00:00:27.020Or do you think the reality of the situation is exaggerated?
00:00:31.200It's a lot of questions, but I think it's basically one question.
00:00:39.420So we're in sort of a depression as it relates to our folks.
00:00:46.980So things, we're on the precipice, I think, of seeing things getting better.
00:00:53.340Now, whether that precipice is going to be a decade or several decades or a hundred years, I don't know. I don't think anyone really knows. I do think that we've been, our people have been living life in a way where we have been robbing from the future to sort of fuel our hedonistic pleasures of the now.
00:01:16.880um unfortunately the generations before us have have done so and i mean we're we're also complicit
00:01:23.660in it as we as we uh as we grow up but uh so i think that we that our society is living on
00:01:33.560borrowed time the society as it stands right now i don't think that we're going to see a
00:01:39.980a complete dissolution of our of our people but things are going to change and things need to
00:01:45.620change because i think that uh the people who are watching this uh to one degree or another agrees
00:01:52.260that the way society is run now is not healthy and is not right or just so we do want it to be
00:02:02.740switched out with something that is good and that is uh healthy for us but in order for that to
00:02:10.420happen this these paradigms that we've been living with for a very long time
00:02:15.860they need to be dismantled and and they they're falling on their own as they
00:02:22.600they're not rooted in reality and they're not rooted in in what is right
00:02:27.640and just they're rooted in in entropy and destruction and the the really the
00:02:37.740the dishonoring of of that which is actually good so i think it is i don't think it has happened i
00:02:46.120think it is happening all around us and on the one hand i think the the situation is exaggerated
00:02:54.260but on the other hand it's not exaggerated i don't i think it is when people take it as oh we can't do
00:02:59.980anything everything is hopeless then i think no that is your that is incredibly exaggerated and
00:03:06.180it's not rooted in in reality it is rooted in propaganda that that uh that these bad actors
00:03:13.680are are pumping out and you need to stop watching that propaganda that is a huge issue with with uh
00:03:20.380with people and i think it's part of the the soul sickness we're just drawn to looking at all the
00:03:25.980bad news of the world it's like oh look what what happened in sweden here and what happened in
00:03:30.720America here. You need to stop watching that. You will be hearing about it anyways, but please
00:03:38.020make an effort in not consuming so much doom porn, really, because then it will make you think that
00:03:46.380things are worse than they actually are. So stop doing that.
00:03:52.560All right. You heard it here, folks. I'm going to steal it and I'm going to use it.
00:03:55.760doom porn. I think that really does capture it accurately. Very seldom do we just see
00:04:13.000cataclysmic social change. We like to talk a lot, and it's kind of the big picture example
00:04:24.420is the fall of the Roman Empire. No one generation saw the empire fall. It fell for,
00:04:34.300you know, depends who you talk to, but three or 400 years, depending where you were at.
00:04:41.240It's a slow process of change. And it's hard, you know, asking people to predict the future is
00:04:47.400a difficult task. One thing my dad noticed about America
00:04:56.020is, you know, he lamented that this is the first, you know, my generation, and I assume my
00:05:03.640daughters didn't be the second, it's the first generation that their kids weren't going to be
00:05:10.800better off than them. Like things weren't looking up. And I think that's interesting because he's,
00:05:18.440you know, tends to be a more middle of the road conservative. He's not, you know, really our guy
00:05:24.380on stuff. For him to see that is, you know, he's always been super patriotic. He was a soldier. He
00:05:34.660in the army built career in the in the army um always been really devoted to america and
00:05:41.540to see that change in his life was was interesting um
00:05:48.100yeah it's not going the right direction is it a fall i don't know is it a deep valley that maybe
00:05:54.260we'll pull out of on the other side or is something going to break down and we're going
00:05:58.260to just build something different i don't know what i do know is the afa is doing our very best
00:06:04.100to build, to build a outpost of the golden age within the Kali Yuga. We're building the best we
00:06:14.480can amongst ourselves at our Hoffs, at Sigerheim. We're continuing to grow and build a community
00:06:21.340and share with each other to where we're positioned to celebrate if everything goes great or to take
00:06:29.100strength from one another and take care of each other if things go poorly. It's hard to tell if
00:06:37.320the reality of the situation is exaggerated. I think that's always something historians can do
00:06:42.460in hindsight, which you very seldom know at the time. We base tragedy on our own life experience.
00:06:51.280You know, what's a big deal to you may not be a big deal to me. What's a big deal to me may not
00:06:56.960be a big deal to someone else who's lived a more stressful life or a life where their immediate
00:07:04.240needs aren't met. There's a lot to be said to it. But what I have seen is the people that embrace
00:07:11.020the doom porn and do the whole prepper thing. Not that it's not wise to be prepared for certain
00:07:19.320things, but when you make your existence about preparing for the apocalypse and then it doesn't
00:07:25.700happen it's a lot of wasted years and it's a lot of wasted energy a lot of wasted relationship
00:07:31.860and time with your family and time you could have been doing stuff with your head focused
00:07:37.060up it's one of the it's funny how it's weird how these things
00:07:44.100come together on these shows and themes coalesce but uh speaking of balder and baldershoff
00:07:49.540one of the things that i think is most special about
00:07:54.740the vey and the uh the mural is it's it's in kind of a triangular space
00:08:03.760and lord balder's head is at the pinnacle of this triangle and he's looking up and it's
00:08:12.060everything there directs your attention upwards looking to the future looking to something better
00:08:18.500looking to build and not looking down at, you know, all the things that are wrong,
00:08:25.220looking up towards things that we can become. And I think that, you know, getting your head
00:08:29.240up and looking for the positives and much more healthy thing to do. And we've seen generations
00:08:33.420of people now, you know, we've seen a couple of generations doing the whole prepper thing where
00:08:38.120these old guys, you know, spend their whole life prepping for something and then they pass and
00:08:45.140nothing's happened. And they've squandered a lot of things and a lot of time in order to do that.
00:08:52.080So I think focusing on what we can build and building it within the AFA is a very unique
00:08:56.720opportunity that we have in this day and age. It's pretty special.