 G'day mate! So I remember I was in a 12-step meeting or as a recorded 12-step talk and the speaker talked about driving down the road and how he just had this wish that he could get into a moderate car crash so that he could have the opportunity to rest. He was feeling very very stressed, felt under a lot of pressure and so he wanted to just have that opportunity to rest and he thought like, oh wouldn't it be nice to just get into a moderate car crash so that I can then rest for a few days? Shalom moon man! So I read recently that 95% of our thoughts are not conscious so if you're driving around and you're conscious of having a thought, oh wouldn't it be nice if I could have a moderate car crash so I could rest for a few days? You probably have ten times as many of these thoughts that were going on prior unconscious so you're not to blame for these thoughts but you're certainly responsible for dealing with them, right? That level of self-destructiveness just is often just under the surface for so many of us and when you look at the path that Tiger Woods car crash took, I mean it looks like a suicide path. Like there's no sign of using the brakes, right? This looks like Junya Sayo. Remember Junya Sayo before he finally committed suicide? He drove off a cliff and when you look at the footage of what Tiger Woods does, he's driving at speed downhill Long Hawthorne Boulevard in Palos Verdes. He crosses a central reservation so the dividing line. Like there are bushes and it's raised up so you'd know it if you go over it, right? He crosses the central reservation with no skid marks, no sign of braking, right? So he's driving into the other oncoming lane of traffic so he could have killed people and then his car rolls several times, lands in shrubs off the side of the road. I mean why didn't he brake if he wasn't trying to kill himself? This sounds like just what Junya Sayo did when he drove off off a cliff. The great linebacker with the San Diego Chargers and the New England Patriots. Eventually Junya Sayo was found to be a CTE person so he had a lot of brain damage from his years playing football. But Tiger Woods was engaged in a lot of reckless behavior. He was giving a TV interviews just prior to the crash and people were commenting. He looks bloated, he looks zoned out, right? So he looked absolutely exhausted the day before his serious car wreck. He had all these bags under his eyes so yeah maybe it was just severe sleep deprivation and he told CVS's Jim Nance, you know, I'm feeling fine, I'm just a little bit stiff. I'm doing mundane stuff, I'm going to rehab, then I'm going to gravitate towards more. But people were tweeting about his TV interview. He looked absolutely fried, he looked bloated, dull looking face, sounded like he was speaking through a muffler. Honestly reckoned this last surgery could be the end for him. Another guy noted, Tiger C messed up during a Sunday interview on CVS. Another commentator, is it just me or did Tiger Woods look completely zoned out during that interview? And then just prior to the interview he was pissed off at a film crew. He nearly hit a car director, a director's car while he was rushing out. So he's staying at the Plush Terina Resort in Palos Verdes and he was running late for a meeting with two NFL stars. So he charges out of the parking lot and drove off in an agitated, impatient state. He almost got into a car accident and just driving recklessly, driving fast. So if you're having the thought, oh, wouldn't it be nice to just get into a moderate car accident so I can rest for a few days? You've got that type of self-destructive thinking going on in your mind way before you even become conscious of it. So not to blame, but you are responsible to get your life together, whether that means therapy or exercise program or a new spiritual path or a 12-step program, whatever it means, you've got to do something because your life is at risk. Elliott says, most people are deeply sleep deprived. It's a quiet killer. Yeah. So I do not stop looking for answers to my sleep problem. So I keep trying new things, getting varying degrees of benefit, but I was just cranking up my CPAP because often my nasal passages get blocked. So I crank up the air pressure in my CPAP to try to out my nasal passages so I sleep better. So I was tossing and turning until about 1 a.m. last night, and then I slept pretty solidly between 1 a.m. and about 5.30 a.m. I went to bed about 8.30 p.m. Do I have insomnia? Sometimes periodically. So I noticed I sleep really well on Friday nights because I'm not trying to accomplish anything. And so I just Friday nights best sleep. But I did like a five hour stream yesterday afternoon into the evening. It didn't finish until about after 6 p.m. So I was exhausted. And that may have negatively affected my sleep. Okay, a question about my sheets. I just bought new sheets. All right, let's see how many fibers I got on these sheets. I got satin sheets to lay on