I deleted a lot of the posts that involved arguing about who had the correct opinion. Everyone on the forum is allowed to post their opinion. One way of living whether it be full time in a van, part-time in a sticks and bricks, staying stationary to build up savings, or traveling and working at the same time is not right for everyone. You make the correct decisions for yourself and other people make the correct decisions for themselves. Arguing about it will not be permitted.
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Here I am watching this weird guy in the
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desert look at this guy just a weird guy
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in the desert and I'm trying to take
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advice from him
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hi my life must be some kind of problem
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[Music]
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hi everyone welcome back to my next
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video we're gonna continue on our
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conversation about a voyage of
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self-discovery Who am I why do I do the
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things that I do and what do I really
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want out of life do I know who I am do I
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really know what I want out of life am i
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acting in my boat my own best
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self-interest and if I am why am I not
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happy with my life what's gone wrong
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Here I am watching this weird guy in the
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desert look at this guy just a weird guy
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in the desert and I'm trying to take
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advice from him why my life must be some
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kind of problem and so I want us to
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think more and more deeply about
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ourselves and how we fit in with society
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especially at this time I'm shooting
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this in late April of 2020 when there is
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so much going on with the you know with
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the worldwide shut down and the
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quarantine we're all kind of social
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isolating and we're alone and we're
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afraid and now is a dark night of the
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soul time to think about Who am I where
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am I going
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is this the life I want to live and if
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it isn't the life that I want to live
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how can I find that life and of course
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the fact that you're here watching this
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video in other videos like it on YouTube
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says to me I hope you can hear it in and
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that there is a search in your heart for
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something better for something more
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there there must be more to life than
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this I need to find it I want to find it
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so we're going to talk about that today
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now just a very brief recap in 1995 my
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life hit rock bottom I I started going
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to a meetings of all bizarre things
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never been drunk not once in my life
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never using the illegal drug but in the
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12 steps of a a I found an answer to my
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compulsive addictive personality and so
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I started working the 12 steps and we're
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not going to spend much time on those
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but as I'm going through all this and
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and it was at this time at the exact
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same time that I was forced to live in a
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van for the very first time so here I am
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I'm going through a divorce I'm I'm
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completely rock-bottom miserable and
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unhappy my life I don't see how it can
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get any worse
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and yet it did of course you say as soon
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as you say my life can't be any worse
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than it usually does get a little worse
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and my life was just really bad and I
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was just really unhappy with my life
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so I kept asking myself how did this
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happen how did I completely miss the
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mark and then the bizarre thing was the
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longer I went through this as difficult
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it was and painful was very difficult
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and very painful I started to love
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living in a van all of a sudden life
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made sense to me I was free
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that little four-letter word I was free
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uh after the first of every month I
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didn't pay a house bill I didn't pay a
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rent I didn't pay a house payment I had
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all that money of my own I kept it and I
