the big idea that I have articulated and figured
out how to put words to over the past month is
something that I call the monopoly the monopoly
and It's something that I still haven't fully
Put words to yet. I still don't have a comprehensive
view on it, but it is At least there at least
I have words put to it instead of nothing like
I did before and this is some this is a concept
that I've been trying to or maybe not necessarily
trying to but I've been experiencing the effects
of for my entire life and I've always known something
was wrong with it and Before I get into the actual
explanation of the monopoly It all started with
me trying to ask a question of why do I relapse
and I'm talking about Most specifically about
this State of mind that's super desirable to
have and It's one that I was first exposed to
through a book called reality trans surfing but
it's also in like Probably every single religion
it's in like all probably every single Spiritual
practice it's it's a very universal concept and
it's the ability to Maintain composure in an
effortless flow state while being Mentally silent
and you experience a feeling of fulfillment and
satisfaction with life Now there still might
be hard times, but when you're in this state
of mind, everything turns out easier and everything
is better than it is when it's not. Like when
you're not in this state of mind, everything
is just unnecessarily more difficult. And usually,
or at least what I've heard and experienced is
that Is the individuals fault the individual
chooses not to experience that state of mind?
but I Know the effects of I know the benefits
of experiencing that state of mind and I've experienced
month -long periods of time in my life multiple
times where I would be in this state and those
are very enjoyable periods of time but then I
would always always always relapse and I've had
various theories over the time and I'm probably
gonna come up with more theories but for example
a theory that I had was that it's an addiction
like we are addicted to the not the good mindset
we're addicted to importance and we're addicted
to the factors that cause you not to experience
the good, the desirable, desirable mindset. But
I'd actually go a step further and I'm going
to go a step further in this episode of explain
why I think it's a lot more systematic than just
a mere addiction, a psychological addiction.
I think it's a more deeply rooted, systematic,
maybe yeah, oppression, but a systematic deeply
rooted systematic forces that are at play that
are trying or that are more there are deeply
rooted systematic forces at play in our lives
that lead to or make it easier to experience
not that state. Make it easier to experience
the negative state. Let's just call it the negative
state and the positive state to make things easy
to converse with. So the positive state is what
I described of how you experience effortless
flow and you're in like mental silence. you're
doing a good job controlling your internal dialogue
and the result of all of that is that you are
very a lot more fulfilled and satisfied with
life and things are more effortless and you don't
you're not as stressed you're not as You don't
experience suffering as much or at all. I don't
know but and it's certainly a spectrum too. It's
not like an on and off switch either but That's
called the positive state For let's just for
convenience sake and then the negative state
is when you're not in that state So when you're
in like the typical like stressed unfulfilled
uninspired Suffering state of our day -to -day
lives, which is normal in our society. That's
like the normal state the negative state So this
whole thing started with me asking myself, why
do I relapse like why is it? that I continuously
go back. It's like there's nothing I can do.
I always, always, always go back to the negative
state. Even though I know while I'm relapsing
that the positive state is desirable. Even though
I know how desirable it is and I consciously,
I literally, I've had experiences of when I was
falling into the negative state. After a couple
months of being in the positive state and I remember
there was one time where I was at the kitchen
table and I was like making food and I was like
really uneasy and I I could feel that that turmoil
in my internal dialogue and I could actually
I was observing it too and I was like Why am
I unhappy like I am being silent right now. Why
am I stressed? Like why is this happening? I
want to be in the positive state. But it just
seems like there's nothing I can do. It's like
a cycle. It's like I can only handle a couple
months at most of the positive state before I
regress back to the negative state as if it takes
effort to maintain the positive state. And so
after I was asking myself that question, I created,
I just articulated it in the form of an analogy.
the analogy took on the form of a bathtub. So
imagine you're sitting in a bathtub and the tap
is pouring pure fresh water into the bathtub
but there are holes on the side of the tub and
poison leaks through those holes. So eventually
you'll start to realize that Your bath water
has been contaminated and that you're so you're
sitting in filth and that you're basically suffering
Essentially that you are suffering and you that's
that represents the negative state to connect
it to the positive and the negative state When
there's poison in the bathtub that is a negative
state and this also shows the spectrum It's not
just a binary. It's you can have a little bit
of poison in the water You can have absolutely
no poison in the water or you can be in pure
poison. So it's a spectrum now there are there
are clogs and The only tools that I'm available
are the only tools that I know of are in order
to stop the poison is to literally just hold
my hand onto the hole and hold my hand there
and then wait for the poison to drain out of
the water and then the fresh water cycle back
in and then I get back to fresh water. So that's
like me entering the positive state. But then
eventually my hand will get tired because like
if you've ever tried to hold your hand up For
a long time or if you try to use any muscle for
a long time it gets tired Even if it's something
very simple like holding your hand up So eventually
your hand will get tired or you'll simply just
forget that your hand is there and you'll let
go now you won't immediately notice the negative
effects because they're small holes and the poison
is just trickling through. So it's not going
to immediately like all become poisoned immediately.
