Technocratic takeover via supply chains
The meaning of time..What time is it? A new standard of achievement in education. Supply chains are the shock troops in today’s soft war.
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Speaker 0 (0s): All right. My friends it's Wednesday also known as hump day, depending on how you want to define hump, that could be a, something on a camel, or it could be an act of lust, maybe. So are you guys all wondering what the answer to the riddle is? Never the little we did yesterday, it was a, what, what is something that not even the strongest man can hold for nine minutes, but is lighter than a feather.
I bet you, that was just driving you guys crazy, huh? Well, is there any, any guesses, any guesses? Do you guys think of anything? The answer is your breath because no one can hold their breath for nine minutes and it's lighter than a feather. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who was asking me about the podcast and what I'm going to talk about.
And he says, Hey, you ever talk about conspiracies? And I said, I talk about them all the time, but I've yet to really kind of get in depth on any kind of podcast and talk about one. So today my friends, we're going to step out onto the Wu tree. For those of you that don't know the Wu tree, the Wu tree is a lot, think of like a large, like a large tree with all kinds of branches, but the branches as they grow longer, they grow thinner.
And my argumentation is like going way out on a thin branch. And the reason that is, is because if you were to go out on a very thin branch, that branch would not be able to, that that branch probably would not be able to hold your weight and it would break. Thus, my foundation for the conspiracies is like the Wu tree.
It may not hold up. So let's just, let's just jump in here with both feet and try to cover some ground today. You know, one of my favorite conspiracies is the magic Johnson conspiracy. You know what I mean? Remember that guy? Great basketball player. Number 32. I always think of chick Hearns. When I think of magic Johnson, remember whoever every time they would be about to win. You'd hear chick Hearns, just say, all right, well, it's the jellos jiggling.
The eggs are getting hard. The butter's cooling time to put this one in the fridge.
Speaker 1 (3m 1s): This game is over. I think it was something like that. The jellos jiggling eggs are cooling and the butter is getting hard time to put this one in the fridge. I miss that guy, but magic Johnson. Remember that when I was growing up, he was a, he was a bad man. I think he's still in the, I think he's in the hall of fame, right? Doesn't he own the Clippers. It doesn't own part of the Lakers now. However, when I was coming up, I was in high school and it was right when they, the AIDS crisis was coming in.
And for people that don't know the height of the AIDS crisis, it was considered mainly like a gay disease or a disease for intervening, his drug use users. Those are the two main groups of which the majority of people inflicted with AIDS. That was the tool. Then one day, there's this big press conference and magic Johnson comes out and he says, you know, I knew standing there with his wife and his teammates.
And he was like, you know, I just want to let everybody know that I tested HIV positive. And the whole world was like, Whoa, magic Johnson, HIV positive. And it kind of, it was big news. It was big news. It was all over the news channel. No, there's, there's two major conspiracies here. Let's, let's go over the first one. First. The first is that he never had AIDS.
He's never HIV positive. He did it as a publicity stunt to draw attention. Okay. And get money to help come up with a cure for AIDS. That's one, one spot. And there's a lot of evidence. Like if it was mainly a disease for gay people and drugs users, I'm sure there's plenty of people that would call magic Johnson bag, but he's not gay.
And he never, he never participated in that kind of sexual activity. At least not to my knowledge. He's definitely not a heroin addict. So he's not shooting drugs. However, he I'm sure that that guy got around. Right. I'm sure all of those athletes have a number of women they've had sex with. And that number is probably well into the triple digits.
If not quadruple digits, it was kind of odd though. I mean, he's standing up there with his wife talking about, Hey, I got AIDS, you know, the fruit, his wife's gotta be like, well, how did you get that? How'd you get that magic? Oh, you know, I think it was the fifth number five Oh seven. The 507th woman has said was gave it to me.
That's another thing like how does a out of the women's stay with all those pros? They just are constantly cheating on, I guess it's the money, right? Anyways. So that's one idea. One idea is that it was a publicity stunt to, to draw attention, to, and get money for the cause. The second conspiracy theory, which I think is much more interesting is that magic Johnson, he was HIV positive.
He had AIDS. Now magic Johnson does not have AIDS. He's not HIV positive. He no longer has a trace of the virus in his body. Pretty amazing. Right. He had it no longer has it. He had it.
He no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. That in itself is worth study. But even more interesting is that his name is magic Johnson, magic Johnson, magic Johnson. It's a euphemism for a magic penis. This man has a magic Johnson. He got his magic Johnson, gave him AIDS and then his magic Johnson allowed him to get rid of his AIDS.
You see what I'm saying? The guy is a magic. He's magic to the, I made HIV disappear with his magic Johnson. That is pretty funny. Right? I thought that was pretty funny. You look at it though. He probably never had it, right. He probably thought, Hey, I'm going to raise money. I'm going to raise awareness. I'm going to help out these communities.
Then he goes out and he tells the public, Hey, look at me. I got AIDS, but now he doesn't have it on his body. You know, you got to think that maybe the insurance companies are, can you imagine, like you go out and you tell the world, Hey, I'm HIV positive. Here's my test. And then you try to get life insurance and they're like, Hey, fuck you. You're HIV positive magic. And then he's gotta be like, well, you know, I'm, I'm actually not. And they're like, well, fuck you. Why'd you say on TV? Oh, well just trying to raise awareness for the group.
Well, we're going to want you to take a test. You know, you got to imagine that just probably the stigma that comes with that disease probably cause that guy a lot of grief, but I don't know. I think that he, I don't think he probably ever had it, but I like to think of the second one about him having a magic Johnson and, and not getting rid of it. I think that's a kind of a funny one.
That's one, that's one conspiracy theory. People don't talk too much about another conspiracy. How about the new world order about those guys? What the hell is the new world order? People talk about it a lot. You know, it's all over YouTube. And I think Henry Kissinger wrote a book called world order.
A lot of people talk about the new world order and the deep state shadow government. I think that's pretty simplistic. There's clearly, there's clearly forces at work that control the narrative. But I would think it's more like in my, I think at some sort of conglomeration of intelligence companies, you know, we talked a little bit yesterday about private corporations hiring their own private securities, which are own like their own private armies.
If you think about corporations, they're kind of like a country in a way. I mean, some of them have, if you think of the corporation as a state and then all its little hubs like cities and all the workers in those hubs as citizens know it's its own economic model, it's its own entity, it's its own sovereign nation in a way.
And a lot of people talk about that being the new world order, not so much as a conspiracy of countries coming together in order to divide and conquer their people, but a new method of governing people, a new world order, instead of there being sovereign nations, there's just multinational corporations.
And if you look at some of the Rockefeller literature or some of the council on foreign relations or trilateral commission, you know, or even even our own military actions and other countries where we just go in as a military and wipe out the people there or clear the way for our corporations to start doing business, you could make the argument that, that there's a lot of people throughout government and business that are trying to establish a new world order in that being that business is the ultimate authority.
There's an interesting debate. I saw a while back between Peter teal and bill Gates and they were debating the economy of the future. And it was obvious to me, at least that Peter teal does not like bill Gates. You know, he was letting fly a lot of ad hominem attacks about how, you know, bill Gates is responsible for a lot of problems and third world nations due to his vaccines and his ideas on business and eugenics.
And there was some really funny lines in there. You know, there was some, one line was Peter teal had made a really articulate statement and then bill Gates followed up to the moderator and bill Gates to something like this. Let's just pretend that everything that he said is not true. It was, it was pretty funny. I think that, I think that's kind of what's when you think about the new world order or you think about the emerging, the emerging economic issues, I would say that what we're seeing now, if I was to label myself as a conspiracy theorist, or just give you my hunch on what's happening, I think that we're moving towards a more technocratic society.
And then we define what I mean by a technocratic. Technocratic is rule by science,
Speaker 0 (14m 54s): By the idea, the technocrats believe that politicians are worthless, that they are greedy and selfish and easily manipulatable, too much willing to give in to what the people think should happen instead of doing what the right thing is, where the technocrat compiles as much data as he can, and then tries to establish the most, not fair but effective and efficient distribution of those resources once he has, once he's compiled this list, once he understands the patterns of commerce, once he understands the pie, the patterns of consumption, then according to the technocrat, there'll be able to better make our society about effective and efficient.
So it's a rule by science and the rule. The problem I have with the technocrats is that I think they're the same as the politicians. They're both corrupt, they're broke, they're both easily manipulatable. So I think it just as human beings, we have this, we have this blind spot, this sort of confirmation bias that makes it almost impossible for us to truly understand complexity too often.
