Hey, Larkin Rose here, and, statistically speaking, there's a better-than-average chance that you suck!
Now, what do I mean by that?
Interesting diplomatic way to open this message.
Well, what I mean by that is if you're like the vast majority of human beings on the planet,
you care far more about your intellectual comfort than you do about whether you are personally enabling
and empowering evil and injustice and suffering.
And that is demonstrably true.
So, I mean, is it fair for me to criticize you for that if it's true of almost everybody?
Well, I don't know, you tell me.
Does it or does it not suck if somebody, if some individual cares more about his intellectual comfort?
I don't mean like about your well-being or your life.
I'm not talking about people saying, well, I'm gonna, you know, to take care of my own or whatever,
then I'll look the other way about others being harmed.
That'd be pretty bad anyway.
I'm just talking about, oh, my brain feels a little bit uncomfortable if I think about something unfamiliar.
So I would rather not think about something unfamiliar and something I don't think about
and might be unpleasant to consider.
I would rather avoid just the mental discomfort rather than consider the possibility that
I might be personally contributing to widespread suffering and injustice.
That's how most people are.
And that sort of sucks.
Now, to be fair, I totally was that way before.
Maybe I still am.
Today I try pretty hard not to be, like I try pretty hard to re-examine and question things
if somebody comes along and says, okay, but you believe this thing
and it's leading to innocent people suffering.
I would say, okay, is it though?
Like, I'll look at that, I'll listen to you.
Before I wouldn't do that, I was absolutely among those.
I was like, I sucked.
I was one of the people who cared more about whether something felt a little bit uncomfortable
to have to, like, reconsider something.
I cared more about that than whether I was literally supporting evil, which I literally was.
Didn't know it at the time, wouldn't have accepted that at the time,
wouldn't have believed anybody who told me that at the time, but it was absolutely true.
And if you don't think this is the norm, a few simple examples will demonstrate
that it absolutely is of everybody across the entire political spectrum
and people not on the political spectrum, people who don't really care about politics.
And this is true even if you approach them sort of nicely and gently
rather than just attacking their beliefs.
Even if I just ask somebody about their own position,
even if I'm all the way non-combative and non-confrontational
like I am when in candles in the dark mode,
not starting by telling somebody, you suck.
But if I start by gently asking people what they think,
people still have a hard time reconsidering their assumptions and their paradigm,
even if you tell them, hey, other people are suffering as a result.
So if you want a few examples, the COVID circus, lots of people,
now lots of people have since recognized, ooh, yeah, that was pretty bad.
But lots of people at the time said, if you don't support this,
if you don't support these mask mandates and wear a mask everywhere,
and if you don't get injected, then you don't care about Granny and you want to kill her.
So they're perfectly fine guilt-tripping others
and telling other people, you're endangering others
by not thinking what I think and doing what I do.
Okay, but the first time somebody came to them and said, these shots are not safe,
they're not even vaccines.
They literally don't even fit the definition of that.
They're not safe, they're actually a danger, especially to younger people.
When somebody comes to them and suggests that,
no, they have no reason to go, oh, okay, you must be right, because you said that.
No, that would be ridiculous to expect them to change their mind,
because, well, I believe A and you believe B, so guess now I believe B.
No, that would be just a stupid.
But if it was suggested to you that, hey, this thing you're going rah-rah-rah for
because you think it's for the good and health of society and grandma and whoever else,
if somebody comes along and says there may be a real risk here,
not just this isn't doing any good, but it's doing real harm.
How many people responded by going, oh, really?
Well, let me look that up, let me check into it.
Almost nobody is the answer, because people suck.
They would rather cling to the idea that they are emotionally attached to
than pause and go, oh, so wait, you're saying you think it's not a good idea?
Hmm, do I actually know it's a good idea?
Should I go and, like, read the studies on mask efficacy?
Whether it does any good, whether it maybe even does harm?
Because none of them did, I know, because I read those studies that have been around
for the 50s, since the 50s, and on into today, nobody I ever met
who said, no matter where I'm at, you're threatening everybody.
I said, that is provably not, factually not the case.
And I can point you to the studies, none of them said, oh, what studies?
None of them, I never met anybody who said that.
Which means they didn't, even if I was wrong, even if I didn't have studies,
even if my reading was wrong, it shows they didn't want to look at something
that might conflict with the comfortable opinions they were already attached to
for fear of having to maybe change their mind.
Even when it was suggested you're harming a bunch of people,
you're torturing children by believing this, they still wouldn't even look.
And then the vaccines is a way more serious thing.
You're not just putting a piece of paper over your face unnecessarily.
You're injecting stuff that you don't understand.
I guarantee they don't understand.
They don't know what's in it. They don't know how it works.
And if you ask them how it works, they would say, well, it's a vaccine.
It makes you not get the disease.
Oh, because someone in government said that?
