Fear Factory

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I'm going to go back to the episode. It's been a little bit. I think I only did one episode last month. I lied. I said I was going to do two a month. I'm not doing one. I feel like it. I've hit that point in life and with this podcast where I'm just going to do them when I feel like I got something to say and share. That's this week. I actually got the name of this podcast from -- I don't know if you guys have been having the craziest, most vivid dreams recently or is that just me? It might be because I'm on a boat on the water and that just kind of lends itself to that. But holy shit. I had a dream last night with two dastardly characters named Sour Cherry and Sour Larry and as goofy as those names sound, they were very scary.

Legit nightmare material. I don't know what's up with that. How you guys doing, though? How's things been? How's manifesting your reality going? How's life and beyond treating you? Good. I hope so. Shout out to Lacey, those podcasts we did together, mine and for her podcast horror pod. Really good feedback. Love to see it. Love to hear it. This is going to be a meandering all over the place podcast because that's how we're doing it now. I wanted to talk about a couple of things that maybe don't have the best connotation but are nevertheless pretty cool which are fear and pessimism. I think we'll start with pessimism because that's one that's pretty good and useful to talk about because it's trendy and easy and lazy to be pessimistic.

It's a very easy thing to do. It seems like a smart thing to do. People actually get called really smart and intelligent and prophetic even when they're pessimistic because it seems like, wow, it's so wise. You're so good at predicting things like it is bad out there. There are so many reasons to be pessimistic but the truth is it's just lazy. It's just abundantly lazy. I don't know how else to say it. It's easy and lazy to be a pessimist. It's basically one of the easier things that you can do in life. The way that works is you look out in the world and you say, oh, there's so much bad stuff. There's so much suffering.

There's so many things that aren't going well and you may even look at your own life and go, oh, there's so many, so many things not going my way. But that's really just a choice that you're choosing to focus on anything. I said something about Twitter the other day because a lot of people flame Twitter. They're like, oh, it's so bad. Why do we go on it? It's so awful. I don't know if people are aware of this, but you get to choose who you follow on Twitter. That's a choice that you get to make. It's not being force fed to you. Now granted, if you're on the regular app, they actually do feed you some shit, but it's based on what you're already looking at.

Also, hot tip, use tweetbot if you're on iOS. You get things in chronological order and you only get the tweets from people you follow. You don't get that extra garbaggio. So there's a tip. But Twitter and life are both a cesspool of misinformation and a trove of incredible wisdom. What you focus on is what you get is just like life. There's no difference. It's not like there's a major difference there. We're going to be making some parallels to a lot of different things. This episode that I've realized, especially with crypto over the past year or four years, 10 years, it's the same thing as life.

Persistence, by the way, is probably the most, I don't want to say the most, it's one of the most important things you can have as a skill. Not giving up seems to be the main determining factor for most people's success, if not all successes, you just don't give up. You believe something with conviction and intuition, hopefully, and then you just don't give up and then it happens. That's literally how everything works. So what I'm saying here with pessimism is this, essentially, you look at something, you can choose to believe the worst half glass empty, things aren't going your way. The world is getting worse, things are horrible, people are stupid, well, people aren't getting vaccinated, everyone is horrible, people are getting vaccinated, how can they be so cheap?

It's just lazy, I'm trying to shame people, is that a good tactic? It's not a great tactic to try to shame people out of being pessimistic. It's just like, I don't know, it's like comedians punching down. By the way, Dave Chappell getting tons of pushback from this latest special, which I did not see, I did binge watch Squid Game last night, all nine episodes. Holy shit, that was a good show, but the show, holy shit, Chappell goes after the trans people and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I don't know, I don't think about trans people that much, I don't know any in my life personally, I've met a couple, I don't have obviously any issue with anyone related to their gender identity or politics or whatever it's just like, who cares, whatever you want to do, do it.