We, we either give up our critical thinking to someone who knows about something, or we tend to believe in people that just because they're smart in one area, we tend to give them credibility in all areas, but it's not true just because you're smart in one area. Doesn't mean you're smarter in all areas. In fact, if you're really smart in one area, that probably means that you're lacking in the other areas.
I would say that, you know, if, if, if we go down the technocrat trail and the conspiracy minded mindset, now that that has something to do with the COVID-19. I think one thing we can all agree on is that no one knows what's going on. Is it real? I know people that have had it. I know a guy that was on an incubator incubator is that right into Bader.
I've had people in my family that have had it. Why is it that the media reports that COVID-19, it affects more people of color. In fact, it it's numbers. According to the media on people of color are a multiple of white people, but the very same media then tells people of color to go out and protest in one breath, they say, listen, people of color are more susceptible to COVID-19.
Their symptoms are worse. The lasting damage is worse. And then in the very next breath, they say, people of color should go outside and protest and subject themselves to COVID-19 like, how, how can they, how can the media say that? And then people not think critically about that. It's weird that the hardest hit States are all democratic States. They all have democratic governors.
It's weird that a KCO Cortez deleted a tweet that said, we must lock down the States to ruin the economy. So Donald Trump won't get elected. And just so everybody knows, I don't, I don't have a dog in this fight. Like I, I think Trump and Biden are equally silly. You know, if the Democrats wanted to win, why wouldn't they run one of the young guns?
There's a lot of things that don't make sense. What about the rule Haun lab, right? Did you see the guy from Harvard that got arrested for taking money from, from China? How about dr. Fowchee roll in the hand lab? How come that guy was studying there? Is that where the virus came from? Like it may have come from a bat, but I don't think that bat with the virus was consumed by an individual at a wet market.
It clearly seems like some sort of a bio weapon to me. How can you have a vaccine for the Corona virus? The vaccine people take for the flu works? I don't even know if I would say that. I don't even know if I would say that it works. It's effective. Maybe 10% of the time. They never know what strain it is. They, they just are injecting you with something that they believe is going to help stimulate your immune system.
Isn't it also funny that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued or the harm their vaccine does. So part of me was thinking that the solution to the COVID crisis, if an, if it is indeed a bio weapon, or if it is indeed a pandemic, one of the reasons why people can't go back to work is because the insurance companies can't find out who's liable.
Is it the employer? That's like, who's accepting his, his employer, employees to unsafe work conditions? Or is it the employee who, who maybe has the COVID that is the person who's liable because they are bringing it into the workplace. Is it the guy that owns the restaurant? Or is it the patron of the restaurant? As far as I know, it's all of their faults and there's really no way to sort out that liable <inaudible> unless, unless, unless you could get, if everybody, a vaccine and then say, look, everyone's had the vaccine, no, one's liable.
And you can't Sue the pharmaceutical companies. Right. Then everybody has to go back to work. And if you get it and die, Oh, well you got a vaccine. Some people say that the COVID stands for certificate a vaccination ID, 2019 certificate of vaccination ID 2019.
Okay. And if you look up bill Gates and MIT, you can see that what they've been doing, working on there, it's called a quantum dumb dot a quantum dot. And it's like a, it's a lot like a, almost like a little tattoo with maybe like some RFI, like an RFID chip in there. I'm not sure exactly, but it's my Newt.
And once you have that particular quantum dot embedded in your skin, you know, it serves as a easily scannable chip that could be used to track you. It could be used to keep track of your records. It could be used to keep track of you of a new currency. If we were to go on some sort of a digital currency and you know, it's like, it's like tracking cattle, except instead of putting that thing in your ear, it's going to put it right in your arm.
I think that there is, there's some dark forces out there that really want this to happen. They really think, and it comes back to the technocratic ideas of,
Speaker 2 (23m 49s): Of understanding patterns of commerce and behavior. If they could just, if they could just chip everybody, they could see who's spinning wa where they're spending their time. And then they could better understand how to set up a smart city. They could better understand people's patterns. At least that's their idea. That's what they think. And look no further than Africa right now. Like this is actually ongoing in Africa right now. You could look it up and check it out. It's it's almost seems like we're in a movie.
Would you, are you guys taking the chip? If they bring it in here? Hey, this is the vaccine. You gotta take this thing. Hey, you can't work. Hey, you can't get on an airplane. Hey, you can't get a driver's license unless you have this. It's a fascinating, it's a fascinating thing to think about it all could be it all.
There's a lot of talk about the great reset. Is there going to be some sort of like a great reset where debt gets wiped out? Is there going to be some kind of great reset where everyone takes a, like a, like a banking holiday or I don't know. I mean, how, how would that even look? Okay. No one has any debt anymore.
Okay. There's no college debt. Okay. There's no mortgage debt. You would definitely stimulate the economy, right? No one had any debt you could start over. It's fascinating to think about what's happening on wall street right now. It's fascinating to think about albeit scandalous and kind of demeaning.
It's still fascinating. We're printing so much money and just giving it to the banks. Could you guys see the, on the PPP loans that banks made like $12 billion just in processing fees? Isn't that just a way of bailing out the banks? Okay. We're going to come up with this loan scam where we're going to give anybody that wants money. If they can say they have a business, we'll give them up to $2 million. And then the banks will process that fee.
You know, it's maybe that's the reason why the wording on those PPP loans was so vague because they needed the banks to get at least, you know, $12 billion. So that way they, they knew that if the banks were going to charge 3% or 5%, then they had to give away at least, you know, however, like a trillion dollars or whatever. So the banks could get, you know, a percentage of that deeper in it.
If we're in so deep right now that the government is just giving money to wall street and giving money to BlackRock and giving money to everybody. Like there's no, there's no way out. Right? I think about people that have been in their house now for, I don't know, five months or six months, and haven't paid any mortgage payments, haven't paid any rent payments.
And if you live in a tourist destination, how about all the people that work at the hotels at some point in time, either, you know, it seems like we're getting another stimulus package, but at some point in time, those people are gonna run out of money. Right? Or does the government just keep on sending it out?
I don't know. Since we're going down the Woohoo tree, there are some, there are some people talking about that. This whole thing, right. I know is because we're about to get hit by an asteroid or multiple asteroids. Imagine that one, imagine that they're trying to keep people happy and not panicked, but come September.
You're gonna start to see things in the sky. And then everybody's going to realize, Oh shit, we're about to get deep impacted, know it on some level you could think, well, that's why essential businesses running. There's not a whole lot of danger right now. However there's going to be. And we don't want people out. We don't know where these rocks are going to hit. We know there's going to be a lot of them. We don't know where they're going to hit, or when they're going to hit, we want to keep people in their houses.
We want to, you know, how do we get people to start getting prepared without scaring them? How do we, how do we get people to change their behavior for an event that we don't want to tell them about? And it's worldwide, right? COVID is not just in the U S it's worldwide. Maybe, maybe it's maybe it's just a pandemic. Maybe the earth is like, Hey man, getting sick and tired of you, parasites just squander and everything.
And it's time for me, the earth to let you guys know that you are an evolutionary culdesac, adios, Amigos. It could be that we're just suffering from stagnation. It could be that there's no new ideas. It could be that all the banks, all the companies have bet big on tech.
They have bet big on, on the ideas of flying cars and new technologies. And they made big bets with side chain derivatives. And none of those companies panned out. None of those companies produced the product they promised that's plausible. It's plausible.
It could be that we are preparing for the great reset and we already are putting the new system to work. And what am I, what I mean by that is have you guys ever read, excuse me, that book ready player one. It's if you haven't read it, you should totally read. It's a great book. It's a fiction book. I know it's been like fiction, but you should read it, but it just talks about this boy who in the future, you know, he's, he's going to school, but what's important about the book to this topic is the way he was going to school.
He was going to school via virtual reality. So we have like a headset and like a console. And then he would, you know, you just, you put on your headset and then you go to your Google meet and then your boom you're in the virtual class.
Speaker 1 (32m 10s): No,
Speaker 2 (32m 13s): I don't, I don't have the, I don't have the, the Vive or the Oculus. I got the one headset where you can put your phone in there. However, I've heard good things about the Vive and the Oculus. And I, I can't imagine, imagine if you had a really cool headset and you put that headset on, and then you're in virtual reality with kids from all over the world, taking classes like an elective from a history teacher in Switzerland.
And if you'd like that guy that everybody does puts on their headset and go that guy's class, you know, kind of does away with the education in your community, right? Whether that's magic or tragic, I don't know. Hmm. It could be one opportunity for like truly global learning and truly a coming together of global ideas, whatever it is.