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felt more free and alive than I had ever
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been before
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I slept where I wanted to sleep and so I
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kept going to my job I kept going to my
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job for the next that was in 95 I
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retired in 2006 for the next 11 years I
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just went to my job in this data going
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home to an apartment and I went out and
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climbed in the van and went to sleep for
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the first time in my life was happy I
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was actually happy and I was doing
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exactly the opposite of what society
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told me in fact Society told me I was a
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homeless bum I was a complete failure
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and loser and yet here I was finally for
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the first time in my life happy it just
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made no sense and it was true though and
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the more I worked my way through the 12
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steps and the longer I lived in my fan
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the happier I got fine life finally was
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good and there were happy moments there
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were moments of happiness and peace so
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today's theme is why following society's
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dictates maybe the very worst thing you
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can do and we'll make you the most
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miserable you can be so this is a quote
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from a man named all--just Huxley and in
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the 1930s he wrote a dystopian novel
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called a brave new world and the idea of
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the brave new world was it that there
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would be a to talent dictatorship but
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that society would offer people
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happiness in the way of drugs and
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pleasure and peace and calm and yet all
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they had to do was give up their own
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personal identities basically so they
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and it was it was a drug culture and
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they were used draw
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and made people just people were just
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happy all the time and people at that
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time just gladly went along with it and
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said yeah I'll gladly give up some
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individuality for being happy all the
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time so and so this is a quote right out
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of his his follow-up brave new world
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revisited biologically speaking man is a
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moderately gregarious not a completely
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social animal a creature more like a
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wolf let us say or an elephant than like
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a bee or an ant and I think that's
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really important let me say there that
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you and I are very wolf like or elephant
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like we live in packs we live in herds
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we live in groups we are social animals
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and yet at the same time we're in this
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pack and this herd we are very
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individualistic at the same time so
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their packs work out a system herds work
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out a system whereby they maintain their
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individuality but they also fit in the
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pack and so that's what we're like we're
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kind of pack animals we have these big
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brains that we need to work together
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with each other but we can't be too
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independent we have to be independent
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but we can't be too independent we find
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this nice Natural Balance a creature
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more like a wolf let us say or an
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elephant than like a bee or an ant in
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their original form human societies bore
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no resemblance to the hive or the ant
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heap they were merely packs and
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basically that's true humans have been
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around pre humans have been around for
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about two million years and in the
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various forms and evolution as we became
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more and more human and full of humans
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**** Sapien you and I the same brain
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powers just exactly like us we've been
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around for maybe a quarter of a million
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years 250,000 years and all that time we
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lived in packs between twenty ten twenty
