Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 654: Solooooo

Episode Date: December 8, 2024

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Greetings to you, my friends. It's me, Duncan. This is the Duncan Trezl Family Hour. Hello. I want to say a big thank you. A lot of you have been sending me really sweet messages telling me you enjoy these solo episodes, and that makes me feel great because I feel a little insecure about doing them. I mean, who the fuck do I think I am?

And it occurred to me in the middle of the night when I woke up after a really bad dream that I should maybe, and I know I don't think I should do this for every single one, but maybe point out how a lot of the things I'm talking about on these solo episodes are clearly not fully developed ideas, but more of a way that I'm trying to, in my own mind, work out ideas that I have. Because every once in a while I just get some idea that I want to explore. I've got methods of doing that that are evolving. This is one of them.

Also, I like sharing the ideas with you guys because your responses help develop the ideas, point me in new directions. And then I interact with chat GPT a lot when I come up with an idea and I'm trying to make them a little bit more organized because I recognize that I inevitably go off on a tangent and sometimes that tangent never returns to the original idea. So I'm working on that. I don't want to be hyper organized, but also it would be, I think it probably feel better if the things were slightly more structured. Bottom line, thank you for being part of my rambling attempt, my stumbling towards some truth or realizing whatever my dumb idea was, was actually just a dumb idea and there's

nothing there at all. Which to me is a delight that I feel like people have sort of Unfortunately failed to recognize Its double failure Failure in trying to like propose some new idea or failure and putting your ass on the line And then turn it turns out you're wrong. It's not really failure you're your failure is helping all of us succeed by realizing you are totally fucking off. And I think the most classic example of that that I'm seeing right now on the internet

is, and I doubt we could show this because it's definitely like IP violation, but please check out, there's an incredible clip floating around of that guy, Sink, is that his name from the Young Turks? Sink, Unger or something? And you all probably have heard of Alan Lichtman. Alan Lichtman, if you watch the William Montgomery episode, you know William has already had tension with Lichtman. Alan Lichtman is the originator of the keys that predict the election.

And Lichtman was wrong this time. And there's just, you know, as we're watching the sideshow of politics, as probably every single one of you must be to some degree. If you're not, God bless you, congratulations. But one of the things that is happening is these sort of leftist spokespeople, the priest class of the left, and there's a priest class in the right too. I'm not trying to be partisan here. They're falling on themselves.

They're attacking themselves and I guess Lichtman Thought of himself as a sort of untouchable guru of the left like Impenetrable that's not the right word. He's probably penetrable. I'm We all are In a trouble but uh sort of you weren't supposed to challenge Lickman because he actually did predict a bunch of elections. I think he predicted that Trump would win. And so not in this one, but because of his predictions were always accurate. Whenever he called it, people freaked out because for sure they're going to win.

And that. Could theoretically produce a sort of complacency in the inency in the party that was predicted to win. And so this is an incredible clip. Maybe we can show. I don't know the rules, man. I got to figure this. I don't care. Can you look up Sink, C-E-N-K versus Lichtman, Piers Morgan? It's crazy to watch. I think I've seen other podcasts, they'll show a little bit of it, and then you could just hear the audio or something. Is this it?

Yeah. This is crazy to watch. And this is from Fox News, they've broken it down. Let's just watch the clip and I don't know, we'll figure out what happens if I get in trouble. Geez. You have to watch the commercial too. Oh yeah, we'll let you.

Like on the Fox you can't fucking skip motherfucker. You're gonna watch this new series. It's an all new epic series coming out. The Saints, Martin Scorsese. What the fuck? Fox Nation! There you go. I debated Professor Lichtman before. I told him his theories about the keys were absurd. I was right. He was wrong I said he'd lose his keys

No, you were not right and I was not wrong and that's a cheap shot and I won't stand for it Well, who won brother? You should not be taking cheap shots at me Who won? You live in a total world of denial I read your own followers comments You don't know anything You're so deluded I read your own Nerd fight You got it wrong. You were preposterously and stupidly wrong. So I will not sit here and stand for personal attacks, for blasphemy against me. Blasphemy?

You don't need to do that. You don't blasphemy against you. What the hell are you? Are you Jesus Christ? Okay, you could stop it. That is incredible. Now, there is a, my, like, in psychology, there's something called leaking and it's really interesting and all of us do it It's where you accidentally reveal the thing that you think about yourself that you never wanted anyone to know and that's a case of leaking Lichtman leaked that in the term blasphemy That he considers himself to be you know when I think term blasphemy, that he considers himself to be, when I think of blasphemy, most people in general,

like imagine divinity, sainthood, a kind of mystical position, a shamanic sort of political position. And when Lichtman says blasphemy, that means he thinks of himself as something that can be blasphemed against. And also he's sort of articulating a general sort of political idea, which is that you, by uttering the wrong thing, you are blaspheming.

It's not just that you're, it's an ad hominem attack. This is fucking like spitting on a cross and in this case Lichtman I guess was the crucifix that the left crucified themselves on And and um, but also I do want to say like And this is me just being a complete naive dumb shit, but I, as fun as it is to watch like a nerd squabble, I mean I think if you wanted to break it down,

that's what you're looking at there, it's the squabbling of nerds and there's nerds on the right, any political pundit is a nerd, and I don't mean nerd in a bad way, I mean like if you're, political pundit is a nerd. And I don't mean nerd in a bad way. I mean, like, if you're, you know, I'm into Hearthstone. I love it. I'm a nerd. That's a nerd thing. And if I got into a Hearthstone argument, that would be a nerd argument. And so what you're seeing there is like essentially nerd squabbling.

