i don’t want to come off sounding high-minded or anything like that you know i’m just looking at the world per se and um what has just happened not just our country but all over the world like this virus has come out and everyone got caught with their pants down what kind of prep was made everywhere now what if that virus was more deadly mm-hmm so we have to be smart yeah would would that would that unify the world against a common enemy or would it separate the world more and here’s remember i had i tried a guy named uh peter attila he’s a doctor and he was a doctor in a um in the trauma center an er doctor in baltimore and so i forget the statistics he was dealing with something like 18 puncture wounds a day so that’s shootings and stabbings this is baltimore you know one of the worst crime rates in it’s actually one of the worst crime rates in the world i don’t know if you knew that it’s in the whole world it’s one of the worst crime rates so that’s what he’s dealing with and what he said was when you have a family come in that’s gone through this kind of trauma usually it’s the loss of someone because these puncture wounds or you know stabbings or not everyone says hate to use the word not everyone’s as lucky as your brother was taking a seven inch knife to the chest and surviving right most people are gonna die from that and that’s what happens so what he said was if the family is tight if they’re tight-knit family and they and this horrible event occurs this pressure will make them even tighter however opposite is also true if there’s fractures in the family those fractures under that pressure explode and it destroys the families so i think what you’re seeing right now and what you’re talking about is let’s face it in the world as a species there’s fractures right there’s fractures with different countries there’s fractures with different cultures and all of a sudden we just got put under pressure by the disease and what we’re seeing now is we’re starting to see these fractures expand and what i will from my perspective the thing that we miss and i keep trying to say this in different ways and maybe i i mean i’ll keep trying to say it you know in the military what you end up doing is you end up dehumanizing the enemy and it’s kind of a goal right kind of a goal to say you know what i’m gonna have to go kill these people that’s what i’m gonna get told to do i’m gonna go kill these people so you know what i’m not even calling people because there’s some part of your subconscious that says hey it’s not okay to kill people so you know what i’m going to call them animals i’m going to call them savages i’m going to call them whatever i’m going to call them uh krauts right world war ii i’m going to call them gooks in the korean war we’re going to give them names that’s not people so now we start to dehumanize them and now also it’s a little easier makes that job a little bit easier to kill them okay so that’s war that’s what happens there well what happens when you start looking at of the different culture and you start doing the same thing because you’re like well i got to take care of the p we’re gonna we’re getting pressured by this disease we’re getting pressured by it and i’m gonna take care of the people that are with me and what do i do how do i how do i be mentally okay with that i got a good solution for you i’m gonna dehumanize the other people yeah and now we get separated and now we don’t talk to them and so that’s what when you talk about jeff when you go to these other countries and you start talking to people all of a sudden they’re not russians to you they’re whatever uh uh ivan you know they’re a person with a family and it becomes they become humanized to you just like when they meet you and they go you know they have this horrible vision of what americans are like and then they meet you and you’re cool and guess what you all do jiu-jitsu and you like foot locks and it’s like all of a sudden it becomes human but we don’t do that we don’t humanize each other on a broad scale which is very strange right now because we should have the ability to do that better than anyone right now right because we’ve got all these communication systems set up where we should be able to say hey everybody look let’s let’s be together but instead we show each other the worst part of our of ourselves and and we place blame instead of taking ownership and that’s kind of how we do so instead of us unifying as you said jeff this pressure that gets put on us by something like this virus all of a sudden we become more fragmented and when we become fragmented the ability to communicate with each other goes down instead of up and the possibility of someone actually saying hey hold on a minute you know other human or other thing wait maybe you have some of the same whatever you just said jeff about like hey everyone’s pretty much got the same goals right like you said like hey i want my kids to have a better life than me i want my kids to do better than me i want them to have a a nice be able to be able to have their own family and kind of repeat what we did here yeah that’s kind of a common theme and it’s the same thing in iraq you know whenever i explain an iraqi family to people i say oh if you want to know what an iraqi family is like it’s very easy for me to explain it’s like an american family like if you have you asking some iraqi dad what his goal is his goal is to take care of his kids you know build up a house build the business so their kit that’s what their goals are the same thing when you ask an american dad that same thing so it’s across the board we get in these situations where instead of we’re on like a mass dehumanization mode well howard the relevance to jiu jitsu is there’s definitely a clannish aspect to all martial arts i train taekwondo you’re training muay thai you know you’re nothing you know this kind of attitude of um well and from my experience going and learning a different martial art starting from ground up you see that the martial arts also all have the same goal of i get into an altercation i can take care of myself yeah you know so it’s i think um learning this stuff has has kind of uh it’s changed me in a way where i’m trying to instead of comparing contrast i’m trying to see how we’re more similar rather than how we’re more different that’s a way to it’s a way to see it
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