Justine Bateman
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Yes. Dunning-Kruger is, yeah. Ig Nobel Awards. It won an Ig Nobel Award one year.
That's true. In what I read about that, it gave a good example. It said that If somebody is not very smart, they'll walk into a room with 10 people and they'll assume that they're one of the smartest people in there. Someone who is very smart walks into the room and is not quite sure where they sit in, you know, because they know, like you're saying, they know how much they don't know.
Well, yeah. I mean, I think basically you just have a lot of, it really just, it's fear. You know, you have a lot of people who are just, they're terrified that they don't matter. They're terrified that, you know, of getting another call from mom and dad asking them when they're going to get married or have kids or get a career or get a job.
And I think becoming, becoming an activist of, I mean, me, I think like activists are, are, you know, Martin Luther King and people like that. I think everyone else is like, maybe you're just voicing your opinion about something really. Like I'm not one, you know, I mean, anytime somebody tries to put that on me, I'm like, no, that's not.
So, but if you, if you've called yourself an activist because you're posting certain things on social media or you have, you start to feel, you have a sense of identity and accomplishment and you're calling, quote, calling people out. And I mean, the first, if you're going to succeed at that, the first thing you have to do is get rid of the comedy. So I think it was very specific.
It was the revenge of the hall monitors. It was the... The party poopers, the people who don't get invited anywhere. And finally, they could exact their revenge, really. But bottom line is they don't feel any worth themselves. They don't feel like they matter themselves.
And hopefully now that this mob mentality momentum is over, which is necessary in order to do that job of the sort of armchair activist where you're calling people out. I hope that these people now can see can see their value without that drug. It's it's sort of like an addict, you know, so you are an alcoholic. You've just taken the alcohol away from all of these people.
And now they're going to have to adjust to a life without a good thing.
So I like that frame. I like that frame. It's often more... I would say comfortable, I don't know, if the alcoholic has hit their bottom rather than the alcohol just being removed. So a lot of these people are going to have a hard time adjusting now to how to be themselves, having to see what they are, having to find. But I agree with you.
I am excited for them that now they can discover who they really are.
There's a great book. I can't remember the title right now, Drew, but I'll email it to you or something. Yeah. Oh, I've talked about it before. It's about mobs, and it was written in the 1800s, and I pulled it out during 2020 because I'd read it before.
Well, but a different author. The Madness of Crowds is a different author. Anyway, it goes into like Tulip Mania, the 1600s, the witch burning and all of this. And I looked at it before, but then I picked it up again in 2020 because I looked at it before and thought what you said. oh, these are just, oh, that's what people used to be like. We've evolved though, right?
But it's the beginning of 2020 when everybody was flipping out. And I was like, oh shit, we're exactly the same. We are not different. And that momentum, I could feel that momentum start then. I was like, oh man, this won't end until enough individuals decide this is over. And that's what the election, you know, earlier, you know, what was a month ago, that that's what that did.
It showed enough individuals were like, no, I'm done with this.
Well, I think, you know, I just did a post on my Substack about how one can be attacked by the enemy, the other side, like whatever you want to call it. If you have buttons, you can be hit. You can be attacked in your mind or through other people. And, you know, I think a lot of these people that went along with this momentum were just terrified. So I... That's part of the movements.
I feel bad for them. But there's a way to get rid of those fears. And oftentimes they're irrational fears. So, you know, I give sort of a step by step if they want to go look at that sub stack post. It's just called spirit level. But, yeah, I feel bad for them for that. But there's a way out. You know, there's a way. And it's just anybody who's terrified can get swept up in something like that.
Uh, sure. Um, I go into a little bit in, in my book fame, you know, when I had, uh, uh, when somebody criticized me and I decided they were right and I was wrong. And then I had to examine like, why did I do that? What, what irrational fear did I have that served as an anchor point for that belief? You know what I mean? Because if I don't have that button, um, I'll give you an example.
Like if you're with a friend and they say, oh, we're going to meet my parents. And the mom says to your friend, like, oh, you're wearing that yellow jacket again. And then the parents go away. And then you guys, you and your friend go on to dinner. And then your friend says, can you believe my mother? And they're very upset. You believe what my mother said. You believe she brought up my jacket.
And you're like, oh, I don't know. She just said, oh, you're wearing the yellow jacket. So it didn't hit you. You don't have that button about your mom talking about your clothes. But because your friend does, she has an irrational fear that is the anchor point for that. And so the enemy can attack your friend through the mom.
And people see like the attacks are very similar as you go, as you carry on in life. You know, something your mom said to you is like very similar to what your first grade teacher said to you is very similar to what your boss said to you. And you're like, how can that be? How can they all know about that button? It's not possible. But the enemy knows about that button.
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