Ep. 428 - Narcissism Disguised As Enlightenment
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are using their own money to buy an election with other people s money. Is that right or wrong? And what does that have to do with narcissism? Is it a good or bad thing?
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Welcome to the show, everybody. I trust you're all excited for the Democratic debate
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tonight. I know that I am. I actually am excited for it this time, to be honest. This time,
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anyway, I am. And for one thing, I'm looking forward to the spectacle of a Democratic debate
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featuring not one, but two billionaires. Two billionaires. Actually, I'm not sure if Steyer
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made the cut this time around. I hope that he did, because either way, there are two billionaires
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in the field vying for the Democratic nomination. So you got two billionaires,
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a bunch of millionaires, a bunch of white people, and that's it, right? Basically,
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the Democratic field looks exactly like the kind of party that the Democrats accuse the Republicans
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of being. And that's great. I do expect tonight for just a very brief preview that the phrase
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buying the election, the accusation of buying the election will be uttered quite a bit.
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All of the mere millionaires on stage will valiantly stand up against the billionaire or billionaires
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and accuse them of buying the election. But keep in mind, as the millionaires complain about the
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billionaire buying the election, that they aren't upset about elections being bought per se. They
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have no problem with that. It's just they're upset about somebody buying an election
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with their own money. That's the issue. For Sanders and Warren, of course,
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their preferred method is to buy the election by bribing voters with other people's money.
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So they want to use your money to bribe the voters, and that's their issue. Bloomberg,
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at least, has the decency to bribe folks with his own money. And that's the thing that I think offends
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the Warrens and the Sanders of the world. So remember that tonight. Nobody has ever attempted to buy an
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election as brazenly as especially Bernie Sanders is attempting to buy it by promising free everything,
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basically. It's just that, again, he's using your money to do it. The idea that somebody would use
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their own money to do anything is very offensive to Bernie Sanders. So I'm sure we'll hear a lot
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about that tonight. Okay. Enough about the debate for now. I want to talk about narcissism,
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a not unrelated topic, to be sure. And that's going to be the theme of the show today, or at least of
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the first couple of things that we talk about. I believe that narcissism is the great plague of
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modern society. And since our society is so into narcissists and has so constructed itself around
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narcissism, it has also come up with many names and labels and ways of discussing narcissism
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to make it seem noble or brave or bold, right? Now, I think it may help to begin with a definition.
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I don't always trust websites like Psychology Today, but in this case, I think Psychology Today
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provides a pretty good description of what narcissism is. Here's what the site says.
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Narcissism is characterized by, it says, a hunger for appreciation or admiration, a sense of specialness,
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and a desire to be the center of attention, and an expectation of special treatment reflecting
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perceived higher status. Okay, so that's narcissism. Now, here's a great example of it, in my view.
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There's this video that's gone viral online. It's a video of somebody, a woman, I think,
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I could be wrong, performing a bit of poetry about her struggles with trying to get her haircut
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as a, quote, non-binary person. And this is being hailed as, like I said, noble, brave, bold, beautiful.
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But really, I could just not imagine a better illustration of narcissism. In fact, it would
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not be an exaggeration to say that this poem that I'll play for you right now is perhaps the most
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powerful poem about narcissism that I've ever heard. So, without further ado, here it is. Watch this.
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I need a haircut. So, option one is the salon. That womanly world of perfumed femininity with which I
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feel like I have little affinity. Or option two is the barbers, which isn't much better since this
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voice and these swells in my chest make me feel like an infiltrator. But barbers or salon when I get to
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the chair. Before we can even touch on my hair, there's this question which hangs there unuttered
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and awkward. They made all the more awkward when they say, I know this is awkward. And through the
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mirror they ask if I'm a boy or a girl. Am I trans? Am I gay? And I don't know what to say.
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Sometimes I pick my labels to make other people feel okay. But it's never enough to say where I'd like
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to be trimmed or shaved. They need to know my sex. How else can they charge the appropriate rate?
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I'm sure you've seen the signs. Gents trim, five quid. Women's trim, nine. It doesn't matter how I
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define anyway when the hair on our head's charged by what's between our legs. And as usual, there always
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seems to be a higher price to pay for those who are female.
