WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.220 Overcoming the political divide is because I realized that behind the, like, 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.820 being pulled to each side and being kinda made crazy by the media, 3 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:15.059 we actually want the same things and we share generally values. 4 00:00:15.335 --> 00:00:22.395 There are some differences in values, but they're overcomeable because there's a common ground in values, which is very important. 5 00:00:22.775 --> 00:00:26.455 So I think it is entirely possible to overcome the political divide. 6 00:00:26.455 --> 00:00:30.795 There needs to be some a lot of healing and some other stuff to make that happen. 7 00:00:31.095 --> 00:00:36.710 But But the second part is the creating the world we wanna live in because as human beings, we're extremely creative. 8 00:00:37.010 --> 00:00:39.430 Right? We are able to create 9 00:00:40.050 --> 00:00:41.270 the world in 10 00:00:41.650 --> 00:00:43.670 in our image as we want it, 11 00:00:43.970 --> 00:00:50.074 as we see it with our minds, when we associate with the true self that we are, which is spirit, 12 00:00:50.454 --> 00:00:51.915 which is soul, which is 13 00:00:52.934 --> 00:00:58.555 light. But when we're stuck in our small self, our small hurt, scared self, then 14 00:00:59.010 --> 00:00:59.750 then we 15 00:01:00.130 --> 00:01:02.710 can't. And so the more that we can come together as a people 16 00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:08.610 in it from a place of love and spirit and soul, then we can actually create something magnificent together. 17 00:01:08.610 --> 00:01:12.550 And that's what we're that's what this is all about. So I hope that you will 18 00:01:13.585 --> 00:01:16.725 be inspired by this and be part of that journey of creating that. 19 00:01:17.345 --> 00:01:17.845 Strategies. 20 00:01:18.945 --> 00:01:22.405 If we can come to a rough agreement on outcomes and values, 21 00:01:22.945 --> 00:01:25.604 then we can have a conversation about how to get there. 22 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:33.500 Assuming we can agree to something along the lines of the values and outcomes I've shared, these are the kinds of questions we'd want to ask about strategies. 23 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:40.220 What makes people happy? Is it faster Internet, legalized weed, and more DoorDash? 24 00:01:40.895 --> 00:01:43.634 Is it more connection with self, loved ones, 25 00:01:43.935 --> 00:01:45.075 spirit, and nature? 26 00:01:45.534 --> 00:01:46.994 Or is it something else? 27 00:01:47.454 --> 00:01:48.835 What creates health? 28 00:01:49.295 --> 00:01:51.314 Is it more vaccines and cheaper drugs? 29 00:01:51.534 --> 00:01:55.314 Is it fewer vaccines and drugs, cleaner food, and more exercise? 30 00:01:55.790 --> 00:01:57.010 Or is it something 31 00:01:57.549 --> 00:02:00.770 else? Sidebar here. I just saw on acts this morning that 32 00:02:01.150 --> 00:02:06.850 America and Europe are dependent, and the rest of the world, I think, are dependent on China for, like, 95% 33 00:02:07.070 --> 00:02:09.330 of the raw materials that go into 34 00:02:10.190 --> 00:02:11.250 drugs and medicines, 35 00:02:12.315 --> 00:02:17.135 which to me and now there's a trade war happening right now between China and America. 36 00:02:17.755 --> 00:02:23.755 And when I read that, I'm like, that's a great opportunity to actually realize that we don't need the drugs and they're not helping. 37 00:02:23.755 --> 00:02:26.415 Like, the drugs are just masking the symptoms 38 00:02:27.260 --> 00:02:31.520 of an underlying disease that is not being addressed, and that's how western medicine works. 39 00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:37.200 And so if we actually wanna create health rather than a an absence or masking of symptoms, 40 00:02:38.140 --> 00:02:41.415 then we might wanna take this opportunity to actually rethink things. 41 00:02:41.814 --> 00:02:46.715 And so what you're seeing in politics right now is that we have a government that's cleaning up a lot of things, 42 00:02:47.094 --> 00:02:52.474 like with RFK Jr, with food dyes, and maybe he's gonna address vaccines at some point. 43 00:02:52.935 --> 00:02:54.954 But we're not seeing 44 00:02:55.989 --> 00:02:58.810 any spiritual approach to health that recognizes 45 00:02:59.430 --> 00:03:01.849 the field, the energy field around the body 46 00:03:02.310 --> 00:03:04.890 and how the mind and the body is connected, 47 00:03:05.190 --> 00:03:09.690 even though we know that from placebo effects. Anyway, so, sidebar, we'll get to that later. 48 00:03:09.910 --> 00:03:10.890 Back to the manuscript. 49 00:03:11.435 --> 00:03:12.815 What creates prosperity? 