 George. A few months ago, you analyzed a video by a guy named Emmanuel Ocho, who does a show on YouTube or a podcast called Uncomfortable Conversations with the Black Man. Now, last month, Ocho was at a conference and he made the final comments. He said, I'm glad sports are down and I'm a sports guy. There's a presidential election going on. There's a pandemic going on and I'm like bravo. At least that shows me that we have our priorities right in this country. Now, this is something that hits me in several ways in part because I work in the sports industry and so I hear and I see this all the time where LeBron James is attacking himself as more than an athlete, teams and leagues, they're bigger than sports. They're the things that really matter. And I look at sports, I think Tara Smith says it best. It's an arena for admiration. And if ever we needed an arena for admiration, it's now when we have a pandemic and a presidential election between two imbeciles. But beyond that, what does it say to you, particularly as we're listening to these shows on productiveness or we have the show on Pride coming up, when people put down their own work or their own profession in a template like this to place it in the socially right context, is it just a lack of appreciation for the role that these luxuries can have in our lives or is it maybe a broader sense not many people respect their work or their purpose, whatever it may be. And so we can claim this moral high ground by putting our purpose down. Yeah, I mean, it's a great question and there's a lot going on here, right? I mean, there's a sense in which this is what altruism demands, right? It demands you give up your most precious values. It demands that you give up that which brings you the most joy and the most excitement. And what he's saying is, look, there are people suffering. How can I enjoy? How can I appreciate? How, why should I have any values when people are struggling? I should be sacrificing for them. It's like Lent on a grand scale. Like what's the idea of Lent? It's the sacrifice something. And people do like these Catholics are such, you know, there's such scammers, right? So Lent, they give up chocolate. Like Jesus was on a cross for God's sake, right? I mean, he gave up his life. You're giving up chocolate, right? Do something serious, you know? So this guy is like, I'm giving up sports and it's appropriate. We as a culture should give up sports because it's Lent, because somebody's suffering and we need a sacrifice. And we need a, it's not just what people call virtue signaling that is showing the world, look, I'm a good guy. No, but you're showing yourself. It's their pseudo self-esteem requires them to do it. They won't respect themselves if they don't do it. If he watches sports knowing that people dying from COVID somewhere and he didn't do everything he could, he can't do it. So this is altruism and this is a consequence of altruism. And it's not that he's doing anything to help the people who have COVID. That's not the point of altruism. The point of altruism is not to help people. The point of altruism is to sacrifice, right? The whole idea of sacrificing to God, God is to sacrifice to a non-being. And here, so the point of it is the sacrifice, not the benefit the other party gets. I mean, just think about a God. Think about all the power God has and knows everything and everything. He wants you to sacrifice to him. I mean, what a, you know, a narcissistic being he would be if that were true, right? It's not about you sacrificing to somebody else. It's about you suffering, like you sacrificing. Whether somebody gets a benefit doesn't matter. So giving up sports, nobody benefits from it. But that's okay. That's the point. That's what self-sacrifice means. So that's what it's really all about. And then with the politics, it's the same thing. Serious stuff is going on in the world. The only way I know how to deal with serious stuff going on in the world is to deny myself something, not to eat that chocolate, right? It's not to pursue my values, to show myself, not other people, but myself, that I am a good person. And I'm a good person because I'm suffering. That's what makes me good. It's I'm giving up something at a time when I should be giving up something, when things are rough. I also find it interesting that, and the whole, I haven't commented on this, I don't think, but I find the whole idea of voter turnout, this election, being the highest it's ever been, like since 1900 or something, I find that really depressing, right? For two reasons. One, because we had two really, really horrible candidates and yet people were motivated to go up and vote. And second, because it shows how important politics is in people's lives, that's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. The idea that politics are bad, we need to get involved in politics, that's awful. That's a really side of bad times. But anyway, I think the answer to your question is altruism. That's what really, really impacts him. And of course, it's also, you can see the egalitarianism there, you can see, if there's suffering, we should all be the same, I shouldn't be enjoying, but egalitarianism is an altruistic morality. That makes sense, George? Absolutely, that's awesome. And like I said, I hear this all the time, I encounter it firsthand. I've spent lots of time thinking and talking about it and never even thought of introducing altruism. So that's why I'm here for the show because we get stuff like this. That's great. I mean, my attitude is, how are all the things that are going on in the world? Well, then I should enjoy myself, not because all the other things are going on in the world, but because I'm not gonna enjoy myself out there, so I better find things to enjoy myself in here because I can't go out or I can't do other stuff. And people are suffering, okay? I'm sad that people are suffering, but life's not over, my life's still here. I still should pursue my happiness, right? The focus is me. It really is, we're really egos. We really are selfish in the deepest, most profound sense. So your whole orientation is different, but if your orientation is, no, something is good, sacrifice is good, that's the essence of virtue, then, yeah, anyway. And I guess the irony too is he's in the position to actually make someone's life better. He can give us those moments of inspiration and admiration. If he really wanted to help us, he could be giving us those few hours a night. Absolutely. It's not about helping us, like you said. Yeah, no, no. We're much more helped by the positive trade than by the sacrifice. That's always the case. And yet they avoid the positive trade in always in favor of the sacrifice because that's what their morality demands. 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