Maybe Let's Try Not To Get Poop On Our Face All The Time

(upbeat music) Hello everyone, welcome to Synchronicity. It's been months. Saw me, it happens. I was away and then I've been back. Got a lot of dad duties going on. Coaching the flag football team for my eldest son. We're the dolphins. We're pretty much like the dolphins in real life. We're not quite as much of a dumpster fire, but we have a feeling that the head of the league is a Jets fan. When I said I wanted to be the dolphins, he kind of stuck me with the miscreants, so to speak. We got some interesting players on the team. I won't say too much in case anyway, they ever stumble upon this. Don't wanna talk shit about people's kids, but let's say it's interesting.

Anyway, that's been going on. Hope everyone's been all right. The world has seemingly descended further into chaos since I last put out a podcast. That's what we're gonna be talking about today. This is gonna go out early for patrons. I'll put this up for the paid tiers, and then I will release this to the general public tomorrow, which will be Thursday, September 18th. What the fuck is going on, guys? So much. I guess the biggest news item of the past week happened a week ago was the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I'm sure everyone has been tuned into that to one degree or another because it is inescapable.

I didn't agree with anything, Charlie Kirk said. I viewed him as a deleterious character in the political spectrum. I think it's good that he chose to use his words to debate people. I think it wasn't necessarily done in good faith. All that being said, he should not have died. He should not have been assassinated. It's a tragic event. He leaves behind a family, two small kids, his wife, it's socks. It's not a cool thing. We shouldn't be assassinating anyone for their political view. We shouldn't be assassinating people, period. Let's just agree with that fact. It's fucked up, but what it has done, and there's no butt that there's any good side to this, it's all pretty shitty.

What it has on earth, and this is what we're gonna be talking about today, primarily internet subcultures that have seemingly come to the forefront with this assassination. If you look at the top level kind of political discourse, you have the right blaming the left, the left blaming the right. And that's fine if you're like an MSNBC Fox News boomer and don't wanna delve deeper into what is actually going on in the world and in this country, but that's not really what's going on. What is actually going on is a large group of disaffected youth have essentially come into the place where they have no other recourse.

So let me turn this up. Okay, my levels will be a little bit off, but whatever. They don't really have any outlet for expressing their apathy, indignation, rage. Many people feel hopeless. I spoke about this a little bit on the weekly reading that went out to patrons yesterday or the day before. And it's a fucked up situation. Since the boomers kind of inherited the nation's wealth and political and power structures, things have kind of just gotten worse and worse for the generations that follow, right? You have Gen X who was mainly disaffected, kind of viewed the world crumbling, kind of got shoved into this like work your entire life, rat race type situation.

Then you had the millennials, both the elder millennials. I guess I am an elder millennial. Then the other millennials who are a little bit younger, they kind of got shoved into a world where the workforce began to crumble the systems that were supposed to be in place for people to get jobs and education, really weren't doing what they were supposed to. That kind of shifted into this gig economy type thing. Those of us who kind of saw this structure crumbling or had like some anticipatory revelations about what was going on kind of unplugged from that system. And we have been kind of doing our thing to the best of our abilities to make ends meet, survive, thrive, whatever is working for us.

Then we get down to Generation Z, right? The zoomers, right? So they're kind of even more fucked, right? You can't buy a house. If you're not a boomer and boomers are holding on to their houses like they're some ancient relic with magical powers like the Holy Grail. They won't sell their houses. Houses are essentially unaffordable for the vast majority of younger generations ranging from millennials down onward. And you're kind of shoved into this world where you don't know what to do. Old systems are crumbling. New systems really haven't been created. You throw a dash of AI on top of it. Jobs are evaporating.

People are just trying to make sense of a world that is changing so fast that it's almost hard just to catch your bearings to tread water, let alone get to your destination of some semblance of security or stability. And this creates conditions that are very difficult for people to survive in, right? Let alone thrive, just to survive has become a harder and harder task for the majority of people. So zoomers, Gen Z, they are scrambling, trying to figure out what's going on. Then we get to Gen Alpha. We'll stop there. We won't go to Gen Beta. But they're growing up in brain rot culture, internet culture.

They grew up where the internet now has morphed into this weird social layer of digital tech kind of nonsense where the memes have taken over everything. And that's kind of how we got to the situation where we find ourselves today. Where an assassin, if you believe Tyler Robinson is the person who did it. I know there are many conspiracies out there that are calling him a Patsy, who don't believe the official stories that are put out. And I will admit, a lot of them are very weird and odd. Starting with the text messages that they released that seem pretty much kind of fabricated. But let's just assume, take the US government at face value, which is traditionally not a great thing to do.