satin sheets to play on. Okay, queen. Wow, doesn't say how many ply. Are they cotton sheets or microfiber? Okay, let me let me look look this up. That that seems important. I just bought new sheets. Okay, elegant comfort premium, softest 100 thread count Egyptian quality bedding flat sheet, wrinkle free, stain resistant. Oh, now they're telling me they can't find that that page. That's crazy. Okay, 1500 thread count. Is that good? See what do I got here? Yeah, I still do call in. So I don't have the capability for call in right now. But if you're in the chat, I'll come back on and I will now I'm not going to return my sheets. It's microfiber. So let's have a look at Elliott says microfiber. Yeah, I didn't really have satin sheets. I made that up. It was from a gym neighbors song satin sheets to lay on satin sheets to play on. Okay, what's this song here? satin sheets to lie on satin pillows to cry on. Still I'm not happy. Don't you see big long Cadillac tailor maids upon my back still I want you to set me free. Okay, that that song doesn't really do much for me. But what does Elliot have to say? You're sleeping on plastic. So what what's wrong with plastic? Is is cotton somehow morally superior? Does cotton give you better quality sleep? I mean, Elliot loves anything. Anything that's natural. Elliot, Elliot loves anything that's natural. So yeah, if you have trouble sleeping, you know, you can't give up looking for exclusions. What is my underwear made of? Okay, my underwear. I've got different, different types. Where's the confiner tag? Calvin Klein, mate. I don't know. Lenin is superior to cotton. It stays cooler. Okay. Let's let's have a look here. What's what's in my Calvin Klein's? When you're virtually bedridden? Yeah, I had problems. I had problems sleeping from about age 21. My, my, my, my underwear is cotton, cotton classics, Calvin Klein. My dad had sleep troubles. They developed in his late 20s, I think when he was doing a PhD, he would get up at 4am to work on his thesis. And so he was never able to sleep past 4am until until he got into his 80s. So he always had lifelong sleep troubles. Because he'd go to bed about 8pm, get up at 4am. Okay, so Elliot says, cotton will not agitate your skin as polyester will. So yeah, I've got cotton underwear. Don't skimp on sheets or underwear. That's a start. So most days, I'm not yawning. So whatever sleep issues or insomnia I have, it doesn't seem to be severe. I'm not sure it's even a moderate problem. I think it's occasionally a moderate problem, usually a mild problem. But the last few months, very rare that I do on during the day. So that's one measure. I don't feel like my sleep problems are a huge issue. Have you seen the British TV show Fleabag? So the main character in it has a friend named Boo. And Boo wants to get back together with her ex-boyfriend. And so she thinks, oh, if I just get into a moderate car accident, he will come visit me in the hospital. And so she steps onto a street in front of an onrushing car, hoping to just get into a moderate car accident, but it ends up killing her. So human being has both a life impulse and a death impulse, just like the Torah says. I said before you this day, choice, choose life. Choice between life and death, choose life. So we have a death impulse. This woman had the crazy idea if she just got hit by a car that her ex-boyfriend would come see her. Do you still have on that Canadian guy who used to write for VDN? No, Kevin Michael Grace has his own YouTube channel, and he's on Twitter as well. So just follow Kevin Michael Grace on Twitter, or on YouTube, and you can check him out. Why do you resist simple solutions that work? Like, what simple solution? So you think that if I switch my sheets to cotton, that that's going to work, that my sleep problems are just going to go away, just switching to cotton sheets and cotton underwear. I do have cotton underwear. What are you thinking? The switching to cotton is like that. There's no evidence for that, Elliot. Send me some links to some studies that show switching the cotton sheets will improve your sleep quality. So yeah, thinking about this, this woman in the TV show Fleabag, she thought that if she just got hit by a car, got a moderate accident, go to the hospital that her ex-boyfriend would come visit her and she'd get back to her like crazy, crazy levels of self destructiveness. And in the big book, it talks about addiction with this analogy. I can imagine a man who enjoyed test this for yourself, no peer reviewed needed. Okay, cotton sheets, big deal. So in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous, it talks about a man who liked to jaywalk. And occasionally, he'd get close to getting hit. And he'd get warnings, might even get a jaywalking ticket by police, but he kept up until he finally got nicked by a car. And he broke his hand. Then another time he got nicked, he broke his elbow. And another time he got hit by a car, you know, broke