WEBVTT 00:00:27.659 --> 00:00:30.140 Hey, everybody. Welcome back. This is Food for 00:00:30.140 --> 00:00:33.039 Thought. Thoughts if it were you by Neogentrics. 00:00:33.780 --> 00:00:36.859 Now, there are a lot of things I would love to 00:00:36.859 --> 00:00:38.859 talk about. There's a lot of things I would love 00:00:38.859 --> 00:00:42.420 to cover. But before I can go into those topics, 00:00:42.500 --> 00:00:47.880 I feel like I need to cover something first. 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:54.979 And, you know, it's something that people are 00:00:54.979 --> 00:01:01.020 either aware of. Or they're not aware of. And 00:01:01.020 --> 00:01:05.599 it's sad that if you're not aware of it, you 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.260 know, that's one thing. It just means you haven't 00:01:08.260 --> 00:01:11.739 been taught. The other half of that is you've 00:01:11.739 --> 00:01:17.260 been told, beware of it, but you don't know when 00:01:17.260 --> 00:01:21.000 it hits you. So let's flip that over a second 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.760 for those who know, but then insistently do it. 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:29.599 You know. I don't know. I honestly don't know 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:34.239 what to tell you. And this thing is, we know 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:39.519 it as, well, how do I put this? People describe 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:43.439 it as stupidity in action. Some say that you're 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:47.359 being moronic. Some ask you if you have a brain 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.379 on your head, and if you do, do you know how 00:01:49.379 --> 00:01:53.879 to use it? And yes, while these idioms are... 00:01:54.480 --> 00:02:00.159 as they say, harsh, it brings up one small fact. 00:02:03.219 --> 00:02:07.459 Today's topic is on ignorance. The state or fact 00:02:07.459 --> 00:02:10.080 of being ignorant, the lack of knowledge, education, 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:19.379 and or awareness of certain things, okay? How 00:02:19.379 --> 00:02:25.930 do I, you know, much like a lot of people, Racism 00:02:25.930 --> 00:02:29.250 is an issue. I will cover racism at a later time. 00:02:31.270 --> 00:02:34.370 But what I'm saying is, the whole thing with 00:02:34.370 --> 00:02:39.490 racial issues, feminist issues, or any of those 00:02:39.490 --> 00:02:43.509 things in the first place is ignorance. Whether 00:02:43.509 --> 00:02:47.310 that group is right or wrong right now isn't 00:02:47.310 --> 00:02:51.189 the problem. It's the ignorance of the people 00:02:51.189 --> 00:02:55.389 who... randomly join these groups without looking 00:02:55.389 --> 00:02:57.750 into them finding out what they're about how 00:02:57.750 --> 00:03:01.710 they got started you know the whole black rights 00:03:01.710 --> 00:03:06.330 matter campaign for example you know a lot of 00:03:06.330 --> 00:03:09.250 people say that they're just you know there there's 00:03:09.250 --> 00:03:11.789 no reason for it it's people who are plaguing 00:03:11.789 --> 00:03:13.770 against racism even though they think racism 00:03:13.770 --> 00:03:17.110 is dead you know first off those accusations 00:03:17.110 --> 00:03:18.669 are ignorant because you don't know anything 00:03:18.669 --> 00:03:23.030 about the black rights group second There's another 00:03:23.030 --> 00:03:26.849 photon of ignorance in that group, in what I 00:03:26.849 --> 00:03:29.770 just said also, is that you think racism is dead. 00:03:32.069 --> 00:03:37.330 I hate to say this, but it's not. It's still 00:03:37.330 --> 00:03:41.449 very much there, very much alive, very much as 00:03:41.449 --> 00:03:45.210 deadly as it has always been. The problem that 00:03:45.210 --> 00:03:48.009 I'm addressing here basically is ignorance in 00:03:48.009 --> 00:03:54.699 itself. It's definitely an issue. And from a 00:03:54.699 --> 00:03:57.180 lot of different things, you know, I've put up 00:03:57.180 --> 00:03:59.639 many polls online and I had to ask, you know, 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:05.659 is ignorance a problem nowadays? Here's a couple 00:04:05.659 --> 00:04:08.960 of the replies, okay? Ignorance is definitely 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.280 