WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.460 Hey, Larkin Rose here, and in my opinion, 00:03.460 --> 00:10.200 you are not the rightful property of another person. In other words, you shouldn't be a 00:10.720 --> 00:16.920 slave. Now, I know what you're thinking. The moment you heard me say that, of course, your first thought was, 00:17.360 --> 00:21.040 ah, I may sound good in theory if you're gonna get all philosophical, 00:21.660 --> 00:26.080 but will it work? In practice, here in the real world, 00:26.780 --> 00:33.180 how will every single aspect of my life work if I'm not somebody else's property, if I'm not a slave? 00:33.980 --> 00:38.040 I'm sure that was your first reaction to me saying what I did. 00:40.000 --> 00:45.640 Or, or wasn't it? Was that not your first reaction? Was your first reaction? 00:46.160 --> 00:47.660 Yeah, of course, I shouldn't be a slave. 00:48.780 --> 00:50.200 Because, I mean, 00:50.740 --> 00:52.800 why would you just believe that 00:53.320 --> 00:59.580 unless I can describe for you how literally every single aspect of your life will work perfectly 01:00.180 --> 01:01.400 if you're not a slave? 01:02.040 --> 01:04.540 How will you get food? How will you have shelter? 01:05.080 --> 01:09.700 Who's gonna protect you? What guarantees are there that somebody might not beat you up and take your stuff? 01:09.840 --> 01:15.080 What guarantees are there that somebody might not capture you and enslave you if you weren't a slave? 01:16.540 --> 01:18.140 Obviously, it's it's 01:18.700 --> 01:24.160 irresponsible and childish for me to say that you shouldn't be a slave without also 01:25.030 --> 01:28.540 describing and guaranteeing in great detail 01:29.320 --> 01:33.520 how every single part of your life will work perfectly 01:34.760 --> 01:36.160 without you being a slave. 01:38.480 --> 01:41.940 Obviously, I'm being facetious. I was just on 01:41.940 --> 01:47.200 Larry Sharp Show. We had a grand time having a chat for almost two hours. 01:48.140 --> 01:49.500 Time flies when you're having fun. 01:50.740 --> 01:53.800 And a thing came up that so often comes up. 01:54.500 --> 01:57.840 Well, if we don't have a ruling class, how will everything work? How will we deal with this? 01:57.960 --> 01:59.640 What happens if this scenario comes up? 02:01.520 --> 02:05.680 And it still strikes me as weird. So I thought I'd do a video about it. 02:06.400 --> 02:12.280 Because on the one hand, it makes sense for people to say, well, if there's a different arrangement than what I'm used to, 02:12.760 --> 02:17.200 I'm curious about, well, how will this be handled and what will this look like and, you know, 02:17.200 --> 02:22.680 how will things happen? Just like if somebody actually was a chattel slave and was freed, 02:23.440 --> 02:26.420 he may very well wonder, all right, where am I going to live? 02:27.500 --> 02:30.700 How am I going to get food? Can I get a job? Is anybody going to hire me? 02:30.940 --> 02:35.640 Like there's a bunch of problems in front of me that weren't in front of me when I was a slave. 02:36.260 --> 02:40.420 There was a really big problem in front of me when I was a slave, which was I was a slave. 02:41.580 --> 02:45.040 But now that I'm responsible for my own life, yeah, there are a bunch of challenges. 02:46.740 --> 02:51.280 Okay, that's fine to talk about those things and theorize how things might work. 02:52.040 --> 02:58.520 But if your argument is basically, well, unless I'm totally comfortable with your predictions 02:58.520 --> 03:03.820 of how everything would work, I better, I better keep on being a slave. Because uncertainty, yeah, 03:03.880 --> 03:10.100 we wouldn't want that. I mean, much better to be a slave than have to face the uncertainty of a 03:10.100 --> 03:14.540 free life, right? But that's exactly how most 03:14.540 --> 03:20.560 statists respond to the idea of a Holocaust. Okay, you say nobody should rob me and violently 03:20.560 --> 03:25.040 dominate me and that I don't have a moral obligation to bow to the demands of political 03:25.040 --> 03:29.400 psychopaths. Fine, fine, fine, in the theory and in getting all philosophical and stuff. 