Responsibility:
Progress in any system is by trial and error. This is how nature works in evolution and how our children grow up through experiences and teaching. Models only work for specific unique situations. Eg laws of gravity , motion etc. in fact many scientific concepts. In fact even those only stay valid until they are disproven or someone comes up with a better concept.
The idea that models can be produced for complex systems is not realistic. Yet this is what ‘experts’ are constantly doing in the search for certainty about future predictions of risk or growth. They are almost always invariably wrong. In order to make progress with trial and error there must be room for and consideration of disparate views in order to reach a consensus for going forwards to see if the idea worked or not . Trial and error.
It has been known for a long time in the business world that large companies stop being creative. The reason is that they get so large that centralised control from head office is all about homogeneity within the company to maintain its identity and integrity. Anything challenging that is expelled rapidly. At this point the only way they can do more business without new products is to increase market share by monopolisation and by marketing.
This is why all companies have a sine wave life. A slow start, an exponential rise , a tailing off and sudden decline as the ‘new idea’ company takes off. Coca cola , Amazon , Tesla, Apple have no new ideas but are experts at monopolisation and marketing.
They also lobby to suppress competition for new ideas.
There has been research looking at the decline of civilisations in the past and all of them collapse after they reach a point of maximal communication within the empire. Ie at their equivalent of globalisation.
Wherever there is no progress and suppression of new and or better ideas there is always regress.
Now we have social media where the crowd narrative expels, vilifies and suppresses anything that disagrees with that narrative. Unfortunately social media is often manipulated by the powers that be to create a crowd narrative . Additionally, fake news, which is usually more shocking and more likely to spike the pleasure hormone dopamine, travels through social media six times more rapidly than real news.
Humans are hard wired to respond to structure hierarchy and leadership and crowd opinion and to respond to fear stimuli automatically without thinking. Therefore any tool of mass manipulation such as social media in the wrong hands can and has had disastrous consequences .
Indeed the psych ops teams used by individual governments to get their citizens to comply with useless and at worst highly damaging measures during the ‘covid epidemic’ have been legally termed a military weapon. In other words governments used a military weapon against their own people. This was only necessary as the measures used were dictatorial, illogical, inconsistent and dangerous.
Wherever you hear the term ‘we are following the science’ combined with suppression of alternative views -especially suppression of the truth- you know its a scam. For sure.
Of course this is also an example of our leaders not taking any responsibility at all.
Political correctness is another mass media crowd narrative driven by the powers that be to destroy structure within society. It demands compliance no matter how illogical the requirement. It demands equal outcome for all which is often damaging as we are not all the same. We have the same rights but all of us are different.
Compliance is usually effortless and gains approval of the mass media and carries with it no responsibility. This is called virtue signalling. Eg I am wearing a mask. Aren’t I a good citizen? Worse than that is virtue signalling of the minorities which carries with it entitlement eg I am gay or I am LGBT aren't I special just for existing and everyone can and should recognise this talk about me and celebrate me. For doing nothing. Therefore virtue signalling and the entitlement associated with it is the opposite of responsibility and in fact carries something else dangerous which is blame and fault. Eg : You are not complying , you have not employed more gay people , you have not converted half your toilets to LGBT even though we are a tiny minority and the rest of you will have to queue up to use the rest. It is your fault and you must be punished.
Being gender fluid is virtue signalling instead of taking responsibility for being the sex that you are.
Men, you are all bad. It is your fault. Take no responsibility and be punished or vilified. Women: don’t take responsibility for being women, you can now be men so you can sleep with lots of men and women and you must all be having careers and employers must
Progress in any system is by trial and error. This is how nature works in evolution and how our children grow up through experiences and teaching. Models only work for specific unique situations. Eg laws of gravity , motion etc. in fact many scientific concepts. In fact even those only stay valid until they are disproven or someone comes up with a better concept.
The idea that models can be produced for complex systems is not realistic. Yet this is what ‘experts’ are constantly doing in the search for certainty about future predictions of risk or growth. They are almost always invariably wrong. In order to make progress with trial and error there must be room for and consideration of disparate views in order to reach a consensus for going forwards to see if the idea worked or not . Trial and error.
It has been known for a long time in the business world that large companies stop being creative. The reason is that they get so large that centralised control from head office is all about homogeneity within the company to maintain its identity and integrity. Anything challenging that is expelled rapidly. At this point the only way they can do more business without new products is to increase market share by monopolisation and by marketing.
This is why all companies have a sine wave life. A slow start, an exponential rise , a tailing off and sudden decline as the ‘new idea’ company takes off. Coca cola , Amazon , Tesla, Apple have no new ideas but are experts at monopolisation and marketing.
They also lobby to suppress competition for new ideas.
There has been research looking at the decline of civilisations in the past and all of them collapse after they reach a point of maximal communication within the empire. Ie at their equivalent of globalisation.
Wherever there is no progress and suppression of new and or better ideas there is always regress.
Now we have social media where the crowd narrative expels, vilifies and suppresses anything that disagrees with that narrative. Unfortunately social media is often manipulated by the powers that be to create a crowd narrative . Additionally, fake news, which is usually more shocking and more likely to spike the pleasure hormone dopamine, travels through social media six times more rapidly than real news.
Humans are hard wired to respond to structure hierarchy and leadership and crowd opinion and to respond to fear stimuli automatically without thinking. Therefore any tool of mass manipulation such as social media in the wrong hands can and has had disastrous consequences .
Indeed the psych ops teams used by individual governments to get their citizens to comply with useless and at worst highly damaging measures during the ‘covid epidemic’ have been legally termed a military weapon. In other words governments used a military weapon against their own people. This was only necessary as the measures used were dictatorial, illogical, inconsistent and dangerous.
Wherever you hear the term ‘we are following the science’ combined with suppression of alternative views -especially suppression of the truth- you know its a scam. For sure.
Of course this is also an example of our leaders not taking any responsibility at all.
Political correctness is another mass media crowd narrative driven by the powers that be to destroy structure within society. It demands compliance no matter how illogical the requirement. It demands equal outcome for all which is often damaging as we are not all the same. We have the same rights but all of us are different.
Compliance is usually effortless and gains approval of the mass media and carries with it no responsibility. This is called virtue signalling. Eg I am wearing a mask. Aren’t I a good citizen? Worse than that is virtue signalling of the minorities which carries with it entitlement eg I am gay or I am LGBT aren't I special just for existing and everyone can and should recognise this talk about me and celebrate me. For doing nothing. Therefore virtue signalling and the entitlement associated with it is the opposite of responsibility and in fact carries something else dangerous which is blame and fault. Eg : You are not complying , you have not employed more gay people , you have not converted half your toilets to LGBT even though we are a tiny minority and the rest of you will have to queue up to use the rest. It is your fault and you must be punished.
Being gender fluid is virtue signalling instead of taking responsibility for being the sex that you are.
Men, you are all bad. It is your fault. Take no responsibility and be punished or vilified. Women: don’t take responsibility for being women, you can now be men so you can sleep with lots of men and women and you must all be having careers and employers must
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Good morning everyone. This is ahistoric event because it is a combined podcast
of red between the Lines where Iwasn't ready and the reason for now by
doctor Theo and this is my goodfriend Alexei Esteemed esteemed friend. Yes.
And I asked Alexei at the beginningof this week what he would like to
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talk about, and he suggested responsibility. And I did a bit of reading
around it and research and listening toa couple of lectures, and it occurred
to me that responsibility is key toone of the reasons that society is falling
apart. And there are many differentwords for this. So one reason it's
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falling apart is political correctness. Theother reason it's falling apart is globalization.
The other reasons falling apart is masscommunication, social media, man manipulation thereof.
And then there are the nuances andwhat we really really need to understand
about how progress actually happens on theindividual basis and on a societal basis.
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I would like to add to that. I think I was I was looking
at my situation at work and linkingto what you call not political correctness per
se, but more political awareness.So you need to in order to survive,
you need to be sure that youare. You know what position you
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hold in your organization, how faryou can go. Who is your paymaster,
generally it's you, It's your immediateboss, how the dynamics workout,
so you know how far you canpush, what you can do, what
you can say, what you can'tsay. And in the organization I work
in, it's very much there's alot of emphasis on responsibility, which is
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unusual to a lot of the othercompanies I work for, most because nowadays
so many people are scared too.Let's that's called it execute in terms of
using your being responsible and executing onit and being allowed to do it because
the political the PC part, thepolitical correctness, being politically correct, sorry,
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and also playing the political game inorder to survive means that you do.