But let's do it. This guy, like I said, the right is going to blame the left. He was an angry leftist who hated Charlie Kirk because he was so conservative. Let's look at the left. Well, no, he was actually just someone who hated Trump and hated the right and was a piece of shit that way. Then we get into the theories of, which we're going to be talking about today, the Groipers, people like Nick Fuentes and, you know, Incels, Tranny Maxing, Soyjax, Wojax, all this stuff that if you're not kind of steeped in internet culture and haven't been hanging around 4chan for the past 10, 15 years. Really, you don't know what the fuck is going on.

And it's like this weird language and syntax that most people can't decipher. I will do my best to kind of break down what is happening there and what it potentially means. And most importantly, what do we do with all this stuff? Do we just acknowledge and capitulate into the world descending into pure brain rot chaos and just wait for the end and the doom and gloom to take over where everyone is fucked and no one can make sense of which way is up or down right or left? No, that's not my way of doing things. Despite all this, I'm actually still pretty optimistic about the future, but I won't deny that it is scary.

It is disorienting and it is something that I think we have to reconcile within ourselves if we want to have any type of strategy for navigating what is to come, what we're in the middle of, which is essentially a very deep transitional period that really isn't, like the truth is, we're probably not going to get any sense of stability for decades, potentially for the rest of our lives, especially those of us who are into our third, fourth, fifth decades, right? It's not looking like any of this stuff is abating anytime soon. Does that mean we just throw in the towel and give up? I mean, that is an option.

I think if you are someone who is not used to being open-minded and want to dig out a kind of ideological position and not move from that position, things are going to get very difficult. They probably already are. It's just going to be harder and harder to kind of maintain any semblance, like I said, of stability. It's just the worst thing you can do now is pick your partisan side, defend it, die on that hill. Everything be damned because you're sure that you come to the correct conclusion and this is the way it's going to be. That's how you end up with people like Nick Fuentes. If you don't know Nick Fuentes, he is a far, far right anti-Semite racist just really diabolical character.

I've mentioned that if there was a deity that is ruling over the world at this point, it's essentially a trickster god. We're looking at the Loki's, people who are deities who really just feed off of chaos and disruption. I don't view the world as being under the spell of some demonic force. I don't think this is per se devilish or malevolent or malicious or evil. It's just the energies that feed off of chaos and disruption are ruling the world right now. That's essentially what's going on. And knowing that there are some rules, some tips, some tricks that can help you kind of navigate this in a way that isn't as horrible, right?

But going back to like the Nick Fuentes types, right? He's got a movement of people called the Groipers. I know this gets very confusing. Groipers are essentially people who are birthed in the dark animals of 4chan, a message board where they are essentially a disaffected group of young white males. They do not view the world as having a place for them. There is a huge overlap of incels, involuntary celibates who are very anti woman. They have a lot of hatred towards women. They feel that they are ignored by women. Therefore, women are the enemy. And these people called the Groipers have navigated to figures like Nick Fuentes, who's a 27 year old kind of nightmare person who hated Charlie Kirk.

It has been proposed and suggested that Tyler Robinson was a Groiper. There's no real confirmation on that. But a lot of the memes that were engraved on the bullet casings for that were you, that were, well, one was used for Charlie Kirk's assassination. The rest were just found there. Point to him having some connection towards the Groipers. But essentially, and this is the most fucked up part, this wasn't a politically motivated assassination, it seems. It was kind of done for the lolz, right? This was kind of done as a demonstration of like meme power just to do something in IRL that evolved and germinated in the internet sub forms that most of us really have no idea existed or really have any connection with.

If you're not on 4chan, if you're not deep in these sub groups who are kind of like banding together and flexing their muscles, and I want to be clear, this is like a deeply nihilistic group of people. They're not fighting for anything. If they're fighting for something, it's actually the concept of nothingness, right? And this is perhaps the most dangerous aspect of what we're viewing right now and what we're seeing play out in the world. It's not that there's some agenda for change and what comes after that change. It is just the acceleration of chaos, of nothingness. Because so many of these people feel that there is nothing for them in the world, they want to extend that to the rest of the world.

They essentially want people to feel their pain, feel their loneliness, feel their apathy, feel their rage, and the way they do that is by spreading memes, irony, and then we're seeing now it bleeding out into the world. That is deeply disturbing on many levels, and it can catch you in its traps and really make you pretty scared and pessimistic for where the world is going. If you know me, if you've listened to me, that is certainly not where I am going to end up on this, and I think the most important thing you can take away from this episode or this podcast going forward is that we're going to have a set of tools and strategies for acknowledging that this stuff exists in the world, but also staying the course and recognizing that our perception creates reality, that what we believe to be true will ultimately be manifest in our world, and even though timelines seem to be shifting towards a dimensional reality that is overwhelmingly nihilistic and pessimistic, it doesn't mean that we can't have our own kind of unique or helpful viewpoint and perspective that makes our lives not only manageable, but good and imbued with a sense of joy, fun, happiness, love, right?

