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Introduction.

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There's an illustration here in the book. This is my map of what's happening in the world.

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Basically, you've got a

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graph from left to right where you've got, like, the left, the center, the right.

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This is the normal sort of political

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narrative like, the political

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spectrum, if you will.

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But then there's another dimension from bottom to top, which is the low rung and the high rung.

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And this is gonna be a very important distinction when we get to it. And the

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graphic here is essentially two people that are being puppeteered

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and kind of pulled to each side, but they're being played by some hands that are outside of this entire matrix.

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And that is something that's gonna be important later on. Introduction.

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Why the hell are we fighting if we all want the same thing?

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That's the question I couldn't stop thinking about.

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Writing about politics is not for the faint of heart. It's like walking into the fire.

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There's no turning back. I'm certainly not writing this book to get rich. I expect to lose clients.

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In fact, I've already lost one and the book isn't even out yet.

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I'm okay with that. It's the price we pay for standing for something.

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I'm writing this because I feel is my duty.

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I'm not gonna lie. It is scary though.

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The thing that triggers me emotionally is when people get upset over things I didn't say and don't mean.

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The client that left my coaching program did so citing two topics I didn't even talk about.

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She heard some other voice in her head and got angry at me. It feels unfair. It hurts.

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And then I remind myself of the words of Byron Katie, I've been spared.

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When people self select out of your life, you're always better off without them.

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Until they come back. If they do, then you'll be better off with them again.

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I love how life always works out exactly the way it's supposed to.

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I'm not blaming the people who react this way.

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My emotional reaction is mine to heal, and I'm grateful I got to see what needs healing.

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Let's do it right now in real time.

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Healing the emotional trigger.

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What's the underlying fear? What's my inner caveman afraid of?

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He's afraid that the people

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I believe I depend upon for my survival will reject me because I revealed my private thoughts.

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I've somehow revealed something that makes me a bad person.

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I didn't know I was a bad person. I don't think I'm a bad person.

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But something I said is to them irrefutable

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proof that I am a bad person.

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What if they're right and I'm just missing it? What if I'm so bad I can't even see how bad I am?

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That's scary.

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He's also scared that even people who agree with me will turn their backs on me because they're afraid of the blowback.

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He's afraid that people will reject me without telling me why, so I never get a chance to improve or restore the connection.

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He's afraid I'll lose my income because current clients will quit and no one new signs up.

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That I'll end up alone, sick, poor, and die a miserable death.

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No family, no friends, no money, no food. A pariah, an outcast.

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That's a scary story.

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No wonder he's afraid.

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I know my intentions are good. I know I don't hold ill will towards anyone.

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I know that I only want happiness, health, prosperity, safety, freedom,

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power, and truth for everyone.

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And yet my inner caveman is terrified I might say something

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that will anger the mob with no recourse,

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leading to a painful and lonely death.

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The beautiful thing is that once you've looked your fear straight in the eyes, it no longer has the same power over you.

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You see that the fear is overblown.

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You've seen where it leads. You've seen the bogeyman

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under the bed.

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He's not real. He's not that scary.

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You'll figure it out. You can relax now.

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I bet I'm not the only one who has similar fears.

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You can see why people are reluctant to get involved in politics.

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Blowback.

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Some of these events came true for me four years ago.

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I posted stuff exposing the lies about COVID and BLM, sometimes with a touch of humor, irony, or sarcasm.

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One of the things I shared was a twenty minute video about some of the things I'd learned from reading Thomas Sowell's excellent book, black retnecks and white liberals.

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Read it if you haven't. It's eye opening.

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The vitriol of people's reactions

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shocked me.

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The owner of a PR agency I worked with, someone I considered a good friend, dumped me.

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I asked to learn what I said that was offensive, and I suggested we get dinner and hear each other out.

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No interest.

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Ouch.

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One day, I was texting a new friend with whom I was planning to go into business, and he replied with, Calvin, you can go ahead and delete my number.

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I have zero tolerance for racism and bigotry in my life.

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Me? Racist?

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That's crazy.

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Ouch.

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At my software company, Simplero,

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we were in the final stages of a potentially very lucrative business partnership when it was summarily terminated

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via this brief impersonal email.

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This letter serves as our notice to you that we are

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terminating our relationship with Simplaro pursuant to the terms of agreement dated 05/12/2020.

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Pursuant to this agreement, please destroy all company confidential information provided to Simplero.

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No further explanation or communication.

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No replies to my follow ups. Ouch.

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It hurts when people reject me like that. I know I've done nothing wrong.

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Nothing other than to challenge

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orthodoxy,

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of course.

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And that might be the greatest crime of all.

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After all, Galileo was put in house arrest for life, forced to publicly recant his beliefs, and his works were still banned.

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At least he had it pretty good compared to the Soviet Union, where he'd been thrown in the gulags

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to do forced labor under harsh conditions

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and slowly starve to death amid violence and mistreatments.

