WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.060 Hey, Larkin Rose here, and, statistically speaking, there's a better-than-average chance that you suck! 00:08.220 --> 00:10.560 Now, what do I mean by that? 00:12.120 --> 00:15.440 Interesting diplomatic way to open this message. 00:16.120 --> 00:21.380 Well, what I mean by that is if you're like the vast majority of human beings on the planet, 00:21.380 --> 00:32.320 you care far more about your intellectual comfort than you do about whether you are personally enabling 00:32.320 --> 00:37.440 and empowering evil and injustice and suffering. 00:37.960 --> 00:40.340 And that is demonstrably true. 00:41.480 --> 00:48.020 So, I mean, is it fair for me to criticize you for that if it's true of almost everybody? 00:48.020 --> 00:49.960 Well, I don't know, you tell me. 00:51.300 --> 00:59.180 Does it or does it not suck if somebody, if some individual cares more about his intellectual comfort? 00:59.380 --> 01:02.000 I don't mean like about your well-being or your life. 01:02.180 --> 01:06.660 I'm not talking about people saying, well, I'm gonna, you know, to take care of my own or whatever, 01:06.780 --> 01:08.940 then I'll look the other way about others being harmed. 01:09.520 --> 01:10.840 That'd be pretty bad anyway. 01:10.840 --> 01:17.980 I'm just talking about, oh, my brain feels a little bit uncomfortable if I think about something unfamiliar. 01:18.460 --> 01:26.120 So I would rather not think about something unfamiliar and something I don't think about 01:26.120 --> 01:28.040 and might be unpleasant to consider. 01:28.720 --> 01:36.100 I would rather avoid just the mental discomfort rather than consider the possibility that 01:36.100 --> 01:41.780 I might be personally contributing to widespread suffering and injustice. 01:42.360 --> 01:43.820 That's how most people are. 01:44.380 --> 01:45.520 And that sort of sucks. 01:46.460 --> 01:49.900 Now, to be fair, I totally was that way before. 01:50.960 --> 01:51.940 Maybe I still am. 01:52.100 --> 01:58.580 Today I try pretty hard not to be, like I try pretty hard to re-examine and question things 01:58.580 --> 02:01.280 if somebody comes along and says, okay, but you believe this thing 02:01.280 --> 02:03.760 and it's leading to innocent people suffering. 02:04.520 --> 02:06.520 I would say, okay, is it though? 02:06.820 --> 02:08.540 Like, I'll look at that, I'll listen to you. 02:09.240 --> 02:12.300 Before I wouldn't do that, I was absolutely among those. 02:12.760 --> 02:14.420 I was like, I sucked. 02:15.160 --> 02:20.000 I was one of the people who cared more about whether something felt a little bit uncomfortable 02:20.280 --> 02:22.440 to have to, like, reconsider something. 02:23.340 --> 02:29.580 I cared more about that than whether I was literally supporting evil, which I literally was. 02:29.580 --> 02:33.000 Didn't know it at the time, wouldn't have accepted that at the time, 02:33.080 --> 02:36.620 wouldn't have believed anybody who told me that at the time, but it was absolutely true. 02:37.200 --> 02:43.960 And if you don't think this is the norm, a few simple examples will demonstrate 02:43.960 --> 02:47.660 that it absolutely is of everybody across the entire political spectrum 02:47.660 --> 02:51.160 and people not on the political spectrum, people who don't really care about politics. 02:51.840 --> 02:56.640 And this is true even if you approach them sort of nicely and gently 02:56.640 --> 02:59.000 rather than just attacking their beliefs. 03:00.080 --> 03:03.080 Even if I just ask somebody about their own position, 03:03.200 --> 03:07.140 even if I'm all the way non-combative and non-confrontational 03:07.140 --> 03:10.740 like I am when in candles in the dark mode, 03:12.520 --> 03:15.300 not starting by telling somebody, you suck. 03:16.060 --> 03:18.960 But if I start by gently asking people what they think, 03:19.020 --> 03:24.920 people still have a hard time reconsidering their assumptions and their paradigm, 03:25.460 --> 03:28.700 even if you tell them, hey, other people are suffering as a result. 