Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 640: ¡Solo!

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

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We'll do it live! We'll fucking do it live! Greetings, friends. It is I, D. Trucelle, and you are listening or watching the Doug Catrussell Family Hour podcast. You're probably wondering, why is he wearing those incredible sunglasses?

The answer, I'm not sponsored by this company, by the way, and you sweeties bring me wonderful things at the show. In San Diego, I was given so many cool things. Like sometimes it's just, I don't know what's happening. It's like Christmas. I got this beautiful Ganesh deity. Thank you for that. That will end up on my Pooja table.

I got an incredible vintage 1980s grateful dead t-shirt in mint condition. And the gentleman who gave it to me, I told him, I'm going to give you one of my prank call tapes. And I didn't get to see that person after the show. So I owe you a prank call tape. And finally, I got these incredible sunglasses. Rosies. You could find, find them at rosies.love, I think, a really sweet note here that I won't read or mention the name of the person. Definitely

won't give their phone number out. You'd be really fucked up. But thank you for your, the sunglasses are awesome. I love them. It's wild, man. It makes everything rose colored, obviously, because they're pink. Now I got excited when they gave me these sunglasses because, as you know, I am a fan of synchronicity. And I do believe in magic in the real sense. And I was having a fantastic conversation with my Lyft driver on the way to the airport. And we were talking about chapel perilous, which if you don't know, it's something Robert Anton Wilson came up with.

Essentially, if you start meditating, praying, practicing magic, doing psychedelics, anything that expands your consciousness, more than likely, you will notice an uptick in weird synchronicities. And if you're not prepared for that, you'll freak the fuck out. Because sometimes it seems like everything's a synchronicity, and that is the road to a manic fucking episode, which is Chapel Perilous. You just end up, like, seeing some other level of reality. Maybe you're just seeing the natural symmetry that exists neurologically in your mind. I mean, we have to face the facts. Whether you like it or not, you are seeing yourself in the sense that

external phenomena gets processed by the senses. The senses instantaneously convert into time-space and your experience of spatiality, color, smell, sound. And so that's just you. That's some incredible harmonization of your brain goo that you're seeing all around you. And a lot of people don't like to deal with that because it's a little scary to feel, to realize that when you've heard someone yammering about the Matrix, you are the Matrix, baby. It's your brain, baby, and you're in it.

The simulator is your brain. It's taking all this disparate data that more than likely has something to do with extending its lifespan, which seems to be the genetic goal. Live as long as you can so you can breed, make some babies and fucking kick the bucket, you're done. Cast off into the abyss like an old stinky pair of socks in a hotel trash can. So yeah, anyway, maybe that's all you're seeing.

It's your mind, so you're just seeing some extra level of your mind. But then these synchronicities are so profound sometimes that you have to ask yourself, well, if it's just external phenomena, the implication in some of these synchronicities is not just that my mind is seeing some pattern, that it's not just confirmation bias, the implication in some of these synchronicities is not just that my mind is seeing some pattern, that it's not just confirmation bias, it's not the phenomena where you look up at clouds and you see faces. No, it's not some projection, but the implication would be that somehow your mind is actually harmonizing the phenomena around it, which is the doorway to magical systems, the ability to shift your inner universe in a way that your external universe also begins to shift.

So the great synchronicity happened in this lift, right? And I will tell you this. If there is some kind of benevolent secret society out there some kind of counter to the dark Illuminati or whatever the fuck people believe They drive lifts and they I get the best downloads from my lift drivers just out of the blue They'll just start talking about something that's been bugging me that I haven't mentioned anybody and I listen really closely

And I always give them five stars So this guy He's he was talking about like all kinds of things and a lot of them were Very synchronous with stuff that I'd been wondering about. But the glasses are another synchronicity because late at night I'd been scrolling through reels and I stumbled upon one of the now infinite number of reels that are conspiracies or just, you know,

weird fringe stuff. And I don't know if this is true or not, and I don't care. Actually, you know what, I think it was like YouTube clips. It was YouTube clips, I believe. It doesn't matter. It was, you know, one of the machines with pumping out dopamine extraction phenomena into my brain, and I like it.

But this dude was talking about a conspiracy theory that I have heard before and I have not researched because I don't care. Again, I'm not fact-checking. I'm not one of those people who cares if there was a historical Jesus. I'm not going to do that. I don't care. It doesn't matter to me if there was an actual Apollo, Zeus, Pan, any of these things. I don't care. To me all that matters is they exist in some liminal space within people's minds at the very least. They're an egregore at the very least. And egregores are incredibly powerful even though you might not see some physical manifestation of them in time-space. Just connecting to the mythological

symbol itself can shift your consciousness in wonderful or terrible ways. And I feel the same way about conspiracy theories. It's like, yeah, probably not real, at least not now, or it hasn't happened, but it could happen. We'll get into that in a second. But this conspiracy theory, whoa, it was super cool. It's something about these, you know, Whoa, it was super cool. It's something about these You know Lenses that they were giving soldiers in Vietnam You've heard of this. Mm-hmm Are you fucking kidding? Where did you hear about this same thing? Josh everybody? They were seeing demons Josh Kabaza

Who is running? Comedy Frequency, which is the podcast studio that I record from a wonderful man. So go ahead, I'm sorry to cut you off. They just, it's a stranger's voice suddenly. The gunners were shooting at, they thought, nothing, what are you shooting at? And they'd shoot at also a friendly fire.

And they're like thinking this person went crazy. It's like, no, I'm seeing like flying demons outside of the helicopter. Yeah, so I had just watched that before I went to San Diego. And then somebody gave me red glasses. Now, the problem here, I know what you're thinking is like, why do you want to see demons? And if you have to ask that, then you haven't been watching the podcast long enough.

Seriously, you want to see a demon? You wouldn't want to see a UFO or something. But the synchronicity was I had just been watching something about red tinted sunglasses, but the tint, right, was not like whatever the dye they used for this. The tint was some kind of chemical that now you can't even get anymore, right? That's the story. So whatever this weird shit is they're using, and apparently these glasses had some kind of connection to like a Russian scientist or something like it. There's a lot of like lore around these and I'm sure

that story is what inspired one of my favorite movies of all time, They Live, which if you haven't seen it you must see it. It's amazing. But essentially this dude finds a box of glasses and you put them on and street signs and billboards suddenly change from Coca-Cola to obey Brea yeah pull up a pic that's awesome and yeah and like so and he realizes that the planet has been invaded by these like weird interdimensional alien things and they're using subliminal messages to invoke kind of, I don't know, sheep mentality and just to make people into these consumerist pieces of shit. And so it's awesome and it's hilarious.

