Why Future Generations Will Be Shocked We Lived Like This

Hey folks, Ernest Mann here. Today I’m pulling back the curtain on something a bit raw, a bit uncomfortable, but absolutely essential to understand. We’re living in a time that I believe future generations will look back on with absolute disbelief. From corporate exploitation to governmental failure, we’re not just dealing with bad luck — we’re living in a broken system that refuses to fix itself.

The Corporate Machine Is Crushing Your Humanity

Our reality isn’t just inconvenient — it’s engineered dysfunction. Corporations exploit workers' time, pushing beyond the workday into their emotional and mental space. Personal time, that time you need to recharge, is now seen as optional by employers. Meanwhile, we’re fed decades of nutritionally empty corporate food that lines profits and drains health. This isn’t accidental. It’s deliberate. It’s normalized.

The Illusion of Choice and the Myth of Help

Think about it — where’s the help for the average person? You’re navigating a minefield of deception, with no real safety nets. This system isn’t broken; it’s working just as it was meant to — just not for you. We’re not talking conspiracy, we’re talking systemic incompatibility. The truth? We’re living in what the military would call FUBAR — F*ed Up Beyond All Recognition**.

The Real Question: What the Hell Do We Do?

Before fixing anything, we need to define who we are. “We” in a sociological sense? Or personal? Because how you approach real change depends on your place in this broken system. Whether you’re scraping by or comfortably liberal, your strategy for survival must reflect your reality.

Classic Liberalism vs Neoliberalism: Don’t Get It Twisted

There’s a massive difference between being a classic liberal and today’s neoliberal. The latter masquerades as progressive but dances for corporations while pretending to care. Spoiler: they’re basically Republicans with weed. Me? I don’t believe in pacifism. Sounds nice. Gets you killed.

You Can’t Fix the World If You Can’t Eat

If you're struggling just to survive, don’t let anyone guilt-trip you for not worrying about whales and gluten. When you’re broke, the only “cause” is making it to tomorrow. The well-off can afford to support everything, but survival forces the working class to adopt a realist philosophy — something I believe is not just practical but essential.

h2: So Where Are You In All This?

This episode closes with a real talk moment — where are you in all this? If you’re in the struggle and lack the skills or support, I get it. I invite you to reach out. Let's talk about aligning your values with your actual survival needs.

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Hello folks, my name is Ernest. Thank

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you for tuning in. There are so many

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people out there with serious problems.

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And what I try to do to the best of my

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ability is help others. But the fact is

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without talking to you personally. The

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only way I know how to help is to put

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what I see as the cause of those

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problems out there in the broadest terms

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possible. And if I manage to help just

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one person, I consider it a very good

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thing. It's the very best I feel I can

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do to help the greatest number of

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people. So, with that, here's what I

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have to say. Perhaps what I'm about to

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say may sound somewhat philosophical,

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but I like to look at it as very

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practical. Practicality is something

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which has been largely lost in today's

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society because practicality does not

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feed the mega profits and your required

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perpetual embeddedness to the corporate

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machine.

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Now, I may be entirely wrong, but I

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believe the future generations will look

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back at our current time and be

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absolutely dumbruck that there was

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absolutely nothing, certainly not

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governmental, to help the average

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citizen in their daily lives to navigate

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an absolute minefield of deception and

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criminality.

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They will wonder how or why the hell did

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people actually live this way.

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Just about anything you wish to mention.

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Everything from the need of decent

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nutritious food, not the corporate fast

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make [ __ ] food being passed off as

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actual food for the last 40 [ __ ]

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years to workers being raped by

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corporate employers who view workers

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personal time, your personal time.

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moments you absolutely need to

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physically and emotionally recharge from

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your work to gradually accepting greater

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and greater intrusion and monitoring of

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your personal [ __ ] life.

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Yes, just think about this for a moment.

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Assuming by some miracle we actually

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make it through this Orwellian

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nightmare. I believe it's only

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predictable and realistic that future

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generations will ask not only how we

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live this way, but why the [ __ ] we lived

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this way.

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I would like you to stop for a long

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moment and actually think about what I

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just said.

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In the current times that we're living

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in, all of the crazy, all the badness

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are simply symptoms of incompatibility

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issues. And those incompatibility issues

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to speak in the parlance of our times

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are a failure to deal with Fubar, which

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for those of you not familiar with the

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military term means [ __ ] up beyond all

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recognition.

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So to go directly into this, if you

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believe that everything I've said up

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until this point is basically true, then

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the obvious next question you're

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probably asking is if that's the case,

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what the hell are we supposed to do?