Very few are confident enough, let'ssay, have less to lose,
or are not confident in their ownskin to be able to sort of give
that feedback or be a bit morecourageous in voicing your opinion still intelligently,
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not just willy nilly, and thennot being wired about potential consequences. Most
people will keep their head below theparapet because it's their way of surviving.
But what I've found when I've spokento a few of my colleagues, and
I'm not saying it's not a criticism, but when I have a certain opinion
on something's gonna go oh yeah.Thank you for speaking up, Alexey.
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I didn't want to because I wantto keep my job, because I didn't
want to be seen as the blacksheep, because I'm scared that it might
actually have repercussions. And then sadly, all the lights are on me and
suddly, I'm now being looked atit in the wrong way. So let's
distill that down further. So whatyou've described is a significant element of fear.
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Yeah, yes, And fear isactually from punishment. Punishment comes from
something that you've done and you havea consequence based on your action in the
past, and that is fault.Okay. Now, the reason that this
is happening is because if you thinkabout it in evolutionary terms, there's only
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two pillars of human behavior, andI'll touch on them very briefly. The
first pillow of human behavior is reflexanxiety reductions. So we all have a
baseline level of arousal that we reflexyou reduce because that's the quickest way of
surviving in terms of escaping predators,getting a basic needs survival. Now,
reflex anxiety reduces. By definition,do not think. Okay, humans do
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not think. In fact, theDaniel Kaneman, the first Nobel Prize winner
for psychology, in fact it wasn'tfor psychologics, for behavior economics. He
said, ninety eight percent of everythingwe do is emotional, no matter how
intelligent you are. Maybe if you'resuper intelligent, a tiny bit more is
less emotional. In an emotional state, there is zero logic. Think about
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that for a moment. So ifyou have a group of reflex anxiety reducers
living together, they'll be chaos.But because of a tribal because nature worked
out they're living in as a tribemade it more like you'll survive. Then
we are hard word to respond tostructure, hierarchy, and leadership. It
also means that we are hard wordto seek those who are most similar to
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us, because if we see somethingwe are not familiar with, then it
means we're not sure whether it's safe. We're not sure that it's not going
to eat us. If we seesomething that's familiar, it means that we
saw it before and it probably didn'teat us. We don't like things that
are different. Therefore, if someoneis different, then the crowd narrative will
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result on expulsion of that person whichis different, and that is called scapegoating.
Can I add something that we didn'twarm up before when we're having a
lovely coffee together until a few minutesago, and this go with you give
me a couple of minutes because it'sa little light bulb that came on.
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But I'm not sure if it's goingto make that much sense. What I'm
realizing is if in the world welive in where we are now all scared
to voice and opinion because of therepercussions that may you know, in terms
of your position, in terms ofbeing having acclaim against you with HR because
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you've you've commented on somebody's looks,which you should never do. In fact,
it's not that you can say,can do however, bear with me
someone's looks current bear with me communication. If you have average communication skills,
then your ability to seek out theboundaries is far far reduced. So what
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I mean by that is, ifyou are not aware of a reasonable level
of human psychology, the who fitswhere, the dynamics, the political game,
the repercussions, how far you cango, and so on and so
forth. Then what will happen isthat you you will be more conservative,
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you will you will be safer,so that you'll say less just because you're
not sure what you can say andhow far you can go. So what
that means that that will then stifleyour enjoyment. It will stifle your ability
to be a bigger influencer, tomaybe to go further, to be more
in a verticom a successful because youremotional intelligence by being a good communicator,
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is not as intelligent or not assophisticated as it should be. So,
for example, if you have aboss and you get on, then my
argument to that is, in orderto take responsibility for what you're doing,
you need to understand what he wants, what he likes, and what he
dislikes, because that will give youthen more room and more space to know
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how far you can go. Andthose boundaries could be a lot further than
you think, because he ways tosay, oh no, don't bother me
with this, just get on withit, hallelujah, tick, move on.
But if you do not even havethat way of thinking and have that
ability to go if I work himout, him or her out and what
he likes dislikes, how far Ican go, what is acceptable, what
isn't acceptable, what's wrong, what'sright, what he wants to know about,
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what he doesn't care about. Thenyou know what I will have to
I think your level of being able, your level of conformity is actually increased
because you have to play safe.You're not sure, so you're basically waiting
for the orders and the instructions andyou just follow as a good soldier.
And I think I think that's alot to do with a robot, a
Robert, and that's basically a lotto do with And then you have less
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responsibility in voter commerce because you chooseto keep your head far far or even
even further below the parapet rather thansay, hang on a minute, no,
I'm still a human being. I'vestill got a personality here. You've
hired me for a reason, You'vehired me from my experience and for who
I am, not for just conformingand falling orders or not. And I
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think that's that's what I'm no longersure about anymore. If so, the
what's interesting is once we that termrobot, Yes, because the larger you
become as an entity, as aas a corporate entity, yes, the
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more manualized you want everything to be. Because the large corporations who are multinational,
let's say, and we know it. You know the reason we go
to McDonald's is because you know you'regoing to get a burger of a certain
standard wherever you are, whether you'rein China, whether they're in London,
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whether you're in Athens. I throwone at you about the taking responsibility for
your diet going to McDonald's. Alot of us do. I go to
McDonald's because from an x CAT pointof view, I know that whether the
product they have is uniform, it'sstandardized, it's of good quality. They've
got very very I've worked in them. Believe me, in versus taking the
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chance of going by a motorway servicestation and take in your chance and your
luck with them. Trust me withmy expect they are at a consistent level
that you know what you're getting innow, how it's done, the keenness
levels, the kpis' I've read themanuat but but then you've got the dietary
part and you know, unless you'recompletely dim, you know what it's doing
(10:20):
to you in terms of fats,in terms of the addictive chemicals are in
all the sources that make you wantto focus a little bit more on this
issue of the multinationals requiring robotic subservience. And the reason is this, if
you're a multinational, you want tohave consistency of your product. You can
only have consistency of your product ifyou drown out any kind of descent,
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if you drown out any kind offurther development. So, in other words,
if you have if you have anemployee in a distant branch, he
says, actually, I'd like todo it like this because I think it
could make it better, or thesources better, or the consistency the burg
is better. That to the martinashwill be unacceptable because sudden you have divergence
of the product. And in fact, in terms of economic theory, it
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has been known for decades that oncea company hits a size of a certain
level, it no longer comes upwith new ideas, it no longer produces,
no longer has significant product development,and the only way it can make
more money is by monopolization, whichmeans increasing market share and further marketing,
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and the consequences and go on interms of taken responsibility. Essentially, they
are of the popular. They aredoing the opposite. They are forcing themselves
and manipulating people into buying the product, and they're taking the thinking out of
the equation, taking the think outof the equation. You just literally arrived.
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There's a robot, You press fourbuttons on a screen, you give
your credit card, and you havethe for everyone. People working within it
again are not thinking. If you'rea smaller concern, you can do a
bit of thinking. And I alwaysremember an episode of Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson
when he was reviewing one of theSuzuki cars. Do you remember the one
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that came out and the front lookedjust like the back. I'm trying to
remember which my name is now,Yeah, but it probably comes to mind,
doesn't It was spectacularly ugly, andyet for a short period of time
we were seeing lots of them onthe road and and he looked at it
and he said, this could onlyhappen in a large, multinational corporation.
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He said, listen, if that'sone of the advantages of having a smaller
company, like TVR, like theboss can wander through the factory and if
he saw drawings like this on theplanning stage, he would sack everyone responsible
for it and then get on withit. Yeah, but it's about lifting.