It's like So good. Also, you should check out God Zizek if you've never seen Zizek. He's amazing. He's a philosopher and he does this incredible breakdown of this famous scene and they live which is The dude who found the glasses who is a famous I think it's Rowdy Roddy Piper, isn't it? Is that who it is? It's a wrestler who plays the main character Oh kills it too

I could be wrong about that. Yeah, you're okay. Rowdy Roddy Piper plays this guy Down on his luck finds these glasses. I believe he's staying at some kind of like halfway house. He has a friend who thinks he's gone nuts because he's saying you put these glasses on and you see demons. You see, you know, the reality of the prison that we're in. And he's like, just put them on. Like, don't believe me, put them on.

And his friend's like, I'm not wearing those fucking glasses. And they get in the most protracted fist fight. It's like gotta be like a six minute fist fight. They're punching each other, just beating the shit out of each other. And finally he puts the glasses on his friend and his friend sees, indeed he was right. It's a six minute fist fight,

which is for a movie so long. And also it's like incredibly comedic because we've all been trained for like two minute fist fights max. So you're like, it's definitely gonna end now. And it doesn't, it goes on and on and on. So Zizek's analysis of this scene is

That this is the level of energy you must expend if you want to wake somebody up from the Materialist Trance that they're in the the trance that they live was trying to point towards, which is if you've allowed yourself to sort of fall into the hazy, sleepwalking reality, the default reality tunnel, then there's a kind of like sick pleasure in that. There's a sort of hedonic pleasure where you might have some underlying sense that things are amiss but that is you override that with the delights that the modern world has to offer you and the distractions the

modern world has to offer you and so anything that seems antithetical to your general sense that you're safe, the world is fine, everything's okay, you will fight tooth and nail against it because some part of you recognize is that should your ignorant bubble get popped you won't be able to blow it back up again, and you'll have to live in the truth, so They live is so fucking great and also what I love about it is instead of just saying something like that with which Zizek does he's allowed to he's a fucking philosopher with like maybe the best lisp of all time To put it into like a sci-fi, cheesy sci-fi movie so that somebody could be watching

they live and have no idea that they're watching a critique of late stage capitalism and just think they're watching some badass fucking sci-fi movie, but then also the underlying message is very subversive and that to me is like a victory in any kind of art where you can allow someone in the comfort bubble to enjoy the art but also somebody who's outside the bubble can like recognize whoa wow they're really saying it. That's that's what it is. That's fucking cool because if you pull that off then

When your art gets co-opted by default reality Which is kind of an inevitability if you make anything in the world it will get Used to sell shit or to like promote some ideology you might disagree with and that's like the big controversy that gets keeps popping up with like the Trump rallies Trump will play like a Green Day song Green Day do to like have a like mild rage stroke when he sees his fucking punk rock subversive angry fucking howling music is being used by someone who he would probably view as the Antichrist. That's gotta give you a real not so good feeling. So and then they have to tweet about it because otherwise they feel like they are going to

be seen as being on the wrong team or something. But this is just the natural sort of evolution of anything that goes into the world. Inevitably it gets suctioned up by something that isn't artistic and has like profit as its main goal. This is just the reality of the world we're living in. So there's no way, since there's no way to stop that, if you can find a way to create a Trojan horse that you know will get suctioned up by whatever forces you feel like you're fighting against,

then wow. Now you've done what the Israelis just fucking did with pagers, but with your art. I mean, holy fuck. If you haven't been following the news, I don't know how you missed this, but wow. This is one of the craziest versions of asymmetrical warfare maybe in human history.

I don't know anything so weird. I mean, yes, we have the Trojan horse, which is incredible and hilarious that somehow they were able to wheel a fucking wooden horse up to the walls of a city. And they're just like, sure, we'll take it. And then there's soldiers in it. I mean, that's brilliant. But ridiculous. And there's no way that's ever going to work again. It could work.

But what the Israelis just did is like, holy fuck. It operates on so many different levels. Because you know, if you're doing asymmetrical warfare, which these days like, it used to be asymmetrical warfare was something that was used by the opposing force that didn't have the resources. This is the Revolutionary War. We took out the fucking British Empire. We didn't take them out, but we won using asymmetrical warfare guerrilla warfare tactics and they're like marching in straight lines with their stupid drummer and their flutes

and we're like in the bushes just blasting them and disappearing and they're like we were these are not gentlemen that are shooting at us and because like that meant something back then So asymmetrical warfare or God Genghis Khan the master of asymmetrical warfare. They're riding on fucking like horses. They don't have armor They're drinking horse blood. They're not even stopping to rest and then you know these Knights come out with their heavy-ass armor and they can't do anything because they can't catch them. So asymmetrical warfare also Genghis Khan was a master of propaganda and Psychological warfare, I guess psychological warfare more than propaganda

I don't know that the Mongol horde was like doing like posters about how great they are But what they were doing is they would drive refugees What we're doing is they would drive refugees, they would let people survive. They would go into a village, a town, they would massacre, rape, slaughter, incinerate. But they let some people go. Mame them a little bit, cut off their fingers, whatever. Let them limp off to the next town. So you just be like having a nice picnic or something in the forest outside your town and all of a sudden just the walking dead appears, people sobbing, screaming about how demons are attacking

their village and then you would get scared and fucking run and freak out and then the Mongol horde would descend on you. So that was one of the ways that they fucked with their enemies among many. Terror, fear, asymmetrical warfare. But to find a way to get pagers and radios into the pockets of your enemies and then explode them. Potentially like castrating them, cutting off their bloodline permanently. Definitely like wounding them in a way that they won't recover from for a long time. Potentially like blowing like the femoral arteries right there, you know, so

causing them to bleed to death, blowing off their face, blowing off their fingers. So that's one level of it, just pure horrific violence. The other level of it is you simultaneously like fuck up their communication network, which is strategically a big win. You know, they already fucked them up because they realized somehow they like could like monitor them if they had cell phones So they got rid of their cell phones. What's next pagers?