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and a hundred people so we lived in
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these packs and we lived really well uh
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all the Anthropology says that ancients
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those ancient peoples hunter-gatherers
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were the original affluent society that
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is a phrase actually used about them the
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original affluent society at any rate
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that's how we used to live and that is
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not how you and I live today
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so basically what he's saying is we are
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by nature wolves living in packs and
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that's you know if you look back
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hunter-gatherer tribes that's not not a
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bad analogy but today's society where
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you and I are live in the United States
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of America in 2020 we are ants we live
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like ants our society is organized like
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ants in fact if you've ever seen an
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anthill and and a line leaving out of
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the anthill to go to some food they've
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discovered and you probably had them in
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your house a long line of streaming out
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and stringing back and they leave they
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divide them in two lanes alene going out
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and lean dividing the back and you'll
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see the mance just scattering out
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everywhere working working working
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working answer hard workers that's you
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and I that's the traffic look at look at
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a picture of the of interstates on the
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morning drive into town a line of
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traffic going off to work what's happens
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in the evening a line of ants driving
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home from work we went off and we went
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off during the day and we worked we work
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we worked and then we would draw home
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and then we just pretended we had a life
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and we enjoyed our lives
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that's ants we're ants were bees we're
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drones in a hive not living our own
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individual lives just living for society
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and how did that happen
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well you and I from the moment were born
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until the moment we die we are subject
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to constant propaganda to make us good
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productive citizens every moment of your
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life your parents got indoctrinated and
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in this propaganda that they had to be
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good productive citizens and they had to
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follow and want the American Dream that
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they had to sacrifice today to live for
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their golden years this is what your
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parents were taught this is what your
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parents before them were taught and what
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their parents before them were taught
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from from way back then from our
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grandparents to our parents to you and I
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and path and even further back when we
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are born we are taught to be good
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productive citizens to follow the
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American dream to sacrifice the present
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for our golden years
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to buy lots of stuff to buy a bigger
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house to get a lot more stuff and fill
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the house and and fill that house so
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full that we get a storage unit and then
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to buy a bigger house and to fill that
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house with more stuff and just sacrifice
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the present the golden years are gonna
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be so golden and so wonderful there's a
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there's a pot of gold is waiting for you
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at the end of this rainbow just wait for
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it and then it'll be just amazing keep
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yeah today isn't so great I know you're
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just working all the time and you keep
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saying to yourself is this all there is
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to life but the golden years will be so
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good the American Dream is so wonderful
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just be a good productive citizen follow
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the American Dream and the golden years
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will come true for you good just go for
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it go for it that's what the propaganda