Well, if somebody else, in fact, the actual experts come along and say,
yeah, no, no, this is not safe. This is not okay.
This is actually a way more of a threat than a help
for lots of people, including children.
If you're like, no, no, no, because my side said that's not true,
you're demonstrating perfectly how much people suck.
Because they don't care enough about other human beings
to go through the horrible trauma of doubting what they believe at any given moment.
Now, lest you think I'm only going to beat up on the political left here,
never fear the people who are going to crack down on us war on drugs,
we have to stamp out these drug dealers.
Well, the first time you heard, and you must have by now,
not from me, but from a thousand other people,
that the war on drugs makes everything worse.
It doesn't reduce drug addiction. It makes it worse.
It doesn't reduce overdoses. It makes them worse.
It doesn't even reduce drug use.
And it makes the trade infinitely more dangerous and infinitely more violent.
It's why street gangs exist.
It's why the Mexican drug cartels exist is because of the U.S. war on drugs.
You must have heard somebody suggest that at some point.
Did you give a shit? Did you pause to think,
well, I don't want to harm people.
Like, I was in favor of this because I see drugs as a bad thing
and I see it ruining much people's lives.
But if you're telling me that the solution I've been cheering for
is actually doing even more harm than that,
well, let me pause long enough to check.
Did anybody say that? Does anybody say that?
No, because people suck. Conservatives, you suck too.
You're just as emotionally attached to your comfortable, familiar beliefs.
And just as reticent to actually doubt something and back up and go,
is this doing any good?
Or am I just feeling good about advocating something?
Which, by the way, applies to all the people on the left to support gun control.
I want there to be less gun violence.
Okay, do you know anybody who doesn't?
Well, other than the feds.
You want less gun violence.
Well, if somebody comes to you and says,
here is literally a study of every single county in the entire country
before and after, after and before with gun control without,
like, studied every direction you can think of.
In the book, More Guns, Less Crime by Dr. Lott.
Here is a study that shows that you advocating gun control
hurts more innocent people.
Now, again, you don't have to just blindly believe that.
Well, somebody said that's the case.
I don't have to assume they're true.
They're right. I don't have to assume it's true.
But if somebody tells you you're cheering for something from good intentions,
you meant well, you wanted there to be less innocent people dying, okay?
But it turns out that what you're cheering for is making things worse.
That gun control results in very, very bad things.
If you don't know what happened outside of Waco, Texas, to the branch of Indians,
if you don't know what happened at Ruby Ridge,
as a direct result of gun control, reasonable gun control,
if you don't want to look at that because of the discomfort
it might make you feel about things you're familiar with
and comfortable in saying, you suck.
If you care less about innocent people suffering
and being literally tortured and murdered by the federal government
in the name of gun control, if you care less about that,
then how it feels for you to have to back up and go,
wait, am I advocating something counterproductive by accident?
If those are your priorities that that slightly inconvenient feeling
inside your own head matters more to you
than if innocent people are suffering and dying
as a result of things that you comfortably believe,
you kind of suck.
And just to pick on the right again to try to make this balance and fair,
I used to be a big supporter of the US military
because I thought they were defeating evil people
and doing good things and fighting for freedom and justice and yada, yada, yada.
And would I have been open to somebody saying,
eh, it's not really what they do.
Like, glad you want, like, freedom and all that
and protecting the innocent and stopping the bad guys,
but that isn't what the US military does.
Would I have listened to that? Probably not.
I mean, eventually I did think about such things
and I can't say exactly what I read or who I listened to.
There was something like, alright, I should probably back up
and make sure I'm not accidentally cheering for evil,
but it took an embarrassingly long time for me to do that.
And the list just keeps going
and there are some examples that are just very in your face
and they come right out in the, even in the mainstream media,
the Operation Fast and Furious, where the ATF was caught
intentionally supplying the Mexican drug cartels with assault weapons.
That happened. You can look it up.
It is not some crazy conspiracy theory.
It is provably the truth.
Now, if you go rah, rah, rah for the ATF and gun control
because you think they're cracking down on crime
and protecting the innocent and you hear,
wait, they intentionally supplied these ruthless
Mexican drug cartels with machine guns.
Why shouldn't you kind of think,
why shouldn't you maybe pause your comfortable world view
for a minute in between going rah, rah, rah for law enforcement
and go, why the hell would they do that?
Like, that's, that's, or is that so uncomfortable to think about
that you're like, never mind. I don't know.
I don't need to know why that happened.
I'm comfortable in my beliefs and it doesn't matter
what harm it's causing to other people
as long as I don't have to feel the discomfort of doubt.
Because that's what most people do.
And we just got another story out.
And I think this one even made the mainstream,
mainstream of the DEA intentionally letting
eight gazillion doses of, was it fentanyl?
I don't know. They do it constantly.
I don't even know which one this was.
