 All right, let's see. Let's go back to another round. Let's go back to Jennifer There reminds me of something I was gonna ask you before. Yeah, you know, if you've ever heard someone say Don't be upset if you don't have any shoes because someone else doesn't have any feet. You ever hear that one? Yeah, it's a good altruistic Yeah, people when I think about that Someone will say well don't feel bad because someone else is worse But if I know that someone else is worse, then I just feel even worse I mean, we're how does you're supposed to be glad because someone's worse that doesn't make any sense Yeah, it doesn't make any sense and the whole purpose of it is guilt-tripping It's it's purely to make you feel guilty for the fact that whatever you have you have and For the you're to feel guilty that you felt disappointed or that you felt bad that you didn't get it So it's all about guilt Jewish mothers Catholic mothers are experts of doing stuff like that, you know You know, you should be glad I put vetch these horribly tasting vegetables on your plate because they're kids in Africa You know you I in my day you could date people based on the country that their mother used to guilt them To eat their vegetables, right? So China China for us. What's that? China said it was kids in China for it for us It was kids in China then there was kids in the 70s was kids in Bangladesh in the 60s My when I was going when I was little those kids in Biafra, which is a region in Africa So you can literally date people based on what their mother used to guilt them into eating, you know eating their food and It's all about guilt And you have to resist that you have to resist that you are not your values are not measured relative to other people's values No, it's even worse in a way that you you have to feel guilty for for feeling bad Yes, you're feeling guilty for disappointment It's it's you but if you don't have that guilt respond response Then you're just being encouraged to overeat for some reason because somebody else isn't eating and that's kind of how it came across to me And I'm like so me eating more makes them What it's not like I doesn't make any difference together how we eating more help them It doesn't but it's it's it's all about guilt. It's not about anything practical And this is of course what some of us kids told our mothers, right? Eating this doesn't help them. You can't ship this food to them They won't you know, it doesn't make any difference But it doesn't matter because the purpose of this was not to elicit an actual action The purpose was to elicit guilt and for no other reason than guilt because Jewish mothers Catholic mothers and Priests and and the intellectuals know that guilt is a very powerful tool by which to control you It's it's a mechanism of control Nothing else It's not supposed to elicit an action on on the topic of guilt. Is that I I don't know that I've ever truly felt guilty about much of anything So I don't know is that something that people are born with or it's or they're it's trained into them Or they're susceptible one way or another it's just based on their psychology that I mean I don't know. Maybe this is something you haven't read about but Some people see you heavily out of guilt and some people don't Just it's sort of this is not part of how they're built. It's trained And there's another aspect of it, which is that um There's such a thing as own guilt Where you do something wrong and you recognize you've done something wrong And you want to make amends about doing something wrong and then you feel that emotion that you feel I've done something wrong. Shit, you know That's that emotion is own guilt, right? And you should feel that you should feel I did something wrong You should feel bad and healthy people do Uh, the the kind of guilt that mothers inflict on us is unearned guilt. It's not for anything we did and That's hard to instill in some of us. I don't think she was very successful with me But I think my mother was quite successful Maybe my siblings, right? So it depends on your own psychology and your own ability to resist The implication that you're guilty for something when you're really not All right, john, did you have a question since we're on you? No Yeah, I mean just on this whole topic of You know altruism and how how difficult it is to for people to think any other way I I noticed I don't know if you guys saw that mark mark zuckerberg I think he gave he's giving 25 million dollars to To coronavirus research Um, I guess and you know and and the feet in the he's he's criticized for this because it's a you know 0.02 percent of his his wealth, but but even even beyond that People are defending him With altruism too. They're saying well, that's still a lot of money You know without really saying what it'll be used for is it actually going to create Value in the situation is it actually going to be useful, you know and and value to him, right? Is it a value to him and and and I and my guess is it's not my guess is he's motivated by altruistic contingents To some degree. I think the emotion might be empathy, but I think the response is altruistic I'm just gonna get money. I think I do think partially some of these billionaires think No, I can use my you know, this is a real problem. I'm suffering. Yeah I know bill gates invested I can't turn out how much money a few tens of millions of dollars To do research into pandemics like three years ago They were working on vaccines and stuff like that and he was ahead of the curve I mean bill gates was way ahead of this curve. He if you if you want to see a really brilliant ted talk about the coming pandemic There's a bill gates ted talk from three years ago About what's gonna happen and how we should prepare and what we should do and it's brilliant I mean, this is the guy should be running stuff, right? but now He is unfortunately calling for lockdowns and shutting everything down because Because the guys in charge are so incompetent. That's the only solution anybody can come up with But but so it's a combination for them. I think it's a combination of I'd say this the problem is and in the world we live in we can't tell what motivates them, right? So what should motivate them what we would think would is values And and and actually contributing to solving a problem that affects them and affects the people they love and affects their customers and effects You know, and it's a good thing to do But because altruism is so dominant in the culture and because they are required To virtue signal to show their altruism. We don't know if it's real altruism Whether it's just them pretending to be altruistic because that's what people expect of them Whether it's true values that they're seeking or whether it's a little bit of everything Which is what I suspect it is. It's a combination of all those things. It's some doing what other people think is right Second-handed kind of approach. It's some true altruism and some real values And the problem with him and bill gates and all these guys is since they can't separate this out in their own minds Then suddenly we can't from the outside There's just no way to tell but it's really horrific the way these guys are being treated. It's it's just It's pathetic and of course yeah Juan Balford will be accused of taking advantage Of of the of the market tumble to make money because he bought stock cheap Oh, yeah, I'm seeing that all over the place But I you know, I you know, I think a lot of people Getting back to just empathy. I think a lot of people honestly Feel empathy and want to help right and I do too but but But then they'll they'll just give money, you know, I'll just give 50 bucks And they share or more than that right and they share with the friends and and that's helping to them Right and for me, that's just not enough. I You know, if I was if I you know, they're going to give this Pat that you supposedly there's going to be a test that's coming out that That will determine if you have the antibody for this For this virus and and I and then I read that if for those that do they can give plasma or blood and it would be Very very valuable And if if that you know, my way of helping would be If that were me, I would go give plasma and I'd feel really good about that knowing absolutely that that's going to add value You know, that's going to really actually help versus Just Sacrificing for the sake of helping, you know, I agree completely and I would do the same thing And I think it's completely rational because if this really cures it in the sense if they take your plasma and put it into somebody infected And that person now becomes somebody who can donate plasma You could get rid of this by doing it that and creating herd immunity Very quickly through this methodology the challenge is Getting a test approved by the FDA and distributed and actually in practice But that I mean it's a game changer if they can actually if they can actually do it properly What we need today what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's Out of the stare cynicism and impotence And does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist roads Using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed For support for the show many of you step forward and actually Supported the show for the first time. 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