The way the world is going, we are not gonna have a hierarchical system of top down. This is what it's like for the majority of people. We've, you know, if you've listened to me and other people who are in our little community here, we kind of know that smaller groups of, you know, hesitate to call them like communes, but little pods of people is kind of where the future is going, right? We're going to branch off into the smaller communities of people who share ideals, ideologies, and beliefs about the world that we experience with our five senses and beyond. For many, this will be a complete detachment from any mainstream notion of reality.

I don't know that that's the best possible way to go about things, but I understand that tendency to want to do that, that of course is very appealing when you look out in the world and everything is kind of fucked up, right? And things are seemingly going into the destruction of societies, we know it. I think the older you are, the more kind of steeped in the trad values of the world, the harder this shift becomes. I think that's a timeless adage too, right? Like the more the world changes and the more you kind of stay the same, the harder it is to process and understand what's going on around you.

This is to say, if you can cultivate a mind and a soul and a heart that is open-minded, flexible, willing to change, willing to acknowledge that you're wrong, willing to change your perspectives and viewpoints, you're gonna be okay, you're really gonna be okay. If you're the type of person who digs into righteous conviction, anger, beliefs that you're sure are true, no one can dissuade you from them no matter what, things are gonna be tough because you are constantly going to be proven wrong over and over again because things have just shifted so much, the novelty curve has ramped up so much that it's just like you can't be so sure of yourself about anything, that's healthy.

If there's one thing this world teaches us over and over again, it's that you have to be willing to accept that your mind changes, the world changes and permanence is a baked-in part to reality. The only thing that doesn't change is that things will change. That's just kind of how everything works. You can find whatever tools, religions, spirituality, systems, programs, modalities that work for you and work with them to help make sense of the world but recognize that because of the rate of speed that the world is changing, you may have to change what those systems are and what your beliefs are at any given time.

You can have core principles, you can have core beliefs, I recommend that you do, you can have a framework that you work from that is healthy and serves you well and causes no harm. I highly recommend that. But locking into a perspective is just, it's not gonna work. Okay, going back to kind of what we are seeing now in the world, right? We've seen brain rot culture, mean culture bleed into IRL, right? In real life. This in cell movement is not to be taken lightly. What seemed like kind of a fringe group of people that were to be laughed at have now kind of become a powerful force and I think it's understandable why we have gotten to this point.

When an individual and then by proxy, a collective feels that they are being thrown away and ignored by mainstream reality at large, whether that's through the political system, the financial system, the social system, whatever it is, they are going to have to create their own blueprints for reality. So what looks like happened here with this recent assassination is that a guy who was kind of indoctrinated on the internet via 4chan and Discord servers he was part of. It seems he was in relationship with a transitioning male to female, furry type thing. I don't wanna get lost in the sauce with us, but there is a very interesting phenomenon that has happened within cells and the far right movement, which is they feel so disconnected from traditional relationships, men with women, that they actually start feminizing the men in their group and turning certain men into essentially feminized women and then they begin relationships with that because they feel that they are so incapable of relating and engaging with women, they'd rather turn the men into women and engage in relationships with that, which sounds like kind of crazy and this gets into a whole subset of like vestigial trends.

There's a whole theory on all this stuff. I wanna get too deep in the weeds with this shit, but this trans movement that has become more and more of the public discourse and more and more prevalent in society is very complicated, it's very multifaceted, but ultimately I view it as a symptom of the world transitioning itself. We're seeing the world transition, right? Not from male to female or female to male, but it is pivoting from what has existed in the past into what it will become. And as this continues and as the kind of next state continues to be locked in, but it is not yet locked in, we're going to see more of this energy, this transitional energy continue.

So when we say the world is changing, it's very clear why we're getting more kind of evidence that people feel they're changing. I was a man born in a woman's body. I was a woman born in a man's body. I want to then make the outside of my body reflective of how I feel on the inside. And of course, there's nothing wrong with that. If someone wants to transition, by all means, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. I don't view it as blasphemy or something that is against the will of nature. Everyone is free to make their own decisions, but I think it's important to recognize that the energy that surrounds us in this reality really plays a big role in how our emotions and our thoughts are manifest, made manifest.

So I think we'll continue to see more of this discourse around transsexuals and transitioning in general. And for people who don't like that, yeah, sorry, it's just going to be a part of reality. Don't take it personally. What someone else's personal choice is should really have no bearing on how you feel and how you act and how you react. Demonizing people who think differently, look differently, like this is an antiquated notion that really has no basis in reality. It is not true. It is a very superficial way of looking at the world, whether Tyler Robinson had a trans girlfriend, boyfriend is irrelevant to what the causes were for what created this situation.

