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Fighting Windmills “ We are all Don Quixote”

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Don Quixote a sign of the times


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Speaker 0 (0s): B in Benito <inaudible> <inaudible> 

Speaker 1 (7s): And the Tuesday Everybody yeah. It's Tuesday. Woo. Time to get up and go to work. I'm excited. Got to love. Tuesday's who doesn't love it. Tuesday, come on. Cue with the program, gentlemen, will you let me, I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, will you let me tell you a little story as something that happened in Seville, it fits our situation's so perfectly that I'd like you to hear it. 

Don Quixote told him to proceed and the priest and the women gave him their attention and he began is follows in the lunatic asylum. In Seville, there was a man put there by his family because he'd gone insane. He'd graduated as a student of Canon law from the university of Osuna. But even if he'd studied at Salamanca, most people would have considered him crazy. 

After years of being locked away. This university graduate got it into his head that he'd become sane completely right in the head. And with this conviction, he wrote to the arch Bishop, begging him most earnestly and with very logical arguments to let him be released from the misery in which he'd been living since by the grace of God, he'd recovered his lost sanity. It, it was only because his family coveted his rightful share of their wealth, that he was still locked away and they would go on with that pretense until he was dead and buried. 

The Archbishop persuaded by such a sensible and well organized letter ordered one of the chaplains to find out from him, the director of the asylum, if what the university graduates letters said was true and also told the Chaplin to speak to the lunatic himself. And if he, if he indeed appeared to be sane, to let him go free, the chaplain did as he'd been told, but the director assured him, the man was indeed still insane. 

Although he often managed to speak like a man of large understanding sooner or later, he'd start babbling, such quantities of incredible nonsense that he completely nullified all the same things he'd said before, which anyone could see. And they talked to him, the chaplain decided to make the attempt and going to the madman, talked to him for an hour and even longer in the whole of which time, not a crooked are foolish. Word was spoken on the contrary. 

The madman talks so very sensibly that the chaplain couldn't help, but believe him saying, and among other things, the madman told him that the director of the asylum was the very farthest thing from impartial, because he didn't want to give up the presence. The madams family gave him to keep him saying that their kinsmen was still out of his mind, despite lucid moments. So that the most serious obstacle to getting out of this misery was in fact exactly that great wealth in order to continue their enjoyment of what was rightfully his, his enemies. 

Fraudulent only calls into question are Lords infinite mercy in having returned him from a state of beastiality and made him once more of a man. And in short, he made the director seem highly suspect his kinsmen greedy in cold blooded in himself. So exceedingly sensible That the chaplain made up his mind to take the madman away with him. So the Archbishop could see for himself, what was really going on in this whole affair, acting in good faith. 

The pious chaplain asked the director to return to close. This university graduate would have been wearing when you entered the asylum to which the director replied that he'd better watch out because beyond any doubt in this particular university graduate, he was still crazy. But at the director's cautions and warnings had no effect. The chaplain remain determined to take the mad men away. And so in obedience to the Archbishop's orders, the madman who was dressed in his original clothing, which was clean and new. 

And when he saw himself dress like a sane man in the garments of his insanity removed, he asked the chaplain to be charitable and let him go say farewell to his mad friends. The chaplain said they would both go and see whatever madman the asylum was sheltering. So they went upstairs along with some others who happened to be there and came to a cage, which held a wild lunatic though, at the moment, he was calm and quiet in the university. 

Graduate said to him, my brother, tell me if there is anything I can do for you because I am going home. God having been pleased through his infinite goodness and mercy. Not for any merit of mine to have returned me to my senses. I have now seen and sound for nothing is impossible to God's great power, never lose your hope and trust in him for having returned me to my original condition. He may also restore you. 

If you truly believe in him, I will be sure to send you some good to eat. So eat them for, I want you to know that I, as someone who has been through it, I'm convinced that all our madness comes from keeping our stomachs empty in our heads full of air. Be brave, be brave for, to be melancholy in our misfortunes is to damage health and spur on death. Another madman in a cage just opposite, listened to all of this and rising from an old Matt on which he'd been lying, bare naked. 

He called out in a very loud voice to find out who it was that was going home, all seen and sound or the university graduate answered. It's I'm a brother. I'm the one who's going for. I need stay here no longer. And I am infinitely thankful to heaven for having granted me such a great gift. Watch your words, university, man. So the devil, it doesn't deceive. You answered the madman, do not make a fuss, stay at home and be quiet and you'll keep yourself from having to return. 