an issue. I think there is more ignorance in 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.180 America than there are in any other place in 00:04:14.180 --> 00:04:16.279 the world when it comes to education and especially 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:21.550 war. The way we function and what life is revolved 00:04:21.550 --> 00:04:25.689 around has no morals or sense. Likewise in other 00:04:25.689 --> 00:04:28.290 countries, but other countries I feel aren't 00:04:28.290 --> 00:04:30.990 as bad. Most people do not consider other opinions 00:04:30.990 --> 00:04:34.110 or look at issues from other sides' points of 00:04:34.110 --> 00:04:37.930 view. And this is a larger issue because not 00:04:37.930 --> 00:04:40.589 everyone is 100 % right there. It needs to be 00:04:40.589 --> 00:04:44.569 some type of consideration. I like that comment. 00:04:45.129 --> 00:04:46.889 Another one was, there are so many different 00:04:46.889 --> 00:04:49.129 kinds of ignorance in the world today and it 00:04:49.129 --> 00:04:51.870 is really hindering us as a people. You know, 00:04:51.910 --> 00:04:54.529 for one, people are generally ignorant, meaning 00:04:54.529 --> 00:04:58.529 that they aren't aware or just don't know. Secondly, 00:04:58.670 --> 00:05:01.490 there is a willful amount of ignorance. And thirdly, 00:05:02.050 --> 00:05:06.269 one of the most common is willful ignorance, 00:05:06.430 --> 00:05:10.250 when people just don't want to know. So, with 00:05:10.250 --> 00:05:14.899 a couple of these responses... First things first, 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.620 let me tell you how the poll went. When I asked, 00:05:17.620 --> 00:05:19.660 is ignorance a problem today in the world, 95 00:05:19.660 --> 00:05:22.660 % of the people said yes and only 5 % said no. 00:05:23.220 --> 00:05:27.279 I only got one actual reply for the no, but it's 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:33.040 not relevant. Each one of these addressed the 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.699 same issue that, yes, ignorance is an issue today. 00:05:35.779 --> 00:05:39.220 One of the biggest ones that seems to be a topic 00:05:39.220 --> 00:05:44.519 thing here. is willful ignorance. People are 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:48.980 being ignorant of their own accord. And yes, 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:52.279 that is a big issue. The other side is people 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.660 just not knowing or just doing without thinking. 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.379 And as much as I hate to say it, black people 00:05:57.379 --> 00:06:02.040 are notorious for this. People look at them as 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:05.199 ignorant. They look at them as stupid. And the 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:08.379 sad thing is, they're not doing anything about 00:06:08.379 --> 00:06:12.420 it. The only time it seems like they are is when 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:14.300 they're fighting for their own rights, or at 00:06:14.300 --> 00:06:17.420 least they think they are, with the Black Rights 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:21.079 Matter movements. We shouldn't even need these 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:23.600 movements, is what I'm basically saying. Now, 00:06:23.620 --> 00:06:27.100 don't get me confused. If you're all for the 00:06:27.100 --> 00:06:29.699 movements, and you have a legit reason, then 00:06:29.699 --> 00:06:31.639 that's fine. The movements have their purposes, 00:06:31.819 --> 00:06:35.680 and I, you know, what's the word I was looking 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.689 for here? Commend them for their efforts. Say 00:06:39.689 --> 00:06:42.129 Martin Luther King. It is February after all. 00:06:42.810 --> 00:06:47.509 But that doesn't mean it's necessary. You see 00:06:47.509 --> 00:06:50.069 what I'm saying? So we're going to take a short 00:06:50.069 --> 00:06:54.110 break right here. And then we'll come back with 00:06:54.110 --> 00:06:57.449 our discussion. Just something to think about. 