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that you and I were taught from the
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moment we were born then we hit school
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oh my goodness when we hit which we
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turned four or five six and we were
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shoved into a school and the teacher
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started passing judgment on us we were
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constantly judged as how smart we were
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and how well-behaved we were and how
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polite we were and and if there was any
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nonconformity bad things happen didn't
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they you got a bad grade you had to take
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a note home tomorrow mom I got a bad
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grade I acted up in class the teachers
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said she wanted me to take a nap and I
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said I don't want to take a nap and so
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she the teacher was mad at me and she
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sent me outside and I had to sleep over
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here alone I had to go see the principal
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and I got detention and as you go
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through life through your life in school
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and then college and in your first years
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and your first jobs conformity to the
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rules was non-stop be a good productive
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citizen pass all the tests couldn't form
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follow the American dream you were heard
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that every moment every day of your life
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fortunately he got summers off for a
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little while holding a lot of times you
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went to camp what did you do there more
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conformity a lot less strict a lot less
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rules a little more of a lot more fun
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but still rules still conformity back to
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school okay more rules because now
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you're older and you can follow rules
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better more rules more conformity this
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isn't a good grade you didn't work hard
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enough for this grade let me send a note
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home to your parents and they'll see it
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we'll see if we can't give you more
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homework
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and get you to doing more and more and
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and have you doing really productive and
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really good so you're doing you're gonna
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be a good productive citizen cuz that's
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all we want from you as being a good
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productive citizen and we want you to be
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a good aunt in the hive I mean you want
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to go out there and make a lot of money
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out there don't you and then bring it a
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lot back and have it there in the house
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and and then get a bigger house and more
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stuff you want to buy more stuff don't
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you isn't that your gold always buy more
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stuff that's what you want in life you
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really do want that in life buy more
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stuff have a bigger house have more kids
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have more people admire you and think
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how great you are
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follow the American dream be a good
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productive citizen get more stuff that
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you and I heard every moment of our
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lives and that's what we are we're ants
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you're a wolf that has been forced and
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conformed and molded to be an ant and lo
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and behold you're miserable
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and you're not happy with your life and
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you constantly think to yourself there's
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got to be more to life than this so you
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go and watch YouTube and you will see
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weird guys out in the desert who dress
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funny and talk funny and say these wild
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weird things and I'd like to be him I'd
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like to live like that no that's not
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right I've got to be a good productive
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citizen I'll work a lot more I'll work a
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lot harder and look for more and and
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I'll make a lot more I'll make a lot
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more people rich while I work away and
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slave away them and out to the ant farm
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and back and out and back just non-stop
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on that commute to make someone really
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really rich and and I'll get that golden
