Nathan
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Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. And because you, I mean, as you're using your words, you're a beta soy boy. Yeah. Like yours ends in the mind. But I think you're right. To call out when that lack of control drives you to regain real practical in-world control and do stupid things.
Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. And because you, I mean, as you're using your words, you're a beta soy boy. Yeah. Like yours ends in the mind. But I think you're right. To call out when that lack of control drives you to regain real practical in-world control and do stupid things.
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She had that one locked and loaded. Hey, I can't see you.
She had that one locked and loaded. Hey, I can't see you.
If you were the Hulk, you would have crushed her engine and that would have been equally satisfying.
If you were the Hulk, you would have crushed her engine and that would have been equally satisfying.
Yeah, you won't like me when I'm walking my dog. This is the interesting thing. We talked about Confucianism last week, I think. We were talking about humility, I think. And we were talking about Confucianism and Eastern cultural thoughts on wrath. And so much of that is around...
Yeah, you won't like me when I'm walking my dog. This is the interesting thing. We talked about Confucianism last week, I think. We were talking about humility, I think. And we were talking about Confucianism and Eastern cultural thoughts on wrath. And so much of that is around...
control and harmony and wrath leads to disharmony right and so that's one of the reasons i think going back to what we talked about early on about japan um being having one of the lowest uh violent crime uh statistics and yet a lot of violent media their movies are crazy That's kind of it, right?
control and harmony and wrath leads to disharmony right and so that's one of the reasons i think going back to what we talked about early on about japan um being having one of the lowest uh violent crime uh statistics and yet a lot of violent media their movies are crazy That's kind of it, right?
Is that they don't have necessarily the Western vein of wrath that sits so close to the surface of our forehead skin, right? It's maybe very deeper, right? Like that it's put away because of thousands of years of history, of cultural history, right?
Is that they don't have necessarily the Western vein of wrath that sits so close to the surface of our forehead skin, right? It's maybe very deeper, right? Like that it's put away because of thousands of years of history, of cultural history, right?
where they adapt to this emphasis on shame over guilt and how wrath is perceived and honor and face and all of those sort of concepts that we don't have. We are okay. You know, you're saying Americans, for instance. Exactly. Right. I would say the West. Right. We're OK being idiots.
where they adapt to this emphasis on shame over guilt and how wrath is perceived and honor and face and all of those sort of concepts that we don't have. We are okay. You know, you're saying Americans, for instance. Exactly. Right. I would say the West. Right. We're OK being idiots.
Yeah. And look like the example of. Okay, I'll just say the Karen meme, right? Karen's, right? The example, like, go look for the footage of that woman who was clearly in extraordinary state of trauma that she was blind to reality, yelling at the birdwatcher who just asked her to leash her dog. Right. That was a...
Yeah. And look like the example of. Okay, I'll just say the Karen meme, right? Karen's, right? The example, like, go look for the footage of that woman who was clearly in extraordinary state of trauma that she was blind to reality, yelling at the birdwatcher who just asked her to leash her dog. Right. That was a...