Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheered podcast.
I'm your host, Austin Kuried and my friends.
I'm actually back in the town I grew up in.
Back for my best friend's wedding.
And what's interesting to me, my friends, is I don't know how many of you can relate
to this, but there was a book I've been listening to and I heard about a long time ago called
the importance of living by a Chinese man named Len Yu Tang.
Now as a obscure book, I'd be a little too esoteric for a lot of people, but for me when
I first started to read this man, he kind of brought the yin and yang together for me.
He basically described the human existence as bringing the soul and the body together.
He basically said that the happiest moments of one's life did not consist of necessarily
the great successes that they aspired to, but it consisted of getting your hair cut
every two weeks and watching your neighbor fall off the roof.
Getting a water cutting a watermelon on a hot sunny day, running a fly or a wasp out
of the room, stuff like that.
And his argument was that while we have higher aspirations, we're basically monkeys.
You might be asking yourself, Austin, what in the hell are we talking about today?
Why are you bringing this up?
Well, my friends, despite my cynical nature, despite the fact that I'm sitting here looking
over the Silicon Valley area, the outstretched hills right in front of me, people going about
their day while I'm sitting up here on the mountain side looking down, almost like an
outsider looking in, it's important that despite the fact that we all go through intense struggles,
hardships, pain and suffering, it's important that we remember what it is that we're here
for.
We remember that there is beauty to be found in this world, despite the fact that a lot
of people are miserable, despite the fact that people don't live up to the expectations
we have, despite the fact that we're disappointed all too often.
It's so important that we remember that there is beauty to be found in nature and in looking
around and seeing the world around us.
I mentioned before that my best friend, he's getting married.
I'm not in my whole life.
And while I have my skeptical sides of marriage, I'm not completely sure that, you know, this
is for everybody or if anything, it's something that people shouldn't do.
In most instances, there is beauty to be found in it.
And because there's beauty to be found in it, it's important that we don't.
We don't lose friends who think differently than us.
I mean, don't get it twisted.
I'm not going to sit up here and tell you that marriage is a good idea because I don't
think it is.
But what I will tell you is there is a certain magic to people who at least at face value,
they seem like they're in love and they seem like they're trying to build something special.
Now that being said, I can hear either, I don't know, I can hear it in my own head.
Maybe it's your cynicism or maybe it's mine, but I can hear it.
And it's saying that Austin, what are you talking about?
We all know it's not real.
We know that it's just based off of a symbiotic relationship.
We know that even if it's lasting right now, it won't last forever.
And you know what?
Whether that's your cynicism talking or mine, I see where you're coming from.
I really do.
And that's why I think it's all the more important for us to understand the animalistic
nature of man and for us to soak in the beauty of nature and to understand our own roots.
Part of the show, I would argue the main focus of the show that you're listening to is to
understand how you're being exploited, understand where, how, by whom, etc.
And oftentimes the worst trickster is ourselves because we choose to believe the things we
want to believe and we cast aside that which we wish to not be true or that doesn't align
with what we were taught as children.
And all too often, this is what we deal with.
This is the reality we live in.
And my friends, I want to remind you that if that's the way you operate, you're not
alone.
And more than anything else, I would encourage you to put your cynicism to the test.
All of us have experienced pain, suffering, were jaded, were unhappy, were skeptical.
All these things are naturally part of the human condition, but we should not overlook
the beauty around us.
As I said, I'm sitting on a hillside right now looking at the trees, looking at the people
going about their day.
There's beauty in that.
There's beauty in feeling like an outsider, outsider looking inside.
Because that will make no mistake about it.
If you listen to the show, you are an outsider.
If you were an insider, you'd be out there taking the normal approach of parroting all
the ideas put on social media, put out by the politicians, put out by all these people.
You would be parroting to say in propaganda that everybody else is if you were an insider,
but you're not.
Because if you were, you would turn to show off already to esoteric to on the nose of
the problems and you would have turned off.
But the fact of the matter is, you're still listening.
And the reason you're listening is because your soul is searching for something.
