00:05:44.000I'm here in response to many emails I've been getting lately from people who seem concerned with the Iran war and the price of fuel and how expensive everything is becoming and how difficult it is becoming to get by.
00:06:23.000And as a full-grown man, the most important thing you can do is blink and cure your brain and get rid of this idea that somehow your life was ever supposed to be or is ever going to be easy.
00:06:38.000Men have never had it easy since the dawn of human time.
00:06:42.000We were getting corralled into concentration camps.
00:06:46.000We were being enlisted in armies to go and die to prevent us from being corralled into concentration camps.
00:06:53.000We were forced, pressed into the Navy to live on a boat for two solid years amongst men we barely know to eventually die in a battle when a cannonball rips our arm off.
00:07:07.000We were constantly and endlessly suffering.
00:07:10.000At what point in human history was being a man better than it is today?
00:07:53.000I'm not saying I don't wish it was different, but I will tell you that I have learnt the only thing, the only skill that matters on this planet is endless persistence, stubbornness.
00:08:05.000No matter what you do to me, no matter what you hit me with, I'm going to get up and you're going to have to do it again.
00:08:16.000No matter what you shoot me with, no matter what you punch me with, I will turn up again and make you do it over and over and over until eventually the cosmos itself respects me.
00:09:23.000I will stand up and I will fight you anyway.
00:09:26.000I'm not concerned about how bad this world's going to get because the world has always been bad.
00:09:32.000The worst thing that happens to you is the worst thing that happens to you, irregardless of how small it is.
00:09:39.000If you had a perfect life, if everything was going perfectly well all the time and you had all this money and fame and women and everything was fine and the worst thing that ever happened to you is your car wouldn't start.
00:09:50.000That would devastate you the same as you now living a life where you're about to go fucking broke or get enlisted into a war.
00:10:41.000Because no matter what you hit me with, no matter how many times you hit me, no matter how many times you shoot me in the face, I'm going to stand up and I'm going to make you do it again.
00:15:51.000You see me smile, laugh, run around, have fun.
00:15:53.000Of course, because I smile as I drown.
00:15:56.000You're out here hoping that you're going to get some fucking lifeboat that's going to pick you up and that life's going to become great all of a sudden and the sun's only going to shine and you get to be an optimist and you don't have to worry anymore.
00:19:59.000The only person who's going to do that for you is someone who has watched you suffer for so long for their benefit.
00:20:05.000They have had such a fantastic life for so many years because you have struggled while they didn't that they finally feel even in the deeply ungrateful female psyche, they finally feel like they owe you.
00:20:20.000You're never going to have loyalty around you unless you build your life based on the fact that I am suffering so endlessly that when it comes to time to call the debt, people are going to pay me.
00:20:51.000You think when the sun is shining and everything's going well and you're hanging out, having a great time, that that's your person's your fucking friend?
00:20:57.000There's not a person alive who won't hang out with you when things are well.
00:21:00.000You make $10 million that you're going to spend in one week.
00:21:17.000I have the same friends I had when I was broke now that I'm rich because I know them and they know me and I can rely on them and they can rely on me.
00:21:32.000You think that makes him a real friend?
00:21:34.000You think a woman who turns up in my life now, who wasn't there when I went to jail, and starts running her fucking mouth, disrespecting me and being an idiot?
00:21:44.000You think I'm going to sit there and fucking simp over her?
00:22:38.000And eventually, when you really feel like you want to give up and you really feel like you want to quit, God is going to give you some air bubbles to lift you to the surface just long enough to get one more gasp of fucking air.
00:22:48.000And then you're going to go back down into the ocean.
00:22:55.000And you're going to struggle to breathe for weeks, months, years.
00:23:01.000Difference between you and me is when I'm under there, when I'm in the water, I smile because I've learned to like it.
00:23:12.000If I can't change it, then why don't I like it?
00:23:16.000If I can't change the very foundational principles of the physics which make this universe, if my suffering is eternal, it is forever, it is deep, and it is very damaging to me.
00:23:29.000The best thing I can possibly do is learn to like it.
00:23:33.000I'm at the point now when you bring me up for air and I start to breathe, the sun hurts my eyes.
00:25:04.000The girl you're in love with, some other man who barely cares about her, who she texts more than he replies, is coming on her face, correct.
00:25:14.000Welcome to the long, long stretch of suffering.
00:25:50.000People notice that they're like, we saw all those men get thrown in the ocean.
00:25:54.000This fucking crazy guy, he fucking likes it.
00:25:57.000So when bad things happen to them, and they're like, you're about to be thrown in the ocean, but you get to choose one friend that you get thrown in the ocean with.
00:27:10.000The most unfortunate thing about all of this, eventually, when you have all these friends and all this money and all these women and all this power and all this fucking aura, unfortunately, it fills you with air.
00:27:21.000It fills you with oxygen to the point where you can't even sink anymore.
00:27:26.000And one day you wake up on the surface and you're not sinking.
00:28:12.000And you're fucking emailing me complaining about having exactly what I fucking want.
00:28:20.000If you think that there's ever going to be a version of masculine consciousness, which is anything other than constant anxiety and pain, you need to wake the fuck up.
00:28:32.000The only guarantee that exists on this planet is that you are going to fucking suffer and hate your fucking life.
00:28:39.000And it doesn't change no matter how many cars you have, how many women you fuck, how big your house is, you're going to hate your fucking life.
00:28:47.000So the best thing you can do is smile about it.
00:30:30.000Maybe your ancestors struggled against saber-toothed tigers only for you to be born 10,000 years later so that the second something difficult happens to you, you can piss your pants and cry.
00:30:40.000Maybe that's why all of your ancestry died in wars, struggled to find food, struggled to build shelter so that you could eventually be born.
00:30:50.000And in the year 2026, when you lose a bit of money on fucking Bitcoin or some whore who was fucked by men before you eventually runs off to fuck someone else, you can sit at home, feel sad for yourself, and give up.
00:31:02.000Maybe that's why all your ancestors struggled all day, every fucking day, so that you could disgrace your bloodline.
00:31:56.000You're busy being a whore and I'm busy gathering my chi for the final battle.
00:32:00.000So that eventually in 24 years when the aliens arrive or the fucking mass invaders turn up and they're about to stab me in the heart and I'm about to die.
00:32:10.000I've spent all of that time gathering chi so that I'm ready.