50 00:03:13.275 --> 00:03:18.495 Is it raising the minimum wage, controlling prices, and printing money to pay for foreign wars? 51 00:03:19.035 --> 00:03:23.615 Is it teaching people to save and invest, change their mindset, and acquire new skills? 52 00:03:23.915 --> 00:03:25.350 Or is it something else? 53 00:03:25.910 --> 00:03:27.030 What creates safety? 54 00:03:27.030 --> 00:03:31.770 Is it fewer guns, defunding the police, fighting wars, and allowing more immigrants in? 55 00:03:32.070 --> 00:03:39.770 Is it more guns in the hands of the right people, locking criminals away and incentivizing families to stay together, or is it something else? 56 00:03:41.075 --> 00:03:45.655 What creates a thriving economy? Is it printing more money and more government spending? 57 00:03:45.955 --> 00:03:50.695 Is it reducing the regulations, reducing the size of government, or is it something else? 58 00:03:50.915 --> 00:03:52.535 What creates a healthy planet? 59 00:03:52.910 --> 00:03:55.090 Is it more windmills and solar panels? 60 00:03:55.150 --> 00:04:00.130 Is it more nuclear power, tapping into zero point energy and respecting the natural ecology, 61 00:04:00.510 --> 00:04:01.890 or is it something else? 62 00:04:02.270 --> 00:04:07.330 What makes elections secure and fair? Is it mail in ballots and no ID requirements? 63 00:04:08.165 --> 00:04:12.425 Is it in person voting, ID requirements, and paper ballots? Or is it something else? 64 00:04:12.805 --> 00:04:17.144 What makes the media honest? Is it government funded media and censorship? 65 00:04:17.524 --> 00:04:22.105 Is it x with its free speech focus and community notes? Or is it something else? 66 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:24.740 Those are the kinds of conversations 67 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.020 we should have. 68 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:30.020 I have my ideas, of course, but that's not the point. The point is 69 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:37.139 that if we settle on values and desired outcomes, then we can start crowdsourcing and experimenting our way to the best strategies. 70 00:04:37.895 --> 00:04:39.515 That would actually be productive. 71 00:04:40.615 --> 00:04:50.315 In today's politics, rather than have the important conversations about outcomes, values, and strategies, we demonize each other and get into unproductive arguments over Thanksgiving dinners. 72 00:04:50.535 --> 00:04:51.835 We gotta change that. 73 00:04:52.860 --> 00:04:54.400 Actions lead to results. 74 00:04:54.860 --> 00:05:00.080 The way we achieve anything in life is that we take actions, and those actions lead to results. 75 00:05:00.620 --> 00:05:06.800 You can say all the right things all day long. You can want an outcome super duper bad. 76 00:05:06.945 --> 00:05:09.685 You can even take so much action that you burn yourself 77 00:05:10.225 --> 00:05:13.765 out. None of that is guaranteed to make the outcome happen. 78 00:05:14.145 --> 00:05:19.125 Making outcomes happen is hard, as we've seen with NASA and Boeing and SpaceX. 79 00:05:20.065 --> 00:05:22.725 Sidebar here. The story here, obviously, is, like, NASA 80 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:26.440 has been, like, been buyer in in chaos, not being able to do anything. 81 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:32.280 Boeing has also not being able to send rockets or, like, been, like, way costly and not very effective. 82 00:05:32.280 --> 00:05:35.160 And then SpaceX comes in, and they figure out how to make it happen. 83 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:39.705 Like, just because you want it, just because you have money, just because you have people, just because you desire it, 84 00:05:40.085 --> 00:05:41.384 doesn't mean that you actually 85 00:05:41.845 --> 00:05:43.705 get the outcome. Right? 86 00:05:44.245 --> 00:05:49.520 Like, not rocket science here. But it's like when it get when it gets to policy, we kinda forget 87 00:05:49.980 --> 00:05:50.060 this. 88 00:05:50.060 --> 00:05:55.840 So if a politician says, we're gonna roll out broadband to everybody or to rule blah blah blah blah, we're like, alright. 89 00:05:56.300 --> 00:06:01.100 And we're gonna spend a lot of money doing it. Well, then it must happen. Then it must be good. No. 90 00:06:01.100 --> 00:06:06.785 You can spend a lot of money doing something that you wanna do, and that would be good if it happened and still not do it. 91 00:06:06.785 --> 00:06:07.845 It's very possible. 92 00:06:08.385 --> 00:06:09.365 Back to the manuscript. 