03:29.920 --> 03:35.740 But how will every single aspect of all of society work perfectly if I'm not 03:36.600 --> 03:43.140 obligated to obey political psychopaths? And it's a really weird question. Again, 03:43.320 --> 03:50.600 it's reasonable to go, Oh, yeah, it's bonkers to think that I'm beholden to that. I might have a 03:50.600 --> 03:55.560 hard time picturing how all of society will work without a ruling class because so long 03:55.560 --> 04:00.980 I've lived under a ruling class. So how might this be handled? How might that be handled? 04:01.620 --> 04:04.520 Those are reasonable questions. But it's not at all reasonable 04:05.300 --> 04:12.260 is for someone to cling to the notion that they're obligated to bow to political psychopaths 04:12.920 --> 04:19.820 unless and until somebody can describe in great detail how the whole world will be just fine. 04:20.080 --> 04:26.420 Nothing bad will ever happen if we don't all have an obligation to bow to psychopaths. 04:26.980 --> 04:33.780 But that's how people respond. And it shows the power of it shows how much power uncertainty has, 04:34.020 --> 04:40.540 how much people are so scared of whatever is unfamiliar that they will choose a familiar 04:42.180 --> 04:47.020 hell over an unfamiliar like drastic improvement in their life 04:47.780 --> 04:51.000 because they're not sure what to expect. Oh, we're very familiar with the hell. 04:51.440 --> 04:54.300 And we know the hell. Well, we've been living it for a very long time. Yeah, 04:54.300 --> 04:59.620 this warmongering and mass extortion and oppression dystopian police state here and there. 05:00.360 --> 05:04.080 But, you know, at least we know it at least is a known quantity. 05:05.160 --> 05:11.540 We wouldn't want to face the terrors of not empowering psychopaths to have giant war machines 05:11.540 --> 05:17.900 and the power to violently dominate Rob all of us unless we have assurances that literally every 05:17.900 --> 05:23.340 aspect of life will work perfectly flawlessly. Nothing bad will ever happen to anyone. 05:25.060 --> 05:31.800 But it shows how much statism is not at all the result of logic or reasoning. 05:32.140 --> 05:38.100 It's an indoctrinated belief. It's not a conclusion. It's not an understanding of anything. 05:38.500 --> 05:42.840 It's a belief that was trained into people, indoctrinated into people. 05:43.940 --> 05:51.660 And when they respond to that, to the idea of you own yourself, nobody has the right to rob you. 05:52.520 --> 05:57.800 And if somebody tells you to do something and their commands don't match what your conscience says, 05:58.160 --> 06:03.800 you have no obligation to obey them. You might go along if they have more guns than you and go 06:03.800 --> 06:08.820 along just out of self-preservation. But there's no reason in the world for you to feel like, 06:09.160 --> 06:16.120 oh, the right thing to do is to bow to and obey that bunch of lying crooks in DC or wherever. 06:16.120 --> 06:22.140 That's utterly bonkers. And if I point out that that's utterly bonkers and prove whites, 06:22.300 --> 06:29.500 provably utterly bonkers, for people to respond by saying, okay, well, how will everything work, 06:29.580 --> 06:36.440 though? It's just really damn weird. It literally is a caged animal like who's living in his cage 06:36.440 --> 06:39.540 the whole time. Somebody opens the door and he like backs away from the door, 06:39.540 --> 06:47.580 close the door. I don't know what's out there. That's most of humanity. And that is the emotional level 06:48.460 --> 06:56.440 instinctive psychological reaction of people faced with a far superior situation that's unfamiliar. 