Then their pagers blow up in their fucking pockets And get rid of their radios. So now they've scrambled their communication lines like they have to find a way to communicate whatever their strategy is to respond to this without any kind of modern telecommunication devices. So on that level it's fucked up. And then of course just the psychological warfare, which is, you know, a lot of people are watching the explosions and analyzing them because there's two main possibilities, and we better hope for one over the other, but both do not bode well for humanity. One of them is they put explosives into the pagers.

Somehow they got into the supply chain. They injected this—I don't know much about explosives and I never will but they injected some like very clearly very powerful Explosive into the battery of these fucking things and then found a way to via a phone call Explode like cause a chain reaction that blows them up. That's one possibility. That's what you want That's what we have to hope for the other possibility is essentially the end of civilization, at least as we know it. The problem is, any time you do a new weapon, it's great for you short term. You drop your nuclear bomb on a few cities, World War II ends, and you become a superpower. But the moment you demonstrate the technology, all of your enemies are going to just start

scrambling to learn how to do that, and eventually that technology could potentially get used against you. That's the problem. Anytime you introduce a new mode of warfare, the warfare will be studied and used against you. And so it works the first time, but it won't work anymore. So if somehow they found some way to cause a lithium ion battery to blow up minus explosives, we're all fucked. Like you're not gonna be able to fly with a phone anymore. Like not a phone with like a non-removable

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Let's freeze our sperm. Thanks, legacy. You can't put in your suitcase. I guess theoretically you could turn it off, but I don't think the airlines are going to want to take that risk. And just the amount of time to make sure all phones are turned off, placed in your suitcase. Oh my God, I think TSA is bad now. So that means that all phone manufacturers would have to suddenly release new phones

with removable batteries. It's still gonna like, fuck things up. Now, the, but's still gonna like, fuck things up. Now, the, but we're still fucked, even if it's just explosives. Because, I mean, I don't know how many people order phones on eBay. I don't know how many people get phones at, I don't know, pawn shops.

But I'm sure it's a lot but I'm sure it's a lot I'm sure it's a lot and Yeah, like now that there's some way of doing this that means that if you wanted to theoretically you could flood the secondhand market with explosive fucking phones and Just blow them up blow them up And if it you know if you look at like, you, what we call terrorism, which is really just asymmetrical warfare they don't have like a their goal is not the elimination of a General or something their goal is just you know, freaking out the population So yeah that that means that like down the line

Phones are just gonna start blowing up in people's pockets, blowing off their dicks. And also it means that like for like matter of time before this happens on the airplane, matter of time, like what if happens to the pilot? Also the fact that it's in radios too, it just means that they figured out this new way of getting explosives into things. And yeah, so, and it's definitely gonna backfire on them. I mean, honestly, it's like, aside from that horror of blowing a bunch of people's dicks off, killing kids, who like, you know, picked up their daddy's pager or whatever.

Like it's a, if I'm running some terrorist organization, it's almost worth getting my dick blown off. Because now it's like, oh, figure out how they did that. Figure out how they fucking did that. I'm sure if everyone in Israel isn't buying like phones from like manufacturers, there's got to be second hand phones in Israel. What's up? There is.

It's a Taiwanese manufacturer called Gold Apollo that there is a switch that was embedded to detonate them remotely. And then the company Gold Apollo said, no, these devices were actually manufactured and sold by BAT Consulting KFT. So they're saying that they were installed previously. So it's not like it was already in the phone. BAT Consulting? BAC Consulting. Oh, BAC. I thought you said back consulting which is

Perfect name for a group figuring out how to take down modern civilization But yeah, so it doesn't matter like a lot of people are like, thank god. It's like in planet explosives But dude, that's still really bad like no matter what it's just bad. No matter what? Yeah, sure. Maybe you got your phone at the Verizon store the Apple store Whatever, but did your uber driver? Did he get it there did the dude driving the city bus is his phone from the Apple store? Who's to say and who's to say you couldn't infiltrate the Apple store? Who's to say you couldn't get someone in there to replace the fucking phones? I mean, it's a mess it's a terrible fucking mess.

But, wow. When you look at that, you're getting a real interesting message. Any historical event, it functions on a bunch of different levels. And there always like a fog around it and it's always weird and what's cool about that is you can interpret it in ridiculous ways because there's so much unknown there. You could use your brain to pluck out some kind of mystical meaning behind it. You could go Jungian. And so he would talk about the shadow. We've all got one.

You've got one. I've got one. The shadow. It's basically all the shit that is just intolerable, like the stuff you do that flies in the face of who you think you are. What was it, Mike? One of my friends who teaches Jiu Jitsu was saying, like, if you really want to know somebody, like, hang out with them when they're very tired. Because when you're tired, you don't have the energy to smash the shadow down.

And so, you know, a lot of people be like, I'm just grumpy when I'm tired. It's like, well, you are grumpy, but it's not because you're tired, it's because the repressed version of you is more powerful than the part of you that represses it before you have your coffee. And so all the pain and sorrow and fear and suffering

just comes vomiting out and People around you are generally shocked because you've done such a good job of keeping your fucking Godzilla down in the subconscious ocean and it comes exploding out and freaks everybody out. This is the shadow Now Because Yeah. Now because every one of us has a shadow, that means there's a collective shadow. Like if all of us have a shadow, then if you took all of our shadows and threw them together into some kind of arena, then you would have a monstrous thing. And so Young would say that that manifests as like leaders or it can manifest as events. And so when you consider

That The phone Communication technologies are like It's some level we all know by now Fucking up society like everybody knows that it's great. everybody knows that. It's great. It's helping. It's helping. It's wonderful. Not knocking it. I love, I'm on YouTube right now.