93 00:06:10.065 --> 00:06:14.805 Of course, we all know this. Saying you want to lose weight doesn't make the weight come off. 94 00:06:14.865 --> 00:06:17.669 Wanting to lose weight, even wanting it really badly, 95 00:06:17.970 --> 00:06:19.669 doesn't make the weight come off. 96 00:06:19.889 --> 00:06:24.150 Making a solemn vow on New Year's Eve doesn't make the weight come off. 97 00:06:24.210 --> 00:06:30.595 Even doing a lot of dieting and exercising and watching YouTube videos about losing weight doesn't make the weight come off. 98 00:06:30.735 --> 00:06:32.275 Only the correct action 99 00:06:32.655 --> 00:06:33.475 taken consistently 100 00:06:34.095 --> 00:06:37.935 over a long period of time will make that darn weight come off. Trust me. 101 00:06:37.935 --> 00:06:41.135 I have some experience with this. And it's not just what you do. 102 00:06:41.135 --> 00:06:48.250 It's also what you don't do, and the order in which you do them, and the energy and intention with which you do them. 103 00:06:48.469 --> 00:06:52.729 And just because you make the weight come off once doesn't mean it'll stay off. 104 00:06:53.349 --> 00:06:56.009 Achieving desired outcomes is hard. 105 00:06:56.474 --> 00:07:00.094 If it were easy, we'd all be ripped billionaire rock stars. 106 00:07:00.794 --> 00:07:10.974 And yet, when it comes to politics, all our common sense just flies out the window as we listen to our favorite politicians saying all the right things and we clap our little hands. 107 00:07:12.250 --> 00:07:16.510 When a politician says they wanna do something, it's a really good idea to be skeptical. 108 00:07:16.970 --> 00:07:23.710 Not only do they often lie, but even if they mean to do it doesn't mean that they know how to actually do it. 109 00:07:24.010 --> 00:07:27.310 I'm not convinced they're all the brightest bulbs in the box. 110 00:07:28.385 --> 00:07:29.285 Solving problems. 111 00:07:29.825 --> 00:07:32.005 I was a big Bernie fan in 2016. 112 00:07:32.145 --> 00:07:35.665 By this time, I had lost faith in Obama. He hadn't held Wall Street accountable. 113 00:07:35.665 --> 00:07:37.025 He didn't close Guantanamo Bay. 114 00:07:37.025 --> 00:07:40.885 He bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia. 115 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.780 But I wasn't hearing Bernie's actual, you know, words. 116 00:07:45.080 --> 00:07:50.840 I was just swept in by his vibe. Yeah. The system's corrupt. Washington's broken. We need to fix it. 117 00:07:50.840 --> 00:07:51.340 Yay. 118 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:53.980 Same vibe that got me to believe in Obama. 119 00:07:54.475 --> 00:07:56.895 How easily we're fooled by the vibe. 120 00:07:57.275 --> 00:08:02.015 We all know that most politicians will say whatever works to get them elected. It's theater. 121 00:08:02.395 --> 00:08:07.849 And yet a part of us still believes that they mean what they say. We want to believe them so bad. 122 00:08:08.389 --> 00:08:14.810 The point is that if we actually wanna achieve something, we can't just jump straight into doing stuff that feels right. 123 00:08:15.110 --> 00:08:18.250 We have to analyze, think, study, and experiment. 124 00:08:18.789 --> 00:08:22.250 You must identify the root causes and address them. 125 00:08:23.485 --> 00:08:25.164 Sidebar, just as with health. 126 00:08:25.164 --> 00:08:29.264 If you're not addressing if you're just addressing the symptom and not the root cause, 127 00:08:29.565 --> 00:08:33.745 what the fuck? You're actually allowing the underlying disease to get worse 128 00:08:34.205 --> 00:08:36.705 while the symptoms are being asked. Right? 129 00:08:37.899 --> 00:08:38.860 Back to the script. 130 00:08:38.860 --> 00:08:45.360 You must look at all the consequences of your potential actions, including second, third, and fourth order consequences, 131 00:08:46.060 --> 00:08:47.600 not just the ones you want. 132 00:08:48.060 --> 00:08:52.160 When drugs have side effects to the body, those are all just effects. 133 00:08:52.835 --> 00:08:56.295 Side effects is just a word the drug company says so you don't notice. 134 00:08:56.675 --> 00:09:04.770 Bottom line is that for a proper solution, we need an honest, thorough analysis of every factor before we can pick the best course of action. 135 00:09:04.770 --> 00:09:10.230 And then we must try things out and see how they work in practice because there are always unforeseen consequences. 136 00:09:11.010 --> 00:09:18.790 It's super important to get it right because most of the time when the government tries to fix the problem, the problem somehow gets worse. 137 00:09:19.575 --> 00:09:20.795 Poverty, terrorism, 138 00:09:21.175 --> 00:09:22.475 foreign wars, homelessness, 139 00:09:22.855 --> 00:09:27.835 drugs, racism, mental illness, health, the list goes on and on. 140 00:09:28.055 --> 00:09:31.115 It's a pattern, and I think it's by design. 141 00:09:31.575 --> 00:09:33.915 The purpose of a system is what it does. 142 00:09:34.401 --> 00:09:38.821 But whether or not it is by design, we need to stop letting them do this to us.