his back. So he's progressively getting a more and more danger through his jaywalking, but it just won't stop because he gets such a thrill from from jaywalking. So classic example of of the self destructiveness that is inherent in in the human condition. And I don't know, is it true that 95% of our thoughts were not even conscious of? But it does make sense. So if you have some thoughts that scare you, you probably had 10 times as many before they ever became became totally conscious. So I wonder what's going on with with Tiger Woods. Oh, did you see the Great Appearance by Steph R. Molyneux on Joseph Cotto and Paul Gottfried's show yesterday? And there was a 19 year old named Wojak Woos who threw down a super chat. He said, How could I not be furious? So I sniped it. So it's the last two hours of my stream. You can find it on rumble. I'll put a link in the chat. I stream sniped it with with Cotto's permission. But really great performance by Stefan Molyneux. So he comes in at the three hour 24 minute mark. Yes, it was really good. Like, I've never seen Stefan so good. He was like totally on top of his game. He was like fired up. He was so sharp, just two hours of gold. So three hours and 24 minutes. If you just click my rumble link for the video I made yesterday with the title, how Montana mom became a leader in fighting anti semitism. And so in in the stream, Wojak Woos, this 19 year old throws down a super chat and says, How can my generation not not be furious of boomers? And why should I not be angry and nihilistic? So boomers certainly have made their problems. But a 19 year old today living in the United States with an above average IQ, you have so much opportunity in front of you. Like, how could you if you're a nihilist, or if you're without hope in in a first world industrial nation today, that's not to do with living conditions on the ground. That's what's going on in your head. There are so many opportunities today, so many opportunities to learn to share your thoughts. And and that someone would look at the problems that we have today and go, Oh, it's, you know, it's all hopeless. I might as well give up, not stand for anything. I'm just furious. Why should I not be furious at boomers? Boomers have made their mistakes, but they have still given you levels of prosperity that humanity has never seen before. Luke doesn't really understand the word nihilist. So I'm using nihilist events of standing for nothing. But let's look at nihilism. nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles. It is the belief that life is meaningless. And half Galician says doesn't mean lack of hope or belief in improvement. Well, it does mean a rejection of all religious or moral principles. So there's nothing to stand for. Right. If you believe that life is meaningless, that there is no hope. And there is no improvement. There's no such thing as improvement. If all life is meaningless. So I agree with the nihilist in that there's no objective meaning to life. You can only take a subjective leap of faith to to a meaning. So that I give you. But most people need to take some kind of subjective leap of faith to some kind of meaning. But there is there is no improvement in nihilism. So in philosophy, nihilism means that nothing in the world is real. And then historically, it was the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party circa 1900, which found nothing to approve on in the established social order. So that's probably the way that wordjack was this meeting, nihilist, that he found nothing to approve of in the established social order. So the established social order in the industrialized nations of the world today certainly has its problems. But nothing to approve of like, what's better? Like, where is it better? North Korea, Nigeria, Russia, Venezuela, Argentina, the opportunities in the United States and in Europe and Australia today are unparalleled. So there are definitely some problems. Well, today, there are some ways that the world was much better than it is now. But there's plenty to to benefit from now. So I'm thinking more existentialist things appear and we feel compulsion to ascribe meaning to them after the fact. Okay, so you're talking about existentialist. So I think I do. I do understand the word nihilist. So once again, nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles. So there's no improvement for the nihilist worldview. In philosophy, nihilism means extreme skepticism that nothing in the world has a real existence and historically refers to the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party circa 1900, which found nothing to approve of in the established social order. So I remember running across the Golden Gate Bridge. So I was running five marathons at about age 12. So there I am, running across the Golden Gate Bridge at age 12. I remember that was like mile 18 mile. I was about mile 18 mile 20. And I remember thinking, ah, if I could just, you know, throw