Or another way to put it would be like it's no different than like people who are into baseball squabbling over some idea of who is gonna win the World Series. It's just a squabble of nerds. And that's a cool name for it. I don't know what a group of nerds is called, but I think we should start calling it a squabble. And so, and you know, there's something like weirdly sweet

in Lickman, you know what I mean? There's something pathetically sweet or something I mean, he's been destroyed defeated. Absolutely now his keys people question the keys that was never before he lost a lot of power and but also what you're seeing there is You know the the losing political side falling on itself because they, they, they, they, the attacking the other side has become a secondary consideration. Now they're attacking each other, blaming each other. It's your fault, it's your fault, it's your fault.

You thought this, I thought that, I was right, you're wrong. And so it's just wild to watch. And it's really fucked up because like, my God, they've got really sharp fangs, like, and and swords and they've been sharpened in their fucking swords I would no one would want to be on the receiving end of that blade and now to watch them like essentially turn the blade on themselves do this kind of like

self Mutilation is just great crazy to watch and still sad. They're still missing the point like it's that's the strangest thing of all Is it's like dude don't turn the fucking blade on yourselves The very same blade you turned on the right that caused you to lose the election all of your power The blade is the problem friends stop put, put it in the fucking sheath. Be civil with each other. You know, it's funny, though. I mean, I'm glad that happened.

It's hilarious. Oh yeah, before I get into what I wanna talk about today, I wanna show you something, Josh. This is fucking weird. So, you know, obviously, parent, kids, I don't want anything fucking mailed to my house that isn't from like Amazon

or something I ordered. And I got something really unnerving sent to my house. I want to show you. It's from a fan? Don't know, no idea, no idea. And I'll show you why I have no idea. So, a box of cassette tapes. And I'll show you why I have no idea. A box of cassette tapes.

I'm just grabbing one out. Weird stickers on it and shit. It says, shake it up. And it's got numbers on the back. It's unnerving. It's definitely not, has It's like, it's definitely like not, has not made my wife happy. Have you listened to any of them? I don't have a cassette player.

So I fucking can't. But I'm gonna get one, eventually. It's the holidays are coming up, so I'll have to wait. But yeah, box of fucking weird cassette tapes. And- The whole box is cassette tapes? Yes! and The whole box is cassette tape. Yes fill in all all of them with weird fucking like stickers Jesus is that Jesus? I hope so but regardless. There's like fucking a lot of weird shit in there

I mean I like yeah, so the reason I have I mean I wanted to show them on this whole episode But they're the reason I brought them here is also cuz my wife's like give them the fuck out of the house So you brought them here. I appreciate it But I don't want to throw them away yeah, she wants me to throw I'm gonna find a tape pair I'm gonna listen to some would you please yeah? That would be awesome. I'm yeah, I mean Yeah, what it definitely is like

You know like these things pop up on reddit Someone's in their house they find a like a safe and You know, they Want to open the fucking safe and then the thread never pops up again. You're just left with this feeling of like, what's in the fucking safe? And that is kind of how I feel right now

but because we're all about to go out of town and I'm trying to get a bunch of podcasts done and I've been on the road. I just don't have time to like go and find a fucking cassette player. Yeah, how long you had them for? I don't know. They came, let's see, just went to Chicago. Like right before I went to Chicago, they showed up.

You know, I've been sitting in my car. Yeah. And now they're here with you. They must have spent a pretty penny to send them because that's a big box. It's a big fucking, that's, yeah, right. There's a lot box. It's a big fucking, that's, yeah, right. There's a lot of, I certainly understand why Erin

doesn't want them at the house and why she's upset about it because it's truly the last thing that you would want and also it is addressed to me. Yeah, how do they know your address? That's the problem. That's what you don't like. That's creepy. It's creepy when you get nice they know your address? That's the problem. That's what you don't like. That's creepy It's it's it's it's creepy when you get like nice things to your address

Yeah from people that you that you didn't know had your address but it's obviously even more creepy when you get a fucking box of weird cassette tapes with weird stickers writing and art on them. If I was single, it would be the coolest fucking thing ever. When you have kids, it's like a whole different ball of wax. You open it up, it has fentanyl or something. I didn't even think of that.

No, I'm gonna wear gloves when I open it. That's a good and bad thing. Again, it's like, yeah, I don't know, man. It's a good and bad thing again. It's like yeah like it Yeah, I don't know man. It's It's a true curiosity, but yeah, if you have access to a cassette player I imagine they're not that hard to find I get on my I was let me think Then yeah, well we should like play some Next solo episode or something. Oh, yeah, see what's on there. You know what don't listen just We'll do it live all right. We'll do it live live and it's probably just my guess would be it's just like music and or something

So it's this guy's mixtape as whole freaking Whole collection of all the songs he's ever made dude. That would be the funniest shit of all time, but I don't know We'll find out Okay shit of all time. But I don't know. We'll find out. Okay. Here is what I want to talk about today. This is something that has been going through my head for a while now. It actually connects to the Lickman shit. Sadly, it does have a political component to it, but not a partisan component to it. Just an analysis. And I've been thinking about it a lot. So I even made a title card

Today's topic Mnemonic possession And that kill Roy was here. I put her I forgot the foot the young but Basically that uh That's a meme was showing up in restrooms for a long time. And so, alright, you can take that shit down, whatever. So this is something that has really caught my attention lately. And before I show it to you, like somehow if you're not familiar with the, like, origination of meme, the term meme,

do you know anything about where that term came from? No. So that came from Richard Dawkins, and he's the one who coined the term. Meme basically is a kind of like unit of cultural data, right? And so a meme is not just like an image. A meme can be anything. It's a symbol set, and it's viral in nature, right? And so a meme is not just like an image. A meme can be anything. It's a symbol set and it's viral in nature, right? So a meme has a viral quality and in its viral quality there's a lot of aspects to it that like almost seem like it's alive. So like memes, they want to propagate. They depend on

propagation to exist. If like people stop sending the meme around, the meme dies. There is no more meme. Political ideas would you could actually call them memes or turns of phrases that show up in politics would be considered a meme. So when you start hearing people vocalizing sentences that are political in nature and are identical across whoever's saying it, for example, crisis at the border. This is a meme. Crisis at the border, I'm not talking about whether it's true or not true, I'm saying the term itself is a meme.