I think it's important to note that power, be it, the government official, the corporate executive or the military leader power has never given up people don't give up their position. Power is taken. Power is taken. It's always taken. It's never given up, has never advocated. It's either it's either overthrown or it's taken.
And that kind of brings us back full circle. Cool to propaganda. And you know, the printed word and linear speech and linear thinking throughout your whole life, at least in the U S what are you taught? non-VA Hey, I don't condone violence. Hey, let's try to find a nonviolent solution. No, it's like the keep on the top or trying to from a very early age influence kids, not to fight.
When, if you look back at history, the only real change has come from violent revolution. I mean, you can, maybe this is a conspiracy, but it seems like at least the men in some parts of the country have been softened up with this whole theories of nonviolence and transgenderism and soy boys.
And, you know, Lord knows what's in the food and the lower testosterone counts. That's one thing I really, I really admire about Hawaii is it, it's still at its core, like a warrior culture. If you're in the, you say the wrong thing to the wrong person, you're, you're going to get your ass kicked.
And then like, as, as a man, there's something about it's kind of liberating. Like yeah, that guy deserved to get punched in the face. Yeah. That guy deserved to get his ass kicked or Hey, that guy didn't deserve to get his ass kicked, but that was a hell of a fight. There's something about standing up for what you believe in. There's something about not backing down from what you think, even if it's wrong, but you believe it to be right.
There's something refreshing about fighting for that. I think we're missing a big part of that. I would like to see a return to a return to questioning authority, a return to the rebellious spirit or return to violent protection of your ideas, right?
Anything in life worth having is worth fighting for. I think that which leads me to another 0.1 way of fighting. And the first, the first line of fighting is verbal.
And I think that's one reason why people aren't taught the Trivium just to be clear, the Trivium is grammar, logic and rhetoric. And it was a, a course that was taught to all scholars in ancient times, right? Grammar. We talked about a little bit grammar is the ability to understand the structure of language.
And the reason that's important is because the way grammar is structured is the way your reality is structured. Logic is the ability to think critically logic is the ability to forecast potential outcomes. Logic is the ability to forecast intent rhetoric is the ability to persuade the people with whom you are speaking.
If you can master those three, if you can just have an idea of those three, then it's like having a, a purple belt in linguistic jujitsu. And I kind of want to go, I think in a later podcast, I'm going to try to dissect each of those and try and break it down and try to give everybody a foundation.
And each cause I think that that's, we know we've spoken a lot about propaganda and we've spoken about how to recognize it and that those are great defensive moves being aware of what's coming your way is a great defensive move. But I think we can work on some offense. And I think oftens would be working with our grammar, working with our logic and working with our rhetoric, understanding the means in which we decide to use argumentation, understanding the logical Valley policies, like the appeal to authority or the appeal to emotion, understanding techniques that can help you in crucial conversations.
I guess we could talk a little bit about them now. I don't, I don't have a lot of the work in front of me, but we can talk about a few strategies. Here's something you can try today. Whenever you speak first off, know this, what is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? The purpose of an argument is to solve a problem.
You see too many of us when we were, when we are in an argument, we forget the purpose of an argument. And instead of trying to solve a problem, we try to win. See it triggers that fight flight mode, and it can trigger some emotions and it can trigger your adrenaline. And all of a sudden, instead of staying on topic about what it is you're trying to solve, all of a sudden an ad hominem attack is thrown your way.
And by that, I mean like a personal attack is throwing your away something off topic, but it's just thrown at you to kind of throw you off base. And so it's, it's important to be aware of that. If you can be aware that in any argument, the purpose is to solve a problem that will automatically stop or at least slow and or hinder the fight or flight response. So you, so you won't feel the anxiety rise, you won't feel your emotions rise.
You won't feel your anger arise because it's not an attack on you. It's a, it's a lack of understanding between two people. So if you can know that and repeat that to yourself. When you find yourself in a confrontational situation, you can better use your words to protect yourself. So that being said, something you can do to practice and use it a conversation and use an argumentation is that whenever you speak to somebody start like you normally would, and then let the other person talk.
And as soon as that of the person talks, don't answer them right away in your mind, count to five or seven. So I'm talking right now, as I'm talking to you, I'm going to show you what a silent, this is called, the silent pause. I'm going to show you what a silent pause looks like. We're talking, we're talking. That was seven seconds.
You could probably do five, but if you do that, just try it out today. Just when someone says something, count to five or seven in your head. And I bet you before, you can even say another word in that seven seconds. The other person is going to say something else. People aren't used to. People are not used to other people listening and not saying anything. In fact, that magic number of seven, because you haven't said anything in seven seconds, that other person begins to wonder why you're not saying anything.
And it's just long enough for them to start second guessing what they said. And nine out of 10 times, they will, especially in a conversation where someone who claims to be in an authority position is trying to say something to you. Hey, you know, I noticed that this thing happened over there. Do you want me to, you want to talk to about that seven seconds? That person in seven seconds will begin to think that their strategy is the wrong strategy and there's nothing, you know, there's no law that says you have to answer people at all, but try the seven seconds thing, try it out, get good at it, understand it, understand its power, understand why it works, you know, and teach it to your kids.
The younger people can use these strategies, the better it's going to be. But that is an effective one. The second one, which can be used on the heels of the seven, seven, second silent pause is to answer a question with a question. So let's say you're sitting down with someone they're like, Hey, can you please tell me why you decided to go and do that thing?
When you say thing, what thing are you talking about? Are you talking about the thing I did yesterday? Are you talking about the other thing? Okay. So you see what I did there? Let's break that down. They asked me a question. I waited seven seconds. And then I answered their question with a question because subliminally subliminally on an unconscious level, the person asking the questions is usually the person in charge.
Have you ever heard people say, Hey, I'll ask the questions here. It's because they want to be in charge. Usually the person asking the questions is the person in charge. So to follow up, if you, if you find yourself in that situation, the person brings you into wherever they ask you a question. So you wait your seven seconds and then you answer your question with a question it's called the Socratic method.
So now not only have you kind of thrown them off their base by the silent pause, but now you've begun to ask the questions and a tip on this part, like a little side channel of asking questions. Think about how questions. So for example, Hey, why did this happen over here? Like that? You wait your seven seconds. How would you have done it better?
So now you're answering them. You're answering their question with a question, but you're using a how question. And when someone asks you how to do something, it changes your thought patterns. It changes the way the other person thinks. Especially if, if they have a script of what they wanted to talk to you about, I'm going to ask this guy about that. I'm going to challenge him on this and see what he says. You've already thrown them off their game. You've given them the silent pause. You answered a question with a question.
And now the how question that forces them to think from your point of view, it's like a forced empathy. How would you have done it better? Now that person is obligated to tell you how they would have done it. And the chances are, they don't know how to do it better than you. The chances are. They didn't think about how they would do it. The chances are, they probably would have been at the exact same way. You did it. And by asking them, how would you have done it?
It forces them to think about that. It forces them. And what that does is it takes them off their script and it forces that empathy to be like, Oh yeah, well, gosh, I'd probably would have done it the same way you did. Or a lot of times what happens right there is that the person with whom you're arguing, they get mad right there. They realize that they've just lost the argument. And they're way out in the woods. Like they were they're way out in LA LA land because someone yelled at them.
Now they're trying to use the same techniques to yell at you, but you have successfully sidestepped and use their momentum against them. So there's three techniques right there and I'm just going to go and we'll go over them again because repetition is the mother of skill, right? Repetition is the mother of skill. Repetition is the mother of skill, the silent pause, seven seconds. Answer a question with a question and try to use how questions you make.
Good eye contact. It's a great place to start. And those are effective methods of solving a problem, not trying to win an argument. They're all. So those are all things that you should be thinking about to be a better communicator. Those are all things you should be thinking about in order to get your point across.
Those are all things you should be thinking about to talk to your children about. All of us will find ourselves in a situation like this. And the truth is the best leaders are the best communicators. If you can understand someone's point of view, if you can put yourself in someone else's shoes, if you can explain your thoughts clearly, then you can better understand your motivations and other people's motivations.
There's a lot of interesting techniques that we can use neural linguistic programming part of which is priming in pacing and mirroring. There's also some really interesting concepts about language that I'm going to do some more research on and get to you guys that truly, I mean, they just, they get to the real foundation of what our language is.
