Things That Are Pissing Me Off - Part 3 (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_661)
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What pisses me off the most people is the inability of people to change their minds once anchored in a position, and the lack of humility required to do so. This is why a guy like Basim Yusuf is so difficult to engage in productive debates with, and why you can't have productive conversations with him.
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another installment of the things that are pissing me off all right so where do we start
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let me just okay i think we can start now uh i'm not taking sorry i'm not taking any requests from
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people it's uh it's difficult for me to manage it uh usually what i've done in the past i mean i
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have opened it up for everyone in the general session but i usually take q a's for my subscribers
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so if you want a more uh intimate uh one-on-one or not one-on-one but to ask questions then please
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people who are putting things on the line okay let's start with number one i didn't know who this
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guy was until he started some people started tagging him saying tagging me saying oh my god
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you have an egyptian twin and so then i looked into the guy uh saw him on pierce morgan saw him more
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recently on trigonometry uh i'm talking about basim yusuf who is apparently an egyptian uh
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i think television host or stand-up comic or something like that who uh as i said i didn't
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know much about him but then i saw him on pierce morgan he started pissing me off
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and then i said okay well let me really dig in here and give the guy a chance because i don't i
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don't want to criticize someone obviously if i haven't had a chance to sit down and listen to him
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and so i actually so that you don't have to go through the pain i sat through i think it was an
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hour and two minutes of a quilt chat between the two guys from trigonometry whom i really appreciate
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they've invited me on their show a few times and uh constantine kissin has been on my show
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great guys their platform has grown but they got nowhere because to summarize and by the way some
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of you may have seen the satirical piece that i did yesterday whereby i pretended that i was
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interviewing basim but really in both instances it was me and the only way that you would know that
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it wasn't me that it was him is when he was lifting weights i was kind of lifting my wife's uh
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what do you call it kettle kettle bill uh and basically to summarize his position
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israelis are genocidal maniacs they've been engaged in the daily genocide for the past 75 plus years
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they've kept palestinians in an open concentration camp and that's it there is nothing else to be
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discussed october 7th from october 7th yes maybe there might have been a bit of bad play on the
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palestinian part but it's totally understandable because the israelis have been committing a daily
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genocide and so on and so forth the reason why a guy like that pisses me off because that's that's
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exactly why you can't have productive conversations with these types of folks right uh because i mean i'm
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hardly one to invoke quote nuance in all contexts there are there are cases where there's there is
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no nuance when it comes to theory of evolution the evidence is unassailable there's 150 plus years of
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evidence in support of the theory of evolution and uh yes we can still debate specific elements of i mean
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there are all kinds of very uh valuable debates that take place within the field of evolution
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but i don't debate uh creationists i don't debate folks from intelligent design not because
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i'm arrogant and they're beneath me it's because i know for a fact that no amount of evidence that i can
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ever offer you would get you to even consider the evidence right so if some of you are familiar with
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my work and certainly are familiar with chapter seven of the parasitic mind i talk about the building
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of nomological networks of cumulative evidence which is an epistemological technique whereby you collect
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evidence you know from across many cultures many eras many species many methodologies many theoretical
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frameworks all of which triangulate to demonstrate that your position is the vertical one well if someone
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is never going to grant you the courtesy of listening to that information then then no amount of mind
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vaccine is going to alter their positions and this is why some of you may have heard me recently say
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that i was i was recently asked on a show uh hosted by a british psychiatrist what what is the thing that
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i have found most surprising about human nature or about human you know human behavior or human cognition