So you don't get the benefits of instant feedback,
which is one of the one important piece of mastery,
mastering of skill, instant feedback, or at least
very quick feedback. And so eventually after
your hand gets tired the poison will enter back
in and then you will essentially relapse back
into the non the negative state and so that analogy
kind of illustrates Why you do relapse now? Obviously,
this is an analogy that I made up So it's not
it's not the truth. It could point to the truth
but I don't know that for sure. So keep that
in mind. But basically I'm just using this analogy
to help me understand things. And so that's where
we're at. We're sitting in a bathtub that has
holes. And the only tools that I know of to stop
the hole, the poison, is to literally just hold
my hand there. So what's the solution? Because
this analogy is only useful if I use it to solve
the problem in real life of Me relapsing. Why
do I always relapse? The solution would be to
literally just get out of a bathtub and go live
your dang life Right, like you literally don't
have to live your life in a bathtub Like you
can literally just walk out of the bathtub and
go outside So that's the solution Now how does
that translate into real life? And I don't quite
know, but I've thought a lot about it. And it's
made me come up with this huge theory that I've
been trying to come up with my entire life, but
I've just now started to put into a framework.
And it's the monopoly. And what this theory is,
is that our entire society, our culture, our
society, which is an encompassing term to name
any society that is based on economic growth
in the form of money. And I'm still getting clear
about this definition, but for now this will
work. You can be in Literally any city in the
world With like a an economy that's based on
growth in the form of money and this is part
of Our society, so it's not just America. It's
not just New York City. It's America and New
York City and The UK and like It's literally
any city or any area. It does not matter what
country. OK? So this is just my definition, just
for clarity's sake. This is not like a dogmatic
thing, because definitions are useful to understand
each other. The essence of language is not truth.
It's more of just understanding each other's
ideas. So this is just the definition I'm using.
Are when I say our society or our culture I'm
pointing to any society in the world or in history
that is based on economic growth in the form
of money and that definition I'm not quite sure
if that's the best definition of what I'm trying
to point at but It's the best one that I can
think of right now And the reason why I say that
is because I mean for example money doesn't just
appear out of thin air you have to produce Or
you have to create value. And value doesn't just
appear out of thin air, because matter can't.
Like matter isn't destroyed or created. That's
one of our rules in our society, or in our laws
of nature. So you can't just like summon money
out of thin air. You have to create value. And
one perfect example is, well, there's a huge
forest out in the wilderness. And if you want
to create value in our economy, well, then you
can just cut down all those trees, process the
wood and create lumber and then sell that lumber.
And now you've added economic growth to our economy.
You've added money to the economy. You've generated
value. when in reality you haven't actually generated
anything, you just extracted value out of that
forest and inserted it into our economy. So that's
basically what I'm, that's like the definition
I'm using for our entire society, our culture.
Any culture in the world or history that operates
on similar principles. Now, here's where the
monopoly gets. Our society, Which is basically
pervasive like our society using that definition
is literally anywhere you go on the globe Like
maybe not not literally anywhere, but like 90
to 90 percent 99 percent of the globe has been
turned into our economy like the eight billion
people on this planet are mostly because of the
are mostly made possible due to our our culture,
our society. And the certain cultures that are
not a part of our society or not part of this
definition of our society is like certain hunter
-gatherer tribes or certain indigenous populations
and their original worldviews. For example, like
if you go out in nature, and hunt like let's
say you watch a wolf like a wolf go hunting for
food because he's hungry and he sneaks up on
a large pack of sheep it only kills one sheep
because that's all he needs at the time but our
society if our society was that wolf we would
kill the entire pack Massacre the entire pack
and bring it home so we can increase our population
or feed our own people and so that's But if you
look at many indigenous populations or like hunter
-gatherer populations which I Don't even know
they're probably the same thing even though a
lot of indigenous populations were agricultural
societies, but different to our society Because
they don't kill the entire pack. They only kill
what they need and they leave the rest alone
but we I mean if you just look at the world that
we live in we have Paved over like 90 % of our
own home because we can't leave the rest alone
and the that example of the where the wolf Hunting
a sheep is both a literal but also a metaphorical
comparison So yes, like we do kill more animals
than we need to kill But it's also a metaphorical
in the sense that you can apply that analogously
to any other example like we don't need to pave
over and produce like turn the world into concrete,
but that's what we're doing, because we kill
the entire pack of sheep. We can't stand all
the species that lived before that concrete,
like species of plants and insects and animals.
But that's just an example. So don't get too
caught up on that, because if you get caught
up on that little example, you're going to miss
the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that
our society, remember that definition, has a
monopoly. And now I'm using monopoly in a more
exhaustive sense of what it's normally used.
So a monopoly in our economy is like one company
is able to control the entire market share and
they're like the only company that provides that
specific product or service. So let's say like
only one company is selling all the oil. They
have stamped out all of their competitors so
now this one company can stock up the prices
on oil And so now we have to pay a lot more and
now we're suffering as a result That's a monopoly,
but I'm not using it in a in that in that very
insignificant sense because yeah monopolies are
bad But the fact that they're bad, and I'm saying
that it's insignificant in the sense that I'm
using it points to something Important here.
