0:03

do you ever feel like this that you to a

0:08

greater or lesser extent are being

0:11

controlled well you're not alone you see

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what many people don't realize is just

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how much they are being

0:21

controlled and the first step in

0:23

changing that is identifying and

0:26

becoming aware of the

0:28

manipulators becoming aware of the

0:34

puppeteers if you work for a living why

0:38

do you kill yourself

0:42

working before we start talking about

0:46

elements of

0:48

control it's very important to first of

0:51

all establish what exactly that means hi

0:56

I'm Ernest man professor of tautology

1:00

when we're talking about issues of

1:02

control that actually varies from person

1:06

to

1:07

person due to both personal circumstance

1:10

and other factors as

1:12

well but what needs to also you know to

1:16

be kept in mind

1:18

here is that there are two different

1:21

kinds of control basically falls into

1:25

two very broad categories okay

1:30

that is actual control and perceived

1:36

control and the two and the consequences

1:40

thereof well they're actually they're

1:43

very different

1:46

now um to give you an idea of perceived

1:53

control we could go back several

1:55

centuries to um the time of say Galileo

2:00

when we were developing the first you

2:02

know

2:03

telescopes that gave us a an eye a

2:07

bird's eye view let's say of the actual

2:09

working you know solar system the

2:12

planets and so

2:14

forth anyway you know before this more

2:18

or less what it was was just two things

2:22

it was speculation and Faith namely from

2:25

the church and uh the church had its own

2:30

rationalization of how things

2:34

worked they were all of them were

2:37

wrong as far as the uh planets and the

2:41

solar system are concerned but hey it's

2:44

all we

2:45

had and then came along

2:49

technology

2:51

telescopes I believe it was

2:54

Galileo who offered the current pope at

2:58

that time a opportunity to actually see

3:03

for himself and look through a

3:05

telescope and he

3:09

refused um but the point is we fast

3:12

forward all of these centuries later and

3:16

at least despite all of the various

3:21

conflicts over so many many different

3:26

issues we're pretty much on board V

3:30

majority of us there's still a few hold

3:32

hold

3:33

outs but the vast majority of us believe

3:37

that we're a [ __ ] planet that spins

3:40

around the [ __ ] Sun it also

3:43

identifies that there are several other

3:45

planets that are also spinning around

3:48

the Sun and we're all going and doing

3:51

this at different

3:52

rates so at least the point is is that

3:56

there's some kind of General

4:01

consensus and that's a good thing

4:04

thankfully um of course this doesn't

4:08

include the flat

4:09

earthers

4:11

[ __ ] but anyway

4:14

um it's very different though concerning

4:18

when we're talking about issues of

4:20

control because it's so

4:24

personal and what I'm saying is for

4:27

instance the example that I just gave

4:30

about the consensus about the earth

4:32

going around the

4:34

sun we don't control

4:37

that and you see as an issue of control

4:42

just as an example of of what I speak of

4:46

um we are not control of the orbit of

4:50

the

4:51

planets it simply is and it does

4:56

absolutely

4:57

exist and it can controls

5:01

us that's right you see that's what I

5:04

mean when I'm talking about in terms of

5:08

there are so many things that control

5:11

us so we have absolutely no control over

5:16

many or most of all the Earth's

5:19

processes and that includes the moon and

5:23

yes the fact that the Earth revolves

5:25

around the

5:27

Sun this is not the case as I said with

5:29

things that are personal but it's our

5:32

Inner Space that fails to

5:34

recognize the difference between the two

5:37

where things get screwed up in other

5:40

words your inability to know the truth

5:45

about elements of

5:47

control is independent of the fact of

5:50

whether or not you are actually being

5:54

controlled so now that we as I already

5:58

postulated all all of us pretty much

6:00

agree upon the fact that we're on a ball

6:03

floating in space spinning around the

6:06

sun we got that at least thankfully we

6:09

got that

6:10

much um but people within the own within

6:13

their own spheres of

6:16

existence um are just in as much

6:19

disagreement about certain objective

6:23

truths as this person say in the

6:26

situation many many centuries ago before

6:29

proof as in telescopes and science

6:33

basically that it was anybody's guess

6:36

and some people uh believed that it was

6:39

God and Heavenly spheres and all this

6:42

[ __ ] and some

6:44

didn't those that didn't better keep it

6:48

on the down low uh the church didn't

6:50

like like that [ __ ] if you

6:53

didn't but

6:55

um the point is is that if you go back

6:59

back in time you think about all this

7:02

what I'm saying is is that the reality

7:05

of a situation it it it doesn't matter

7:09

if you believe it to be true or not

7:12

there is a third-party objective truth

7:16

and it's going to do its thing it

7:18

doesn't matter it's irrelevant to what

7:21

you or I or anyone thinks of it it's

7:23

going to do its thing and so that is my

7:27

first point about and any of this any

7:30

any mechanisms of control they are

7:33

either real and

7:35

actual um and you choose to not believe

7:40

in them or they are they're made up um

7:45

or possibly coming from I don't know it

7:48

could be paranoid [ __ ] delusions for

7:51

all I know but the point is is that it's

7:54

either real or it isn't now I'm going to

7:58

talk about in this case one factor that

8:00

is real but before I go into that a

8:04

little backstory here so many people

8:08

have and what they what they don't know

8:11

what they don't

8:12

realize is they have so many things that

8:16

are in fact controlling them and they're

8:19

not aware of it they could with some

8:22

people depending on their life um it

8:26

could be they could have eight or 10 or

8:28

more things that are direct directly

8:31

controlling their lives through their

8:34

own perceptions even some people maybe

8:38

it's only three it all depends so for

8:43

instance if you're like me and you're

8:47

agnostic then religion and all that it

8:52

entails all the [ __ ] that it entails

8:55

has no bearing on my life whatsoever

8:59

so as a consequence anything that comes

9:02

from that particular branch of delusion

9:07

uh that uh has effects on other people's

9:09

lives has no impact on mine so for

9:13

instance if a political candidate U I

9:17

believe in God and this has no [ __ ]