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Yikes.

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We think it couldn't happen here, but we know better now.

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Never forget that humans did these things to other humans.

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When whipped into a frenzy, they'll do it again.

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It's just a matter of pushing the right buttons in the right sequence.

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We saw this during COVID where people felt righteous in forcing, shaming, and threatening others into taking an unproven

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pharma injection.

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And people on TV said with a straight face that if they wouldn't, they shouldn't be treated in hospitals

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or be allowed to dine in restaurants.

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When legitimate, honest, well reasoned, and well intended political speech becomes this fraught, we're in a dark place as a society.

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It will scare half the country to shut up, bow their heads, and live in fear

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It doesn't matter what your political views are, we must come together as a people and agree that we need to be able to talk to each other, to listen to each other, to assume innocence, and make a genuine effort to understand each other's worldview.

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How radicalization

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When people respond in the way I experienced in 2020, it's easy to get radicalized.

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I know I had the best intentions.

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I'm fairly sure I said nothing wrong, and no one has pointed to anything specific I said was wrong,

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ever.

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Hasn't happened.

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When people on the other side won't engage in honest conversation, when they just end a personal relationship and label you racist

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and misogynist and bigoted, it's tempting to just conclude that the other side is dishonest, beyond hope, a bunch of NPCs,

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and to give up on them altogether.

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That's why this type of response only helps to radicalize us.

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I may have been wrong about everything I said. I may have said things that were, in fact, racist.

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But ending the relationship with no possibility of repair and honest dialogue

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will only make people more radical.

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The people I mentioned may believe themselves to be on the side of tolerance, kindness, love, and honesty.

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They may believe that I am an intolerant, unkind, unloving, dishonest person, but there is no tolerance,

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kindness, love, or honesty in how they responded to me.

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I don't blame them. I'm not upset with them. We've all been traumatized and weaponized

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into reacting how we react.

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Even so, we have to do better.

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All of us need to remember that if I've seen what you've seen, I probably believe most of what you believe.

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And if I believed what you believe, I would do the exact same thing that you do.

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You and I are not enemies.

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We're neighbors. We're husband and wife. We're uncles and aunts and nephews and nieces.

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We're parents and children. We're coworkers.

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No matter how much we disagree on politics or worldviews,

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we're all on the same team. We're all innocent children at heart.

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We all want what we believe is best.

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If I believed what you believe, I too

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would believe that same thing

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would be best.

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Never forget that. Keeping silent.

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Like I said, I think my fears and my experiences are quite common, and I think it's why so many people just keep their heads down and don't say anything publicly.

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I've had many private conversations

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with people who agree with me politically,

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but are too scared to say that precisely for fear of the backlash that I've experienced.

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They'll say, this conversation can never come out in public.

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I get it.

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There's very little upside to saying anything publicly unless you want to make your life and your personal brand

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all about politics.

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You alienate half of your employees and half of your customer base, and you gain nothing.

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I talk to many people who are afraid of revealing their true thoughts and feelings,

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always walking in eggshells trying to suss out the right thing to say, terrified they might slip up and say the wrong thing, accidentally revealing that they're bad because they had a forbidden thought.

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This triggers shame, the most painful feeling we can ever experience.

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I totally understand.

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This shame and the fear of being cast out of the tribe is deep and real.

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We're social creatures and we evolved to instinctively

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know that without the protection of the tribe, we're dead.

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And that's precisely how we end up sleepwalking into that dark future.

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Many people just want to stick their head in the sand and wait for the whole thing to blow over.

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I'm sorry to say, I'm not sure it will.

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I believe things are the way they are by design,

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and only men and women with the courage to speak their minds will turn things around.

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But to me, it's not a math equation weighing upsides and downsides.

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I believe it's our moral duty to stand for what's right.

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I will not let expedience and short term self interest get in the way of doing what my heart tells me is the right thing to do.

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I will not let expedience and short term self interest get in the way of doing what my heart tells me is the right thing to do.

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I believe we're already living in World War three, and it's being fought with information,

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not bombs.

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And you and I are the weapons.

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I will not sit idly by as we're being weaponized against each other and marched into a real life version of 1984

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because I was scared I'd lose a little money or a few, quote unquote, friends over it.

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The way to sidestep that a ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

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In the words of Martin Niemoller,

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first, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.

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Then, they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

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Then, they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

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Then, they came for me and there's no one left to speak for me.

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I believe we're sleepwalking into a dark future and it's our moral obligation to find the courage to act on principle, not expediency.

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Trauma.

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When your trauma wounds get triggered, what's happening is your survival mind reacts on pure instinct to anything that reminds you just a little bit of what traumatized you originally.

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It's all unconscious and it happens so fast that your conscious brain doesn't have time to get involved.

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And once your inner caveman or cavewoman has been activated, you simply cannot think clearly.