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You see, what you saw there, that's not a poem about being non-binary, mostly because
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there's no such thing as being non-binary. That doesn't exist. That's a poem about, as I said,
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video, the poem, and this is the kind of thing that these days we're supposed to approach with
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hushed reverence and say, shh, everyone, listen, she's talking about her lived experience. This is,
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this is profound and meaningful when really almost everybody is rolling their eyes, at least
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internally. Maybe not externally because they think they're not allowed to. They think that's,
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that's not the right, that's, that's a, that's a terrible and bigoted reaction. It's not,
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it's the right reaction. Let's talk about why. First of all, this person says that her identity
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as complex and fascinating and poetic as it is just can't be described by or contained by the
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labels male or female. It's just, that's, that's, that's not enough. She needs something other than
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that. Uh, well, no, she doesn't because nobody is other than that. You're either male or female.
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Okay. In her case, female, I think. Uh, now you can be a female who prefers short hair and baggy clothes.
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That's fine. That has absolutely nothing to do with your status as male or female.
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If you're a female with a different fashion sense and aesthetic sensibilities from most
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other females, then you're just a female with different fashion senses and aesthetic sensibilities
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from most other females. That's it. It's not complicated. We don't need a whole new category
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to describe you. You're still a female, just a female. And that's fine. It really is. Or you're a male.
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And that's fine too. Everybody is one or the other. It is indeed a binary system. That's what
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a binary system is. Where every, where everyone or everything in the system is one thing or another.
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And that's how it is for members of the human species. It is definitely a binary system. There
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is no third sex. It doesn't exist. Now there are people of either sex, a small minority who suffer
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from deformities or abnormalities, but those are deformities and abnormalities within the binary.
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And the whole way we know that they are deformities or abnormalities is because they are within the
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binary. But some people have convinced themselves that these so-called traditional labels, these
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standard categories are just too small, you know, too, too shallow, too boring, too routine
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to contain them, to contain them and their enormity. They're just so interesting and so deep and so
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amazing and incredible and different and manifold and nuanced. You heard it in the clip. You know,
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the rest of the world, almost everyone else, can satisfy themselves with these labels, but not me.
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No, I'm just different. I'm something else entirely. I'm not like them. I'm not like you. I'm not like
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anyone. I have, what was, you know, what was that on psychology today? I have a sense of specialness
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and a desire to be the center of attention. That's what it is. And then she makes this whole long
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thing out of choosing who is going to cut her hair. You know, even claiming that the barber or
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stylist will ask her if she's gay or trans, which, first of all, I guarantee that doesn't happen.
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Okay, you're not going to sit down at the barbershop. So you gay? Is that a gay person? Yeah.
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Yeah. I've never been asked that personally. I really doubt that she's ever been asked that
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at the bar because it's totally irrelevant. It's also irrelevant what sex you are. They're
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not going to ask you that either. You know, what makes female hair more expensive is not that it's
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female, but that generally there's more of it and women want more done to it. And so if you're going
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to cut female hair, it takes longer. It requires more skill and talent and training. And so it's more
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expensive. But if you're okay with just getting a three on the sides and a little off the top,
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like the kind of thing that men ask for when they sit down at the barber, then you're going to get
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the same prices. It's that simple. You see, nobody really gives a damn. That's the thing.
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This person is imagining a scenario where the whole world is hanging on the edge of its seat,
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wanting to know what she'll do. What kind of haircut is she going to get?
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But nobody gives a damn. That's the thing. Just get over yourself.