And you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, we're the barbarians because we just babble all the time. You know, we just pop, pop, pop, pop out, just babbling. We forgotten what, what language is like. We've forgotten how to truly communicate. There's some schools of thought that say poetic verse is in fact, the real way of communicating when you speak in a style of poetic metaphor and everybody knows what I mean, have you ever read a good poem?
And it makes you get goosebumps or you read a good poem and you start crying or you read a poem and it, it helps you clearly see a vision in your mind. Like that is language that is linguistics. You know, it's not written in poetic form contracts, user agreements, insurance contracts, you know, none of that's written in poetic metaphor.
In fact, I'm just thinking out loud here. Maybe, maybe that is the answer. Maybe that is the answer, but getting back to, I think it's called like a, you phonics and there's a story about, there is a story. I think it's from, Plato's create a list.
Here's a little blurb. And let me read this little blurb. The primary text in you, phonics is Plato's cradle is a Socratic dialogue about the origins of language and the influence of archetypal sounds on the formation of words. It is subtitled on the correctness of names. The debate is between Socrates and two other characters create a list who claims to know the science of nomenclature and what there is in a name, which makes it correct or otherwise.
And Hermanis who denies that there is any science or inherent correctness in naming things. His contention is that whatever name you choose to give anything is its right name. The third party, Socrates examines, both arguments and comes down on the side of cradles. The dialogue is long intricate and in parts quite misdefined in speculating about the original forms
Speaker 3 (54m 19s): <inaudible>
Speaker 2 (54m 21s): Of names, Socrates teases, his listeners without rages, puns and obscure illusions, which modern scholars are at a loss to interpret. He claims no special knowledge of the subject, but offers the view that a name appears to be a vocal imitation and a person who imitates something with his voice names that which he imitates. There are good names and bad ones. And a good name is one that contains the proper letters. Letters are appropriate or not in a name according as they serve to represent through their sounds, the qualities of whatever is being named.
Thus the proper name for a thing is a composition of those sounds, which imitate the ideas associated with it near the end of the dialogue. Socrates speaks about the inherent meanings of individual sounds. The R sound he says is made by the tongue and it's most agitated and it is therefore expressive of rapid movement. It also, he adds later stands for hardness. The Greek words containing are with which Socrates illustrates his statement justify modern interest in this subject for the English translations also feature the letter R they include run RO trembling, rush race among other examples, given are the L sound, which has a sleek gliding motion sound.
And the G sound, which is gummy and gluttonous. I don't know when I think of GE, I think of good-looking greatness, gregarious, good humor, giant hammer George Monte. That's just me though. That's what I think. But you guys get the point, you know, if, if there's a proper name for things and each letter has a true meaning, didn't shouldn't you apply that letters true.
Meaning to the object. Another way to think about it is that formation of names or words from sounds that resemble those associated with the object or action to be named, or that seemed naturally suggestive of its qualities. The example given is cuckoo, and there are many other words such as plop click buzz per his, him, and ha, which are obvious attempts at imitating a sound similar.
Our temp, similar attempts are made in all languages. The question which then arises is to what extent these imitative sounds influenced the meanings of the longer composite words in which they occur. A previous essay on the poetical alphabet forms a chapter in a book called pleura verse American philosopher, Benjamin Paul blood. He begins by telling of a discussion he once had as to why an icicle could not fiddly be called a tub nor vice versa.
It is in the nature of its name. He concluded for a tub to be short and stubby, whereas an icicle sound spindly and slim at the sound of icicle to irrational mind throws up the word bicycle, which is also spindly and often cold explaining, perhaps the popular acceptance of that word, to name a pedal crank to Wheeler. You see what's going on there, the nature of a word, the, the letters of that word, put an idea in your head, and that idea should be congruent with the object that it explains, right?
Like plop click buzz per hiss. These are words that are imitations of sound. So shouldn't the names of things that we have imitate. It's an interesting concept. And it, if it is indeed true, it just shows how far we've fallen from using the language appropriate to explain our environment.
When you think about names, you remember when you were in kit, you were a kid and certain people got made fun of, you know, one thing I've noticed here in, in Hawaii, and this is a little bit about what we're talking about and it's about culture, but it's a, it's it straddles the fence between what we're talking about in culture. Sometimes people that come to the United States, they come from like a, an Asian culture where the Alphabet's different and it's difficult for people in the United States to pronounce names of different alphabets.
And so that person will take on an American name. There was a guy on my route that was, I think he was Chinese. And his last, he took, he took the moniker. He, his American name was Peter pan, right? Which every American kid has seen Peter pan. And so it goes without saying that, no, it's just a lack of like, he didn't understand this culture. People didn't understand his culture. However, because he, that name is stuck in the American lexicon as like a, as a, the boy who never grew up, all of a sudden that image is tied to it.
Therefore this guy from China is imitating Peter pan. Like he can't escape that he chose the wrong name, but it goes, it goes to what I'm talking about as far as, you know, if you're, if you're on the playground or you're naming a child, you know, when you're naming a kid, you got to think of like, Oh man, is, if I named it, if I named my girl Paulie, she's going to be perk Paulie or depressing Deandre or bill blunt or Willie week, or cheeky Charlie or big Bertha or slippery said, you know, there's, there's certain words that fit together that can be humorous.
And if you're not thinking about that, when your name and your kid, you can subset them to hours and hours of torment on the playground. You know, you know, this may seem childish and erotic, but behind such trivialize, a feature of language, which poets have always more or less consciously acknowledged names and words are made up of sounds. And each sound has some kind of natural meaning expressing any Woking, a certain human emotion.
In some cases, even the shapes of letters, the serpentine sibilant S for example, seem to accord with the sounds. They denote academic linguists and etymologists amid they're serious studies of secular durations and verbal migrations have no time for such a whimsical notions, but to a poet, this oral approach to language is all important. Every sensitive writer is concerned, not only with the proclaimed meaning of words, but also with their esoteric subliminal qualities, their pitch and ring, and the irrational feelings produced by the sound.
And sometimes by the side of them, that's, that's kind of a mouthful like, but it's true. If you're in tune with your language, you cannot deny that some words have irrational feelings produced by the sound. Some words have subliminal qualities, their pitch, and their ring.
Just the very sound of some words can cause you to feel a certain thing. And that's never, it's never talked about, imagine if you were a kid and at a young age, you begun to learn what the sounds of letters evoke. What if right from the beginning in school, you learned that the letter S it's it's serpentine nature, it's sibling as like, look at it.
Like if you think of an S it kind of looks like a snake. What is the word? Snake start with an S the serpent surreptitious, seductive salacious, S S that's a sound of snake makes like the letter S embodies that particular emotion that the snake produces, thus, the snake or the serpent is a great symbol of the letter.
S every letter has something like that. And what happens when you could string those letters together to form the right names for the right object? I would argue that if you're able to do that, the world would make more sense to you. Not only would the world make more sense to you, if you could learn to speak in such language, people around you would be amazed, the sentences you would stitch together.
The words that you could flip off the end of your tongue would dazzle the masses. It's an art form. And if kids could learn at an early age, how to master that, which they can the world to be a better place. I think that that's a pretty good spot for that.
That's kind of the beginning of, of the Trivium that we're going to work into a little bit upcoming we'll can go through a bunch of letters. I, I do have a little bit here on the, like, so we talked about S let me read you a little bit about the letter, a vowels hold emotions and feelings while continents hold thoughts, and the intellect, a Japanese Sage gives the explain explanation of why people falling off building shout, ah, on their way downwards.
It is because they naturally wish to ascend. And the, ah, sound is characteristic of uplift. Whether in body or spirit a gives a sense of alacrity, of active, happy alert, agile attentive, aware, awake, lads, and lasses. The appropriate bird is the Lark, which might thus be addressed. Audacious avian arise, ascend a loft to Azor skies, alert to your angelic strain or aspirations soar a gain.
So you can see that the proper application, the proper use of language and understanding grammar, understanding the power of each letter, how it influences people, how it, what emotion it might be able to evoke. If you knew what letters evoked, what emotion, then you would know which words to use to tell people, to get the desired response, fundamentally changing the way people communicate.
In fact, that should be, that would be an awesome legacy, right? What if your legacy was fundamentally changing the way people communicate? I would like that to be my legacy. I would like to help as many people as I can fundamentally change the way they communicate, not only so that they have better relationships, not only so that their life is more fulfilling, because it would make the world a better place.
Well, my friends it's time for me to get on out of here. I love you guys. Thank you for listening today. Thank you for going way out on the Wu tree branch of high speculation. We had a nice bird's eye view from that branch. And as the foundational branch began to break, we jumped down from the tree and landed into the linguistic arts of language.
