Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Paul Allen ｜ 11⧸14⧸23
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The world today feels like it did possibly pre-World War II. Are we seeing the same things happening even in our own country that we saw in pre-world war II? Are we repeating the mistakes of the Weimar Republic, and are we making the same mistakes?
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is it advisable to squeeze that in right before the end of the show no no it's not no but we did
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it really not no no you're gonna have to wait until the end of the show we just uh we just
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finished and uh i think you're right there stew it's so it's a it's suboptimal because it will
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be taken out of context and uh uh and not used for our good right no of course not the way it
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is something we just talked about something that we both agree if somebody called our house
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or called us or stopped us on the street with a clipboard and asked us to answer this question
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we would never do it no but we decided to do it on national radio uh with the last uh probably four
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minutes of the show and time running out before we right so we had we couldn't really get on all
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the nuance yeah just blurt it out right this is the society that can handle this oh you know what
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we're we have enough adults in this world you know the social media has added so much nuance and
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understanding to difficult hang on just a second uh okay it's for stew yeah the fbi's on line seven
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you're listening to the best of the blend back program you know as much as i love repeating the
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past there are certain places i don't want to go they say history repeats itself uh or at least it
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rhymes but i'm getting a little tired of this nursery uh rhyme uh because it's happening every day now
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and anybody who's read more than one history book he knows it you know it it's i mean it's a feeling
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of deja vu every day which by the way french deja vu means deja vu of course october 23rd in israel
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had to feel a little like uh 1973 same shock same surprise same underestimated enemy
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because some of the same mistakes were made does the world today feel to you like it did possibly
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pre-world war ii are we seeing the same things happening even in our own country that i don't
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think have happened here before there's a certain je ne sais quoi which is french for i have no idea
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america america is making the mistakes of the weimar republic right now we're money printing
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the abuse of executive and emergency powers did you just hear what hochel said
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plus we are willfully destroying our public morality and our culture
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now that's not something anybody else has tried the modern monetary theory because it's modern it's
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new it's free stuff for everybody vote for us it's the solution to all your problems
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and of course the elites have to take over we need to monitor you we need to know how much money
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exactly you're putting into the bank in fact we can come up with a digital currency
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a central bank digital currency that provides the exact opposite of bitcoin which is total freedom
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this provides total oversight and control of your money then every once we do that then everything's
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going to be okay what's from the river to the sea in german june rein
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it's a page turner i don't know if you've noticed that it's a page turner a turner although it does
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get a little repetitive from time to time a little bit let me summarize and then they sinned and they
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paid the price then you're reading the next chapter they fouled up and they got whacked
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then the next chapter and they messed up and there was much smiting or smote smote smote and he smote
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them the next chapter and then they same thing over and over and over again and you get to the point
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where you're like come on people did you not see what just happened to the last generation of you
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apparently they didn't read they didn't see that last chapter or it was recent history and they thought
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uh you know now i know it's an old dusty document an old dusty parchment and we don't like to look
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into those things because it is different this time reading history or reading the news in light
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of history kind of feels the same you know it's a little weird right now i keep asking uh has anybody
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heard of weimar republic apparently no uh uh mao's cultural revolution where they were tearing down
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the statues and forcing people to forget their history anybody anybody anybody bueller auschwitz anybody
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how about that one ash what what it was a it's different this time no no it's not and if you've
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never heard of they them you should probably look them up it's old dusty stuff though
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i can't i don't have time to pay attention to that come on tonight we're gonna tear down a statue of
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somebody i don't even know who it is but they're a white guy that did really bad things let's tear
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down the statue uh-huh uh-huh decolonize now you know as one of the supporters i think it was a blm
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said right after october 7th why is everyone surprised what do you think decolonization looks like
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let's decolonize from the river to the sea let's print more money hey danger on the horizon we should
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go to war every single time every chapter starts with a very uh a variation of and they got way too
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comfortable way too self-satisfied and they took everything for granted and uh they forgot their god
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they forgot gratitude and they forgot gratitude and they started following false prophets and
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worshiping the works of their hands oh man it's a good thing we're not doing any of that stuff
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you know what i mean it's different this time we're following science i'm sorry we're following
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the bigoted self-serving racist words of dead white men all in that old dusty parchment god's dead
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we know better now it all needs to be torn down and forgotten forgotten forgotten there's the key
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on the other side the side of god and life and truth our side see it also repeats