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in my 30 years as a professor and so i thought for a minute and i said well the inability of people to
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change their minds once they are deeply anchored in a position and so the problem with someone like
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basem yusuf beyond being a profoundly lobotomized moron is that he doesn't have any epistemic humility
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right there's there's no capacity for him saying well you know what you you know you may have some
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valuable uh viewpoints that you can hopefully present and okay let's have a good conversation
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he's got three four points which he just keeps repeating the israelis the juice the juice
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uh egyptians don't say you know juice juice they say juice the juice or the the bibel right there's no p
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in arabic so the palestinian bibel are being killed by the juice and so it's impossible to talk to
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that like that and so i was kind of pissed off because i thought i i understand the whole idea of
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believe me i've had guests on my show that i thought you know were were less than uh honest
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interlocutors and and because of the the norm of hospitality you know i've i've been very nice to
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them and polite so i don't i don't put on my full honey badger mindset when i host someone because i
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understand that if you're inviting someone to be your guest you know you have to be i mean you
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could challenge them but you you know there has to be a certain decorum so i get that but i don't
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think that that means that you give someone a complete carte blanche in terms of allowing them
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to repeatedly just spew like a completely robotomized idiot you know the jewish they're
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killing the palestinian bibel okay i mean okay we got it right the jews are evil the palestinians are
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noble there is absolutely nothing that the palestinians have ever done other than you know
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repeatedly seek to eradicate uh the juice from the middle east via five uh military uh wars started
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by arabs to eradicate to exterminate the jews the juice but uh in any case so that's number one
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now that relates to something that i've also talked about elsewhere the cult of faux niceness okay
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uh some of you who have read my latest book on happiness in one of the chapters this is the sad
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truth about happiness in one of the chapters i talk about the universal law of optimal flourishing
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i argue it's the the inverted you right too little of something is not good too much of something is
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not good and the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle which of course maimonides the jewish
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philosopher knew of course aristotle knew via his golden mean and the nicomachean ethics he talks about
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you know if a soldier is too cowardly that's not good if he's too reckless in his bravery then he
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becomes a martyr and so the optimal point is somewhere in the middle and in the chapter i i really hope
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by the way the book is is coming out on paperback on may 14th please consider pre-ordering it it really
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is a fun book ancient wisdoms coupled with contemporary science and my personal trajectory of happiness put it
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all together in a in a stew and you get i think a really fun positive book so please consider
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pre-ordering it it'll be out on may 14th any case in the in the in that chapter on the inverted you
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i demonstrate that the inverted you applies across a bewildering number of situations right so for
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example i talk about how perfectionism which is a personality trait follows the inverted you if you're not
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at all perfectionist then your work will suffer because you don't have any attention to details
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on the other hand if you're too perfectionist as i am then you end up spending way too much time
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rechecking your work to make sure that there isn't a comma that's out of place some of you even see
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when i go back and correct i mean now i've got the edit function with my tweets but in the past i would
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always put you know a asterisk because there's some typo or something it totally freaks me out
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and so like most things in life uh the inverted you explains that sweet spot now why am i saying all
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this because when it comes to what i call the cult of faux niceness i mean yes being nice is beautiful i
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mean i'm if i may speak of myself i'm someone who's very warm very affectionate very nice but i can also be a
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honey badger i can also be combative i can right everything should be tempered everything should
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be at the sweet spot right so infinite niceness across all situations can't be the optimal way to
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live right so for example what if you're a pacifist under all circumstances right there is no context