Very important, though, to keep in mind that this nihilistic, ironic, meme-laden perspective should continue to ramp up. We should see more evidence of this. I'm not saying we're going to get more assassinations and more horrible shit going on in the world, but we are going to see more of the internet culture bleed into reality. And that is accelerated by things like AI, like being permanently online, disengaging from consensus reality in the world and moving to this other layer of reality, this digitized consciousness, which people can say isn't real, but it is real. It may not be what we're used to and what we've grown up with, but it is certainly an aspect of reality that needs to be dealt with and considered if we're trying to figure out what's going on.

Okay, let's talk about what we can do as individuals and as collectives to make sure we stay as sane as possible, as healthy as possible, and hopefully have some semblance of an idea of what we can do to live positive, healthy, happy lives. I am not someone who says disengage from all media completely. I think there is a danger in that. I think there is this idea of ostriching, sticking your head in the sand, not really paying attention to what's going on that is quite destructive, that is equally as destructive as doing it the other way, which is way too much media, media overload. And you can see this happen at any given time.

Any time there's a world major event, the tendrils of media get their hooks in to everyone and everyone starts behaving chronically online. And it's an easy scapegoat to say that being chronically online is the worst thing ever. It's gonna make your mental health worth. Yeah, I mean, I think that's pretty much proven at this point, but trying to understand what's going on in the world is not, you shouldn't be faulted for that. If it's not doing anything except bombarding you with negative emotions, yeah, take a step back. Don't pay attention to that. I will say if you are listening to the political leaders, quote unquote, of this administration, of this world, you're not getting anything useful at this point, at best you're getting red herrings, at worst you're getting purposely misleading narratives meant to confuse and fracture and kind of push agendas that are most likely not aligned with your own.

Let's kind of establish the ground rules of what we would want as individuals. If you're as different, feel free to disregard this strategy. But we wanna be happy, we wanna be secure, we want to feel safe, we want to find joy, we want to find love, and we wanna share those things with other people in our community. We are social animals at the end of the day. Those are kind of the base level things that everyone is looking for. The ways you go about looking for those things vary, right? You're into swimming, you may join a swimming club, you're into tennis, you may go find a tennis club, you're into hiking, you go find a hiking club, you're into gaming, you may find a gaming club, whatever it is, whether that's online, in real life, irrelevant, kind of, at this point.

We're looking for people to share our lives with, however, whatever that means for us. Some people are loners, by nature, they may not seek out a community, but people are seeking out a human connection. That is just a fact. So if we're looking for that, what do we do at this point? If the world is feeling more fractured, more scary, more terrifying, how do we go about forming those human connections with the aid of the internet, with the aid of things like AI, and just by using our own innate divine gifts of imagination, creativity, you know, artistry. These are the things that interest me. Yes, we can crawl into a hole and lament the fact that the world is so shitty and so horrible and getting worse day by day.

At a certain point, you know, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna kill yourself? You're gonna detach from society and go live in the woods? Nope, you're not gonna do that. Don't think about doing that for most people, unless you really wanna go live in the woods. I wouldn't go about killing yourself because I'm a spiritual framework. It achieves virtually nothing to think that you would somehow escape this reality by ending your life and not have to deal with the same kind of cosmic, inborn spiritual problems that placed you here in the first place, whether by conscious choice or not, is probably not a theory you wanna test out.

Just saying, probably not gonna solve your problems. I am not dismissing, you know, people who go through depressive periods where they feel like that's their only hope. If you are considering suicide or feel suicidal, please seek help. This is not to diminish, you know, the mental health issues that are becoming more and more apparent in reality. At the same time, don't let the narrative that the world is disintegrating and crumbling and becoming a hellscape on earth. Don't just believe that. See if it's true. Don't buy narratives that are presented by people who don't see a way out. Don't buy narratives from people who haven't experienced other ways to parse reality and test out whether you can change reality with things like your imagination, things like manifestation, things that, you know, maybe aren't accepted as universally or practically or tangibly real.

Test those things out first. If you are easily swayed, and many of us are, right, buy narratives that are presented to us both publicly, privately, socially, please be aware that you're that type of person because you may start buying a program and running a script that is not your own. This is pretty much how propaganda works and this is a known fact since we've had mass media that if you present enough narratives, whether conflicting or not, eventually, the one that seems to fit your worldview the best and your experience is the best will become your perspective. It is very important to try to figure out what your inherent perspective is, taking some time to go within, trust your intuition, to determine what it is that you would like to see this world be is the only way that you will experience change in the world.

If we all are distracted, if we're all buying into the fact that the world is getting to be a worse and worse place, that is what we will see. At the end of the day, what you perceive, what you feel and believe to be true is what you are going to get, which is why when things get more and more chaotic, there is an almost concerted effort to get people to believe that things are getting worse because here's the thing, if you believe that things are getting worse, if anyone comes up with any alternative solution to how to make things not worse, you are going to be more susceptible and liable to believe those things.