9:21

bearing on me I don't I don't care I

9:23

look at them they say oh yeah of course

9:25

I believe in God and I reinterpret that

9:29

and I like okay so you Harbor a delusion

9:33

that

9:34

extra beings out there uh control our

9:38

destiny so you might as well believe in

9:40

Zeus it's the same thing it goes back

9:43

the [ __ ] goes back several

9:45

centuries um so what I'm as a pragmatist

9:50

what I'm concerned with is what is

9:53

objectively real and so what I just

9:56

wanted to touch on at this point was for

9:59

instance the institution of

10:04

marriage in the modern times that we

10:07

live in it has absolutely zero no

10:12

benefit for a man to be married at all

10:16

whatsoever period so you see that kind

10:21

of ends the whole [ __ ] discussion

10:23

anything as far as what flows from

10:27

Marriage every hor Horror Story that

10:30

I've heard and we continue to hear

10:33

primarily from men overwhelmingly

10:36

actually from men since women file for

10:39

divorce over 80% of the time because

10:42

it's in their interest to do so it's

10:46

part of the game or at least part of the

10:48

modern game but uh yeah in many many

10:53

centuries past uh the roow this idea of

10:58

love and romance and and and all that it

11:01

wasn't even part of the equation

11:03

marriage was a it was a financial

11:06

commitment it was a partnership it was

11:09

different but the the concept of

11:11

romantic love and I'm going to love you

11:14

and marry you forever and ever never and

11:16

never no that that [ __ ] just wasn't

11:20

wasn't even

11:21

there so I'm mentioning this and all

11:25

this as of the mul I call it I call it

11:29

the multi-armed octopus of so many

11:33

things that control Our Lives that's

11:36

just one of them and it may be in your

11:39

life you may have as I said you may have

11:42

very few things that are actually

11:45

holding you up um controlling your life

11:49

whereas other people may have a whole

11:53

shitload boatload of things controlling

11:55

our life but make no mistake from hiring

11:59

institutions uh namely that of the

12:02

wealth or the wealthy or the business

12:04

class or what have

12:05

you all of these things what they have

12:08

in common the one thing that they have

12:11

in common Numero Uno is control is the

12:16

control of your life so that you don't

12:20

interfere with their life and their life

12:25

is centered around controlling your life

12:30

primarily that translates into property

12:32

or Finance or your money because

12:36

ultimately that's the expression of

12:38

ourselves um so yeah if you're a young

12:42

person and you live in squer in some

12:45

[ __ ] hole apartment and you're doing

12:48

that now they want to run you around on

12:51

your job then let's get another one pick

12:54

up so you do a gig economy and you're

12:57

fcking running here and you're doing

12:59

Uber in other words you're barely doing

13:01

enough just to

13:04

survive uh just to make it day by

13:08

day that's what they [ __ ] want that's

13:12

the goal of it that is in of itself

13:14

their goal and that objectively speaking

13:18

is an example of control please allow me

13:22

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13:25

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so you you've got

14:04

um you know you got all these elements

14:06

of control and what I would like to hear

14:08

from you is what is it what I mean you

14:14

know what do you think of what I'm

14:16

saying I would like to hear from you

14:19

look I'm a big boy I could take this

14:22

okay so if you think I'm great I'd love

14:25

to hear a praise fine put it down let me

14:27

know something

14:29

but

14:30

conversely if you think I'm full of [ __ ]

14:33

say Earnest I think you're full of [ __ ]

14:35

and maybe add something to it this is

14:37

the reason why or whatever but I'd like

14:40

to hear it but um I you know I would

14:45

also instead of just being able to touch

14:47

on this I'd like to go in in more into

14:50

more

14:51

detail with more episodes of

14:54

course um but I can only touch on it so

14:58

much at a time as time will

15:00

allow but that's you know that is what

15:04

um that's my summary of this just as an

15:07

intro on issues of

15:10

control and

15:12

um there's there's just so many elements

15:17

of of control potentially for us but the

15:21

important part is the very the very

15:23

beginning the very first thing if I may

15:26

reiterate is understanding the

15:29

difference

15:30

between

15:32

societally

15:33

imposed artificial

15:36

control like believing in

15:40

God um in you know I don't know 15th

15:43

century England or whatnot or or going

15:47

even further back than that um yeah

15:50

under certain circumstances um if you

15:53

don't want to fall a foul of the church

15:58

which could be a

15:59

very painful experience yeah you might

16:03

want to profess your belief in God but

16:07

fortunately they at least they stopped

16:10

doing that part of it with all the

16:12

torture and the [ __ ] so they're just

16:15

doing it in different ways but

16:18

um it doesn't mean that there are not

16:21

elements that are definitely you know

16:24

trying to control you and it's just

16:28

understanding the difference between

16:30

artificial controls and things which are

16:35

actually and

16:37

immutably definitely controlling

16:42

you so is what I had to say here

16:46

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16:49

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