WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.020 This is your lucky day because you get to choose one of the following. 00:04.760 --> 00:07.440 Option one, give me a thousand dollars. 00:08.000 --> 00:11.300 Option two, give me just fifty dollars. 00:11.840 --> 00:14.480 Option three, get pushed off a cliff. 00:15.440 --> 00:20.120 So will you now be a proud option two supporter? 00:20.940 --> 00:26.700 To say the obvious, if someone makes you choose between a few bad possibilities, 00:26.700 --> 00:29.480 that's not you being in charge. 00:30.020 --> 00:32.780 And it's not really you choosing anything. 00:33.700 --> 00:36.840 If none of the above isn't an available option, 00:36.840 --> 00:42.160 then you're being forced into something bad, obviously. 00:43.280 --> 00:47.700 So think about which political candidate or party you support. 00:48.000 --> 00:50.640 Never mind who you're against for now. 00:51.100 --> 00:52.460 Who did you vote for? 00:52.460 --> 00:57.220 Or did you have a bumper sticker or a campaign yard sign 00:57.220 --> 01:01.300 proudly supporting this or that party or candidate? 01:01.860 --> 01:05.840 Now you can insist that the one you support is better than that other one 01:05.840 --> 01:10.360 and that may very well be true, but that's not the question here. 01:10.760 --> 01:14.600 If you proudly supported Obama or Biden 01:14.600 --> 01:17.240 or if you proudly support Trump 01:17.810 --> 01:21.820 or this or that candidate for governor or any other seat, 01:21.820 --> 01:24.220 I have a very simple question for you. 01:24.480 --> 01:28.000 If you could choose between number one, 01:28.700 --> 01:34.960 giving that candidate the power to take your money and control your life 01:34.960 --> 01:40.740 or two, not giving him that power over you, 01:41.480 --> 01:42.660 which would you choose? 01:43.500 --> 01:46.060 If you're a Trump supporter, for example, 01:46.100 --> 01:51.040 and your choices were either you get to spend your own money 01:51.040 --> 01:52.760 and run your own life, 01:53.120 --> 01:57.600 or you let Donald Trump take a bunch of your money 01:57.600 --> 01:59.560 and control a bunch of your life, 02:00.040 --> 02:01.300 which would you choose? 02:01.860 --> 02:04.500 If those were the options, it would be pitiful 02:04.500 --> 02:09.780 and absolutely bonkers for you to choose to give him 02:09.780 --> 02:14.820 or anyone else permission to dominate and extort you. 02:14.820 --> 02:20.460 Be free or be that guy's obedient little subject. 02:21.200 --> 02:25.120 I don't care how much you like someone or think he has good ideas. 02:25.460 --> 02:31.280 If, given the choice, you would opt for being someone else's slave, 02:31.980 --> 02:34.280 that's profoundly pathetic. 02:35.060 --> 02:36.640 And if that were the situation, 02:36.800 --> 02:39.740 would you have a bumper sticker or a yard sign 02:39.740 --> 02:43.400 proudly announcing to the world that you chose 02:43.400 --> 02:49.620 to be a pathetic, subservient subject to this or that person? 02:50.620 --> 02:52.360 Ew, I would hope not. 02:52.760 --> 02:54.460 But the next question is, 02:54.980 --> 02:59.380 why do you think it's any less pathetic and ridiculous 02:59.380 --> 03:02.760 when you do the exact same thing 03:02.760 --> 03:06.560 when the ruling class tells you to choose 03:06.560 --> 03:09.660 between two possible masters? 03:10.660 --> 03:13.160 I'm proud to be obedient livestock, 03:13.460 --> 03:17.480 meekly serving this guy instead of that other guy. 03:18.640 --> 03:20.280 How is that any better? 03:21.280 --> 03:27.080 You're still expressing pride at letting someone else rule you. 03:28.260 --> 03:31.840 Which one you would choose doesn't change the fact 03:31.840 --> 03:34.660 that you're cheering for your own enslavement. 03:36.020 --> 03:40.620 You're celebrating being dominated and controlled 03:41.680 --> 03:46.200 and so proud of it that you just love telling the whole world, 03:46.640 --> 03:50.100 this is who I want to bow to and obey. 03:51.420 --> 03:52.060 Quote, 03:53.060 --> 03:57.000 slaves are like other people and by prejudice is quite common to others. 03:57.300 --> 03:59.280 They think their own better than that of others. 03:59.840 --> 04:02.220 Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves 04:02.220 --> 04:04.700 even to fall out and quarrel among themselves 04:05.070 --> 04:07.560 about the relative goodness of their masters, 04:07.920 --> 04:11.480 each contending for the superior goodness of his own 04:11.480 --> 04:13.080 over that of the others. 04:13.960 --> 04:14.620 End quote. 04:15.560 --> 04:17.020 That's from Frederick Douglass, 04:17.860 --> 04:21.080 a man who was raised to be a slave himself. 04:22.200 --> 04:23.740 So I hate to break it to you, 04:23.800 --> 04:26.940 but if you feel proud and empowered 04:27.970 --> 04:31.560 supporting your side of the political circus, 04:31.560 --> 04:33.640 whichever side that may be, 04:34.120 --> 04:38.780 then your mind has already been fully trapped, 04:39.420 --> 04:41.540 conquered and bound. 04:42.740 --> 04:47.060 Now, if you would like to not be anyone's dupe or mental slave, 04:47.460 --> 04:49.240 you can pre-order my new book 04:49.240 --> 04:53.740 or better yet be at our approaching humanity event 04:54.420 --> 04:57.420 on July 18th up in Sedona, Arizona. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.620 See description below for details.