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That's the answer most of the time when you see this stuff. I'm non-binary. No,
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just get over yourself. Get over yourself. And, you know, get the kind of cut you want
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and shut up about it. That's it. Nobody cares. This is a realization that we could all benefit from,
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something that we all need to keep in mind, I think. Even those of us who are not necessarily
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inclined to write slam poetry about our experiences at the barbershop, we could still bear this in mind
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too. And that is that when it comes down to it, almost nobody actually cares what we're doing 99%
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of the time. 99% of the time, the feeling that we have of being judged or watched or whatever is an
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The answer is almost nothing. They're going to think almost nothing about it because they're just
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Um, it certainly isn't, uh, doesn't tell us anything great about the nature of humanity,
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That's ring.com slash Walsh. By the way, this was pretty good. Elizabeth Warren, uh, she was,
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I think talking to a culinary union yesterday, trying her best to pander. And you know,
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sometimes it goes off the rails when Elizabeth Warren tries to pander because she's trying to
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approximate, uh, what normal people say. And, and, and, but it doesn't always work out because
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she's got a little bit of a robotic Hillary Clinton thing going on with her. And so this is, uh, this
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is what she came up with. Watch. Yes. When you need something cleaned, call a woman. That was,
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that's actually what she said. And as a husband, I, you know, it's not very often. I agree with
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Elizabeth Warren or I have the inclination to shout amen. But, um, as a husband, I do, I have to say
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amen to that. Yes, ma'am. I, I totally agree. And that is generally my strategy as well. Um,
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my wife's not a big fan of that being my strategy, but, uh, Hey, I, now I have the endorsement of
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Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren said, you want it done. You got to call a woman. That's the,
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that's the enlightened thing to do. I just never realized, I guess that Elizabeth Warren is a trad
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wife. So that's, that's the, that's the headline here. Personally, I really hope she gives a speech
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sometime at like a subway restaurant. If you need a sandwich made call a woman, uh, good stuff from
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Elizabeth Warren. Okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to, uh, moving on here. I wanted to
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defend, uh, Jake Paul for a minute, defend him against narcissists because that's the theme today.
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Of course, uh, Jake Paul, famous YouTuber, the kids tell me, got himself in trouble on Monday
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because he tweeted about anxiety. And what we know about things like anxiety and depression
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is that if you're going to wade into these waters and say anything at all about these subjects,
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it better be something that adheres very strictly to modern Orthodox thinking on these subjects.
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Because if not, you're going to have a whole bunch of narcissists jumping down your throat,
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telling you that you aren't qualified to talk about these things, implying that they are somehow
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never explaining why they are, but, uh, you know, you're not qualified. They are.
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And, uh, they're going to let you know it. Well, Jake Paul didn't realize this. So he said in a,
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in a, in a tweet, which I believe has since been deleted, he said, remember, anxiety is created by
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you. Sometimes you got to let, let life play out and remind yourself to be happy and that the answers
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will come. Chill your mind out, go for a walk, talk to a friend. That was the tweet. Um, it's been
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deleted. I don't know if he's apologized yet. Probably will. If he hasn't yet, I imagine.
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And it provoked thousands of snide, condescending, angry reactions from people basically going,
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you don't know anything about anxiety the way that I've experienced it. I'm an anxiety expert.
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Your thoughts are so shallow. You fool. If only you were as deep and interesting and tortured a soul
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as me, then you'd realize all of your thoughts about anxiety are wrong because they're not like mine.
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Um, Newsweek has compiled some tweets reacting to the Jake Paul tweet, which, because this is how
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news is reported these days. I'm not going to read any of them. It doesn't really matter.
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Um, the, the, the point is that, uh, uh, you know, people are angry that, that he said this about
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anxiety. But first of all, um, I think it's, it's relevant to point out that he's exactly right.
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And the point that he's making is unavoidably demonstrably true, no matter what explanation
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you prefer for anxiety, because no matter what, it is something generated by the brain, right? By the
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mind. It doesn't mean it's your fault, but it is generated by the self. I mean, what other option
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would there be? If, if anxiety is not created by you, then who is it created by? The only other option
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I could think of is some kind of, some kind of spiritual warfare thing where you're blaming it
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on the devil. Now I believe in spiritual warfare. And even I don't think that, uh, the, the, the
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brain makes anxiety and your brain is your brain. It's not your neighbor, Jim's brain. It's your
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brain. It's in your head. And so it is technically true to say that anxiety is created by you.
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That's not the same thing as blaming you. It's not, it's not an insult either.
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And yeah, it also doesn't tell the whole story, but that's why the best reaction to a statement
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like this is either to ignore it if you want, or to add to it, to respond, to have a conversation.
