The Critical Compass Podcast - March 03, 2026


Holmes Sisters： Alberta Independence is Happening - The Feds Get to Decide How Painlessly

Holmes Sisters： Alberta Needs to SAVE ITSELF Before it Can Care About Canada The Holmes Sisters： Ambassadors for Gen Z Conservative Politics in Alberta

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9 minutes

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185.82

Word count

1,701

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Misogyny

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Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the importance of having a healthy dose of self-awareness, and the role of the brain in understanding the world around us, and how it plays a key role in understanding our own ideas and beliefs.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 the reality is we try not to idealize or marry any sort of individual even we don't idealize
00:00:10.120 trump we don't idealize daniel no is that to say that so we could find things both good and wrong
00:00:15.260 with both of them at all times as we can do ourselves and the thing that's super important
00:00:21.220 about that is because even this movement we're very well aware of the ways that it could go wrong
00:00:27.520 and it could get co-opted and the people in there it can get sabotaged we could just because we get
00:00:33.940 this petition doesn't mean what if we do the constitutional convention that has to be held
00:00:38.920 after independence is declared because we have to do our own constitution what if we end up repeating
00:00:45.520 half of the mistakes in the current confederation and so even though we are taking steps we are not
00:00:53.680 delusional that this is a perfect plan because it's run by people and people aren't perfect
00:00:59.140 it takes work and so anything that we do and anything we listen to any person we talk to
00:01:05.760 including the own ideologies we hold we hold it with very open hands because it's like princess
00:01:12.960 leia said you know the more that you tighten your fingers the more planets will sit slip through your
00:01:17.900 fingers um and so you try and do that with everything in life solid you try and do that
00:01:24.480 with people ideologies if you find yourself so passionately and it's not to say don't do anything
00:01:31.160 because that's not what that means but when you find yourself feeling like you want to take somebody
00:01:36.160 and snap them like a glow stick and shake it till the light comes on you need to look at yourself
00:01:40.820 because something in your brain is so married to this idea you need to play it out almost as if you
00:01:47.120 have ocd obsessive compulsive disorder and all the people that are so fearful of whatever the
00:01:52.780 paranoid and scenario that could happen what happened what if it happens play it out what if
00:02:01.700 it goes wrong you can you live on anyway and so doing that exercise with your own brain when you find
00:02:08.300 yourself so married to something you need to look at yourself and go what in me needs this to happen
00:02:14.580 and do i really need it to happen or is this just my comfort zone so that's why we so value the brain
00:02:20.000 because then it brings everybody back to an equal playing field because the problem is in your own
00:02:25.620 skull and because there's so much more of the world than there is you you really need to understand your
00:02:32.260 own brain it's if it's the only thing you have control over in life because you can't control the
00:02:38.240 rest of the world at least attempt to control your own brain if nothing else there was a our dad has
00:02:44.900 talked about this before and i think it was uh uh what's it called unscrew the news guy that was just
00:02:50.020 interviewing people in line and he stumbled across our parents and uh our dad was giving his little
00:02:56.380 two cents and playing on to maddie's little you might not you don't have to necessarily marry it and
00:03:01.960 maybe you even shouldn't is um the privy council has already said that they're not going to be in
00:03:07.860 favor of alberta trying to leave right and so you might be discouraged with that you might be like oh
00:03:13.020 no what are we gonna do now um but it is one of those things where okay it's kind of like uh i forgot
00:03:22.100 what the it's it's the i forget the year but it was the september address and i forgot who it was who
00:03:28.940 was giving it but it was just uh i think during the patrick henry patrick henry speech during the
00:03:34.320 virginia address yeah during the american revolution um i think um 1776 or five yeah she's got it there
00:03:41.940 we go but anyways i just remember the speech and um in the speech though he goes down talking about how
00:03:48.520 they tried every single avenue that was thrown at them in i guess the sort of democratic slash to
00:03:56.120 the book way of how to try and fight this beast which at the time was the british empire which
00:04:00.560 fyi is still the british empire um and so they went down every single avenue that was laid out
00:04:08.060 before them and this referendum is still us going down the avenue that has put put down and put forward
00:04:14.660 for us to take by the same people that are trying to squander us might i add so we're still doing this