People on the left will say it, people on the right will say it, but it's an echoing kind of thing that propagates from person to person. And it lives in human minds. So a meme will nest in your brain and it seeks to replicate. It is also subject to natural selection. So memes evolve, memes adapt, adjust to the environment and all of the adaptation and the adjustment is survival based. It has to adapt in ways that make sure that it keeps going. And so... Pepe. Oh yeah. Pepe is a classic example. There's lots of memes that are going strong. Socrates, Plato, like these things from a long time ago, you could argue Christianity

from this perspective. Any world religion is a meme that has a mechanism of propagation that usually is a story built into it, at least when it comes to religion, right? If you look at Christianity as a meme, which I'm sure—and I didn't read the Selfish Gene, which is where the term meme came from. I'm sure Dawkins would say Christianity is an incredible meme in the sense that its mechanism of propagation is the story. The story invites a kind of missionary,

you must spread the word of God. And also built into the meme is it's scary if you don't accept Jesus, hell awaits, meaning it's got fangs, that meme has fangs. And so that meme is like, it's rolling. I mean, I'm looking at it purely from like a Dawkins atheist perspective, which I don't want to reduce it to that because I don't necessarily believe that. But just

from that perspective, Christianity meme. And they're becoming cryptos. Like Pepe is a cryptocurrency worth a billion now. It's crazy. There you go. Like memes, that's an interesting point, because memes, the mechanism of propagation of the memes is increasing in the sense that, you know, if you, the Kilroy was here, the dude peering over, the mechanism of propagation was bathroom walls, right? That was pretty much it. It's a limited mechanism of propagation. Here, I guess you could draw it on a wall anywhere, draw it on your paper, whatever.

Another meme, which is really interesting, is that weird diamond shape kids would draw on their notebooks, you know what I'm talking about? That was a meme. There's certain things kids draw that show up over and over. Micro memes happen in elementary schools. Kids will, a contagion of some certain meme will show up where kids are like saying the same thing minions

speak you know kids talking like the minions babadei that's a meme they get spread through children thank God adults aren't doing that but it's meme, it's the most annoying thing when your kids start doing it. Yeah, my kids were calling me, they're like, Dad, you're acting sus. And I was like, don't say that. Here you go.

You cannot say that. They mean suspicious, I was like, not in my generation. It means something different. Yeah. Don't ever call your dad sus. Yeah, or bro. There was a parent telling me that her kids start calling her bro, which is really funny.

But, so, that's what a meme is, right? And so now, I wonder if you could pull up symptoms of demonic possession, because today I want to talk about mnemonic possession, which is pretty much the same thing. So let's pull up one of the signs from Quora. This episode of the DTFH has been brought to you by VB Health, creators of Load Boost. Yeah, sure. health creators of load boost. Yeah sure the world can try to get you. It can try to reduce your loads. Sometimes it feels like there's a general conspiracy when you get older. Something just maybe in the night draining your loads, you can't see some horrible load fairy

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I was the victim of witchcraft. It felt like an ailment, like an illness I was having. I couldn't get up from bed. I was always sleeping, seemed like I had depression. The person who did witchcraft on me was a man from my community college studies. I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna put a spell on you.

The person who did witchcraft, I remember he attacked my mind. He got into my mind. I started hearing voices. I had headaches and vomited a lot Nobody believes in witchcraft. I do seems people are skeptical about the devil Everyone seemed to abandon me due to what I was having I found a girlfriend online and her prayers helped me regain strength and faith in God I went to see a priest. They didn't believe I was bewitched

So I went to see a psychiatrist due to voices and they diagnosed me with schizophrenia I was taking medication for schizophrenia, but the symptoms didn't go away. I was dealing with suicidal thoughts. One time I was watching a YouTube video about schizophrenia, and I saw a comment. The guy said, God removed his schizophrenia. Anyway, okay, that was just interesting.

And that is, by the way, a certified nurse assistant. So I hope you don't end up with her in your fucking room. Yeah, let's look up on what reddit Christianity And it really connects with Lickman yeah right there, let's pull that up in the sense that Lickman said blaspheme Let that baby load up You know I read it's going so slow. That's weird. Probably the fucking cables that got cut. There we go. Okay, let's scroll down to clear problem 9590.

He says, as someone who has been demon possessed, I can name some symptoms for you. Hearing voices and having thoughts that blaspheme holy things or persons. Sink is clearly possessed. He blasphemed Lickman. Seeing things that others possessed, he blasphemed Lichtman. Seeing things that others cannot see, usually of an evil nature. Feelings of rage that appear to come out of nowhere, often with the intent of harming oneself or others. Feelings of wanting to commit heinous acts that don't come from the self.

Inability to control your thoughts and or actions. Knowing things about the future and others don't or cannot know, hatred or fear of children and animals, inability to read the Bible without the mind wandering or feeling hatred, intense, debilitating fear or hatred when choosing to do good, excessive narcissism. Now, this is pretty much the symptoms of demonic possession in Christianity. Now, not all of those fit in to what many of us have seen happening politically to people, but I think you could argue quite a few of those show up. Let's go back through it again.

Specifically, intense debilitating fear or hate. Wait, go back. Knowing things about the future that others don't or cannot know. Now, let's talk about that. And again, let me just say right off, I am not saying that if you have become politicized, you are possessed by a demon.