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under which i'm going to pick up arms because you know i believe that we should raise cucumbers with
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love and we should you know hug tomatoes so that they could be maximally juicy and you know peace
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through reggae and so if i'm a maximal pacifist and then here comes the nazis coming to to rape uh our
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you know our tribe well then maybe pacifism is not such a great thing right the history of the world is
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shaped by people on both sides of the river who were willing to fight for whatever resource that
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we're going to fight for if one group was pacifist while the other one was uh you know warmonger then
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the dynamic is pretty you don't need to be a fancy evolutionist to get that and so the reason why i
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despise the cult of faux niceness is because a lot of people think here i'm going to talk about someone
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that i for a very brief period of time several months ago came on my radar and until i was preparing for
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today's session you know he he hadn't been much on my radar anymore this guy lex friedman some of you
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know uh he exemplifies that mentality no matter what oh he invites the reason i thought of him is
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because basem yusuf the guy that i mentioned under item one of what's pissing me off these days
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uh he went on his show and rather than and lex friedman as far as i know is jewish but of course
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lex friedman operates on a plane that's above all of you cretins and plebs and miscreants and
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deplorables and the great unwashed he's just so nice he's just so kind love is love love will conquer
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all you know we really need to find a way to spread more love now in some banal grade three kind of
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way yes of course love is love and and of course as a default value be kind until someone comes
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to do harm to your child until some until someone comes to rape your wife until someone comes to steal
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your belonging in which case you shouldn't be nice right and so we have what's called behavioral
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plasticity we can change our behavior depending on the situational demands at play in a given moment
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i can tuck my children to bed and hence be very loving as a father but i can also be violent if
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you attack me in an alley to rape me right so the love and love bullshit that this degenerate keeps
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spreading i i can't understand why it is that he's built it it's a mystery by the way i've had many many
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very well-known people write to me privately and say god what's what's the scam that's going on that
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this guy's been able to build such a platform and i don't know the answer to that because if you try
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to listen to him it i've tried to listen and i can't get past you know 30 seconds before i think
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about going into a murderous jihad because it's you know love is love and who are we to judge and i love
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you and you love me and we should love the palestinians and the jews should be loved and
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the nazis deserve loving and we're all here to love one another you're a moron
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come live in my childhood for five seconds in the middle east and then spread this bullshit
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so it's either that he is profoundly idiotic like he literally has the brain of a three-year-old
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or it's just a shtick you know i believe in spreading love now by the way he says i i want to
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talk to everybody i'm willing to have a conversation with everybody the minute that i had challenged him
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a few months ago when he had said some insanely idiotic thing on his tweets and i did it reasonably
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politely with some spice with some gad spice but you know polite i don't i didn't swear at him or
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didn't call him any name he blocked me forevermore so basem yusuf is pissing me off the cult of faux
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niceness is pissing me off now let's come to another topic which i did discuss in the parasitic mind
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related to what we're talking about here this ethos of i don't judge who are we to judge how should we
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judge who am i to judge motherfucker judge okay right there is a field called judgment and decision
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making right we judge when we go out on dates we judge between the different people that we're going
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to potentially marry when we are choosing between candidates to hire at a company we judge so the
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prescription of don't judge that you see and i discuss all this in in a lot of details in the
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parasitic mind this prescription of you know uh don't judge yes you know ye be judged it comes from
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the idea of moral hypocrisy it comes from the idea of you know clean your house before you go out and
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cast judgment on others right don't be a moral hypocrite that's what that prescription means it means
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don't be a hypocrite in criticizing others when you know it's the old you know don't cast don't throw
