Recognizing Foolishness in a World Gone Mad

Hey, it’s Earnest Mann. Today, I’m talking about advanced perception, and why recognizing foolishness is a vital life skill—especially in these chaotic times. If you’re trying to not just survive but thrive, you better know the difference between foolishness and stupidity, and why one can be fixed and the other can’t.

The Sharp Line Between Stupid and Foolish

You can’t fix stupid—but foolishness? That can be addressed, if someone’s willing to look at their actions and say, “Yeah, that’s kind of foolish.” I break down how people use distractions—like video games, sports obsession, and constant entertainment—to avoid confronting reality. And while blowing off steam is normal, there’s a fine line between relief and avoidance.

Entertainment, Distraction, and the Modern Circus

Look, Rome figured this out a long time ago—bread and circuses. Modern society’s no different. You’re handed endless distractions while your power, time, and money slip away. The corporations own the government. You’re being played, distracted, and left with nothing to show for decades of time-wasting foolishness.

Your Time is Your Most Valuable Asset

I’m not here to sugarcoat things. Every minute you spend on things that don’t practically improve your life is a minute you’re giving away. There are smart people using their time wisely—building wealth, securing property, and planning for the future. Meanwhile, too many are stuck playing pretend in virtual worlds and watching others succeed.

Change Starts with You

You can’t blame the system if you keep feeding it your time and energy. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got. Stop the vicarious living, cut the foolish habits, and start focusing on what truly matters. Your future self will thank you.

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Today I'm going to share with you

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another insight of advanced perception.

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The absolute necessity of recognizing

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foolishness and in the troubled times

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upon us that's vitally important if you

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not only want to survive but thrive.

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Now before I really get going into this

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I just wanted to clarify a couple of

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things. What I'm about to tell you is

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coming from a realist point of view. And

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if you're unfamiliar with that, realism

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is simply stating things well as they

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are. Something which apparently is

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severely lacking in contemporary

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society.

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So I don't sugarcoat anything. Uh I drop

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a lot of fbombs or use any other

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language that I feel is appropriate to

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express well my emotions. So if any of

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that offend offends you uh due to your

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porcelain sensibilities

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that he uses bad words and I'm turning

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it off. Well then please do so and go

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somewhere else and you can listen to

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some other good intended gibberish. But

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you won't find it here. That's not what

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I do. So bearing that in mind now I can

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go forward with the message.

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There is a difference between stupidity

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and foolishness.

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As uh as the old saying goes, you can't

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fix stupid. But you can fix foolishness.

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But in order to fix foolishness, first

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of all, you have to have folks that look

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at something and think a little bit and

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say, "Well, gee, uh, yeah, I guess that

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is kind of foolish." But with a stupid

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person, nah, it ain't going to happen.

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And hence the reason you can't fix

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stupid.

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But for those of you who are not stupid,

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um eh there's hope.

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So, what I want to talk about is people

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that are using

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um many um many acts of what you might

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say are uh avoiding harsh realities just

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to well make themselves feel better. And

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to a certain extent, I mean, that's

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normal because well, that's something

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else that that people do. I mean, we all

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do that. And hell, drugs and alcohol are

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a clear a clear indication of that. And

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also on top of that, you might say

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there's a a hell of a lot to uh be, you

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know, turned off about, let's say. So

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with situations

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that you are in and you have no control

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over, then yeah, I mean, that's that's

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really bad. There's nothing necessarily

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stupid or, you know, foolish about it.

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Sometimes you can be in those kind of

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situations.

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And your only hope, if at all possible,

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um, especially if you have the

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foresight, is simply to get the hell

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out.

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It doesn't matter if it's family you're

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with or friends or anyone or a city or a

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country. um if they have collectively

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lost their minds uh yeah if at all

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possible hopefully you will get the hell

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out.

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So with that in mind, only you can

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answer that for yourself.

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You see, and and just one other quick

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side thing that I would mention here, I

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have to put out what I'm saying in to uh

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to help people, but in the broadest

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sense possible. I mean, think about it

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realistically. There is no way I can

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help you with your individual

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circumstances if I don't know your

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individual circumstances.

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We haven't talked. So that's why, you

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know, these things are put forth, these

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bits of information, episodes, what have

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you, are put forth for that reason. And

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they're put forth um with the hope that

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um well, you got a problem, you know how

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to reach me. Now bearing that in mind,

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what I'm going to talk about here is

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foolishness, which can be uh changed,

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altered, or removed, and stupidity.