I think letting a whole bunch of fentanyl through
so they could go bravely battle the drug problem with,
wait a minute, what, on purpose?
Not just, oh, you did a bad job.
They intentionally let that through.
If you think the war on drugs is this great thing
saving our children and blah, blah, blah,
and you find out that these brave warriors
for truth and justice that you're cheering for
intentionally allowed 80 gazillion doses,
whatever it was, of fentanyl to be distributed
on the streets of America, shouldn't you maybe
pause and go, what the hell?
Like I supported them thinking they're the opposite of this.
If they prove that they're that
and that they would do something like that,
maybe I should pause and reconsider
what the hell is going on.
Or did you care more about your own mental comfort
and not having to doubt things or question things
or maybe even changing your mind?
It's so much trouble and it's unpleasant.
It's much better to just cling to whatever you believe now
no matter how much evidence shows that you're cheering
for something that is resulting in pain
and suffering and death for innocent people.
Everything's blowing away.
Pipe down.
So, oh, and then of course I have to throw
and mention of Operation Northwoods.
If you think the military exists to protect us
and stop nasty things from happening,
then you haven't read the Operation Northwoods documents.
They're publicly available on the government's own website.
Again, this isn't some crazy conspiracy theory.
This is openly documented, absolutely provable.
Go read the Northwood documents
and if you go rah-rah-rah for the U.S. military after that
I have to conclude that you don't know how to read
because it absolutely shows all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
all of the top brass in all branches of the U.S. military
agreeing to commit false flag terrorism
including against Americans to dupe the American people
into cheering for another completely unnecessary war.
That's what it shows in their own words, indisputably.
It's not debatable what it meant.
Have you bothered to read that?
Or have you maybe not, maybe you didn't hear about it all
but maybe you've heard of it and thought,
oh, well that's silly and crazy
and for some reason I don't really want to look at that
because then I might have to change my mind about something.
So, is that attitude something that makes you a shitty person?
Does that mean that you suck?
What kind of?
Even though it's the norm that's most people most of the time
it's most liberals, it's most conservatives,
it's how they deal with all their beliefs about anything.
Is they find it so uncomfortable to doubt things
and question things and change their mind
that if somebody says to them
you're cheering for things that are killing innocent people
they go, no, not.
But so, let me go from just blatantly insulting you
and saying you suck to making it into a question,
do you suck so bad that you would rather cling to beliefs
that may be resulting in lots and lots of innocent people
suffering and going just through hell,
do you suck that bad that that is your attitude
or would you rather maybe back up and reconsider a few things?
People care way too much about their own intellectual comfort
and most of the time I try to be nice about that.
I try to be patient and approach it with questions
and try to gently invite people to consider things.
Most of the time I don't start by telling people how much they suck
and in fact I'm about to release a book called Approaching Humanity
which approaches this very gently and nicely.
It doesn't start by telling people they suck.
It does get around to pointing out why our psychology is like that
and why we are so reluctant to consider things
that may show that we've been wrong for a pretty long time
and inadvertently supporting destructive things
without knowing it, you know, not on purpose or anything like that.
But both the book Approaching Humanity
which by the way you can now pre-order,
link below tells how to do that, you can pre-order your copy.
It comes out on July 18th at our event
called Approaching Humanity up in Sedona
both of which will be very patient and nice
and won't tell anybody that they suck
which will try to gently bring people
to the realization that if you're not capable
of backing up and questioning your assumptions
and questioning your paradigms
then you can say you have good intentions
and maybe you do have good intentions
and noble motives like you want the poor to be taken care of
you want the innocent to be protected
you want nasty people stopped.
Okay, I want all those things.
Almost everybody you ever meet, right, left, anything else
is going to say he wants all those things.
Are you advocating things that actually
accomplish those things?
Or might you unwittingly be advocating things
that do the exact opposite in the real world
of what you say you want
and do you care enough to check
on which of those it is?
If so, I invite you to pre-order my book
Approaching Humanity or even better
be at our event on July 18th
at the Sedona Performing Arts Center
up in Sedona, Arizona
to be there in person for our all-day event
with a bunch of awesome speakers
to get all the info or to get tickets
see below.
But whether you read my book
or whether you go to those events
at least for a moment
ask yourself
do you suck so much
that you'd rather avoid
a little bit of temporary mental discomfort
than to be open and honest enough
to check and see whether you might
accidentally be empowering
and enabling evil.
I was
and it's embarrassing.
I feel shame and guilt
at how long it took me
to actually back up and look
to make sure I wasn't accidentally
being a cheerleader
or a cheerleader against humanity
and I absolutely was
and it's pretty damn embarrassing
to admit it now
and I would ask you
look at yourself, judge yourself
who cares what I think of you
who cares if I think you suck
you decide if you suck
you decide for yourself
if your own temporary
mental comfort
matters to you more
than whether you are adding
good to the world
or evil to the world
you tell me.