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stones you know in a glass house and so on it doesn't it's not a deontological prescription of
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don't ever judge right which by the way relates to another idea pathogen in the parasitic mind that i
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talk about which is cultural relativism who are we to judge what other cultures do that's cultural
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imperialism no no no no no no cutting off the clitorises of five-year-old girls is not a good
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thing and i'm going to judge you asshole okay so again that's a form of weak effeminate castration
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whereby you say i don't have a sufficient moral spine to cast judgment on reprehensible behaviors
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that others commit who am i to judge again it's correlated to this cult of faux niceness all of
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which will be addressed fully in what likely might be my next book which is a book on suicidal empathy
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right empathy again is a is a is an emotion that has evolved for very clear adaptive reasons but it's
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only adaptive when it is invoked in the right manner at the right place to the right target when it becomes
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hyperactive it becomes a form of suicidal empathy when it is hyperactive in ways that will result in
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the death of your society that's why it's called suicidal empathy empathy and uh elon musk was kind
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enough to to retweet several of my uh my tweets a couple of weeks ago where i was talking about
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suicidal empathy and i think they got something obviously because elon has such a huge platform it
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got something like i don't know 60 million views or something and so i definitely think that there is a
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real market for uh such a book it really would be a if you like a natural sequel to the parasitic mind and
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and the tweets that i had put out had been uh really well received so much so that a a executive
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editor of one of the major publishers wrote to me privately and said there is your next book let's
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talk and so i'm putting together a a short book prospectus uh that would that will hopefully uh you
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know serve as the uh the roadmap for my next book so stay tuned for that another book that i was
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hoping to write which which might lead us to segue to the next thing that's pissing me off it's
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something that's been pissing me off for a few years now taxes so i had written a tweet a while ago
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saying look i i've been wanting to write a book on parasitic taxation and another bigger book on
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the parasitic state which book do you think i should write and elon had written right right back and said
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both and so i already actually got an offer to write the book i mean i got a book deal to write
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the parasitic state book which would include a section on parasitic taxation now why am i talking
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about this today well first of all i know that april 15th is tax day in the u.s in canada it's a
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slightly different schedule but some of you may have seen earlier today there was an announcement that
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uh the castrato in chief justine trudeau uh has uh increased uh capital gains tax uh i think over
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250 000 to 67 has increased by just by 67 percent or something something to that effect now by the way
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you know i don't i don't make capital gains that is the order of a quarter of a million dollars so if
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i'm pissed it's certainly because it's not because that particular increase in tax affects me personally
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but again it's it's the principle how much can you and i i know some of the economic arguments so it's
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in a sense it's it's a more philosophical question how much can you actually go and tax people
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before they have the very moral obligation to take you out into the street and execute you for being
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i don't have the word i mean the level of institutionalized criminality
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whereby so just to give you a sense some of you may have heard me mention this before in in quebec
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the highest marginal tax rate is at 25 percent of your income and at the federal level it's 33
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percent so now and you know both are taxed so you could be so if you're making over a certain amount
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you you're taxed well into the high 50 percent 58 okay as a marginal tax rate okay now whatever money
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is left for you which means you know let's go with about 40 percent 42 percent 44 percent of what you
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started off making there are two sales tax in canada there is a quebec a provincial sales tax and then there
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is a federal sales tax so if i've made ten dollars and you've taxed me 58 i'm left with 42
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dollars now like at that point i could say hey you've taken more than 50 percent of what i've earned
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and in my case my earnings my big earnings don't come from my salary as a professor they come from