It's about again, yea, theexample I used about putting your head
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above the parapet I've as a carfan, I've had this conversation with you
and a few of my friends ona regular basis about how everything looks the
same. The moment someone comes outwith something refreshing. I don't know,
the Ionic five, the Ionic six, something a little bit different, people
will go, whether you like itor not, will go, oh that's
different, Oh that's Oh, that'srefreshing. Somebody has taken the responsibility to
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maybe go out, to take achance, take a risk, go out
of the mainstream. Let's not offendanyone. Let's be very similar to the
other manufactured because that's what we want. Well. The trick of marketing now
is to make it look new anddifferent, but not too different. If
it's two different people, as wesaid, they don't like it, so
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it needs to be familiar, butwith a twist. Now, now,
now let's put the cut amongst thepigeons and mentioned the subject that we have
to be very careful with because wecould go off on a very emotion ootional
and passionate tangent, but taking responsibilityand what we've just been through the last
couple of years with COVID and wewere talking along, but just before this
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we have being a little loose chatabout it could happen again, and my
concern would be about everybody being inthat robotic stage and going, do you
know what, there hasn't been leadershipfor thirty years. This will do.
I've been waiting for this for ageneration. I will follow your fear tactics
and do exactly what you've done itfirst time around? What would stop people
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doing the second time around? Andyou were telling me I, actually no,
this time around, I think peoplewould rebel or would not conform,
or would be would go against him. I'm Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln said,
you can fool some of the peopleall the time, you can fool all
of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the
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people all of the time. Andrecently there was an article in the Deadly
Mail online and you can leave commentsat the bottom of the articles and one
of the articles is about this apparentstrain that has been reported on by by
nar Ferguson, who is the plentyof fish man who decided during lockdown that
(15:15):
it was so safe that he couldgo in the sleep with women who met
on plenty of fish and break lockdown. But to explain people from other country,
this is the was the main oneof the main advisors scientistics advisor to
the UK government who has made constantpredictions, were seen as the authority figure
at the time before he literally droppedhis trousers. Yes, and who's who's
(15:35):
who's modeled things on the BSc,who's model things on foot and mouth,
Who's who's been directly response for thedeath of millions of animals and found to
be completely unnecessary. But if wetake it back to take away a single
modeling prediction, right, my apologies, if we take it back to the
topic of this podcast is what againWe've We've gone off on many occases on
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Bashion at Tangent because we're both ofa similar opinion in terms of losing the
will or the ability to think duringCOVID when everybody was given their marching orders,
and that's the people don't like thinkingbecause we're hardwired to respond to structure,
hierarchy, leadership. That's why itwas so easy. And they did
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it as an experiment, by theway, so why is it A U
and R didn't agree with it,And we're very often saying can why can't
the majority of people take one stepback and realize what the hell is happening?
Because we're we are the skewed extremeof original thinkers for whatever reason.
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We can talk about what makes usskewed original thinkers on another podcast, but
but there's very few of that,very few of those. And it's what's
interesting is is one I remember talkingabout it with various people, including yourself,
and everyone who'd come to the sameconclusion that you and I would,
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they would look at me and go, you two, because that you know
in your you know deep down thisis all nonsense. Nearly said the word.
But but it's it's so refreshed tosee someone who's figured it out too,
because most people don't. Because mostpeople, even if they have their
suspicions will be led. And thereason is the issue of cognitive dissonance.
(17:26):
Because the mind requires certainty. That'swhy religion is so powerful because it gives
you certainty. Actually, but whathappened to common sense and understanding the difference
between writers? There is no commonsense. We are products of our environment,
because remember, we make decisions emotionally. We respond to structure, hierarchy,
leadership, and through avoidance of fear. That's why the Nuremberg trials re
(17:52):
hit problems, because what they decidedis that anybody can commit any atrocity given
the wrong circumstances. There are booksThe gulag Archipello were by Alexander sets and
who wasy for you to say?Indeed, who was one of the people
who was responsible the fall of theSoviet Union? And because he as he
(18:14):
was lying in agony in his prisoncell listening to the trusted prisoners torturing other
prisoners because there weren't enough guards totorture them, he said, who these
prisoners who just me a version ofme? They're torturing other people because they
get a better deal, they geta few extra privileges. And then there
was the book Ordinary Men and OrdinaryMen was about Polish policemen and at the
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beginning of the Second World War,the captain took this rather mature group of
men. They weren't young, impressionablemen. And he said, listen,
I can see where this is going. And I'm telling you now you are
going to be asked to do dreadfulthings, and if any of you walks
away now, I will not holdit against you. And it was about
these mature, middle aged men whoended up taking pregnant women at the fields
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and shooting them. Okay, canI can? I I'm going to jump
to to something maybe more more,not trivial, but let's call it a
daily occurrence that I see more oftenthan not. And I saw it on
the plane that I was on theother day. I've seen it in coffee
bars, restaurants. It's not theit's not the first time I've seen this
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where thirty years ago, thirty yearsago, I'll give you an example,
having run restaurants where something would happensomebody. We saw it, I think
actually in a calf this morning,but it was obviously different example. It
was a it was a literally anaccident where that person tripped, but you
see somebody fall down. I meanI saw this the other yesterday, waiting
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half an hour on the bus atPrague Airport in a non air conditioned bus,
and this middle a age woman hadto get off the bus because you're
about to faint. Now I halfso I was halfway to saying are you
okay? Literally to go over thesake anything I can do most apart from
myself, and one person didn't move, didn't move and didn't flinch. Now,
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taking responsibility also means from a societalpoint of view, you want to
check that that other human being isokay. Basic human instink. You want
to check that they're okay, they'redoing well and there's nothing wrong. So
let me and that for me,I still find that shocking. We need
to even though we've been conditioned thelast thirty years, or we need to
distill this further. Yes, so, but that's taking responsibility. Yeah,
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but what is taking responsibilities? Sotaking responsibility is something core to what is
defined as tribe compatible behavior. Rememberwe're tribal and we are hard wired to
respond to stretch our horror key leadershipin order to make us tribe compatible.
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And this is one of the definitionsof personality disorder like psychopathnalysis, boardlines,
they are not tribe compatible. Andtherefore, when you do something, taking
responsibility for what you do means I'mlooking at I'm self aware of what I
could have done better, and Iwill now take steps to make sure in
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future it will be done better.This is different to the concept of fault,
which is pure punishment. So faultis not very helpful because it doesn't
actually cause improvement if it does.If it does, it's accidental. So
your example is not really responsibility becauseunless what you're doing is you're taking responsibility
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for helping that woman fall down.It's a basic requirement to make sure what
you described as tribe compatible behavior.Okay, okay, So that's not necessarily
because taking responsibly for what you're doingor what you've done is different to helping
someone. So what you did isyou collaborated and helped. That is tribe
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compatible. So we need to bevery clear about the definition of responsibility.
So responsibility is about improving on somethingyou've done by being self aware and then
taking steps to improve it and takingownership of it. Being punished as fault
and fault will typically suppress progression,and if and if there's improvement, it's
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usually by accident and being punished.And as you say, fault itself being
attributed it. I see it inorganizations that I've been in. I see
it in sometimes day to day life, where I call it the stuffing has
been knocked out of you. Itreaches the point where you are spineless,
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You are scared and afraid to doanything because there will you will either be
ostracized and social media you'll be vilified. It reaches a point where some but
most people saying, you know what, it's not worth my mother. It's
not worth a mother because there's arisk element of being positive, of contributing,
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of trying to improve this imagine.So you're stifling all of that.
So just because you want to conformand be safe. So the good people,
which I think is the good originalthinker is still a lot of them,
will still choose to conform with nonsenseunless there's an insurrection. The revolution
is part of survival, being ableto see exactly that that is exactly right.
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So the conform conform with nonsense becausethey're worried about the consequences. But
that's a different issue now now versusin some respects. The other thing to
bear in mind is that we needto spot the issue of people avoiding responsibility.
So wherever you hear this term,we are following the science with suppression
(24:03):
of alternative points of views. Youknow that's a scam because there is no
responsibility taking at all. Now,the only way that you get progress in
any kind of system is by makingsmall tweaks to the system and seeing whether
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it works or if it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, you dump
it and you try something else.If it works, you keep it.
And there's a very interesting man whostarted off as a notary and then started
working in banks and looking at modelsand modeling for companies, and he eventually
decided that how a complicated and brilliantlymodel was, you could never produce a
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model that was accurate enough to assessthe risks and profit of a company effectively.
And he said, if you can'tdo it for a company, you
certainly can't do it for an evenmore complicated system like an economy or the
health of a nation. Okay,So anybody who produces models and in fact
(25:06):
now focuson not a single model ofhis has turned out to be correct,
And yet the government abrogates all responsibilityto the scientists who produces models. That
can I add to that, I'dlike to know your opinion on this.
