 that they do co-opt movements to basically like take power away from those movements and I'd seen that because I'd been an environmentalist since I was 12 years old I'm 40 years old now so I mean I've been at this kind of for a long time in that and you know I've seen that movement be completely co-opted by big finance who just use it as a mechanism to control people like the Greta Thunberg you know the time magazine person give me a fucking break it's fucking it dry I can't stand it it try it drives me crazy because she she you know I saw this great meme that was like iceberg shows a picture of an iceberg like on the top and then the big you know like 90 percent of it's underneath the water and then there's Thunberg and then there's the water Greta's head and then George Soros's head underneath hers it's like perfect um but it's yeah you know they've co-opted it the thing that drives me crazy with the farmers because like you know that's primarily my audience or my space is that um they've got them they've they've got them partaking in their own demise by pandering to this climate change bullshit yeah in that climate change is being used as a mechanism to control everything every resource every piece of land and like they're shooting themselves in the foot and I'm seeing it constantly I want to want to wake people up to it but it's like man like that's a religious space you know like in in an era of modern secularism where you know most people today are climate change has become the new religion and you speak against that religion you're a heretic you get burnt at the stake and I've I've certainly paid quite a cost for coming out with some of the things that I've said I just don't care anymore like I've I'm out of space now around it's like I don't fucking care if you don't like what I'm saying you know what they say Nietzsche has a saying about um the most dangerous thing a man can do is to be by himself most people we want to be part of a tribe or they want to be uh accepted by a herd it's the few totally except the few that accept to be ostracized and ridiculed they're the ones that make change it's not the will it's it's not people think democracy makes the change is not it's a will of the few that dictate the course of civilization oh oh totally you know the neat thing I found though as a content creator you might find this yourself too is that you get to a place certainly not at the beginning you know when you're starting out you kind of have to pick your lane and kind of stick to it um but you know I've got like 300 and something thousand followers on on YouTube I've been at it for six years um I'm at a point where I've come out and said some things you know and you know I get labeled this that of the other and let's say I lose 10% of my audience right away from something I say well those are probably 10% of people that I probably don't care about anyways if they're if they're so offended yeah that they can't handle me saying something that rubs them the wrong way and and they're ready just to like throw it all in fine but what happens in the meantime is you drop a little bit of dead weight and you kind of get some Spartans that come in as people that want to help you and join your tribe who are like a thousand times more effective than some of these followers who just get offended by everything like kind of snowflake people um so I found where I'm at like I started kind of speaking my mind a bit more when I was over 200 thousand subscribers on YouTube and I found it actually didn't hurt anything of my numbers like I was worried at first like you know I start talking about something this is it going to hurt my book sales and all that hasn't at all it's actually as far as I can tell it's all still grown I think I think the more honest and really you can be is just a way better game to play because the world is so full of charlatans and bullshitters it's not necessarily a numbers game it's a quality game I'd way rather have 10,000 quality people be in my tribe than a million people that just want to watch cat videos and you know dumb shit on YouTube well it's memetics right it's it's a herd mentality as Rene Jarrar talks about especially when it comes to social media people rarely think from themselves they don't use critical thinking tools or skill sets or heuristics I had a conversation with an environmentalist acquaintance I wouldn't say friend and I'm like listen we're not getting rid of oil I don't know where the cognitive dissonance comes but that computer in front of you that's oil your phone is oil the house is oil construction is oil I don't know what you guys think just fuel is oil but nonetheless let's continue the conversation and this person was adamant about we have to stop we have to stop Alberta I'm like okay let me follow your train of thought I'm just they're crazy and I'm like listen I'll play it along with you I'm just gonna say all oil is evil whatever okay just for the same conversation I'll fancy it you are literally saying that you have zero empathy or amores you're saying fuck the people to live on burda let's let's put them on the streets you know forget about them having a house forget about them supporting their families fuck them I'm like do you hear you understand what you're saying like like to me you're to me you're a dictator like this is just fucking ridiculous oh yeah their gears are like I know I know well it's ironic especially coming from people in Ontario over the only reason they have all the social programs and benefits to do is because of Alberta