03:28.860 --> 03:33.880 So if you want a few examples, the COVID circus, lots of people, 03:34.000 --> 03:37.500 now lots of people have since recognized, ooh, yeah, that was pretty bad. 03:37.780 --> 03:41.760 But lots of people at the time said, if you don't support this, 03:41.860 --> 03:44.380 if you don't support these mask mandates and wear a mask everywhere, 03:44.860 --> 03:48.440 and if you don't get injected, then you don't care about Granny and you want to kill her. 03:48.600 --> 03:51.740 So they're perfectly fine guilt-tripping others 03:51.740 --> 03:54.500 and telling other people, you're endangering others 03:54.500 --> 03:57.820 by not thinking what I think and doing what I do. 03:58.500 --> 04:03.840 Okay, but the first time somebody came to them and said, these shots are not safe, 04:04.120 --> 04:06.740 they're not even vaccines. 04:07.820 --> 04:10.400 They literally don't even fit the definition of that. 04:10.960 --> 04:15.500 They're not safe, they're actually a danger, especially to younger people. 04:15.900 --> 04:18.180 When somebody comes to them and suggests that, 04:18.180 --> 04:21.980 no, they have no reason to go, oh, okay, you must be right, because you said that. 04:22.340 --> 04:26.700 No, that would be ridiculous to expect them to change their mind, 04:26.820 --> 04:30.760 because, well, I believe A and you believe B, so guess now I believe B. 04:30.960 --> 04:32.080 No, that would be just a stupid. 04:33.640 --> 04:37.560 But if it was suggested to you that, hey, this thing you're going rah-rah-rah for 04:37.560 --> 04:43.200 because you think it's for the good and health of society and grandma and whoever else, 04:44.000 --> 04:47.320 if somebody comes along and says there may be a real risk here, 04:47.320 --> 04:50.400 not just this isn't doing any good, but it's doing real harm. 04:51.360 --> 04:54.640 How many people responded by going, oh, really? 04:55.340 --> 04:57.920 Well, let me look that up, let me check into it. 04:59.160 --> 05:02.400 Almost nobody is the answer, because people suck. 05:03.380 --> 05:07.480 They would rather cling to the idea that they are emotionally attached to 05:08.100 --> 05:12.440 than pause and go, oh, so wait, you're saying you think it's not a good idea? 05:13.180 --> 05:15.220 Hmm, do I actually know it's a good idea? 05:15.800 --> 05:21.000 Should I go and, like, read the studies on mask efficacy? 05:21.580 --> 05:24.560 Whether it does any good, whether it maybe even does harm? 05:25.240 --> 05:28.640 Because none of them did, I know, because I read those studies that have been around 05:28.640 --> 05:33.360 for the 50s, since the 50s, and on into today, nobody I ever met 05:33.360 --> 05:35.400 who said, no matter where I'm at, you're threatening everybody. 05:36.020 --> 05:39.020 I said, that is provably not, factually not the case. 05:39.700 --> 05:43.960 And I can point you to the studies, none of them said, oh, what studies? 05:43.960 --> 05:46.380 None of them, I never met anybody who said that. 05:47.480 --> 05:52.320 Which means they didn't, even if I was wrong, even if I didn't have studies, 05:52.500 --> 05:57.300 even if my reading was wrong, it shows they didn't want to look at something 05:57.900 --> 06:04.680 that might conflict with the comfortable opinions they were already attached to 06:05.280 --> 06:09.120 for fear of having to maybe change their mind. 06:09.920 --> 06:12.900 Even when it was suggested you're harming a bunch of people, 06:13.080 --> 06:18.500 you're torturing children by believing this, they still wouldn't even look. 06:19.120 --> 06:22.140 And then the vaccines is a way more serious thing. 