TrueLife - Conspiracies Exposed: Mastering Argumentative Strategies Through the Trivium Rebellion

Episode Date: July 22, 2020

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Well, is there any, any guesses, any guesses? Do you guys think of anything? The answer is your breath because no one can hold their breath for nine minutes and it's lighter than a feather. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who was asking me about the podcast and what I'm going to talk about. And he says, Hey, you ever talk about conspiracies? And I said, I talk about them all the time, but I've yet to really kind of get in depth on any kind of podcast and talk about one. So today my friends, we're going to step out onto the Wu tree. For those of you that don't know the Wu tree, the Wu tree is a lot, think of like a large, like a large tree with all kinds of branches, but the branches as they grow longer, they grow thinner. And my argumentation is like going way out on a thin branch. And the reason that is, is because if you were to go out on a very thin branch, that branch would not be able to, that that branch probably would not be able to hold your weight and it would break. Thus, my foundation for the conspiracies is like the Wu tree. It may not hold up. So let's just, let's just jump in here with both feet and try to cover some ground today. You know, one of my favorite conspiracies is the magic Johnson conspiracy. You know what I mean? Remember that guy? Great basketball player. Number 32. I always think of chick Hearns. When I think of magic Johnson, remember whoever every time they would be about to win. You'd hear chick Hearns, just say, all right, well, it's the jellos jiggling. The eggs are getting hard. The butter's cooling time to put this one in the fridge. Speaker 1 (3m 1s): This game is over. I think it was something like that. The jellos jiggling eggs are cooling and the butter is getting hard time to put this one in the fridge. I miss that guy, but magic Johnson. Remember that when I was growing up, he was a, he was a bad man. I think he's still in the, I think he's in the hall of fame, right? Doesn't he own the Clippers. It doesn't own part of the Lakers now. However, when I was coming up, I was in high school and it was right when they, the AIDS crisis was coming in. And for people that don't know the height of the AIDS crisis, it was considered mainly like a gay disease or a disease for intervening, his drug use users. Those are the two main groups of which the majority of people inflicted with AIDS. That was the tool. Then one day, there's this big press conference and magic Johnson comes out and he says, you know, I knew standing there with his wife and his teammates. And he was like, you know, I just want to let everybody know that I tested HIV positive. And the whole world was like, Whoa, magic Johnson, HIV positive. And it kind of, it was big news. It was big news. It was all over the news channel. No, there's, there's two major conspiracies here. Let's, let's go over the first one. First. The first is that he never had AIDS. He's never HIV positive. He did it as a publicity stunt to draw attention. Okay. And get money to help come up with a cure for AIDS. That's one, one spot. And there's a lot of evidence. Like if it was mainly a disease for gay people and drugs users, I'm sure there's plenty of people that would call magic Johnson bag, but he's not gay. And he never, he never participated in that kind of sexual activity. At least not to my knowledge. He's definitely not a heroin addict. So he's not shooting drugs. However, he I'm sure that that guy got around. Right. I'm sure all of those athletes have a number of women they've had sex with. And that number is probably well into the triple digits. If not quadruple digits, it was kind of odd though. I mean, he's standing up there with his wife talking about, Hey, I got AIDS, you know, the fruit, his wife's gotta be like, well, how did you get that? How'd you get that magic? Oh, you know, I think it was the fifth number five Oh seven. The 507th woman has said was gave it to me. That's another thing like how does a out of the women's stay with all those pros? They just are constantly cheating on, I guess it's the money, right? Anyways. So that's one idea. One idea is that it was a publicity stunt to, to draw attention, to, and get money for the cause. The second conspiracy theory, which I think is much more interesting is that magic Johnson, he was HIV positive. He had AIDS. Now magic Johnson does not have AIDS. He's not HIV positive. He no longer has a trace of the virus in his body. Pretty amazing. Right. He had it no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. That in itself is worth study. But even more interesting is that his name is magic Johnson, magic Johnson, magic Johnson. It's a euphemism for a magic penis. This man has a magic Johnson. He got his magic Johnson, gave him AIDS and then his magic Johnson allowed him to get rid of his AIDS. You see what I'm saying? The guy is a magic. He's magic to the, I made HIV disappear with his magic Johnson. That is pretty funny. Right? I thought that was pretty funny. You look at it though. He probably never had it, right. He probably thought, Hey, I'm going to raise money. I'm going to raise awareness. I'm going to help out these communities. Then he goes out and he tells the public, Hey, look at me. I got AIDS, but now he doesn't have it on his body. You know, you got to think that maybe the insurance companies are, can you imagine, like you go out and you tell the world, Hey, I'm HIV positive. Here's my test. And then you try to get life insurance and they're like, Hey, fuck you. You're HIV positive magic. And then he's gotta be like, well, you know, I'm, I'm actually not. And they're like, well, fuck you. Why'd you say on TV? Oh, well just trying to raise awareness for the group. Well, we're going to want you to take a test. You know, you got to imagine that just probably the stigma that comes with that disease probably cause that guy a lot of grief, but I don't know. I think that he, I don't think he probably ever had it, but I like to think of the second one about him having a magic Johnson and, and not getting rid of it. I think that's a kind of a funny one. That's one, that's one conspiracy theory. People don't talk too much about another conspiracy. How about the new world order about those guys? What the hell is the new world order? People talk about it a lot. You know, it's all ove...