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stuff that i've done beyond being a professor writing books giving talks and so on creating
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content and all of that very very private right i mean private in the sense that it's coming straight
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out of my neuron it's coming it's you're taxing my mind you're taxing my words you're taxing my
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personal history that i described from my days in lebanon that doesn't belong to me 58 percent
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of that belongs to you now you would say at that point you know what we've taxed this person enough
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we can't tax anymore no the 42 percent that you're left with if you go out and spend money
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that's taxed at 15 percent there are two taxes in in canada sales taxes there's a provincial and a
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federal one so now add 15 percent on the money that you were left with after they took away
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much more than 50 percent of your income okay but it doesn't stop there how about property tax
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how about school tax how about now the carbon tax which now justin trudeau has increased now you add
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you're increasing the capital gain so somebody goes out invests in real estate makes a lot of money
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they've already given you tons and tons of money more money than 10 000 canadians will together
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doesn't matter doesn't matter now we'll tax you at an increased rate of 67 percent right so the reason
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why that system can never go away because it's a it's the ultimate ponzi scheme because for that system
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to operate you need very few people to fund the parasitic socialist unicornia for all other people so if
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95 percent of people in canada benefit from this brutal criminal taxation system they're never going
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to stand up and say hey stop this this is this is morally wrong what will they say fuck that jew
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gatzad tax him more that asshole with his fancy books he doesn't pay enough sure he pays more than
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1 000 canadian families by the way if you saw the income that i made from all my stuff and then what
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i'm left with at the end of the year you'd say it's absolutely impossible there's no way you're lying
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gatzad because you would say oh my god my goodness you really are in the top one percent and then and then
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you'd say so what's the net thing how much at the end of the year you have a few children uh you know
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however much that guy so what are you left with my goodness you you must be you must be lebanese elon
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musk and then you go oh boy what you're left with a couple of thousand dollars well yeah if think of it
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another way some of you may may like this uh this other way of thinking about taxes so imagine if you
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lived in a place where there was zero percent tax that means all the money that you make from january
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1st to december 31st is yours okay another way to look let's say the government takes 50 percent of
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your income that means from june 1st to end of i mean january 1st to end of june you work for the
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government the first six months and then only the seventh month you start keeping your money
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is it normal that in canada i start making money around august around september so in other words
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if we use the very ugly reality of slavery where you're 100 percent taxed right you have no right to
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any remuneration you're a slave that means from january 1st to december 31st your labor is owned by
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someone else you're a slave it's your it's your master who owns you well canada i am only a quote free
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man beginning in august is that a fair system so frankly while i always want to say oh well thank you
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canada for letting us come into your country when we were escaping the lebanese civil war how much of
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my money and my my children's future wealth should i pay you as a thank you for having let us in in 1975
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and by the way 40 percent of canadians don't pay the i can't remember if it's the federal taxes or any taxes
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it it really is i mean if you look at the the the the percentage of people who don't pay any taxes
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versus the the percentage of the total tax load that is paid by say the the five percent of the population
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it is astounding it's criminal it's immoral it's unethical but again you can't fight it because how could you
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fight something that benefits 95 of the people so you're the sucker that funds everybody else by the way
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oh the healthcare system in canada my wife who's lived in canada since 1979 who's paid taxes who's
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been a productive can't get a personal physician doesn't can't get one it took me a while because i i
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didn't like my former physician for me to find another one took forever and it's only through
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connections because one of my former mba students is himself physician that i was able to get to switch to
