00:00:00.000You know, I owe her the journey that my potential promised her because, you know, my wife didn't marry me when I was a fine suit mogul traveling all over the planet, etc.
00:00:14.060My wife married me when I had just started a company.
00:00:17.220And so there wasn't really the direct evidence that I would be successful, for example, but there was inferred evidence based on the potential that I have.
00:00:26.260And, you know, I have this interesting conversation with my wife.
00:03:34.180How would then you go, how would you go about that?
00:03:36.220There would be forgiveness and understanding, but also there would be the understanding between the two of us that one of us is no longer attractive through no fault of their own.
00:04:40.240But what I can promise my wife is to every day attempt to try to become the vision that she sees for me.
00:04:47.940And I think one of the most toxic things in a marriage that is affirmed by our society right now is to marry someone who loves you for who you are.
00:04:54.700Instead of who you have the potential to be.
00:06:04.400When you get married, you truly become part of a team that is presumably inseparable.
00:06:11.140And then through your kids, you become a story.
00:06:13.360You become separated from even the physicality of the body.
00:06:16.480And that's how you pass forwards in generations.
00:06:18.720And, yeah, I think that this is a beautiful way to contextualize one's life and to not cling.
00:06:27.920This is when we talk about the forces that are disrupting marriages.
00:06:30.660One of the core ways they have done this is to atomize marriages.
00:06:33.860To try to make it so that you are not really with your partner.
00:06:38.220And I think in many ways, even some concepts of the nuclear family do that.
00:06:43.080I say when they first started destroying the marriage was when they took the father out of the home.
00:06:48.260And I think that hopefully, you know, if you look at the 1800s, the corporate family where they all work together, that was the dominant type of family in America.
00:06:54.540And I think that in a post-COVID world where working from home becomes more common.
00:06:59.080And I hope we can put political pressure on politicians to make it easier to work from home and to make these CEOs who say, oh, people shouldn't work from home.
00:07:05.180I was actually thinking that that's, like, a good middle ground for mothers.
00:07:11.420But, like, because now there's more cities that are requiring two incomes, the cost of everything's growing up.
00:07:19.520I was actually thinking that could potentially be a solution for people that don't have the option for the mom to stay home.
00:08:50.260So, essentially, what we raise our kids believing is, like, okay, so if your descendants are still around in a million and ten thousand years,
00:08:57.440they'll probably be closer to the way you would imagine a deity to the way you would imagine a man.
00:09:01.000Who's to say that they relate to time the way you do?
00:09:04.180Maybe they're rewarding you every day for every action you take that ensures a flourishing, pluralistic future for the human species.
00:09:12.860And they punish you when you indulge in vanity, when you indulge in anything that has to do with the self.
00:09:20.120And I think if you search your emotions, you will see this is true.
00:09:23.020Every time, you know, you forsake the future of hopefully our species, the human planet, you will feel a draining of your vitality.