06:22.280 --> 06:25.120 You're not just putting a piece of paper over your face unnecessarily. 06:25.900 --> 06:28.260 You're injecting stuff that you don't understand. 06:28.460 --> 06:30.160 I guarantee they don't understand. 06:30.640 --> 06:32.500 They don't know what's in it. They don't know how it works. 06:33.300 --> 06:37.060 And if you ask them how it works, they would say, well, it's a vaccine. 06:37.060 --> 06:38.520 It makes you not get the disease. 06:38.840 --> 06:40.740 Oh, because someone in government said that? 06:41.340 --> 06:45.960 Well, if somebody else, in fact, the actual experts come along and say, 06:45.980 --> 06:48.980 yeah, no, no, this is not safe. This is not okay. 06:49.120 --> 06:52.120 This is actually a way more of a threat than a help 06:52.120 --> 06:54.220 for lots of people, including children. 06:54.760 --> 06:57.980 If you're like, no, no, no, because my side said that's not true, 06:58.760 --> 07:02.240 you're demonstrating perfectly how much people suck. 07:03.040 --> 07:05.660 Because they don't care enough about other human beings 07:05.660 --> 07:12.600 to go through the horrible trauma of doubting what they believe at any given moment. 07:13.460 --> 07:18.520 Now, lest you think I'm only going to beat up on the political left here, 07:19.100 --> 07:23.620 never fear the people who are going to crack down on us war on drugs, 07:23.740 --> 07:25.660 we have to stamp out these drug dealers. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.220 Well, the first time you heard, and you must have by now, 07:31.460 --> 07:33.720 not from me, but from a thousand other people, 07:34.460 --> 07:36.800 that the war on drugs makes everything worse. 07:37.580 --> 07:40.040 It doesn't reduce drug addiction. It makes it worse. 07:40.440 --> 07:42.500 It doesn't reduce overdoses. It makes them worse. 07:42.940 --> 07:44.740 It doesn't even reduce drug use. 07:45.540 --> 07:50.480 And it makes the trade infinitely more dangerous and infinitely more violent. 07:50.620 --> 07:52.560 It's why street gangs exist. 07:53.020 --> 07:57.960 It's why the Mexican drug cartels exist is because of the U.S. war on drugs. 07:58.240 --> 08:00.940 You must have heard somebody suggest that at some point. 08:02.200 --> 08:04.440 Did you give a shit? Did you pause to think, 08:04.780 --> 08:06.080 well, I don't want to harm people. 08:06.240 --> 08:09.620 Like, I was in favor of this because I see drugs as a bad thing 08:09.620 --> 08:11.360 and I see it ruining much people's lives. 08:11.900 --> 08:14.780 But if you're telling me that the solution I've been cheering for 08:14.780 --> 08:16.720 is actually doing even more harm than that, 08:17.280 --> 08:19.260 well, let me pause long enough to check. 08:19.740 --> 08:21.860 Did anybody say that? Does anybody say that? 08:21.960 --> 08:25.520 No, because people suck. Conservatives, you suck too. 08:25.740 --> 08:29.880 You're just as emotionally attached to your comfortable, familiar beliefs. 08:30.620 --> 08:34.320 And just as reticent to actually doubt something and back up and go, 08:34.440 --> 08:35.720 is this doing any good? 08:36.380 --> 08:39.080 Or am I just feeling good about advocating something? 08:39.220 --> 08:44.300 Which, by the way, applies to all the people on the left to support gun control. 08:44.780 --> 08:46.960 I want there to be less gun violence. 08:47.340 --> 08:48.720 Okay, do you know anybody who doesn't? 08:49.300 --> 08:50.640 Well, other than the feds. 08:51.580 --> 08:53.020 You want less gun violence. 