I'm seen and sound. And I know it. So the university graduates, so I don't have to suffer for my sins all over again. Do you are seen and sound so the med man, all right, fine. Will see what we will see. May God be with you. But I swear to you by Jupiter I who represent his majesty here on earth, that four, this one sin that Seville is committing today and thus releasing you and dealing with you as with someone seen and sound. I shall have two levies, such as a punishment on this Citi, that it will be remembered for centuries and centuries. 

Amen. Don't you understand you miserable idiot of a university, man, that this is well within my power. Since, as I've told you, I am Jupiter, the Thunderbird and in my hands, I hold scorching bolts in which I can. And I do threaten and destroy the earth, but I choose to administer only one punishment to the stupid Citi, which is that there will be no rain here nor anywhere near here for three whole years, beginning today at this very moment, when I have commanded this Scorge you are free. 

You saying you are cured. And I am add, man, I disabled. I under lock and key ha I it as soon, let it rain as that would hang myself. Everyone was listening to the madman, shouting and ranting, but are university graduate, turning to the chaplain and grasping is Hans explained. Don't worry. My Lord pay no attention to anything this lunatic says, because if he's Jupiter and won't let it rain, I who am Neptune father and God have all waters. 

We will have it rain any time. I feel like it any time it needed to which the chaplain replied all the same. My Lord Neptune. We don't want to irritate my Lord. Jupiter. You stay right where you are in your grace. And some other day, when we have more time and can do everything at our leisure will come back for you to director of a sign of laugh as did everyone else, which embarrassed the chaplain. 

They took the normal clothing off the lunatic and he stayed in the asylum and they have finished my story. And this is a donkey OT. This is the story. My dear barber, you thought so appropriate to the occasion that you couldn't help, but tell It a, my Razor's strapping friend. How blind is the man who can't see what's right under his nose. Do you really not understand that comparisons between one man's Whit and another's or one man's courage and, and others or one woman's beauty and breeding with another's are always odious and unwelcome. 

I, my barbering friend am not Neptune. God have waters nor do I try to make anyone think me wise when clearly I am not. All I keep trying to do is make the world, see its error in not resurrecting for itself. The happiest of times when the order of night air entry, Rome valiantly up and down its roads, but are depraved age does not deserve that blessing as former ages did when night's Aaron's shouldered and took on themselves. 

The defense of King's, the protection of damsels, the securing of orphans and wards of court, the punishment, or the proud and the rewarding of the humble with most of our Knights today, it's the Dominick's brocades and the other rich fabrics. They were that Russell as they go, rather than any coats of armor night to no longer sleep out in the field, open to all the rigors of the heavens lying, there are armed and armored head to foot pilled longer. 

Do they try to snatch 40 winks as it's called, without pulling their feet out of the stirrups, but only leaning on their lances as the Knights of old use to do no longer do they sweep out of a woods here and up the mountain there, and then a tramp along a barren deserted seashore, usually in storming angry weather, and then find themselves right at the water's edge, a tiny boat without oars or a sail or a mask or any rigging or tackle, whatever. 

But with Intrepid hearts launched themselves out into the waves, abandoning themselves to the implacable waves that break across the bottom of the sea. On which one moment they are born up toward the sky. And the next are pulled deep into the abyss and setting their breasts against the invincible Tempest find tho they could never have expected it. There are suddenly 20,000 miles and more firm where they set sail and leaping out onto the distant, unknown land. 

They experience things worthy of being recorded, not simply on paper or parchment put on bronze, but today Slav triumphs overexertion laziness over Labour, vise over a virtue, arrogance over bravery in the theory of combat over his practice, which lives and shone only in the age of gold, the age of night Aaron tree. 

And if I'm wrong, tell me who was ever truer than braver than the famous Ahmed. Us of God, who wiser than pal Marian of England, who more easy going and sweet tempered than a tyrant, the white who more Gallant and loose art of Greece who more often stabbed and stabbing then Dawn bolognaise who more fearless than perianal. Gall are more willing to hurl himself into danger. 

Then Felix Martay of <inaudible> or more forthright than a splash, Indian who more dashing and Don George Monty who fiercer and wrote a Monday who more sensible than wise King. So BRINO who bolder then Renaldos who more invincible than Rowling and who more courtly and more courteous than Ruger the arrow from whom our Dukes of Farrah are descended. 

According to Terp is Cosmo graphy, all these night's. And many more that I could recall for you. Dear father were Knights errand light in glory of knighthood. So it's for men like them, I would want to carry out my plan. And with them is majesty would find himself Well served and also saved. He a good deal of expense and the Turks would be left, pulling out their beards. And I for all of that will stay in my asylum. 