I think there's this cross section or intersection of identity that I push back on, just not even like gender identity, but just like any identity, seems like a tough sell, seems like a hard thing to do, so I do get that, I do get if you kind of center your life completely around an identity of either being trans or certain race or certain socioeconomic background, that doesn't seem fun, that seems like a game that you're destined to lose because it's not really true, right, these bodies we inhabit, these consciousness that we believe we are, it's not totally accurate, right, I mean we know that, we've seen enough cracks in the armor to know that that's not true, so I get kind of what Chappell was poking at with that, the outrage, the anger I can't comment on because I didn't watch it, I didn't hear any of it, I think sometimes we get caught in our own heads and feel that our opinions and our thoughts are very important and I think comedians have a tough job where they have to kind of like parse what the collective is going through and try to share their viewpoint and speak for other people who may be going through the same things but then sometimes you can get tunnel vision, right, focus, maybe a little bit too much, I think this is like classic Twitter behavior too, like you're thinking about something in your head, maybe something triggered you and then you tweet about it and then you're like and then it's like oh why did you, no one cares really at the end of the day, so I don't know, I don't know maybe think of that but it's been going on and basically the point is this with pessimism, it's lazy, it's super lazy, laziness in general, not a great quality, it's super easy, it's punching down, there are benefits, there are rewards to being pessimistic, like I said, you can seem incredibly wise if your outlook and view of the world is pessimistic, you, there's a quote by the economist is it John Stuart Mills who basically, I'm going to paraphrase here horribly that the man who or the person who says everything is horrible and bad and the world is getting worse is often proclaimed a sage in the world because it's like an easy thing to do, right, it's much harder to say hey listen, you look out in the world, you see a lot of bad shit, that's what you're perceiving, if you change internally, if you alchemize kind of what your beliefs feelings and thoughts are, you actively will change the world, your world first and foremost but then the world at large as well, that's a much tougher stance to take, it's also a tougher stance to maintain over time because chances are you're not purely going to get a reflection of a utopian perfect society, certainly not in the collective and even in your own life you're going to go through ups and downs, so it's not like you get to maintain this like high vibe, everything is great, nothing bad ever happens to me, mentality and life perception, so holding on to the idea that your viewpoint perspective and emotions shape your world, going through the ups and downs, that's harder, that's way harder, that's like running a marathon, right, with a smile on your face, pretty difficult, right, even if you finish the marathon, the chances are you had a great time the whole time, probably pretty low, but it's probably the proper perspective to maintain, if the premise is that what you focus on is what you get, what would you rather focus on, a world filled with misery, pessimism and fear or optimism, hope and joy, ah, you tell me, all right now we're going to get into the title of the episode, fear factory, I had this dream the other night and that title came to me and I think kind of what we're moving through individually and collectively is our relationship with fear and if you're consumed and overtaken by fear, it will dominate your life, right, that's just kind of how it works, when you recognize that fear is like most things, a choice, it is not thrust upon you, even if it feels like that, it is a choice, you know, it changes your relationship, but we are in a fear factory, we are in a place in the world where the easier or dominant mode of thinking is to be fearful and you can say, oh well this is the media, this is these people out there, they're making us afraid, why they do that to us, we wouldn't perceive it if it wasn't in us, right, so you can't blame other people or other entities exclusively for making you afraid or having you feel afraid, right, it's just not, again, it's not smart, it's not really a good thing to do, it's like blaming someone else for your problems, I recently had a situation involving my family and other things where I really just wanted to blame other people for my problems and it wasn't really my problems objectively, like there are schmucky things done, like very schmucky, kind of crappy things done objectively, right, it's not even just subjectively, of course it was subjectively too, but objectively and the tendency there is to be like, hey, you know, fuck you, how dare you, how dare you do this, that and to be clear, that is my initial reaction and I probably stay in that for at least a few days, what happens with me though is it's so emotionally uncomfortable for me, like the sense of home for me has really changed over the years, I used to kind of be like, oh well this is my home, I live here, it's a physical place, this makes me feel comfortable, that's not how I view home anymore, home for me is like emotional stability, is feeling that things are comfortable, copacetic, nice, pleasant, harmonious, that's home for me, so when I get into like a distorted version of what that is, it just fucks my whole shit up and I can't really focus on other things and I have to figure out how to find like that equilibrium again and so when I get into situations where I'm tending to blame other people exclusively for things that are going on in my life that are maybe aggravating or difficult, it's just I can't feel at peace, right, it doesn't really work for me, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

So when those things arise, I try to get to the bottom of it like what is the best possible outcome here, what am I showing myself or the situation showing me that I need to like change my perspective on or I need to maybe change course of actions in my life or with my thoughts or with my emotions to really like turn this into something positive, that's the trick is judo flip from, I spoke about this a lot in 2019 on this podcast, the judo flip from holy fuck everything is going horribly, shit is just going bad too, oh my god, that was just the thing that happened before everything got awesome, that's an important move, that's like what I would say is the most important move that you can make in life because if the chances of you not experiencing discomfort, agitation, obstacles, it's zero, you're going to face those things, we have incarnated into consciousnesses and bodies that this is what we do, right, this is how we play this game.