I'm just saying there are characteristics that you are exhibiting that interestingly enough, match the symptoms of demonic possession. And also I'm not saying that demonic possession is a reality. I'm using this as a structure, a lens, to look through a fun way of looking out at the world, whether it's true or not, who gives a fuck?

And I'm not gonna go on a tangent about chaos magic, but that's sort of an implicit thing within it. It's like, it doesn't matter yet. Is there a Wolverine in real life? No, I wish there was. But could you theoretically channel the personality, spirit of Wolverine? Could you actually, via some bizarre ritual,

bring all that aggression, bravery, wildness into your own life? Yes, you could. Therefore, the existence or non-existence of an entity is irrelevant to the effect it has in the direct moment to exert your will in the world. Meaning, you can actually, you don't just need to summon angels, demons, you could summon Wolverine if you wanted to. As ridiculous as that sounds. So, and a less

woo woo-y version of that would be pump up music. Like, you know, if you have some music you like to listen to when you're going to the gym or when you're down or you need some energy, you need to feel better, you could say this is a ritual, you are summoning an energy via the music and the words and the music. It's a summoning ritual. You are invoking an entity which is the entity of enthusiasm, ambition, fearlessness. It's the identical thing except instead of using music, you would be using symbols. The symbol could be Jesus. The symbol could be Jesus, the symbol could be Batman, the symbol could be Arnold Schwarzenegger, the symbol could be Gargamel from the Smurfs. So I have no idea what that would do for you ritualistically.

The point being when I'm saying these things I'm not literally implying or saying hyperdimensional entities have attached themselves to people, though I'm not saying it's not possible. I don't know. And I'm definitely not saying that some, the left or the right, have all been possessed by demons. to use these pre-existing frameworks as a lens to look at things, which I think when you're in a swirl of tumult and confusion, that's a good thing is to find a new way of looking at it to sort of extricate yourself from the situation and to turn that lens on yourself fearlessly to see where you fit in there. But also hatred and or fear of children and animals. Now, I wanna point out a fashionable sort of cultural idea that is alive and well

in the world right now, which is maybe not necessarily a hatred of children, but certainly a fear of breeding. Like there is a, you know what I mean, an anti-natalist movement. Now, if you go to any of the subreddits that are focusing on those ideas, inevitably you will find, I just fucking hate kids. There is a general sort of like, and I, you know,

I remember prior to breeding the sense of just absolute annoyance When a baby would start crying. Oh my god, or a baby comes on the plane and you're like, mother fuck that It's a meat air siren that I'm about to fucking hear for this whole fucking flight. But then you have kids and your immune system for like shit like that is so much stronger. So I don't give a fuck.

A kid could scream for an entire flight and it will not impact me the way it used to other than just like feeling for the parents, you know? Like it just sucks for the parents because they feel guilty but That actually happened on a flight. It was the coolest thing ever. It wasn't cool because my little girl was it just decided to wail through the flight and sometimes there's nothing you could do and We were trying everything, you know, their ears pop. It's just weird. The whole situation is bizarre, brand new. It's loud. I think

maybe they're like feeling shit that we've learned to tune out or something. I don't know. But we know like the plain lands, we feel bad for the people in front of us. We're apologizing. It was the most amazing thing. Everyone was was like it's fine. We're parents we get it. It was really cool I totally misjudged people but definitely I used to be the dick on the plane mad at the baby and So I get it the point being this sort of like Feeling of revulsion when it comes to children, having children, breeding, interestingly enough fits in, at least in this person's description of demonic possession, something

we just pulled up, but I've read that in other places too. Feelings of rage that appear to come out of nowhere. Dude, I guess you could say that like the rage coming out of the losing political group right now is not necessarily coming out of nowhere, but it does appear that the people are experiencing bouts of rage here and there that are like unbridled and uncontrollable.

Feelings of wanting to commit heinous acts that don't come from the self. Now this again, I've seen like lots of shit of people saying they're gonna start poisoning men and shit. Like excessive narcissism. A lot of times when you're seeing the vocalization of like horror over what has happened, it feels there's some sense of self involvement in the horror.

There's camera has been set up for the nervous breakdown. The lighting is right for the nervous breakdown. The setting up the camera to film you telling your child that the bad man won. You know what I mean? Those those are fucked up because it's like, you know, if you're if your family is aligned in some political way and you have included your poor fucking child in American politics, which Jesus Christ, why would you do that to the poor kid? It's like when I was a kid Jesus, I'm so glad my parents didn't do that to me, you know, and if they did I don't remember it but The point is like the kids have enough to worry about they're learning at a walk talk that alphabet and shit They don't need to like be suddenly like confronted with the idea that the Antichrist is risen to power

They certainly aren't gonna have any impact on whatever happens because of that. So I feel bad for those kids, but But you know Who the fuck am I to say like I hate parenting like advice and shit It's like do your thing your apparent the part where it gets narcissistic is when you set the fucking camera up For the talk that should be personal, not necessarily. You're filming your child's dismay. It's fucked up. It's narcissistic, if you ask me. There's narcissism there. You're not doing it. The agenda there necessarily based on like breaking the news to your kid, but also showing everyone that you're breaking the news to your kid.

It's narcissism, right? So it's the social credit. It's not about being right. It's about the parents of looking right. It's transactional. Yep. You are getting, yeah, you're getting likes, views, you're getting this, you know There's a quantification of the event. The agenda is to quantify the event online. Really fucking weird. Really narcissistic.