I hope you're able to take a little bit from this. I hope that there was some argument, argumentative augmentations you can make along the way, and I hope that you can change your relationships and change your life and teach your kids some of what we learned. So I love you guys Aloha.
I bet you, that was just driving you guys crazy, huh? Well, is there any, any guesses, any guesses? Do you guys think of anything? The answer is your breath because no one can hold their breath for nine minutes and it's lighter than a feather. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who was asking me about the podcast and what I'm going to talk about.
And he says, Hey, you ever talk about conspiracies? And I said, I talk about them all the time, but I've yet to really kind of get in depth on any kind of podcast and talk about one. So today my friends, we're going to step out onto the Wu tree. For those of you that don't know the Wu tree, the Wu tree is a lot, think of like a large, like a large tree with all kinds of branches, but the branches as they grow longer, they grow thinner.
And my argumentation is like going way out on a thin branch. And the reason that is, is because if you were to go out on a very thin branch, that branch would not be able to, that that branch probably would not be able to hold your weight and it would break. Thus, my foundation for the conspiracies is like the Wu tree.
It may not hold up. So let's just, let's just jump in here with both feet and try to cover some ground today. You know, one of my favorite conspiracies is the magic Johnson conspiracy. You know what I mean? Remember that guy? Great basketball player. Number 32. I always think of chick Hearns. When I think of magic Johnson, remember whoever every time they would be about to win. You'd hear chick Hearns, just say, all right, well, it's the jellos jiggling.
The eggs are getting hard. The butter's cooling time to put this one in the fridge.
Speaker 1 (3m 1s): This game is over. I think it was something like that. The jellos jiggling eggs are cooling and the butter is getting hard time to put this one in the fridge. I miss that guy, but magic Johnson. Remember that when I was growing up, he was a, he was a bad man. I think he's still in the, I think he's in the hall of fame, right? Doesn't he own the Clippers. It doesn't own part of the Lakers now. However, when I was coming up, I was in high school and it was right when they, the AIDS crisis was coming in.
And for people that don't know the height of the AIDS crisis, it was considered mainly like a gay disease or a disease for intervening, his drug use users. Those are the two main groups of which the majority of people inflicted with AIDS. That was the tool. Then one day, there's this big press conference and magic Johnson comes out and he says, you know, I knew standing there with his wife and his teammates.
And he was like, you know, I just want to let everybody know that I tested HIV positive. And the whole world was like, Whoa, magic Johnson, HIV positive. And it kind of, it was big news. It was big news. It was all over the news channel. No, there's, there's two major conspiracies here. Let's, let's go over the first one. First. The first is that he never had AIDS.
He's never HIV positive. He did it as a publicity stunt to draw attention. Okay. And get money to help come up with a cure for AIDS. That's one, one spot. And there's a lot of evidence. Like if it was mainly a disease for gay people and drugs users, I'm sure there's plenty of people that would call magic Johnson bag, but he's not gay.
And he never, he never participated in that kind of sexual activity. At least not to my knowledge. He's definitely not a heroin addict. So he's not shooting drugs. However, he I'm sure that that guy got around. Right. I'm sure all of those athletes have a number of women they've had sex with. And that number is probably well into the triple digits.
If not quadruple digits, it was kind of odd though. I mean, he's standing up there with his wife talking about, Hey, I got AIDS, you know, the fruit, his wife's gotta be like, well, how did you get that? How'd you get that magic? Oh, you know, I think it was the fifth number five Oh seven. The 507th woman has said was gave it to me.
That's another thing like how does a out of the women's stay with all those pros? They just are constantly cheating on, I guess it's the money, right? Anyways. So that's one idea. One idea is that it was a publicity stunt to, to draw attention, to, and get money for the cause. The second conspiracy theory, which I think is much more interesting is that magic Johnson, he was HIV positive.
He had AIDS. Now magic Johnson does not have AIDS. He's not HIV positive. He no longer has a trace of the virus in his body. Pretty amazing. Right. He had it no longer has it. He had it.
He no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. That in itself is worth study. But even more interesting is that his name is magic Johnson, magic Johnson, magic Johnson. It's a euphemism for a magic penis. This man has a magic Johnson. He got his magic Johnson, gave him AIDS and then his magic Johnson allowed him to get rid of his AIDS.
You see what I'm saying? The guy is a magic. He's magic to the, I made HIV disappear with his magic Johnson. That is pretty funny. Right? I thought that was pretty funny. You look at it though. He probably never had it, right. He probably thought, Hey, I'm going to raise money. I'm going to raise awareness. I'm going to help out these communities.
Then he goes out and he tells the public, Hey, look at me. I got AIDS, but now he doesn't have it on his body. You know, you got to think that maybe the insurance companies are, can you imagine, like you go out and you tell the world, Hey, I'm HIV positive. Here's my test. And then you try to get life insurance and they're like, Hey, fuck you. You're HIV positive magic. And then he's gotta be like, well, you know, I'm, I'm actually not. And they're like, well, fuck you. Why'd you say on TV? Oh, well just trying to raise awareness for the group.
Well, we're going to want you to take a test. You know, you got to imagine that just probably the stigma that comes with that disease probably cause that guy a lot of grief, but I don't know. I think that he, I don't think he probably ever had it, but I like to think of the second one about him having a magic Johnson and, and not getting rid of it. I think that's a kind of a funny one.
That's one, that's one conspiracy theory. People don't talk too much about another conspiracy. How about the new world order about those guys? What the hell is the new world order? People talk about it a lot. You know, it's all over YouTube. And I think Henry Kissinger wrote a book called world order.
A lot of people talk about the new world order and the deep state shadow government. I think that's pretty simplistic. There's clearly, there's clearly forces at work that control the narrative. But I would think it's more like in my, I think at some sort of conglomeration of intelligence companies, you know, we talked a little bit yesterday about private corporations hiring their own private securities, which are own like their own private armies.
If you think about corporations, they're kind of like a country in a way. I mean, some of them have, if you think of the corporation as a state and then all its little hubs like cities and all the workers in those hubs as citizens know it's its own economic model, it's its own entity, it's its own sovereign nation in a way.
And a lot of people talk about that being the new world order, not so much as a conspiracy of countries coming together in order to divide and conquer their people, but a new method of governing people, a new world order, instead of there being sovereign nations, there's just multinational corporations.
And if you look at some of the Rockefeller literature or some of the council on foreign relations or trilateral commission, you know, or even even our own military actions and other countries where we just go in as a military and wipe out the people there or clear the way for our corporations to start doing business, you could make the argument that, that there's a lot of people throughout government and business that are trying to establish a new world order in that being that business is the ultimate authority.
There's an interesting debate. I saw a while back between Peter teal and bill Gates and they were debating the economy of the future. And it was obvious to me, at least that Peter teal does not like bill Gates. You know, he was letting fly a lot of ad hominem attacks about how, you know, bill Gates is responsible for a lot of problems and third world nations due to his vaccines and his ideas on business and eugenics.
And there was some really funny lines in there. You know, there was some, one line was Peter teal had made a really articulate statement and then bill Gates followed up to the moderator and bill Gates to something like this. Let's just pretend that everything that he said is not true. It was, it was pretty funny. I think that, I think that's kind of what's when you think about the new world order or you think about the emerging, the emerging economic issues, I would say that what we're seeing now, if I was to label myself as a conspiracy theorist, or just give you my hunch on what's happening, I think that we're moving towards a more technocratic society.
And then we define what I mean by a technocratic. Technocratic is rule by science,
Speaker 0 (14m 54s): By the idea, the technocrats believe that politicians are worthless, that they are greedy and selfish and easily manipulatable, too much willing to give in to what the people think should happen instead of doing what the right thing is, where the technocrat compiles as much data as he can, and then tries to establish the most, not fair but effective and efficient distribution of those resources once he has, once he's compiled this list, once he understands the patterns of commerce, once he understands the pie, the patterns of consumption, then according to the technocrat, there'll be able to better make our society about effective and efficient.
So it's a rule by science and the rule. The problem I have with the technocrats is that I think they're the same as the politicians. They're both corrupt, they're broke, they're both easily manipulatable. So I think it just as human beings, we have this, we have this blind spot, this sort of confirmation bias that makes it almost impossible for us to truly understand complexity too often.
We, we either give up our critical thinking to someone who knows about something, or we tend to believe in people that just because they're smart in one area, we tend to give them credibility in all areas, but it's not true just because you're smart in one area. Doesn't mean you're smarter in all areas. In fact, if you're really smart in one area, that probably means that you're lacking in the other areas.
