Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Cashier Podcast, home of People, politics and popular culture. I'm your host, Austin Creed, and we're gonna talk a little bit about popular culture this morning. You know, you were listening to the morning show where we talk about motivational quotes we talked about just real life issues. And we try to get you motivated for the. Rest of your day. And my friends, I look around, you know, I'm my ear to the ground. I go to college still, I'm a veteran. I I I go. I know. I'm not trying to flex titles or nothing but. You know. It's very interesting to me. I've been sick the last couple days and so I've had more time to go on X and look at what people are saying. And it's unbelievable to me. I I I remembered why I never got on Twitter back in the day. And the reason I never did was because, you know, people are so annoying. By and large, and I hope you don't. I'm not talking about you personally, OK? I'm not saying that I don't like you personally. I'm not saying that I don't like any individual person. What I'm saying is most people are just. They're sheep. And that's why it's infuriating to deal with them. For too long, most people are just such normally oxygen thieves. Look, I'm a history buff. And being a history buff, I really enjoy learning about whether it's European history, African history, Asian history, Native American history. And when I look through a history, I notice a common trend of it to the victor go the spoils. We've gone from to the victors go the spoils to the victim goes to sympathy. And I look around in the world today and all I see are a bunch of victims. People are competing in the Oppression Olympics. Every single gosh, Dang day. And they sit around and they talk about how. I'm so pressed. My life is so hard and everybody should feel bad for me and my life. So meanwhile, they live in a first world country. They have every social service known to mankind. They have people fighting for them, whether it be the cops, military people, they can go to a hospital. They have all these first world privileges given to them and then they want to talk about how bad their life is and. How oppressed they are. Do you have any idea how much of an how privilege it is to have to? You're literally able to sit in an air conditioned or heated room. And you have the luxury of sitting down and thinking about all the things that you could, you know, that could be construed as a a slight against you, you know, not having your door broken into, not being arrested for, you know, questioning the government, not just being arrested for something you said. Next the other day. People don't realize how great how good they have it that they literally have to sit around and talk about how ohh someone said this to should be offended by that. Somebody, somebody, somebody hinted at that I think they I think they I think they wolf whistled and I think that that was offensive. I think I should be offended. In fact I'm gonna go and I'm gonna be offended and I'm gonna start something. See how stupid this is. Now don't get me wrong, I have sympathy for actual people who have actually suffered, not these fake suffering. You know what really gets me sick? I look at people, even on my college campus, for God's sakes. And people while I talk to me about PTSD and how they have PTSD from the stress of of school or. The the breakup that they had and I think to myself, I know people with actual PTSD, they've seen people get blown. The hell up. In Afghanistan? Ohh yeah, I've seen. I know, I know. People who actually have PTSD from washing. People get blown to smithereens watching people get shot watching the most horrific things that you could ever imagine. And so when people want to come, come to me and tell me they have PTSD because they're quote, boyfriend or girlfriend. Cause abusive or something I I don't. I I I'm sorry. I can't have sympathy for I for that. I look at that and I'm like. Look, I I'm going to acknowledge the fact that it probably bothered you, but it all goes back to this idea of acting like a victim because it pays. Now, you know the idea. How many people make a bag off of us suing somebody or saying that they got victimized by some random bull crap or something like that. It's unbelievable to me. Like I said, we've gone from to the victors. Go spoil to the victims. Go the sympathy. I'm not saying we shouldn't help people who actually are victims of actual heinous crimes. What I'm saying is because you, the court of public opinion, rewards people for being victims. Does not mean now that you shouldn't think of yourself as a victim to fit in or to get ahead, because let me tell you something. People only have so much sympathy if you think about being a victim is gonna get you ahead in life and you're gonna win. You're 100% false. Unless you've got one woman who sued McDonald's over hot coffee and made a bag. But what I'm saying is this. Participating in the Oppression Olympics. Is oxygen thieving material. It it, it will not get you ahead. We'll get you ahead as taking accountability for whether it's 10% or 100% and before somebody comes at me and saying that I'm victim blaming. First of all, that whole title is a complete missed notion and it all goes back to what I just said about accountability. Sure, if something bad happens to you that's not 100% in your fault, however. Whether it's 10 percent, 1%, you have something to do with everything that happens to you, whether you do it directly or it's a side effect of something that you didn't think all the way through, it makes no difference. Again, let's go back. This idea of the victim culture, I call it the oppressed Olympics, where people trip over themselves trying to prove how oppressed they are and how everybody should feel sorry for them. Look, there's big business in that as much as I cannot believe I can even I I even am admitting that. But it's unbelievable to me that people wanna get out here and talk about how bad their life is and how I feel sorry for them. Do you have any idea how many people I know who have actually been through horrible things? Who? Don't ask me for sympathy. They don't ask me to see them as a victim. They don't see themselves as a victim. The people who actually move through life like that are actually strong people, I am convinced. And you know what? I'll save that for another show. I'm getting a little too off topic here. And for those of you who? Don't who maybe are new to the channel and you haven't heard? You're you're kind of getting mad at me that I'm not staying directly on topic and I'm bouncing around. It's called a stream of consciousness. It's kind of a dead art. You know what? You know what I was thinking yesterday? I was thinking about how people might say that I ramble when I do my podcast episodes, and I thought to myself, I'm not rambling. Everything ties into what I said. It's all an extension. Just like if you look at a tree and every branch on that tree is an extension of the trunk. That's the exact same way that every episode of the show goes, because every Side Story, every example, every you know, little rabbit hole that I go down when I talk about this is is an extension of the overall theme. Which all comes down to the topic of the day or the topic of the show. So my friends, the reason why I want you to