Just pointing that out, if you have the inner strength and fortitude to carve your own path, believe your own things that you have come up with that you solidify within your own kind of being, then you're working with something. Then you can kind of have this world turn into and kind of wizard or which your way into something that is a lot more palatable and at least is aligned with what you believe. You are going to be given so many narratives, so many opportunities to believe that this world is getting worse. I actually honestly don't know when in the past year, especially the past week, have seen anyone saying that things aren't terrible.

That is going to weigh on you. That is going to seep its way into your brain and really prey on the fear-mongering type of activity that our brain likes to do because it is easy. Fear is a very powerful motivator. It is also very true that the things we live in an attention economy at this point, the way to get clicks, thereby turning those clicks into media, a money is outrage. Your outrage button is going to be pushed over and over and over again. You can say this is some evil plan or you can just say this is a system working as it is intended to work. Knowing that, check yourself when you are feeling outraged.

People are constantly going to be saying shit that pisses you off. That is just the way the world works right now. It is because it makes people money. I see this on TikTok all the time. This is why I've gotten in the habit of blocking people who outrage me, who seem to be doing things just to get clicks, just to get views, just to get comments. They don't care what it does. That's why people put the spelling wrong in their videos on TikTok and Instagram. That's why they say factually incorrect things that are easily proven to be not true because they just want the engagement and you can fault those people and say they're evil and say they're terrible and say God, what a piece of shit.

Just don't engage with that type of stuff. There's plenty of voices, I don't know about plenty. There's some voices that are actually trying to put positive spins on the world. I think one of the weird things that's happened recently is one of our last sectors of society. Comedy and comedians have really had a hard go of things over the past few years because at some point comedians started to believe that they were philosophers and some are very philosophical and their opinions are very well thought out. But a lot of them are just comedians trying to make a buck and they gravitate to where that money is and you can't blame people for trying to enhance their careers but comedians are not philosophers.

Most of them may be clever, some of them may be clever. Most of them are even potentially deep, some of them are deep thinkers. Do not go over your political, social, philosophical advice from comedians at this point. Maybe there are a few people who can offer some sage words of wisdom but for the most part, they just wanna be funny and they'll say shit to be funny and that's the place it should be. So what's weird is this kind of this comedic sphere has usually been a place we could go to find some relief from the fucked up shit in the world but now it has become somewhat embedded in that part which is a shame, it's like you kinda just wanna laugh at some shit and not have to worry about things and then comedians are now worried about all these major political issues and social issues.

Oh God, music is still a pretty good place to kind of detach from that energy. I especially like to gravitate towards music without vocals and lyrics because you're getting kind of unfiltered, raw resonance and emotion that can make you feel certain ways which can be very inspiring. What I'm suggesting here is finding modalities and things that allow you to detach from the specifics of the world while charging up kind of your energy bar that will allow you to kind of find the others, so to speak. There are plenty of people in the world who just wanna see the world be a nice place for people and not in kind of a naive, there's never gonna be any war, there's always, not that shit.

We're not talking about kind of this hippie ideal of one love is going to be possible and that's fine, that's great. I totally love the idea of everyone getting along and being happy together. That's not what this planet is for right now. Maybe centuries in the future, that is where we are, but right now we have to go through this kind of birthing process of what is the world turning into? What is it going to become? What is it becoming? That is up to us to shape and plant the seeds of what that is going to look like. Again, if we buy into that the world is getting worse, it's getting darker, it's getting scarier, it's getting harder to exist in.

That is a likely outcome that we will have to get through before we see that there are alternative options in terms of living. It is up to you as an individual to hold the ideal for what you would like the world to be fixedly and firmly in your mind, in your heart and act from that space. If you fuck up, if you do some shitty thing, you can forgive yourself, you do not have to hold it against yourself, operating from a place of shame, guilt, these are not effective ways to live your life. This is an excuse to go do whatever the fuck you want and just be like, "I forgive myself, I'm a good person."

But if you do something fucked up, if you do something that was harmful, take responsibility for it and strive to correct yourself going forward. That's how we learn, we make mistakes, we fail so we can succeed. It's not the other way around. If you believe that you succeed only to inevitably fail, it's gonna be a rough life. If you believe that you fail over and over again to learn the error of your ways so that ultimately you can succeed in a meaningful way and what you want your life to look like, then great. That's, you stumble onto a secret that very few people seem to understand in this world.

So again, going back to kind of the core tenets of what I believe, your perception creates your reality. If you know that and you feel your perception being hijacked, being pulled in a direction that doesn't vibe with what you believe and who you are, take a step back, set your intention, find things that help you kind of focus, that may be meditation, it may be physical activity. I've recently been kind of listening to these Hemi-Sync things that I'm super into that the Monroe Institute developed. I like listening to them when I go to sleep, doing some lucid dreaming, doing some astral projection.