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Now, if you're dealing with a situation

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or people that is truly stupid, as I

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said before, not a whole lot you can

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necessarily do about it. But in the case

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of foolishness, there is something you

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can do about it. foolishness and

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stupidity. You could call them kind of

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sort of kissing cousins,

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but there's a very good probability that

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those that are foolish will probably

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although they can, you know, appear to

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be, but they could probably never become

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stupid. And the stupid, well, they'll

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probably always be stupid.

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But you are considered foolish or a fool

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or what have you if you do and or

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associate with foolish things.

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And what I'm defining as a foolish thing

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is anything that takes up your time

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that is not directly beneficial to you

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in a practical manner. Um, it doesn't

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always necessarily have to mean money,

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but it should actually practically

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improve your life in some manner.

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So you could argue for instance that uh

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going out and seeing a concert or going

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out seeing some form of entertainment

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well that that's beneficial because you

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know it's a stress reliever and and well

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that's what it is

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and I I don't have any any problem with

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that.

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But there is a fine line between stress

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relieving and avoidance. And I'm talking

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about activities which are clearly

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avoiding the uh necess I can't even

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talk. The necessity of approaching life

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uh intelligently to improve your life.

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Well, okay, maybe not that big, but it

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does hold a lot of stuff.

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So, pure example of that, for instance,

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would be video games. Now, I realize

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there's a a lot of guys out there, maybe

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even gals, who play video games in

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their, you know, in their late 20s, late

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30s, some in their 40s. That's being

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foolish.

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Video games at best should be played

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maybe until you're about 12 years old.

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And then you're supposed to put the

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joystick or controller away and get on

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with your life and do what you do what

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you need to do in order to improve your

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life andor survive.

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Because here's the thing of all the time

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time which is the most precious precious

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commodity

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of all that time that you're wasting

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there are the smart people who aren't.

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They're not playing video games. They're

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not watching sports 247 sitcoms or

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anything else which is meant as a

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distraction, as an entertainment

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to plate you into doing nothing. They're

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not doing that.

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They're making the money. They're

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getting the property. they're doing the

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things that need to be done so that you

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know when you hit the golden years,

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whatever you may determine that to be,

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um, you're not sitting on a pot with

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your finger up your ass with nothing to

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show for it because you were worried

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about, you know, I gaining a high score

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on some incredibly important video game.

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um and video games or sports obsession.

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That's just again a tip of a very big

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iceberg.

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And it's not there by accident. Just as

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they learned from Rome all those

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centuries ago, it's easier to plate

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masses of people with entertainment

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um than it is to actually address their

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needs. So what's happening is is that as

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everything dwindles and you have less

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and less and less, you own less and less

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and less and you stand around perplexed

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and then everybody wants to look at the

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government and that no longer is what

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our government is here for. The

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government is not here in reality to

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take care of you. The government, the

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government's new job as handed out by

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their corporate owners is to plate you

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to give you lots and lots of uh bread

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and circuses and maybe even some public

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assistance here or there. In other

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words, just ek them out. just let them

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get by on their, you know, their panty

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jobs just long enough for us to

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continue taking what is important. Ah,

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they're so busy, they'll never notice.

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And that's what's really going h

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happening. So, I mean, if you turn

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around, it's 10 years later, if you're

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30, if you're 40, if you're 50, and you

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still don't have a pot to piss in, uh,

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yeah, don't blame the government because

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the government was sold out a long, long

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time ago. We don't have a government per

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se. Uh, we have a oligarchy. And so

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because of that, uh, yep, they're not

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concerned about fairness or ownership,

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particularly not interested in you

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owning anything.

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You don't own your house until, well,

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that's the irony. You don't own your

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house even if every last dime of the

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mortgage is paid off and you get some

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sort of deed to this um property. Uh,

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yet you don't own it then either. uh

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because don't pay try not paying your

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you know property taxes for a year or

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two and see what happens. But that's a

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subject for another time. My point of

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this uh relatively short episode is do

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not engage in foolishness and probably

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as a consequence of that don't spend

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your time with people who do engage in

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foolishness because once again it's just

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going to you know drag you down

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and end

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in the conclusion of what I want to say

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is this.

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Stop using vicarious identification

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in your daytoday lives and then sitting

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around bitching and complaining because

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you don't have anything. Because the

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simple truth is as simple as the old

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phrase itself. If you always do what

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you've always done, you'll always get

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what you always got. I hope you found

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this helpful or interesting. And if you

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