00:04:21.140 thing though and some could say that's foolish why would you play uh sunyat sen's art of war why do
00:04:25.640 you why do you fight on the battlefield that is set up for you by your enemy right but we do and so
00:04:31.000 i think and so this plays into the like not necessarily married to it it's one of those
00:04:36.460 if this doesn't come through and if this doesn't you know it fails essentially this specific avenue as
00:04:43.780 did all the other ones when the same entity that they were fighting as we're fighting today
00:04:48.420 if that doesn't come through for us right then it is kind of a bit of the william wallace like
00:04:55.360 they may take our lives when they'll never take our freedoms type of thing then come and get it 0.86
00:04:59.100 right and it's one of those but you can't say that we didn't do every single thing before we got to
00:05:04.860 this point where okay now you just have to come and take it from us right because we aren't going
00:05:09.860 we're not budging and that to me is uh some could say it's it's foolish some could say it's admirable
00:05:16.200 regardless it's happening and regardless we've been doing it and so and so now we're gonna find
00:05:21.440 out what that entails and if it does succeed or not in the way that this avenue has presented to
00:05:28.200 potentially succeed or not and then if not then i guess that is one of those well then yeah come and
00:05:34.260 take it i love my dynamic between you two uh sorry james the uh i just gotta gotta comment on that
00:05:41.340 from from madison be like you know know your mind and you know you know take these fears to the
00:05:47.140 logical conclusions and then meiji's like or then come and fight me for it you know it's so it's a
00:05:52.740 really good uh that's a good you guys uh you guys are good for each other uh oh dude oh my god
00:05:58.780 i love that you said that well i wanted to say one thing that you you particularly madison touched on
00:06:04.980 was two important points i don't know if you guys know much about um or you know um cognitive
00:06:11.580 behavioral therapy like uh cbt that's kind of what you mentioned made me think of that where you like
00:06:17.400 you know if people um if you're catastrophizing something you know that the best thing you can
00:06:22.060 do for yourself is take your fears to their logical conclusion and you'll find oftentimes actually it's
00:06:26.580 not all that bad if your worst fears come true you know um the second thing you said
00:06:30.880 reminds me of um you know a very a common refrain amongst the stoic philosophers like the uh marcus
00:06:37.440 aurelius and things like that with the um uh you know worry about what you can control and don't
00:06:43.440 worry about things that you can't control uh that's oh my god that little prayer yeah god help me grant
00:06:49.100 me grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change courage to change the things i can
00:06:53.680 and wisdom to know the difference i love that it's perfect it's so good and and i can't remember who it
00:06:58.480 wasn't it wasn't aurelius it was somebody else but but he said basically you can exist in two states
00:07:03.420 um you can exist in a state of of of worry about something that you can control that you have
00:07:09.620 control over and if that's the case then why worry about it because you have control over it and then
00:07:14.600 the other state is you can exist about worrying about something that you can't control and again
00:07:19.660 what's the point of worrying about something that you already know you can't control so in this case
00:07:23.680 because now you suffer twice you suffer twice and yeah so either way regardless of what the
00:07:29.200 scenario is it doesn't really do me much good to just sit there and worry about it so james go ahead
00:07:33.220 essentially what you're describing is we're going through every single
00:07:36.640 like every single avenue that we can fall in the process and if our thesis is correct that we are in a
00:07:45.720 corrupt system that by going through this even if we fail it's essentially proving it in real time
00:07:53.840 like we're getting real-time evidence real-time examples of exactly how corrupt and how broken the
00:08:01.340 system is and this is where maintaining that little bit of stoicism we're we want to become the change
00:08:08.740 that we want to see and we also don't want to feed in and become the like the meme of independence that
00:08:18.400 we're being labeled with we're being smeared with all these like all these are hateful like traitors and
00:08:25.300 they only want this and that and if we're rock solid on our vision and we're pushing forward and we're
00:08:31.940 like we're positive at these events and we're getting footage of people being regular people
00:08:38.580 having good time we're doing the peaceful thing we are building community we are building the momentum
00:08:45.440 at a grassroots level and then we're getting just this demonization but we keep if we keep cool we
00:08:54.400 keep that they keep the course then we've got everything on our side like they've got nothing
00:09:01.620 and more and more like the harder they push the more the system will reveal itself in the process