Love it. It's exciting. But also, when you recognize that this isn't all good, that, you know, what's happening with the algorithm you know, what's happening with the algorithm weirdly mirrors what the Buddhists say happens when you die, the Tibetan Buddhists at least, which is, here's the story. I've talked about it before but I love talking about it. So you die. You go into a place called the Bardo and you go into a place called the Bardo and For a lot of people this just by itself is shocking because you've you know You like read Richard Dawkins your whole life death is the anesthesia that saves us from the pain of life

You're convinced that when your body dies you're gone forever and infinite nothingness Just like who was it who wasn't the guy had to drink hemlock? Was it Plato Socrates? Will you look up who had to drink hemlock? Philosopher had to drink hemlock and I was I always forget who it is Plato was it Plato Socrates Socrates. Can you pull up the Socrates apology? Just look up Socrates apology. It's not a modern apology. I'm sorry that I got my mistress pregnant. It's not that it's like... Oh no, it's Plato. I knew! Okay, yeah, see it's easy to get...

I'm not a philosopher and I wish I'd spent more time with these people. I can't read it from here, but anyway, you can look it up. It's a great apology. You know, it's a slap in the face, you know, from one of the great philosophers of all time, but essentially he says, if you...if this, like, lets me sleep forever, like the deepest sleep I've ever had, then you've given me the greatest gift anyone could possibly give. But, if there is another life after this,

I'm just gonna keep doing the thing that you were making me drink the poison for, so fuck you. You lose either way. And I win. I'm Socrates so uh if you've like subscribed to the deepest sleep version of death and suddenly you're dead but you have a body not a real body but some kind of astral body some awareness field oh you are gonna shit your astral pants because like how is this possible and it's very scary if you have Plugged into No life after death very very scary and you're so familiar with a body having a body

That you want a body real bad. Like you just want to get back into a body because you're freaked out. But this period Will you google how long do you stay in the Bardo? I think it's 29 days? 32 days? Please forget. And don't ask me how they know this, by the way. Does someone have a fucking watch in there? 49 days. 49 days.

So 49 days you're in the Bardo and you go through an incredible array of bizarre experiences, but one of them is that you start, your projections form around you as entities. So, you know, like entities so you know like Like I'm sorry I know I've talked about this before but you so you wake up in the morning and You know like you just are everyone's a dick like everyone's being just so Intolerable and shitty and you're just like my god these fucking what is this fucking asshole day? American asshole day? Why is everyone being such a fucking prick?

And then like around lunch, you get some food in you, your blood sugar regulates and now everyone's nice again. And you realize, oh, it was me. I was just seeing my bad feelings and I ate a donut for breakfast and drank coffee, didn't have water and I drank vodka last night and like instead of recognizing, oh I just feel like shit, everyone around me is an asshole. So in the Bardo, that very same thing happens.

Except instead of the screen, the projection of your shadow being like the people in your life or events, it actually manifests like in a dream. So now you're confronted by your shadow. And so this would be an easy way to think you are in hell or something if you didn't understand what was going on. It's just a projection. And so essentially like depending on like how much you've trained your karma, most of us when this starts happening, we just run screaming through the bar dough, desperate to find a body. And one of the final things apparently you see,

which is so funny, is like a bunch of people fucking. And those are your future parents, and you get turned on by the way one of of them are fucking you're like damn that's hot I want to get a little closer to that and then you become a baby So that's like the reason you're here is because you like the way your parents fucked so you were attracted to it, so The algorithm is weirdly similar to the bardo in that your predilections begin to get given back to you via the algorithm.

What is it you like? You like gymnastics videos. Okay, here's a bunch of people doing backflips. Oh, you like to watch people pop zits. Oh my god, I've got 60 billion terabytes of this shit. It's all zip popping videos. You like conspiracy theories? Oh, here you go, check out this story about the glasses

that make you see demons. And so it's reflecting back to you your interests and your predilections and you're seeing your projections, except it's not your projections, it's like what the algorithm thinks you would like to look at. It's like the Bardo, it's interesting. So, yeah, when you start thinking about

how powerful this technology is, social media, et cetera. And you start thinking about the symbol of the pager explosion. Then what you're looking at is a strange, like, manifestation of this low-level explosion in everybody's pocket that's happening all the fucking time. You're walking around, you finally relax,

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porn right like when you consider porn addiction, and the way that, like, the human, like, human sexuality is being sort of warped by technology, then, yeah, are we getting our dicks blown off every time we fucking jerk off to Femdon porn? No. But is it, like, making it so you don't want to fuck as much? Probably. Is it lowering your testosterone? Theoretically, is it doing some weird shit neurologically to you? Yes. So yeah, you're not getting your dick blown off, but you are getting like sort of like your sex drive deflated.

So yeah, as above so below and things like this happen, this happen, it represents more than just the event itself. Which brings me back to they live. Recognizing that this bizarre thing called the algorithm, this sort of digital manifestation of the demiurge. If you get an agnosticism, the demiurge has got us all trapped here basically. And we've been sort of like confined to a synthetic version of paradise that is inevitably warped because it's not the real thing and So when you when you think about that algorithm from that perspective it's a hypnotic Force

For sure hypnosis. I mean when you look at your phone, you're like self hypnotizing it soothes you Got it. Yeah, I just saw this thing about like why not show your kids screens and the word they use for it is digital soothing. So when you do digital soothing, you're teaching your kid to calm down via technology and that is not a good, that that will not teach them how to actually calm down. And it's really funny to me when you hear people say, we don't think screens are very good for kids, but they're humans just like us, which means screens are probably just as bad for us, right?

Like it's like something happened to our brains where now we could handle being instantaneously hypnotized by videos that 30 years ago no one would ever see in a million years unless somebody gave you a snuff film, which hopefully no one would. So this thing that we're all engaged in is a bizarre kind of explosion. And that's where you get into the part where the ones who looked at it blew their face off, blew their fingers off. And if like you analyze that, you know, is technology literally blowing our faces off?

No. But what is it doing? Like if we look at the face, is it something that individuates you? It's your personality. It's who you are, which is why There's the famous grateful dead song Steal your face right off your head. I think they're talking about acid. I'm pretty sure they are So the idea being like LSD just like dissolves your identity and that's your face.

So if you consider the way technology is blowing our faces off, which it is in the sense that whatever is your personality that makes you unique is becoming sort of homogenized via the harmonization with whatever the algorithm is showing you. So if you're into some culture, some way of being, the algorithm starts showing you other people into that way of being. And the more you watch that shit, the more you start becoming like them.

