Everyone's dumb and believes dumb stuff. I know it's true. Everyone else is dumb
To some extent
That is an understandable mentality for
Voluntaryist to have because yes everybody else has been taught to believe things that are not only irrational but immoral and heinously destructive and
So it is understandable and natural that lots of people who
For whatever reason now see through the the status BS are gonna get grouchy and complaining and frustrated and
And we'll start to view the rest of the world as kind of the enemy
Understand neo the people still tied into the matrix
Have a vested interest now misquoting them
But have a vested interest in hanging on to the belief system that is still comfortable for them
But the downside is that a lot of people who learn a very very very very very very very important truth
Can often just become frustrated and annoyed and discouraged
When talking to the people who don't understand it the people who are still
Laboring under the misapprehension that authority is an actual thing that it's necessary or legitimate or any of that
When it's not so a bunch of people naturally because we're still people and psychology still applies
Fall into the rut of being about
Complaining and condemning evil which I mean yeah, that should be complained about and condemned
But they stop being about undoing the lies they stop viewing their fellow man as
victims of
status BS and just see them as
perpetrators of it and spreaders of the lie and
I totally understand it I can completely relate to forgetting that yeah that the frothing at the mouth status
left-wing right-wing doesn't matter
That you're talking to who's literally advocating that the subjugation of mankind including the
Exploitation and domination of you and everybody else
Yeah, it's really easy to fall into the trap of thinking that's a bad person with crappy ideas
It's an immoral person and forgetting that they didn't choose that belief system
and so yeah the
Trying to keep in mind that none of the people you talked to
Chose
Statism nobody did zero people in the world
Carefully reason things out considered the evidence and logic and came to the conclusion
We need a ruling class that somehow has superhuman rights and gets to violently dominate everybody else
They were lied to too so would you like if somebody fell for a foam scam or something or?
You know walked down the wrong alley and got robbed you might say well that was dumb shouldn't have done that shouldn't own better
But are you gonna bash them as if they're the
You know as if they're the problem as you your own downfall you're the one I'm gonna criticize
I'm not gonna criticize the ones who tricked you the ones who robbed you
No, I'm gonna spend all my time focused on how annoying you are for having allowed yourself to be tricked and
Exploited and victimized
And this of course is way way worse than that because this isn't just somebody accidentally doing something that allows themselves
To get robbed of some money
They got tricked into giving away their soul they got tricked into
Throwing away ownership of themselves and then feeling beholden to someone else to an imaginary authority
They did that to themselves, and they also believe in doing that to everybody else
and
So the book approaching humanity and the event approaching humanity July 18th
Goes through both sides of it how people allow themselves to be victimized and exploited and basically
Bound mentally and psychologically and then how they push that on the others too, but they didn't choose any of that
Nobody nobody's gonna choose that for themselves
From a position of understanding what's going on
It's only if they're tricked and scared into it and subjected to divide and conquer garbage
The thing is if you're somebody who now
Sees through that first of all almost everybody I know myself included used to believe in that BS
So hopefully you can remember that enough to kind of sympathize with the people who still believe in it
Like that's that's just a matter of where we are on the timeline. That was you that was me
I mean, there's a few people I know who can say they never really believed in authority
I'm not one of them. Most of the people I know can't say that
But most people believe the lie because they're little kids and they're growing up surrounded by you know
Prussian indoctrination system telling them obedience is a virtue and you're good if you do as the authority figure says whether it's
Parents teacher whatever or the polish off our you're a good person if you do as you're told you are bad if you don't do as you're told
We're surrounded by that when we're little kids. We're not philosophizing about anything
So almost everybody falls for it because they just accept. Oh, well, I guess this is the world. This is the nature of things. Oh
well and
Then escaping that lie later is often for many people myself included an uncomfortable process
But the point here is if someone gets if someone who does see through the lies and understands that yeah
I own myself and all these people who don't don't even understand that about themselves like they don't even know they own themselves. They're not just
advocating
Extortion and domination of me by a ruling class. They're advocating that on themselves
They're advocating that being imposed on themselves because they have been trained to not recognize their own
autonomy their own right to self-determination, you know, however you want to describe that and
The thing is when somebody turns into a grouchy rebel
Where they've just given up and again I can sympathize
I'm not saying you're a bad person if you feel that way. It's like you're just you're a person