So a Monopoly if there's an oil monopoly, okay,
sure We have to pay more money on oil, but we
still have every other aspect of our life. That's
fine What I'm proposing is that our society has
an extensive monopoly over every single Perceived
and unperceived aspect of our life and what I
mean by that is because this is gonna this is
very hard to share because I don't fully understand
it, but I Just know in my bones so imagine there
was a world where the Nazis actually won the
world war and a couple hundred years passes and
they successfully exterminate every other Race
on the planet and it's just a planet full of
German white Christian humans There's no diversity
whatsoever. If a human being or when a human
being is born into a society like that, they
won't consciously know that being a Nazi is wrong
or that it's bad. And they won't be able to point
to anything wrong because they have never known
anything other than that. Because there is no
other thing other than that. The history has
been wiped out and there is no other knowledge
of anything else however They will know in their
bones that there is something wrong maybe not
everyone because in a world like that the conditioning
will be so strong to where People are become
so highly effective at lying to theirs themselves
That they actually don't realize that they're
lying to themselves anymore but there will be
some people who know in their bones and they
can just feel it and They hold on to that feeling
and they don't let it go So that's the point
that I'm articulating and by no means am I comparing
this world to a Nazi world I'm just sharing that
point because from our perspective Being a Nazi
is totally wrong. And so it's easy to see How
it's easy to see the the The error in the people's
belief who are raised in that world But it's
also easy or not. Maybe not easy from a lot of
people but you can also see how Maybe in a different
world like that. They wouldn't know anything
else. So most people would Wouldn't realize that
being a Nazi is wrong. So that's that's the reason
why I bring that up so that you can understand
how Kind of what I'm trying to get at because
we as a culture our society doesn't Know anything
else. We don't know what it's like to live as
a hunter -gatherer because that Way of life is
basically it's basically extinct. We don't know
what it's like to be in an original indigenous
population whether it's in like Africa or North
America or wherever it is. We don't know what
it's like to be in that because We've never experienced
it ourself and for the most part most people
don't Look into it So that's that's the comparison
that I'm making to the Nazi world So we don't
actually know what's wrong but and most people
will continue to lie to themselves Because they
don't realize that they're lying to themselves
because the conditioning is so effective So that's
why I think this is a monopoly there is an extensive
monopoly over the way that we live life in every
single aspect and I'll point to I'll point to
various examples in a little bit, but first of
all, I have to bring a preface. The preface is
that first of all, our society, first and foremost,
our society does not work. It just doesn't work
to fulfill the goals of it, or not necessarily
the goals, but it doesn't work to fulfill the
needs of a human being. And I'll point to...
rock hard solid evidence to back that up but
I'm only saying this because there's a huge tendency
in people to defend society because that's all
we know and society is intimately linked to our
survival because it has a monopoly on our survival
and I'll get to that in a little bit but first
we have to say that our society just doesn't
work. And I'm only saying this to get help you
open your mind to here without trying without
you trying to defend irrationally, because any
defending of this society is irrational. And
I'll say why there's a stat that I pulled up.
So I wanted to pull up a variety of different
essential things of what it means to be a human.
Maybe even what it means to be alive in general,
but especially what it means to be a human because
we tend to only know what it's like to be a human.
That could possibly be because of the society,
but I don't know. We're not going to get into
that right now. So there's a statistic. And I
wanted to pull up this statistic because there's
a few essential things to be effective. For a
system to be effective to the human and one essential
thing is for the human being to be able to preserve
their health So there's a common. It's common
knowledge that children are way healthier than
adults like yeah nowadays there's fat children,
but that's mostly because of the the system that
we live in but but like in a general sense and
now yeah, there's a Kate like there are like
occasional times where a child is born with disease
or Disabilities or whatever. I'm not pointing
to that. I'm pointing to in a general sense Children
are healthier Than adults healthier and more
fit like there's a common a common stereotype
of like the The child is running around and playing
with his dad and the dad is like huffing and
puffing and it can't keep up So that's what I'm
pointing to children are more are more healthy
than adults. So a system that works, and a system,
a society is a system, a system that works should
be able to preserve basic, at least on the bare
minimum, basic human needs. And one of them is
health and fitness. So. Humans should be able
to have health like that's one of the most fundamental
things of what it means to be alive Because if
you don't have your health, then you're dead.
So But there's a stat that is that says that
74 % of the population is overweight Overweight
is not healthy. So society failed to help people
preserve their basic right to health and fitness
If you're overweight, then you are not healthy
and that are not you. Because people get defensive
when when they hear that, especially overweight
people, because they interpret it as you as in
your character. But and oftentimes that is the
case because the person is unconsciously pointing
to that. But I'm pointing to your body. Your
body is unhealthy. Your body is unhealthy if
you lost your health and fitness, just by definition.
And that's what 74%, at least 74 % of our population
experiences. So that's one example of why our
society doesn't work. It failed to fulfill the
most basic human need of health. Yet people still
defend it. because it's tied to survival and
we'll get to that but the second stat is 77 %
of the working population is unfulfilled at work
77 % of people are not fulfilled with their work
and work is like the majority of your day It's
like the greater portion of your day It takes
up most of your energy like most people who go
to work They don't have enough energy to do anything
once they get home other than like sit around
and watch TV So work should be the most important
aspect of, or the work should be one of the most
crucial things that a society, a healthy society,
a society that works should be able to help its
citizens find a fundamental trait of well -being,
which is fulfillment in their work. But it obviously
failed to do that for at least 77 % of the population.