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In fight or flight, there's no time to analyze. Survival is at stake.

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It makes me sad that people have been so traumatized that an honest and and loving conversation about how to create a world that works best for everyone will so easily trigger their traumas.

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It also makes me angry because I believe it's all done intentionally by some very damaged people who only care about how it serves their agenda and to whom your trauma is just collateral damage.

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I believe it's been done to make us all easier to control and turn us into weapons that can be wielded against other people

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just by saying certain phrases in the media.

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It's like we've all been made into little Manchurian candidates.

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If you haven't watched that movie, go watch it.

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I heard this phrase over and over again about the Manchurian candidates. I didn't

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understand what it meant until I watched the movie and I was like, Oh my God.

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Like, this is actually a thing. This is kind of how it works.

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If you look at NK Ultra and stuff like that, it's like literally how that works.

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This makes it that much more important that those of us who still have the mental bandwidth to have rational and honest conversations

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find the courage to continue speaking and to hold space for people's emotional reactions.

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I wanna mention that some good things have happened too.

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People have told me privately that they agree with what I said and they appreciate me saying it, even though they won't say so publicly for fear of the backlash.

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I've also heard from people that even though they don't agree with me on everything it would be wild if they did they trust and respect me more because I say it.

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Getting triggered.

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If you read or hear anything in this book that triggers you emotionally perhaps it makes you feel scared,

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angry, sad, shame, guilt, the heart is racing, you feel the urge to label me or put me in a box,

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I'd invite you to pause and notice exactly what's happening.

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Slow down and pay attention.

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It's okay.

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Your inner caveman or cavewoman just got activated.

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I get it. It happens to all of us. It's normal. It's human.

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I'm not here to take away any of your rights, to deny anyone their experience,

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or to oppress anyone.

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Quite the contrary.

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I'm here to point a way forward to a world that would bring love, healing, and freedom.

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A world that would increase your rights, your freedoms, your prosperity, your health, and your joy dramatically.

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A society that would be fairer and make everyone better off.

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And more importantly, as a way that we can come together as a people and decide for ourselves

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how we want to live.

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The other side is not your enemy.

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They're your neighbor, your husband, your wife, your dad, your uncle, your son, your daughter.

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We're all on the same team.

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So when you get triggered, what was it that triggered you exactly?

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What were the words you read or heard?

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What did you make them mean?

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Pay close attention to your thoughts because they are always what's causing the emotion.

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Know that your emotional reaction is about you, and it's an invitation

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for you to step into more freedom.

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If you make it about me, you miss out on that opportunity.

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That doesn't mean you have to agree with me. I'm only talking about the emotional reaction.

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Your emotional triggers are always about you, not about whatever trigger you.

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We'll be diving deeper into that later because it holds the key to not just politics, but freedom and joy in all areas of life.

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A bad book.

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You might be afraid of even reading this book, afraid of being called names, of being seen as one of those people.

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Or you might be afraid of changing your mind on some important topic.

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Recognizing that you believed a lie can be painful to the ego.

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You may even be afraid of losing friends were you to change your mind.

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This is exactly why this book is so important.

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Because it's critical that we can disagree and still remain friends,

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still love and respect each other, still work together, play together, and celebrate holidays together.

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Belonging to tribes is fundamentally

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human.

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Families, sports teams, friend groups,

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fraternities, and yes, political factions.

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As part of any tribe, we quickly learn which opinions are acceptable and which are not.

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When someone joins a new company, for example, they are usually quiet until they learn how it's done around here, which is exactly the opposite of what you need as a leader in a company because you want outsiders to point out where you've become subject to group.

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I've experienced this in groups on the left where saying you're a Republican would get you labeled racist,

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and I've experienced it in groups on the right, where criticizing Jordan Peterson would make you an outcast.

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Tribes typically don't encourage

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open minded conversation.

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They don't say, oh, that's interesting. Tell me more.

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Instead, they shut down the conversation and let it be known that this line of thinking is not accepted.

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I'm disappointed in you. I thought you were one of us.

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Getting kicked out of the tribe is scary because we depend on the tribe for our survival.

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During our thousands of years on the savanna,

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being cast out of the tribe meant a painful death.

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I've had visions of past lives where I was a medicine man who got kicked out of a tribe by speaking an unwelcome truth.

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I have no idea if it's real, but it's a scary, painful memory that was lodged somewhere deep in my subconscious.

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It might be an archetype. You probably have some similar inside your unconscious mind.

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You may also be afraid that if you really follow my call to step up and take on the man behind the curtain,

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it might threaten you and your family's personal safety.

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And it might. I'm not gonna lie. They have lots of ways to go after people they don't like.

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Many people who know too much have suddenly turned out to be suicidal. It's very curious indeed.

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You may think it's not worth the fight, and I can't fault you for thinking this way.

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I'll just quote Edmund Burke.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.