00:07:11.310 --> 00:07:15.569 And we're back. So, a lot of different things 00:07:15.569 --> 00:07:19.470 that happened. A lot of different topics, you 00:07:19.470 --> 00:07:22.310 know. A lot of different people have a lot of 00:07:22.310 --> 00:07:25.589 different issues, okay? I don't have any opinions 00:07:25.589 --> 00:07:27.649 towards different ethnic groups. Like I said 00:07:27.649 --> 00:07:30.529 before, I really don't care to talk about the 00:07:30.529 --> 00:07:33.029 LGBT community. I really don't care to talk about 00:07:33.029 --> 00:07:35.389 the feminist community. It doesn't have any concern 00:07:35.389 --> 00:07:38.949 to me, okay? It's not that I don't know anything 00:07:38.949 --> 00:07:41.829 about them. I just don't see a reason in talking 00:07:41.829 --> 00:07:44.610 about them. It's not relevant. Now, if someone 00:07:44.610 --> 00:07:46.370 was to request that on here, I would definitely 00:07:46.370 --> 00:07:49.230 talk about whatever I could, but I would only 00:07:49.230 --> 00:07:51.310 give information from what I know and looked 00:07:51.310 --> 00:07:53.850 up. I wouldn't give you guys stuff I don't know. 00:07:54.110 --> 00:07:56.250 This is an example of what I'm talking about. 00:07:58.310 --> 00:08:00.329 To talk about something you don't know about 00:08:00.329 --> 00:08:04.000 is ignorant. Because now you're just putting 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.139 yourself out there as a basic target. It's like 00:08:06.139 --> 00:08:07.939 putting a bullseye on your chest that says, just 00:08:07.939 --> 00:08:12.339 come and shoot me. A lot of people have a lot 00:08:12.339 --> 00:08:14.379 of issues related to different communities and 00:08:14.379 --> 00:08:18.060 whatnot. Scrolling through online, I found a 00:08:18.060 --> 00:08:20.220 person who had posted on a site saying that he 00:08:20.220 --> 00:08:24.060 was friends with somebody in which they always 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:28.329 disagree on pretty much everything. And one day 00:08:28.329 --> 00:08:30.889 while he was talking to another friend, his friend 00:08:30.889 --> 00:08:34.110 that he always seems to disagree with, told him 00:08:34.110 --> 00:08:37.970 that, you know, how he, you know, how he didn't 00:08:37.970 --> 00:08:40.750 like the LGBT community or whatever. And he basically 00:08:40.750 --> 00:08:43.210 always has something negative to say. Well, the 00:08:43.210 --> 00:08:45.450 boy basically gave him his piece and left it 00:08:45.450 --> 00:08:48.809 alone. Okay. Well, you're like, well, this doesn't 00:08:48.809 --> 00:08:50.490 seem like a big deal and it's probably not related 00:08:50.490 --> 00:08:52.690 to this topic. Now, here's where this gets interesting. 00:08:52.750 --> 00:08:55.470 Okay. Later on that night, while the boy was 00:08:55.470 --> 00:08:57.889 talking to someone else, his friend, you know, 00:08:57.889 --> 00:09:00.289 Mr. Negative or whatever you want to call him, 00:09:00.330 --> 00:09:05.309 told him that while he was scrolling on TV, he 00:09:05.309 --> 00:09:08.870 happened to land on the channel where two guys 00:09:08.870 --> 00:09:13.549 were having intercourse and immediately changed 00:09:13.549 --> 00:09:16.149 the channel. And he told him basically how disgusted 00:09:16.149 --> 00:09:21.649 he was from what he saw. Now, the boy replies 00:09:21.649 --> 00:09:25.700 back, he said, And I quote, I told him my piece 00:09:25.700 --> 00:09:28.200 about the LGBT community and told him never to 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:30.539 talk to me about this ever again or come near 00:09:30.539 --> 00:09:36.620 him. However, despite this, the guy, even when 00:09:36.620 --> 00:09:39.539 he got home and went to bed, still had the thought 00:09:39.539 --> 00:09:43.299 of what his friend told him on his mind. He had 00:09:43.299 --> 00:09:45.559 to think about it. Why was he grossed out by 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:47.159 something that almost everybody does in their 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:49.879 lifetime, have an intimate relationship with 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.320 someone else? You know, why was it more disturbing? 