And so yeah, it's like, is it taking your face off or just making your face look like everybody else's? I think it's more like that It's like so maybe it doesn't work for the page. Whatever the fuck I'm talking about. But here's the point If you Recognize that There's a way to code Things that you're putting out online so that it functions on two levels.

One level, pure entertainment. It's just fun, it's cool, whatever. But some other level has within it the intent to wake people up, to help people break out of the matrix, baby, to have gnosis, which is what the Gnostics, it's like Gnostic enlightenment. It's when you see the truth and instantaneously you enter into the kingdom of heaven. Then wow, that's a fun thing to play around with. I mean... This episode of the DTFH is brought to you by Square Space, my longest sponsor and I love them so much because it's time for you to live your dreams

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And that quite often could just be enough. And so, you know, I've heard about this and I'm excited to think that it's true. Apparently you youngs out there have actually just given up the phone. You're not doing it anymore. You're not falling for the bullshit anymore. You guys are like gathering together in parks

and having book groups and stuff and like talking without like technology to monitor you. And we'll never know who you are. I have no idea who you are. You'll never see this or hear it because you've like cut it off completely. That's fucking cool. And what's really interesting about that possibility is theoretically there's You know you and I we live in the digital sphere right now. We like I'm a podcaster

You're you're somebody who like is gathering entertainment from YouTube And so the assumption that goes along with that is it's representative of some like big population of people. But maybe not. Maybe there's millions and millions of people out there just throwing this shit in the trash. You'll never know. You basically live in like alternate timelines, you know, and theoretically they're out there. But when you start thinking about this technology, and don't worry, I'm getting to a point here, you begin to realize that of all the natural resources on planet Earth, oil, water. Human attention is the most valuable. Everything is about capturing human attention and collectivizing it in some way.

Individually, your attention is incredibly powerful in the sense that if you focus your attention on anything You'll get better at it. Like if you could figure out a way to Practice tap dancing for an hour a day like in a month You're gonna like it you're definitely gonna impress people with your tap dancing skills It's true for almost anything. Piano, violin, whatever the fuck it is, you're gonna get better at it. That's how powerful your attention is. I don't remember what saint said this but where attention goes, energy flows. So wherever your attention goes, that's what you start turning into. Which is why

inevitably the most homophobic Evangelical who has made it an entire ministry based on hating gay people Will be found in a hotel room smoking meth with some twink, his face covered with dried twink jizz, his lips chapped and blistered, a wild look in his eye. You know, where attention goes, energy flows. This person spent days writing sermons about how bad it was to be gay, graphically depicting acts of gay sex. He's like, I need to study it. I need to know

to what my enemy is doing. And so it's like, I'm gonna have to look at gay porn. You know, and that's studying. He's like,'m gonna have to look at gay porn you know and that's studying he's like his wife would walk in and just see him watching gay porn gloriel videos what are you doing I'm getting my next sermon ready baby and like boom like before you know it he's in a hotel room getting banged down or banging down. People look like they're dogs, you know. If somebody's really fixated on their dog, I don't know what that is. Or is it that the dog like looks like the person over time or is it some mixture of both? But wherever your attention goes, that's what you will become. Whatever it is. I mean, I believe this must be why Richard Dawkins apparently is now a Christian. Can you look that Tintri goes, that's what you will become. Whatever it is.

I mean, I believe this must be why Richard Dawkins apparently is now a Christian. Can you look that up? Can you fact check that? Maybe not. Maybe keep searching. I really saw something about how he's like gone towards God, but that is, it's the algorithm. It's probably bullshit. Maybe keep scrolling down. If it's not like a top headline, then it's bullshit. Sorry what you're talking about.

Thank you for somehow just by mentioning you logically like destroying what I was talking about which is your talent. Oh, I don't know. Oh, he identifies as a cultural Christian. Oh, okay. Thank you. Now, I don't know. I'm he identifies as a cultural Christian. Oh, okay. Thank you Now I don't know. I'm not gonna get into the weeds there. I knew I saw something. Wait, let's see where that's coming from though This is from bullshit.edu No, it's from a Catholic organization. I mean, okay, let's pull it up like, you know the source

What's it say? The famous British atheist Richard Dawkins, author of the book The God Illusion, said in a recent interview that he identifies as a, quote, cultural Christian and prefers Christianity to Islam, although he clarified that he does not believe a word of the Christian faith. What the fuck? Well, that's just confusing. Like what? That's so weird.

I don't believe any of it, but I identify culturally as, I guess he just means like, he probably just means sort of the like, Anglo-Saxon Protestant sort of like all this. He says, I love hymns and Christian carols and sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos. And I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense. That's kind of sweet and sad, isn't it?

Well, see, there you go. That's the trajectory. Like, if I had to put money on it and someone should open up a betting pool, at some point he's going full-bore Christian. It won't be cultural Christian. I don't know for sure about that, but I would guess that's what's going to happen. Because his entire focus is on proving there's no God. Which means Richard Dawkins, if you're watching this and you consider yourself a theistic Christian, he probably thinks about God just as much as you do.

Which is wild to think about that. He's fixating all the time on Jesus and God, just in the reverse. But it's still, it's going to get you eventually. Eventually, it'll sink in a little bit more than you wanted it to. Because if you are going to try to argue theistically about something, I feel like especially for like the activist atheists out there, I feel like you really do need to do more than just logically try to break it into pieces. I think you need to spend a week praying and trying

to become a Christian so you can at least understand why it happens to people. But the problem with that is you're not going to come out of that week. You'll probably never be able to. It'll get you! It'll get you! Which is not, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. I mean, conversely, probably if you got some profoundly Jesus loving Christian and you like, and they were willing to like

And they were willing to, like, force themselves to not believe, at least try to really look into why it's not true. Who knows? Maybe at the end of that, at the end of that they'll probably still be a Christian. It doesn't matter. We're talking about some transcendent, mystical fucking thing. Whether you want to call it an egregore shared reality or an actual like divine manifestation of the eternal mind Whatever it is. It's gonna get you baby. It'll get you. I that's always been the

the best thing to me about any of the traditions I like to study is like, you know you go like have you ever gotten caught by an? Has that ever happened to you where you go out in the ocean? Mm-mm. You go to the ocean a lot? Not a lot, but I've been out in Gulf of Mexico. Well, like... sometimes you're just floating out there.