Now that I mean, I don'tknow. I'm listening more to the media
in the check of probably where Ilive now that we are now assessing what
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happened during COVID, and more andmore you're hearing opinions. I wouldn't quite
even freedom of speech, because weknow that doesn't really exist, but there's
a lot of opinions out there now. Media channels are now saying, hang
on a minute, do we needto hold the politicians accountable for all the
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what we would call criminal atrocities thathave happened in terms of people losing their
business, in terms of people havingnow ill health because of the vaccine,
in terms of people mentally being scarredfrom this is you know, talking about
takeular responsibility. Is there not enoughof a movement of people in society to
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make that happen? Or is itbecause the whole system is the way it
is that it will never happens,never see great The consequences are too great.
There'll be if you there'll be toomuch change required because everything was was
so fundamentally corrupt and ron that you'dhave to change the whole system. And
the only way you can change thewhole system is with with a revolution.
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As you start again, when youstart again, and in fact, that's
what the central banks and the WorldEconomic Forum and the WHO and the UN
are trying to do. They're tryingto restart the system by causing these these
catastrophes. So, whether it's areset, that's right, whether it's stars,
whether it's coronavirus, whether it's climatechange, whether it's Ukraine, whether
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it's the forthcoming rather rapidly forthcoming economiccatastrophe that's coming to the world which people
are still not looking at. Forinstance, you know the sec the second
stage of Brexit, which means importtax on food and a seven hundred pounds
check per inspection cost on each crateis coming in in October, and the
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government who who are trying to takeall the credit for the slight drop inflation.
And the only thing that's caused aslight drop inflation, by the way,
is the interest rate, which arekilling houses that of course, it's
it's actually putting people on the streets, which people have got less disposable income.
Yeah, that's right, so they'respending less. And of course the
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interesting thing is interesting thing is ifyou you see the thing is remember we're
talking about models and systems. Wenow know that it doesn't work. Central
bank is tweaking the interest rates aregoing to have an opposite effect on what
they think. For instance, ifthe rise in prices has been because of
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a supply chain problem and you raiseinterest rates, then that's going to destroy
the economy. Further, it's goingto cause a economic collapse in a in
a slowly as a supply chain isactually getting itself. That's it in order.
Now in a in a booming economy, in a flowering, booming,
blossoming economy where people are spending toomuch money because they have too much money,
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then then that therefore the price ofgoods are going up because the supply
is increased. Sure, maybe interestrates could have some kind of an effect,
and even then you'd probably want toargue against it. We know it
doesn't work. It doesn't work,and it's going to have the catastrophic And
yet people are saying, we're followingthe rules in this case. So again
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they're abrogating responsibility. Who have createdthese is what they created these in economics,
so the the now we're having lookat globalism. So if a large
company suppresses new ideas and creativity becauseit cannot be tolerated because it needs the
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corporate identity and structure and consistency ofproduct. And of course, by the
way, there is always a signwave lifespan to any kind of entity,
including a large company. In otherways, it starts slowly, accelerates exponentially,
tails off, and then drops becausethere's no more new ideas and so
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there's the new idea company coming up. So rest assured that Google and Amazon
will be distant spots on the horizonat some point in the future. But
it's in a catch twenty two thatglobalization has in fact assisted but again at
casawitywo because people want it to allowit to happen. That actually they think
it's a good thing, but acatast thwarted the taking responsibility for your own
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thoughts, being a free thinker,because you know people are crap at that
anyway, So let's not worry toomuch about that. But well, I
think it's got I think it's it'sworse than over the years. It's my
point, were indeed because comments youmade, that's right, we're being forced
to be become more robots because weneed to comply more, because everyone needs
to be controlled in the in aglobal economy. You can only have a
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global economic by forcing uniformity on everyone. Do you think much being controlled?
No, well, slowly slowly theyare. You think highlighted that in a
way. Well, there was,As I said, the article on the
Daily Mail and if you looked atthe thousands of comments underneath it, there
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wasn't a single positive comment. Everyonewas going off, head and off.
This is nonsense. You want totry it on me. People have had
enough and that's why they're trying newthings like Ukraine. Know, they'll test
the water sometimes and just see howmuch fear factor they see the tolerance level.
That's right, and that's what theydo that. The powers that be
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are cautious. You know, they'llthey'll tweak the knobs, they'll try something.
They didn't work, We'll try somethingelse. But I also I think
taking responsibility. I would like toadd the word leadership to that as well.
Well, there's no leadership, butthat's my point because in its truest
definition, a leader is someone whotakes responsibility, has been voted in as
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the person that is the captain ofthe ship, will make certain decisions.
Yes, so this is we stillpass by the majority of voting of the
board. But Jenny, that CEO'shired for his experience or her experience for
running a company, from making itprofitable, for ensuring that they've got the
right culture and so on. Andnow even that CEO has to be so
politically tuned in and politically literate thatactually all you're doing is playing a communication
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pr Let's look at let's look atthe next thing. So because I'm talking
about purehip, that for me hasbeen affected, of course, because because
it's true, it's form, becausebecause there's people have taken away the concert
responsibility and just produced fault, becausefault is fear. Fear causes comployer.
But the point I'm making before ismaybe I don't know how far back where
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we need to go, but agood CEO that you know is is the
lead, is leading. But I'mtalking about the how you how you can
define that you know that they arepopular within the company, popular within the
markets. So if they're a publiclylisted company, they're delivering to the shelters
and they're doing the fundamental the fourfive fundamental things for them to be deemed
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as being worthy and successful. Now, now look at the examples with the
examples in the media. Right nowyou speak again trial by media where the
CEO is as good as his lastpress release. In the social media because
if a social media decide you needto go because we believe what you've done
is in a verticomms wrong. Whodefines what's right? Wrong? Is okay,
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So let's not complicate it. Allit is is global compliance. That's
it. So so yeah, butthe fact that you're a chief executor doesn't
matter. You're just very little.Yeah, exactly, you're an aunt and
that that is the problem. Youremove responsibility with fault. And now there's
the term virtue signaling. Now theyou want to explain that the virtue signaling
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is simply saying I've done this.I'm wearing a mask, so I'm I've
put no effort into it. Butaren't I you good citizens because I'm wearing
a mask or I'm transgenders who lookat me? I have I am now
entitled? Well are you? Youhaven't put any effort into it, have
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you? So it's it's it's thedifference between what I've also given a talk
on internet gaming versus social media.Now that one of the crucial differences is
that at least an internet gaming,you've got to put effort in and train
and try. Right with social media, you get all the likes and you
expect the likes for no effort.Zero if that's entitlement, and of course
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you know that the millennials have beengrown up entitled. Entitlement means zero responsibility.
Transgender it calls zero responsibility. Butin my humble opinion, what social
media is is is advocating. Whatit's putting out there for me is still
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for a minority of people. Mostpeople that I will speak to and have
spoken to. Let's call it ingeneral Joe Public. Different generations, especially
the older generation, will lead whatyou will call a reasonably balanced life.
But that's the minority. Seriously,the unfortunately it's going the bigger picture way
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in the younger general. You cansee what's happening. So there are very
few people that will talk like youand I that have the insight and the
understanding and the common sense and theability to take responsibility based on the common
sense and understanding. Because everyone cantake responsibility, but it's easy not to.
Don't have the sense, and it'smuch easier because responsibility means thinking,
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and people don't like thinking, itisn't easier just to click two three buttons
and get it delivered. You don'thave to correct, meaning we're talking about
debt. Yeah, correct, Sowe're taking responsibility. Also works on a
financial level. And what I findamazing is the people that are let's say
the poorest, the ones that arein the most debt, are the ones
taking the least responsibility for the situation. Because takeaway meals the the eBay click
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the Amazon click there, I'm goingto order another one of these because I
want one. But that's where thepowers that be want us. Oh,
the why is not in question.I'm talking about the Yeah, but that's
you can you can predict what humanis going to be easily, very predictable.
And of course, the concept ofpsychops, by the way, is
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defined as a military weapon. Sothe UK government is using a military weapon
against its own population. Think aboutthat for a second. Do you want
to elaborate a bit more on that? So what psychops is how we were
manipulated the kind of things that wecould be told such as killing your granny
for instance. That's psych cops andthat is classified officially as a military weapon.