By the way, don't forget to like and subscribe. And here's a word from our sponsors. So word from our sponsors. So it gets really interesting when you start thinking about people who have become politicized as being possessed by memes. It's mnemonic possession. Are they possessed by an entity? No. Are they possessed by a set of ideas that they have begun to conflate with their own identity? Absolutely. These, now I think it's good to sort of point out, well what ideas, like how what is an original idea really and I don't know I don't know I mean if you're when You're taught any language

Based within that language is its own meme set its own sort of Idea of how reality works there's words in German that aren't in English. There's words in Spanish that aren't in German. And those words point to a kind of human experience that minus the word, it's not like like Schadenfreude being the classic one, joy and another sorrow, right? Like that's there, there really isn't a word like that in English, but the moment the word comes into being you can sort of Categorize or quantify an aspect of being human it gives you a way of understanding a feeling that maybe you are just putting into the category of

you know anger or it it it becomes like a More specific or it becomes like a more specific shade of anger. So anyway, the point is when you start thinking about, and again, not just in the politics, like if you fashion, we have fashion trends. All of a sudden people have started, tight pants are out, loose pants are in, hairstyles are out, hairstyles are in. This is a meme that is adopted en masse and produces a fashion trend.

And it's a big business. Supposedly like people from the big fashion houses like go out and try to look at what is coming. They try to predict what's coming. And sometimes they try to move the needle forward a little bit too, to add their own take on things. There's a collaborative sort of thing happening there. So when you start thinking about politicized people as having inside of them a bundle of

ideas that have the intent of propagating, it's like how they say a virus isn't even alive. Is a meme alive? It wants to reproduce. It depends on the human biome to exist within. But is it actually a living thing? Probably no more than like, it's not like when you get a cold.

It's not like, it's not like the cold virus is like, I'm gonna fuck this motherfucker up. Just running a code, basically. It's just a loop that's gotten into your, that's hijacked your DNA, exploited your DNA, is living inside of you and wants to propagate every time you sneeze. So it really gets weird when you start looking at it from this perspective because this is where I

would say you get into you move from meme to egregore now an egregore is I like for the case of what I'm trying to ramble about here and an egregore is like something that only exists within the minds of people but has a real personality. And the classic example being like Santa Claus, right? Like Santa Claus right now exists in the psyche of countless children. And for kids who are watching also in the North Pole... But where he's busily making toys. But the Egregor is this projection that you don't necessarily see in reality,

but you do see symbols of the Egregor. You see like drawings of Bigfoot, of the gray alien, of the... So it's an egregore. It's a kind of entity. And so if you start looking at the political egregores, then it gets really interesting when you can identify not just a behavior set, like what the egregore would be. And honestly, we have an egregore for Santa Claus.

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Thank you, BetterHelp. Ho, ho, ho. You know, this is really fascinating to me in the sense that what we're seeing here is like, like not just like, you know, a similarity in glasses. It's the glasses though, somehow are like a dog whistle. Like the glasses, like look at the similarity in glasses. Isn't that fucking weird? Am I just seeing that? Doesn't that seem like the same, like it's essentially the same kind of glasses.

It's like this, you know, I don't know what the name of that glasses style is, but it shows up across the board. And then it's the pink hair, the blue hair, the purple hair, you know, it's the dyed hair. And weirdly, it's almost like facial structure. That's where it gets fucking weird to me. It's like, and I don't know if I'm just seeing it or not, but like, dude, you know what, you know, it's like, you know that thing where

they say like, you start looking like your dog. Yeah. And you're like, how is that true? How could that be? Am I looking like my dog? Is my dog looking like me? Another way to put it is where like, attention goes, energy flows. Like, if you become so consumed by any given memeplex, the sum total of all memes in any category, is it possible it actually changes facial structure

Yes, because of the way it's a lot of And they push their chin back and of shock and so it free just like happy people you can tell they're happy because they Have these smile lines Dude because okay. Whoa, that's so weird because it's going to create not just a way you dress, but an actual way of expressing yourself facially, a breathing pattern, it would shape facial structure. Mouth breathers.

Dude. I can always tell when an old lady's mean because she has these frown lines right here. So even when she's not frowning, she still has them. Wow. Or she lost a lot of weight, one of the two. Wow. So that's where it gets really interesting.

And I did this last minute, I was trying to put together the memeplex for the right, but it's certainly out there. I am afraid that I might actually somewhat fit into that, and that is not because I'm necessarily aligning with one or the other, but just like I got the beard and the shaved head Yeah, so dude, I got like I just didn't have time to put it together, but I did start and Because I think that's another important thing This is not an

Energy cannon being fired at one side. This is a more distinct look I think you could argue and it's easier to find. But I would be happy for someone to put together the memeplex for that. There's many of them for the right, many different ones for the left too. But I think it's really important to turn this on yourself. That's my point. Is like, if you have become consumed with politics, to the point where you're changing the way you dress, to identify with the team that you're on, your hairstyle, your glasses style, and the way you're expressing yourself. I think it's a good thing to know that, to look into that and ask yourself, how much of these thoughts, ideas, ways of expressing myself

are legitimately me? And how much of them did I invite into my psyche and they began to propagate within my own mind and tricked me into thinking, this is me. And that works for any memeplex, right, left, Christian, Buddhist, whatever the fuck it is, it's I think a really worthwhile thing to interrogate oneself, to try to get a sense

of how much of the way you're behaving is an original behavior, or even, it doesn't have to be original, but is rooted in your past your direct experiences reality and how much of the way you're behaving is related to being impregnated with memes via Mainstream media tick-tock Instagram whatever it's a good thing to know like if I Instagram, whatever. It's a good thing to know.

Like, if I, you know, out here in Texas, dude, God help you if you have a fucking puddle in your yard. Because that puddle is gonna fill with mosquito larvae, and you're gonna have mosquitoes all over your fucking yard. So you have to be hyper aware of like, places where mosquitoes spawn, garbage cans, Jesus Christ. That was one of my wonderful dad moments, where mosquitoes spawn garbage cans, Jesus Christ. That was one of my wonderful dad moments is when one of our garbage cans filled with maggots.