So those are just two statistics that show how
society doesn't work. And don't get too caught
up on those statistics either because if you
get too caught up in the details, then you're
gonna miss the big picture. So first of all,
society doesn't work. So just let your guard
down for, or not let your guard down, but listen
with an open mind without irrationally defending
it because it doesn't work. And I'm, and by work,
I'm assuming that I'm using the definition of
work. That means that it will be able to provide
on the bare minimum, the basic essentials of
human life or, and which are like at least health.
and fitness and fulfillment in your work. Those
are the bare minimum. There are hundreds of thousands
of other concepts like that. That's the bare
minimum. But my definition of society should
be a thriving. It should be able to provide a
thriving life and not just the bare minimum.
which kind of says something about our society
if we're contenting ourself with the bare minimum
definition, but whatever. All right, so moving
on. So people defend society, I think, because
it's an unconscious thing. They irrationally
defend it because it's connected to the survival
instinct. They're not actually defending it.
They're not actually defending survival. Defending
society they're defending themselves. They're
surviving. They are literally surviving when
they try to defend society Because our society
has a monopoly over our very survival Now let
me read let me Articulate a little further You
cannot become you cannot adopt the original lifestyle
that the human body was evolved to thrive under,
which is the hunter gatherer lifestyle and maybe
agricultural lifestyle if it's done right, which
our society is not done right. But there is no
possible way for the average person to adopt
the very role that their body has evolved to
optimize, or to allow them to survive. There's
no way to become a hunter -gatherer in our modern
society. That's just period. Like, that's obvious.
No one will argue against that. Now, however,
so that's just one point. That's not even the
most essential point. because it doesn't really
matter because no one knows what it's like to
be hunter -gatherer anyways. So it doesn't really
have much impact in people's life. But what does
have impact in people's life is you have to work
for money. You have to work in a job for money.
Or else you don't have money to buy food because
no one's going to feed you. I mean, yeah, the
government might feed you and give you food stamps,
but like that's... We're talking about mainstream
society if every single person if the mainstream
society was relying on food stamps Then they
would then our society would collapse within
like a couple Weeks or months. I don't know how
long but our society would collapse if if everyone
was relying on food stamps for their food without
money without working for So Our society has
a monopoly on survival because you have to work
for money and without money you can't buy food.
And here's where it gets interesting because
our system is based on the destruction of nature
or the extraction of resources from nature. Like
that example I gave you, economic growth does
not appear out of thin air. It has to be extracted
from something. I mean, our very own law of the
universe says that you can't create matter out
of nothing. It can't be destroyed or created.
So what we do is we extract it from nature. So
essentially, our society survives off of the
destruction of nature because without it, we
won't be able to sustain the way that we live.
And it's a whole different topic about talking
about whether it's sustainable to extract resources
from nature. But let's not even get into that
for now. But you have to essentially take part
in the destruction of nature in order to survive.
Because the majority of jobs, like literally
every job available to the average person, going
to be a job that further continues economic growth
and a job because that's by definition a job
furthers economic growth you are producing you
are producing you're producing by working and
so you further economic growth in an economy
that's based on the destruction of nature so
that means the majority of jobs are literally
destroying nature which also means that In order
to survive, you have to destroy nature. And this
is the monopoly on our survival. This is the
monopoly that our economy has on our survival
because you cannot survive off of anything else
other than destruction. A monopoly is when there's
only one product available or only one option
available. The only option for our survival that's
available is to continue the economic growth
and continue working within our society because
you cannot live a sustainable life in this society.
I mean you might, I mean sure you can but not
to the majority of people. Because if the majority
of people did a truly sustainable life, then
our society would collapse. That's just the case.
Because then there would be no people to continue
extracting resources from nature. And then there
would be no people to create more money. And
then there would be no more. It would just be
a total systematic collapse because then all
of the jobs Would go gone and then all the things
that need to be maintained like electricity all
the important things like nuclear power plants
all that stuff would just be like it would just
be Abandoned all right, so Basically the monopoly
is that we only have one option for our survival
and it's to continue destroying the world Which
is it could be a logical jump, but if it makes
you feel more comfortable the only option in
our survival for the average person is to work
within the system and That by very definition
means that you are furthering economic growth
in a system that's fundamentally based off of
destruction and extraction of nature. So that's
why there's a monopoly on survival. Survival
is one aspect of life. The most fundamental aspect,
of course, but it's just one aspect. And if our
society has a monopoly over our survival, well
then that is a very telling thing. Because you
can't go out and rely on yourself to survive.
If you were to up and leave without money within
our survival, you'll die because there's no food
to forage. There is no animals to kill, and especially
because it's illegal to do that in our society.
In like a city scape, which is the perspective
I'm talking from because I live in the city.
I don't even live in the greater city. I live
like in a suburb. or like a suburb right outside
the city, but more dense suburb. So that is the
first monopoly. And like I said, the monopoly
of society is a more extensive monopoly. So the
first aspect is monopoly over our survival, for
reasons I just said. And another aspect is monopoly
over our job. There is a monopoly over unfulfilling
jobs The only option available to the average
person in our society is an unfulfilling job
so literally our society has a monopoly over
the Jobs that are available and the work that
people do which mean and the only option that
our society provides are unfulfilling options
probably because they're based off the destruction
of nature, or more accurately based off of the
continue of an economy that is founded on the
destruction and extraction of resources of nature.
So basically, that's the second aspect of the
monopoly. Our society has a monopoly over the
work that we do. We only have one option, and
it's to do unfulfilling work. pointed at by the
statistic that 77 % of the population is unfulfilled
at their work. And that is obviously an inaccurate
statistic because that's just what people say
and not actually what they feel. So that statistic
could be way lower or it could be way higher.
We don't know. But that's one thing. Our society
is a monopoly over the work that we do also.