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Isn't that what everyone always says we should be doing? Have a conversation about mental health
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in America. And so we were always told to have this conversation, but we can't because all anyone
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is ever looking to do is compete over who has suffered the most psychologically and who therefore
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is most suited to issue decrees on the subject. I mean, the last thing we could do is have a
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conversation about it. And anyone who's got any kind of platform and has made the mistake
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of just sort of sharing some thoughts on something like depression or anxiety has learned this.
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No, no, no, no. We can't have a conversation about this. Are you kidding me? This is the last
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thing we could talk about because people take it very personally. If you don't say exactly what
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they think you should say, people are very protective of their anxiety and their depression.
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And if you dare say anything that is not 100% what they want you to say, they are going to lose
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their minds over it. That's the way it goes. But there is nonetheless a lot of truth to what Jake
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Paul said. Of course, anxiety is self-generated in whatever way, in some way. That's of course the
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case. And of course, taking a walk and relaxing can help. Of course it can. It can help anybody,
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no matter how severe your anxiety is. And I say that as somebody who has a lot of anxiety.
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Does that give me special permission or special credentials to talk about this? Is this a competition?
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Am I saying I have more anxiety than you, so you have to listen to me? No. It's not special. All
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humans have anxiety, and a lot of it. It is an essential aspect of the human condition. It is
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inseparable from our existence as people. Anxiety comes, I think, at bottom from the fact that we are
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mortal beings. We are aware of our mortality. We are aware of time. We are aware of the past and the
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future, and that we are situated always somewhat precariously at the nexus of those two points.
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Anxiety comes from wanting and not having, from having and fearing that you'll lose what you have,
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from fears of things you know about and things you don't know about, from disappointment and regret
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and guilt, and etc., etc., etc. Anxiety comes from a lot of things, and it mixes together into an unholy
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stew in your mind. That's what anxiety is. Now, before you claim, oh no, that's just regular anxiety.
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You don't know what it's like to have irregular anxiety. Clinical anxiety like me, you don't know
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what that's like. Well, how in the hell could you possibly know that your anxiety is more serious or
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worse or whatever than anybody else's? There's all these assumptions people make. How in the hell
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could you possibly know that Jake Paul's experience of anxiety is less instructive, less severe, less
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valuable, or whatever than yours? You know, I'll tell you, you can't. You just can't. I mean, you have no
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idea what you're talking about because you can't be inside someone else's mind. You have absolutely
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no idea what's going on inside there. All you can assume is that when it comes to something like
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anxiety, everyone basically knows where you're coming from because you're a person and so are
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they. To assume anything else is by definition narcissism. But there are a lot of narcissists
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who take a weird kind of pride in their real or imagined mental conditions, believing that it makes
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them special and more interesting and deeper and more troubled than everybody else. And I, you know,
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I'm really tired of it. I honestly am. Everyone has the right to talk about anxiety. Everyone has
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experience with it. Your assumption that your experience is different is just that, an assumption
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and a bad one, a narcissistic one. Depression is the same thing. You know, that's, that's another
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thing that comes with being human, which isn't to diminish it. Lots of things come with being
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human that are still nonetheless significant. So this is not reductive.
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But we have to get to a point where we could just talk about these things and people can share
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their thoughts and be honest and go out on a limb by simply giving their perspective without everyone
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else getting ready to, you know, fall down on their fainting couches about it. If the person's
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perspective on the human condition doesn't exactly align with their own. One of the dumbest and most
00:24:25.280
dangerous things we've done, I think, as a culture, is to medicalize the human condition and then to decree
00:24:37.880
that certain people are the experts, the scientific experts on the subject, the subject of being human.
00:24:46.400
So much so that everyone else has to defer to them, even though we're all human. And there's no reason
00:24:52.900
really to think that these so-called experts are somehow more expertly human than anybody else.