06:57.240 --> 07:01.300 Okay, well, how do everything work? If I walk out of this cage, how will I get food? My master 07:01.300 --> 07:06.520 brings me food once a day and food and water. I'm not going out there. There might be all sorts 07:06.520 --> 07:14.480 of things out there. I'm scared of them. And so and it's tempting, and I do it too, to explain, well, 07:14.520 --> 07:18.340 here's here's how people would approach things. I mean, I had a pretty long discussion with 07:18.340 --> 07:23.020 Larry Sharpe about this. Here's the mentality of how people would approach things if there's a 07:23.020 --> 07:27.860 conflict, people being grownups and responsible for their own actions. Here's how they would might 07:27.860 --> 07:33.800 approach different things without believing they have some obligation to bow to a ruling class. 07:34.500 --> 07:41.520 But that entire discussion is basically just an excuse for indoctrinated statists 07:41.520 --> 07:51.140 to not have to consider being free, literally, accepting your own freedom. Now, here's a short 07:51.140 --> 07:57.420 version of why believing in an obligation to obey an authority is literally insane. 07:59.180 --> 08:06.880 Incidentally, my new book about to be taking pre-orders might be able to do that, but check 08:06.880 --> 08:12.440 the description below and see if pre-orders for my new book, Approaching Humanity, are available 08:12.440 --> 08:16.680 yet. It will be any moment now. And if you went, hey, I thought the event was called 08:16.680 --> 08:21.820 Approaching Humanity. It is. The book is coming out at the event, and the book and the event 08:21.820 --> 08:29.320 go together. They very much mesh with each other and cover similar topics. But the new 08:29.320 --> 08:36.580 book explains why it's literally insane to not understand that you own yourself. 08:37.560 --> 08:42.780 And there are several ways to do that. One is, there you are inside your head, and you have 08:42.780 --> 08:47.580 some perception of right and wrong, unless you're a sosia bath or whatever. Or at least, 08:47.660 --> 08:51.220 like you may not want to call it right and wrong if you're a moral nihilist or something, 08:51.820 --> 08:56.280 but you probably have some idea of like, here's how people should behave, and that's 08:56.280 --> 09:00.680 definitely how they should not behave. Okay, that's all you need. It doesn't matter how you 09:00.680 --> 09:06.640 define that. It doesn't matter the source of morality or any of that. Just if you think 09:06.640 --> 09:11.880 there's things people should do, things they shouldn't do with like randomly slaughtering 09:11.880 --> 09:17.220 people, hopefully in the category of what they shouldn't do for you, that's not in your 09:17.220 --> 09:21.680 category of what people shouldn't do. Remind me to keep my distance from you. 09:23.080 --> 09:26.800 But if you have any moral code whatsoever, okay, so there you are in your head. 09:27.680 --> 09:31.400 You have your senses. You have your interface with the world. You're hearing things. You're 09:31.400 --> 09:34.500 seeing things. You're judging things. You're thinking about things. Doesn't mean you're 09:34.500 --> 09:37.120 all knowing. Doesn't mean you're perfect. Doesn't mean you don't get things wrong. 09:37.600 --> 09:41.180 But your brain is all you have. There you are, the pilot inside your 09:41.180 --> 09:45.400 bane head walking around addressing the world. Then along comes somebody and says, 09:45.400 --> 09:51.760 hey, you should believe that you have a moral obligation to ignore your conscience 09:51.760 --> 09:57.200 and just obey me. Instead, I am authority. I am a lawmaker. I am government. I am 09:57.200 --> 10:01.600 representative government. You are obligated to obey my laws and you should 10:01.600 --> 10:05.360 believe that you're obligated to obey my laws. You should believe that it's 10:05.360 --> 10:10.220 immoral for you to disobey my laws. Now, there you are inside your head. 10:10.220 --> 10:16.280 If you think about it for five seconds, which people don't because they weren't 10:16.280 --> 10:19.880 reasoned into this. They were indoctrinated into it. If you think about it for five 10:19.880 --> 10:24.760 seconds, how bonkers would it be for you to say, okay, here's my moral judgment 10:24.760 --> 10:28.700 in here where I'm deciding what I should and shouldn't do. That guy over there 10:28.700 --> 10:35.260 says