If there is no chaplain to take me out of it. And if that Jupiter, as the barber tells us won't rain. Well, here I am. And I'll rain whenever I want to, which I say, because I want mr. Barbara basin to know, I understand him. Interesting. Right? Why would you read me that excerpt? George from the quiet possibly the greatest writer of all times and Miguel Cervantes. 

Well, I read you that my friend, because I believe that today They it just dawned on me. They are all Don Quixote. We are all night to day. They are, and we're all Fighting, Windmills, we're all lunatics and our own asylum were all Jupiter carrying Thunderball. It's ready to destroy the world some more than others, but that's with this world is its a, a silent, if you think, think for a minute logically about some of the ideas you hold, it was not worthy. 

Ideas have being committed. Like if your, if you're honest with yourself, you're a f*****g illusion. All right. It makes, if you think about, if you think about it, the world in which we live and you know, do you believe that there's this divine got it. This is a divine spirit looking down on you and this world, you have to ask the question, why would there be so much pain? 

Why would there be so much sensible death? What a horrible God would allow this to happen? That's the question that arises, right? But if you ask a different question, if you say, wow, how was a pleasure possible? All these f*****g monkeys can make this world work. That's pretty impressive. When you see what I'm saying, I hear you. I believe I do. So I have faith. I believe that there is some of them, a brand organizing plan that we are unable to understand. 

However, at times like this it's I find it fascinating to just see the way the world is working. I heard another great quote that talked about when one is born into privilege. When one is born into privilege, two, those that are born into privilege equality. It seems a little bit like being deprived of what you normally have. 

When one is born into privilege. Equality begins to seem as though you're being deprived of things that are rightfully yours. I want everyone to think about that. Kind of have some really awesome people. And I think most people that meet her awesome because they are the people that are beautiful on it. They're kind of in there. Most of them are a good people, but we're also misguided. 

I want people to think about this word equality. Do you want equality? Is that what you want? Because if you live in a first world, equality means bringing up the rest of the world, not to your standard, but bringing up the bottom 80%, the bottom 90% of people think about piece of you. 

Most people who live in, in rich first world nation, I have traveled and you've probably traveled to a third world country. There's a lot more people in a third world country. So for those people claiming, Hey, we want equality. We want equality. Do we want equality? What's your saying is I would like to lower my living standards to look more like a third world nation equality in the USA looks like Michigan. That's the equality because you look a lot more like a third world nation and you should be very careful going out and voting for people that want equality. 

You get what you're going to get. What you asked for you want a quality? Okay think about this. If you are a person that has a child and you live in a first world nation, your child we'll use 500, two, a thousand times more resources than a child born in a third world. If that means is if you, for every one, child, family has in a first world, there could be 500 kids born in the third world. 

So for people that sit there and claim, look, I want a quality. I want fairness. I wanted things to be better for everybody. You should. First I've realized the hypocritical nature of what you're saying it. If you have more than one kid and you're going out and telling people you want equality will, then we should get rid of one of your kids. It's not fair to the rest of the world that you have a child that will use 500, two, a thousand times more resources. 

Do you see how greedy and selfish that is? You have, you have two cars, you have three f*****g cars. There's people, there's villages. It don't even have one car. So be careful what you wish for. Be careful what you vote for because you might get it. You could argue that what's happening in the United States right now is equality. There's riots all over the world. There's the level of corruption while it's horrible in the USA is worse. 

In third world nations. If you want equality, you should understand that your neighborhood, your neighbor's, the death rate, poor health care systems, less money for working people, more corruption, more rape, more deaths, more violent crimes. That is what you want to bring to the U S you want equality in the U S you want to our nation to look more like the rest of the world. 

You see if there's been such a push for equality and we've been lied to in that most people think equality means all of us in our country being more like billionaires, but that's not what it is. You see equality. The only way for the world to reach parody or some semblance of equality is to take all the money out of the richest nations. And let's be clear. The people at the very top are not going to lose money, right? The bank executives wall street, politicians' the multinational corporate and those people that you think they don't deserve the hugest profit's in the world. 

And trust me, I'm one of them. I don't think that I don't think they deserve all that. They're never going to lose their money. You're never gonna cut into their, to their piggybank ever. It's never, ever going to happen. But if the masses of people vote for equality, what that we'll do that, we'll make sure that every working person gets a bigger percentage of their taxes taken out of their check. And we can take all of our money and we can send, I think we sent, what is it? 

Seven or $12 billion to Israel every year. I think we spend upwards of like, I don't know. I'll have to look and make sure, but I think it's upwards of $500 billion a year out of the U S taxpayer money goes to fund schooling and welfare programs and other countries. So we can be equal. Like, I don't want to be equal. 