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dream ah the golden pot will be waiting
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for me at the other rainbow ought to be
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so great but now you're finding out that
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was a lie and there is no golden pot at
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the end of the rainbow there is no
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pension and I found that out and a lot
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of us are finding that out and the
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American dream is just a great big
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enormous lie and none of it's true what
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if we said normal and normal and healthy
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is if you are your optimum person you
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have become all that you can be you have
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become self-realized as Abraham Maslow
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would have said you are a fully
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self-realized human being that's healthy
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but
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do the two fit together can you be both
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and the simple answer is no it's
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impossible in this society because you
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are born to be a wolf in a pack and this
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society says you're going to be an ant
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or a bee in a hive and those two are not
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the same and being one means a being a
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failure at the other and that's why I
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was miserable and that's why I started
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to become healthy and happy and
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fulfilled when I started to live like a
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wolf in a pack in a van and that's why
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I'm teaching you everything I'm teaching
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you the voyage of self-discovery leads
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to a wolf living in a pack it doesn't
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lead to an ant in an anthill it won't
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lead that way it'll lead you completely
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the opposite way of what you've been
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told to live there was some part of me
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in 1995 when I hit my own bottom said I
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just haven't been willing to give up
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myself to give up Who I am and what I am
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supposed to become and so when I moved
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into a van and started going to the
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12-step meetings I was finally for the
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very first time in my life equipped to
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live fully out myself to fully discover
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who I really was how I should really
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live and be who I really am and until
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that moment except as a very young man
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there were times as a young man I I knew
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what I who I was and what I wanted to be
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and I stuffed them all and my friends
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that's happened to you too as a young
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person you knew who you were and what
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you wanted to be sometimes we lose that
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very early at 5:00 or 6:00 when we go to
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call at school it's really beaten
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hammered out of us there was a day when
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it was literally beaten out of you and
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it's still beaten out of you in a
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figurative sense with notes to home and
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meetings with the teacher and every
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parent-teacher conference is an effort
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to continue to beat out the wolf out of
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you and conform you to be in an ANA and
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it's gone on the whole time and some of
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you are really totally miserable be
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because of it and you're here that's why
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you're listening to this video and all
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the other bizarre videos that I make
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there's some of you that is sick of
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being an aunt and as going to be a wolf
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my friends give in to the wolf give in
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to the wolf now maybe you can't do it
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today maybe you can't do it tomorrow
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maybe you can't do it this year or next
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year or five years from now embrace the
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wolf in you today you can do that and I
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hope that you're ready I hope that
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you're you're willing to hear the cry of
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your own heart I want to be a wolf I
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don't want to be an ant be the wolf my
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friends but it's not going to happen
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immediately for a lot of you maybe you
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can maybe you're in a position today
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where you can just leave everything and