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Wow. Going back to LGBT andand a virtue signaling. It also
means that as a as a male, it is your fault that your male
don't be a man, and womenyou can don't be responsible for being a
woman. You can virtue signal insteadby sleeping lots of men and going to
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work and having a career, andof course women do a few of the
better thinkers will go, well,well what do do? In fact,
there's the film Barbie with what's what'sthat actress's name? Anyway? The I
won't see it's it's a very well, it's been a very popular film and
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very successful. Now Margaret Obbie nowthat the main message of that film is
lost on most people. But essentially, in this ideal world of Ken and
Barbie, everything's perfect. Ken doesn'tquite get Barbie because she's busy being perfect
and doing what she wants and partyingwith her friends, but they don't have
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any genitalia, and she eventually decidesthat she wants to become human. And
the final part of the film isonce she decided to come human, is
she's off to see her garynecologist.In other words, she's decided that she
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once become human, to have children, Okay, well that's the point of
life, right. So the ladywho had the opportunity for zero responsibility,
endless partying, and a man dotingon her who she didn't really care much
about, has decided that the pointof life is to have kids. So
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how do we how do we concludethis? The The other answer is this
if you look at one of theancient Greek philosophers, Socrates, who his
student Plato, produced a symposm oflove and what it was. It was
a group of people who, becausethey were quite jaded from the partying the
night before, they decided to drinkless and instead have an intellectual conversation on
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what love is. And each personproduced a really interesting talk. One of
them, for instance, said youlove that which you don't have. Another
was opposite attract Another person talked aboutthe ancient legend that humans used to exist
fused down the back, So weused to have two heads, four arms,
four legs, and we used totravel with cartwheels around the world very
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fast, very powerful. But atone point we overstepped our boundaries, and
Zeus got pissed off with us andpunished us by cleaving us down the back
with his finger. And a thunderbolt. So now that's why we have one
head and two arms and two legs. And it was only his wife,
Era, who's being an affable,agreeable lady. He says, who zuzus
not a game, because he wasjust about to cleave us the second time.
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Otherwise you will be hopping on onearm and one leg. And therefore
that's the legend of how we goaround the world seeking a rather half,
and it also interestingly allows for samesex other hearts. Anyway, Socrates comes
in and he says, well,interesting enough, I went to the oracle
Adelphia, and the high priestess Theometertold me what love is, and they
said, wow, what is it? Socrates? And he said, love
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is the pursuit of immortality, andthe way you achieve that is you either
seek to mark the pages of history, cure a cancer, saving a country
from a warring nation, like Churchill. But most of us settle for reproduction.
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And of course the big joke wasthat it was the only theoris Socrates
that wasn't his own, and hereto be told by a woman what love
was. We are here to reproduce, And in fact what's happening now is
the opposite. People are not takingresponsibility for their own sex. Right now,
the birth rate in the UK istwenty percent less than the death rate
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in Norway. Adult diapers are outselling kiddie diapers. Right If you are
a woman who goes to university,you have a fifty percent chance of hitting
your forties child less. So whatare we saying that taking responsibility means for
who you are and taking steps toimprove yourself for who you are on a
daily basis. Well, on thatnote, never and not not comparing yourself
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to others. I eat social media. Just look at yourself and every day
improve yourself by a little step basedon who you are, and take a
step back and cut out the noise. Cut out the noise. On that
note, thank you very much,Thank you people. I look forward to
speaking to you. Said like what, take care, Bye bye,
Good morning everyone. This is ahistoric event because it is a combined podcast
of red between the Lines where Iwasn't ready and the reason for now by
doctor Theo and this is my goodfriend Alexei Esteemed esteemed friend. Yes.
And I asked Alexei at the beginningof this week what he would like to
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talk about, and he suggested responsibility. And I did a bit of reading
around it and research and listening toa couple of lectures, and it occurred
to me that responsibility is key toone of the reasons that society is falling
apart. And there are many differentwords for this. So one reason it's
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falling apart is political correctness. Theother reason it's falling apart is globalization.
The other reasons falling apart is masscommunication, social media, man manipulation thereof.
And then there are the nuances andwhat we really really need to understand
about how progress actually happens on theindividual basis and on a societal basis.
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I would like to add to that. I think I was I was looking
at my situation at work and linkingto what you call not political correctness per
se, but more political awareness.So you need to in order to survive,
you need to be sure that youare. You know what position you
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hold in your organization, how faryou can go. Who is your paymaster,
generally it's you, It's your immediateboss, how the dynamics workout,
so you know how far you canpush, what you can do, what
you can say, what you can'tsay. And in the organization I work
in, it's very much there's alot of emphasis on responsibility, which is
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unusual to a lot of the othercompanies I work for, most because nowadays
so many people are scared too.Let's that's called it execute in terms of
using your being responsible and executing onit and being allowed to do it because
the political the PC part, thepolitical correctness, being politically correct, sorry,
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and also playing the political game inorder to survive means that you do.
Very few are confident enough, let'ssay, have less to lose,
or are not confident in their ownskin to be able to sort of give
that feedback or be a bit morecourageous in voicing your opinion still intelligently,
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not just willy nilly, and thennot being wired about potential consequences. Most
people will keep their head below theparapet because it's their way of surviving.
But what I've found when I've spokento a few of my colleagues, and
I'm not saying it's not a criticism, but when I have a certain opinion
on something's gonna go oh yeah.Thank you for speaking up, Alexey.
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I didn't want to because I wantto keep my job, because I didn't
want to be seen as the blacksheep, because I'm scared that it might
actually have repercussions. And then sadly, all the lights are on me and
suddly, I'm now being looked atit in the wrong way. So let's
distill that down further. So whatyou've described is a significant element of fear.
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Yeah, yes, And fear isactually from punishment. Punishment comes from
something that you've done and you havea consequence based on your action in the
past, and that is fault.Okay. Now, the reason that this
is happening is because if you thinkabout it in evolutionary terms, there's only
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two pillars of human behavior, andI'll touch on them very briefly. The
first pillow of human behavior is reflexanxiety reductions. So we all have a
baseline level of arousal that we reflexyou reduce because that's the quickest way of
surviving in terms of escaping predators,getting a basic needs survival. Now,
reflex anxiety reduces. By definition,do not think. Okay, humans do
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not think. In fact, theDaniel Kaneman, the first Nobel Prize winner
for psychology, in fact it wasn'tfor psychologics, for behavior economics. He
said, ninety eight percent of everythingwe do is emotional, no matter how
intelligent you are. Maybe if you'resuper intelligent, a tiny bit more is
less emotional. In an emotional state, there is zero logic. Think about
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that for a moment. So ifyou have a group of reflex anxiety reducers
living together, they'll be chaos.But because of a tribal because nature worked
out they're living in as a tribemade it more like you'll survive. Then
we are hard word to respond tostructure, hierarchy, and leadership. It
also means that we are hard wordto seek those who are most similar to
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us, because if we see somethingwe are not familiar with, then it
means we're not sure whether it's safe. We're not sure that it's not going
to eat us. If we seesomething that's familiar, it means that we
saw it before and it probably didn'teat us. We don't like things that
are different. Therefore, if someoneis different, then the crowd narrative will
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result on expulsion of that person whichis different, and that is called scapegoating.
Can I add something that we didn'twarm up before when we're having a
lovely coffee together until a few minutesago, and this go with you give
me a couple of minutes because it'sa little light bulb that came on.
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But I'm not sure if it's goingto make that much sense. What I'm
realizing is if in the world welive in where we are now all scared
to voice and opinion because of therepercussions that may you know, in terms
of your position, in terms ofbeing having acclaim against you with HR because
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you've you've commented on somebody's looks,which you should never do. In fact,
it's not that you can say,can do however, bear with me
someone's looks current bear with me communication. If you have average communication skills,
then your ability to seek out theboundaries is far far reduced. So what
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I mean by that is, ifyou are not aware of a reasonable level
of human psychology, the who fitswhere, the dynamics, the political game,
the repercussions, how far you cango, and so on and so
forth. Then what will happen isthat you you will be more conservative,
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you will you will be safer,so that you'll say less just because you're
not sure what you can say andhow far you can go. So what
that means that that will then stifleyour enjoyment. It will stifle your ability
to be a bigger influencer, tomaybe to go further, to be more
in a verticom a successful because youremotional intelligence by being a good communicator,
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is not as intelligent or not assophisticated as it should be. So,
for example, if you have aboss and you get on, then my
argument to that is, in orderto take responsibility for what you're doing,
you need to understand what he wants, what he likes, and what he
dislikes, because that will give youthen more room and more space to know
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how far you can go. Andthose boundaries could be a lot further than
you think, because he ways tosay, oh no, don't bother me
with this, just get on withit, hallelujah, tick, move on.
