 There are two kinds of power so this is where if anyone wants power you can get power powers available to everybody There's two ways to think about it where you have hard power. Yeah, this is this is military This is being able to basically this is being able to kill whoever you want and get away with it You know, this is this is force. This is kinetic We're not at a stage where we have Hard power so much maybe on a personal level within the space that you live in But I see there's not a chat of stand barbarian army I wish there was you got guys go sign up go fight. It doesn't exist right now. So we don't have hard power Yeah, but hard power is the way we usually think about power. We think about loss We think about being oppressed and we've seen this Abuse we've seen people we've seen countries like China where they're they're building their hard power They want to have that military they want that might people do what they want with that kind of force You know the irony to this actually if I go back This is actually in a way like hyper patriarchal You know, it's like it's a strong oppressive father where you're gonna do what I say when I say it However, I whatever I tell you to do and you don't have a choice of the matter Yeah, and sort of in a weird irony like the United States is actually much more masculine nation And sorry China is a much more masculine nation than the US is at this point That's why it's keeping head. That's There we go. This is Australia. You can see Australia. This is hard power Pandemic people are this person Didn't wear a mask, right? So now they're gonna get you know handcuffed and beaten and this is gonna protect people keep them safe You know, they're exercising hard power Yeah, they can do that because the population there. Well, they don't have any guns because they got rid of them and Apparently they like to follow rules. So nobody really makes a fuss about it Yeah, and like what does that get you it gets you a literal fucking boot on your neck That's what that gets you if you follow rules So China is building up its hard power China has the manufacturing capabilities China has that yeah China met lack of resources, but they're basically replacing the United States This is a bad thing I don't really care so much about China, honestly What are you doing right now in the United States? What are you doing here in America? You're gonna go beat a country of 1.6 billion people if they're gonna be the dominant empire in this century than they are Okay You have things like Bitcoin. You have hard money. So I said money's not real money's not real money's just a mutually agreed upon idea that we you know, we engage with But we can come let's make it real we can have something that's not inflationary Finite supply it can increase in value Bitcoin's a great way where you can actually assert power yourself because you can completely separate yourself from my natural system almost You can do business with people whose values you agree with because if you're using Bitcoin We all kind of believe in the same thing and we don't have to conform to the narrative You know these idea that there's rules and this idea that well, this is what the this is what the banking laws This is what legal I like no No, we can actually do this ourselves And this is open to anybody So the ability to create your own systems always exists You know if you're intelligent enough create enough and if you're willing to take a risk a lot of people think of cryptos It's big, you know, it's like what is it? I don't know anything about crypto. Well, you can research it. You can educate yourself It's not a complex idea to think that what if you got hurt people together and we use our own kind of currency Just amongst ourselves Okay, I could see that happening multiply that by a thousand people a million ten million a hundred million Trains of dollars value There's nothing stopping you from embarking from one hard power system into another into another one. It's more to your advantage You can't make this switch And then we have soft power Soft power you have things a Netflix. They just I guess now they're canceling Dave Chappelle after saying they wouldn't cancel Dave Chappelle that that's really important It's not that important, but it's an example of soft power soft power is culture soft power is persuasionary soft power is The social Boundaries and the social conventions you're supposed to conform with Yeah, soft power has a lot of pull obviously, but you can always defy it. You all defied it coming here You all did everyone in this room is probably defying it in some way where you've made separations between people that you agree with and people that you don't Maybe upon very harsh ideological lines So you can always make a stand for yourself this way and most of the power that the United States has of this point of soft power Yeah, the president we currently have toothless Not really in reality like it is Biden the power president. No, maybe in Washington, DC, you know within certain spears Yeah, no no doubt about it But let's stay to Florida. Is anyone following mandates here really is he when is anyone doing the president says? Florida West Virginia, Texas. No We're doing it stuff the way we want ourselves our leaders are making our own decisions The United States no longer has the ability to project hard power broader internally So now it's relying upon soft power and social convention And certainly some people are gonna get dragged and some people might get targeted, but the system is breaking to your advantage Our lives are shaped by symbols One of the interesting things about not just Netflix. I could have thrown up 20 examples of global humble companies Facebook Instagram Disney Plus Yeah, whatever elder bullshit Pfizer You see the logo. What's a logo? A logo is a symbol Something that the general right spear has lacked for a long time Our symbols we have the American flag. That's one symbol. We don't have much else Yeah, when I was talking with my friend Arthur Kwan you know about art about the credit ability to create art to create beautiful things to Pull out of your soul something that people look at and they feel and it inspires any night something of them The general left the general narrative. They've got a lot of that They got