Those things make sense to me. I highly recommend finding some spiritual path that you can do on your own. One thing that is emerging from all of this chaos is the ability to carve out your own spiritual practice doesn't mean you can't join a group. It doesn't mean you can't find other people who believe what you want. But finding your own way of doing things and what works for you, kind of what you have to do right now. You can listen to other people. The age of the guru is dead. We will likely see a resurgent of leaders both in spirituality and many other vectors of society come in and tell you that they have the answers.

Listen to them, they've done it themselves. They're here to help you just be a little wary of anyone who's pitching and selling you that idea. It's not really how things are gonna work. The best thing we can do is as an individual, as individuals develop our own set of practices, tools, beliefs, then go out and see who shares those beliefs with you. And find people who disagree with you. This is something that's been happening because I have this podcast, because I put out many, let's say, controversial views of the past about various topics. I have people hitting me up and we have respectful dialogues where we don't agree.

It's okay to disagree with people. It's healthy to disagree with people. It is not healthy to disagree with someone and shoot them. It is not healthy to disagree with someone and because of what their opinion is, call them a piece of shit and a terrible person, not healthy. Again, one thing that tends to happen, whatever you condemn, ultimately you become. This is one of the most annoying parts of reality and it seems to be a rock solid rule that if you really are shitting on someone else for something that they're doing, the chances that you play out that behavior in one form or the other are very fucking high.

It is just how it works. I've seen it happen too many times in my life and other people's lives to know that that is a principle. It just means be careful of judging other people. That's all, whatever, no matter how morally outraged you are, no matter how certain you are. Also, having like any degree of certainty about major global events at this point, good luck, good luck figuring out actually what the fuck is going on. You think you figured it out? You think you know exactly what's going on because you watched some videos on TikTok or you read a few Wikipedia pages or did a deep dive into something?

Good luck, I've done enough of that over the past week looking into all this shit, potentially going on with the assassin to know that good fucking luck, you can gather information, have a curious mind, curiosity is one of the best things you can do, like it can have, it's a wonderful quality, but certainty developed out of that curiosity. Also, you usually just end up looking like an asshole. The more certain you are about something, the higher chance that you're gonna just look like a dick. You're just gonna look kind of like an asshole. You can be certain about a few things, but even like the things that I believe the most, right?

Imagination creates reality or perception creates reality. I don't, I need to go espousing those to every single person I meet, shoving it down their throats. Everyone has played that game. You have enough of like a powerful psychedelic trip and you can't shut the fuck up about how you've discovered the nature of reality to everyone around you and they're like, what the fuck is the matter with this guy? Like Jesus, give it a rest. You learn to kind of cater and adapt in situations to more live from what you believe and have to speak about it. Another very important thing that I think will serve you very well going forward is live your beliefs.

Don't espouse your beliefs. Very few people these days are convinced by people arguing or debating them, which is why I question the motivations of someone like Charlie Kirk. You know, this was more of a recruitment tool than actually trying to change someone's mind, what he was doing. Hate is a very effective tool for garnering support and potentially money. It is very destructive to the person espousing the hate and the followers of hate. Stay away from it as much as possible if you notice yourself getting pulled in any direction, especially if that hatred is fueled by righteous indignation. If you believe there is a genocide going on in some part of the world and you begin to hate the side of the perpetrators, be very careful that you know what you're doing there.

Again, trying to figure out if that is accurate or not is hard enough, maybe don't do that. If you feel that the people who are against military campaigns in various parts of the world are destructive, antifa like liberal people, there's no way, stay away from that shit. You don't need it. Do you have a solution? Are you going to that place? Are you gonna be rendering aid and support personally? If not, yeah, maybe stay away from it. Because most of the time, you really don't know what the fuck is going on and really by shouting it, you're just shouting into the void and letting your friends and people who follow you on social media know that you have a certain opinion and it doesn't really change anything.

I'm not saying to be apathetic about this stuff care about things. You should care about whether there are genocides going on in the world. You should care about whether there are injustices going on in the world. But if you're not willing to take practical tangible steps to alleviate those and I don't mean posting on social media, what are you really doing? Wouldn't that time be better served to focus on things that are actually important in your life? Connecting with people, creating something. The people who I think will find these changing uncertain times to be the most fruitful are for people who put out things in the world that are creative, artistic expressions of what is in their soul, right?

Whether that's a piece of music, whether that's a piece of visual art, whatever it is, it could be cooking, it could be anything. That is positive. It is building. What we are kind of, I don't want to say fighting against, but what we are coming face to face with in the world is the battle of entropy. There is a large contingent of people who believe that what they are fighting for and the only thing worth fighting for is destruction and entropy. The wounds, the open wounds that fester inside of their souls, they want everyone to feel. It's the classic kind of villain arc. The person, the people have been so wronged, so unfairly treated that they want everyone to feel that pain.