08:53.160 --> 08:54.520 Well, if somebody comes to you and says, 08:54.520 --> 09:00.420 here is literally a study of every single county in the entire country 09:01.180 --> 09:04.700 before and after, after and before with gun control without, 09:04.860 --> 09:07.320 like, studied every direction you can think of. 09:07.840 --> 09:12.500 In the book, More Guns, Less Crime by Dr. Lott. 09:13.440 --> 09:17.880 Here is a study that shows that you advocating gun control 09:18.420 --> 09:21.540 hurts more innocent people. 09:21.540 --> 09:24.640 Now, again, you don't have to just blindly believe that. 09:24.700 --> 09:25.920 Well, somebody said that's the case. 09:26.220 --> 09:27.500 I don't have to assume they're true. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.860 They're right. I don't have to assume it's true. 09:31.140 --> 09:34.620 But if somebody tells you you're cheering for something from good intentions, 09:34.960 --> 09:38.100 you meant well, you wanted there to be less innocent people dying, okay? 09:38.940 --> 09:41.820 But it turns out that what you're cheering for is making things worse. 09:43.040 --> 09:46.260 That gun control results in very, very bad things. 09:46.860 --> 09:50.060 If you don't know what happened outside of Waco, Texas, to the branch of Indians, 09:50.060 --> 09:52.260 if you don't know what happened at Ruby Ridge, 09:52.520 --> 09:57.320 as a direct result of gun control, reasonable gun control, 09:58.600 --> 10:01.800 if you don't want to look at that because of the discomfort 10:01.800 --> 10:06.060 it might make you feel about things you're familiar with 10:06.060 --> 10:08.580 and comfortable in saying, you suck. 10:09.640 --> 10:12.620 If you care less about innocent people suffering 10:12.620 --> 10:16.900 and being literally tortured and murdered by the federal government 10:16.900 --> 10:19.740 in the name of gun control, if you care less about that, 10:19.940 --> 10:23.800 then how it feels for you to have to back up and go, 10:24.140 --> 10:27.780 wait, am I advocating something counterproductive by accident? 10:29.740 --> 10:33.900 If those are your priorities that that slightly inconvenient feeling 10:33.900 --> 10:36.140 inside your own head matters more to you 10:36.140 --> 10:39.060 than if innocent people are suffering and dying 10:39.060 --> 10:41.680 as a result of things that you comfortably believe, 10:42.720 --> 10:43.900 you kind of suck. 10:45.760 --> 10:49.600 And just to pick on the right again to try to make this balance and fair, 10:50.000 --> 10:52.280 I used to be a big supporter of the US military 10:52.280 --> 10:55.240 because I thought they were defeating evil people 10:55.240 --> 10:59.920 and doing good things and fighting for freedom and justice and yada, yada, yada. 11:00.940 --> 11:03.340 And would I have been open to somebody saying, 11:03.540 --> 11:04.800 eh, it's not really what they do. 11:05.100 --> 11:07.880 Like, glad you want, like, freedom and all that 11:07.880 --> 11:09.960 and protecting the innocent and stopping the bad guys, 11:10.060 --> 11:12.060 but that isn't what the US military does. 11:12.700 --> 11:14.880 Would I have listened to that? Probably not. 11:15.680 --> 11:18.140 I mean, eventually I did think about such things 11:18.140 --> 11:21.580 and I can't say exactly what I read or who I listened to. 11:21.720 --> 11:23.820 There was something like, alright, I should probably back up 11:23.820 --> 11:25.780 and make sure I'm not accidentally cheering for evil, 11:26.080 --> 11:29.500 but it took an embarrassingly long time for me to do that. 11:29.940 --> 11:31.620 And the list just keeps going 11:31.620 --> 11:34.960 and there are some examples that are just very in your face 11:34.960 --> 11:38.900 and they come right out in the, even in the mainstream media, 11:39.520 --> 11:44.120 the Operation Fast and Furious, where the ATF was caught 11:44.120 --> 11:49.380 intentionally supplying the Mexican drug cartels with assault weapons. 