It's not even like a... It, the ocean seems calm-ish. And then all of a sudden you look out and the beach is like really far away. Or is it called an undertow or riptide? Riptide. Undertow yanks you down. Riptide pulls you out and it happens quick. It's a riptide.

It's like some mystical traditions are like that. They... First, they convince you to get off the beach. That's the first, that's when you just start hearing like the beginning stuff about it. Like, all right, I'll wait in here, what's the big deal? And then you wait in a little bit. And then it's like, why don't you just try, I don't know, floating out here.

You know, lift your legs up. And then the next thing you know, it got you. And you're thinking about it all the time. It becomes part of you. That's how it works and it's beautiful. I love it. And a lot of people, when they start getting pulled out to sea

and they start watching the paradigm they've been living in shrinking away in the horizon, they just claw their way back. And then they find a new religion and then they wait out until they feel the pull and then they claw their way back in. And that's what Shogun Trump called spiritual materialism, which is why he advised adhering, just pick something and go for it. Like, don't keep swimming back to the beach like an asshole. Sucked out to sea and drowned, you bitch! He didn't say, I added that last part to it, but you, you know, when you start thinking about how... When did you become Christian? Well, you know, when you start thinking about how...

When did you become Christian? Well, I became, I guess, like when I became Christian, if you want to call it that, and I'll tell you why I have a problem with like the term, was when I took LSD and read the book of John in my dorm room when I was tripping, and had this chain reaction of thoughts that let, like where I think I felt Christ consciousness as they call it. But my first thought was,

I'm reading it and I'm like, somebody wrote this. I know it seems weird, obvious, but I'm like, somebody wrote this. I know it seems weird, obvious, but I'm like, somebody wrote this? And then I thought, but look, what consciousness would my mind be in if I wrote something like this? Like, this is not normal human consciousness that produced this series of sentences creating the Gospel of John. This is like some kind of like elevated being who has clearly met another being that did this to him and he's trying to like put it into words. And then right, I think right after that I felt it. I was like, oh fuck, it's real.

But then the way I connect with Jesus and the way I think about Christianity would probably be considered heretical by a lot of other Christians. And I'm fine with that. I don't care. Because I think with Christianity and with any religion that invites connection with the transcendent, the priest class becomes irrelevant, which is another thing I love about Christianity, is it's like a direct connection with something. It's kind of like once you connect with a thing, you don't need to like read transcripts of things it said in the past.

You know what I mean? Like, and certainly once you connect with a thing, why do you need an interpreter anymore to tell you what it's about? And so the priest class appears and in the worst case becomes the very the most nefarious sort of interpreter Which you would never want your interpreter to warp What something was saying to fit an agenda that your interpreter had that would be awful And then the interpreter would actually become more powerful than the person you were talking to and now you're fucked and so that can happen in hierarchical systems.

Christians, it happens anytime you have like a charismatic, licensed God translator with an agenda. You always decided, oh, this is what it means. and then starts warping it to fit some version of it that maybe isn't what it is at all. And to me, the really interesting thing about Christianity is there is this possibility of direct communion with Jesus. You invite Jesus into your heart. Jesus talks to you, is in you, you feel Jesus. Jesus tells you what to do. And all the great prophets and all the people who had

some interaction with the divine. Like, there wasn't an interpreter, you know, telling Moses, well, he doesn't actually mean go into Egypt and free Jews. It's a symbol of something else. Like, definitely don't do that because you have a stutter and there's no fucking way you're gonna march into like an empire and have anything nothing will happen so you're taking it literally don't do that like let's Let's pick it apart here

It's got to mean something else. It's never like that. It's like direct communication Demanding some action that seems insane There's no one there to fuck it up so I think when I that's where I sort of veer away from some forms of Christianity which like to have the interpreter there to sort of direct and guide. Sometimes that's good. I mean it's nice to have someone to run shit by. It's just, you know, it's like that Mark Twain quote I always fucking say,

religion is what happened when the first con man met the first fool. And you know what I mean? Like, if I can convince you that I have a direct line to God more than you and then convince you to give me 10 percent of your yearly earnings if you want that line. That's expensive. Like how much is broadband? Like it's like $30 a month to get like pretty good Wi-Fi now. income to like an organized group that is theoretically representing a religion that has built inside of it the idea that you don't need a priest class anymore. It just seems a little paradoxical to me, you know? So

that's probably why, like, I, when I I that's why I hesitate because I don't know if that makes me a Christian necessarily or like something like the opposite Anyway praise Jesus you love Jesus Christ but I also Love Odin. What am I supposed to do with that? I also love Odin. What am I supposed to do with that? You know what I mean? How do I make those two things work? I love Krishna, Ganesh, you know,

and like I love so many different entities and like symbols of eternity that like it's, I don't think I'm allowed to do that from the classical Christian perspective, right? No. So that's where I'm not allowed in. Because it's like this is a monogamous sort of relationship you're supposed to have. Well, if you switch it to saints, if you're Catholic, that's cool. Like you can pray to saints instead of, you know. Right. You can pray to saints.

Yeah. Yeah, but then what if this, but it's got to be Catholic Saints, correct So yeah, like all the other Saints. It's just like sorry. I've met someone I'm gonna have to say goodbye to you. I Can only like pray to prescribed Saints? Yeah, but If you start realizing how your attention is very valuable It's got a real price on for real I mean, it's so valuable like all the you're using gmail all the data that they're selling. I think they're still doing that

when you look at like Instagram tick-tock like how much money they're making from Collectivizing human attention and like what happens when you Grab someone's attention It's so wild when you hypnotize somebody it's like when you take mushrooms your eyes dilate When you get hypnotized by technology you kind of relax feeling open and good, and you know you're it's like You're getting a little wet. you know you're It's like You're getting a little wet. You know you're like a nice like moist

misted pussy Ready for penetration and that's when the commercial comes BAM That's what you're like watching a commercial like while you're all open up all soft and relaxed That's what it's like. Do you realize if you don't do this, you will fucking die? And so you just get through all of the normal defense mechanisms any salesman has to overcome. The salesman sits with you. He asks you, what's your favorite island in Hawaii?