So those are two aspects of the monopoly. And
let's just go into a couple other aspects. So
one other aspect is our health. You cannot go
anywhere without touching something or experiencing
something or inhaling something or ingesting
something or whatever that is bad for your health.
If you have done any research into like the health,
nutrition, fitness, anything, then you'll know
that literally everywhere you look is harmful
for your health. I am sitting on a chair that
probably has... Notice saying that it causes
cancer I am touching the piano keyboard right
now that I remember reading in the label in the
instruction manual the warning label that it
literally causes cancer like and this is not
a uncommon thing my Alarm clock it's called a
hatch restore That would there is an actual warning
label not to have it too close to your body You
have to have it, they say you must have it at
least like 10 to 15 feet away from your body
at all times because it causes like damage or
something. Like literally everything in our world
causes damage to you which reduces your health.
So our monopoly or our society has a monopoly
over our health and the only option is an unhealthy
life. And that's just like. Small examples that
I pointed to bigger examples is the only work
of it like the only lifestyle that's available
to most people is a sedentary lifestyle like
most people sit in a chair all day most people
eat the junk food which wasn't even available
a thousand years ago and So those are two things
our lifestyle the man a society has a monopoly
over the our lifestyle we live a sedentary life
and there's no other option because the work
that we do is sedentary and the entertainment
that we have that we need to use to get some
sort of fulfillment or satisfaction because we've
been deprived from work, that entertainment is
also based off sedentary -ness, usually. And
then the food that's available, like I'm pretty
sure junk food is cheaper in our economy than
Healthy food. So that's another thing but also
like junk food is Like most people prefer junk
food just because it tastes better. So literally
our society has a monopoly over our health and
fitness because the only options available and
not just not because but and the only options
that the monopoly provides us are the unhealthy
options the sedentary lifestyle and the the junk
food options. And even if you do eat healthy,
you are still not perfectly healthy because of
pesticides, because of, even if you have a perfectly
healthy and you have enough money to spend on
the most optimal food, it's still grown in soil
that's been, that was just like, that has been,
Taken or that has been its nutrients extracted
from because our society likes to extract Resources
from nature. That's the very nature of the way
that we farm the way that we farm is that we
till the soil and put seeds and Put water there.
We take the water We extract the water from nearby
rivers or nearby water sources which track the
water so we can grow enough food in one spot
and then we Use chemicals which destroy the like
which kill literally kill insects so so that
we can extract So that we can create a environment
to have more food like that's literally extracting
resources from nature Now if you do manage to
have enough money to buy which is the minority
of people who actually have enough money But
also who choose to spend their money on that
the minority of people If you do have that, then
that's great. But that's kind of irrelevant to
this discussion because we're talking about the
mainstream society. But let's keep it in the
discussion because even if you do have that,
it's still not going to be as nutritious because
it was delivered to you. It was picked like a
week ago and it was delivered to you. Or it was
grown on land that was not fully... Doesn't have
as much nutrients as it did like 10 ,000 years
ago before we started stripping the soil of its
nutrients. So This is such a pervasive Monopoly
that it even takes over the lives of people who
try to escape from it So those are just a few
examples of an extensive Monopoly and we can
get into so many more examples if you want one
to ponder think about the example of spirituality
and I wouldn't bring this up because this is
such a foreign concept for the same reason that
I articulated of the Nazi world, how they wouldn't
even comprehend what it's like. They can't even
comprehend what it's like of other things because
they've never been exposed to it. They don't
even know anything about it. It's not even written
in their history. But ponder for a moment spirituality
and how There's a psychologist who said that
Humans grew like kids didn't have an internal
dialogue and so they have to Learn things by
speaking out loud that's essentially them Training
themselves to develop an internal dialogue, which
are all the thoughts from a gene in your mind
right now endlessly But essentially, the psychologist
said that there is a kid who, or not a kid, but
children in general, learn by saying things out
loud because they don't yet have an internal
dialogue. And that means that... And so when
they're learning in our culture, they are speaking
out loud so that they can train themselves and
eventually they'll internalize the internal dialogue
and cement it into their brain, which means that
eventually they'll have endless thoughts going
on a loop in their mind forever. Now if you ponder
that there are also like spiritual teachings
or esoteric knowledge, like also populations
of people who rely on or whose entire spiritual
system is founded on is The most fundamental
aspect is internal silence which means no internal
dialogue and that is something that literally
no one in our society can even ponder because
the majority of people experience an internal
dialogue and they can't even if they wanted to
turn it off they probably would not even succeed
for longer than half a second and that's because
of the way that our society created created that
so connecting this back to the monopoly just
ponder how there are monopolies that I explained
how are pretty obvious that we can see like the
health monopoly and the lifestyle sedentary and
the work monopoly maybe But there are also so
many things that we can't even comprehend because
we don't even know what we've lost. For the same
reason that people in the Nazi world, they grew
up. They're people just like you and me. They're
not inherently evil just like me and you are
not inherently evil, yet they don't know anything
else. They don't even know what they've lost.
So here, we don't even know what we've lost either.
One thing to ponder is what if we've lost our
very connection to what all the religions call
the spiritual world? because our society instills
a internal dialogue with us and in order to have
a connection to the spirit world you have to
have some degree of silence and now I've actually
had direct experience with this because I used
to not be able to shut off my internal dialogue
for longer than half a second. And over the course
of the years, I actually became better and better
and better and longer and longer and longer at
being silent. And I actually, I've gotten to
the point a couple of weeks ago where I was,
and like last night and this morning, I'm able
to see things that I wasn't able to see before
that are literally there, like they are actually
there. but I wasn't able to see them. They're
not there in the sense that like this pen in
front of me is here, but they are still there.