And it's very important to acknowledge that society and the way that society is function, whether you want to call it late stage capitalism, whatever the fuck you want to attribute the causes to, has left a lot of people in the dark. A lot of people are feeling completely left in the dust, that no one cares about them, that no one will care about them, that there's nothing being done about it, so all they can do is accelerate the decline into nothingness, into chaos, into entropy. And when there's enough disaffected people who feel like that, we start to see it bleed over into reality where everyone can see what's going on, where we start to see events like we witnessed last week.

If you're someone who doesn't believe that the world is descending into a hellscape of nothingness, it is incumbent on you to put out things in the world that you believe in, whatever it is. And if you don't have an artistic and creative bent, just congregate with people in your life, lift people up, do something nice for someone, do something nice for yourself, first and foremost. Start with yourself, that's one thing you can control. Then do something nice for someone else. You don't know how just the kind word here and there, supporting someone, helping someone, can really change their life.

So I got on a call today with Verizon. I don't know if this was a tactic by the guy, but he was like, the support guy was like, "You're a really nice voice." And their whole rest of the call was like, "This dude was so nice. What a wonderful thing to say to someone." I'd say to someone, I don't know if he really meant it or not, but it was nice, it was kind. It was something that really kind of changed the context of the call. Never mind, it was on the phone with Verizon getting my wife's phone activated for two hours, which sucked, but you don't know how your words can really affect someone else.

So just choose to be kind, if you can. The gist of what I'm talking about today, more than anything is, if you subscribe to the idea that things are getting worse, that things are getting darker, that things are getting harder, and more difficult and scarier. Yes, they are, the answer is yes. The answer is yes. If you believe that we are in a transitional period, that is difficult, but we will get through it, that there's a lot of beauty and joy and love in the world that we'll shine through, and it is always darkest before the light, yes, that is how everything works. The answer is always yes.

It's the hardest thing to know is true, because it's easy to see evidence for whatever you believe, wherever you look. It's why the person who believes that, you know, nihilism is the best possible route, and there's evidence of that everywhere believes they're right. It's why the eternal optimist who sees loving acts of kindness everywhere and amazing things and beauty everywhere is right, because that is how we create this reality. We create it collectively, but we create it individually. So get back to whatever you need to do to feel the way. This is why we often do the kind of imaginal techniques, or we go back to being a kid in our minds and give ourselves a hug, because a lot of this stuff starts in childhood, and a lot of people, I see this now with like coaching my kids' team.

You see how different parents interact with their children, and you see how the seeds of how those kids are going to develop and grow up, be planted at those ages. You see the parents who are really rough on their kids. You see the kids' parents who ignore their kids. You see the parents who are really supportive and are kind to their kids. Treat yourself like a parent treating a kid. Treat other people how you would want your parent to treat you if you had a great parent situation, wonderful. You didn't, you can still change the way you act towards other people. You have to kind of hold the world in your hand as though you are its mother and father at all times.

This is easier said than done. These are idealistic, optimistic viewpoints that I realize at this point seem to be in the minority, according to what I see out in the world. But this is up to you. This is literally like, I don't want to make this seem like a spiritual battle for the fate of our souls, maybe. But really, this is just to make your life palatable, livable, enjoyable, fun, loving. You're always going to have issues. You're always going to have problems. I'm sorry if you don't want to hear that. It's how we learn. It's just how we learn. We learn through tension. We learn through friction.

It's how we evolve. It's not just evolving through people giving you lollipops and paths on the back, but you can change how you approach other people. You can change how you have discourse with other people. You can change how you disagree with people. These are all things that are well within your capabilities. But if you want to go into the dark side, if you want to believe that fuck, this shit is fucked, it's getting more fucked. Nothing can do to unfuck it, then you are going to be living in that reality. And there's going to be so much evidence to support that. I'm just saying that's how it works.

At the end of the day, there's just so much to experience in this world to me, it seems like almost a waste to focus on all the shit that's going on. I'm not denying the shit is thrown in your face daily, multiple times, many times, but you don't have to engage. To find shit you like, do stuff you enjoy. Don't spend your time focusing on all the shit you don't like. Why would you do that? You think at the end of your life, you're going to look back at all the times you spent focusing on shit you didn't like doing, and be like, oh, that was good, that was a good use of my time. You're going to remember the positive things, you're going to remember the momentous occasion, where you found the love of your life or loves of your life.