that what I should do, the good thing for me to do is ignore my own 10:35.260 --> 10:41.640 conscience. The thing that tells me good and bad. Ignore my own conscience in 10:41.640 --> 10:49.700 favor of obeying him, blindly obeying his laws because he's authority. And I'm 10:49.700 --> 10:54.040 bad. He wants me to think that I'm bad if I disobey him. Not just bad things 10:54.040 --> 10:58.020 will happen to me. It's not just a threat. The notion of authority is the 10:58.020 --> 11:02.640 right to rule, which implies the obligation to obey on the part of the 11:02.640 --> 11:10.320 subject class. So if there you are inside your own head and you think, huh, okay, 11:10.660 --> 11:17.500 you convinced me that I, using my moral conscience and my moral judgment, 11:18.180 --> 11:25.560 have decided that you outrank my moral judgment and my conscience. And I decided 11:25.560 --> 11:32.840 that using my moral judgment and my conscience so that I think the right 11:32.840 --> 11:38.500 thing for me to do is don't do the thing that I think is the right thing to do. 11:39.320 --> 11:44.860 Do the thing that that guy told me to. Because what I think is the right thing 11:44.860 --> 11:49.860 to do I have decided is not the right thing to do. The right thing to do 11:49.860 --> 11:53.480 isn't what I think the right thing to do is the right thing to do I think 11:53.480 --> 12:00.340 is to do whatever he said. If you can't follow it, it's because it's bat shit loony, 12:00.500 --> 12:07.180 but it is inherent to the belief and authority. Your conscience has to decide to ignore itself 12:08.280 --> 12:12.860 in favor of blind obedience to somebody else, but your conscience is a thing deciding that. 12:14.080 --> 12:18.400 And it boils down to, hmm, I judge that I should not judge. 12:21.920 --> 12:28.900 And this built in contradiction and hypocrisy that is in every status head. It can't not be. 12:29.280 --> 12:35.880 If you imagine an outside authority, you have to think, well here with this head that 12:35.880 --> 12:40.780 can determine right from wrong, it has determined that the right thing for me to do is ignore 12:40.780 --> 12:45.520 the thing in my head that tells me right from wrong and instead obey that guy because this 12:45.520 --> 12:53.200 has decided obedience to him is good, which in turn means that this has decided that I shouldn't 12:53.200 --> 12:59.640 listen to this anymore when it tells me what's right and wrong. I should only listen to it long enough 12:59.640 --> 13:05.940 to decide to blindly obey that guy. There is inherent hypocrisy and schizophrenic insanity 13:08.160 --> 13:11.600 automatically if you believe in an external authority. And my book 13:13.460 --> 13:19.080 Approaching Humanity explains that it's not quite as in your face and rude about it, 13:19.080 --> 13:22.220 tries to be gentle because it's targeting the rest of the world. 13:23.420 --> 13:30.280 But that internal conflict between, okay, we have our own inner voice, our conscience, 13:30.560 --> 13:34.940 our moral code, or whatever you want to call it, something in you that goes, yeah, 13:34.960 --> 13:38.320 it's not okay that that guy's just randomly murdering a bunch of people. That's bad. 13:38.850 --> 13:44.180 Look, people getting along peacefully. That seems good to me. Okay, whatever inside you 13:45.240 --> 13:49.440 can make that distinction, and if nothing inside you can make that distinction, 13:49.780 --> 13:55.200 please stay away from me. Whatever inside you can make that distinction, 13:56.000 --> 14:01.120 if you ignore that and blindly obey somebody else, there's still a part of you going, 14:01.280 --> 14:06.340 what the hell are we doing? This isn't okay. And one of the best illustrations of that 14:06.340 --> 14:11.380 is the psychology experiments of Stanley Milgram. And my book Approaching Humanity 14:12.200 --> 14:18.340 covers a bunch of the specific findings in his experiments and what they mean. 14:19.000 --> 14:22.580 And so one of the things that most of you probably know the thing, basically somebody 14:22.580 --> 14:26.840 thought they were electrocuting somebody else just because an authority figure told them to, 14:26.980 --> 14:31.500 not somebody accused of a crime or anybody, but, oh, we're doing a memory test or whatever, 14:31.600 --> 14:35.000 and you turn on the voltage and you hit the button, they think they're shocking somebody 14:35.000 --> 14:39.920 else. The test was actually, the one being tested didn't know that he was the subject. 