myself off the bridge into the cool water. So having some pretty dark thoughts there. But I was miserable. And and if I finally was becoming conscious of those thoughts, right, they've probably been circulating in my head. And I don't think it was purely the misery of slogging through a 26 mile 385 mile marathon. Man, those are some killer hills in the San Francisco marathon. I think that was the most difficult marathon I ever ran. I finished five marathons when I was 12. Do I think Tiger will ever be able to play golf professionally again? I have no idea. Russia might be better on respects than the US. Undoubtedly, every country you can find things where it is better than the United States. So Canadians can find ways that, you know, they have things superior to the United States. Nigerians can think of ways that they have things superior to the United States. China, Russia, Japan, Australia, everywhere has got something that's superior to the United States. So just like with with married couples, they often they often have ascribe exaggerated qualities to their spouse. And like, you know, my husband is the greatest guy in the world. My wife is the greatest woman in the world. So it often helps to to concentrate on the positive of the situation that you've got, whether it's a spouse or a country that you're in. Any opinion on Adam Curtis documentary? Yeah, I enjoy watching Adam Curtis, but I'm not sure that they cohere. I mean, the visuals are amazing. And the ideas are amazing. But once again, it seems romantic. He's ascribing a lot more than to reality than is really there. So he does find some some fascinating, putative insights. But I remember Kevin Michael Grace was making an argument. And he said, Well, Adam Curtis says this about some economic issue. And I said, like, why would we care what Adam Curtis says about economics, he has no expertise in economics, he makes documentary films. So Adam Curtis documentaries maybe thought provoking, I wouldn't, I wouldn't take anything he says as an important insight into life without independently investigating it. Watching Adam Curtis documentaries is a little bit like listening to Barack Obama speeches, they're kind of hypnotic. They put you into this pleasant hypnotic state. But I have no idea if anything he says actually stands up to reason and examination. So I'd want to read his ideas explored in much greater depth in a book. So if there's like an idea that you find fascinating in Adam Curtis, then I'd want to see it developed in more depth rather than just this kind of pleasing voice over that he does with interesting music and interesting visuals. I think the value is in the questions. Okay, so there may be value there. But like, give me an example. I remember, once I was interviewed, I think by three people from something like Hungarian Playboy. And one of the people is this gorgeous blonde woman. And I was telling a friend afterwards, like it was the best interview I've ever had in my life, she just really seemed to understand at a very, you know, deep level, what what I'm about or what I'm trying to do. And my friend said, well, give me an example. And I couldn't actually think of any examples. So I think just because she was so cute, she was so hot that I, I ascribe all sorts of meaning and depth to her and to her questions that may not have been there. So yeah, I watched Sentry of the Self. So yeah, it just can't be a skeptical of Adam Curtis. It just seems to have kind of hypnotic effect on one to watch his videos. And then he just makes it's also it's like, also it's a lot like reading a Z-Man blog. So you read a Z-Man blog. And it's just all these assertions. Alright, so there's not Z-Man usually doesn't feel any compulsion to provide evidence for his assertions. So his email blog is just like assertion after assertion after assertion after assertion. And Adam Curtis, he, he just makes assertion after assertion after assertion, he takes like one example, and then, you know, establishes some, some broad hypothesis or broad assertion. And I wonder, is there really enough substance underlying these broad assertions that he's making? I think Tiger is mentally exhausted. Yeah, he hasn't looked particularly lively. So he's probably got some prescription pill problem. Yeah, he sounds like a stoner. You're talking about Adam Curtis. It's like a stoner rambling like Spencer does. Yeah, Adam Curtis. That's yeah, he's what he says sounds beautiful. Just as like what Richard Spencer says sounds beautiful. And it kind of puts you into a hypnotic state. I just don't know if there's any value there. If you would have just read the transcript of what he's saying without the mesmerizing visuals, and without without his authoritative accent, would it actually stand up? Gandalf says, I think Z-Man's assertions are closer to the mask than not, but appreciated for a bit more scientific. Whether his assertions are close to the mark or far from the mark, he never