And I got to show my boys just a fucking mass of wriggling maggots. Their minds were blown, it's disgusting. But, you know, the human mind is a fertile breeding ground for memes. And knowing that, you want to make sure that the memes you're inviting in to your mind are something you want breeding in your psyche. You don't want memes in there that are gonna fuck you up and The other thing to think about when it comes to asking yourself if you have mnemonic possession I think there's some things that we could you could sort of like look at when it comes to mnemonic possession

Do you notice that you are isolating yourself from groups of people that challenge your ideas, for example? Like do you notice that you are hostile towards people who challenge your ideas? Do you have, because of a set of ideas in your head, I Because of a set of ideas in your head I'm not I'm saying a set of ideas in your head not your direct encounter with reality a set of ideas in your head a general sense of despair Is your internal universe matching your external universe? Do you have a sense of an imminent?

apocalypse a Feeling that the world is about to end do you have a sense of an imminent apocalypse? A feeling that the world is about to end. Do you have a feeling that you're being controlled by external evil forces? A kind of paranoid sense that things out there are potentially going to limit your freedom or fuck you up. I'm saying it hasn't happened yet, but you have a feeling it's coming. I'm not saying it might not come either.

Just the general sort of, if you were a meteorologist for your psyche, what are we looking at there? Do we have storms? And what are we looking at there? Do we have? storms or there is and what are those storms related to where are they brewing from and if you You really look into this you'll probably realize They're not coming for direct encounters with reality itself, but they're coming from Whatever content you've been focusing on the most like for example, I'll tell you what I've got, the memes running around my head right now. I was always thinking about this. Imminent World War III, that's one running rampant

in my brain right now. It's a politicized one too. It's like not just like, you know, there's always some general sense World War Three could kick off. But because of some of the media that I've consumed, I've got like a sort of paranoid conspiracy sense that the author, I'm sorry if you haven't heard this yet. Happy Thanksgiving by the way. The reason that Biden authorized Ukraine to use American long-range missiles was because

of a sense that when Trump comes into power, that war will end. And so the only choice to finish the project was to attempt to get Russia to use nuclear weapons to justify NATO boots on the ground to finish the job before Trump gets into office. Is that true or not? I don't know. But I definitely didn't come to that conclusion on my own. That came from going online and watching YouTube videos and stuff. Did you see the Russian state TV, what they were saying about what European countries they would bomb if they keep doing it?

Sure. I mean, this is, and again, this is an ongoing thing. I've seen, you know, by now all of us have seen Russian state TV talking about nuking this place or that place. I don't even know if they're translating it right, but I'm assuming they are. They are. I mean, it's no different than like, you know, what Warhawks hear, you know, and we're shaking the nuclear saber at this person or that.

And, you know, so my point being, I hope that I'm not trying, I'm trying, I hope you don't think I think, I don't have my own memeplex inside of me. Because you know, I also, I will run through, I happily run through the foulest of digital swamps. And drink from the foulest of digital waters and no doubt have parasitic memes existing within me. But for the sake of what I'm rambling about here, digital waters and no doubt have parasitic memes existing within me. But for the sake of what I'm rambling about here, the point is like I think one meme probably existing in a lot of us is a general sense of like, fuck man.

Why the... There could really be, I mean this is trending on Twitter all the time, there could be World War III. Like hopefully not, probably not. But the point is, because of my consumption of media, I am now living in a reality tunnel that has built inside of it some possibility of nuclear Holocaust in an imminent kind of way that has been politicized by things that I look at so this is a meme and I Have many others Living inside of me. I've got Rom dos memes. I've got Terrence McKenna memes

I've got all kinds of memes wrapped up inside of me. I got God of War memes. I got, so I'm a hive of memes as you probably are and it's good just to kind of take a look in there and see if I were a sorcerer and if I could summon entities that existed within my energy field What entities would I want hanging out in there and Looking at your own sort of meme set and your own personal memeplex. I

Mean there's the gut biome, we need it. You need to take probiotics. Your shits will get infinitely better. You'll feel better, your mood will change. And there's actually, you could take probiotics to change the gut biome, feel better. So if you start looking at the gut biome feel better. So if you start looking at the psychic biome,

in the same way you look at your gut biome, start thinking about, okay, what the fuck's in there? They say that if you eat a bunch of sugar, you crave more sugar, because your gut biome went sugar, it actually somehow sends signals to your brain, making you crave sugar. So that's one way you can kind of figure out what's going on in there is like what are you wanting?

What are you paying attention to? What are you fixating on or obsessing over? And then that will basically tell you what memons you've possessed with. And so dude, this to me, I think it's a wonderful thing to really think about. And also to not get fucking butthurt because you begin to realize that you have been non-consensually impregnated with a memeplex

that is now making you feel embarrassed or humiliated. That thing I showed you in the beginning with Lickman and Sink, that to me, I think that's where he fucked up. That was so funny. Is that people like Lickman who have been sucked into a memeplex, who are possessed with memons, like Lickman, who have been sucked into a memeplex, who are possessed with memons, they need the ability to unzip the meme suit

and like, you know, they need the ability to like, not to be shamed or humiliated because they like, took on a set of fucking stupid memes, which we all have You know what I'm talking about? Like this is the problem The I I feel like if you like this is where it's really funny, especially in left versus right Here you have some set of behaviors on the right Let's talk about the right

conservatives conservativism Deregulation Small government family values focus on the family focus on breeding Fuck the environment. Yeah, right. Well, yeah, fuck, you know fuck. Yeah, you know what no drill baby drill that's a meme drill! That's a meme. Drill, baby, drill is a meme. And energy independence, meme. Anti-globalism, meme.

Like, any time you hear yourself voicing any of these things, you're articulating a meme, you're propagating a meme. Not to say it's wrong or right, it's a meme. What else do we have on the right? What were all the things that made you come up with your own meme about blowing up the pyramids with diet coke and Mentos? I'm glad you asked me about that Well, and it kind of gets into what we're talking about here the pyramids are a fucking meme It's a concretized meme and And this is where it gets weird.