14:40.940 --> 14:45.840 It was actually a test to see, all right, to what degree will some random person 14:45.840 --> 14:52.640 zap a complete stranger just because an authority figure told them to? Spoiler, 14:53.140 --> 14:58.580 most people will do that to the point of causing severe pain or death to a complete stranger. 14:58.580 --> 15:06.540 Most Americans will do that. And the results are pretty much independent of education levels 15:06.540 --> 15:12.140 and IQ levels and income levels and religious beliefs, independent of almost everything. 15:13.460 --> 15:18.480 But some of the most important things that Milgram found wasn't just, oh, 15:18.620 --> 15:23.920 people do evil crap when authority tells them to. Gee, it's almost like they were trained 15:25.340 --> 15:30.180 to not have a will of their own, as if somebody, maybe by way of something called the 15:30.180 --> 15:35.540 Prussian indoctrination system, intentionally conditioned people so that they would do as 15:35.540 --> 15:41.040 they're told, even if what they're told to do is evil. The book gets into that too. 15:42.700 --> 15:47.620 But the dead giveaway that there's still the human being in there is how many people, 15:47.820 --> 15:51.980 while they're electrocuting a complete stranger, or they think they are, 15:51.980 --> 15:56.880 the other person is actually an actor, screaming out and talking about heart problems and all sorts 15:56.880 --> 16:02.580 of stuff. While they're doing that, a lot of people are begging to be allowed to do it. 16:02.660 --> 16:06.600 Do we have to continue? Do I have to keep doing this? And there's no threat to them. 16:07.500 --> 16:10.440 Like the authority figure isn't like, I'm going to beat the crap out of you, 16:10.560 --> 16:15.420 don't keep going. It's, he's supposed to say, just, oh, the experiment must continue. 16:15.880 --> 16:20.720 Okay, so the person is begging to be allowed. All you have to do is don't go like that. 16:21.280 --> 16:26.320 You're the one going like that, electrocuting somebody. And the person there is telling you 16:26.320 --> 16:31.920 to do it. And so many people are like, can I stop? Yeah, you can stop by stopping. 16:32.860 --> 16:39.200 But most people don't have the mental fortitude to do that because they've been trained like dogs 16:39.840 --> 16:46.320 to do as they're told and feel like obedience is a virtue. So you can see the inner human being 16:46.320 --> 16:51.560 going, wow, this is screwed up. So not only will they be begging to be allowed to stop, 16:52.300 --> 16:58.220 a lot of times they'll be shaking. They'll be crying. Sometimes they'll even be nervously 16:58.220 --> 17:03.240 laughing like, do we really have to go on? They'll be going like this and sweating and 17:03.860 --> 17:11.020 trembling and so their conscience is in there kind of trying to slap some sense into them and say, 17:11.020 --> 17:17.060 why on earth are you doing this? You're torturing somebody who wasn't even accused of doing anything 17:17.060 --> 17:23.840 bad. He's just doing a memory test and you're inflicting this horrible pain on him. But part 17:23.840 --> 17:28.480 of their brain is like, well, the authority figure told me, do I have to? So you can see the 17:28.480 --> 17:34.100 conflict. And then a bunch of, Milgram did a bunch of different variations on the experiments and 17:34.100 --> 17:40.380 you can just watch the schizophrenic split personality thing going on inside the 17:40.380 --> 17:45.940 person's head where part of them is like, this is very not okay. I don't like this. And part of 17:45.940 --> 17:53.860 them is put authority told me to, yeah, that's the