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or now. So don't worry if this seems like too much of a simplification and you say to yourself but you're leaving something out. It doesn't matter for a reframing. You're trying to keep it simple so that people can hold it in their minds. So if I get this about eighty percent right that's all you need. So forget about being pedantic. Of what you're saying but is it really just genes and traumas? I…

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nvironment and test all these little hacks you'll have a subjectively better life, some number of people just heard that and said huh, I'll give it a try. And for those people they just became authors. They don't know yet but they're going to find out.

So this is one of the things that keeps me interested, right? I got to tell you almost every day, some, well really every day I think somebody contacts me that sometimes I know and sometimes I don't, to tell me that their entire life has been improved by some reframing that I presented. So they're tremendously powerful. Just tremendously powerful.

All right. I was thinking of starting a new Twitter account, a second one just for artists so that they can curse at me without knowing why. Because artists are very, very mad at me and people have asked. Because I've been sort of playing around with this tech I guess. The theme I've been playing with that artists don't understand reasoned arguments so they just swear at you if you have one.

And so every time somebody comes at me and is just pure troll, you stupid cartoonist, you do everything wrong with no reasons, then I checked the profile. It's musician, visual artist, writer. It's always one of the arts, right? And I thought to myself that my only comeback for that would be I won't try to make art if you don't try to think rationally. The trouble is I have to give this to you because I can't use it myself because in a way I'm kind of an artist sort of. I mean I don't even call myself an artist because even I look at my art and I say well I'm not sure that's art with a big A. Sort of art with a small a. So I can't really use my own comeback. But if you're not involved in art use it yourself. I won't try to make art if you don't try to think rationally.

And without being unkind to artists I think that there is something like it's almost like an autism spectrum thing but different. I saw somebody say that in the comments but I was going to say that anyway. It's almost like artists are on some kind of their own spectrum where there's complete rationality and engineering on the right and then there's a complete lack of rationality and it's more imagination and stuff on the left. And I don't think that the people on that end of the spectrum who are dealing with imagination the same as if it's fact, I don't think they should even be in conversations with engineers. What good does that do? What good does it do for an engineer who is strongly in the facts to have a debate with somebody who uses imagination just like it's a fact like there's no difference? And I don't think they know it. I think they think they're using facts but yeah arguing with artists is the least useful thing you can do unless you're just doing it for fun.

All right. There is a story that I want to tell you so badly that I can't. It's one of the biggest stories I've ever seen but I can't tell you about it and I don't know if I ever will. But so one of the strange things about my life is that I sort of got pulled behind the curtain. So you get to see the stuff that's really happening that's not in the news. And once you get enough exposure to the things that are really happening behind the curtain you're never the same. Like it's really shocking how different the public's opinion of what has happened or will happen is from any kind of reality. It's just completely separate. You know most of our political conversations are not even grounded in the base reality. We just don't know it.

So behind the curtain there's some stuff that it's just shocking. It's just shocking. Yeah, the reason I can't tell you is part of the story, right? And I saw some people in the comments trying to guess. You won't be able to guess it. So it's not something you'd be aware of. The whole point of the story is it's something that you don't have any awareness of. That's the story. If I told you then you would have awareness of it and bad things would happen to me. So I'm not going to tell you.

No, not because it's classified. No it has nothing to do with any like state secrets or anything. Well I can give you an idea what it's related to. It's related to what you believe or what information you have available to you. So let's say it's an information related phenomenon that if you told me that it was possible to witness what I've witnessed in the past week I would have said that is not possible. I would have thought that it was just the biggest conspiracy theory until I watched it with my own eyes.

Now it's very rare that you can observe something and know what's really happening. I just happened to be by weird coincidence I was put in a position where I could see something clearly. But I don't think anybody else, well few people can. They're probably I don't know 100 people in the country who noticed but they're not talking either. And it's definitely one of the biggest stories in the country. You'll never hear it either and it won't, it probably won't matter. Like it won't affect you but it's definitely one of the, yeah no you, I know what you're, I'm seeing your guesses in the comments and I am reading them and it's not the one you think. So I know you're assuming it's that but it's something else that's just huge.

All right. No nothing about angels. That's a good guess though. I like that guess. Somebody said maybe I saw angels. I love that guess but that wasn't it. No not aliens. No just information. Let's just say there's something you believe not that you believe to be true. How do I say it so it's not a fake news thing? There's just an information, something disappeared. That's the best I can tell you. It would be as if aliens had landed on Earth and it didn't make the news. That's how big it is. Literally it's that big. It would be as if aliens landed on Earth, actually landed on Earth. Yeah. And just so I can call you Alex B and some other people I see your guesses. Trust me you can't guess it.

All right. If it's in the news some of you have seen some news. If it's in the news you're already wrong. I'm talking

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about something that will never be in the news. They'll never, it will never be in the news. So if you think you know it because you saw a news item then it's not that. No anyway I shouldn't have teased you about that but the point is I just want to give you this general caution that just about everything you think is real in the news has another layer. Doesn't mean that everything you know is wro…

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