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become the wolf I had to keep working
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for eleven years and I had to support my
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kids and pay the alimony and build up my
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retirement and then when I had pay it
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build up my retirement when my last son
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turned 18 and moved out of the house I
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could go live like a wolf and I did
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immediately I wait I did I went out and
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lived like a wolf to the very greatest
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degree I could so I'm not saying you're
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gonna have to drop everything and go
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live like a wolf today you may not be
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able to if the American dream is coming
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true for you maybe you can be part time
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wolf and a part time ant as long as you
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follow your own dreams and become your
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own self your own human being being what
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you were made to be okay I'm gonna stop
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there I hope you got something out of
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this I hope you are inspired to be the
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wolf and you will not be the ant to the
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greatest degree possible today you will
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be a wolf and not an ant and only you
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know how much that can happen so folks
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hoping we've got something out of this
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video if you did like us on YouTube
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subscribe to the channel hit that thumbs
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up button give a good howl tonight oh
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and I'll see you on the next video
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For everyone who can not or has not watched the video, the transcripted is posted below. Please read it before posting.
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Here I am watching this weird guy in the
00:01
desert look at this guy just a weird guy
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in the desert and I'm trying to take
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advice from him
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hi my life must be some kind of problem
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[Music]
00:18
hi everyone welcome back to my next
00:20
video we're gonna continue on our
00:22
conversation about a voyage of
00:25
self-discovery Who am I why do I do the
00:29
things that I do and what do I really
00:32
want out of life do I know who I am do I
00:34
really know what I want out of life am i
00:37
acting in my boat my own best
00:39
self-interest and if I am why am I not
00:43
happy with my life what's gone wrong
00:45
Here I am watching this weird guy in the
00:48
desert look at this guy just a weird guy
00:50
in the desert and I'm trying to take
00:52
advice from him why my life must be some
00:55
kind of problem and so I want us to
00:58
think more and more deeply about
01:00
ourselves and how we fit in with society
01:02
especially at this time I'm shooting
01:04
this in late April of 2020 when there is
01:07
so much going on with the you know with
01:11
the worldwide shut down and the
01:12
quarantine we're all kind of social
01:15
isolating and we're alone and we're
01:16
afraid and now is a dark night of the
01:19
soul time to think about Who am I where
01:21
am I going
01:22
is this the life I want to live and if
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it isn't the life that I want to live
01:27
how can I find that life and of course
01:31
the fact that you're here watching this
01:32
video in other videos like it on YouTube
01:34
says to me I hope you can hear it in and
01:39
that there is a search in your heart for
01:42
something better for something more
01:44
there there must be more to life than
01:47
this I need to find it I want to find it
01:50
so we're going to talk about that today
01:51
now just a very brief recap in 1995 my
01:55
life hit rock bottom I I started going
02:00
to a meetings of all bizarre things
02:02
never been drunk not once in my life
02:04
never using the illegal drug but in the
02:05
12 steps of a a I found an answer to my
02:08
compulsive addictive personality and so
02:11
I started working the 12 steps and we're
02:13
not going to spend much time on those
02:14
but as I'm going through all this and
02:17
and it was at this time at the exact
02:19
same time that I was forced to live in a
02:21
van for the very first time so here I am
02:24
I'm going through a divorce I'm I'm
02:25
completely rock-bottom miserable and
02:29
unhappy my life I don't see how it can
02:31
get any worse
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and yet it did of course you say as soon
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as you say my life can't be any worse
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than it usually does get a little worse
02:37
and my life was just really bad and I
02:41
was just really unhappy with my life
02:42
so I kept asking myself how did this
02:45
happen how did I completely miss the
02:47
mark and then the bizarre thing was the
02:50
longer I went through this as difficult
02:52
it was and painful was very difficult
02:53
and very painful I started to love
02:56
living in a van all of a sudden life
02:58
made sense to me I was free
03:01
that little four-letter word I was free
03:05
uh after the first of every month I
03:07
didn't pay a house bill I didn't pay a
03:09
rent I didn't pay a house payment I had
03:12
all that money of my own I kept it and I
03:15
felt more free and alive than I had ever
03:19
been before
03:19
I slept where I wanted to sleep and so I
03:22
kept going to my job I kept going to my
03:24
job for the next that was in 95 I
03:27
retired in 2006 for the next 11 years I
03:29
just went to my job in this data going
03:31
home to an apartment and I went out and
03:33
climbed in the van and went to sleep for
03:36
the first time in my life was happy I
03:38
was actually happy and I was doing
03:41
exactly the opposite of what society
03:43
told me in fact Society told me I was a
03:46
homeless bum I was a complete failure
03:48
and loser and yet here I was finally for
03:52
the first time in my life happy it just
03:53
made no sense and it was true though and
03:56
the more I worked my way through the 12
03:59
steps and the longer I lived in my fan
04:01