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another physician uh in the us you have this romantic vision of free healthcare in canada there's
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nothing free about it it's free to the person who doesn't pay taxes but i pay for 10 000 canadians for
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their free healthcare i'm the one who subsidizes it so i write a book you steal all the royalties
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to give you the free healthcare why is it that i should pay for example mark cuban a few days ago
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i suppose he did it proudly said well here is the bill that i just paid i don't know what it was 288
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million dollars to the irs some people got upset and they said well you just sold your shares in the
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dallas mavericks for 3.5 billion so you you paid something like eight percent on it well okay we can we
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can discuss whether he should have paid more than eight percent or not but really an individual should
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pay 288 million dollars for the right to be an american citizen while millions of other people don't pay a
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cent what's the deontological principle that says that that's ethical there isn't the only way
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that that's okay is when you believe there is something inherently ontologically unfair about
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one person being richer wealthier than another person and therefore you redistribute that money
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it's unfair that one person is a billionaire and another is not and therefore we will take your money
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so that we create a more equitable society but as eo wilson famously said when asked about socialism
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and communism remember he's an entomologist who studies social ants he said about communism great idea wrong
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species right there is nothing moral about one person paying a million times more for the exact same
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government services does he use the fire department more does he use the health care more does he get more
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police protection does he get better health care nothing right it's just it's unfair that one right
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how much what does elon musk pay in terms of taxes i don't know i think it was 11 billion or some crazy
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number i don't see that as well that's unfair he should be taxed more no elon musk through i mean we
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some of you may have seen our chat recently we had a chat uh on x spaces elon and i and when i asked
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them about you know how much of entrepreneurship is is uh nature versus nurture you know he answered it
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and then he said well a lot of it is just luck which of course is true so whether it be through his
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brilliance whether it be through his through luck he didn't steal what he achieved he did it because
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he's a visionary whatever skills that he has yeah yeah maybe some of it is luck but he certainly is an
00:30:24.360
incredibly talented guy who's amassed this huge fortune guess what he deserves it and no you he
00:30:32.120
shouldn't have to pay billions and billions of dollars because you know fairness he pays more than
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enough he pays more in a year than the entire country pays i mean so to speak i didn't do the
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math but you know what i'm saying there's nothing fair about that again the only thing that allows you
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to invoke the argument of bullshit fairness is if you believe that people should inherently be equal in
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their outcomes and therefore if one person is worth 200 billion dollars while another person doesn't have
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enough to eat that's unfair well it's unfair that messi plays soccer better soccer than any person
00:31:15.160
that's ever lived on earth but that's why he gets paid where he gets paid by the way this is why the
00:31:19.960
women's soccer leagues says it is unfair they file a lawsuit how come collectively all of us put together
00:31:27.880
we don't make the same salary as Lionel Messi well could it be because you suck compared to Lionel Messi
00:31:35.160
there's this little thing called the market realities whereby people are willing to pay huge sums of
00:31:41.560
money to watch Messi but nobody gives a shit about watching you no that must be because of misogyny
00:31:48.680
so this mindset is a cancer it's a cancer to innovation it's a cancer to human dignity it's a cancer to
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excellence it's a cancer to meritocracy so yeah i'm pissed about taxes it sucks
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they're in a right system and you know maybe if i end up writing this book on you know the parasitic
00:32:08.680
state and parasitic taxation i'll expand on this but in my view it's just everybody pays one flat tax
00:32:18.680
not even flat rate not 10 not we all pay 10 percent because 10 percent of a billion is still a lot more
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than if you make a hundred thousand when you go to a car dealer the car dealership as my facts it's
00:32:32.040
illegal he doesn't say oh show me your tax returns oh you made four million dollars last year the
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toyota is going to cost you 487 000 dollars oh you only made 37 000 i'll give it to you for 12 bucks
00:32:49.480
right the price is the price so yes we all have to contribute to the collective good we all you know
00:32:57.240
the government can't operate without funds and therefore for the privilege of being canadian or
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being american or whichever country other country we we live in let's pay ten thousand dollars okay you