00:24:57.140
So when Paul said this about, when Jake Paul said this about anxiety, and I've gotten this many times
00:25:05.320
myself when I've talked about these sorts of issues, a lot of the responses were, you're not a
00:25:10.380
psychiatrist. Where's your psychiatric degree? Well, first of all, everyone's saying that none of them
00:25:17.420
are psychiatrists either. So yet they feel perfectly suited to pontificate all they want because they
00:25:24.200
believe that their experience is so much more relevant than everyone else's because they're
00:25:28.840
narcissists. But in any case, who says that psychiatrists have some especially true or valuable
00:25:37.180
insight into something as basic and human as anxiety? Now, I'm not saying they have no insight into it.
00:25:44.700
But who's to say that they're experts? Who appointed them experts? I mean, what, so psychiatrists have
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solved anxiety after thousands of years of human civilization, of people writing and thinking and
00:26:00.160
talking about anxiety. Psychiatrists came along and in 50 years, they solved it. Yep, they're experts.
00:26:03.820
They got it. Listen to them. You know, I would have an easier time deferring to certain philosophers on
00:26:12.300
the issue of anxiety than I would psychiatrists. At least they understand the philosophers do what kind
00:26:17.580
of issue they're dealing with. At least they aren't materialists and minimalists trying to reduce every
00:26:22.820
damn thing to a matter of neurological chemistry. You know, Kierkegaard, I would consider maybe
00:26:31.500
something of an expert on anxiety. But that's only because I've read what he said about it. And it
00:26:36.840
seems to me that he really did have a great insight into it. You know, this is not an appeal to
00:26:43.940
authority. It's just, it's more, I've, I've read what he says. And to me, it seems like it makes
00:26:49.880
sense. Here, by the way, here's, uh, here's, here's Kierkegaard on anxiety. Kierkegaard says
00:26:56.040
anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eyes happen to look down the yawning abyss becomes
00:27:02.200
dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It's just as much in his own eye as in the abyss for suppose he
00:27:09.000
had not look down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to
00:27:14.320
posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of its finiteness to
00:27:19.740
support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Now, I understand about 60% of that, okay? Kierkegaard
00:27:27.040
is a little bit difficult to understand. Um, but what I take from that is that anxiety is the dizziness of
00:27:34.120
freedom. That it's sort of this tension between us being finite beings and yet having seemingly infinite
00:27:45.500
freedom. Now, there's an idea. Maybe it's true. Maybe it isn't. But to me, this seems much closer to the
00:27:54.940
truth than any reductive medicalized rhetoric you get from psychiatrists. But then again, you know, I'm only
00:28:02.060
judging Kierkegaard's thoughts on anxiety based on my own experience with it, which is the only thing
00:28:09.480
that anyone can do, psychiatrists included. I just wish that psychiatrists would admit that much of what
00:28:18.020
they do is actually philosophy. They are making judgments about the human condition. More than that,
00:28:24.240
they are judging not only how a person is and what a person is, but how a person ought to be.
00:28:31.640
And that is a philosophical judgment all the way through. One, we're free to take or leave.
00:28:38.540
But the problem is that we just, we just trust it implicitly.
00:28:42.620
And we don't recognize it as a philosophical judgment.
00:28:45.120
So we've got the psychiatric community making all of these declarations about, well, this is the right
00:28:52.760
amount of a certain personality trait people are supposed to have. And this is the right amount
00:28:59.500
of something like depression or anxiety. And if it goes beyond this totally arbitrary line that we've
00:29:05.280
drawn and that we couldn't possibly explain why we drew it there, but we did. If it goes beyond that,
00:29:10.120
that's a problem. Now it's a medical condition or something like attention. There's a certain
00:29:15.560
amount of attention that a child is supposed to be able to pay in school. And so here's the line
00:29:24.580
of attention that we've just drawn in the ether, magically in the air. And if they're below that
00:29:29.980
line, then they have a deficit of attention and that's abnormal. And now it's a disease.
00:29:34.900
Says who? Where are you getting this from? According to who exactly?
00:29:40.120
I mean, you've decided that when it comes to ADHD, that kids are supposed to be this certain way and
00:29:50.200
are supposed to have this amount of attention. Who says they're supposed to be that?