Oh, I love Maui. You're thinking about Maui Oh, you're kind of relaxing and then he's like, let me show you if you seen the new Mercedes Whatever the fuck, you know, you're all fucking thinking about Hawaii and now you you see a Mercedes and now he's he's gotten that feeling Of Hawaii to lock onto the Mercedes. He's, oh yeah, right. Like if I buy this fucking Mercedes and get massively in debt,

it'll be like every day I'll be in Hawaii. You're not thinking that, but that underneath it, that's what they're going for. I can't remember the name of that psychological effect, but it's brutal. Which brings me to what's inspired this ramble you're hearing today. And I, if anybody, and I don't think I will be succinct enough to make this clippable,

but I'm gonna try. And if anybody out there wants to try to make a clip of this, feel free. If it's good enough, it probably won't be. I didn't write it down, and I don't know how to like, take, to write down in an organized way what I want to talk about. I just have some kind of like vague mushy idea of it. But here's what happened to me today. This is what got me thinking about human attention. I'm driving to the gym and I'm too lazy to pull up an album I like.

So I went on iTunes Music and they have playlists. And the first one I saw was indie something playlist, like modern indie music. So I'm like, sure, whatever, let's see what modern indie music sounds like. And I'm listening to it. And I don't know why, I'm start I'm feeling bad I'm feeling like cringed cringed out or something and

At first I'm like I guess this music sucks and then I realized oh no What's happening is this? Playlist is the popular indie music right now, and it's what people are using as soundtracks for their fucking reels I've been watching reels with this music in the background. I've been watching women in sun dresses drinking their menstrual blood Underneath like a sunset. I've been watching like pregnant hippies giving birth in muddy creeks to this music. I've been watching men's groups in Costa Rica where men are sobbing and like hugging other muscular men to this music. I've been watching

gender reveal, baby clips. I've been watching grieving mothers sitting at their child's grave, weeping, but like not so overcome with grief they couldn't set up a fucking tripod. Like I've been watching this to this music and now the two have become inextricably paired in my brain meaning like I cannot look at this music critically because my brain has just been like yeah this is what they play when a group of muscular dudes are like cuddling together at an ayahuasca retreat designed to at an ayahuasca retreat designed to eliminate toxic masculinity. So now I can enjoy the music. Now this used to be an inevitability if you made great music. Your song would become a hit.

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really fucked up. You see him getting increasingly isolated, increasingly depressed. But he was cursed with a beautiful voice. He could play guitar and somehow he was alchemizing his despair into beautiful music, which produces that horrific relationship with a fandom where at some level they know if you get happy your music's gonna suck, so they kind of want you to be depressed. And he killed himself. Now one of these disturbing songs that he sang among many, and I don't mean disturbing like I don't know, Slayer or something. I mean disturbing in like an existential sense where if you've ever felt really lonely or

isolated it will resonate with that part of you. Maybe that's not a good thing, I don't know. But like anyone who's been at a liberal arts college like I went to, has like just cried in your dorm room listening to Nick Drake, cause your girlfriend sucked off that cute guy with skateboard in front of the cafeteria. Put on some fucking Nick Drake and mourn.

So I just remember Volkswagen commercial comes on. It's fucking Nick Drake, Pink Moon. Now if you listen to Pink Moon, try to remember the lyrics. I heard it, I saw it written and I saw it say, Pink Moon is on its way. and all of you who stand so tall pink moon gonna get you all the pink moon is the bloody moon in the book of revelations this is the anger phase of depression you motherfucking normies fuck

you all you fucking puffed up norm. You will see the blood moon. That's the song being sung from this beautiful vocalist who's going to kill himself, and maybe when he's singing, it knows that. And someone at Volkswagen heard that and was like, dude, we can sell cars with this. And so the commercial, as I recall, is too cool for the party.

It's these two beautiful couple. They're at kind of a rowdy party. And they're just like, let's get out of here. And they get in their Volkswagen, Pink Moon is playing, and I don't know, they drive somewhere to fuck or whatever. But, and I don't know if the ad exec that made that was like trying to say that like reality or default reality is like a loud party and that suicide, like what Nick Drake did, is just leaving the party

or something dark like that. In this case, the Volkswagen becomes like Karen's boat that carries you across the river sticks I don't know if that's what he meant, but that's what it looks like just some the exact interpretation You would expect the Demiurge to do of great art and it is fucked up, baby It is fucked up, but now It isn't if you make great music, it's going to take years for that shit to end up in a commercial. Now, because the streaming services are barely paying you for what you're making, you gotta get that on a reel. If your fucking folk song ends up on a reel, oh my God, that is like the modern hit on the radio, I guess.

So you want that. You might not like it, but if suddenly some fucking video of a mom giving herself like an enema made of smashed scorpions has your song on it, then you, that's a good thing. And so this is what I'm talking about. The bomb in the pocket. If you really think about art as a revolutionary device and realize that technology is grabbing it and pairing it neurologically in people's brains

with like the worst videos you've ever seen of all time. I don't mean like Ukrainian drone footage. I just mean like, you know, sentimental, sappy, shitty fucking advice coming to you from a symmetrical woman in Tulum. That's what I mean. And that waters down the art in horrible ways. It's a terrible price to pay. I knew this would be too long to clip. To summarize for the clip, if you're making great music right now, what is happening is

your great music is being used by women in sundresses drinking their menstrual blood, hippies giving birth in muddy creeks, symmetrical men's groups hugging each other in Costa Rica during ayahuasca retreats, and various other fucked up reels that should never exist anyway, but do is some kind of spark of the Antichrist emerging into time. Meaning that if someone listens to your music after seeing the reel of, I don't know, like some dude like doing eye gazing with a woman at a music festival

and like the suggestion that this will heal your relationship or whatever, if they encounter your music in the wild, they're just going to think about how hard their buttholes puckered with an almost seizure level cringe. Thus your music is tainted. But I get it, man. It's tough to be a musician these days. Anyway, recognize my children. Your attention is valuable. It is. And understand that we're all pouring our attention into the modern-day technological

aqueduct of social media. It's being funneled. And the combination of all of our attentions are forming what we call default reality. Meaning that we're not gonna change internet addiction. It's over. We are all junkies hooked on the Internet. But just maybe some of you out there figure out a way to start getting the algorithm to