the happier I got fine life finally was
04:04
good and there were happy moments there
04:05
were moments of happiness and peace so
04:07
today's theme is why following society's
04:10
dictates maybe the very worst thing you
04:12
can do and we'll make you the most
04:14
miserable you can be so this is a quote
04:17
from a man named all--just Huxley and in
04:19
the 1930s he wrote a dystopian novel
04:21
called a brave new world and the idea of
04:26
the brave new world was it that there
04:27
would be a to talent dictatorship but
04:29
that society would offer people
04:31
happiness in the way of drugs and
04:34
pleasure and peace and calm and yet all
04:38
they had to do was give up their own
04:40
personal identities basically so they
04:43
and it was it was a drug culture and
04:45
they were used draw
04:46
and made people just people were just
04:48
happy all the time and people at that
04:51
time just gladly went along with it and
04:53
said yeah I'll gladly give up some
04:55
individuality for being happy all the
04:58
time so and so this is a quote right out
05:01
of his his follow-up brave new world
05:04
revisited biologically speaking man is a
05:08
moderately gregarious not a completely
05:11
social animal a creature more like a
05:14
wolf let us say or an elephant than like
05:17
a bee or an ant and I think that's
05:20
really important let me say there that
05:21
you and I are very wolf like or elephant
05:24
like we live in packs we live in herds
05:26
we live in groups we are social animals
05:28
and yet at the same time we're in this
05:31
pack and this herd we are very
05:33
individualistic at the same time so
05:35
their packs work out a system herds work
05:39
out a system whereby they maintain their
05:42
individuality but they also fit in the
05:44
pack and so that's what we're like we're
05:48
kind of pack animals we have these big
05:49
brains that we need to work together
05:51
with each other but we can't be too
05:53
independent we have to be independent
05:56
but we can't be too independent we find
05:58
this nice Natural Balance a creature
06:02
more like a wolf let us say or an
06:04
elephant than like a bee or an ant in
06:06
their original form human societies bore
06:09
no resemblance to the hive or the ant
06:12
heap they were merely packs and
06:15
basically that's true humans have been
06:17
around pre humans have been around for
06:19
about two million years and in the
06:22
various forms and evolution as we became
06:24
more and more human and full of humans
06:26
**** Sapien you and I the same brain
06:28
powers just exactly like us we've been
06:30
around for maybe a quarter of a million
06:32
years 250,000 years and all that time we
06:34
lived in packs between twenty ten twenty
06:37
and a hundred people so we lived in
06:39
these packs and we lived really well uh
06:42
all the Anthropology says that ancients
06:47
those ancient peoples hunter-gatherers
06:48
were the original affluent society that
06:51
is a phrase actually used about them the
06:53
original affluent society at any rate
06:57
that's how we used to live and that is
06:59
not how you and I live today
07:00
so basically what he's saying is we are
07:03
by nature wolves living in packs and
07:06
that's you know if you look back
07:08
hunter-gatherer tribes that's not not a
07:10
bad analogy but today's society where
07:13
you and I are live in the United States
07:14
of America in 2020 we are ants we live
07:18
like ants our society is organized like
07:20
ants in fact if you've ever seen an
07:22
anthill and and a line leaving out of
07:25
the anthill to go to some food they've
07:26
discovered and you probably had them in
07:28
your house a long line of streaming out
07:31
and stringing back and they leave they
07:33
divide them in two lanes alene going out
07:35
and lean dividing the back and you'll
07:36
see the mance just scattering out
07:38
everywhere working working working
07:39
working answer hard workers that's you
07:41
and I that's the traffic look at look at
07:44
a picture of the of interstates on the
07:48
morning drive into town a line of
07:51
traffic going off to work what's happens
07:53
in the evening a line of ants driving
07:55
home from work we went off and we went
07:58
off during the day and we worked we work
07:59
we worked and then we would draw home
08:01
and then we just pretended we had a life
08:03
and we enjoyed our lives
08:04
that's ants we're ants were bees we're
08:07
drones in a hive not living our own
08:10
individual lives just living for society
08:14
and how did that happen
08:17
well you and I from the moment were born
08:20
until the moment we die we are subject
08:25
to constant propaganda to make us good
08:29
productive citizens every moment of your
08:31
life your parents got indoctrinated and
08:35
in this propaganda that they had to be
08:38
good productive citizens and they had to
08:41
follow and want the American Dream that
08:44
they had to sacrifice today to live for
08:47
their golden years this is what your
08:49
parents were taught this is what your
08:51
parents before them were taught and what
08:54
their parents before them were taught
08:55
from from way back then from our
08:59
grandparents to our parents to you and I
09:01
and path and even further back when we
09:05
are born we are taught to be good
09:08
productive citizens to follow the
09:10
American dream to sacrifice the present
09:12
for our golden years
09:13
to buy lots of stuff to buy a bigger
09:15
house to get a lot more stuff and fill
09:17
the house and and fill that house so
09:19
full that we get a storage unit and then
09:21
to buy a bigger house and to fill that
09:23
house with more stuff and just sacrifice
09:25
the present the golden years are gonna
09:27
be so golden and so wonderful there's a
09:30
there's a pot of gold is waiting for you
09:32
at the end of this rainbow just wait for
09:34
it and then it'll be just amazing keep
09:36
yeah today isn't so great I know you're
09:38
just working all the time and you keep
09:40
saying to yourself is this all there is
09:41
to life but the golden years will be so
09:44
good the American Dream is so wonderful
09:46
just be a good productive citizen follow
09:49
the American Dream and the golden years
09:52
will come true for you good just go for
09:55
it go for it that's what the propaganda
09:58
that you and I were taught from the
10:00
moment we were born then we hit school
10:02
oh my goodness when we hit which we
10:05
turned four or five six and we were
10:06
shoved into a school and the teacher
10:09
started passing judgment on us we were
10:12
constantly judged as how smart we were
10:14
and how well-behaved we were and how
10:16
polite we were and and if there was any
10:19
nonconformity bad things happen didn't
10:22
they you got a bad grade you had to take
10:24
a note home tomorrow mom I got a bad
10:26
grade I acted up in class the teachers
10:28
said she wanted me to take a nap and I
10:30
said I don't want to take a nap and so
10:32
she the teacher was mad at me and she
10:34
sent me outside and I had to sleep over
10:35
here alone I had to go see the principal
10:37
and I got detention and as you go
10:39
through life through your life in school
10:42
and then college and in your first years
10:45
and your first jobs conformity to the
10:49
rules was non-stop be a good productive
10:52
citizen pass all the tests couldn't form
10:56
follow the American dream you were heard