00:29:57.120
I mean, you find a kid that is not as able to pay attention. Who's to say he's not supposed to be
00:30:02.120
that way? I'm not saying he is supposed to be that way. I'm just saying, how did you decide he's
00:30:06.580
not? Or you find some people that are more inclined to anxiety than others. And we say,
00:30:12.500
well, no, they're not supposed to be that way. Says who? I mean, maybe you're right. Maybe they're
00:30:16.900
not supposed to. I mean, what are we comparing it to? We've come up with this idea of the sort of
00:30:23.960
normal neurological person that we're all comparing ourselves to, but who is that person?
00:30:40.000
I have too much anxiety. Well, maybe you do, but too much as opposed to what?
00:30:51.460
Where is the perfect brain that we're matching our brains up against and saying, oh, no, our chemistry
00:30:56.120
doesn't quite mix with that. And so, you know, no, no, we need to, we need to fiddle with these
00:31:00.560
chemicals and these chemicals to make it the perfect brain. It's just basic questions that
00:31:07.720
nobody seems to ask. And we just say, we just, we just, we have, we have handed the human condition
00:31:12.160
over to the psychiatric industry and said, yep, yep. It's their thing. They own it. We'll just
00:31:18.080
listen to whatever they say. Maybe not. Maybe we shouldn't do that. Maybe there's more to it than that.
00:31:25.860
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Belgium did a study and they are now claiming that insect butter tastes like real butter and nobody can
00:32:47.900
tell the difference. They fed, and this is real, I promise. They fed people cake made from the fat of
00:32:54.460
black soldier fly larvae. And, uh, they said that nobody could tell that it was from little baby
00:33:01.800
flies. And so it's all good. Let's just get our butter from flies now. Why not? Now, let me say this.
00:33:08.240
First of all, I've put my money where my mouth is on this very show and I have eaten insects on the
00:33:14.860
show. And I can tell you that don't buy into the hype of all the stuff you're hearing about,
00:33:20.080
I know insects taste, insects taste exactly as you would expect insects to taste.
00:33:27.160
If you were blindfolded and someone gave you an insect and you would know that it's an insect,
00:33:31.260
not just based on the texture either, but it just, whatever you think, if you think, well,
00:33:34.940
what do insects taste like? Just imagine it. It tastes like that. Exactly what you're thinking.
00:33:38.760
That's what it tastes like. Um, second general point here. We really need to stop calling non-dairy
00:33:47.900
things butter and milk and cream. Okay. If it's not made with actual dairy, then it's not butter.
00:33:57.060
It's not milk. It's not cream. So forget about insects for a minute. There is no such thing as
00:34:02.320
almond milk. There's no such thing as coconut milk. Those are all lies. That is false advertising.
00:34:08.760
Um, just because it's white and it comes in a carton doesn't make it milk, nor does it taste
00:34:16.780
like milk. And in my whole life, you know, every time, and I usually fall for it. That's why I get
00:34:23.020
at a certain point, I start taking it personally because every time someone says, Oh no, no, you,
00:34:27.560
Hey, you got to try this. You gotta, you have to try X. It tastes just like Y, whatever it is,
00:34:33.100
every time I try it. And it doesn't taste at all. Like why it's, and that's the case for, um,
00:34:39.680
all the non-dairy fake milk doesn't taste like milk. Turkey bacon doesn't taste like real bacon.
00:34:46.880
Veggie burgers don't taste at all. Like real burgers. Insect cake doesn't taste like real cake.
00:34:51.740
I assume all of these imposters offend me on a moral level, as well as a, as a culinary one.
00:34:57.780
Um, so my message is have the courage to be what you are and to embrace it. Okay. If you're a jug of
00:35:08.080
coconut drippings, which is what coconut milk really is, then, then that's what you should call
00:35:13.540
yourself. If you're a pack of flavorless turkey strips, call yourself that not bacon. If you're
00:35:20.680
insect goop, then call yourself insect goop, not butter. Let's all have the courage to be who we are.
00:35:26.460
This is literally the speech that I give every time I go to the grocery store.
00:35:31.460
I stand in the milk aisle and I give this pep talk to the coconut milk.
00:35:37.300
It's at the point now where they just call the police every time I walk in the door. It's a,
00:35:40.240
it's a whole thing. Anyway, that's my inspirational message for the day.
00:35:43.640
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