all the and these these symbols are aligned with companies obviously a lot of it's just it's just logos That you all engage with they have a lot of that and that's very persuasive because it seems very omniscient your mind So when you see something like Yes, I mean like Netflix or anything else. It's not just That word it's not just that company. It represents this whole spear of soft power semiotics symbols always stand for something else You have to create your own symbols A lot of what I've tried. Okay, these are out of order. There we go a Lot of what I've tried to do with my own inner circle is create symbols give them something to follow. I Got this tattooed in my arm right now You got from Jack Dove and strength courage Mastery honor. Do I expect everybody to get tattooed? No, but I expect it to mean something when you see it for the guys in their Group it means something even if I go back. Where is it? There we go. Chaston Barbarianism. That's ridiculous. No, it's not I Have the means to create an entire digital country. I Can do that. I can create a Dow. I can create an LLC if I want to I can create online community I can create social conventions. I can create a culture. I can create an idea I can create a set of ideas an entire schema operating system Here's how we're going to live and change the world and I can pack that into a symbol I've got 10,000 variations on this fucking thing. You know me Chaston Barbarianism as I have so goddamn many Most of them are probably made by Devon and we laugh at this and we're like, oh, that's ridiculous No, that means something because that got a lot of you fit that got a lot of you in shape I got a lot of you living your life differently and now you're going to create community runs amongst yourselves That group of an itself was from a larger group Create the world you want to live and create the networks Also, this is this is great. How could you not see this and fucking look at this like Jesus Christ? This guy's having the fucking time of his life. Let me go There we go back back there we go So as much as I want this to happen and I don't vote. I don't really believe in democracy as it exists right now anymore I'd love this have an instruction. We all love that I says before this show up just stab stab stab behead roll the body off I Run shit now now we can fight in a pit with sticks if you want to argue Okay, we're not gonna get that we're not gonna get that we can dream about it. That's fine That's fine, but we do have is you have all the tools shape the world What does The United States have was the federal government have that you don't have Do you have social media? Of course you do. Do you have the means to create your own banking system? You do Can you create your own networks? Absolutely. Can you arm yourselves yourselves? Of course you can You have tools to reach people to broadcast No, let's see Instagram live that you too. Oh, yeah, I do You have all the power that a media conglomerate has you you have all the power the individual country has You can do this yourself. You can create the world yourself If you want to talk about being a man of action, what can you create? What can you create? You have all of it. You know, so why aren't you using it? What I've tried to do the last five years, especially this past few years. I've tried to create I've created groups. I've created network tribes cultures. I've connected with other people Yeah, and whether and there's so many groups now they exist online. They're all valid. They're all useful. What appeals to you? Yeah, well my good friends Jack Murphy a liminal order. He has a group I've got my own air and tribal group jazz. I'm barbarian zone group, you know war room tape brothers They're their own group for turn off, you know fraternity of excellence. They're their own group Every one every group serves somebody. But what were they all creating? What are they really doing? They're creating the substrate for a new world. They're doing it themselves It's men doing it themselves the way that men have always done They're not relying upon the external order They're pulling it out of them and their brethren. You can do that That in my mind is what being a man of action is You know Mishima from Japan talks about this in a lot of his books, you know son of steel The dividing moment in his life was when he realized that he had for the first half of his life He'd been a writer He's written books written novels. He'd been very intellectual man. He's been a scholar been a man of the mind But then he got to this point the sort of life crisis see and he writes. He's not a man of action He's very good at thinking a lot of people are very good thinking a lot of the political sphere the political right very good thinking Think pieces national review. Let's talk about how we got here. You know, let's talk about moving forward This is gonna be terrible. This isn't constitutional. This is a violation. It's alright. Yes, we can comment all Fucking day. We can deliver commentaries and missives. It doesn't mean anything unless you're creating something You're not acting. You're just talking We have things like tradicon movement. You know, they want to have this very idolized world's idolized image Valor, you know, the golden man this man of virtue, you know fair maiden We're gonna make a return to the past. This is nice to think about. This isn't a bad mental model necessarily But this is not complete either That movement Those kinds of movements that kind of thinking where we're just gonna simplify down to this romance romantic little You know fairy tale box and like that's what we'll say the world. No, that's not gonna say the world The world is bloody and violent and it's beautiful and it's complicated all at once You know getting a hypothetical virgin wife and then looking on a farm Good for you. That's a nice idea. That's great. That's a beautiful life I won't say that's not but that alone is not going to change the direction of history So you reclaim your values and you live them and you recognize everything I just talked about everything that you were gonna have Happen to you going forward. It's going to be a process. It's not an event. It's not any one thing It's not a war. It's not one final battle. It's your whole life until the day you die