the issue here is that culturally, the police department would say, too bad MFR, | ||
| you killed a cop. | ||
| We don't care why. | ||
| And as much as we, as human beings, if we recognize a situation in which a legitimately | ||
| innocent person, in full context was innocent, being attacked by a criminal police officer, | ||
| we would, every person, a conservative would be like, well, of course, that cop's a bad | ||
| guy. | ||
| The state probably would disregard it and probably still arrest him. | ||
| They would be biased against them. | ||
| They wouldn't care. | ||
| But the guy has the right to self-defense. | ||
| This is the point you're going towards. | ||
| Now that's good. | ||
| Now that's why we built our government is to protect that idea. | ||
| But it wasn't, my argument is that it wasn't given to us by God. | ||
| It was these dudes, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson. | ||
| So you just have a problem with the God piece. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thinking that it's inalienable and it can't be ever taken away freaks me out. | ||
| That's not what it means. | ||
| Inalienable doesn't mean it can't be infringed upon. | ||
| People seem to think that if you're out in the middle of the wilderness, you still have those rights. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| You do. | ||
| No. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| If you're naked in the woods, you don't have the right to self-defense and the right to free speech. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Yes, you do. | ||
| You can pick up a rock and throw it at the wolf. | ||
|
unidentified
|
They don't exist. | |
| You still can do those things, but you don't have a right. | ||
| There's no... I still don't understand what your definition of right is. | ||
| A right is like, it's like, well what is the definition of rights? | ||
| Things that are, abilities that are given to you by God. | ||
| This is what natural, you're talking about natural rights. | ||
| It's something inherent to the dignity of what it means to be human. | ||
| Freedoms that are inherent to life, fundamental, like. | ||
| It's like a part of the sacredness of what it means to be human. | ||
| In this society, but in Afghanistan it's not. | ||
| In order for life to function, there are, It is. | ||
| In order for life to function, certain things have to happen. | ||
| And as human beings, and as all life strives to survive, we recognize that life does certain things. | ||
| In fact, in the definition of life, when they describe it, it propagates, and I believe defense, or the attempt to survive, is one of them. | ||
| No, I could be wrong about that one. | ||
| The challenge I have with your understanding is it seems that it would be easily devolving into relativism. | ||
| It is. | ||
| And that's why people are going crazy right now and railing against the US government because the government's like blindly being like, like, okay, I get it. | ||
| We think that this is the best way here now because we're in it. | ||
| We're in it. | ||
| We haven't seen a better system yet. | ||
| So to us, this is the right, this is the right way, but it doesn't mean it's the only way or ever will be or ever was. | ||
| I think you're confusing, like, rights and privileges. | ||
| I've seen people be like, you can't do that to me, I have the right! | ||
| And I'm like, dude, you have to stand in front of that right. | ||
| You have to make sure. | ||
| Healthcare is not a human right. | ||
| That statement makes literally no sense. | ||
| But like, you banned me off YouTube, I have the right to that. | ||
| No, you should have built a website to protect yourself because You don't have the right. | ||
| You think the government is protecting your rights because they say they are. | ||
| No, but here's what you misunderstand. | ||
| You've got to protect your own rights and create them. | ||
| So, the right to free speech exists. | ||
| The right to expression exists. | ||
| There are some limits on causing harm to others because now you're infringing on their right to life and they have the right to defense. | ||
| But when a massive multinational corporation takes up all the land, we actually have battled this out in the courts. | ||
| We've decided that publicly owned private spaces, you are required to allow free speech. | ||
| So Occupy Wall Street, for instance, was only possible because the people went on private property and the private company said, you have no right to free speech on my property. | ||
| And the government The people and the precedent in the courts was, actually, if you're occupying the common space as a private owner, you can't take away someone's right to free speech. | ||
| So YouTube bans people, banks debank people, the US government hasn't done a thing about it. | ||
| Welcome to the argument against censorship. | ||
| Because it can't. | ||
| The government cannot. | ||
| That's not true, Ian. | ||
| Not only is it not infringing on those rights, corporations are, and the government can't do anything about it. | ||
| They can. | ||
| What can they do? | ||
| So, first, there's Section 230 reform or Section 230 enforcement, which they're not doing. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, right now Democrats have the majority and Republicans have no will. | ||
| Republicans were too stupid to do anything about it from 2016 and on, and now they're all being banned and blacklisted, and they don't care because most of them were neocons unipartists anyway. | ||
| Now, you have the issue of just enforce Section 230. | ||