So that ability to kind of change and switch negative into positive, I understand that that's just a construct, there really is no negative and positive at the end of the day, but our experience of them certainly feels like that, that's like a super important move, I'd argue it is one of the most important, right, because you're going to experience things that you perceive as negative, how do you make sure that those don't stay in your consciousness and mind as negative shitty things that are there to fuck your life up and change them into okay, you know what, this is actually something that really is for my benefit, how can I see that and not unlike a delusional crazy way, right, like what I mean by that is like don't be one of these high vibe like foam spiritual people I see on Instagram where it's just like, you know, you got a handy fucking meme for literally everything you're going through, obviously I don't have a problem with memes, James McCray, one of the best meme people out there, there's nothing wrong with that, it's just you need to live authentically and part of living authentically is recognizing that there's ups and downs, there's good and bad and how do you find a way to deal with those things, it's one of the reasons we love comedians, I think it's also one of the reasons that if you're listening to this podcast you probably love Jessa Reid, is she's not sugar coding through a lot of the bad shit, we've been talking over the past few weeks, so finally got her into the crypto game, big shout out Jessa, I'm proud of you for doing that, you know, she's really good at being honest and authentic and sharing her experiences in life and also reminding people like, hey you're going to go through some shit and she puts herself through things in life in order to kind of gain lessons in wisdom and then shares those in like a funny and awesome way which helps a lot of people, that's super important to pretend that everything is great all the time, it is, I don't know, I totally get away from that, but like to pretend that like your experience of everything is amazing all of the time is disingenuous, right, and I think it's part of the reason that people who don't or haven't really resonated with my perspective on how imagination creates reality and manifestation and all of that is they think that's what I'm pitching, they think I'm saying well it's amazing all the time, it's just a choice and it is, but it doesn't mean your experience of it is amazing all the time, it means you have the ability to tap into that at any given time and the more you practice like anything the better things get, right, the better you get at figuring out the hidden message in kind of the bitter thing you're experiencing, right, that's important and fear here is like a huge catalyst for realizations, it's not this thing designed to fuck you up, you don't go into the game of fear to experience misery exclusively, that may be a component of it but it's there to teach you some important lesson, it's there to really help you see something but if you forget that that's what it's function is, it's awful, it's the way I would say it, it's really annoying, it's uncomfortable, it can lead to these downward spirals where we feel like everything is against us and things are falling apart that we built up, that's not great, there is a degree of patience, not my strong suit that is important to remember with difficult experiences too or things that you're afraid of, I mean all I can think of it's kind of somewhat silly or trivial example but I mean I used to be afraid of flying, I used to be something that I just didn't like to do, freak me out, I don't mind it at all now, I kind of enjoy it, now granted there's you know if you're flying business or first class is a lot better, makes the flying economy is not fun, coach is not fun but there is like an ability like when I look back and go like wow, I used to be really afraid of that and I was like it's not even a thing, doesn't even bother me, it doesn't mean it won't ever be a thing, if you go through like a horrible traumatic experience you may be afraid of it but there is this ability to look back and be like wow I used to be afraid of that and now I'm not, maybe you were a kid and you were afraid of the dark, maybe you are still afraid of the dark but at some point there's something you grew out of that probably terrified you that doesn't anymore and just being able to look at that and saying hey, that's interesting that I was afraid of this thing or I did have this relationship to this thing or even person and now I don't, what's up with that, why did that happen?

I think it's important, don't forget that this is the best timeline, you can be like well it doesn't seem like it, I think I've forgotten that that's the truth, well I wouldn't be constantly reminding you and everyone else that it is the best timeline if it wasn't, here it is my conviction, come from with that, it's a choice, it's a residence, I personally of the firm opinion that I wouldn't have come here to experience this world if it wasn't going to be fun and awesome, it's just not really what I'm about, it's way better to recognize you came here not to torture yourself, not to put yourself through some rigorous curriculum that's like a grind and you have to get out of it and learn things and no you came here because it's fucking pretty sweet, it's really nice to have a body, it's really nice to eat food, it's really nice to have sex, it's really nice to have family and friends, it's really nice to listen to music, it's really nice to feel awful and awful, A-W-E-F-U-L in awe and inspire, these are fun things that are undeniable, now does it come with the flip side of that binary coin, you also have to experience the decline of the body, the decline of health, the decline of all these things, yes, who knows in 100, 200, 300 years where those things are and there's incredible advances in our world of how we have kind of conquered some things that used to destroy people's lives that now they're not, I think there's plenty of advances in terms of psychedelic substances, even cannabis, where people's experiences of how to navigate this world are fundamentally linked with our advances in our understanding ourselves, right?