So you look at like the general aesthetic of the right, you look at the aesthetic of the left, and you see the way that the meme goes from idea to physical form, dress, hair, whatever it is that someone is like, the mold that someone's body is fitting into. But it doesn't stop there. That's where it gets fucking weird. The collaborative efforts of people within any given memeplex

extantiate themselves into time space in three-dimensional forms. Art, architecture, movies, video games. It doesn't stop with the way you dress. It actually wants to build itself into time. It wants to create statues to itself. It wants to create posters, paintings, symbol sets that are non-mind dependent other than they have to be observed to come into existence, but they live in 3D space. I mean, brutalist architecture. Pull up Mussolini's, God, the parliament building, Mussolini's parliament building.

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Yeah, dude! Look at that! Is that from Obey? Is that where they got it from? Yeah, I guess. So check that shit out. That is when a meme grows into time space. You've got the form of the meme, Mussolini's face.

You've got the brutalist architecture. You've got the grim look at, like you talk about a fucking meme that made someone look scary, there you go. Is that yes, yes, yes? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, exactly. So there you go, or pull up like a, I don't know, pull up like a Hitler rally.

Or Nazi architecture, pull up Nazi architecture. You know, just pull up, I wish I could think of like a good like, oh there you go, look at that. That weird, whatever the fuck that is. The swastika, yeah, look at that pillar with the swastika on it. Right, so the thing that was in the minds of the Nazis begins to grow into time space in the form of this insane architecture, fashion, right? And so

that's how it starts growing into actual physical structures. And within the physical structures, the meme propagates via meetings, legislation. So the physical structures the meme propagates via meetings legislation So the physical structures so it goes from being the mind is the breeding ground of the meme to the physical structure becomes a place where people within the memeplex come Collaborate to Propagate the meme further into the world because the meme wants to propagate and survive and so This is where it gets really fucking weird an idea goes viral the idea first It lives in the mind it then starts showing up in the form of

phrases linguistic patterns fashion and behavior sets then inevitably legislation then the legislation, then the legislation, it guards the meme so that now, like the chances of the meme going away, now it becomes illegal to say certain things. Now, and that's where censorship pops in.

So now, which is why, you know, if you're looking for fascism, the first thing you should look for is censorship because you have to censor Antithetical memes to ensure the propagation of the meme. This is the Emperor wears no clothes that little fuck You know like you needed people to be like yes, and I know one should say that the guy has no fucking clothes on or like I don't know pull up like uh oh my god. It's the best thing ever. I'm trying to think of who it is. A plaza Nazi rally, you ever seen this shit before?

People were afraid to stop clapping. I've seen it at North Korea. Oh, maybe it's North Korea. I mean, people will like. Yeah, it was North Korea, because it was North Korea cuz it was North Korea pleasant Yeah, it was the last person to stop Clap or the first person stopped clapping. They didn't want to be the first person. There you go. This is insane

Look at this shit if this is it Look at that again all you know the same kind of look at the uniformity the you know, the same kind of... look at the uniformity! The homogenous nature of this memeplex is insane. It's an organism. It's a superorganism. Isn't that wild? And so this is the other thing that you start seeing is this homogenous quality to the superorganism within any given set. to the superorganism within any given set, people start looking the same, dressing the same, talking the same, it's replicating itself in such an intense way that when you see all of them together, it's looking at a superorganism.

And it's a superorganism that has a pyramid structure. It's inevitably a top-down hierarchical structure where at the top is the leader, Kim Jong-un, Trump, Harris, Matt Au, right? Like, you know, you get the big versions and then you get the mini versions, Mad-ow. Right? Like, you know, you get the big versions and then you get the mini versions, but inevitably it's a pyramid. At the top of the fucking pyramid, is whoever is the high priest of the mean dissemination.

So in the media, this is the pundit. The pundit is a high priest. The pundit does a ritual of mean propagation, which is the opening monologue. The opening monologue inevitably is a way to propagate the meme. So for Maddow it would be liberalism, for Hannity it would be conservatism. And then what you end up seeing, which is where it gets really cool, is a similarity in ritual. If you look at, if you put Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow side by side, you will see completely different takes on the same data set, but an identical way of conducting the ritual. And the way of conducting the ritual is to,

kind of, you start off, sometimes you start off a little slow, you humanize yourself, maybe you talk to the host before you, you have a couple of giggles and laughs, and then you present to the world what they're supposed to be afraid of that night what's going down dude this is fucking bad bad like tonight this one's real bad and you need to be aware of it this is

mixed in with a personality of the host but that the structure is the same I present you with a problem for tonight you blame the problem is the same. I present you with a problem for tonight. You blame the problem on the opposite political party. It's because the fucking idiot left. Biden got us in a world of hurt. Or it's like, already Trump is starting to fuck shit up. Are you ready? It's always the same.

And it's like, whoa, you really need to pay attention to this. We'll be right back. So you know what I mean? Right? It's a good place for a commercial right there. Anyway, the point is, when you start recognizing the meta structure within the high priests, the rituals of the media, of the meme lords, is identical, then you run into the greatest realization, I think, when it comes to the analysis of mnemonic possession.

It's the same fucking demon. It's the same thing. It's two tentacles of the identical entity. And it's like a kid playing with GI Joes, making them fight, but it's the same fucking thing. Structurally, it's the same fucking thing. The way it shows up is completely different in style, stylistically, but structurally it's identical. And it's all connected to the same thing. And it feeds on itself. That's where it gets really cool. So the left presents some hyper leftist, woke idea.