11:49.980 --> 11:52.060 That happened. You can look it up. 11:52.280 --> 11:55.000 It is not some crazy conspiracy theory. 11:55.240 --> 11:57.020 It is provably the truth. 11:58.280 --> 12:01.900 Now, if you go rah, rah, rah for the ATF and gun control 12:01.900 --> 12:03.860 because you think they're cracking down on crime 12:03.860 --> 12:05.900 and protecting the innocent and you hear, 12:05.900 --> 12:09.180 wait, they intentionally supplied these ruthless 12:09.180 --> 12:11.860 Mexican drug cartels with machine guns. 12:13.740 --> 12:15.140 Why shouldn't you kind of think, 12:15.320 --> 12:19.600 why shouldn't you maybe pause your comfortable world view 12:19.600 --> 12:22.980 for a minute in between going rah, rah, rah for law enforcement 12:22.980 --> 12:25.040 and go, why the hell would they do that? 12:26.040 --> 12:30.540 Like, that's, that's, or is that so uncomfortable to think about 12:30.540 --> 12:31.900 that you're like, never mind. I don't know. 12:31.980 --> 12:33.240 I don't need to know why that happened. 12:33.240 --> 12:36.460 I'm comfortable in my beliefs and it doesn't matter 12:36.460 --> 12:38.200 what harm it's causing to other people 12:38.200 --> 12:42.680 as long as I don't have to feel the discomfort of doubt. 12:44.260 --> 12:45.840 Because that's what most people do. 12:46.700 --> 12:49.900 And we just got another story out. 12:50.080 --> 12:51.820 And I think this one even made the mainstream, 12:53.300 --> 12:56.260 mainstream of the DEA intentionally letting 12:56.260 --> 12:59.280 eight gazillion doses of, was it fentanyl? 12:59.820 --> 13:01.680 I don't know. They do it constantly. 13:01.680 --> 13:03.060 I don't even know which one this was. 13:03.540 --> 13:05.380 I think letting a whole bunch of fentanyl through 13:05.380 --> 13:08.420 so they could go bravely battle the drug problem with, 13:08.520 --> 13:09.920 wait a minute, what, on purpose? 13:10.740 --> 13:12.360 Not just, oh, you did a bad job. 13:12.500 --> 13:14.140 They intentionally let that through. 13:14.480 --> 13:17.040 If you think the war on drugs is this great thing 13:17.040 --> 13:19.400 saving our children and blah, blah, blah, 13:19.480 --> 13:22.240 and you find out that these brave warriors 13:22.240 --> 13:24.700 for truth and justice that you're cheering for 13:26.300 --> 13:29.200 intentionally allowed 80 gazillion doses, 13:29.200 --> 13:33.320 whatever it was, of fentanyl to be distributed 13:33.980 --> 13:37.180 on the streets of America, shouldn't you maybe 13:37.180 --> 13:39.080 pause and go, what the hell? 13:40.180 --> 13:43.340 Like I supported them thinking they're the opposite of this. 13:43.420 --> 13:45.160 If they prove that they're that 13:45.160 --> 13:47.360 and that they would do something like that, 13:47.840 --> 13:50.520 maybe I should pause and reconsider 13:50.520 --> 13:52.200 what the hell is going on. 13:52.720 --> 13:58.280 Or did you care more about your own mental comfort 13:58.280 --> 14:01.680 and not having to doubt things or question things 14:01.680 --> 14:04.760 or maybe even changing your mind? 14:05.000 --> 14:07.860 It's so much trouble and it's unpleasant. 14:08.360 --> 14:11.960 It's much better to just cling to whatever you believe now 14:11.960 --> 14:15.060 no matter how much evidence shows that you're cheering 14:15.060 --> 14:17.760 for something that is resulting in pain 14:17.760 --> 14:20.400 and suffering and death for innocent people. 14:22.040 --> 14:23.260 Everything's blowing away. 14:23.400 --> 14:23.720 Pipe down. 14:25.940 --> 14:29.420 So, oh, and then of course I have to throw 14:29.420 --> 14:30.860 and mention of Operation Northwoods. 14:31.620 --> 14:35.480 If you think the military exists to protect us 14:35.480 --> 14:38.580 and stop nasty things from happening, 14:38.920 --> 14:41.400 then you haven't read the Operation Northwoods documents. 