grab things that are even slightly subversive that might end up on someone's real music, whatever it is. Then you have done humanity a great service. And in closing, I would like to say that this is why I am attempting to destroy Mr. Beast. Not physically, not in a violent way. I don't mean it like that at all. I wish him well and I think he's probably a really nice guy. So I don't mean literally destroy. I mean I want to exceed his download numbers. Why, you ask? Well, because if we can collectivize our energy in the form of watching the DTFH getting my subscribers up, hitting his download numbers,

then I will have like an ocean of collectivized energy that I will alchemize into the resources necessary to buy the Great Pyramid of Giza, remove the capstone, fill it up with mentos, and pour Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of Diet Coke into that pyramid, causing a chemical chain reaction that will blow up the Great Pyramid of Giza. It's no different than like when you were a kid and you took a magnifying glass and set leaves on fire. Only in this case the magnifying glass is YouTube. Your attention is the Sun. And the leaf is the Great Pyramid of fucking Giza, which we are going to blow up No more and my Theory is that world peace will happen almost directly after that because I'm pretty sure the fucking pyramid is causing all the problems everywhere

Has anyone even thought of that? It's weird fucking sits out there. What does it do? People hump on it. No one knows what it is. Everyone gets like so entranced by it. Let's get rid of it. Let's grow up. No more Great Pyramid. And finally, I will challenge Mr. Beast to a Jenga competition using the Stonehenge megalithic blocks. We'll get cranes out there and whoever causes them to topple has to destroy their YouTube channel. And I've been practicing Jenga. Mr. Beast, I've been practicing. He sent me chocolate. I know this is redundant. i've said this a million times

But the last thing is uh, he did send me chocolate the box of chocolate someone from his Team reached out and they sent me a delicious box of chocolate Theoretically I didn't eat it why because I have diabetes Diabetes I'd announced it! Then not long after my diabetes announcement, who reaches out? Someone from Mr. B's team. Want a box of chocolate? It was a trap. Brilliant. It was brilliant. And again, I feel like a dick.

Like, I should say, one of my friends said it's the best chocolate he ever had. I'm not sponsored by Mr. Beast. Truly. Truly. I didn't eat it. A team of scientists made it for some bullshit. This is not a commercial. I just feel like a dick

because he did send me a box of chocolate. My friend said it's good. I don't know. My friend said he fell asleep eating it. Woke up with chocolate all over his chest. So it's probably, who knows man? Who knows what's in it? You know? What happened while he was asleep? Don't know! Easily could have been abducted by some fucking Mr. Beast-like drone. You realize how much money he makes every month? You could definitely have an invisible drone that kidnaps people who've fallen asleep from, like,

whatever's in your chocolate. Remove their organs. Whatever, I don't know. Animate them, make them be in one of your YouTube clips. Maybe some of the people in his YouTube clips are just abductees who ate his chocolate and got knocked out and abducted by a drone that like reanimated their sleeping bodies and made them like run around a grocery store for a week.

How much does he make? Three million a month. Three million a month! That was back in 2021 though. In 2021! You realize like if we had those resources, friends, easily could blow up the pyramid of Giza. Everything has a price and I promise you,

if we can accrue enough wealth We can buy that motherfucker and you'll all be invited it's gonna be the new fire festival We're gonna blow it up And we're we're real. Let me show you where we're at. Can you show what our subscribers are at? subscribers are at now. 98.4. 98.4 Now based on the calculations of the physicists I have on my team We're doing good. We've had an exponential growth in subscribers, but it will take us approximately 400 years

to get to half of Mr. B's subscribers. What's he at right now? $50 million. What are we at again? 98.4. Thousand. Yes. So that's, yeah, 400 years.

And I don't have that much time, man. I'm 50. So we got to get, you guys have to get pumping on this thing. And I'm so grateful to you who clicked the subscribe button. I'm embarrassed that I have to do the thing everyone does on YouTube. But you know who else was embarrassed? George Washington. You know who else was embarrassed? Who's somebody who did something good Josh Bill Gates Bill Gates who? somebody else

Who's like a great world leader? cloud Schwab Schwab Somebody's making the world a much better fucking place. I'm sure he felt embarrassed when he said people should eat bugs But he had a higher calling He knew the path for I can't believe you just mentioned How fuck are you? That's awesome. Oh I love you

Listen, we got to get moving here guys is you have start going door-to-door and I mean that also for those of you Just click the subscribe button. It's a meaningless fucking thing, just click it. Yeah, you're gonna get announcements anytime one of my videos goes up, but ignore them like I ignore all the other fucking channels I subscribe to, who cares? The point is I need that symbol. I need that 100k. If I can hit that 100k they send me a fucking plaque. And that plaque, I don't know why I want it, but it's something. And it's a stepping stone. It's a stepping stone towards world peace

and you're all a part of it. We are going to blow up the great pyramid of Giza. Just click subscribe and as you click just imagine what that's gonna look like. Imagine the sound of that massive amounts of diet coke pouring onto the Mentos, that first rush of foam, the rumbling sound. You'll feel it in the sand, my physicists told me, it'll vibrate like those thumpers in Dune. You'll feel a vibration and then the sound of an ancient megalithic structure blowing up into pieces.

All of those fucking bricks flying in the air. Probably unidentified mummies flying in the air. Who knows what else? flying in the air. Who knows what else? Lizards, Cthulhu creatures, tentacle beings, the Library of Alexandria, GONE! And all that will remain is that beautiful, pristine desert and temporary pools of Mentos and Diet Coke, which you will be allowed to enjoy, because then we'll open up the gates that we have to set up because they told me the blast radius. It's actually tremendous and like you would die if you got too close to it.

So we're going to open up the gates. You go in there, you can slurp up the puddles of Diet Coke. You can eat those Mentos. And with the money that we generate from that event, we are going to have a contest where we take three diabetics and we're gonna put them in a hedge maze. And whoever gets to the center of the hedge maze first gets a lifetime worth of insulin. The other two are fucked. Join me. And thank you for watching this long thing.

If you made it through the whole thing, I salute you. I'll see you next week. Hare Krishna.