I think that's a trend that will continue over time, Jess and I were having a conversation a brief one the other day about like what we think is going to happen in the next year and a half, two years, I was like, you know, I think people are going to continue to move into these like pods and really like find people who are like minded, not in a narrow kind of siloed off way, but in just terms of like building communities and I was saying there's going to be a lot of wealth sharing and just kind of like collective principles of like how to just make sure everyone around you is okay, not in a weird way, and then she's like, well, what do you think about like natural disasters?

I was like, yeah, those two, like for sure, like definitely natural disasters to me are just reflections of undelt with collective trauma, right? When we get hurricanes, when we get earthquakes, when we get these like really fires and all these things, this is literally a manifestation of things that we have chosen not to resolve with awareness and consciousness. So they have to like pop out from under the carpet and fuck shit up for a little bit. And you can look at that and be like, oh, well, you know, the world is just getting worse. Like, world doesn't care about us. You know, it's just going to shake us off because we're not treating it well.

Sure. Or you could just deal with your own shit. Harder, harder, easier to believe that people are schmucks and bad and not good. And that's why bad things happen lazy. It's like the comedians now or the people who just like, I don't want to talk shit. I don't like talking shit. I think it's fundamentally not a good thing to do. But when I look at kind of people who are just attacking how stupid other people are or how bad the things they do are, like, yes, there's a place in the world for calling out injustice and, you know, just narcissism and things that aren't good. But like making that your only shtick seems not wise, attacking for the sake of it being your identity is just as bad as anyone else like with the identity of being like a raging racist.

That sounds wrong. You could be like, well, no, no, it's much worse to be racist than like calling out people who are seemingly doing stupid things. Yeah, obviously, like culturally and objectively that's true. But from the individual standpoint, if your role and your identity is just attacking people for being stupid, that's not going to work out for you in the sense that you're probably not going to be very happy. You're probably not going to be a very pleasant person. You're probably going to get trapped into a game where you're just like the person who calls out the stupidity of other people.

That's not cool. No one likes that. It may be funny or entertaining for a little bit, but it's not cool. It's not something that's like fun to be around. Speaking of not fun to be around, how about those dolphins? Jesus fucking Christ. What a shitshow. God. I don't know why I do this to myself. I'm sure this is how some people feel about being human, but like why every week do I sit down and watch the shitty team play shitty football, lose the teams that are worse to them. They're not worse than them. Obviously, they're losing to them. They're worse than those teams. Why do I do it? At this point, I'm so pot invested.

I'm so deep in the game that I have to do it. I'm not going to do it. I know this too. Also, if I ever switched fandoms or just stop caring about the dolphins, they'll win the Super Bowl and I'll be like, fuck. So I just have to stay on this ship, stay on this ride until they fucking do it. It's a nightmare. They're so bad. I don't like to a tug leave below anymore. I can't even say his name. It's always hurt. It's a whole career. We tanked for him. We could have taken Justin Herbert and we didn't do it. God, the dolphins really. My fantasy team literally everyone is getting hurt this year. It's just them writing the whole thing off.

Yes, I'm going to watch the stupid dolphins play in London, at least the games earlier here in Turkey. So I can watch it at a normal time in the afternoon. We lose to Jacksonville. God, I don't even know. That's my cross the bear. This is the worst thing in my life. Let's talk a little crypto. Talk a little bit about what's going on. By the way, in the server, which you get access to if you join the Patreon, that's really the only thing for the Patreon right now is the crypto thing. We do the Q and A's. The livestreams have pretty much been put on hiatus while I'm here. I don't have the bandwidth, literal bandwidth in terms of internet speeds to do those.

I'm back in November, we'll start those again. But the crypto server is really like the main thing to do with the Patreon right now. People know what's up who are in there. We're killing it. We're fucking hit a whole new level of stride and I'm also doing giveaways now. So we're doing a couple of giveaways on the Patreon, a hundred bucks a month and then also in the server, I'm going to do multiple giveaways, probably some serious amounts to in the not too distant future. It's fun. It's always been a dream of mine to give away money when I have a lot. I have a lot now. That's all I'll say. I wouldn't say I'm retired, but we're getting to that point.

We're getting to the elite point of like, holy shit, should I be buying these $20,000 monitors? Hmm. Maybe I will. So it's fun. It's a good time. We have another at least month or two of serious pumpadellics in the crypto space, whether that's NFTs, whether that's shit coins or altcoins, whether that's the majors like Bitcoin or Ethereum, there's plenty of gains to be had. What's going on is we're shifting from an old world. What's the word I'm looking for? Parasitic? Is that the term? There's also a very interesting thing going on in crypto right now is like, there's so many gains to be made that these venture capitalists and parasitic funds are going in and extracting value and pulling it out.