I don't want all of us to be homeless. I don't want all of us to lose everything we have. Let's face it. If you're like me, you're working 60, 70 hours a week. And for What so you can get taxed on everything. So the government can come in and just Take, you're a big percentage of your check and give it to somebody in a country. You don't even know. No, thank, you know, thank you. So when I look at people fighting over Trump or by it, and you know, the hippy and the redneck are the same person to both live in, out in the woods. 

They both hate the government. Neither of them have any money. Both of them probably have student loans. If we took the money that we make in our country, and we gave it to the people in this country, we could solve all the problems we could put, we could pay reparations. We could give everybody a UBI. We could build infrastructure. We could make our country and everybody in it live a life worth living. 

We could pay up the student loans, or we could have free college. We can have all of that. If we just stopped giving our money to foreign countries. So if we stopped giving our money to the military industrial complex, if we stopped giving our money to sovereign wealth funds, who lobby our congressmen, if we could alleviate some of the corruption in our government, then we could appease both sides of the I. 

And that is why you see such a contentious fight right now. It's not Trump versus Biden. It's it's the sovereign wealth funds. Its the other countries it's big money, big, big organizations from around the world, spending billions of dollars to Lombok, to lobby our congressmen and senators to pass bills that are good for them. And they've done it under the guise of sustainable development. They've done it under the guise of equality against sustainable development as the same thing. 

I love this planet. I love trees. I love the ocean. I love nature. I'm a hippie at heart man. However, sustainable development is not what you think sustainable development is not, is not Hey I'm going to cut it. I'm not gonna cut out a forest. Sustainable development is forcing people to move into cities, forcing people to live in a neighborhood where okay you make, let's say you make a hundred thousand dollars a year. 

I would like you to live in an apartment complex right next to a guy that has a crack problem. And he's got nine kids and some of his kids are violent offenders. See sustainable develop means taking low income housing and mixing it with working class housing or upper-class house. And like not having any of that. And it sounds beautiful right? Until your kid gets raped until you can't sleep at night because your neighbor's are having some huge party. 

That's what you vote for when you vote for equality, that's what your vote for. Or when you vote for sustainable sustainable developments, sustainable development means taking money from working people and giving it to corporations so they can continue to develop. Where do they want to develop? Just because something sounds nice. It doesn't mean it's true. 

I just want to drive that home. It goes back to like it's lunacy. It's lunacy. We're going to be, we're seeing like, we're just seeing the so much division. And there's so many people I love that are just fighting over such a nonsense. I talk to this woman. I love yesterday more than almost anything in the world. And all she could talk about was how horrible Trump is. And like, I don't care. 

I don't, I don't care that I don't care about Trump or Biden. Neither one of those people care about me. Oh, would I spend any time caring about them? However, when someone you love, that's all they can talk about. It's pretty disturbing makes me sad. No matter how much he try to tell them like, look man, when we were Okay before this guy. So it made me try to think of different things that can bring us together. 

And what I think can bring us together as it is what I said previous is understanding that there's enough money for us to do all these programs. If we stand together and let's do all of them, let's build infrastructure. Let's give reparations, lets give a UBI. Let's make our country. Let's make our country a country for all of us. But let's find something that we can stand behind. 

We can't fix the world, but we can fix our community. We can't fix the world, but we can fix our country. Right. I think people are beginning to see that the people debating and they don't represent any of us. Right. Does anyone think the two men, almost 80 years old, two white guys, almost 80, both probably billionaires this to those people represent our country. 

No, absolutely not. Why? How, how is it possible that it wasn't Tulsi or Andrew or any young kid coming up on the Republican side? How's that possible? Those were the questions should ask. How, how, how was it that this guy is the nominee. Did anybody vote for that? You should do some digging on there. And it, it brings me to what we got here and with this whole Cobra distraction, right? 

The biggest problem for me with COVID is the effect it's having on our kids. You know, there's so much just disgusting rhetoric coming out of the television, just so much dishonesty and deceit. And it boggles my mind to think about what are the longterm ramifications for children not socializing? 

What are the longterm ramifications for our so called leaders to be telling the children of visitation, they should be afraid and that they should stay on six feet apart, mostly, you know, a ups driver. And I, you know, I take pride in what I do. I'm good at my job. One thing that I really love about it is that I get to go around all the neighborhoods and I see all the kids and I try to hand out little logic puzzles. Sometimes I feel it's my responsibility to look out for those kids and look out for the neighborhood. 