trained dog part. And approaching humanity 17:53.860 --> 18:00.800 talks about that and it covers how that actually functions and how that's way stronger than most 18:00.800 --> 18:06.040 people think. And when Milgram interviewed people who hadn't done the experiment, almost everybody 18:06.040 --> 18:12.760 said, well, as soon as the person zaps as I went out of this, I would stop. Everybody thinks that 18:12.760 --> 18:17.340 basically they're libertarian that they wouldn't shock somebody against this will. Like up until 18:17.340 --> 18:22.160 that point, you can say, well, you volunteer for the experiment and I'm zapping him. He agreed to 18:22.160 --> 18:26.620 this. I don't know why, but he agreed to it. But the moment he says, I want out, I think 18:26.620 --> 18:31.740 it's like at 150 volts. It's what I call the libertarian line. Because if he goes, I'm done, 18:31.740 --> 18:36.580 I'm not doing this anymore that the actor pretending to be electrocuted, a certain amount of people, 18:37.700 --> 18:43.560 libertarians by definition, are like, I'm not going to inflict violence on him against as well. 18:44.100 --> 18:48.900 Up until now, he agreed to this for some weird reason. I'm not going to keep going. That's 18:48.900 --> 18:55.900 pretty small percentage of the population that will stop. But the ones who keep going feel bad 18:55.900 --> 19:01.960 about it. Most of them obviously show signs of stress. And Milgram talks at great length about 19:01.960 --> 19:06.740 all the signs of that. And the weird thing of when somebody goes, I can't do this anymore, 19:07.540 --> 19:13.060 the stress and anxiety just evaporate. It's like you broke your dog training. 19:13.540 --> 19:17.540 Suddenly you're a person again. And then they're not all trembling. They're like, 19:17.700 --> 19:22.740 yeah, I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore. And suddenly they relax and they sigh and they 19:22.740 --> 19:28.200 stop trembling and crying. They're just like, congratulations, you reclaimed ownership of 19:28.200 --> 19:35.920 yourself just in that little setting at that moment anyway. But to watch the power the dog 19:35.920 --> 19:42.760 training has over people to make them be robots who will blindly commit evil. That is what the 19:42.760 --> 19:51.740 training was for. And so to jump all the way back to the beginning of this video, when I 19:51.740 --> 19:56.960 go, well, how will everything work if we're not beholden to authority? That is a bonkers response. 19:58.540 --> 20:04.320 If if you're basically using that to argue, I'm totally beholden to authority because I'm not 20:04.320 --> 20:11.220 quite sure how things would work if that is just as stupid and insane as saying, well, I don't 20:11.220 --> 20:15.400 believe that I should be a free. I totally think I should be somebody else's slave unless 20:15.400 --> 20:21.220 and until you can explain for me how everything will work. If I'm not a slave, that's bonkers. 20:21.900 --> 20:29.720 That's just bonkers. And it's the natural response of most status. They don't they're not thinking these 20:29.720 --> 20:34.620 things out. This isn't an intellectual response. It's an emotional response because all they know 20:34.620 --> 20:43.760 is that's unfamiliar. A thing I'm just about finished the book. It's at 97,000 words and some at the 20:43.760 --> 20:49.680 moment. I'm still going back and forth. I think I am going to include it on including a little 20:49.680 --> 20:55.920 thing, just a paragraph or two, making fun of Stanley Milgram because he did those experiments. 20:56.160 --> 21:02.200 He got a firsthand view and he wrote all about it. He's like, wow, it's kind of shocking how easily 21:02.200 --> 21:07.100 you can get decent people to like do something where they think they're inflicting horrible pain, 21:07.380 --> 21:11.720 maybe even life threatening electrocution on a complete stranger just because of the authority 21:11.720 --> 21:16.900 failure told them to. Everyone's like, whoa, yeah, those, including him, like, whoa, those results 21:16.900 --> 21:22.120 are kind of disturbing. Oh, yeah, maybe this is how like Nazi Germany happens and stuff. 