| Never was this law intended to allow Twitter to arbitrarily create editorial guidelines on what opinions are allowed to have. | ||
| YouTube doesn't come to me and say, we're concerned about the safety of individuals, so you can't talk about Donald Trump's election. | ||
| That makes no sense. | ||
| They have editorial guidelines. | ||
| Now, Are there other places you can go? | ||
| Technically, yes. | ||
| But if there is a massive major stadium, or all of the space in the center of the town is being occupied or owned by one person, we have already determined that privately owned public spaces must protect the free speech rights of an individual. | ||
| All we need now is for the willpower in any politician to enforce it. | ||
| The government has the power. | ||
| And Facebook is terrified of this. | ||
| That's why Facebook has been having meetings with politicians trying to be like, please don't regulate us because we know you can do it. | ||
| People begging for daddy to fix it is freaking me out. | ||
| The people like a politician could fix it for me. | ||
| The government could do it for like, dude, these are your rights. | ||
| This is not Alexandria Cortez's Version of your rights. This is yours and no no corporation | ||
| or government state is gonna make that is gonna keep that for you | ||
| That's up to you and your friends Reading you'd have to do for us to like make a substantive | ||
| conversation I'm sure we should have experts on but I mean we like I | ||
| think the people who have watched this have Researched too much and for you to enter this conversation | ||
| with this lack of understanding would be like, you know Someone who's never read a math book trying to explain or | ||
| ask about math to someone who's in advanced out like algebra or calculus | ||
| But I think if people constantly complain about their rights being taken away, it's going to devolve into their rights being gone, as opposed to actually projecting their rights. | ||
| Then you realize, oh, your rights are there because you projected them, not because it was written on some paper and given to you from somewhere else. | ||
| You created that in your in your behavior. | ||
| Let's read some more Super Chats. | ||
| Common Cure says, Chloe is the Auntie Kendi. | ||
| Also, Ian, do you play Deep Rock Galactic? | ||
| I do. | ||
| Hit me up on Steam. | ||
| I'm Mr. Clearbro. | ||
| Rock and stone. | ||
| Rock and stone. | ||
| Frank Taylor says, Tim, listen to Chloe. | ||
| She is smarter than you. | ||
| I think I've noticed that. | ||
| Agreed with many of her points and said, actually, you're right. | ||
| Great points. | ||
| That's why I referenced Jordan Peterson as a big fan, because for him to be willing to just be like, I was wrong about that. | ||
| I'm like, man, that is... That's strength. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Someone mentions we had a bunch of Chinese bots in chat, so... How dare they? | ||
| Get out. | ||
|
unidentified
|
What's up dudes? | |
| All right. | ||
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| Caitlin Clark says, first time donation, your guest is spreading the right messages. | ||
| Thank you for providing a platform for spiritually aware and intelligent voices. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| This has been a great conversation. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Awesome. | |
| All right. | ||
| Andrew Fetter says, Hey Tim and crew. | ||
| Hope someone has lifted the man stone since my visit. | ||
| Ah, yes. | ||
| He gave us the Atlas stone. | ||
| Oh, big one. | ||
| The rite of passage. | ||
| If you lift it, you're a man. | ||
| I have not lifted it. | ||
| Regarding the office censorship, critical theorists need to attack any exploits of their weaknesses. | ||
| It's how to influence culture. | ||
| Wait, say that again. | ||
| Critical theorists need to attack any exploits of their weaknesses. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Anything that might mock or belittle them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So when you watch The Office and you laugh at the ridiculousness or whatever. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I think he's right. | ||
| Bruce A2 says, Ian, get at her now. | ||
| I don't know what that means, but also I think she's right. | ||
| The Bible is highly symbolic and has many allusions to science of all types from a time when they supposedly didn't have science. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Interesting things. | ||
| I was reading a long time ago a scientific analysis of some of the rules in the Bible into why they were. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, why you weren't supposed to eat pork or whatever, because they were dirty, diseased animals. | ||
| Yeah, trichinosis. | ||
| Yeah, and it would get you sick, and so they were like, don't eat it, you know? | ||
| All right, let's see what we got here. | ||
| We'll try and get as many as we can, but we've gone way over. | ||
| But it's awesome. | ||
| Yeah, this is good. | ||
| Cody Black says, first time Super Chat. | ||
| I listen every day and love the show. | ||
| Trying to get my S.O. | ||
| Sarah to watch as well. | ||
| Please help me sell the show to her. | ||
| If you get her to watch, it would leave me speechless. | ||
| Clever. | ||
| I would tell her she should watch it because I'm here and I can always use the female company tonight when Chloe's here. | ||
| So have her join me. | ||
|
unidentified
|
That's right. | |
| Martin the Panda says, the fundamental problem is an increasing lack of faith in something outside the human experience. | ||