00:33:10.520
don't like that idea fine then let's pay a flat rate nine percent five percent ten percent and that's it
00:33:18.440
and by the way there has to be a limit so for example i strongly believe now we can also talk
00:33:24.200
about not not having an income tax but it could be a consumption tax right you pay only when you
00:33:31.480
spend something and and many people have have proposed that argument uh perhaps most famously
00:33:37.960
bob frank who's a economist at my alma mater at cornell but there are many other economists who propose
00:33:43.800
a similar thing uh again there's no reason as to why one person should be paying you know a thousand
00:33:51.880
ten thousand times more than other people most of whom actually pay zero taxes in canada as i said
00:33:57.400
up to 40 percent of people don't pay any taxes that can't be right and again i'd like to think that at
00:34:04.600
some point people will say my goodness how how did we tolerate this okay so that that's that
00:34:09.640
since we're talking about taxes we're talking about canada let me just briefly off the top of my head
00:34:16.520
just reiterate how much i despise justin trudeau he exemplifies every trait that i find defines it
00:34:32.600
an execrable cretin he's smug he's ignorant he's arrogant he's feminized he's woke he's imbecilic
00:34:47.720
he's parasitic i mean he's lazy he's entitled his highest professional attainment prior to entering into
00:34:59.720
politics on the back of his obnoxious daddy's name pierre elio trudeau was that justin trudeau was a
00:35:10.440
substitute drama teacher not a full-fledged physics and math high school teacher he was a substitute drama
00:35:20.680
teacher and now he decides how much money i keep he decides whether my children have a financially
00:35:31.240
secure future because he knows better because he's rolling up his sleeves and he's doing the hard work
00:35:38.920
for canadians and the way he does that is he sees all those wealthy successful people and he says pay your
00:35:48.120
fair fair share assholes and by that i mean make sure that everybody is equally destitute
00:35:54.200
so we can live in equal misery he's vile he's grotesque
00:36:00.760
he's he's dunning kruger right arrogant in his ignorance he can't put two words together
00:36:07.080
all right so that's that final thing that's pissing me off life coaches i wrote an article
00:36:20.920
a few years ago at the time i used to have a an active psychology today uh column i think i wrote in
00:36:29.560
total i began in 2008 my psychology today column and i wrote if i'm not mistaken if i remember the
00:36:38.200
number 311 articles probably over 200 000 words which is the equivalent of maybe i guess three three
00:36:48.280
full-length books uh originally i i started writing psychology today because in 2008 when i was starting
00:36:56.280
to think you know i'd like to write for you know the the masses uh my first couple of books you know
00:37:04.920
were academic books academic books that doesn't mean textbook academic books means you're writing it for
00:37:11.080
other academics these are you know technical books and so for example my first book the evolutionary
00:37:15.560
basis of consumption was a hardcore technical book academic book where i was trying to demonstrate
00:37:21.560
how you could apply evolutionary psychology in you know consumer behavior uh and then i edited a
00:37:29.000
book called evolutionary psychology in the business sciences which was also an academic book but then
00:37:33.720
my first trade book was the consuming instinct which was meant to be a book you know a trade book to be
00:37:39.400
read by the masses and so in 2008 a few years before my first trade book came out i wanted to start
00:37:45.720
writing for the masses because you know when you write scientific papers that doesn't mean that
00:37:54.440
your voice will resonate as well with the i mean i i had a i had a healthy dose of self-confidence about
00:38:02.040
my being able to reach the masses but i thought you know what if i if i maybe accept the invitation of
00:38:08.200
psychology today to start writing for them well that's a wonderful way to to gauge whether i'm writing in a
00:38:15.080
style that appeals to people which is that's because psychology today is read by the masses
00:38:20.440
and so one of the articles that i had written of those 311 articles was an article where i actually
00:38:26.760
critiqued life coaches and the the reason that came up by the way some of you may be thinking oh but
00:38:34.440
wait a minute you you just wrote a happiness book uh isn't isn't that a form of you know life coaching
00:38:39.960
no not at all because in the first of all i've got the credentials uh to back up what i'm saying my book
00:38:48.200
is taking ancient wisdoms taking contemporary science taking my uh long personal history and
00:38:57.880
saying hey here are some prescriptions that could augment the probability of you being happy in other
00:39:04.600
words i'm very epistemically humble in what i promise i don't say here are the six ways to give
00:39:11.400
your wife an orgasm every time you touch her right every single of these uh self-help books usually
00:39:18.600
promises you the world right you know how to reverse aging how to be the best lover in the world how to
00:39:26.760
make millions the secret right the visualization board it's all bullshit i talk about it and the
00:39:32.760
consuming instinct i have a whole chapter on uh you know peddling hope right that's that's what you do
00:39:39.480
so so life coaches i'm not i'm not implying that every life coach is full of shit but well 99 are
00:39:47.560
unlike say clinical psychology or psychiatry where you have to go through a very very long
00:39:54.760
process of getting credentials right if you're a psychiatrist you're getting a
00:39:58.200
an undergraduate degree then you're getting a medical degree then you're training as a
00:40:02.680
psychiatrist if you want to become a clinical psychologist you're getting an undergrad a
00:40:07.560
master's a phd in clinical psychology you're doing a an internship in a hospital and so on
00:40:13.880
it's going to take you 10 plus years to to get the right training to to even pretend to be able to
00:40:21.240
offer advice to people by the way that was one of the reasons why i was a bit hesitant to write the
00:40:26.360
happiness book because i thought well wait a minute i mean how to live the good life is probably the
00:40:33.320
topic that has been most written about by philosophers am i going to be able to offer something unique
00:40:39.160
insightful powerful and i'd like to think that i have hopefully you read it you'll let me know
00:40:45.960