21:23.540 --> 21:27.080 So experiment is awesome. And he observes all these things. He's a psychologist, 21:27.160 --> 21:30.980 so he's like control. We're going to control for that. Might this be a factor? How about 21:30.980 --> 21:35.840 proximity to the victim? How about whether you hear the victim or he's there and you can see him? 21:36.100 --> 21:40.440 How close or what if you have to actually hold his hand on the electrocution like so he does 21:40.440 --> 21:46.580 hold those variations to see what it is. So he Milgram as a front row seat to the fact that 21:46.580 --> 21:50.940 the belief in authority makes decent people into agents of evil. There's no other way to 21:50.940 --> 21:57.280 put it. He almost put it exactly like that. And then he goes, well, of course, you know, 21:57.340 --> 22:01.960 we need some authority. We have to obey some authority just because I said so. 22:02.400 --> 22:07.000 He doesn't really elaborate. I think the one example he gives is like listening to a doctor 22:07.000 --> 22:10.620 who's an authority on medicine. Like that's not even the same meaning of the word. 22:11.240 --> 22:18.780 But he just this guy who just front row seat to the heinous destruction of the human soul 22:18.780 --> 22:22.360 that is a direct result of people being trained to believe in authority 22:22.980 --> 22:25.780 and feeling beholden to somebody outside of themselves. 22:26.840 --> 22:31.620 A zillion variations showing, wow, this makes people into agents of evil. 22:31.880 --> 22:35.460 Then he goes, well, of course, you know, we need some authority after about 22:35.460 --> 22:40.740 to some authority. We need a legitimate authority. Didn't say why I didn't explain it. 22:41.280 --> 22:48.400 Like, wow, even watching what you did in your own experiments wasn't enough to make him think, 22:48.600 --> 22:56.300 why do we ever need this? That doesn't make any sense. That's bonkers. Even he wouldn't let go. 22:56.360 --> 23:02.040 And I'm still going back and forth on whether to throw in a paragraph or two, just beating up on 23:02.040 --> 23:08.580 Milgram for still not being able to see past his own indoctrination. Like Jay turns out the thing I 23:08.580 --> 23:15.860 was taught to believe makes people like willing accomplices to profound evil. But I mean, of course, 23:16.040 --> 23:19.940 I should still believe in that thing that I was taught to believe, even though I'm sitting here 23:19.940 --> 23:24.060 watching the real world results of it, turning people into monsters. 23:25.200 --> 23:29.420 But I mean, we need some of it just because because everybody knows you. 23:30.240 --> 23:36.380 So anyway, so the book approaching humanity and our event approaching humanity on July 18th 23:37.320 --> 23:42.200 basically tries to gently lead people, including normal people have never thought about these 23:42.200 --> 23:49.300 things. Through the process of realizing, yeah, you, you own yourself, you're responsible for 23:49.300 --> 23:56.300 yourself. You're, and you're stuck with that. Like there isn't an escape. There isn't a way 23:56.300 --> 24:00.460 to make somebody else responsible for what you do. Oh, it's just following orders. Well, 24:00.600 --> 24:06.400 if you're the one who did it, you're still the one who did it. So it sort of gently introduces 24:06.400 --> 24:12.040 people to that and walks them through the various proofs and demonstrations that that's 24:12.040 --> 24:19.000 the only sane way to be is realizing that your sovereign hate that term, but whatever, 24:20.340 --> 24:27.220 your autonomous, you should be a, you know, you should exercise self determination and 24:27.220 --> 24:33.200 self ownership and whatever phrases you want to use to describe that. And anything else is 24:33.200 --> 24:39.620 bonkers. It's not just a bad idea in practical terms. It's insane. And so every time I hear 24:39.620 --> 24:46.260 somebody say, well, if I shouldn't be insanely beholden to a bunch of lying psychopaths, 24:46.260 --> 24:51.280 how will everything in the world work? It's like, that's really has nothing to do with it. 24:52.120 --> 24:56.000 It's, it's just as silly as somebody saying, you know, Santa Claus isn't real. 24:56.520 --> 25:00.140 Well, if Santa Claus isn't real, how do we make sure all the good kids 25:00.630 --> 25:05.640 get presents on Christmas? What if they have poor parents or the parents forgot or something? 