| When there's nothing greater than yourself to answer life's big questions, it's much easier to see yourself as divine and those against you as evil. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Well, I would agree halfway with that. | ||
| I think that, I do believe that human beings are divine, but that doesn't, I don't mean that in the, I think that human beings are, you know, I'm spiritual, so I think that human beings are made in the image of the divine. | ||
| Um, and this idea that comes from Genesis is like being made in the image of God is like something that I subscribe to. | ||
| I don't think that's the problem, but I do think that that doesn't mean, um, actually John Verveke has this, has, has this interesting riff That has influenced my thoughts on the idea of the sacred. | ||
| What do you mean when you call something sacred? | ||
| Do you mean sacred as inexhaustible? | ||
| As in the human being is inexhaustible. | ||
| You'll never be able to fully grasp the deep essence of the human being. | ||
| Or do you mean sacredness as perfection? | ||
| And perfection, if something is perfect, then it's static and non-dynamic and therefore dead. | ||
| That's not it, yeah. | ||
| And like an idol. | ||
| So it's perfection or inexhaustible? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah. | |
| Tim, you actually mentioned that the universe was perfect the other night, and I think it was more that it's inexhaustible. | ||
| I think it's inexhaustible. | ||
| Because I've been thinking a lot about that phrase. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| We were talking about the perfection of the universe and how it just functions so perfectly, but how you're defining perfection is that it's static. | ||
| And the changing imperfections in the universe seem to give it this inexhaustible quality. | ||
| And what's the word for that? | ||
| The heat death of the universe is, as far as we know, an inevitability. | ||
| yeah if untouched but of course we we are the wardens of this space this is one thing i've talked i think the expansion of space right now it's beyond our understanding how to revert reverse this but it's entirely possible at least Well, I could be wrong about this, but I believe it's possible. | ||
| Life in the universe comes to a point where, sure, there's heat death of the universe, but maybe we create extremely advanced machines, extremely advanced AI, super intelligent, that just floats for billions of years until it interacts with that one electron and absorbs it, and then just keeps going without, you know, losing any. | ||
| And then it may take trillions of years, but it's eventually collecting all the matter and still functioning as some form of complex system. | ||
| Or maybe, by that point, we learn how to collapse and control space-time, and the universe just, we just, you know, whatever's created. | ||
| I hope I'm gone by that time. | ||
| You'll definitely be gone by that time. | ||
| I do not want to experience that. | ||
| Yeah, not interested. | ||
| All right, Martin the Panda has an additional. | ||
| He says, I was an atheist for 37 years and realized that's not what I wanted to leave my girls. | ||
| I began attending church for philosophical reasons, and now I have faith and a better understanding of purpose and place. | ||
| There's something more than just us. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| Very Jordan Peterson moment. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah. | |
| Jeremy McDude says, I have a theory regarding independent voters thinking the economy is good. | ||
| They live in non-blue hellholes and don't actually see many effects of the awful economy of 2021. | ||
| Even then, you should at least see how much you pay in gas. | ||
| Yeah, seriously. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Agent Juice Cartoon says, glad to see Chloe on the show. | ||
| Many LA animation groups are too identitarian. | ||
| I want to start an animation group with merit, professionalism, and equality instead. | ||
| Would love to see if Toe could help make that a group. | ||
| T-O-E. | ||
| T-O-E. | ||
| Theory of Enchantment. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Group a reality. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I don't know much about animation or that space. | ||
| I would be interested in knowing more about what's going on there. | ||
| It's like an art form, yeah. | ||
| Do you have a general help email line that you would have people contact? | ||
| Well, people can fill out, like, a form on our website if they're interested in, like, learning more and getting more information. | ||
| That's how I got in touch with you. | ||
| Nice! | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yes! | |
| Yes! | ||
| Works for me! | ||
| I recommend it. | ||
| Waffles Sensei says, Chloe, glad you came to talk about this stuff with a bunch of political commentators. | ||
| I think your organization will be the most influential because you keep your politics very milquetoast. | ||
| It makes people have to address the ideas on the merit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's a strength. | ||
| There's probably a bunch of Dr. Strange ones. | ||
| Oh, so many. | ||
| I see them, yes. | ||
| Are they? | ||
| they will actually yeah pretty much st. Matthew says Tim your Marvel idea | ||
| wouldn't work there was no multiverse yet as per Loki that's actually wrong | ||
| though Because, have you seen Loki? | ||
| No. | ||
| So, instantly, the moment that they, I guess, well, I forgot the woman's name already. | ||
| What was her name? | ||
| Sophie or something? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| She killed the one that remains or whatever. | ||