but you know i was very cognizant of that fact and i wanted to make sure that any advice that i give you
00:40:51.640
is going to be uh contextualized as a probabilistic statement right if you do xyz the likelihood of
00:41:01.000
you finding a right spouse increases but life is stochastic right there is nothing guaranteed i can
00:41:08.680
offer you know so i can tell you you know between birds of a feather flock together or opposites attract
00:41:15.400
when it comes to mate choice the research shows that overwhelmingly it's birds of a feather flock
00:41:21.640
together that is operative meaning that if you find a spouse with whom you share the foundational values
00:41:28.920
and beliefs similar life goals mindsets that's going to much more increase your chances of being so
00:41:35.560
again it's a probabilistic statement so everything that i wrote in this book is well documented by ancient
00:41:43.560
wisdoms by contemporary science and many different disciplines by my vast personal experience so i'm
00:41:49.480
humble about what i can offer you life coaches all right i'm 498 pounds i can't tie my shoes
00:41:59.640
but i'm a life coach of nutrition and health how the fuck did that happen well because there is
00:42:06.680
no credentials to be a life coach everybody's a life coach the squirrel in my backyard is a life coach
00:42:13.080
right i've already been divorced 18 times but i'm a relationship coach okay i filed for 18 personal
00:42:22.760
bankruptcies but i am a personal finances coach right so in a sense everybody is a coach right it's like
00:42:33.000
saying you know everybody is a aspiring filmmaker everybody is an aspiring author you know they just
00:42:41.080
haven't gone through the trouble of writing the book but you know there's i'm an author everybody's
00:42:46.840
an author i'm a poet okay so life coaches one big racket now again that doesn't mean that every single
00:42:57.240
quote by the way why is it called life coach not psychologist because oh wait a minute
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psychologist requires me going to university for 10 years 12 years oh psychiatrist requires me going to
00:43:12.760
school for many years life coach i just sign up in my local how to hug cucumbers seminar at the local
00:43:21.320
ramamagish school and i become a relationship life coach i become a sex life coach i become a nutrition
00:43:29.400
a nutrition life coach not a nutritionist once i put the words life coach then all bets are off no need
00:43:37.320
for credentials right so it's a scam it's bullshit okay so what are so let's recap what are the things that
00:43:44.840
have pissed me off today basem yusuf the balestinian bibl are killed are being killed by the juice
00:43:54.360
okay the cult of faux niceness i'm okay you're okay we're all in love there would no longer be war
00:44:01.720
if we all treat each other with kindness exactly the reason why the middle east has been mired in endless
00:44:08.280
wars is because they haven't listened to lex friedman's pontifications about niceness if only the
00:44:14.440
palestinians and israelis would really delve into his podcast then the mid-east would be resolved because i'm
00:44:22.040
okay you're okay the i don't the judge cult is full of judge that's okay it's healthy to judge i will
00:44:30.920
judge you that's why by the way by the way you know who are the most interesting people in the world
00:44:36.840
people who are opinionated people who judge imagine if i were to always go who am i to judge all religions
00:44:45.640
are equal who am i to say i don't know anything i'm a fence sitter the world is not shaped by fence
00:44:52.120
sitters the world is shaped by people who take unequivocal positions not uninformed positions
00:44:58.440
but positions that they could defend right christopher hitchens is christopher hitchens
00:45:03.720
because he was an eloquent honey badger he took positions you agreed with him you disagree with him
00:45:10.520
but he took positions even the biggest diabolical monsters throughout human history are not fence
00:45:18.280
sitters they may have diabolical positions but they're not fence sitters winston churchill is not
00:45:25.000
a fence sitter chamberlain is a castrated fence sitter maybe if i just spread love to hitler maybe he won't
00:45:33.320
attack anyone maybe if i give him a deep tissue massage while we listen hitler and i to lex friedman
00:45:41.880
pontificating about love is love i don't judge biological sex i only want to know if you're a good human
00:45:50.440
yeah fuck off how about that okay so judge it's natural to judge and then taxes is parasitic it's evil it's
00:46:02.120
diabolical it's institutionalized criminality hey by the way the mafia
00:46:09.800
it engages in illegal extortion because it comes to your store your retail store and says hey hey johnny
00:46:20.280
in order for there not to be an unfortunate fire in your restaurant how about you give us a three to six
00:46:26.840
percent uh protection tax that's illegal you see that was illegal even if they do provide you that
00:46:35.640
service even if they make sure that the neighborhood is safe and no one's going to commit crimes against
00:46:40.440
you because the mafia is running the show that's illegal but if justin trudeau and the quebec government
00:46:47.960
come and say how about you give me 58 percent of your book royalties all of which were made not in
00:46:56.920
canada because it's a us publisher that i have but i'm a moron who declares everything and doesn't
00:47:04.120
protect it in some some place in the cayman and then i go oops what happened to all my book royalties
00:47:11.240
how come i don't have any money well because when the government takes it it's legal when the mafia takes
00:47:20.600
one twentieth of that amount that's illegal got that and then finally i said that life coaches are largely
00:47:30.920
full of shit and that's true oof i feel maybe a bit of catharsis maybe a bit feeling a bit better guys
00:47:41.400
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00:47:51.160
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00:47:56.280
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00:48:03.960
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00:48:11.880
take most of it so out of the six dollars you give me i'm probably left with about 75 cents so i'm
00:48:18.600
hardly going to get elon musk rich and you subscribe to the content but at least it could monetize some of
00:48:24.840
my time and expertise hope you had a good time i usually what i do after this is i eventually post
00:48:32.440
these i mean the recording is is up on the web on you know on x but then i will also post them on my youtube
00:48:40.520
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