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.759 Was it because it was man on man? And then it 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.279 hit him. You know, the conclusion basically was 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:01.860 that he switched channels and was immediately 00:10:01.860 --> 00:10:03.740 disturbed by the image in front of him. It wasn't 00:10:03.740 --> 00:10:06.720 because it was gross. Not so much that it was 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:09.659 gross. It was because he was ignorant. And it's 00:10:09.659 --> 00:10:11.720 not in the sense that, you know, he didn't know 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.740 anything about LGBT. That's not necessarily, 00:10:15.019 --> 00:10:18.440 that wasn't necessarily the issue here. Okay. 00:10:19.529 --> 00:10:22.389 Let me give a little insight on that. The word 00:10:22.389 --> 00:10:24.929 gay is somehow still used as a negative term 00:10:24.929 --> 00:10:29.409 even here in the 21st century. And when men are 00:10:29.409 --> 00:10:31.730 feeling threatened or like their masculinity 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:36.129 is being basically questioned, they are called 00:10:36.129 --> 00:10:39.009 gay or lashed out by calling someone else gay 00:10:39.009 --> 00:10:43.250 in response. It's a connotation meaning, how 00:10:43.250 --> 00:10:49.519 do I put it? It's connotation. Meaning is not 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.559 respectful because ignorant people use the word 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:55.320 in a bad way. Same thing with black people as 00:10:55.320 --> 00:11:00.899 well. Sure, it dates back to times of slavery, 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:07.419 but the ignorance was there. A lot of people 00:11:07.419 --> 00:11:11.840 do this. We all deserve a life, to live life 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.860 in a way where we want to, and if people want 00:11:14.860 --> 00:11:19.100 to be ignorant, then fine. But that's their choice. 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:21.620 But should they, you know, also be chastised 00:11:21.620 --> 00:11:24.259 for that ignorance as well is another question. 00:11:26.419 --> 00:11:29.840 Now, where I'm going with this is basically this, 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:36.500 okay? We all face hardships, stereotypes, oppressions 00:11:36.500 --> 00:11:39.419 in some way. Everybody does. So does the other 00:11:39.419 --> 00:11:45.909 guy. Yet, despite that, you know, It continues 00:11:45.909 --> 00:11:48.549 to do the same thing to other people. We do the 00:11:48.549 --> 00:11:51.710 same thing to other people. We have to find a 00:11:51.710 --> 00:11:54.590 way to end that cycle. Accepting those people 00:11:54.590 --> 00:11:56.629 around us without judgment, regardless of the 00:11:56.629 --> 00:11:59.250 reason. Change the way the world has been for 00:11:59.250 --> 00:12:01.250 a thousand years, because in all honesty, we 00:12:01.250 --> 00:12:05.110 could do a hell of a lot better. Yet people choose 00:12:05.110 --> 00:12:11.070 not to. It's one thing to be ignorant and want 00:12:11.070 --> 00:12:14.059 to learn. It's another thing to... Be ignorant, 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.759 know you're ignorant, and then want to stay that 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.220 way. By definition of the word, you know, it's, 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.379 how do I put this? It's not fair to other people 00:12:25.379 --> 00:12:29.279 to go about judging other people for the way 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:32.340 they do things when you yourself don't have a 00:12:32.340 --> 00:12:36.700 clue at what's even going on. You know, I think 00:12:36.700 --> 00:12:38.720 it's fair to say that not everyone can be clever. 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.730 Okay, I should point out. You know, I'm not arrogantly 00:12:42.730 --> 00:12:44.870 saying that, you know, I'm a genius or whatever. 