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The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Codex Seraphini. Check out the entire song at the end of the cast. Hi, my friends, it's Wednesday, also known as Hump Day. Depending on how you want to define Hump, that could be something else. on a camel or it could be an act of lust maybe. So are you guys all wondering what the answer to the riddle is? Remember the riddle we did yesterday?

It was, uh, what, what is something that not even the strongest man can hold for nine minutes, but is lighter than a feather? I bet you that was just driving you guys crazy, huh? Well, is there any, any guesses, any guesses? Do you guys think of anything? The answer. is your breath because no one can hold their breath

for nine minutes and it's lighter than a feather. Hmm. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who was asking me about the podcast and what I'm going to talk about and he says, hey, you ever talk about conspiracies?

And I say, I talk about them all the time but I've yet to really kind of get in depth on any kind of podcast and talk about one. So today, my friends, we're going to step out onto the woo-woo tree. For those of you that don't know the woo-woo tree, the woo-woo tree is a lot. Think of like a large, like a large tree with all kinds of branches. But the branches, as they grow longer, they grow thinner.

And my argumentation is like going way out on a thin branch. And the reason that is, is because if you were to go out on a very thin branch, that branch would not be able to, that branch probably would not be able to hold your weight and it would break. Thus, my foundation for the conspiracies is like the woo-woo tree. It may not hold up. So let's just jump in here with both feet and try to cover some ground today. You know, one of my favorite conspiracies is the Magic Johnson conspiracy. You know what I mean? Remember that guy? Great basketball player number 32.

I always think of Chick-Herns when I think of Magic Jontan. Remember every time they would be about to win, you hear Chick-Herns just say, all right, well, it's the jello's jiggling, the eggs are getting hard, the butter's cooling. time to put this one in the fridge. This game is over. I think it was something like that. The jello's jiggling,

the eggs are cooling, and the butter's getting hard. Time to put this one in the fridge. I miss that guy. But Magic Johnson, remember that when I was growing up, he was a bad man. I think he's still in the hall of fame, right?

Doesn't he own the clippers? Doesn't he own part of the Lakers now? However, when I was coming up, I was in high school, and it was right when like the AIDS crisis was coming in. And for people that don't know, at the height of the AIDS crisis, it was considered mainly like a gay disease

or a disease for intervaneous drug users. Those are the two main groups of which the majority of people inflicted with AIDS. That was the two groups. Then one day, There's this big press conference. And Magic Johnson comes out and he says, you know, I, and he's standing there with his wife and his teammates.

And he's like, you know, I just want to let everybody know that I tested HIV positive. And the whole world was like, whoa, Magic Johnson, HIV positive. And it kind of shaped, it was big news. It was big news. It was all over the news channels. Now, there's two major. conspiracies here let's let's go over the first one first the first is that he never had AIDS he's never HIV positive he did it as a publicity stunt to draw

attention and get money to help come up with a cure for AIDS that's one one spot and there's a lot of evidence like if if it was mainly a disease for gay people drug users. I'm sure there's plenty of people that would call Magic Johnson a fag, but he's not gay. And he never, he never, you know, participated in that kind of sexual activity, at least not to my knowledge. He's definitely not a heroin addict, so he's not shooting drugs. However, he, I'm sure that that guy got around, right?

I'm sure all those athletes have a number of women they've had sex with. And that number is probably well into the triple digits, if not quadruple digits. It was kind of odd, though. I mean, he's standing up there with his wife talking about, hey, I got AIDS. You know, his wife's got to be like, well, how did you get that? How did you get that, magic? Oh, uh, I think it was the first. 5th number 507, the 507th woman I had the second gave it to me.

That's another thing. Like, how does a, how do the women stay with all those pros that just are constantly cheating on them? I guess it's the money, right? Well, anyways, so that's one idea. One idea is that it was a publicity stunt to, to draw attention to and get money for the cause. The second conspiracy theory, which I think is, much more interesting is that Magic Johnson

he was HIV positive he had AIDS now Magic Johnson does not have AIDS he's not HIV positive he no longer has a trace of the virus in his body

pretty amazing right he had it no longer has it he had it he no longer has it He had it. He no longer hasn't. That in itself is worth studying. But even more interesting is that his name is Magic Johnson.

Magic Johnson. Magic Johnson. It's a euphemism for a magic penis. This man has a Magic Johnson. He got his Magic Johnson. gave him aides and then his magic Johnson allowed him to get rid of his aides. You see what I'm saying? The guy is a magic. He's magic. Tadda, I made HIV disappear with his magic Johnson. That is pretty funny, right? I thought that was pretty funny. If you look at it, though, he probably never had it, right? He probably thought, hey, I'm going to raise money. I'm going to raise

awareness, I'm going to help out these communities. And then he goes out and he tells the public, hey, look at me, I got AIDS. But now he doesn't have it in his body. You know, you got to think that maybe the insurance companies, or can you imagine, like, you go out and you tell the world, hey, I'm HIV positive. Here's my test.