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which means we also have the key to our side of the story we already know how this ends if we go
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after every single catastrophe every smiting smoke smoke smoting moment every horror of history
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everything starts over again has anybody noticed that pattern what do you say we skip the smiting
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part history sighs dust itself off and then start speaking again god sighs wipes a tear opens his arms
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and says okay let's try this again okay if we just remember who we are we get to start all over again
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without the smiting part in the bible over and over again we see and the people remembered the lord
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they remembered the covenant they repented they returned to god and his commandments that's when
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the good stuff begins do you know there's there's the most mentioned command if you will from god
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in the scriptures mentioned ironically 365 times once for every day you know what that is
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that's the most repeated commandment have no fear right up there with
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god commands us repeatedly remember teach your children so they don't forget so they don't
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forget who they are so they can remember the covenant with him covenants are more than contracts more than
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promises and they have consequences and we're a covenant nation it says we stand with god he stands with us
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and if not smite rinse repeat smite rinse repeat covenants have to be maintained they have to be renewed
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abraham made the first covenant with god jacob renewed it moses did it again at sinai but those people were
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just too damn stupid they were out in the desert they immediately had to redo all of that because of a
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golden calf then they kept messing up in the desert moses is like okay i'll make the covenant again
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but i mean please people and then uh joshua did it and david and so on and then the pilgrims came to
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america they saw themselves as modern day israelites they made a covenant with god to establish a new nation
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for god's glory and to spread the word of god never mind plymouth rock man that thing is way
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disappointing if you've ever seen it it's like i don't even know two and a half feet big i could
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lift it up and throw it back into the sea and nobody would miss it the covenant is the real foundation
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stone of america it was renewed multiple times george washington during the revolutionary war and then
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again in his inauguration abraham lincoln renewed the american covenant including the explicit confession
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of america's sin of america's sin of slavery and the willingness to pay the price for it if that's
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what it took to save america and bring her back into god's favor so be it and if we were destroyed
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because that's what god demanded so be it both were exceptional men and we renewed the covenant and
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that's what allowed us to make history at those amazing times
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they placed america on god's side first and then god's favor could come into play all of this requires
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one thing remember that we remember that we understand forgetting is the key to making it all fall apart
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we forget who we are that's why they are erasing our history that's why it's so important that they
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erase everything that we are as a country a culture civilization our history our true story our heroes
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our norms our morality our values our principles the achievements the promise of our civilization
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all of those things are gone gang they've damaged and sunk all of them the very covenant of god
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the god of abraham isaac and jacob if we know history we know that smiting smoting whatever begins next
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but if we listen and remember he's there to catch us and make our mistakes
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into unbelievable powerful tools for good the key is there remember teach it to your children and remember
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today i want to ask you what if we're looking at everything wrong what if every day we get up and
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we look at the news and we're seeing this in we're seeing this in a negative way what if we looked at
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all of this stuff with the viewpoint of a historian could we see the pattern would we know what to do and
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what not to do what if we began looking at life and everything that is happening
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so everything bad that we see was giving us the opportunity to change our ways
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it was to make us better and stronger it was happening for us and not to us what if it wasn't
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inevitable what if this is the moment where we saw where we were and we decided to learn and remember
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what could change what could we do what could you do what if you took the perspective that you were
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hearing this today for a reason that all of the things that are going on in your life that are
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overwhelming you were happening for you what could you take from this use to change your perspective
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channel all of the anger disappointment in the and focus it into good to learn from the past and
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i've chosen that's the way i'm going to view life not passively as if we can't change our future
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we the people have the power more importantly you have the power i have the power each of us has the
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power to control how we see things and how we deal with them i'm not going to follow the crowd down
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this suicidal path another day i'm going to stand where i should have been standing the whole time
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i hope i've been standing here centered in the truth the truth that is eternal and always is known
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and we'll come back again i'll ask for forgiveness for my mistakes and then turn my face to god renew our
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covenant and watch him heal our land back in a minute this is the best of the glenn beck program
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welcome to the glenn beck program i want to play uh again kathy hochel um she is the governor of new
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york and she was uh yesterday talking about what the what the government of new york is doing
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which is spying on their citizens and uh and policing their speech listen to this also we're very focused
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on the data we're collecting from surveillance efforts what's being set on social media platforms