00:12:45.090 --> 00:12:49.570 However, it is just unforgivable in my eyes if 00:12:49.570 --> 00:12:51.450 someone goes through life with their eyes shut 00:12:51.450 --> 00:12:53.289 and doesn't make a conscious effort to learn 00:12:53.289 --> 00:12:55.570 about the world around them. Ignorance is about 00:12:55.570 --> 00:13:01.470 disability in oneself. Think about it like that. 00:13:02.250 --> 00:13:06.559 Let's use another example here. Ignorances about 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:10.080 disability, in my opinion, considering my story 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.899 personally, is the worst. It doesn't take no 00:13:12.899 --> 00:13:15.080 longer than 10 minutes to gain some kind of enlightenment 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:19.159 by reading a few articles or hearing what people 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:22.799 have to say. You cannot just pretend disabled 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:25.980 people do not exist, but unfortunately about 00:13:25.980 --> 00:13:31.259 half of society does. It's wrong. Now, like I 00:13:31.259 --> 00:13:34.019 said earlier, Not all ignorant people are bad. 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.620 A lot of ignorance stems from a lack of awareness. 00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:47.059 How do I put this? This can be basically attributed 00:13:47.059 --> 00:13:50.200 to many things, including hardly any disabled 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:53.539 faces in the mainstream media, no education in 00:13:53.539 --> 00:13:57.759 place to teach people about disability. You know, 00:13:57.779 --> 00:14:00.519 in all honesty, if I wasn't slightly disabled, 00:14:00.860 --> 00:14:04.360 I would also be probably blissfully ignorant 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.440 of everyone else. Not out of spider -laceness, 00:14:07.580 --> 00:14:09.720 but just because I wouldn't have had known any 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.320 different or, you know, no one would have told 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:31.610 me anything. Yeah. So there's that. Moving forward 00:14:31.610 --> 00:14:36.269 with everything that I'm saying, you know, if 00:14:36.269 --> 00:14:38.389 this lack of knowledge is a result of years of 00:14:38.389 --> 00:14:41.029 dumbing down of high school curriculums and families 00:14:41.029 --> 00:14:43.610 that don't talk to their children about the past, 00:14:43.730 --> 00:14:47.429 for one, there's another more pernicious kind 00:14:47.429 --> 00:14:50.250 of ignorance we basically confront today, okay? 00:14:51.090 --> 00:14:54.279 It is the product of years of ideology. ideological 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.779 and political polarization and the deliberate 00:14:56.779 --> 00:15:00.360 effort by the most fanatic, intolerable parties 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.559 in that conflict to manufacture more ignorance 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:06.340 by lying about many aspects of our history and 00:15:06.340 --> 00:15:09.240 even recent past. I mean, I recall being stunned 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.539 some years back when I read the majority of Americans 00:15:11.539 --> 00:15:15.480 told pollisters that Saddam Hussein was behind 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.919 September 11th's terrorist attacks. Okay, now 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:20.620 I knew better, but this is what they were telling 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:23.610 people. And it struck me as propaganda, feats 00:15:23.610 --> 00:15:26.269 surpassed by the worst authorized regimens of 00:15:26.269 --> 00:15:29.350 the past, many of which had to resort to labor 00:15:29.350 --> 00:15:31.610 camps and firing squads to force their people 00:15:31.610 --> 00:15:34.870 to believe some untruth without comparable success. 00:15:35.350 --> 00:15:38.730 Now, no doubt the internet and cable television 00:15:38.730 --> 00:15:40.950 have allowed various political and corporate 00:15:40.950 --> 00:15:43.269 interests to spread disinformation on a scale 00:15:43.269 --> 00:15:46.429 that was not even possible before, but to have 00:15:46.429 --> 00:15:50.000 it believed... requires a badly educated population 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.600 accustomed to verifying things they are told. 00:15:55.539 --> 00:16:00.500 Where else on earth would a president who rescued 00:16:00.500 --> 00:16:03.720 big banks from bankruptcies with taxpayers' money 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.480 and allowed the rest of us to lose $12 trillion 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:10.240 in investments, retirements, and home values 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:13.080 would be called a socialist? I mean, think about 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:17.000 that. In the past, if someone knew nothing and 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.500 talked nonsense, nobody paid attention to them. 00:16:20.419 --> 00:16:25.360 No more. No more of that. Now, such people are 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:29.460 courted, flattered by conversationalistic... 