 Good day, May 40 here. Welcome to Bronte Beach on the way from Kujie through Clivelli Bronte and we'll go to Model Rammer, otherwise known as Tamarama Beach Where the models used to hang out, then we'll go all the way to Bandai the burning core of Orthodox Judaism in Sydney Anyway, I've been Listening on my walk. I subscribed to Apple News Plus. I've been listening on my walk to a Time magazine cover story on who is Kerry Lake who seems likely to win governor in Arizona and The turning point in her life apparently was in December of 2020 She went to church She started going to a new evangelical Christian church Bible church. Previously she'd been Catholic And the pastor preached that what you do for work is important, but don't let it change you I'm just thinking how naive and silly is that like a lot of the pious things that clergy in turn in their sermons Right, you know sound good and sermons are supposed to be all about edification Right, but that which sounds edifying that which sounds pious and that which sounds uplifting It's frequently nonsense. This is an example of absolute nonsense Of course your job is going to change who you are It can't help but change who you are Everything you do affects you like how you spend your time affects you What you do for a living affects you whether you're a landscape architect or a home architect Or a clerk at Kmart or a rabbi or an accountant It affects you from my years working in landscaping. I never never looked at landscaping the same I always start looking at how it's going to drain Those are what are going to drain out of this place They're working for years as a journalist And it affects you or you start thinking about who what when where why very good if you ask me About who what when when why questions? What was I doing during a particular week or month in my life and my background in journalism is Well equipped me for asking who what when where why questions Lawyers right their work trains them to think in terms of evidence and in terms of constructing a narrative So there was a history professor Marx's history professor wrote this highly acclaimed book But it was the book was taken apart by another history professor is showed he used really shoddy research techniques He's really shoddy supporting evidence in his book that his book really was a tent Tendentious lawyers brief masquerading is a work of history and so This critical history professor made it his mission to drum this other history professor out of the profession and so when this Tendentious history professor Marxist Got drummed out of the history of profession. Where did he go? He became a lawyer Right. He was much better suited For arguing a case in his briefs So, yeah, the helicopters come by at the beaches regularly so as I was checking out from Woolies today Check out Clark said there are a lot of sharks out there. So apparently all the recent rains flooded into the ocean bringing lots of delicious things to eat and The sharks have Come attracted to that and so maybe the sharks are getting closer inland so About three miles south of here Some dude was eaten and killed by a shark just after I left last year Apparently he was in a wetsuit and the thinking is that the shark confused him for a seal And made a meal out of it. I haven't seen any sharks yet Did take me back having to check out Clark lady at Woolies say lots of sharks out there So everything you do affects you like the news you watch YouTube streams you watch the Podcasts you listen to So I hold that they affect you but on the other hand I don't hold by the conventional mainstream perspective of The zombie bite theory of information that if you just get exposed to a particular podcast or a book or an article or a Twitter account that's just going to turn you into a zombie These accounts just going to get their fangs into you and infect you with their misinformation and Radicalize you know no one gets radicalized without their consent All right, if you're buying into someone's social media lies All right, that's a consensual act. Well, those three helicopters have just come by I wonder what's going on That's unusual. Normally you see about one helicopter every Couple of hours now. We've had three and five minutes So, yeah, if you're getting radicalized online, that's a consensual act Getting radicalized by a book. All right, you read Kevin McDonald's cultural critique and you quit your $120,000 a year job like Patrick little that's that's consensual you consented authorities have been alerted that Luke Ford is printing misinformation online and They're sending out helicopters So I don't buy the zombie bite theory of information on the other hand I don't believe that the online world is completely separate from the real world And I don't believe that the things that you do and the things that you listen to Should have no effect on you. Of course, they're going to have an effect But a good way of getting a bead on who you are is to look at who your three closest friends are It's going to provide a pretty good reflection of who you are And what you listen to does affect you, but it doesn't transform you without your consent So someone in your life is continually telling you lies. You're consenting to that You may not be cognizant of it But we are evolutionarily designed to be extremely good at detecting and Disarming when other people are trying to manipulate us if we weren't good at detecting when other people try to manipulate us We'd be dead. We wouldn't be alive as a species All right, we we are not evolutionarily adapted to be gullible. We did not evolve to be gullible So it's extremely hard to manipulate other people It's extremely easy to fool yourself in any direction you want to go