Like I'm able to perceive them and I'm not imagining
them because my imagination is very flimsy, to
say the least, and I'm not able to imagine things
like that. So just ponder for a moment that there
are some things that this monopoly has taken
away from us that we don't even know that we've
lost. And one example is our direct link to the
spiritual, and it's been replaced with faith,
which is inherent in like the majority of our
culture's religions. Now, this is where it gets
really curious, because that's an important point
that I just said. It has been replaced by faith.
Every single thing or I don't know about every
single one, but the far majority of our things
that we've lost Have been replaced by something
This is important. This is where this this is
where this theory gets really curious because
I'm gonna bring in another analogy Imagine or
like just just Picture the system of a factory
so not in any like negative connotation That's
not what's implied. We're just using an analogy
of a factory just for To increase our ability
to understand and comprehend what I'm trying
to say So a factory is a system that takes raw
whole materials and puts it through a system
A series of like steps to process it and turn
it into a product Okay, so that's that's what
the system of a factory is like it takes whole
ingredients and then Processes them to where
they're not whole anymore, but they turn into
a product That's usable Within or maybe not necessarily
within the system, but it's usable To something
Okay. So our society takes is like a factory
in the sense that it takes whole human beings.
And what I mean by whole is in the most holistic
sense that you and I can't even comprehend. One
material aspect of that holistic sense is healthy.
Health and fitness. Children are the healthiest
people on the planet and they're the most fit
human beings on the planet. Or at least they're
the closest to what they should be at according
to their age. And what I mean by that is like
a five year old child is closer to the ideal
fitness and health of a five year old than what
a 40 year old. Person is going to be because
a 40 year old person is fat and unhealthy And
they're they're way further away from what that
health they should be experiencing it is But
the five -year -old is not is way closer to that
ideal health of that age. So that's what I mean
by that so and That's okay. So our society takes
whole human beings in the most holistic sense.
One example, one aspect of that is health and
fitness. Another aspect is morality. I believe
that human beings are fundamentally just. They
fundamentally know what is right and wrong in
their heart. But it's not until later that Society
corrupts them and makes it so that we need laws,
but we'll get into that because that that goes
into what I'm trying to say. So that's another
example of morality, but also another example
of stuff that we can't even comprehend that we've
lost or things that we can't even comprehend
that are part of what it means to be a whole
human, which is the spiritual side of things,
which is connects to what I said before about
the internal dialogue and the connection with
the spiritual realm or whatever that thing that
I'm trying to talk about is. That is another
aspect of what it means to be whole. Having that
whole connected, being able to encompass all
of that. Perfect health, perfect connection with
spiritual, perfect morality. Not perfect, but
whole. I mean perfect in the sense of whole.
And obviously there are still mistakes that you
can make. Or whatever but like it's not perfect.
It's not perfect in like our society is connotation
of that It's whole whole as in like you exhibit
those traits Without it being degraded So going
back to the analogy our society is like a factory
where it takes whole human beings and puts it
through a system of Processing to create a product
And that product is a broken person, a broken
soul. So for example, it takes a whole child
and puts it in school and breaks it down, makes
it sit in a chair for hours, makes it listen
to a teacher so that it makes it raise its hand,
ask for permission to do things. So all that
stuff, it... starts to lose its health because
it's sitting down. It starts to lose its autonomy
and independence and ability to know between
right and wrong inherently because it has to
listen to a teacher to tell it. And we're training
it to do all these things. And that's one part
of the system. Another part of the system is
after school you go to work and that is also
a process of just degrading and well actually
here. Okay, let's let's back up a moment The
process that it takes that it puts the child
through is A process of taking away its wholeness
it loses its health Which is evident in just
open your eyes and look at the look at the health
of the people around you and It's also hard to
say because we don't even know what real health
looks like or feels like because we've never
experienced truly natural way to live but whatever
it the system takes away our wholeness whole
health whole spiritual whole morality whole relationships
whole anything whole every aspect it's a monopoly
so it it deals with every single aspect of life
and then It sees that the thing is broken. The
person is now broken. And so it offers a way
to fix it. It says, okay, you're broken now.
Like you're fat. Now go and work. Go and do some
work to fix it. So you're fat now. Now you have
to go to the gym and put in a lot of work. It's
really hard work. And you have to do that for
years. and then you'll be able to fix it. But
that substitute is so artificial compared to
what you lost in the first place, which was genuine
natural health. And that's one aspect. Remember,
it's a monopoly, so it doesn't only affect health.
It also affects work. It also affects spiritual.
So, okay, so you're broken. You're a broken soul
now, and you don't even realize that you're broken
because... We've gotten so good at lying to ourselves.
And it's a normal thing. The people in the Nazi
world wouldn't realize that they're broken, because
that's all they know. That's normal. And the
same thing here. We don't realize that we're
broken. Oh, so you're broken spiritually? All
right, take this religion. Take Christianity.