And I work. The reason I bring that up is there's this a little apartment complex. I may have spoken about this before. And in this apartment complex, there's like these roving band of little kids that were like Lord of the flies, they are not dangerous or mean or anything, but they're just rolling around the little neighborhoods. You know what I mean? And they arrange from ages probably six to 11 and it's on some level. It's super awesome. And it's super inspiring. And I always try to tell them jokes and riddles in a while, back up for one of our conversations, I gave them the task of Hey. 

I want, when I leave, I want you guys to the next time I see you, tell me what you can do to make this world better and what you're most looking forward to. So that was a few weeks ago. And yesterday I saw him again and you know, one of the thing here's, here's what they told me to make the world better. I can stay six feet apart. And if it was like, I say 12 feet apart, I was like, I asked the 100 feet apart. You know what I mean? It's kind of funny. However, it's pretty sad. 

And they all have masks on in mind, you I'm in Hawai'i. And the complex is way out in the middle of nowhere and is a big feat that like they are, if there's a big courtyard and I'm like, it just, it saddened me. And, and clearly it's, that's probably what they're being told by their parents. So to hear them say that the best thing they can do to change the world is stay away from each other. 

That's so f*****g sinister to me. So you know what I did, I just deprogrammed by all that b******t. I sat with him. I had to, I just took my lunch and I'm like, you think that's what it is now. Do you know what you can do to change the world? You can see the world different. You could travel anywhere in the world. Hey, you know this parts of the world right now where no one wears masks and they're eyes get all big. Like, do you know there's parts of the world where its not even 2020 and some parts of the worlds a different year. And they were like, what, what are you talking about? 

It's not, I'm like, Yeah like, you know what? You young man, you could travel the world and you could create something. No one's ever created before you could do it. And you could start right now. And then like what, how would we do that? I'm now you could travel the world and are going to have any money. And that guy know, but you know what? You are also, you could do a look at it. There's one, two, three, four of you. I bet if you put up a sign over by the mailboxes that says, wait a minute, you guys got to come up with a name for yourself. 

You guys got to name for your group. They start thinking, they were like, how about five or five cool kids? And like, that's a great name. And like you can put up a sign. This is five cool kids. We'll sweep your stares for five bucks a week. And there's, there's a lot of different Cause there's a lot of different apartments over here. I imagined that you could probably sweep those steps and like, I don't know, 20 minutes and make five bucks. Imagine if, imagine if each of you guys made five bucks every day for like an hour, I think about that for an hours work. 

You guys all give five bucks into the weak. You've got 25 Right into the month and you've got a hundred bucks. I would be a Snickers bar. Is that buys size eyes get all big. And like you could do a right now. What if, what if you do get 10 bucks? You know? So I try to deprogram him a little bit and show them like, look, you can make some money right now. This is a perfect time not to making money. He's a good thing to do or, or something like that. But I think setting up something and taking your own initiative and showing the kids that you can make your own way. 

That was my goal. And that is my goal. When I talk to those kids, they look at you and you alone are responsible for making your way in life and don't let anybody tell you to be scared. The people who tell you, you should be scared or people that are scared, right? If someone tells you, you should be scared, then you should be scared to talk to that person. Cause that person is clearly frightened about an invisible enemy and that's a huge problem. So Miguel Cervantes is donkey OT, phenomenal book. 

Definitely check it out. I'm going to read some more about it. There are so many, so much awesomeness in Miguel. Cervantes is, you know, there's too books. Did you guys know that there's two books? Did you guys also know that? I think its in book two, Miguel Cervantes is according to I've got, I should research a movie for you to tell the story. I'll give you a synopsis. Cause I, I don't thoroughly remember it. So just tell you what I know and then I'll fix it and come back. So Miguel Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, according to according to legend, he was out celebrating some success or something like that. 

And he went to a bar where there was another guy pretending to be Miguel Servantez. So Miguel Cervantes, I was like, call that guy out a little bit. He's like, Oh you wrote Don Quixote reali. And he started asking them all these questions and then he flipped it on the guy in, you know, put the guy in a position where he couldn't answer question so that the guy had to admit that he wasn't Miguel Cervantes, but that's not even the awesome part. The awesome part is that Miguel savant is then wrote that scene into the actual book of Don Quixote using Don Quixote, a horse. 

It's a phenomenal book. If you have a read it like what's wrong with you CA you know, if you subscribe to my channel, my podcast, if you leave, if you subscribe, give me a four star rating and leave a comment. I will send you an audio version of this book. So do it. You've got no reason. All right. I love you guys. Hello. 

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