If We're not Careful Chinese-Style Oppression Could Happen Here!

I think it's a good idea. I was joking around, but also being serious. Like what you were saying you could do for plants, why wouldn't you do it for yourself? Why wouldn't you? I mean... Self help. Everything is made up of things we can't see. Self love, right? Self love is the most important thing you can express. And I think... If you don't love yourself, why wouldn't you? That's where the breakdown in the chain is. You know, we're talking about, this whole podcast, we've been talking about trauma and pain and along that lifetime, what determines one person becoming a Joe Rogan or a Joey Diaz or even, you know, somebody who goes on to become a politician or doctor, whatever it is. What determines them going from that direction to people who are committing crimes? Yeah, for sure. There's something on a microscopic, cellular level that is determining these things. And self love is a tool to use to sort of, I think, help you put yourself on the trajectory of a positive life. Yeah. No, I agree. But I think it's just... It's hard for people to just change gears, right? It's hard for people who aren't healthy to be healthy. It's hard for people who don't eat well to eat well. It's hard for people who are kind of lazy to get their shit together and be disciplined. You're going to get tired, you know? And if you're that person that automatically seeks comfort and nothingness all the time anyway, it's going to be hard for you. Yeah, it's going to be really hard. Yeah. What are your reinforcements and what are you reinforcing? This is where I think events are very... There's amazing opportunity in events and this is a big event. What do you mean? Events, like this pandemic. Okay, I was thinking of like Bonnaroo. Terrible. I was. I was... South by Southwest. I miss, like, you know, events and going out. Oh, I get it. I see what you're saying, this pandemic. This moment in time where everything stops and we're like, okay. Like, have you watched any television since then and see people without masks and see people hugging and shaking hands? You go, ah, ah, right? Already. We've only been on lockdown for a month or so and already we freak out and we see people hold hands in movies. We see people kiss people they barely know. You're like, that bitch can have their coffee. It's changing behavior. Yeah, it's... It's that scary. It's weirding us out. It is scary because this is what I've been telling people first. This is what I've been telling people forever when it comes to places like China. People are like, I can't believe that China is this military dictatorship in 2020. Yeah, and if you're not careful, that could happen here. Oh, absolutely. That could happen anywhere. If you're lazy enough. But it's... Here's... We have to understand this. If it exists anywhere, it can exist here. And we get all complacent in this idea that that could never happen to us and we're too fucking smart. Do you know how many people are rethinking their thoughts on safety, on security, on guns, on the food chain, the food supply chain? People are rethinking just basic survival right now. Well, that's scary. Yeah. And it becomes that sort of desperation factor. And isn't this like we were talking about us being so comfortable? We're due for some shit. Well, this is it. I mean, this is the... We're due for some destruction. This is a trial run because this ain't shit compared to a big earthquake or... If an asteroid hits, like there's a big asteroid that's flying by, it's a mile wide, and it's going to fly by Earth soon. A mile wide. Do you know what a mile wide piece of rock from space would do if it hit us? It's a planet ender. I would think it would leave a dent or two. It's a planet ender. Everything's over. Maybe that's the silver lining. Maybe the silver lining is that we're getting a little bit of a taste of what a real, you know, more devastating global pandemic looks like. And that's going to be the deciding factor on our preparations for something in the future occurring. Yeah. They didn't know, but now they do. So now that they do, there better be plans in place for all those other possibilities, like those supervolcano, like the asteroid impacts. We better reintroduce the pandemic department and get those fuckers their job back. Well, we don't even know if they really went away. I mean, maybe they're morons. Let's be honest. We shouldn't even be talking about this. You know you're a moron. It is very accurate. I'm a fucking moron. You're a moron. I am a moron. We're all morons. I love you. You're a great moron. I love you too. But this is now we understand that the way things have been is not necessarily the way things always will be. Oh, definitely not. Things can get a whole lot weirder. So we should be fucking careful. We should be careful, but we should also be grateful. I think this is a silver, the silver lining hopefully will be us learning how to prepare a little bit more and, you know, not argue and debate over these stupid things that don't fucking matter. Right. But I think the reason why we're going on and on about stupid shit is because we didn't have something like this because life was too easy. Yeah. Well, shit, it's never good. Complacency breeds contempt, right? And that's on a global scale. I think it's familiarity. Oh, yeah. That as well. Complacency, what is it breed? Complacency, did I just make up a cliche? Complacency makes fat asses. And not the pH kind. Complacency is a dangerous thing. Does anybody say pH fat anymore? That's not real anymore, right? Fat? That was like I think that died in like the 90s. How dare it. Are we googling? It's just contempt is the first thing, failure. Failure. Complacency breeds mediocrity or contempt. Oh, interesting. So familiarity breeds contempt and complacency. Everything is breeding contempt. But we're familiar with our complacency. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we need to know what's important. And I think now we have a better sense of it. So the real question is whether or not we can learn because people are good at adjustments when they have to make adjustments. But then when they slide back, they get this sort of the thing we were talking about earlier where you don't want to look at all the possibilities because you will freak out, especially if you're doing edibles. Hell yeah. I've been staring away from the edibles. I mean, I have been doing the blunts. But I think people will change when their livelihood and survival is threatened. Yes. But will they change to protect themselves or will they change to adapt a new way of life to protect the greater good? Because I want to be on the earth of people who are protecting human race, not Bob Johnson. You know what I mean? Oh, not an individual. Right. Because then we're just back at square one. Well, if you look at the history of people, we're doing way better now than we were before, right? We keep doing – there's obviously been some peaks and valleys and some mistakes. And we're also aware that you can kind of navigate the future intelligently. And if you navigate the future intelligently, you make less and less mistakes. I think we just now have to reassess the nature of our momentum, the nature of the society that we're creating and what we're trying to do.