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Well, that's a very good question and a

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logical one. But before I can go into

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that question, first and foremost, we

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have to first define exactly who exactly

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is we?

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Think about this for a moment. If you

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did in fact ask that question, did you

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mean we in the sociological sense or we

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in the personal sense? Because the fact

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is there are two very different

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strategies involved in pursuing what one

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might view as fixing things.

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In the simplest possible terms, there

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are two very huge different individual

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motivations concerning how to fix

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certain aspects of society. And this in

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turn determines pretty much how and

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where you're at in your life right now

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personally.

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For example,

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I am not saying that this is speaking

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for each and every individual who is

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wealthy. I also want to let you know

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that I'm not also putting forth the idea

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of wealth as subjective,

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but I don't want to get sidetracked into

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definitional criterias right now. Let's

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just say if you own a 5,000q ft home

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driving a [ __ ] McLaren and simply

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can't comprehend why there's a bum

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parked out in front of a McDonald's

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lying on the ground or holding a sign,

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you're probably [ __ ] wealthy.

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So to get back to the original question,

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if you're one of those people that is

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typically mocked as a dogooder, as a

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liberal, first it's very important right

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here to recognize the ideological

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difference between a classic liberal and

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a neoliberal. In the former camp, a

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classic liberal is what American

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liberalism used to mean. And the latter,

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neoliberalism,

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is the liberalism that America has

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unfortunately become. Meaning people who

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ideologically identify with

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corporations, but in reality are just

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[ __ ] Republicans who also smoke weed.

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I would also like to add for any

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knee-jerk Republicans out there that I

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consider, at least in the modern era,

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, one of

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the very best presidents America has had

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to date. Yet, by current standards,

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because America has moved and continues

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to move so far to the right, Eisenhower

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today is considered a liberal.

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Jesus H [ __ ] Christ. Now if you

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happen to fall into the former camp, I

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absolutely understand and identify with

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you. But for me personally, one area of

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classic liberalism I don't agree with is

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pacifism. And as I've stated many times

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before, pacifism is cool and

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interesting, but it'll also get you

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[ __ ] killed.

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So the very first point of all this is

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that a person not only needs to do some

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ideological soularching

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but they also need to balance the result

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of that soularching with recognizing the

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reality that there is an entire

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ideological mindset neoliberalism that

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despite the word liberalism in the title

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essentially is totally pro-c corporate

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and doesn't really give a rat's ass if

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you're corporately enslaved.

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So, bearing all that in mind, a person

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has two very broad choices. And those

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choices very broadly depend on your

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introspection, soularching,

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and how much [ __ ] money you have or

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make.

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Let's say, for example, you're a pretty

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well-off classic liberal.

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You, as a consequence, live in an

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enclave with other wellto-do classic

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liberals.

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This means that in effect, you can

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afford to support and/or speak out for

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classic liberal causes. Equality for

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everything. Save everything. Save

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everyone. Save the [ __ ] snails. save

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the [ __ ] whales.

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But the thing is, you can say and do all

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of this because you can afford to do so.

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I'm not saying it's not necessarily good

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that you stand behind these things, as

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I'm not by any means a proponent of

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plutoaucratic fascism myself.

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But the life of a wellto-do classic

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liberal stands in stark contrast to the

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very survival that most workingclass

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Americans find themselves in today.

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Most workingclass folks are not

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concerned with organic anything or if

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[ __ ] is gluten-free and saving the

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[ __ ] whales and saving the [ __ ]

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snails. They like me are simply trying

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to survive, keep a roof over their head

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and [ __ ] eating period.

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So if you happen to fall in the former

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camp, such as myself, your options are

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more limited. And perhaps most

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importantly, the necessity of adapting a

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realist philosophy for your survival

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should be a priority.

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I need to wrap things up at this point,

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but I do want to leave the proposition

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open, but if you are interested in a

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part two to go a bit deeper into this,

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simply let me know. You can contact me

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directly via my website, contact link in

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the description below.

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I would like to leave you with this.

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It's entirely possible that you might

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find yourself in the former camp I

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mentioned earlier, but simply don't have

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the knowledge or skills that are going

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to be required for your survival. I

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totally and completely understand that.

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So depending on where you are at in your

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life, I'm talking about balancing not

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just your values, but your inherent

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wants and needs along with your unique

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and individual abilities.

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I invite you to reach out to me. I would

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love to discuss those aspects with you.

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Until next time, this is Ernest and

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that's all I've got for today.