And people are like, fuck this. This is supposed to be a fair and equitable system. Can we not run the same script on just a different technological medium? So there's this real ideological war of like the regular guy, the regular Joe being able to survive Joe, by the way, go farm that on a backs trader Joe. But there is this thing going on where there's this clash between like the old way of I win you lose mentality versus we win together. If you come from the I win, you lose mentality. Very binary, very zero some very predatory. That's the word I was looking for. You're going to try to run that script on this new consciousness world that's emerging.

But I wouldn't do that if I were you, even if it works, even if you end up with a ton of money or power or whatever it is, you may just end up pulling like an Elon Musk and just like ribbon Jeff Bezos for being number two richest guy in the world. Like, yeah, it's kind of funny to see someone do that. But on the other hand, it's like, dude, are you really trying to whip out your dick? Like no one really cares who the richest person in the world. They maybe think about it for like, huh, okay, cool. You did that. No one really cares because A, it's not attainable for people. And it's not something that even people could possibly comprehend.

So I don't know. I just think the best thing you can do. And I was saying this also on Twitter and in the server, you know, people are doing technical analysis and all this stuff in the server and blah, well, it just seems like a huge waste of time for me. If it works for you, that's great. The only things that have worked for me in this space and this is also true in life is find nice and cool people and just stay in the game. That's it. That's why the server exists. Crypto sync. That's why we do these things. And it's working. That's all I can say. It's good times. We'll do a shout out to the guys at Ned at the end of the episode here as well.

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Should we clip this episode? What do we do here? Like, half an hour, that feels about, right? Is there anything else I wanted to talk about? I guess the main thing is, is don't buy into fear and pessimism. It's lazy. It's not cool. You may get all of the credit in the world for being a pessimist and buying into fear and pitching narratives that are fearful. But it's just like, it's not, it's like kind of lame. And that doesn't mean we discount negative and traumatic and difficult experiences in life. And advocating, that would also be equally as lame. It's just like make a conscious decision to focus on your ability to create the world you would like to create.

And if you look out in your world, your world and it's not going the way you want, take some responsibility for that. I guess I am in that sense kind of like a poll you're up by your own bootstraps, not in every aspect, but like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. That's your obligation to yourself. You can't outsource that to anyone else. So you're in the game. There is a fear factory. We're processing a lot of this stuff individually and collectively. It's not a big deal. This doesn't have to be super hard. It can be hard. It can be difficult. Honor when things aren't going your way.

Just be like, all right, what? Why? I see that's not going my way. I see that there's some difficulty. What can I do to change that? It could be as simple as just putting on a song you like. It could be as simple as just going out into nature and appreciating kind of the beauty and harmony and love around you. It doesn't have to be a very complicated, like, you know, 12-step process. You have to read like 50,000 books on how to become a spiritual master. That seems lame to me. I played that game where there's these complicated rules of how everything works now. Not really. Think what you learn as you kind of move up through dimensions and live from higher states of consciousness is it gets more and more simple.

It doesn't actually get more complicated. Maybe incredibly complex underneath the mechanisms of how everything works. But your appreciation, your understanding of things does get less complex. Gets easier. Like, oh, have a good time. Got it. Have fun. Got it. Cool. We back, baby. What was it going to say? Yeah, you know, patreon, synchronicity. That's how you get the discord. I'm going to pitch it to you. Do I? I don't know. Do you want to make more money? Do you want to eliminate money as a stressor in your life? Don't worry. There'll be plenty of other things for you to stress out about. Don't you worry, honey.

There's going to be so many of them. It's not going to eliminate your problems in life, but it may eliminate your money problems. That's nice. And then you don't have to go play squid game. You don't have to go, "Dawg, oh, my, don't think my, oh, my, oh, you don't have to do that." Basically, what we're doing in life, if you don't, until you get off that ride, you're just getting shot by the little girl in squid game. Motion detecting. Don't do that. I cried when the old man with the marble game. You know what I'm talking about? Go watch squid game. So good. Last episode. But seriously, wow. I see why it's the number one show in the world, pretty, pretty awesome.

Okay. Zitzid, I'll see you. I don't know. Whenever I see you, soon, we'll talk about stuff. On this podcast, which is still going. I will have guests when I come back. I'm going to start a couple of projects now that I have the funding for myself to do them. A couple of wealth sharing projects we'll talk about. And just like some fun things. Want to do fun, cool, entertaining things. And stay tuned for music stuff. God, I love music. It's so cool. All right, boys. I'll see you soon. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.