stop acting like a victim is because it. It may not seem like it's doing damage to you. In fact, you might even get some positive reinforcement from people when you act like a victim. It's very, very easy for people be like ohh, you poor thing. Ohh don't worry, I'm here for you. I wanna help you. All that kind of stuff. And you're you think that ohh I'm being rewarded for this. This is great. The problem is, that's actually not. Good long term because. When you put yourself in a certain position long enough, your mind will automatically default to that when you're rewarded for behaviors. Look a little side. No. Has anybody ever owned a? Pet like a dog. You notice how when dogs get treats for stuff that you do, they tend to repeat that behavior. Yeah, it's called positive reinforcement. The same thing happens with us as human beings. I know we like to pretend like we're not animals, but we are in case you didn't know it. And as animals, we are also subject to the effects of positive reinforcement. When you look at society and you look at people and how they're rewarded for classifying themselves as a victim, you ever notice that the people who do those things, they're the perpetual victim, they're always a victim of someone else's cruelty? Someone else's negligence? Someone else's. Injustice, like you ever notice that they're always victims? I've noticed that people who see themselves as victims, they will bend over backwards. To always be the victim in every situation which is and to some extent it's honestly impressive, because when I look at what people talk about, for example, when I look at when people discuss themselves as ohh, it's your fault this happened to me. I. Think to myself. Me and told me you had nothing to do with. What happened to you 0? What do you mean it's their fault? Didn't you make choices? Didn't you make certain choices leading up to what happened to you? The answer is yes. Again, like I said, whether it's 10 per cent or 100 per cent, there's always some element of accountability that must be taken. If if you want to grow as a human being and but when I look at people who are perpetual victims or as I like to call them professional victims, so sometimes. Some of them are making a bag off of being a victim, which I can't believe that that that actually happens. But nevertheless, when I look at these people. They want. They want to pretend like they're heroes, like they're brave. But they're victims. They want to be treated like they're brave heroes. But their victims, but yet they blame everybody around them for their problems, for their emotional states, for the effects that certain elements have on their life. And I never hear these people say, hey, you know what? Yeah, I'm. Yeah, you know, I I should have done this different or and going forward, I'm gonna do that. No, they always blame someone else and then it robs them of the ability to grow as an individual, as an individual. You must always be trying to grow, be better and improve. Because if you're not, you're going to stagnate as a person, and then before you know it, you're going to again go back into the victim of the Oppression Olympics and you're going to try to go for a gold medal. And very few people are going to tell you, hey, knock that crap off. You look ridiculous. Stop crying like a baby and stand up like a man. Stop being a wimp. Stop being pathetic. Stop being a a sniveling little girl and be a woman. You won't that tell you these things. Because it's about mental health and about your self esteem, most people don't have any sense of self to esteem. Let me repeat that in case you missed it, most people don't even have a sense of self to esteem in the 1st place and then they want to lecture me about self esteem. They don't even have a sense of self. They don't even know who they are. All they know is it's your fault. That's all they know. They don't know why they don't know how they don't know, even who they are. But then they're so sure that it's your fault. I cannot stand people who have have behavioral patterns like that. It makes me sick. I just don't want to be around them. I mean, they can do whatever the hell. They want they. Live in a free society, but let me tell you, if you hang around people like. That you will. Start to be exhibit the same behaviors. If you came to me and said, hey Austin, I want some advice from you and I don't know you that well. I'm gonna ask you who The Who are the three people you hang out with the most. And if you cannot give me a list of people that are going to positively affect your life. I know where you're going. If you tell me the top three people you consider the closest people in your life, I can tell you a who you are. And be where you're going, because really, that's the hot card to do. But when it, because if you're surrounded by victims. You're going to be a victim if you're surrounded by victors, you will eventually become a victor. That's how it works. You ever wonder why the people who are rich and successful? They don't hang out with bums, losers and nobodies even? No wonder why. That is answer because they don't want to associate with you and they want to associate with people who are the the like mind of them and they want to be around people who are going to complement their life and are going to make them stronger as people not make them want to strangle themselves because they like, hey, I know you talk about how knowing your life is. My friends, I want you to stop acting like a victim and start acting like a victor. Start behaving like a victor. It goes, but let me give you an example of what I'm talking about. If you smile for no reason, let let's say you're sitting down. Whether you're in your car, you're at work, you're at the crib, wherever you are. Just just start smiling. I'll do it right now. To start smiling, even if you don't feel happy, just start smiling right now. If you start smiling. You will immediately start to think of reasons as to why you should be smiling in the same way. If you start acting like you're a victor, you're on top of the world and everything is going your way. Then you're going to start having thoughts associated with that behavior, and then before you know it, you might actually accomplish something instead of getting a gold medal at the Oppression Olympics. My friends, this is a long winded. War that we fight called life. And we won't always win every battle. But I want you to remember. That your mind, the mindset is so important because everything starts with an idea and you are what you think about. If you think about lack limitation victimhood, then that's what you will become. That's what your life will consist of. Versus if you focus on being a victor, how you're going to prosper, how you're going to help someone today, how you're gonna create something today, then that is what you will have your mind be consumed with all day. It's those little things that will add up to monumental change in your life and I can't. I can't wait to hear the stories I because I know that I I know what I'm talking about. I do this every day. My friends, God bless you. God bless your families. God Bless America. We will make this the best day ever to stop acting like a victim. Start becoming a victor and do not. Go for the gold medal at the Oppression Olympics. I'm outta here. Take care.