Chapter 1: What fears about the future are discussed in this episode?
Everything is pointing towards a world that will be difficult and one that you won't want to raise your kids in. Every kind of precursor from history is showing up tenfold. And in an odd way, we are all blind to it. Myself included. We're afraid to speak out on things because all of a sudden our personal beliefs affect our jobs and our educational security.
It's a weird time to be alive where you feel like somebody is watching you all the time. And it's almost better to stay silent in your mind than speak out against people being treated inhumanely, which is what we are experiencing at a huge level. Here in the United States, we're having a lot of issues with our administration.
I don't know if you're watching from abroad or if you are watching from the U.S. Wherever you land politically, people are not happy because There's a lot of fear. I think it's the first time that we have ever really feared a governmental structure. It's not even a fear of, like, what will they do to us? Are they going to fly the chopper and let it rain on Orlando, Florida?
Chapter 2: How does the speaker address the issue of empathy in society?
It's more of a fear of, where is all this going? I used to have faith in some kind of system. I used to pledge allegiance to the flag every single day in a classroom that looked very different from me. People from backgrounds, their parents from Mexico, people from backgrounds, their parents from Haiti, people, you know, their backgrounds from Poland, right?
All these kids in one room, I guess, subscribing to an ideal of what it meant to be an American citizen. But let's just go past America. What does it mean to be a human being on this planet? Because it seems like a lot of it is engulfed in shame.
Chapter 3: What historical precedents are mentioned regarding current societal fears?
You feel shameful when you have desires for more because of how many people have so little. You feel shameful to want to strive for, I don't know... More education and sometimes you even complain about it, right? Oh my goodness.
I I can't believe that I have this college thing To get done and there are people that don't even know how to read or write still one thing I have noticed which is kind of concerning me more than every anything else is that um People Do not have empathy in the way I think they once did And I think it's because we have strategically been pushed to not educate ourselves on other perspectives.
It started with the elimination of reading, which is something that has been happening for a while now, and I've talked about this on my show, but reading is the ultimate form of resistance. If you are unhappy with how the world is going at large, which I think should be each and every single one of us, read. Read a lot of books. Read books that interest you. You don't need to read Machiavelli.
You don't need to read Shakespeare right away. Read things that interest you and read things that have some kind of storyline so you can empathize. So you can get invested in a character and empathize. This is lacking. People are not engaged in other people's lives. You see it with your friends. When you talk to somebody, do they really care about what's going on in your life?
Or are they just waiting for their turn to speak? I think that this is happening now. Because the more that we disengage with each other, the easier it is to just make it seem like all of this is normal. And you got to go to work tomorrow. And there's less time and less bandwidth in your mind to question the reality that you're in.
Now, I recognize that it is a privilege to have the time to read. It is a privilege to have the time to worry. I made an episode about that not too long ago, right? About worrying keeps you in this pit. Man, it's a privilege to be here, to exist here. And if you have it available to you, why would you not do it?
What concerns me is that we're not learning from history and instead we're learning from what is being fed to us right now on a day to day basis that's out of our control that we don't even put in the brainpower to look up ourselves. We are kind of being. We're being used for our empathy in ways that go towards your favorite streamer of like, wow, we hit a million subs.
We're being forced to use empathy on very shallow wells where I think empathy is needed the most in people that you disagree with people that are the way they are because they haven't seen empathy from others. And most importantly, our own selves. I had somebody comment recently, my girlfriend, about the fact that I will limit my self-care. And I will not empathize with my own self.
I will treat myself like I am some kind of robot that needs to do work. And instead I will use my empathy and put it on another person. Right. And be like, that is more important. And I think that the minute that we are not able to tend to our own selves and we just flood other people with unwanted empathy, that can also be bad. It can actually be very terrible.
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Chapter 4: How can reading help combat societal issues?
The willingness to go out and build that evidence. If you don't, it's going to be hard for you to find anything. And to go off of anything. But I think so many people try to instead build themselves into an aesthetic, into a skin of sorts, like in, you know, fortnight or something and go up and do the rising and that can work. It can open the door. Sure.
But if there's no personality for somebody to latch onto, it's gonna, it's gonna fall. It won't last. And maybe this is kind of the thing that we're experiencing now. It all comes full circle. People do not want to make anything last anymore. We treat ourselves in such a cheap, quick way, right? Quick dopamine, quick fixes, bad habits, we enable it.
And this cascades and falls onto the rest of how society operates. I think that there is now a focus on making as much money
money as possible as many things as possible we forget about the quality and craftsmanship and it worries me because where is the humanity in that like I want to be able to wear a t-shirt more than two times without it ripping I want to be able to have some jeans that can sit on my bunda for like three years not three months
And in a similar sense, I want to have friends that I can call on for the rest of my life, not just because we were at the same networking event. None of this is making sense. And I think it is because we have convinced ourselves that's just what it is, bro. But it's not. It's not. And it doesn't have to be. We're choosing it because it's an easy option. We have it readily available, right?
But I don't think we understand truly the weight of what we can do as a generation, as an individual person. Have you even pushed yourself to a limit where you have accepted another perspective? Someone told you you can work harder. Somebody told you you can make more friends. Somebody told you that you can be prettier. Uh-oh.
And instead of having your ego yap at you and say, wow, if they were really my friend, they wouldn't have said that. And you take the feedback. And you say, oh, okay, maybe if I did kind of take care of my skin a little bit better, I could look prettier. And that would actually help my confidence. It wouldn't even be for some other guy or some other girl. Just for me. I want to look prettier.
I want to look better. Right? Instead... What happens is we just look for quick solutions. We look for things that feed our ego and it's led us to this point where it's just like, bro, you turn on any kind of media at any time and you're just bombarded with how selfish and terrible this world is and how we are being, ah, we're being robbed of a future. Stresses me out, man.
I want to live somewhere that's beautiful. We already have the wonderful thing of that on planet Earth, right? I mean, have you been to Birmingham, UK? It's one of the most beautiful places in the world. Oh, man. Yeah, UK, you guys need to find some kind of solution to all that rain, bro. I'm not even going to hold you. You got like, do some, I don't know what you could do even.
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