But if you do not even havethat way of thinking and have that
ability to go if I work himout, him or her out and what
he likes dislikes, how far Ican go, what is acceptable, what
isn't acceptable, what's wrong, what'sright, what he wants to know about,
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what he doesn't care about. Thenyou know what I will have to
I think your level of being able, your level of conformity is actually increased
because you have to play safe.You're not sure, so you're basically waiting
for the orders and the instructions andyou just follow as a good soldier.
And I think I think that's alot to do with a robot, a
Robert, and that's basically a lotto do with And then you have less
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responsibility in voter commerce because you chooseto keep your head far far or even
even further below the parapet rather thansay, hang on a minute, no,
I'm still a human being. I'vestill got a personality here. You've
hired me for a reason, You'vehired me from my experience and for who
I am, not for just conformingand falling orders or not. And I
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think that's that's what I'm no longersure about anymore. If so, the
what's interesting is once we that termrobot, Yes, because the larger you
become as an entity, as aas a corporate entity, yes, the
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more manualized you want everything to be. Because the large corporations who are multinational,
let's say, and we know it. You know the reason we go
to McDonald's is because you know you'regoing to get a burger of a certain
standard wherever you are, whether you'rein China, whether they're in London,
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whether you're in Athens. I throwone at you about the taking responsibility for
your diet going to McDonald's. Alot of us do. I go to
McDonald's because from an x CAT pointof view, I know that whether the
product they have is uniform, it'sstandardized, it's of good quality. They've
got very very I've worked in them. Believe me, in versus taking the
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chance of going by a motorway servicestation and take in your chance and your
luck with them. Trust me withmy expect they are at a consistent level
that you know what you're getting innow, how it's done, the keenness
levels, the kpis' I've read themanuat but but then you've got the dietary
part and you know, unless you'recompletely dim, you know what it's doing
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to you in terms of fats,in terms of the addictive chemicals are in
all the sources that make you wantto focus a little bit more on this
issue of the multinationals requiring robotic subservience. And the reason is this, if
you're a multinational, you want tohave consistency of your product. You can
only have consistency of your product ifyou drown out any kind of descent,
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if you drown out any kind offurther development. So, in other words,
if you have if you have anemployee in a distant branch, he
says, actually, I'd like todo it like this because I think it
could make it better, or thesources better, or the consistency the burg
is better. That to the martinashwill be unacceptable because sudden you have divergence
of the product. And in fact, in terms of economic theory, it
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has been known for decades that oncea company hits a size of a certain
level, it no longer comes upwith new ideas, it no longer produces,
no longer has significant product development,and the only way it can make
more money is by monopolization, whichmeans increasing market share and further marketing,
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and the consequences and go on interms of taken responsibility. Essentially, they
are of the popular. They aredoing the opposite. They are forcing themselves
and manipulating people into buying the product, and they're taking the thinking out of
the equation, taking the think outof the equation. You just literally arrived.
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There's a robot, You press fourbuttons on a screen, you give
your credit card, and you havethe for everyone. People working within it
again are not thinking. If you'rea smaller concern, you can do a
bit of thinking. And I alwaysremember an episode of Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson
when he was reviewing one of theSuzuki cars. Do you remember the one
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that came out and the front lookedjust like the back. I'm trying to
remember which my name is now,Yeah, but it probably comes to mind,
doesn't It was spectacularly ugly, andyet for a short period of time
we were seeing lots of them onthe road and and he looked at it
and he said, this could onlyhappen in a large, multinational corporation.
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He said, listen, if that'sone of the advantages of having a smaller
company, like TVR, like theboss can wander through the factory and if
he saw drawings like this on theplanning stage, he would sack everyone responsible
for it and then get on withit. Yeah, but it's about lifting.
It's about again, yea, theexample I used about putting your head
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above the parapet I've as a carfan, I've had this conversation with you
and a few of my friends ona regular basis about how everything looks the
same. The moment someone comes outwith something refreshing. I don't know,
the Ionic five, the Ionic six, something a little bit different, people
will go, whether you like itor not, will go, oh that's
different, Oh that's Oh, that'srefreshing. Somebody has taken the responsibility to
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maybe go out, to take achance, take a risk, go out
of the mainstream. Let's not offendanyone. Let's be very similar to the
other manufactured because that's what we want. Well. The trick of marketing now
is to make it look new anddifferent, but not too different. If
it's two different people, as wesaid, they don't like it, so
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it needs to be familiar, butwith a twist. Now, now,
now let's put the cut amongst thepigeons and mentioned the subject that we have
to be very careful with because wecould go off on a very emotion ootional
and passionate tangent, but taking responsibilityand what we've just been through the last
couple of years with COVID and wewere talking along, but just before this
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we have being a little loose chatabout it could happen again, and my
concern would be about everybody being inthat robotic stage and going, do you
know what, there hasn't been leadershipfor thirty years. This will do.
I've been waiting for this for ageneration. I will follow your fear tactics
and do exactly what you've done itfirst time around? What would stop people
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doing the second time around? Andyou were telling me I, actually no,
this time around, I think peoplewould rebel or would not conform,
or would be would go against him. I'm Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln said,
you can fool some of the peopleall the time, you can fool all
of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the
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people all of the time. Andrecently there was an article in the Deadly
Mail online and you can leave commentsat the bottom of the articles and one
of the articles is about this apparentstrain that has been reported on by by
nar Ferguson, who is the plentyof fish man who decided during lockdown that
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it was so safe that he couldgo in the sleep with women who met
on plenty of fish and break lockdown. But to explain people from other country,
this is the was the main oneof the main advisors scientistics advisor to
the UK government who has made constantpredictions, were seen as the authority figure
at the time before he literally droppedhis trousers. Yes, and who's who's
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who's modeled things on the BSc,who's model things on foot and mouth,
Who's who's been directly response for thedeath of millions of animals and found to
be completely unnecessary. But if wetake it back to take away a single
modeling prediction, right, my apologies, if we take it back to the
topic of this podcast is what againWe've We've gone off on many occases on
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Bashion at Tangent because we're both ofa similar opinion in terms of losing the
will or the ability to think duringCOVID when everybody was given their marching orders,
and that's the people don't like thinkingbecause we're hardwired to respond to structure,
hierarchy, leadership. That's why itwas so easy. And they did
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it as an experiment, by theway, so why is it A U
and R didn't agree with it,And we're very often saying can why can't
the majority of people take one stepback and realize what the hell is happening?
Because we're we are the skewed extremeof original thinkers for whatever reason.
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We can talk about what makes usskewed original thinkers on another podcast, but
but there's very few of that,very few of those. And it's what's
interesting is is one I remember talkingabout it with various people, including yourself,
and everyone who'd come to the sameconclusion that you and I would,
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they would look at me and go, you two, because that you know
in your you know deep down thisis all nonsense. Nearly said the word.
But but it's it's so refreshed tosee someone who's figured it out too,
because most people don't. Because mostpeople, even if they have their
suspicions will be led. And thereason is the issue of cognitive dissonance.