| Instantly, the timelines fracture. | ||
| So it's like, even if there is only one sacred timeline, in fact, the Loki timeline, where there's only one timeline, the sacred timeline, actually exists in a superposition of infinity with all the other timelines, just somewhat isolated from them, because they're, as he mentions, the moment you kill me, there will instantly be all these other, you know, conquerors who will be around you. | ||
| So, it did exist. | ||
| That's why I think there's an issue with the Loki show trying to do the Sacred Timeline, because we've already referenced the multiverse and other timelines, and they have no explanation for how this interferes with those ideas, other than to say, it was inevitable that the one that remains would be killed, shattering the Sacred Timeline, creating infinite timelines, and changing the past, and thus all those alternate universes could have existed anyway. | ||
| And the show, what if, actually explores these other universes, which exist anyway. | ||
| I did not follow that at all. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah, that was like another language, but I'm learning. | |
| Speaking of Marvel. | ||
| In the Loki show, there's only one timeline. | ||
| Because there's an organization called the TVA or whatever. | ||
| Timeline Variance Authority. | ||
| They destroy any multiverse branch. | ||
| Okay. So anything that deviates from their scripted timeline, they go there, they destroy, | ||
| and they send it to like a death dimension. However, at the end, a female Loki variant | ||
| kills the guy enforcing it, then the entire Sacred Timeline shatters into infinite universes, | ||
| which means that the whole thing is in a state of flux of back and forth. | ||
| Okay. Because then there's a war between the one that remains, one maintains the Sacred Universe, | ||
| which instantly collapses because it's time, there's no past or future, so it's still multiverse. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| They all exist before the prime universe and after the prime universe and during the prime universe because time is a torus of motion. | ||
| All right, we'll just read one more because we've gone a bit way over. | ||
| A bit way over. | ||
| Okay, Mickey Mouse says, Ian, rights aren't the ability to defend oneself, they are what gives you the moral high ground when you have to defend yourself. | ||
| Yes, rights are what give you the legal, essentially legal authority. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Moral. | |
| Not legal. | ||
| Laws are not morality. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Wait, what? | |
| Yeah, I agree with that. | ||
| Just because something's legal doesn't mean it's moral. | ||
| No, right, right. | ||
| Oh, but you think rights give you... are basically your justification for doing the morally just thing. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, probably. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Well, thank you, friends, for hanging out this Friday night. | ||
| You effectively got a bonus segment, I guess. | ||
| We normally don't do it, but... | ||
| You can follow the show at TimCastIRL. | ||
| You can check out youtube.com slash cast slash cast castle for all the vlogs we're putting up and you can watch what we're doing on a day-to-day basis and the funny thing is you can watch me somehow in between all the work I'm doing tending to the chickens because it's just non-stop work all day every day. | ||
| You can follow me personally at TimCast, become a member at TimCast.com, support our journalism. | ||
| Do you want to shout out your social media or anything else? | ||
| Sure, check out theoryofenchantment.com. | ||
| You can follow me on Twitter at cvaldory, also enchanttheory. | ||
| You can also follow me on Instagram at cvaldory and theoryofenchantment. | ||
| Any other wisdom? | ||
| I would say maketh thy business to know thyself, which is the hardest thing to do in the world. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's why I like to make internet videos and watch myself be an idiot on TV. | ||
| Can't deny it anymore after that. | ||
| Also, you can follow me at Ian Crossland if you want to. | ||
| But do it, yeah. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| I appreciated Chloe's wisdom tonight. | ||
| It is very rare to find a very wise and philosophical lady. | ||
| Very short supply. | ||
| We need to bring that back. | ||
| Yes, we do. | ||
| We need to make it cool again. | ||
| I'm excited to see it coming back. | ||
| You guys should follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Lids as I attempt to have more followers in Sour Patch Kids. | ||
| I'm 5,000 away, so please join me. | ||
| We have a new members-only show coming up very soon. | ||
| We're not necessarily going to have a set schedule, but it's going to be called The Green Room. | ||
| And the idea is when guests arrive, there's actually about 10 to 15 minutes where there's fun and weird conversations. | ||
| When Steve Bannon came and he met Andreas, who's a, you know, Ian's friend. | ||
| Andreas Nicholas. | ||
| Exertus, you've seen his shirt on me before. | ||
| Andreas was saying so many crazy things to Steve Bannon, but Steve Bannon was into it, and, you know, Andreas was talking about transhumanism and, like, cyber-Marxism or whatever, and, like, after the show, Bannon's like, who is that guy? | ||
| He's a genius. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I thought it was hilarious, but there's, like, you know, it's a very, very weird I don't know. |
Export Selection