Feel that way because it's automatically frustrating
But if you get into the mode of its future resistance is futile
Nobody else is gonna wake up. All these people are just way too dumb
You're actually helping make that be true
Because when you talk to other people, you're not gonna talk to them as here's a person
I care about and I want them to be free and they were taught some bullshit
You'll talk to them as if here's this person of this dumb belief and you're gonna identify them with their beliefs
Just like they identify themselves with their beliefs and so you're gonna go down bad and wrong a
Person is dumb bad and wrong
Well underneath it. They're not trying to be they're trying to do the right thing
They think they believe in truth and freedom and justice and all that
They don't really because their mind has been warped by propaganda and indoctrination and stuff
Just like mine was just like most of yours your minds were
But the moment your brain kind of locks into well
Nobody else is gonna wake up and is doomed you actually strengthen the authoritarianism because the way you come across the normal people is
Grouchy rebel like always complaining about something. I don't know
He just all he does is grumble about stuff and point out horrible things in the world
Look, there's good things about life. Why is he just constantly complaining?
And that's how it comes across again totally understandable. There's lots of profound evil crap going on in
the world that is worth
Condemning and can very easily make a decent human being frustrated and like this horrible stuff comes out
About what those in power are doing and nothing happens
People just go. Oh, that's dreadful. Oh, oh, what's for dinner like right?
So yes, I completely relate to being super frustrated and I can completely relate to wanting to give up on humanity
However, if you do that you are automatically not only accomplishing nothing worthwhile you're accomplishing the opposite
if you spread the thing of resistance is futile whether you're
Whether you're talking that way to status and the normies or you're talking that way to other
Voluntaryists, you're just dragging back
any
Any possibility of more and more people figuring this out
And I think you can see that in the way a lot of people are
And some of just like double down and embrace it like there are people who still
Who comment under my videos on Facebook or whatever and they're just like, I know more than you dummy head
And I usually people get give people one chance like if you come there and do the passive aggressive
Like condescending talk down to me without saying anything like you didn't even say what we disagree with
Disagree about like well, is there some issue you want to disagree?
About in particular or did you just come here to say how superior you are to me and everybody else and anybody who listens to me
And all that stuff because there's you know, there's plenty of those people in the movement
There's plenty of those people in the world. So she's going to be some in the movement
I usually give people one chance and if you don't actually bring up something of substance to talk about unblocking you and
Flinging you off my page because you're just whiny noise adding absolutely nothing of value to the discussion
Even bootlicking status can add something worthwhile to the discussion if there's something to have a back-and-forth about
But that that process and it took me forever
I was very angry and frustrated and desperate for many many years
Like I've been at volunteers now for over 30 years a lot of that was very frustrating
I mean it's still frustrating to look out at the heinous evil going on in the world
But it's weird that I'm now more at peace and more positive and
Ironically more effective
Even though, you know, I'm still surrounded by statists
But more effective and people are capable of hearing the message more often
When I don't just write off everybody as how you're indoctrinating it and
Even though, you know, I'll still say that when I'm in not so polite debate mode
But when I'm actually talking to somebody that like I'm listening them and caring about them and they didn't like show up
Somewhere to pick a fight like the likelihood of that person thinking much isn't
very high
but a normal person
Right now and I speak from experience right now the average random person you meet is way way way more open
To having a discussion about the underlying assumptions behind government than they ever were before like by an enormous
Margin like when I started I you know when I first gave up statism and was talking about this stuff
I knew like nobody and I would say it and I would smash my head against a brick wall and frustrated and felt doomed and stuff
I feel way less doomed now. You know government still doing heinous atrocities and
Government hasn't gotten worse, but more of the heinousness has bubbled to the surface where normal people can see it and go
Oh, these people are dreadful and horrible. Yep. They are they always were
But if normal people can see it normal people might have a chance to back up and go is this
There's something like fundamentally wrong. I mean, yeah, we do the voting thing
But if this is the end result of us voting for years and years and years and years, is there something maybe
The premise is wrong here because we still have this we've been voting forever and we still have this
This is what we voted for this is what the population got
From democracy
Something messed up
So getting people to look in that direction and having a different approach and different mentality and viewing them differently