Even if you're a lot older than me, I'm in my 20s.
Even if you're a lot older than me, your soul is similar to mine and that you want more
out of life.
You want to understand the mysteries of the universe.
You want to understand why you exist, why you live in the world you live in and to understand
how it operates so you can get what you want out of this life.
Because make no mistake, we all have wants.
We all have desires and even if they seem natural, a lot of them are based off of a
fantasy that is not real.
A lot of them are based enrooted in ideas that are not your own that were conscripted
by men who are far wealthier and far more devious than you can imagine.
Case in point guys like in my opinion Walt Disney and his cohorts who put out the idea
that, oh, you can have true love.
I don't believe in true love.
I believe that people have wants and desires and as long as you are the best option, you
can trust people's own self-interest.
Because unless you're psychotic, you're going to always put your own self-interest at the
forefront of your mind.
But despite my own cynicism or maybe they hear yours talking, I can't tell.
Sometimes it's hard to tell.
But maybe I'm just so cynical that I think you're cynical as much as I am.
Who knows, could be, could not be.
But all I know for sure is the more I've traveled, whether it's going back to old places, getting
to know new places, the more I realize that human beings are really not that complicated
or different.
They're just different flavors of the same ice cream.
They're all the same ice cream store.
All have similar base ingredients, but there are slight subtle differences that can add
up over time and make it seem like it's gelatin or seem like it's something completely different
when it's just ice cream.
It's still the same thing.
We as human beings are not as complicated as we think.
There's a lot of money that is made off of dividing us and that's one of the ways you're
exploited is hating your neighbor when in fact your neighbor is probably 90% similar to you
if not more.
You just don't know it.
Even if you're a flaming liberal or a rock hard, ribbed conservative and your neighbor
is the opposite of you, you have more in common than you think.
Whether your neighbor is a different race than you, it has a different religion than
you or has no religion at all or whatever it may be, they're more similar than you
might imagine.
And on our journey to understand the world and to understand who is exploiting us, why
and for what reason, it's important for us to not miss the forest for the trees.
I'm looking out amongst the great oak trees, the great redwood trees of California, which
are some of the most beautiful trees you'll ever find in the world.
Amazing.
It's about not losing the forest for the trees, not getting hung up on little things, even
if they seem like mountains, maybe they are just molehills in disguise.
It's important for us to understand what it is we're dealing with to find a solution,
whether it's you want to be rich, or you want to have consistent access to sex.
I don't care what it is.
We all have desires, and a lot of our life is spent on trying to figure out how to get
those things, oftentimes feeling powerless or like passengers in our own life, our own
bodies.
My friends, I would encourage you if you're in that situation.
I've been there more times than I care to remember, despite my young age.
I don't feel young, by the way.
I feel like I've been alive for a thousand years already.
A man like me should live a thousand years.
You might say it's egotistical, but I say you're wrong, because there's so much in
the world to learn.
There's so much out there to discover and to understand the purpose of life.
A lot of people want to just say the purpose of life is to throw yourself into your religion,
or whatnot.
I think there's more to it than that.
I really do.
Despite the fact that I hold beliefs from both Judaism and Christianity, I don't limit
myself to just one understanding of the world, because there is no single understanding of
the world in my opinion.
And when it comes down to it, my friends, we need to appreciate the beauty of life.
We need to appreciate the moments we have that are joyful.
I'll be honest with you.
I'm not a naturally happy person.
You can probably you probably picked up on that really quickly if you're observant,
but I would care to wager that you are either because if you were, you'd be listening to
you'd probably be smoking weed or you'd be drinking already, or you'd be doing some
drugs or whatever to try to chase that pleasure instead of trying to chase understanding and
knowledge and wisdom and enlightenment.
That's the end goal.
Not necessarily the Buddhist form of enlightenment per se.
Enlightenment is the ability to not just understand things, but to integrate them into your life,
to understand why the world operates and to then seamlessly go with it.
Always keeping your mind open to uncomfortable realities that you don't enjoy.
You don't like you don't want, but they are there nonetheless.
And therefore you must make do.