Take Islam. Take Judaism. Take Buddhism. Take
literally any religion, any spiritual practice.
anything so that you can do a lot of work read
the Bible put in a lot of work and fix it and
and as a result you lose a genuine whole authentic
great thing and it's replaced with an artificial
substitute called faith or called whatever So
that's another aspect of the monopoly and how
it's not just a monopoly of how it only gives
you one option. It's a monopoly in the sense
that it literally systematically whittles you
down in a incomprehensible way that no one can
even comprehend because we don't know any other
way of life. And after a while... it whittles
you down so much that you're so broken and you
are like, oh shoot, I gotta fix something. Please,
I need help. And then it tells you to go to the
gym. It tells you to read the Bible. It tells
you to have faith. It tells you to listen to
the law. It tells you to follow the rules. It
tells you to be a kind neighbor. All of this
stuff, it takes, and that's, like just the depth
of it. And it probably goes even deeper than
I can even comprehend right now. Like a month
ago, I didn't even have all of this stuff into
words. All right, so. Why does all this matter?
Why does it matter? Well, it matters because
I want to ensure that I am living a life that's
worthwhile. Because if you. Like, it's hard to
say objective, but if you take into mind the
whole system, well then there are certain, if
you consciously understand the system, then there
are certain ways of life that you'll just see
are lesser than what they could be. less fulfilling,
less healthy, less, literally, lesser on every
aspect. So I just want to make sure that I'm
living a life that's worthwhile. And I don't
know what that looks like, because for the same
reason that the Nazi world, like the person living
in the Nazi world wouldn't know what that would
look like either, but... That's the thing and
it's not this is not like a despair. This is
literally just it's I think it's a empowering
model to understand and So that is and this is
something important to me because this is something
I've always felt Like I've literally always felt
that there was something wrong. I didn't know
what was wrong I couldn't point to anything actually
I could point to things like but I didn't know
why like when I was a kid I used to come home
crying like Because of school like and just like
screaming and complaining of school. I didn't
know why I didn't know anything. I didn't know
why I was wrong I didn't know why it was wrong
for the same reason that a Nazi child who goes
to a Nazi school in that Nazi world They wouldn't
know what's wrong with it, but they would know
that it's wrong Like that's the same. It's it's
the same feeling I think Then again, I've never
been in a Nazi world, so I don't know what that
feels like. And maybe I'm being very delusional,
but I highly doubt that I'm being delusional,
because there's all the evidence points, or so
much evidence points to the contrary, especially
since we've evolved as humans and as a species
over the course of millions of years, and we're
not living that life anymore. We're not living
anything like that because of progress. We've
progressed past that. But that's also a key factor
in the indoctrination campaign. We think it's
progress. And I don't think it's progress when
every single aspect of our life has been degraded.
I think that's a retardation. I don't even know
how to use that word properly. But maybe that's
a derogatory term. But that's like whatever.
All right, so. This is, but I know that I'm still
missing something, but I just want, I'm actively
adding to this thing. There was something that
I was gonna say, and then I started looking at
my notes to move forward, but I don't know. Basically,
this is a very interesting concept or model to
me. Now, here, okay, Big topic change that I'm
about to have is I think that I'm probably done
with YouTube, or at least for a very long time,
because here, I'll explain why. I'll explain
why I'm done with YouTube, making YouTube videos.
And this also might be the last podcast episode,
but I haven't decided that yet. I'm done with
YouTube at the moment, at least. But I'm treating
it like I'm done forever. Because the reason
why I started self -improvement, or the reason
why I started improving my life, was because
society, like I explained, if you just follow
the normal path, which any child is gonna do
that, because that's human nature, is to trust
the people who are raising you. still developing,
you're still growing, so you have no other choice
to trust people because you can't provide for
yourself. So when you follow that path of what
society lays out for you, then you are going
to be broken, like how I explained. Except that
before I thought that it was, or no, except that
before, or no, here, over the course of the years
I started Originally, I started just focusing
on fitness, and then I started focusing on health,
and then education, and then spiritual stuff,
and then all that stuff. So over the course of
the years, it started that my self -improvement
started to become more and more comprehensive
over touching every aspect of my life. So the
way that I look at it is there's this big bubble,
and then it's called society, and then if you
stay in that bubble, then you... Going to lose
a lot of things like health fitness diet like
health fitness spiritual happiness fulfillment
a lot of that stuff So then you have to leave
the bubble or at least like you have to leave
the bubble and work to regain stuff that you
lost and The thing that I was I wanted to do
with YouTube was I wanted to be a teacher to
teach people how to do that to teach people not
only how to do that, but to teach people to do
that and to show that that is an option that
you can do. But then I realized that why, but
me doing that is perpetuating society and perpetuating
the system, which means that it's going to ensure
that the majority of people in the future are
going to continue to be stripped of their wholeness.
And then that means that only a minority are
going to actually want to do the effort, are
going to want to put in the effort and the work
to actually get some sense of wholeness back,
even though it's not the same, it's an artificial
substitute. Or a Band -Aid, actually. And so
I realized that that's what I was trying to do
on YouTube, try to teach people to do that, even
though that's not going to fix anything. It's
only gonna help a minority of people. And it's
really not gonna help myself either because it's
more like, I'm really, I was really more doing
that to feel fulfillment. Not to actually, that's
like, that was the primary. thing because I have
a huge deficit of fulfillment in my life because
the way that our society is set up, it makes
it so that we don't... by default feel fulfilled.
And so that means that, okay, this gets even
deeper. So our society is set up to, we are not
by default fulfilled. And a conventional wisdom
is that we have to try and we have to go search
for our fulfillment. We have to go earn our fulfillment.