Then just being a grouchy rebel going. Yeah, you're out dis indoctrinated and helpless slaves
sheeple
Again totally understandable and pretty damn accurate a lot of the time
I'm not saying no, they're all enlightened thinking independent individuals. No, they're not but they were trained to not be and
if you approach them and you come across to them as somebody telling them how dumb and bad and wrong they are like
They don't care what you have to say you can be totally right
You are totally right a lot of things and they're not going to care because they know you're not listening to them
You don't care about them. You don't wonder what they think
So inside their own head. They're thinking well, I believe in truth and justice or somebody's screaming at me
Like that's a bad person obviously because I'm the good guy. That's what I would have thought when I was a status
so the
The book approaching humanity and the event approaching humanity are very much designed of kind of
There's a double meaning which is kind of accidental
Trying to approach humanity with these ideas if you try to do that as a grouchy rebel
Everybody's gone to me
Even if that's true
That doesn't work people aren't gonna listen to that and they have a big psychological reason to not listen to that
Because what like what do you think what?
Positive feelings and thoughts are gonna go through their head
Oh, somebody's randomly complaining and being grouchy and angry about all sorts of things
Even if he's right to be angry about them
Like why would I engage with a person like that like if from the vantage point of a status to thinks his beliefs are already
Consistent and moral and all that and he hears. Oh grouchy malcontent like okay. No, thanks none for me
Thanks, I'd rather like go watch some stupid sitcom because at least it's fun and entertaining and that's one of the reasons we're actually making
The approaching humanity event entertaining and different and funny in places
It's a little bit frustrating because I'm getting more and more excited about a bunch of cool things in it
But I'm like I I don't want to tell anybody about that because I want that to be a surprise when it happens
So I don't want to like leak the whole thing I could talk to before about a movie where here's a trailer
Which tells you the entire story and gives you all the highlights. It's like well, why would I go watch it now?
I don't want to do that with approaching humanity
But so we're gonna be it's gonna be in Sedona Arizona July 18th, and we're starting to advertise around Sedona
We have the contract. We're about to be able to say where it's actually at like the venue
Because we're not supposed to say where it's at until we have the venue although by the time you see this
Maybe we'll be allowed to
Maybe it will say on the screen right here where it's happening if by the time I post this
They got the deposit and so we're allowed to say where it's happening
But it's a pretty dang cool place to put on a real
Presentation not just like a few grouchy rebels in the back room somewhere whining about how unjust things are
Which again, I can relate to yeah, that's understandable. Is it useful? No
Will this be useful? Yes, absolutely, and it will be it's gonna be professionally recorded and will exist after the fact
It may we may sell it is a standalone thing cuz it's gonna be like a six-hour
When you remove the lunch time, it's gonna be 10 to 5 the event. So that's seven hours
Maybe subtract an hour for lunch or whatever, but there's gonna be lots of goodies packed in there
Incidentally so if you want to go you can get tickets description below says how to go how to how to go
I'm a word Smith
but
the also the book is about to be available for
Pre-orders because that's gonna be coming out
I will have the book at the event for the first time and every attendee gets copy as as part of the ticket
the entry fee
But this will very much be designed to talk to the rest of the world in a way that it will get their interest
it will be also entertaining and fun and
Notice how rarely
Anarchists try to do that like we spend lots of time
Trying to make people think trying to make people understand things which is really dang important like I do that too. I'm not bashing that
But like the power that Hollywood has had to push people in the insane anti-human direction of collectivism
Is because they tried to make it entertaining and fun while pushing an absolutely heinous
Anti-human philosophy. Well, there's no reason we can't make actual truth and actual justice and actual morality
insanity
Actually entertaining and fun and fascinating and engaging and so we're doing that
Now we're doing that on the budget of nothing
So even if you can't make it if you want to help out by donating like it's literally
All that we have this awesome list of speakers. I haven't promised to pay any of them anything
I don't know if we'll have any money. They just agreed to do it because they see the value in it
And so I hope we make a bunch money man. I'm able to pay them. I don't know. I'm not even paying me
Like we have zero budget to put this together
But this is important enough and I think it'll be positive enough that we're putting it together
So if you want to support it and make it actually happen then okay now it exists
It's a thing that happened now it exists even if you can't be in there in person, but I think the
The amount of effort that's put into like philosophizing explaining concepts is very important and very good for the people
Who want to think about things the people who want to read a book?