10:59
that every moment every day of your life
11:02
fortunately he got summers off for a
11:04
little while holding a lot of times you
11:05
went to camp what did you do there more
11:07
conformity a lot less strict a lot less
11:09
rules a little more of a lot more fun
11:11
but still rules still conformity back to
11:14
school okay more rules because now
11:17
you're older and you can follow rules
11:18
better more rules more conformity this
11:21
isn't a good grade you didn't work hard
11:23
enough for this grade let me send a note
11:24
home to your parents and they'll see it
11:25
we'll see if we can't give you more
11:27
homework
11:27
and get you to doing more and more and
11:29
and have you doing really productive and
11:31
really good so you're doing you're gonna
11:33
be a good productive citizen cuz that's
11:35
all we want from you as being a good
11:37
productive citizen and we want you to be
11:39
a good aunt in the hive I mean you want
11:41
to go out there and make a lot of money
11:42
out there don't you and then bring it a
11:43
lot back and have it there in the house
11:45
and and then get a bigger house and more
11:48
stuff you want to buy more stuff don't
11:50
you isn't that your gold always buy more
11:52
stuff that's what you want in life you
11:53
really do want that in life buy more
11:55
stuff have a bigger house have more kids
11:58
have more people admire you and think
12:00
how great you are
12:01
follow the American dream be a good
12:04
productive citizen get more stuff that
12:08
you and I heard every moment of our
12:09
lives and that's what we are we're ants
12:11
you're a wolf that has been forced and
12:16
conformed and molded to be an ant and lo
12:21
and behold you're miserable
12:23
and you're not happy with your life and
12:25
you constantly think to yourself there's
12:28
got to be more to life than this so you
12:30
go and watch YouTube and you will see
12:31
weird guys out in the desert who dress
12:34
funny and talk funny and say these wild
12:37
weird things and I'd like to be him I'd
12:42
like to live like that no that's not
12:43
right I've got to be a good productive
12:45
citizen I'll work a lot more I'll work a
12:47
lot harder and look for more and and
12:49
I'll make a lot more I'll make a lot
12:51
more people rich while I work away and
12:54
slave away them and out to the ant farm
12:56
and back and out and back just non-stop
12:59
on that commute to make someone really
13:01
really rich and and I'll get that golden
13:04
dream ah the golden pot will be waiting
13:07
for me at the other rainbow ought to be
13:09
so great but now you're finding out that
13:11
was a lie and there is no golden pot at
13:13
the end of the rainbow there is no
13:14
pension and I found that out and a lot
13:17
of us are finding that out and the
13:18
American dream is just a great big
13:20
enormous lie and none of it's true what
13:23
if we said normal and normal and healthy
13:26
is if you are your optimum person you
13:29
have become all that you can be you have
13:32
become self-realized as Abraham Maslow
13:35
would have said you are a fully
13:37
self-realized human being that's healthy
13:40
but
13:42
do the two fit together can you be both
13:45
and the simple answer is no it's
13:47
impossible in this society because you
13:49
are born to be a wolf in a pack and this
13:52
society says you're going to be an ant
13:54
or a bee in a hive and those two are not
13:59
the same and being one means a being a
14:03
failure at the other and that's why I
14:06
was miserable and that's why I started
14:08
to become healthy and happy and
14:11
fulfilled when I started to live like a
14:15
wolf in a pack in a van and that's why
14:18
I'm teaching you everything I'm teaching
14:19
you the voyage of self-discovery leads
14:22
to a wolf living in a pack it doesn't
14:25
lead to an ant in an anthill it won't
14:28
lead that way it'll lead you completely
14:31
the opposite way of what you've been
14:33
told to live there was some part of me
14:36
in 1995 when I hit my own bottom said I
14:41
just haven't been willing to give up
14:43
myself to give up Who I am and what I am
14:46
supposed to become and so when I moved
14:48
into a van and started going to the
14:50
12-step meetings I was finally for the
14:53
very first time in my life equipped to
14:56
live fully out myself to fully discover
14:59
who I really was how I should really
15:02
live and be who I really am and until
15:06
that moment except as a very young man
15:09
there were times as a young man I I knew
15:11
what I who I was and what I wanted to be
15:13
and I stuffed them all and my friends
15:17
that's happened to you too as a young
15:19
person you knew who you were and what
15:22
you wanted to be sometimes we lose that
15:24
very early at 5:00 or 6:00 when we go to
15:27
call at school it's really beaten
15:29
hammered out of us there was a day when
15:31
it was literally beaten out of you and
15:33
it's still beaten out of you in a
15:35
figurative sense with notes to home and
15:37
meetings with the teacher and every
15:40
parent-teacher conference is an effort
15:42
to continue to beat out the wolf out of
15:46
you and conform you to be in an ANA and
15:50
it's gone on the whole time and some of
15:52
you are really totally miserable be
15:54
because of it and you're here that's why
15:57
you're listening to this video and all
15:59
the other bizarre videos that I make
16:02
there's some of you that is sick of
16:05
being an aunt and as going to be a wolf
16:08
my friends give in to the wolf give in
16:12
to the wolf now maybe you can't do it
16:14
today maybe you can't do it tomorrow
16:16
maybe you can't do it this year or next
16:17
year or five years from now embrace the
16:20
wolf in you today you can do that and I
16:23
hope that you're ready I hope that
16:25
you're you're willing to hear the cry of
16:29
your own heart I want to be a wolf I
16:32
don't want to be an ant be the wolf my
16:36
friends but it's not going to happen
16:38
immediately for a lot of you maybe you
16:39
can maybe you're in a position today
16:40
where you can just leave everything and
16:42
become the wolf I had to keep working
16:44
for eleven years and I had to support my
16:47
kids and pay the alimony and build up my
16:50
retirement and then when I had pay it
16:52
build up my retirement when my last son
16:55
turned 18 and moved out of the house I
16:57
could go live like a wolf and I did
16:59
immediately I wait I did I went out and
17:01
lived like a wolf to the very greatest
17:03
degree I could so I'm not saying you're
17:05
gonna have to drop everything and go
17:06
live like a wolf today you may not be
17:08
able to if the American dream is coming
17:10
true for you maybe you can be part time
17:14
wolf and a part time ant as long as you
17:16
follow your own dreams and become your
17:18
own self your own human being being what
17:21
you were made to be okay I'm gonna stop
17:24
there I hope you got something out of
17:25
this I hope you are inspired to be the
17:28
wolf and you will not be the ant to the
17:31
greatest degree possible today you will
17:33
be a wolf and not an ant and only you
17:36
know how much that can happen so folks
17:40
hoping we've got something out of this
17:41
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17:49
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17:52
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