And so that means that you will do work purely
based on the fulfillment and not actually based
on the benefit to the entire world or the species
and here's my evidence because a scientist who
Claims to be doing the work for the greater world
creates something called nuclear nuclear power
and That certainly helped in a sense to perpetuate
our society So that could be a his understanding
of helping. But he was mostly doing that for
him his own fulfillment because there was a deficit
in fulfillment. And here's how I know that because
the world does not actually benefit from nuclear
power. It does not because there is radiation
and like Tell that to the people who lived in
that town next to that nuclear power plant that
got destroyed. I don't remember what the town
is called, but it's an iconic town. And it's
a ghost town because it's all radioactive. You'll
die if you live there. So that does not help
the world at all. It doesn't help society. So
therefore, the things that you do, I think it's
a very dangerous thing to do things purely based
on fulfillment. Because that's what I was doing
I was doing purely based on fulfillment which
means that it's gonna perpetuate the system because
it the system Has zero takes away the default
fulfillment? Assuming that is a thing which I
don't know for the same reason that Nazis don't
know whatever but System takes away default fulfillment
says you have to go and work for your own fulfillment
and earn fulfillment which means that you are
still within the system and they're I don't know,
I'm getting asked. This is where I'm getting
to the boundary of where I've thought. I haven't
thought this as deep as this. So my logic is
starting to fall apart right now. But I think
there's something to that. how I was doing that
for fulfillment, when in reality, it's not going
to change anything. Me, even if I became a successful
YouTuber, it's not gonna change anything because
only a minority of people are going to want to
do the work to do it. To do that. And even if
everyone does the work, it's still going to maintain
the system because everyone is, that's all we're
gonna know. It's not going to change anything.
It's not going to fix anything, for real. It's
only going to help fulfill my own fulfillment,
or help me feel some sort of fulfillment. So
that's kind of where I'm at right now. I hope
all this makes sense. This is stuff that I've
been pondering for ages. So I don't know if it
really makes sense to other people, but I hope
it does. This is a very long episode. The last
thing that I want to bring to mind. is this concept
where dead ends are literally the best for coming
up with new ways of life, new ways to live, and
ideas. Like dead ends, if you embrace dead ends,
they are literally ways to change your life.
Here's one example. One major dead end in my
life was when I was wanting to make the high
school soccer team. and I tried out for freshman
year and sophomore year, and then I didn't make
it either time. So I really put in a lot of work
in junior year to try and make the high school
soccer team. And I got cut, or no, I didn't get
cut. I didn't even try out because I got injured
before that. So I wasn't even able to walk around
without like bending my knee. And as a result,
I didn't try out, which meant that I had a lot
of free time on my hand. And that's when I started
reading books. And that exposed me to new ideas
that completely changed the way that I live.
And right now, I'm in a dead end because I've
been trying for a long time to do YouTube, do
that YouTube. And in a more grand sense, I've
been trying to... a long time in different entrepreneurial
ventures for the past six years. But especially
for the past two years with U2, I've been trying
to do that. And now I realize that I actually
don't want to do that. And so that's leading
me to a dead end. Which opens me up to new ways
to live and new I and it exposes me to new ideas
and here's one one New Lifestyle I guess choice
like the lifestyle choice of when I didn't try
out for soccer was to start reading books Excuse
me another the lifestyle choice for now that
I was exposed to what is this tech is internal
silence and really just now I have firsthand
experience of just how valuable and important
that is. And it's even more important than I
can even comprehend, even though I've had some
experience with it. But I was exposed to trans
surfing like two or three years ago when I started
reading books. But it's all about silence throughout
the day. But it doesn't really necessarily show
you anything in the same way that that you can
see things in front of you like I can see The
microphone that I'm holding in my hand right
now. I can see the journal being silent throughout
the day in your mind like turning off your internal
dialogue being silent is Beneficial and I've
definitely Experienced benefits, but it wasn't
a conscious thing that I could point to it was
more of like a subtle understanding for a very
long time, until recently when I was exposed
to certain ideas and certain technologies, I
guess, or like lines of thought, where I was
actually able to follow a procedure or follow
a technique called Darkroom. If you're interested,
you can look up the Carlos Castaneda, I think
it's called Arshash Castaneda Reddit. And just
do dark room. And if you practice that a lot,
you'll be able to literally see the benefits
of mental silence. Not just like the benefits
of being able to make more effective choices
in your life, but the benefits of what you can
literally see of how it opens up another world
to you. So that's the lifestyle thing that was
exposed to me. Now I have that knowledge and
I can, I see that. And then the big idea that
I was exposed to is just the monopoly, what I
explained this whole time. Like this was a huge
idea. This is a huge, very important idea that
could alter the trajectory of my life. So that
is that. So that's the whole spiel. And if you're
wondering why, how I'm able to come up with huge.
Like extensive well thought out or maybe not
well thought out I have no idea but just like
lots of very big ideas and models and discoveries
every month it's especially true because I have
a lot of time on my hands right now because I
got injured and I'm literally all I'm doing is
just reading and Studying Spanish. I'm learning
Spanish So that's literally all that's literally
my day That's what I've been doing for the past
couple days because I majored in the past couple
weeks and months actually. Or whatever. But that's
it. That's the end of the thing. Have a good
day. See ya. Peace.