Like this the people who want to read a book
I'm really dang proud of the most dangerous superstition
And I'm really proud of how the book approaching humanity is coming up
But for the people who don't want to think about it you need to give them a reason to care and a reason to pay attention and
making it engaging and fun and
entertaining while also informative and and
You know mind-altering is really important
So we're gonna do that and if you want to help us do that first of all if you can be there or if you can bring along
Somebody you know who doesn't yet understand these issues or hasn't thought about these concepts or whatever
this will be again entertaining and fun for
Volunteerious and status and every flavor of person there is
Because that's that's what we're designing it to be so it will be a grand time and I
I'm quite confident that lots of people if they go to the average
Freedom event will go. Oh, I don't know as people talking about a bunch of things
I mean some of it was a little bit interesting
But mostly they're just complaining and upset and I kind of feel powerless and
Hopeless and I just want to ignore it all and get back to my life
That is what most normal people will feel if they go to that
I'm very confident that if normal people go to this they'll go that was really fascinating and gave me a lot to think about and
That to me is the entire goal if you can give someone stuff to think about that they actually think about
That is the best you can do you don't get to think for them
You don't get to decide their beliefs for them. We talk about this in candles in the dark
The best you can do is get them to a point where they you know, they don't feel threatened
They don't feel defensive. They're not in argument mode, but get them to a point where they think, huh?
Yeah, I've never thought about that. What do I think of that and
How do I reconcile that with my belief in this and huh?
That is the best you can do is get someone to cognitive dissonance and then not them process stuff
And maybe you'll help them process stuff because they'll want to talk to you
But if you approach it in a way that just comes across as grouchy rebel almost everybody's gonna be and none for me
Thanks. I have a thousand
More fun things to do than that. I'm not doing that
So yeah, if we were rational creatures, we wouldn't have to bother making it entertaining and engaging
We here's input the data and then all the robots will know it. Yeah, that's not how people work
so we're putting on this event to be
Entertaining and engaging and fun and funny
And a massive amount of work is going into it on a
Non-existent budget so if you want to help us out with that by all means please do because I'm
Kind of stressing myself out and working constantly
Books almost finished and but the the events and talks. I'm intentionally not just well
I'm just gonna say this part of the book and say I want
Everything at the event even though it all relates to that to also be different and separate and
so that if somebody's read the book and then came there which nobody's going to do because
The book's not gonna exist before the event
But if somebody did that it wouldn't just be oh, yeah, I already heard all this
It'll be this is this was engaging and entertaining anyway
Even after reading all that so anyway, we're putting in a ton of amount of work on it so far for nothing
Hopefully we'll make a ton of money off of it. We might make negative money off it
I don't think I know
But if you want to help make it happen
That would be you know any help is much appreciated because we're not doing this on the shoestring budget
We can't afford a shoestring. So I'm just working my butt off
Seeing what'll happen in the end so guess we'll see what will happen
But to me, you know, obviously I haven't been that good at fundraising and you know
Focusing on my own finances kind of suck at that
But I think I do a pretty damn good job at trying to find ways to communicate to the rest of the world things that will help
Free them not just grouch at them not just complain of them and tell them how dumb they are
But actually help them escape the BS that they were taught
And if you can do that in a fun entertaining funny, but informative
Thought-provoking way
Yee-ha
That's what we will be doing
So some of you I will see there in person July 18th, Sedona, Arizona
We shall be
approaching humanity