I would say that, you know, if, if, if we go down the technocrat trail and the conspiracy minded mindset, now that that has something to do with the COVID-19. I think one thing we can all agree on is that no one knows what's going on. Is it real? I know people that have had it. I know a guy that was on an incubator incubator is that right into Bader.
I've had people in my family that have had it. Why is it that the media reports that COVID-19, it affects more people of color. In fact, it it's numbers. According to the media on people of color are a multiple of white people, but the very same media then tells people of color to go out and protest in one breath, they say, listen, people of color are more susceptible to COVID-19.
Their symptoms are worse. The lasting damage is worse. And then in the very next breath, they say, people of color should go outside and protest and subject themselves to COVID-19 like, how, how can they, how can the media say that? And then people not think critically about that. It's weird that the hardest hit States are all democratic States. They all have democratic governors.
It's weird that a KCO Cortez deleted a tweet that said, we must lock down the States to ruin the economy. So Donald Trump won't get elected. And just so everybody knows, I don't, I don't have a dog in this fight. Like I, I think Trump and Biden are equally silly. You know, if the Democrats wanted to win, why wouldn't they run one of the young guns?
There's a lot of things that don't make sense. What about the rule Haun lab, right? Did you see the guy from Harvard that got arrested for taking money from, from China? How about dr. Fowchee roll in the hand lab? How come that guy was studying there? Is that where the virus came from? Like it may have come from a bat, but I don't think that bat with the virus was consumed by an individual at a wet market.
It clearly seems like some sort of a bio weapon to me. How can you have a vaccine for the Corona virus? The vaccine people take for the flu works? I don't even know if I would say that. I don't even know if I would say that it works. It's effective. Maybe 10% of the time. They never know what strain it is. They, they just are injecting you with something that they believe is going to help stimulate your immune system.
Isn't it also funny that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued or the harm their vaccine does. So part of me was thinking that the solution to the COVID crisis, if an, if it is indeed a bio weapon, or if it is indeed a pandemic, one of the reasons why people can't go back to work is because the insurance companies can't find out who's liable.
Is it the employer? That's like, who's accepting his, his employer, employees to unsafe work conditions? Or is it the employee who, who maybe has the COVID that is the person who's liable because they are bringing it into the workplace. Is it the guy that owns the restaurant? Or is it the patron of the restaurant? As far as I know, it's all of their faults and there's really no way to sort out that liable <inaudible> unless, unless, unless you could get, if everybody, a vaccine and then say, look, everyone's had the vaccine, no, one's liable.
And you can't Sue the pharmaceutical companies. Right. Then everybody has to go back to work. And if you get it and die, Oh, well you got a vaccine. Some people say that the COVID stands for certificate a vaccination ID, 2019 certificate of vaccination ID 2019.
Okay. And if you look up bill Gates and MIT, you can see that what they've been doing, working on there, it's called a quantum dumb dot a quantum dot. And it's like a, it's a lot like a, almost like a little tattoo with maybe like some RFI, like an RFID chip in there. I'm not sure exactly, but it's my Newt.
And once you have that particular quantum dot embedded in your skin, you know, it serves as a easily scannable chip that could be used to track you. It could be used to keep track of your records. It could be used to keep track of you of a new currency. If we were to go on some sort of a digital currency and you know, it's like, it's like tracking cattle, except instead of putting that thing in your ear, it's going to put it right in your arm.
I think that there is, there's some dark forces out there that really want this to happen. They really think, and it comes back to the technocratic ideas of,
Speaker 2 (23m 49s): Of understanding patterns of commerce and behavior. If they could just, if they could just chip everybody, they could see who's spinning wa where they're spending their time. And then they could better understand how to set up a smart city. They could better understand people's patterns. At least that's their idea. That's what they think. And look no further than Africa right now. Like this is actually ongoing in Africa right now. You could look it up and check it out. It's it's almost seems like we're in a movie.
Would you, are you guys taking the chip? If they bring it in here? Hey, this is the vaccine. You gotta take this thing. Hey, you can't work. Hey, you can't get on an airplane. Hey, you can't get a driver's license unless you have this. It's a fascinating, it's a fascinating thing to think about it all could be it all.
There's a lot of talk about the great reset. Is there going to be some sort of like a great reset where debt gets wiped out? Is there going to be some kind of great reset where everyone takes a, like a, like a banking holiday or I don't know. I mean, how, how would that even look? Okay. No one has any debt anymore.
Okay. There's no college debt. Okay. There's no mortgage debt. You would definitely stimulate the economy, right? No one had any debt you could start over. It's fascinating to think about what's happening on wall street right now. It's fascinating to think about albeit scandalous and kind of demeaning.
It's still fascinating. We're printing so much money and just giving it to the banks. Could you guys see the, on the PPP loans that banks made like $12 billion just in processing fees? Isn't that just a way of bailing out the banks? Okay. We're going to come up with this loan scam where we're going to give anybody that wants money. If they can say they have a business, we'll give them up to $2 million. And then the banks will process that fee.
You know, it's maybe that's the reason why the wording on those PPP loans was so vague because they needed the banks to get at least, you know, $12 billion. So that way they, they knew that if the banks were going to charge 3% or 5%, then they had to give away at least, you know, however, like a trillion dollars or whatever. So the banks could get, you know, a percentage of that deeper in it.
If we're in so deep right now that the government is just giving money to wall street and giving money to BlackRock and giving money to everybody. Like there's no, there's no way out. Right? I think about people that have been in their house now for, I don't know, five months or six months, and haven't paid any mortgage payments, haven't paid any rent payments.
And if you live in a tourist destination, how about all the people that work at the hotels at some point in time, either, you know, it seems like we're getting another stimulus package, but at some point in time, those people are gonna run out of money. Right? Or does the government just keep on sending it out?
I don't know. Since we're going down the Woohoo tree, there are some, there are some people talking about that. This whole thing, right. I know is because we're about to get hit by an asteroid or multiple asteroids. Imagine that one, imagine that they're trying to keep people happy and not panicked, but come September.
You're gonna start to see things in the sky. And then everybody's going to realize, Oh shit, we're about to get deep impacted, know it on some level you could think, well, that's why essential businesses running. There's not a whole lot of danger right now. However there's going to be. And we don't want people out. We don't know where these rocks are going to hit. We know there's going to be a lot of them. We don't know where they're going to hit, or when they're going to hit, we want to keep people in their houses.
We want to, you know, how do we get people to start getting prepared without scaring them? How do we, how do we get people to change their behavior for an event that we don't want to tell them about? And it's worldwide, right? COVID is not just in the U S it's worldwide. Maybe, maybe it's maybe it's just a pandemic. Maybe the earth is like, Hey man, getting sick and tired of you, parasites just squander and everything.
And it's time for me, the earth to let you guys know that you are an evolutionary culdesac, adios, Amigos. It could be that we're just suffering from stagnation. It could be that there's no new ideas. It could be that all the banks, all the companies have bet big on tech.
They have bet big on, on the ideas of flying cars and new technologies. And they made big bets with side chain derivatives. And none of those companies panned out. None of those companies produced the product they promised that's plausible. It's plausible.
It could be that we are preparing for the great reset and we already are putting the new system to work. And what am I, what I mean by that is have you guys ever read, excuse me, that book ready player one. It's if you haven't read it, you should totally read. It's a great book. It's a fiction book. I know it's been like fiction, but you should read it, but it just talks about this boy who in the future, you know, he's, he's going to school, but what's important about the book to this topic is the way he was going to school.
He was going to school via virtual reality. So we have like a headset and like a console. And then he would, you know, you just, you put on your headset and then you go to your Google meet and then your boom you're in the virtual class.
Speaker 1 (32m 10s): No,
Speaker 2 (32m 13s): I don't, I don't have the, I don't have the, the Vive or the Oculus. I got the one headset where you can put your phone in there. However, I've heard good things about the Vive and the Oculus. And I, I can't imagine, imagine if you had a really cool headset and you put that headset on, and then you're in virtual reality with kids from all over the world, taking classes like an elective from a history teacher in Switzerland.
And if you'd like that guy that everybody does puts on their headset and go that guy's class, you know, kind of does away with the education in your community, right? Whether that's magic or tragic, I don't know. Hmm. It could be one opportunity for like truly global learning and truly a coming together of global ideas, whatever it is.
I think it's important to note that power, be it, the government official, the corporate executive or the military leader power has never given up people don't give up their position. Power is taken. Power is taken. It's always taken. It's never given up, has never advocated. It's either it's either overthrown or it's taken.