The right, so horrified by the idea, pushes back. And in the pushback mirrors the idea in the opposite, right? You look in the mirror, you see the opposite of you. When you're looking in the mirror, you're not seeing you as you are. You're seeing a polar opposite. So when these fucking meme complexes fight, they're just looking at each other in the mirror and they're helping each other adapt, evolve, get better, meaning they're fucking the same thing. So if you are against some political class, paradoxically, you are responsible for a lot

of that shit and anything, any reaction that you're causing. Because one thing pushes, the other thing pushes, and that pushes back, and that pushes back, and it's that dance. It's a dance. It's a terrible, stupid, embarrassing, horrible, potentially apocalyptic dance. But nonetheless, a fucking dance. You think you're separate from the left, you're out there like they're those motherfuckers what happened? The liberal mind virus! Guess what? You're dancing with them cheek to cheek via the obsession. Same on the left, You're looking at the right, these fucking neo-Nazi fascist fucks.

Do they know what they've done? Via your attention on them, you're given the meme, the nutrients it needs to live. And that's a really cool moment when you realize, holy fuck, we're dancing with each other. We're in some ridiculous ballroom dance with each other. And it's so cool when you realize that. And I think it's the beginning of realizing your particular meme set can lead to true

liberation. That's the next step. And forgiveness. These embarrassing motherfuckers on whatever side. It's like, dude, it's a dance. It's the Macarena. We're all doing this embarrassing Macarena and it kind of sucks because we're dancing

to the fucking Macarena. I hate that shit. One of my kids, that's all they wanna listen to, the Macarena, the dance one, that's all they want to listen to, Macarena. It's like, I don't want to dance to the Macarena, but in this case, it's even worse than the fucking Macarena at a wedding, my friends. Because the DJs, it's fucking DJ Sean Hannity, DJ Rachel Maddow, DJ Rupert Murdoch, DJ, who's another one, Claude Schwab or whatever the fuck that guy's name is. You really want that to be your DJ? You really want the person spinning the cultural fucking record to be any of those people? Telling you what you should be afraid of? Telling you how to dance?

Fuck that. That is embarrassing. And I think at some point, if you realize you're at a planetary rave, it's okay to like get a new DJ. They've done it. These motherfuckers have been spinning the same goddamn record for like ever. It's a record of doom, division, judgment, hate, fear, consumerism, dehumanization, othering.

I'm sick of it. It's way, I would rather dance the fucking Macarena for the rest of my life. That's all We have to like realize this is like a summer camp dance I used to take my kids when I worked at a summer camp. There was these dances. They're so funny watching a bunch of kids Try to do popular dances

Hilarious. It's cute. Some of them are better, some of them are worse. Some of them take pride in their ability to dance. Some of them are ashamed. No different. We're looking at the same situation. Except in this case, the dances can actually lead to global fucking conflagurations. But once you realize, don't be embarrassed, I don't care what side politically you're on, I really don't. I enjoy it when people have differing political opinions than me. Don't you? Isn't that fun? My favorite conversations that I have Privately Or with my most nihilistic atheist friends because I am not and I love talking to them

I love it when they pop my balloons when they Defeat me in some kind of semantic judo That's not the norm though The norm is you hang out with friends who are the same class as you, went to the same schools, you all dressed the same type of thing. That's what the majority of people are doing. Exactly.

It's the worst. You're missing out, man. Everyone, this whole thing, and this is another meme, they say that people on the left are saying, don't go to Thanksgiving with your family. I don't think that's true. But it was certainly being pumped out there by one of the meme priests. But it's like, dude, how fun is it, even if you don't shit disturbed, to sit and

listen to antithetical political opinions being like vocalized from your hammered relatives, you really going to miss out on that? opinions being like vocalized from your hammered relatives. You really gonna miss out on that? It's the best. I love it. I mean, maybe I'm just a creep, but I love sitting in a cafe drawn on my iPad listening. When conversations get political, I love it.

It's so fun to hear the different POVs and especially to hear that meme echoes. When you realize the people talking don't realize it, but they're saying the exact same things you heard in a conversation two days before from completely different people. They don't even know they're an echo. And I don't mean just like it's the same topics. I mean same phrases. Whoa.

Oh, they're shenanigans. They're saying shenanigans. You know, it's so cool. So yeah, that is my rant for the day. I say have the courage to interrogate your own psyche to see what memes are swimming around up there in your brain. And ask yourself, do you really, is it doing any good for you? In a real sense, have you become dreary? Are you dreary right now? That's okay, don't be embarrassed. You should be dreary.

If you let some fucking like horrific satanic DJ get a song stuck in your head because you decided to listen to it and didn't realize it was made to get stuck in your head, not because it's true necessarily, but because it serves billionaires you'll never meet, corporate interests you'll never know about, ask like, am I dreary? Are you going out there in the world with existentialist grin, the wild smile Camus talked about, you're walking to the gallows with a grin, you have defeated the executioner. Yeah, they're hanging you, but you're smiling. defeated the executioner. Yeah, they're hanging you, but you're smiling. They lose the crucifixion of Christ. Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. Whoa. I wouldn't want to see that. If I just crucified some hippie, I want him screaming and yelling at

me, confirming that he's a monster. The last thing I want is for him to forgive me and look at me lovingly. That's gonna fuck me up. I'm getting on Benzos after that. Mainly though, I don't even know if we're gonna have Thanksgiving. We could be in a radiated wasteland.

We could all be fucking Thanksgiving turkeys. Radioactive Thanksgiving turkeys! But do you want your last few days wandering around this sweet beautiful green planet before shit glows to be miserable, sad, dreary, because you've been possessed by corpo memes designed to sell fucking wipes. That's the other irony when you realize the whole thing

is just to fucking sell LifeLock. The whole thing is just to fucking sell life lock. The whole thing is just, you know what I mean? Alright, we're gonna cut to commercial, we'll be right back.