14:41.620 --> 14:44.260 They're publicly available on the government's own website. 14:44.540 --> 14:47.100 Again, this isn't some crazy conspiracy theory. 14:47.280 --> 14:50.100 This is openly documented, absolutely provable. 14:50.580 --> 14:52.240 Go read the Northwood documents 14:52.240 --> 14:55.480 and if you go rah-rah-rah for the U.S. military after that 14:55.480 --> 14:57.520 I have to conclude that you don't know how to read 14:58.380 --> 15:02.740 because it absolutely shows all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 15:02.900 --> 15:06.320 all of the top brass in all branches of the U.S. military 15:07.300 --> 15:10.100 agreeing to commit false flag terrorism 15:10.100 --> 15:14.380 including against Americans to dupe the American people 15:14.380 --> 15:17.460 into cheering for another completely unnecessary war. 15:18.140 --> 15:21.260 That's what it shows in their own words, indisputably. 15:21.260 --> 15:22.680 It's not debatable what it meant. 15:23.620 --> 15:25.120 Have you bothered to read that? 15:25.640 --> 15:28.400 Or have you maybe not, maybe you didn't hear about it all 15:28.400 --> 15:29.640 but maybe you've heard of it and thought, 15:30.160 --> 15:31.740 oh, well that's silly and crazy 15:31.740 --> 15:34.060 and for some reason I don't really want to look at that 15:34.060 --> 15:38.260 because then I might have to change my mind about something. 15:41.040 --> 15:44.420 So, is that attitude something that makes you a shitty person? 15:44.640 --> 15:45.680 Does that mean that you suck? 15:46.500 --> 15:47.720 What kind of? 15:48.600 --> 15:52.660 Even though it's the norm that's most people most of the time 15:52.660 --> 15:54.500 it's most liberals, it's most conservatives, 15:55.920 --> 15:58.980 it's how they deal with all their beliefs about anything. 16:00.360 --> 16:03.060 Is they find it so uncomfortable to doubt things 16:03.060 --> 16:05.040 and question things and change their mind 16:05.040 --> 16:07.280 that if somebody says to them 16:07.280 --> 16:10.020 you're cheering for things that are killing innocent people 16:10.680 --> 16:12.120 they go, no, not. 16:12.120 --> 16:18.880 But so, let me go from just blatantly insulting you 16:18.880 --> 16:21.920 and saying you suck to making it into a question, 16:22.620 --> 16:28.760 do you suck so bad that you would rather cling to beliefs 16:28.760 --> 16:31.940 that may be resulting in lots and lots of innocent people 16:31.940 --> 16:36.060 suffering and going just through hell, 16:37.120 --> 16:39.120 do you suck that bad that that is your attitude 16:39.120 --> 16:43.800 or would you rather maybe back up and reconsider a few things? 16:45.800 --> 16:50.580 People care way too much about their own intellectual comfort 16:51.120 --> 16:55.760 and most of the time I try to be nice about that. 16:55.900 --> 16:58.240 I try to be patient and approach it with questions 16:58.240 --> 17:01.320 and try to gently invite people to consider things. 17:01.580 --> 17:04.940 Most of the time I don't start by telling people how much they suck 17:04.940 --> 17:09.680 and in fact I'm about to release a book called Approaching Humanity 17:09.680 --> 17:12.740 which approaches this very gently and nicely. 