And that kind of brings us back full circle. Cool to propaganda. And you know, the printed word and linear speech and linear thinking throughout your whole life, at least in the U S what are you taught? non-VA Hey, I don't condone violence. Hey, let's try to find a nonviolent solution. No, it's like the keep on the top or trying to from a very early age influence kids, not to fight.
When, if you look back at history, the only real change has come from violent revolution. I mean, you can, maybe this is a conspiracy, but it seems like at least the men in some parts of the country have been softened up with this whole theories of nonviolence and transgenderism and soy boys.
And, you know, Lord knows what's in the food and the lower testosterone counts. That's one thing I really, I really admire about Hawaii is it, it's still at its core, like a warrior culture. If you're in the, you say the wrong thing to the wrong person, you're, you're going to get your ass kicked.
And then like, as, as a man, there's something about it's kind of liberating. Like yeah, that guy deserved to get punched in the face. Yeah. That guy deserved to get his ass kicked or Hey, that guy didn't deserve to get his ass kicked, but that was a hell of a fight. There's something about standing up for what you believe in. There's something about not backing down from what you think, even if it's wrong, but you believe it to be right.
There's something refreshing about fighting for that. I think we're missing a big part of that. I would like to see a return to a return to questioning authority, a return to the rebellious spirit or return to violent protection of your ideas, right?
Anything in life worth having is worth fighting for. I think that which leads me to another 0.1 way of fighting. And the first, the first line of fighting is verbal.
And I think that's one reason why people aren't taught the Trivium just to be clear, the Trivium is grammar, logic and rhetoric. And it was a, a course that was taught to all scholars in ancient times, right? Grammar. We talked about a little bit grammar is the ability to understand the structure of language.
And the reason that's important is because the way grammar is structured is the way your reality is structured. Logic is the ability to think critically logic is the ability to forecast potential outcomes. Logic is the ability to forecast intent rhetoric is the ability to persuade the people with whom you are speaking.
If you can master those three, if you can just have an idea of those three, then it's like having a, a purple belt in linguistic jujitsu. And I kind of want to go, I think in a later podcast, I'm going to try to dissect each of those and try and break it down and try to give everybody a foundation.
And each cause I think that that's, we know we've spoken a lot about propaganda and we've spoken about how to recognize it and that those are great defensive moves being aware of what's coming your way is a great defensive move. But I think we can work on some offense. And I think oftens would be working with our grammar, working with our logic and working with our rhetoric, understanding the means in which we decide to use argumentation, understanding the logical Valley policies, like the appeal to authority or the appeal to emotion, understanding techniques that can help you in crucial conversations.
I guess we could talk a little bit about them now. I don't, I don't have a lot of the work in front of me, but we can talk about a few strategies. Here's something you can try today. Whenever you speak first off, know this, what is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? The purpose of an argument is to solve a problem.
You see too many of us when we were, when we are in an argument, we forget the purpose of an argument. And instead of trying to solve a problem, we try to win. See it triggers that fight flight mode, and it can trigger some emotions and it can trigger your adrenaline. And all of a sudden, instead of staying on topic about what it is you're trying to solve, all of a sudden an ad hominem attack is thrown your way.
And by that, I mean like a personal attack is throwing your away something off topic, but it's just thrown at you to kind of throw you off base. And so it's, it's important to be aware of that. If you can be aware that in any argument, the purpose is to solve a problem that will automatically stop or at least slow and or hinder the fight or flight response. So you, so you won't feel the anxiety rise, you won't feel your emotions rise.
You won't feel your anger arise because it's not an attack on you. It's a, it's a lack of understanding between two people. So if you can know that and repeat that to yourself. When you find yourself in a confrontational situation, you can better use your words to protect yourself. So that being said, something you can do to practice and use it a conversation and use an argumentation is that whenever you speak to somebody start like you normally would, and then let the other person talk.
And as soon as that of the person talks, don't answer them right away in your mind, count to five or seven. So I'm talking right now, as I'm talking to you, I'm going to show you what a silent, this is called, the silent pause. I'm going to show you what a silent pause looks like. We're talking, we're talking. That was seven seconds.
You could probably do five, but if you do that, just try it out today. Just when someone says something, count to five or seven in your head. And I bet you before, you can even say another word in that seven seconds. The other person is going to say something else. People aren't used to. People are not used to other people listening and not saying anything. In fact, that magic number of seven, because you haven't said anything in seven seconds, that other person begins to wonder why you're not saying anything.
And it's just long enough for them to start second guessing what they said. And nine out of 10 times, they will, especially in a conversation where someone who claims to be in an authority position is trying to say something to you. Hey, you know, I noticed that this thing happened over there. Do you want me to, you want to talk to about that seven seconds? That person in seven seconds will begin to think that their strategy is the wrong strategy and there's nothing, you know, there's no law that says you have to answer people at all, but try the seven seconds thing, try it out, get good at it, understand it, understand its power, understand why it works, you know, and teach it to your kids.
The younger people can use these strategies, the better it's going to be. But that is an effective one. The second one, which can be used on the heels of the seven, seven, second silent pause is to answer a question with a question. So let's say you're sitting down with someone they're like, Hey, can you please tell me why you decided to go and do that thing?
When you say thing, what thing are you talking about? Are you talking about the thing I did yesterday? Are you talking about the other thing? Okay. So you see what I did there? Let's break that down. They asked me a question. I waited seven seconds. And then I answered their question with a question because subliminally subliminally on an unconscious level, the person asking the questions is usually the person in charge.
Have you ever heard people say, Hey, I'll ask the questions here. It's because they want to be in charge. Usually the person asking the questions is the person in charge. So to follow up, if you, if you find yourself in that situation, the person brings you into wherever they ask you a question. So you wait your seven seconds and then you answer your question with a question it's called the Socratic method.
So now not only have you kind of thrown them off their base by the silent pause, but now you've begun to ask the questions and a tip on this part, like a little side channel of asking questions. Think about how questions. So for example, Hey, why did this happen over here? Like that? You wait your seven seconds. How would you have done it better?
So now you're answering them. You're answering their question with a question, but you're using a how question. And when someone asks you how to do something, it changes your thought patterns. It changes the way the other person thinks. Especially if, if they have a script of what they wanted to talk to you about, I'm going to ask this guy about that. I'm going to challenge him on this and see what he says. You've already thrown them off their game. You've given them the silent pause. You answered a question with a question.
And now the how question that forces them to think from your point of view, it's like a forced empathy. How would you have done it better? Now that person is obligated to tell you how they would have done it. And the chances are, they don't know how to do it better than you. The chances are. They didn't think about how they would do it. The chances are, they probably would have been at the exact same way. You did it. And by asking them, how would you have done it?
It forces them to think about that. It forces them. And what that does is it takes them off their script and it forces that empathy to be like, Oh yeah, well, gosh, I'd probably would have done it the same way you did. Or a lot of times what happens right there is that the person with whom you're arguing, they get mad right there. They realize that they've just lost the argument. And they're way out in the woods. Like they were they're way out in LA LA land because someone yelled at them.
Now they're trying to use the same techniques to yell at you, but you have successfully sidestepped and use their momentum against them. So there's three techniques right there and I'm just going to go and we'll go over them again because repetition is the mother of skill, right? Repetition is the mother of skill. Repetition is the mother of skill, the silent pause, seven seconds. Answer a question with a question and try to use how questions you make.
Good eye contact. It's a great place to start. And those are effective methods of solving a problem, not trying to win an argument. They're all. So those are all things that you should be thinking about to be a better communicator. Those are all things you should be thinking about in order to get your point across.
Those are all things you should be thinking about to talk to your children about. All of us will find ourselves in a situation like this. And the truth is the best leaders are the best communicators. If you can understand someone's point of view, if you can put yourself in someone else's shoes, if you can explain your thoughts clearly, then you can better understand your motivations and other people's motivations.
There's a lot of interesting techniques that we can use neural linguistic programming part of which is priming in pacing and mirroring. There's also some really interesting concepts about language that I'm going to do some more research on and get to you guys that truly, I mean, they just, they get to the real foundation of what our language is.
And you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, we're the barbarians because we just babble all the time. You know, we just pop, pop, pop, pop out, just babbling. We forgotten what, what language is like. We've forgotten how to truly communicate. There's some schools of thought that say poetic verse is in fact, the real way of communicating when you speak in a style of poetic metaphor and everybody knows what I mean, have you ever read a good poem?
