Rick Spence
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498 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
Rick Spence’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You probably know who your father is, but that's not absolute unless you've had a DNA test, and only if you trust DNA tests. So you know who your mother is. You believe this man is your father. Why? Because your mother told you he was. So you believe things generally because someone has told you this is to be true, but you don't really know for sure.
Well, because we know so little, we tend to go by beliefs. So we believe in this, we believe in that. You know, you believe that your cult leader is the answer to everything. And it seems to be very, very easy to get people to believe things. And then what happens is that Whether or not those beliefs have any real basis in reality, they begin to influence your actions.
So here again, regrettably in some ways to bring it back to the Nazis, what were the Nazis convinced of? They were convinced that Jews were basically evil aliens. That's what it comes down to. They weren't really humans. There's some sort of evil contamination which we must eradicate. And they set out to do that.
For some reason, not long ago, I was listening on YouTube to old wobbly songs. The Workers of the World. I don't know why. I didn't know there was a whole album of wobbly songs. And there was one of them called Commonwealth of Toil. And like most of them, they're sort of taken from gospel songs.
And it's talking about in the future, you know, how wonderful everything will be in the commonwealth of toil that will be. And now these are, you know, revolutionary leftists in this case, Wobblies, but nonetheless, it's like a prayer for communism, everything. Now in the future, everything will be good because the earth will be shared by the toilers.
And, you know, from each of his abilities to each according to his need. And it's this kind of sweet little song in some way. But I'm just sort of imagining this. You know, if I was going to stage that, I'd have like this choir of children singing it with a huge hammer and sickle behind them. Because that's what it's combining.
And you can think that the sentiments that are expressed in that song, which, you know, are legitimate in some way,
of all the horrors that that then leads to.
Most people are cooperative and kind most of the time. And that's one of those things that can usually be depended upon.
And usually you'll get back to what you put into it. Another thing that I have like a weird fascination of watching are people who have meltdowns on airplanes.
Because it's just bizarre.
It's fascinating to watch, yeah. The people who will, you know, there's some sort of psychotic break that occurs, and it's always going to end the same way. The cops are going to come on and drag you off the plane. Now, true, and you're going to inconvenience everybody there, and usually at some point they don't care about that. That's the one little sense of power that they have.
So they have some sort of sense of powerlessness. And if their only way of power is just to piss off everybody else on that plane, they're going to go ahead and do it, even though it's going to lead nowhere for them.
Oh, the road rage thing.
And I bet the most... There again, those are all people who up to some point were cooperative and kind and polite. And then they snap. So those are all part of the human makeup as well.
Well, let us hope so.
I've never had anybody ask me as many interesting questions as you have.
Or as many questions.
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