00:16:30.860 --> 00:16:34.679 politicians ideologues or as real americans you 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:36.820 know defending their country against big governments 00:16:36.820 --> 00:16:39.720 and educated liberal elites when the liberal 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.139 elites that are educated are the ones who actually 00:16:42.139 --> 00:16:47.179 created the country and helps it run the press 00:16:47.179 --> 00:16:50.019 interviews them and reports their opinions seriously 00:16:50.019 --> 00:16:52.740 without even pointing out the imbeciles of what 00:16:52.740 --> 00:16:55.679 you know for what they believe you know the hucksters 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.929 who manipulate them for the powerful financial 00:16:58.929 --> 00:17:01.350 interests know that they, you know, can be made 00:17:01.350 --> 00:17:04.769 to believe anything, you know, become the, because 00:17:04.769 --> 00:17:07.750 to the ignorant and, you know, the pagoded lies 00:17:07.750 --> 00:17:10.809 always sound better than the truth. You know, 00:17:10.829 --> 00:17:15.609 a couple of examples about this would be, you 00:17:15.609 --> 00:17:17.529 know, Christians are persecuted in this country. 00:17:18.089 --> 00:17:20.769 Uh, they're persecuted. They're persecuted in 00:17:20.769 --> 00:17:22.849 this country. Uh, the government is coming to 00:17:22.849 --> 00:17:25.490 get your guns. Uh, Obama is a Muslim. Global 00:17:25.490 --> 00:17:28.619 warning is a hoax. The president is forcing open 00:17:28.619 --> 00:17:32.559 homosexuality on the military. Schools push a 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.160 wide -wing agenda. Social Security is an entitlement, 00:17:36.259 --> 00:17:39.339 no different from welfare. Obama hates white 00:17:39.339 --> 00:17:43.500 people, though life on Earth is 10 ,000 years 00:17:43.500 --> 00:17:46.079 old and so is the universe and so on and so on 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:51.039 and so on. Now, hearing me say these things, 00:17:51.180 --> 00:17:56.509 some of them may or may not be true. I don't 00:17:56.509 --> 00:18:00.309 care. But just listening to them coming one after 00:18:00.309 --> 00:18:06.609 the other, it sounds like basically BS is all 00:18:06.609 --> 00:18:11.109 it is. You know, it's sad how many people out 00:18:11.109 --> 00:18:14.529 there believe this crap. They don't go look it 00:18:14.529 --> 00:18:17.269 up, and they just take whatever they hear by 00:18:17.269 --> 00:18:23.170 ear. The sad thing is this. You know, I find 00:18:23.170 --> 00:18:26.900 more go -getters. and people who find out more 00:18:26.900 --> 00:18:28.819 information and want to learn about the future 00:18:28.819 --> 00:18:33.160 in the gaming community than I do in real life. 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:36.160 If I was to bring up a game like Final Fantasy 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:39.700 XIV and I said one little thing out of line like, 00:18:39.819 --> 00:18:43.700 oh yeah, you know, Blue Mage is not supposed 00:18:43.700 --> 00:18:47.059 to be a DPS. It's supposed to be a tank because 00:18:47.059 --> 00:18:49.880 it's more powerful as a tank. I would be crucified. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.799 Reason is... The people know their stuff. They 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.079 look at it. They read it. They study it. They 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.660 have forums about it. They bait the companies 00:19:01.660 --> 00:19:05.200 for more lore. Why is it that the gaming community 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:07.539 is more well informed about their stuff and yet 00:19:07.539 --> 00:19:09.920 people don't have a clue about what's going on 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.920 around them? One could easily list many more 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:16.140 such commonplace delusions believed by Americans. 