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Because the mind requires certainty. That'swhy religion is so powerful because it gives
you certainty. Actually, but whathappened to common sense and understanding the difference
between writers? There is no commonsense. We are products of our environment,
because remember, we make decisions emotionally. We respond to structure, hierarchy,
leadership, and through avoidance of fear. That's why the Nuremberg trials re
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hit problems, because what they decidedis that anybody can commit any atrocity given
the wrong circumstances. There are booksThe gulag Archipello were by Alexander sets and
who wasy for you to say?Indeed, who was one of the people
who was responsible the fall of theSoviet Union? And because he as he
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was lying in agony in his prisoncell listening to the trusted prisoners torturing other
prisoners because there weren't enough guards totorture them, he said, who these
prisoners who just me a version ofme? They're torturing other people because they
get a better deal, they geta few extra privileges. And then there
was the book Ordinary Men and OrdinaryMen was about Polish policemen and at the
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beginning of the Second World War,the captain took this rather mature group of
men. They weren't young, impressionablemen. And he said, listen,
I can see where this is going. And I'm telling you now you are
going to be asked to do dreadfulthings, and if any of you walks
away now, I will not holdit against you. And it was about
these mature, middle aged men whoended up taking pregnant women at the fields
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and shooting them. Okay, canI can? I I'm going to jump
to to something maybe more more,not trivial, but let's call it a
daily occurrence that I see more oftenthan not. And I saw it on
the plane that I was on theother day. I've seen it in coffee
bars, restaurants. It's not theit's not the first time I've seen this
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where thirty years ago, thirty yearsago, I'll give you an example,
having run restaurants where something would happensomebody. We saw it, I think
actually in a calf this morning,but it was obviously different example. It
was a it was a literally anaccident where that person tripped, but you
see somebody fall down. I meanI saw this the other yesterday, waiting
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half an hour on the bus atPrague Airport in a non air conditioned bus,
and this middle a age woman hadto get off the bus because you're
about to faint. Now I halfso I was halfway to saying are you
okay? Literally to go over thesake anything I can do most apart from
myself, and one person didn't move, didn't move and didn't flinch. Now,
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taking responsibility also means from a societalpoint of view, you want to
check that that other human being isokay. Basic human instink. You want
to check that they're okay, they'redoing well and there's nothing wrong. So
let me and that for me,I still find that shocking. We need
to even though we've been conditioned thelast thirty years, or we need to
distill this further. Yes, so, but that's taking responsibility. Yeah,
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but what is taking responsibilities? Sotaking responsibility is something core to what is
defined as tribe compatible behavior. Rememberwe're tribal and we are hard wired to
respond to stretch our horror key leadershipin order to make us tribe compatible.
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And this is one of the definitionsof personality disorder like psychopathnalysis, boardlines,
they are not tribe compatible. Andtherefore, when you do something, taking
responsibility for what you do means I'mlooking at I'm self aware of what I
could have done better, and Iwill now take steps to make sure in
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future it will be done better.This is different to the concept of fault,
which is pure punishment. So faultis not very helpful because it doesn't
actually cause improvement if it does.If it does, it's accidental. So
your example is not really responsibility becauseunless what you're doing is you're taking responsibility
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for helping that woman fall down.It's a basic requirement to make sure what
you described as tribe compatible behavior.Okay, okay, So that's not necessarily
because taking responsibly for what you're doingor what you've done is different to helping
someone. So what you did isyou collaborated and helped. That is tribe
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compatible. So we need to bevery clear about the definition of responsibility.
So responsibility is about improving on somethingyou've done by being self aware and then
taking steps to improve it and takingownership of it. Being punished as fault
and fault will typically suppress progression,and if and if there's improvement, it's
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usually by accident and being punished.And as you say, fault itself being
attributed it. I see it inorganizations that I've been in. I see
it in sometimes day to day life, where I call it the stuffing has
been knocked out of you. Itreaches the point where you are spineless,
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You are scared and afraid to doanything because there will you will either be
ostracized and social media you'll be vilified. It reaches a point where some but
most people saying, you know what, it's not worth my mother. It's
not worth a mother because there's arisk element of being positive, of contributing,
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of trying to improve this imagine.So you're stifling all of that.
So just because you want to conformand be safe. So the good people,
which I think is the good originalthinker is still a lot of them,
will still choose to conform with nonsenseunless there's an insurrection. The revolution
is part of survival, being ableto see exactly that that is exactly right.
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So the conform conform with nonsense becausethey're worried about the consequences. But
that's a different issue now now versusin some respects. The other thing to
bear in mind is that we needto spot the issue of people avoiding responsibility.
So wherever you hear this term,we are following the science with suppression
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of alternative points of views. Youknow that's a scam because there is no
responsibility taking at all. Now,the only way that you get progress in
any kind of system is by makingsmall tweaks to the system and seeing whether
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it works or if it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, you dump
it and you try something else.If it works, you keep it.
And there's a very interesting man whostarted off as a notary and then started
working in banks and looking at modelsand modeling for companies, and he eventually
decided that how a complicated and brilliantlymodel was, you could never produce a
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model that was accurate enough to assessthe risks and profit of a company effectively.
And he said, if you can'tdo it for a company, you
certainly can't do it for an evenmore complicated system like an economy or the
health of a nation. Okay,So anybody who produces models and in fact
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now focuson not a single model ofhis has turned out to be correct,
And yet the government abrogates all responsibilityto the scientists who produces models. That
can I add to that, I'dlike to know your opinion on this.
Now that I mean, I don'tknow. I'm listening more to the media
in the check of probably where Ilive now that we are now assessing what
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happened during COVID, and more andmore you're hearing opinions. I wouldn't quite
even freedom of speech, because weknow that doesn't really exist, but there's
a lot of opinions out there now. Media channels are now saying, hang
on a minute, do we needto hold the politicians accountable for all the
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what we would call criminal atrocities thathave happened in terms of people losing their
business, in terms of people havingnow ill health because of the vaccine,
in terms of people mentally being scarredfrom this is you know, talking about
takeular responsibility. Is there not enoughof a movement of people in society to
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make that happen? Or is itbecause the whole system is the way it
is that it will never happens,never see great The consequences are too great.
There'll be if you there'll be toomuch change required because everything was was
so fundamentally corrupt and ron that you'dhave to change the whole system. And
the only way you can change thewhole system is with with a revolution.
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As you start again, when youstart again, and in fact, that's
what the central banks and the WorldEconomic Forum and the WHO and the UN
are trying to do. They're tryingto restart the system by causing these these
catastrophes. So, whether it's areset, that's right, whether it's stars,
whether it's coronavirus, whether it's climatechange, whether it's Ukraine, whether
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it's the forthcoming rather rapidly forthcoming economiccatastrophe that's coming to the world which people
are still not looking at. Forinstance, you know the sec the second
stage of Brexit, which means importtax on food and a seven hundred pounds
check per inspection cost on each crateis coming in in October, and the
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government who who are trying to takeall the credit for the slight drop inflation.
And the only thing that's caused aslight drop inflation, by the way,
is the interest rate, which arekilling houses that of course, it's
it's actually putting people on the streets, which people have got less disposable income.
Yeah, that's right, so they'respending less. And of course the
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interesting thing is interesting thing is ifyou you see the thing is remember we're
talking about models and systems. Wenow know that it doesn't work. Central
bank is tweaking the interest rates aregoing to have an opposite effect on what
they think. For instance, ifthe rise in prices has been because of
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a supply chain problem and you raiseinterest rates, then that's going to destroy
the economy. Further, it's goingto cause a economic collapse in a in
a slowly as a supply chain isactually getting itself. That's it in order.
Now in a in a booming economy, in a flowering, booming,
blossoming economy where people are spending toomuch money because they have too much money,
(28:30):
then then that therefore the price ofgoods are going up because the supply
is increased. Sure, maybe interestrates could have some kind of an effect,
and even then you'd probably want toargue against it. We know it
doesn't work. It doesn't work,and it's going to have the catastrophic And
yet people are saying, we're followingthe rules in this case. So again
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they're abrogating responsibility. Who have createdthese is what they created these in economics,
so the the now we're having lookat globalism. So if a large
company suppresses new ideas and creativity becauseit cannot be tolerated because it needs the
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corporate identity and structure and consistency ofproduct. And of course, by the
way, there is always a signwave lifespan to any kind of entity,
including a large company. In otherways, it starts slowly, accelerates exponentially,
tails off, and then drops becausethere's no more new ideas and so
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there's the new idea company coming up. So rest assured that Google and Amazon
will be distant spots on the horizonat some point in the future. But
it's in a catch twenty two thatglobalization has in fact assisted but again at
casawitywo because people want it to allowit to happen. That actually they think
it's a good thing, but acatast thwarted the taking responsibility for your own
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thoughts, being a free thinker,because you know people are crap at that
anyway, So let's not worry toomuch about that. But well, I
think it's got I think it's it'sworse than over the years. It's my
point, were indeed because comments youmade, that's right, we're being forced
to be become more robots because weneed to comply more, because everyone needs
to be controlled in the in aglobal economy. You can only have a
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global economic by forcing uniformity on everyone. Do you think much being controlled?