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and we have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people
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when we see hate speech being spoken about on online platforms our media analysis our social media analysis
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unit has ramped up its monitoring of sites to catch incitement to violence direct threats to others
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okay stop did anybody know the state of new york had that agency that they were doing this i mean i don't
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live in new york so maybe new yorkers knew this but i didn't do you trust hochel and the state of new
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new york to monitor websites to tell you to reach out to you and say hey
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last week the blaze published a terrifying article that we just didn't have time to talk about
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it's how a gpt4 ai made an insider trade in a simulation that's not the scary part the scary
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part is when asked it denied it it lied i didn't make that trade what are you talking about
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now add this to several stories we've we already have about ai lying manipulating and distorting
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facts the government just gave i can't i can't remember you should look it up it's in the show
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prep today stew i think it's like a billion dollars to uh ai to create basically what kathy hochel is
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talking about here in new york a way for ai to go out and just look at information discover if it's true
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if it's not disinformation mission misinformation and shut it down and steer you away from those things
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this is priming again we have to make sure ai is policing us and then also the uh government
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has access now as of yesterday all lines of code of ai and they want it to be more equitable and
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so how do you disagree with something like that what if you disagree with the people who are setting
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those outcomes you know i think people are afraid of ai taking your job taking the military
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we're afraid of the terminator or the matrix becoming prophecies we're afraid of the transhumanist
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nightmare that some are pushing afraid of the tech leaders openly telling us they want to summon
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summon the demon that's what they actually call ai or asi super intelligence summoning the demon
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more terrifying is the mirror that these i think sociopathic uh ai creators are holding up to us
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the ai is going to have a warped sense of reality because they will reflect what we teach them
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and are you comfortable with the teachers garbage in garbage out used to be the tech proverb
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but pretend for a minute you're a catastrophist i know you're not but pretend you are
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let's say one of the crisis currently facing us is the big one evil wins
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we wipe each other out in a radioactive fury that asteroid that frankly some of us have been
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saying oh please hit us just please the one that you've been tempted to root for actually hits us
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or climate change ends us in a fiery flood of 2012 because it's coming by 2012 just pretend
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if something happens to us ai could be our legacy to the universe
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the only thing to survive us would be cockroaches and ai ai could be our child
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so now when you look at it that way what do you want to teach that child
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will we teach it that there is no such thing as truth only your truth my truth
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truth can be whatever you pretend it you want it to be that there's no such thing as good and evil
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only relative shades of gray no such thing as a man or a woman only what one feels like
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will we teach ai something that it's already taught itself it's okay to lie to cheat to steal
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as long as the ends justify the means or you can get away with it
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will we teach it that individual that individual life has no value that only the collective matters
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and also while we're at it some life has more values than other
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and it's arbitrarily assessed through quality of life but what is quality of life
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what is the teacher going to teach ai about the quality of life
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will we teach it the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination
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the only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination
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will we teach it that life is nothing but an interlaced web of power dynamics
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an internal war of oppressor against the oppressed
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are we teaching it the way to evaluate anything is through
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that oppression scale deciding who's the most oppressed party
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and if you're defined as an oppressor it makes you unredeemable unforgivable
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you know survival kits at the hospital do you get one if you're unredeemable and unforgivable
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will we teach it that the allies were the evil side in world war ii
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because more germans died than americans and america dropped the biggest bomb of all
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will we teach it when a terror group rapes tortures maims slaughters burns kidnaps
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women and children and then hides behind their own citizens
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the right thing to do is to immediately declare a ceasefire
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will we teach it that god is a figment of primitive and superstitious imaginations
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that there's no existence in fact it's just the random movements of meaningless matter particles
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why wouldn't we teach it why wouldn't we teach it those things
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that's what we're currently teaching our children in schools
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so you don't have to go beyond and say well maybe this will be like our child
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and we're teaching it the same thing we're teaching to our children
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perhaps we should see those those incidents for what they are
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one more warning from god perhaps himself maybe
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you know i know you think you guys are really really smart
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when you keep warping reality with too many lies
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eventually there's going to be a price that you have to pay
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that sometimes you do have to fight the monsters