00:19:16.380 --> 00:19:19.880 They are kept in circulation by hundreds of right 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.079 -wing political and religious media outlets whose 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:25.519 function is to fabricate an alternate reality 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:29.400 for their viewers and their listeners. How do 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:34.299 I put this? Sidney Hook said it once, Stupidity 00:19:34.299 --> 00:19:36.720 is sometimes the greatest of historical forces. 00:19:37.019 --> 00:19:40.750 No doubt. No doubt in my mind. that she's 100 00:19:40.750 --> 00:19:44.670 % right with that. You know, it's like, how do 00:19:44.670 --> 00:19:48.809 I put this? No one's an idiot, but it feels like 00:19:48.809 --> 00:19:50.670 every day you go outside, the people you're walking 00:19:50.670 --> 00:19:53.170 with, it's like you might as well be wearing 00:19:53.170 --> 00:19:57.970 a shirt that says, I'm walking with stupid. You 00:19:57.970 --> 00:20:02.630 know, what we have in this country is the rebellion 00:20:02.630 --> 00:20:06.420 of dull minds against the intellect. That's why 00:20:06.420 --> 00:20:08.720 they love politicians who rail against teachers, 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.839 indoctrinating children against their parents' 00:20:10.940 --> 00:20:13.200 values, and resent the ones who show ability 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.599 to think seriously and independently. Despite 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.460 their bravado, these fools can always be counted 00:20:19.460 --> 00:20:21.819 on to vote against the self -interest and that. 00:20:22.259 --> 00:20:27.140 As far as I'm concerned is why millions are being 00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:31.859 spent to keep my fellow citizens ignorant. Okay? 00:20:32.660 --> 00:20:35.349 It was bad enough that they removed God from 00:20:35.349 --> 00:20:37.609 the churches, for whatever reason they did that, 00:20:37.730 --> 00:20:41.529 but the fact that punishing your kids now has 00:20:41.529 --> 00:20:46.950 become illegal and you can call up CPS and the 00:20:46.950 --> 00:20:48.990 kid can call CPS or the police on you if you 00:20:48.990 --> 00:20:54.109 attempt to, I'm not saying that I condone whippings 00:20:54.109 --> 00:20:57.269 and punishment of your children. What I'm saying 00:20:57.269 --> 00:21:00.049 is the fact that you can't even instill morals 00:21:00.049 --> 00:21:02.829 or teach your kids like you should without being 00:21:02.829 --> 00:21:05.779 thrown in jail is wrong. that in itself is also 00:21:05.779 --> 00:21:11.559 ignorant. You know? And they promote it. Ignorance 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.140 is a problem. We can fix it. We just have to 00:21:15.140 --> 00:21:21.640 choose to. You know, as Leo Tolstoy said, yet 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:23.940 in our world, everybody thinks of changing humanity 00:21:23.940 --> 00:21:26.519 and that nobody thinks of changing themselves. 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:30.460 Yes, we can change the world. We can improve 00:21:30.460 --> 00:21:34.599 our country. But who's going to improve? You! 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:45.660 Think about that. Think about that. And with 00:21:45.660 --> 00:21:48.259 that, that brings another podcast to a close. 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:51.119 Thank you guys for listening and even sticking 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.660 around for this rant, which is what it feels 00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:56.220 like more of than a podcast this one time around. 00:21:57.099 --> 00:22:00.700 But I digress. If there's any other topics you'd 00:22:00.700 --> 00:22:04.190 wish to hear, or things that you want... I have 00:22:04.190 --> 00:22:06.210 comments or concerns about, feel free to send 00:22:06.210 --> 00:22:08.349 me a message here on anchor .fm forward slash 00:22:08.349 --> 00:22:11.869 neogentrics or on my Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram 00:22:11.869 --> 00:22:15.190 page. Enjoy the rest of your day and be blessed.