No, well, slowly slowly theyare. You think highlighted that in a
way. Well, there was,As I said, the article on the
Daily Mail and if you looked atthe thousands of comments underneath it, there
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wasn't a single positive comment. Everyonewas going off, head and off.
This is nonsense. You want totry it on me. People have had
enough and that's why they're trying newthings like Ukraine. Know, they'll test
the water sometimes and just see howmuch fear factor they see the tolerance level.
That's right, and that's what theydo that. The powers that be
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are cautious. You know, they'llthey'll tweak the knobs, they'll try something.
They didn't work, We'll try somethingelse. But I also I think
taking responsibility. I would like toadd the word leadership to that as well.
Well, there's no leadership, butthat's my point because in its truest
definition, a leader is someone whotakes responsibility, has been voted in as
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the person that is the captain ofthe ship, will make certain decisions.
Yes, so this is we stillpass by the majority of voting of the
board. But Jenny, that CEO'shired for his experience or her experience for
running a company, from making itprofitable, for ensuring that they've got the
right culture and so on. Andnow even that CEO has to be so
politically tuned in and politically literate thatactually all you're doing is playing a communication
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pr Let's look at let's look atthe next thing. So because I'm talking
about purehip, that for me hasbeen affected, of course, because because
it's true, it's form, becausebecause there's people have taken away the concert
responsibility and just produced fault, becausefault is fear. Fear causes comployer.
But the point I'm making before ismaybe I don't know how far back where
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we need to go, but agood CEO that you know is is the
lead, is leading. But I'mtalking about the how you how you can
define that you know that they arepopular within the company, popular within the
markets. So if they're a publiclylisted company, they're delivering to the shelters
and they're doing the fundamental the fourfive fundamental things for them to be deemed
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as being worthy and successful. Now, now look at the examples with the
examples in the media. Right nowyou speak again trial by media where the
CEO is as good as his lastpress release. In the social media because
if a social media decide you needto go because we believe what you've done
is in a verticomms wrong. Whodefines what's right? Wrong? Is okay,
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So let's not complicate it. Allit is is global compliance. That's
it. So so yeah, butthe fact that you're a chief executor doesn't
matter. You're just very little.Yeah, exactly, you're an aunt and
that that is the problem. Youremove responsibility with fault. And now there's
the term virtue signaling. Now theyou want to explain that the virtue signaling
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is simply saying I've done this.I'm wearing a mask, so I'm I've
put no effort into it. Butaren't I you good citizens because I'm wearing
a mask or I'm transgenders who lookat me? I have I am now
entitled? Well are you? Youhaven't put any effort into it, have
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you? So it's it's it's thedifference between what I've also given a talk
on internet gaming versus social media.Now that one of the crucial differences is
that at least an internet gaming,you've got to put effort in and train
and try. Right with social media, you get all the likes and you
expect the likes for no effort.Zero if that's entitlement, and of course
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you know that the millennials have beengrown up entitled. Entitlement means zero responsibility.
Transgender it calls zero responsibility. Butin my humble opinion, what social
media is is is advocating. Whatit's putting out there for me is still
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for a minority of people. Mostpeople that I will speak to and have
spoken to. Let's call it ingeneral Joe Public. Different generations, especially
the older generation, will lead whatyou will call a reasonably balanced life.
But that's the minority. Seriously,the unfortunately it's going the bigger picture way
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in the younger general. You cansee what's happening. So there are very
few people that will talk like youand I that have the insight and the
understanding and the common sense and theability to take responsibility based on the common
sense and understanding. Because everyone cantake responsibility, but it's easy not to.
Don't have the sense, and it'smuch easier because responsibility means thinking,
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and people don't like thinking, itisn't easier just to click two three buttons
and get it delivered. You don'thave to correct, meaning we're talking about
debt. Yeah, correct, Sowe're taking responsibility. Also works on a
financial level. And what I findamazing is the people that are let's say
the poorest, the ones that arein the most debt, are the ones
taking the least responsibility for the situation. Because takeaway meals the the eBay click
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the Amazon click there, I'm goingto order another one of these because I
want one. But that's where thepowers that be want us. Oh,
the why is not in question.I'm talking about the Yeah, but that's
you can you can predict what humanis going to be easily, very predictable.
And of course, the concept ofpsychops, by the way, is
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defined as a military weapon. Sothe UK government is using a military weapon
against its own population. Think aboutthat for a second. Do you want
to elaborate a bit more on that? So what psychops is how we were
manipulated the kind of things that wecould be told such as killing your granny
for instance. That's psych cops andthat is classified officially as a military weapon.
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Wow. Going back to LGBT andand a virtue signaling. It also
means that as a as a male, it is your fault that your male
don't be a man, and womenyou can don't be responsible for being a
woman. You can virtue signal insteadby sleeping lots of men and going to
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work and having a career, andof course women do a few of the
better thinkers will go, well,well what do do? In fact,
there's the film Barbie with what's what'sthat actress's name? Anyway? The I
won't see it's it's a very well, it's been a very popular film and
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very successful. Now Margaret Obbie nowthat the main message of that film is
lost on most people. But essentially, in this ideal world of Ken and
Barbie, everything's perfect. Ken doesn'tquite get Barbie because she's busy being perfect
and doing what she wants and partyingwith her friends, but they don't have
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any genitalia, and she eventually decidesthat she wants to become human. And
the final part of the film isonce she decided to come human, is
she's off to see her garynecologist.In other words, she's decided that she
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once become human, to have children, Okay, well that's the point of
life, right. So the ladywho had the opportunity for zero responsibility,
endless partying, and a man dotingon her who she didn't really care much
about, has decided that the pointof life is to have kids. So
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how do we how do we concludethis? The The other answer is this
if you look at one of theancient Greek philosophers, Socrates, who his
student Plato, produced a symposm oflove and what it was. It was
a group of people who, becausethey were quite jaded from the partying the
night before, they decided to drinkless and instead have an intellectual conversation on
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what love is. And each personproduced a really interesting talk. One of
them, for instance, said youlove that which you don't have. Another
was opposite attract Another person talked aboutthe ancient legend that humans used to exist
fused down the back, So weused to have two heads, four arms,
four legs, and we used totravel with cartwheels around the world very
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fast, very powerful. But atone point we overstepped our boundaries, and
Zeus got pissed off with us andpunished us by cleaving us down the back
with his finger. And a thunderbolt. So now that's why we have one
head and two arms and two legs. And it was only his wife,
Era, who's being an affable,agreeable lady. He says, who zuzus
not a game, because he wasjust about to cleave us the second time.
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Otherwise you will be hopping on onearm and one leg. And therefore
that's the legend of how we goaround the world seeking a rather half,
and it also interestingly allows for samesex other hearts. Anyway, Socrates comes
in and he says, well,interesting enough, I went to the oracle
Adelphia, and the high priestess Theometertold me what love is, and they
said, wow, what is it? Socrates? And he said, love
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is the pursuit of immortality, andthe way you achieve that is you either
seek to mark the pages of history, cure a cancer, saving a country
from a warring nation, like Churchill. But most of us settle for reproduction.
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And of course the big joke wasthat it was the only theoris Socrates
that wasn't his own, and hereto be told by a woman what love
was. We are here to reproduce, And in fact what's happening now is
the opposite. People are not takingresponsibility for their own sex. Right now,
the birth rate in the UK istwenty percent less than the death rate
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in Norway. Adult diapers are outselling kiddie diapers. Right If you are
a woman who goes to university,you have a fifty percent chance of hitting
your forties child less. So whatare we saying that taking responsibility means for
who you are and taking steps toimprove yourself for who you are on a
daily basis. Well, on thatnote, never and not not comparing yourself
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to others. I eat social media. Just look at yourself and every day
improve yourself by a little step basedon who you are, and take a
step back and cut out the noise. Cut out the noise. On that
note, thank you very much,Thank you people. I look forward to
speaking to you. Said like what, take care, Bye bye,
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