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the Joe Rogan experience. Yeah, that's why I think that activities are really important for people. There's a lot of people that unfortunately don't engage in activity. They don't engage in they don't have hobbies, lessons or anything like that. Learn a language. Do do something. Do something that's exciting. Learn the art of learning. You know, the problem with our education system, Gorvid was saying this is that was that we don't have an education system that teaches you how to think, right? We don't. We don't. That's so true. And and that's that's that's the there is an art to learning, man. There's an art to learning. There's an art to how an art to being a human being. That's right. It really is. And no one teaches us. We don't know what the [ __ ] we're doing. We're all idiots raising other people by with, you know, the same flaws that we were raised with. There's no there's no manual for it. Exactly. And there's And you know, when you look at what we consider our our our source of uh education as far as like what is distributed to us nightly, what's the news, right? I mean, that's really the education that people have today. Once you get out of school, unless you're reading books on your own, where are you getting your information about the world? You're getting it from the [ __ ] news. Well, the news doesn't really represent what's a going on in the world, and b, it doesn't say anything about how you should be dealing with this, how you should be thinking, how we how we should resolve these issues. It's like this tattletail that just goes running over and tells us about all the [ __ ] up [ __ ] that's happening in the world, but they don't there's it's not a dialogue with a person. It's like a source of information. By the way, that that complaint goes back at least 3,500 years. Socrates when he was in at his trial said, you take a you wouldn't take a horse to try to ride it and not train it. The same applies to a human being. You've got to you got to start with with the notion of he was trying to teach philosophy in the sense that you better you better know what questions to ask throughout your life. And we should start with young people, educate young people the right way with the right questions. If you don't do that, then
then you know, you've got to start with a base almost, you know, and and uh we don't we don't do that, man. We it's it's almost like learning jiu-jitsu, just learning moves without learning the principles behind it first. Yeah. Well, it's also like learning jiu-jitsu without going over the real correct drills, you know, like learning real life, you know, applications and and you know, the way school is set up. You know it again, you [ __ ] The way school is set up, it's they have x amount of thousand kids and they have to get these kids through with a basic understanding of the building blocks of our world. They have to understand math. They have to understand how to structure a sentence. They understand they have to understand how to form paragraphs and they they got to know what happened in the past and then you're off on your own. Good luck, [ __ ] Next stop college. Um I I saw uh quite a few of your videos online. really uh really really interesting conversations and one of them that really struck me was um you well there was several of them that struck me but one of them was your story of being mugged and you you told people on an online room like where you got mugged and people were upset that you in telling them that you got in telling the world that you got mugged there it was lowering their property values. Yeah, that was a that was a bad one. Um that's so crazy. Yeah, I mean it was one thing to get mugged which is kind of freaky in itself. Uh you know and whatever you know shame and weirdness goes with that but um I guess what I was trying to do I mean deep down was probably elicit you know love and affection from the people on my list you know. So I put up oh you know and there was a a social some social responsibility to it. So, I put up where I got mug cuz everyone should know this is maybe a dangerous stretch here. We got to maybe get a light. But, um yeah, so I sent I sent it out and then um the first two emails I got back from this like loving list of parents was, "How dare you say exactly where it happened? You know, we live right across the street. You know, you're going to lower our property values." I'm like, "Are you selling now? Is that is that No, we're not selling." But it was a really weird
time when people needed their property values to go up because they were trying to get bigger mortgages and pay down and do all that. Um, and it was just like so panicky there about that that some, you know, someone was afraid, oh, what if a newspaper covers it and it's bad and what if I It's so weird when ones and zeros trump humanity, you know? And in that case, that's exactly what that is. That's ones and zeros trump humanity. Well, yeah. and two kinds of ones and zeros, you know, the the ones and zeros of money, you know, and the ones and zeros of sort of of digital technology, which I think can create a kind of a distance. Mhm. Because you're not feeling the impact of saying that to someone's face that you're Yeah. There's a weird communication that takes place online that's you it doesn't have any consequence. You know, you can you can do it anonymously and there's this it's like these barbs that you can just send out and illogically like in in in ways that you would never if you had to deal with someone one-on-one cuz you would feel it. You would look at them, you would feel the response. You would be like, why are you saying this? Like like why why are you being such an [ __ ] But because you are anonymous, you just so people are just like in this unnatural communication thing, right? But then the the the part that then worries me after that is if you get used to doing it like that in an anonymous way online, does that start to make the behavior a bit more normative when you're even with your identity, you know? Oh, I guarantee it has to. It's it has to there's there's no free rides when it comes to that. I I really feel like your thoughts your connect like there was always a thing I remember when I was in high school this someone in my school newspaper wrote like a funny critique about the Boy Scouts and one of the things that he didn't like about the Boy Scouts was that they wanted you to keep your thoughts pure and he was like you know well my thoughts are my own thoughts you know it just as long as I don't do anything I don't think there's anything wrong with my thoughts right I thought that was really smartly argued I remember reading that going wow this kid's pretty clever But then I thought about it. I'm like, but you if you're
thinking about creepy [ __ ] you probably are kind of creepy, you know, and it's it's not going to get any better. Just, you know, you're just going to eventually one day you're going to snap and then you're going to do something creepy thing. Yeah. If you really are like the I don't know. I mean, everyone has their own definition of thoughts being pure, you know, like a more lenient person might allow a lot of like healthy sexual things in the idea of thoughts being pure as long as it's not creepy. But there's other people that would just sit around and say, "Well, let me just think about creepy [ __ ] all day and not do it and I'm fine." But you're not. There's no free ride. There may be though. You think so? I mean, well, I mean, what you're describing what you're describing is, you know, the benefits of an absolute police state as long as it was always right. You know, that's the problem. That's the problem. I mean, then you can always get your a minority report, you know, just in case maybe they're wrong. Not really subscribing that. I'm just saying that you really can't you can't have really shitty thoughts and get through. And I think that if you're really shitty online, if you have those thoughts, even if it's only online, I really believe that negative energy is going to leak over. Genuinely shitty. I mean, it's just how do you decide what's what's shitty and what's not? But yeah, you know, it's people when they're the meaner you are online without your face, the meaner you can be online with your face and the meaner you can get in real life, you know, until you just got mean people. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] You ready to record? It's recording. Oh, it is already. Yeah. What the [ __ ] son?