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he world and all their science were wrong and of course I was right. I was right. It was obvious I was right. I didn't have to do any science. It was kind of obvious. But I would just like to claim that for the rest of my life as a thing that in some ways I'm most proud of. Now I'm not most proud of it because I realized it because I think there must have been billions of people who said the same…
← Previous segment →alent in my talent stack was the working on my ego. In other words being able to embarrass myself at an extreme level. I mean that would be extremely embarrassing if it had gone the other way. If it turned out the masks were killing people and there was, you know, it turned out there was lots of confirming science to that or that it didn't work at all. Pretty embarrassing for me. Wasn't an obstacle.
All right, some more stuff. I think the country needs a common enemy because sometimes that's the only thing that stops you from fighting with each other. I have a theory that humans need a certain amount of conflict. In other words we're just, we're just genetically and all the way to our base code of our DNA, we need conflict. We're sort of a conflict species. If we don't have a war we'll start one at home. If we don't have that one at home we'll start one somewhere else. We kind of need to fight. We're just fighting people. And you can either try to deny your nature or you can try to engineer something productive to work with, you know, using your nature in a positive way.
The reason capitalism works is that it understands people are selfish and greedy, right? Capitalism works because it understands people are horrible. We're selfish and greedy. But it's a system that harnesses selfishness and greed and turns it into gold. Best system you could ever have. How about democracy? People are stupid, fearful, tribal and don't care about their neighbors but democracy lets everybody have their little selfish vote and because we accept the credibility of the system it turns all this ignorance and bad intention into gold. You get the United States. You get the Constitution. So a good system can turn horrible things into something good and we do it all the time, right?
You know fertilizer is used to grow, you know, literally poop that comes out of cows is used to grow new food. So you can turn bad things into good things. It's very common. And right now we have all this angry energy. Lots of angry energy in the country. And right now it's just sort of directed in every direction like everybody's angry at just sort of a variety of things. What we need is one good common enemy. I recommend Antifa.
Antifa is the common enemy of Black people. It's a common enemy of anybody who likes civilization because they are anti-civilization. They're literally trying to devolve civilization to the point of starvation. No they don't say it in those words but basically that's it. They don't have an end game. They just want less of everything. And what you get when you destroy things is, you know, that outcome. So I would say that all the people who want economic prosperity, who want a fair world, who want jobs are on the same side. So if you are Black and you want jobs and a good society and all those things that say Martin Luther King would have wanted, if you want any of that stuff Antifa is your mortal enemy. And it's certainly the mortal enemy of the right, the political right. I would say it should be the mortal enemy of the moderate liberals, right?
So I would say Antifa should be our common e
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nemy. If you take them out of the mix everything looks different. Here's a question for you. I have not seen any reporting yet on which red states or actually red cities are rioting. Does anybody have any statistics on Republican controlled cities? Are there any? I don't know. Is there even a Republican-controlled city anywhere? Is that even a thing? Are there any Republican-controlled cities tha…
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