You must understand them.
You don't resist reality.
You embrace it.
You harness it like a cowboy lassoing a dairy cow to pull him across the range.
That's what you must do if you want to succeed in this life.
And that's in the opinion of a young man like myself.
That's what I've found to be true.
You might disagree.
But when I look out the beauty of life, I look at the excitement in my best friend's
eyes as he's about to get married.
It's one of those things that it it helps to show me that there is tremendous beauty
even in things that I may not understand.
I believe there is beauty in institutions such as marriage.
The problem is it's been so subverted by the politicians, by the religious leaders and
by philosophers.
And I really think it's something that is it's sad, truly.
But the end of the day, it makes no difference whether I like it or not.
What makes a difference is whether it's happening and how we respond to it because that's what
we control.
We can't control what people in power do.
We can't control what the people with money decide to do with their money.
We can't control is how we respond and how we adapt to the environment we find ourselves
in.
And it's all about appreciating the little beauty here and there in the world because
while the world might be collapsing or in the eyes of many, it already has or its arm
in decline.
So look to the things that are eternal are going to outlive us that will help you keep
your mind grounded.
There's a tree here in this town that I grew up in called Murphy's Oak Tree.
It's been around since the 1760s, I believe.
And so it's been around longer than the United States has as a country.
And when I look at a tree like that and I look at how it stood there, despite all of
the chaos, despite all of the changes, how Native American children probably once planted
this tree and looked over this tree while I stand here as a man of European descent.
And I look at this tree hundreds of years later, hundreds of years later, I touch the
tree and I say this tree is outlived so many so many tumultuous, tumultuous times, so many
difficult situations and wars and cold and conquering and pillaging and and building
and tearing down and everything.
And it's outlived at all.
It stood firm in its ability to survive.
And I know a lot of you have done the same, despite that you probably haven't lived hundreds
of years.
And if you have, please tell me your secret.
Please call me.
Please comment.
I love to know your secret.
How you've lived hundreds of years.
But my friends, I tell you this to encourage you to not lose hope in that hope can be dangerous
if given too high a dose, but to understand what is causing you to feel the way you're
feeling.
And oftentimes it's the monkey within every man, within every woman that is clinging in
symbols, distracting you and preventing you from being streamlined and working in unison
with the spirit that resides within every person in my estimation, in my reading of human
psychology, human history, human religion, all of it ties to a single point, which is
that there is more to the human than just the sometimes hairless, often some is very
hairy human form.
My friends, you let me know how you appreciate nature, how you get in touch with the primal
primitive, amelistic nature of man and how you use it to catapult yourself forward and
keep grounded like that oak tree that I was talking about that's been around since the
1760s.
How do you do it?
My friends who listen to the show, how do you keep yourself grounded when everyone around
you is losing their heads and blaming it on you?
If you can keep the common touch while walking amongst kings, then you will be a man, my son.
That's what Roger Kipling said.
And many people are losing their heads and blaming it on all of us, especially us guys
who are quote red pill, manosphere or migthau, they're blaming it on us.
While we sit here like the stoics that we most likely have become do tremendous discipline
and sacrifice.
And we sit here and we look at the world as the heroes of our time or playing their fiddles
and the roam is burning.
How do we keep ourselves stable?
How do you do it?
Let me know in the comments below.
My friends to carry yourselves.
Enjoy today.
Enjoy this weekend.
Do something nice for yourself.
Go for a walk in nature.
Hug a tree.
Be like the hippies that used to be somewhat liberal and now they're just communists.
You have the birds in the background.
I hope you do.
Because this is how you keep yourself grounded in nature as you remember the primitive side
of man.
My friends to carry yourselves.
I'm out of here.
I got to go get some matcha.
I got to go get some work done.
Take care of yourselves.
I appreciate all of you very much and I hope that this wasn't too esoteric.
This wasn't too insular and that you understood where I was coming from and that this resonated
on your soul and that this will cultivate a very tough line of questioning that will
lead you to another step closer to enlightenment.
Take care of yourselves.
I'm out.
Bye.