You had children, you adopted that pet, you love whatever, those are the things you're going to remember. You're not going to remember how much you hated this one person. It's not what people report talking about on their deathbeds. I really hated this guy, really hated Charlie Kirk, really hated Tyler Robinson. God, what a piece of shit Trump was. God, Gavin Newsom is an asshole. You're not going to think about any of that shit. It's a fucking waste of time. It really is. And again, don't waste your time on shit you're not actually involved in. You got to like, remember here that there's so much, there's so many narratives that are being pitched to you about how the world is and where it's going and why it's where it is and why it's going where it is.

Make sure you actually believe that shit. Don't just fucking take someone else's perspective and narrative. People think they're so clever because it's like, well, we're not going to listen to the US government. They're not to be believed. And then they'll go believe some other fucking asshole who says just because you don't trust the US government, you should listen to their perspective. Oh, okay, that's a lot better. You've done it. Great job. You found someone who's pointing out the obvious because they point out the obvious. Also, if I see one more fucking person say, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but here is conspiracy X, Y, and Z.

You are a conspiracy theorist. It's okay. Everyone goes through their conspiracy. You don't have to qualify by saying you're not. So you get some level of clout and truth. Like, what is this? Well, how are we doing that? I don't understand. Anyway, the only really shitty thing that's going on in my life and like, there's plenty of things I can pick from the be like, that's not great. Is the mother fucking dolphins? They're gonna have to blow up the whole fucking organization again. The whole fucking thing. Mike McDaniel's a shitty coach. Steven Ross, the worse owner. Chris Greer's been with the team for 20 years.

GM for nine years. He needs shit to show for it. Two of socks. I've been a two apologist since he's been in the league. He fucking sucks. He's terrible. He's literally terrible. He's awful. And this is what I gotta deal with. I gotta go through another fucking rebuild. This fucking nightmare, right? Now, if I believe the whole world was like the dolphins, I'd be pretty fucking scared, but it's not. That's only one organization that's very poorly run. And luckily, that is not how I run my life. And luckily, it's probably not how any of you run your lives. You have to be a special breed of incompetence and competent and fucking moronic to end up with an organization like the dolphins.

It sucks. It blows. It's not great. And yes, I know the world is fucked up and there's plenty of evidence of that. All I'm suggesting is that you find the skills and strategies. I've gone over so many of them. Not in this specific podcast. I'm only giving you a couple. But throughout the years of recording this and throughout the conversations and the readings and all of these things, there's enough there for you to pick and choose stuff that you can play around with and test. Very important, a core tenet of all the shit I talk about. Test this shit. Do not take my word for it. Do not take anyone's word for it.

Test this shit out. Test the imaginal techniques out. Test manifestation techniques out. Test astrology. Test tarot. Test anything that you need to test to see if it is valid and works for you. You can just miss everything too. You want to dismiss everything. You can be one of those people. That's the route to go. But test shit. See if it works. Also acknowledge maybe something works some of the time, but not all of the time. Okay, maybe something works a lot of the time and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe it works not a lot of the time and sometimes it does. That's what you experiment. That's what you're curious.

That's what you play around with shit. That's why you do things that actually kind of are outside of your comfort zone. There's so much to discover in the world, you know? There's so much. You don't have to focus in on the same five topics that everyone else is pitching you because look at the fuck is the point of that? How long are we talking about the same shit? And yes, acknowledge what's going on in the world. Of course, it's really fucked up things sometimes happening. There's really great things happening too. Lots of interesting things. But I mean, focusing on the five, 10 things that are pitched in media or whatever your kind of sub-media interests are.

Okay, just try to determine if you're doing something that makes you feel like your life is worth living. I mean, that's the base level. And then try to find things that actually excite you. Find people who excite you. This is a way, these are antidotes for all the shit that's gonna be throwing at you over the coming months and years. This is gonna be a lot of shit throwing. It's like kind of a world of poop that people just wanna fling around. We're like, not that much more evolved into monkeys to throw to poop at each other. We're kind of like that. So just, you know, let's try to dodge some poop.

Let's try to dodge this shit and find some things that maybe aren't poop. That would be nice. Not have poop in your face? Pretty nice. Is someone who's had three children, you get poop in your face sometimes it's okay. It's not the end of the world. But let's not go seek out getting poop on our face. Certainly don't wanna do that. Plenty of other ways to go about life without getting shit constantly shoved in your face. It's just better ways of doing things. Anyway, I'm back. We'll try to keep it to a weekly podcast. I think we should be able to do that. We will have a live stream next week on the Patreon.

Patrons are pretty, I gotta say, I have the best patrons ever. I mean, they just like put up with my bullshit where I just go AWOL for two months. Like, welcome back. We appreciate it. Thank you guys. You're the best. We have weekly readings there. We do a lot of fun shit there. I'm back. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. So you can tune in there. Just fun stuff going on. All right, guys. Lots of love, everything is gonna be fine. It really is. You know what it seems like it's not. It's gonna be fine. Your ability to remember that. Very crucial, especially in times like this. See you soon. Bye-bye.

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