25:05.940 --> 25:10.700 How can you guarantee that every child will get we know we need Santa Claus? 25:12.460 --> 25:17.120 It doesn't stinking matter if you think we need Santa Claus. He doesn't exist. 25:17.360 --> 25:22.600 It doesn't matter if you think humanity needs authority. It doesn't exist. 25:22.820 --> 25:29.360 The entire notion is inherently insane. It's not just destructive on a practical level. 25:29.460 --> 25:35.340 It doesn't just turn out badly. So the question of, well, will it work? 25:37.260 --> 25:43.100 What does that even mean? Will it work for me to not be a slave of psychopaths? 25:45.860 --> 25:51.440 You shouldn't be even if it didn't work. Of course, it works a thousand times better 25:51.440 --> 25:57.740 than people feeling beholden to psychopaths. But that entire question is such a weird dodge 25:57.740 --> 26:06.440 of actually looking at what the concept proves. So anyway, I just thought I'd do a rant about that 26:07.040 --> 26:12.000 after being on with Larry Sharp. I'll try to put a link below to the 26:12.760 --> 26:17.620 two hour discussion we have. So yeah, don't ask me whether it'll work 26:18.180 --> 26:24.160 for you to not be somebody else's property. Even if it didn't, you still shouldn't be 26:24.160 --> 26:28.380 somebody else's property. And whether or not you think it will work 26:29.120 --> 26:34.320 for us to not bow to political psychopaths and feel beholden to whatever crap they make up, 26:35.920 --> 26:42.700 whether you think that's going to work is irrelevant to morality and logic and rationality, 26:42.840 --> 26:48.500 all of which dictate no, you don't have an obligation to ignore your own conscience 26:48.500 --> 26:59.140 in favor of blindly obeying lunatics. So in the book and the event approaching humanity, 26:59.640 --> 27:03.040 we will explain that in a more gentle, less frustrated way. 27:04.320 --> 27:12.480 So in a way compatible with normal people, and we'll do it in fun, entertaining, 27:12.480 --> 27:18.480 and informative ways. So if you can be in Sedona Saturday, July 18th, be there. 27:19.620 --> 27:25.580 The main event will be like 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., I believe. It'll be chocked food full of goodies. 27:26.680 --> 27:32.800 And I think people will much appreciate it, including people who don't think about these 27:32.800 --> 27:38.100 things and have never heard about them before. And people who have. We want to make it 27:39.180 --> 27:45.360 very worthwhile for everybody across the entire spectrum of how much you've thought about and 27:45.360 --> 27:49.400 heard about and understand these things already. Or if you're somebody who's just like, 27:49.440 --> 27:53.680 I'm just living my own life trying to mind my own business. But yeah, something's horribly wrong. 27:54.040 --> 28:00.460 What is it? I know. I know. Show up on July 18th. And you'll know too. 28:01.820 --> 28:05.560 If you can be there, be there. Yeehaw. If you're a Rose Channel subscriber, 28:06.080 --> 28:12.260 you will probably get the whole thing live streamed. And if not, you'll get the whole thing edited 28:12.260 --> 28:19.720 after the fact. And anybody shows up and longtime Rose Channel subscribers will be getting 28:20.460 --> 28:26.400 copy of my new book, Approaching Humanity, at the event as part of the take a price. 28:27.040 --> 28:32.260 And I will be mailing it to longtime subscribers of the Rose Channel as soon as I have it in my 28:32.260 --> 28:40.700 possession. Yeehaw. Now go run your own life and be responsible for your own beliefs and thoughts 28:41.060 --> 28:47.660 and words and actions. Is that too much to ask? Possibly.