And it makes you get goosebumps or you read a good poem and you start crying or you read a poem and it, it helps you clearly see a vision in your mind. Like that is language that is linguistics. You know, it's not written in poetic form contracts, user agreements, insurance contracts, you know, none of that's written in poetic metaphor.
In fact, I'm just thinking out loud here. Maybe, maybe that is the answer. Maybe that is the answer, but getting back to, I think it's called like a, you phonics and there's a story about, there is a story. I think it's from, Plato's create a list.
Here's a little blurb. And let me read this little blurb. The primary text in you, phonics is Plato's cradle is a Socratic dialogue about the origins of language and the influence of archetypal sounds on the formation of words. It is subtitled on the correctness of names. The debate is between Socrates and two other characters create a list who claims to know the science of nomenclature and what there is in a name, which makes it correct or otherwise.
And Hermanis who denies that there is any science or inherent correctness in naming things. His contention is that whatever name you choose to give anything is its right name. The third party, Socrates examines, both arguments and comes down on the side of cradles. The dialogue is long intricate and in parts quite misdefined in speculating about the original forms
Speaker 3 (54m 19s): <inaudible>
Speaker 2 (54m 21s): Of names, Socrates teases, his listeners without rages, puns and obscure illusions, which modern scholars are at a loss to interpret. He claims no special knowledge of the subject, but offers the view that a name appears to be a vocal imitation and a person who imitates something with his voice names that which he imitates. There are good names and bad ones. And a good name is one that contains the proper letters. Letters are appropriate or not in a name according as they serve to represent through their sounds, the qualities of whatever is being named.
Thus the proper name for a thing is a composition of those sounds, which imitate the ideas associated with it near the end of the dialogue. Socrates speaks about the inherent meanings of individual sounds. The R sound he says is made by the tongue and it's most agitated and it is therefore expressive of rapid movement. It also, he adds later stands for hardness. The Greek words containing are with which Socrates illustrates his statement justify modern interest in this subject for the English translations also feature the letter R they include run RO trembling, rush race among other examples, given are the L sound, which has a sleek gliding motion sound.
And the G sound, which is gummy and gluttonous. I don't know when I think of GE, I think of good-looking greatness, gregarious, good humor, giant hammer George Monte. That's just me though. That's what I think. But you guys get the point, you know, if, if there's a proper name for things and each letter has a true meaning, didn't shouldn't you apply that letters true.
Meaning to the object. Another way to think about it is that formation of names or words from sounds that resemble those associated with the object or action to be named, or that seemed naturally suggestive of its qualities. The example given is cuckoo, and there are many other words such as plop click buzz per his, him, and ha, which are obvious attempts at imitating a sound similar.
Our temp, similar attempts are made in all languages. The question which then arises is to what extent these imitative sounds influenced the meanings of the longer composite words in which they occur. A previous essay on the poetical alphabet forms a chapter in a book called pleura verse American philosopher, Benjamin Paul blood. He begins by telling of a discussion he once had as to why an icicle could not fiddly be called a tub nor vice versa.
It is in the nature of its name. He concluded for a tub to be short and stubby, whereas an icicle sound spindly and slim at the sound of icicle to irrational mind throws up the word bicycle, which is also spindly and often cold explaining, perhaps the popular acceptance of that word, to name a pedal crank to Wheeler. You see what's going on there, the nature of a word, the, the letters of that word, put an idea in your head, and that idea should be congruent with the object that it explains, right?
Like plop click buzz per hiss. These are words that are imitations of sound. So shouldn't the names of things that we have imitate. It's an interesting concept. And it, if it is indeed true, it just shows how far we've fallen from using the language appropriate to explain our environment.
When you think about names, you remember when you were in kit, you were a kid and certain people got made fun of, you know, one thing I've noticed here in, in Hawaii, and this is a little bit about what we're talking about and it's about culture, but it's a, it's it straddles the fence between what we're talking about in culture. Sometimes people that come to the United States, they come from like a, an Asian culture where the Alphabet's different and it's difficult for people in the United States to pronounce names of different alphabets.
And so that person will take on an American name. There was a guy on my route that was, I think he was Chinese. And his last, he took, he took the moniker. He, his American name was Peter pan, right? Which every American kid has seen Peter pan. And so it goes without saying that, no, it's just a lack of like, he didn't understand this culture. People didn't understand his culture. However, because he, that name is stuck in the American lexicon as like a, as a, the boy who never grew up, all of a sudden that image is tied to it.
Therefore this guy from China is imitating Peter pan. Like he can't escape that he chose the wrong name, but it goes, it goes to what I'm talking about as far as, you know, if you're, if you're on the playground or you're naming a child, you know, when you're naming a kid, you got to think of like, Oh man, is, if I named it, if I named my girl Paulie, she's going to be perk Paulie or depressing Deandre or bill blunt or Willie week, or cheeky Charlie or big Bertha or slippery said, you know, there's, there's certain words that fit together that can be humorous.
And if you're not thinking about that, when your name and your kid, you can subset them to hours and hours of torment on the playground. You know, you know, this may seem childish and erotic, but behind such trivialize, a feature of language, which poets have always more or less consciously acknowledged names and words are made up of sounds. And each sound has some kind of natural meaning expressing any Woking, a certain human emotion.
In some cases, even the shapes of letters, the serpentine sibilant S for example, seem to accord with the sounds. They denote academic linguists and etymologists amid they're serious studies of secular durations and verbal migrations have no time for such a whimsical notions, but to a poet, this oral approach to language is all important. Every sensitive writer is concerned, not only with the proclaimed meaning of words, but also with their esoteric subliminal qualities, their pitch and ring, and the irrational feelings produced by the sound.
And sometimes by the side of them, that's, that's kind of a mouthful like, but it's true. If you're in tune with your language, you cannot deny that some words have irrational feelings produced by the sound. Some words have subliminal qualities, their pitch, and their ring.
Just the very sound of some words can cause you to feel a certain thing. And that's never, it's never talked about, imagine if you were a kid and at a young age, you begun to learn what the sounds of letters evoke. What if right from the beginning in school, you learned that the letter S it's it's serpentine nature, it's sibling as like, look at it.
Like if you think of an S it kind of looks like a snake. What is the word? Snake start with an S the serpent surreptitious, seductive salacious, S S that's a sound of snake makes like the letter S embodies that particular emotion that the snake produces, thus, the snake or the serpent is a great symbol of the letter.
S every letter has something like that. And what happens when you could string those letters together to form the right names for the right object? I would argue that if you're able to do that, the world would make more sense to you. Not only would the world make more sense to you, if you could learn to speak in such language, people around you would be amazed, the sentences you would stitch together.
The words that you could flip off the end of your tongue would dazzle the masses. It's an art form. And if kids could learn at an early age, how to master that, which they can the world to be a better place. I think that that's a pretty good spot for that.
That's kind of the beginning of, of the Trivium that we're going to work into a little bit upcoming we'll can go through a bunch of letters. I, I do have a little bit here on the, like, so we talked about S let me read you a little bit about the letter, a vowels hold emotions and feelings while continents hold thoughts, and the intellect, a Japanese Sage gives the explain explanation of why people falling off building shout, ah, on their way downwards.
It is because they naturally wish to ascend. And the, ah, sound is characteristic of uplift. Whether in body or spirit a gives a sense of alacrity, of active, happy alert, agile attentive, aware, awake, lads, and lasses. The appropriate bird is the Lark, which might thus be addressed. Audacious avian arise, ascend a loft to Azor skies, alert to your angelic strain or aspirations soar a gain.
So you can see that the proper application, the proper use of language and understanding grammar, understanding the power of each letter, how it influences people, how it, what emotion it might be able to evoke. If you knew what letters evoked, what emotion, then you would know which words to use to tell people, to get the desired response, fundamentally changing the way people communicate.
In fact, that should be, that would be an awesome legacy, right? What if your legacy was fundamentally changing the way people communicate? I would like that to be my legacy. I would like to help as many people as I can fundamentally change the way they communicate, not only so that they have better relationships, not only so that their life is more fulfilling, because it would make the world a better place.
Well, my friends it's time for me to get on out of here. I love you guys. Thank you for listening today. Thank you for going way out on the Wu tree branch of high speculation. We had a nice bird's eye view from that branch. And as the foundational branch began to break, we jumped down from the tree and landed into the linguistic arts of language.
I hope you're able to take a little bit from this. I hope that there was some argument, argumentative augmentations you can make along the way, and I hope that you can change your relationships and change your life and teach your kids some of what we learned. So I love you guys Aloha.
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