seems to provide any evidence for what he's asserting. So unlike a Steve Saylor, like Steve Saylor is inductive. He goes from specific to specific to specific to specific. And then on the basis of those specifics, he produces a deduction. And Z-Man just looks at the world and he just gives these broad sweeping assertions. And he just doesn't feel compelled to provide any evidence from them. So I much prefer a Steve Saylor evidence based approach. It's like the difference between Anglo philosophy and Continental philosophy. So if you read the work of French and German philosophers, historians, professors of the humanities, it tends to overwhelmingly be the vast sweeping assertions with very little evidence, with very few particulars to back them up, as opposed to the Anglo approach is where Anglo professors in the humanities or a philosophy history, they tend to provide specific after specific after specific after specific. And then they may grudgingly offer a very tentative and humble hypothesis. While the French and the Germans, they offer these broad sweeping hypotheses with very thin evidence. So you'll see this with the say the the German historians and philosophers and academics who supported National Socialism, they would propound these vast sweeping world views making the case for National Socialism. And then after National Socialism was defeated in World War II, they then kind of reassembled under the bulwark of Christianity. The Andy Jobs area were defined were working for Christian publishing houses and Christian organizations. So then they'd just reformulate their grand sweeping assertions. But they put it under a rubric of Christianity. So they would they would go to college typically at 18 as a Protestant believing in God, often on a path to become clergy. Within the first year of university they lose their faith. They try to reconstitute a world view by getting into historiography, finding the meaning of history, right? The meaning of history became their substitute religion. In Germany in particular the study of history and the meaning of history developed German nationalist feelings. So German nationalism and the meaning that they described to German history would become their substitute religion, leading them to support National Socialism and National Socialism is defeated. So then they reformulate their grand theories to try to fit in with a Christian worldview which is like right where they started. So Jerry Mueller wrote his PhD thesis on Hans Freier. So Hans Freier was a German philosopher, sociologist, historian and Jerry Z. Mueller wrote his PhD thesis and then turned it into a book for Princeton Press, The Other God that Failed Hans Freier and the De-Radicalization of German Conservatism. So this book is about all those German academics who supported the National Socialists in the 1930s and 40s in particular as a way to climb in social rank and status in their jobs because in Germany professors are employed by the state and so the professors who align themselves with National Socialism they were able to climb much more rapidly in the academic hierarchy. Then National Socialism gets defeated and many of the professors that they had ward on like professors that they'd driven out of the academy so that they could take their place. The professors who didn't sign on for National Socialism they came roaring back and then those professors who supported National Socialism they were out in the cold and they didn't have jobs. So did they humble themselves and stop you know propounding these grand sweeping theories? No, they kept promoting grand sweeping theories of how the world worked, how history worked because that's kind of the German tendency. They just changed their theories to adopt them to a Christian world view because it was only through Christian organizations that they could now find jobs after 1945. So the Anglo perspective on the other hand is very much focused on specific after specific after example after example after example they very humbly submit some kind of limited hypothesis while the French and Germans, their scholars, their historians, their humanities professors much more likely to propound these grand sweeping theories with very little evidence. Gandalf says we're in era of narrative collapse. I think the system is struggling because engagement with it and its narratives is declining. I like Adam Curtis because he stores yeah so I just don't know what to do with Adam Curtis. I just don't know how seriously to take him. I mean would his work be powerful if you simply read it on a page? Because Americans in particular they tend to think anyone who speaks with Adam Curtis as accent is very learned, you know, very smart and so if if you just read the words of Adam Curtis on a page would they have would they have the same power or is it primarily an emotional effect that he produces with the hypnotic images and music and his editing techniques and his very posh accent.