17:12.920 --> 17:14.860 It doesn't start by telling people they suck. 17:15.220 --> 17:19.120 It does get around to pointing out why our psychology is like that 17:19.120 --> 17:22.340 and why we are so reluctant to consider things 17:22.340 --> 17:25.460 that may show that we've been wrong for a pretty long time 17:25.460 --> 17:28.900 and inadvertently supporting destructive things 17:28.900 --> 17:31.940 without knowing it, you know, not on purpose or anything like that. 17:32.620 --> 17:34.860 But both the book Approaching Humanity 17:34.860 --> 17:36.880 which by the way you can now pre-order, 17:37.080 --> 17:39.580 link below tells how to do that, you can pre-order your copy. 17:40.120 --> 17:43.380 It comes out on July 18th at our event 17:43.940 --> 17:46.680 called Approaching Humanity up in Sedona 17:46.680 --> 17:49.560 both of which will be very patient and nice 17:49.560 --> 17:51.300 and won't tell anybody that they suck 17:52.420 --> 17:55.580 which will try to gently bring people 17:55.580 --> 17:59.340 to the realization that if you're not capable 18:00.120 --> 18:02.840 of backing up and questioning your assumptions 18:02.840 --> 18:04.540 and questioning your paradigms 18:04.540 --> 18:06.540 then you can say you have good intentions 18:06.540 --> 18:08.140 and maybe you do have good intentions 18:08.140 --> 18:12.200 and noble motives like you want the poor to be taken care of 18:12.200 --> 18:13.540 you want the innocent to be protected 18:13.540 --> 18:14.880 you want nasty people stopped. 18:15.600 --> 18:17.140 Okay, I want all those things. 18:17.340 --> 18:19.940 Almost everybody you ever meet, right, left, anything else 18:19.940 --> 18:21.540 is going to say he wants all those things. 18:22.560 --> 18:25.340 Are you advocating things that actually 18:25.340 --> 18:27.260 accomplish those things? 18:28.400 --> 18:31.860 Or might you unwittingly be advocating things 18:31.860 --> 18:35.460 that do the exact opposite in the real world 18:35.460 --> 18:37.960 of what you say you want 18:38.660 --> 18:42.160 and do you care enough to check 18:42.860 --> 18:44.600 on which of those it is? 18:45.400 --> 18:48.640 If so, I invite you to pre-order my book 18:48.640 --> 18:51.480 Approaching Humanity or even better 18:51.480 --> 18:54.760 be at our event on July 18th 18:54.760 --> 18:56.560 at the Sedona Performing Arts Center 18:56.560 --> 18:57.860 up in Sedona, Arizona 18:59.060 --> 19:02.000 to be there in person for our all-day event 19:02.000 --> 19:03.240 with a bunch of awesome speakers 19:03.240 --> 19:05.520 to get all the info or to get tickets 19:05.520 --> 19:06.520 see below. 19:06.880 --> 19:08.220 But whether you read my book 19:08.220 --> 19:10.180 or whether you go to those events 19:12.020 --> 19:14.580 at least for a moment 19:14.580 --> 19:16.020 ask yourself 19:16.800 --> 19:19.700 do you suck so much 19:20.500 --> 19:22.580 that you'd rather avoid 19:22.580 --> 19:25.440 a little bit of temporary mental discomfort 19:26.480 --> 19:28.600 than to be open and honest enough 19:28.600 --> 19:30.420 to check and see whether you might 19:30.420 --> 19:32.340 accidentally be empowering 19:32.340 --> 19:34.440 and enabling evil. 19:35.940 --> 19:36.880 I was 19:37.740 --> 19:39.740 and it's embarrassing. 19:40.220 --> 19:41.740 I feel shame and guilt 19:41.740 --> 19:43.720 at how long it took me 19:43.720 --> 19:45.980 to actually back up and look 19:45.980 --> 19:48.480 to make sure I wasn't accidentally 19:48.480 --> 19:50.140 being a cheerleader 19:50.140 --> 19:52.640 or a cheerleader against humanity 19:52.640 --> 19:54.900 and I absolutely was 19:55.920 --> 19:57.520 and it's pretty damn embarrassing 19:57.520 --> 19:58.480 to admit it now 19:59.680 --> 20:01.160 and I would ask you 20:02.260 --> 20:04.260 look at yourself, judge yourself 20:04.260 --> 20:05.940 who cares what I think of you 20:05.940 --> 20:07.400 who cares if I think you suck 20:07.400 --> 20:09.180 you decide if you suck 20:09.180 --> 20:10.660 you decide for yourself 20:11.700 --> 20:13.380 if your own temporary 20:14.120 --> 20:15.280 mental comfort 20:16.100 --> 20:17.240 matters to you more 20:17.240 --> 20:19.260 than whether you are adding 20:19.260 --> 20:20.240 good to the world 20:20.240 --> 20:22.300 or evil to the world 20:23.220 --> 20:24.240 you tell me.