And then you try to get life insurance. And they're like, hey, fuck you. You're HIV positive, magic. And then he's got to be like, well, you know, I'm actually not. And they're like, well, fuck you. Why did you say it on TV? Oh, well, I. just trying to raise awareness for the group, well, we're going to want you to take a test.

You know, you got to imagine that there's probably the stigma that comes with that disease probably caused that guy a lot of grief. But I don't know. I think that he, I don't think he probably ever had it. But I like to think of the second one about him having a Magic Johnson and not and getting rid of it. I think that's a kind of a funny one. That's one conspiracy theory people don't talk too much about. Another conspiracy. How about the New World Order? How about those guys? What the hell is the New World Order? People talk about it a lot. You know, it's all over YouTube and I think Henry Kissinger wrote a book called World Order. A lot of people talk about the New World Order and the Deep State, the Shadow Government. And I think that's pretty simplistic. There's clearly, there's clearly forces at work that control.

the narrative. I would think it's more like in my I think it's some sort of conglomeration of intelligence companies. You know we talked a little bit yesterday about private corporations hiring their own private securities which are all like their own private armies. You know if you think about corporations they're kind of like a country in a way. I mean some of them have, if you think of the corporation as a state and then all its little hubs like cities and all the workers in those hubs as citizens, you know, it's its own economic model. It's its own entity. It's its own sovereign nation in a way. And a lot of people talk about that being the new world order, not so much as a conspiracy of,

countries coming together in order to divide and conquer their people, but a new method of governing people, a new world order. Instead of there being sovereign nations, there's just multinational corporations. And if you look at some of the Rockefeller literature or some of the Council on Foreign Relations or Trilateral Commission, You know, or even our own military actions in other countries where we just go in as a military and wipe out the people there or clear the way for our corporations to start doing business, you could make the argument that there's a lot of people throughout government and business that are trying to establish a new world order in that being that business is the ultimate authority.

There's an interesting debate I saw a while back between Peter Thiel and Bill Gates, and they were debating the economy of the future. And it was obvious to me at least that Peter Thiel does not like Bill Gates. you know he was letting fly a lot of ad hominem attacks about how you know bill gates is responsible for a lot of problems and third world nations due to his vaccines and his ideas on business and eugenics and there was some really funny lines in there you know there was some One line was Peter Thiel had made a really articulate statement and then Bill Gates followed up to the moderator and

Bill Gates says something like this let's just pretend that everything that he said is not true It was it was pretty funny I think that I think that's kind of what's when you think about the new world order or You think about the emerging the emerging economic issues. I would say that what we're seeing now if I was to label myself as a conspiracy theorist or just give you my hunch on what's happening. I think that we're moving towards a more technocratic society. And then we define what I mean by technocratic. Technocratic is rule by science.

Rule by the idea. The technocrats believe that politicians are worthless. That they are greedy and selfish. selfish and easily manipulatable, too much willing to give in to what the people think should happen instead of doing what the right thing is. Where the technocrat compiles as much data as he can and then tries to establish the most not fair but effective and efficient distribution of those resources. Once he's compiled this list, once he understands the patterns.

of commerce, once he understands the patterns of consumption, then according to the technocrat, they'll be able to better make our society run effective and efficient. So it's a rule by science. And the rule, the problem I have with the technocrats is that I think they're the same as the politicians. They're both corrupt. They're both easily manipulatable. I think it's just as human beings. We have this, we have this blind spot, this sort of confirmation bias that makes it almost impossible for us to truly understand complexity. Too often we, we either give up our critical thinking to someone who knows about something or we tend to believe in people that just because they're smart in one area, we tend to give them credibility.

in all areas. But it's not true. Just because you're smart in one area, it doesn't mean you're smarter in all areas. In fact, if you're really smart in one area, that probably means that you're lacking in the other areas. I would say that, you know, if we go down the technocrat trail

and the conspiracy-minded mindset now, that has something to do with the COVID-19, I think one thing we can all agree on is that no one knows, what's going on. Is it real? I know people that have had it. I know a guy that was on an incubator. Incubator. Is that right? Intubator. You know, I've had people in my family that have had it. Why is it that the media reports that COVID-19, it affects more people of color? In fact, it, Its numbers, according to the media on people of color, are a multiple of white people.

But the very same media then tells people of color to go out and protest. In one breath, they say, listen, people of color are more susceptible to COVID-19. Their symptoms are worse. The lasting damage is worse. And then in the very next breath, they say, people of color should go outside and protest and subject themselves to COVID-19. Like, how can they, how can the media say that? And then people not think critically about that.

It's weird that the hardest hit states are all democratic states. They all have Democratic governors. It's weird that Acacia Cortez deleted a tweet that said, we must lock down the states to ruin the economy so Donald Trump won't get elected. And just so everybody knows, I don't have a dog in this fight. Like, I think Trump and Biden are equally silly. You know, if the Democrats wanted to win, why wouldn't they run one of the, young guns. There's a lot of things that don't make sense. What about the Wuhan lab?

Right? Did you see the guy from Harvard that got arrested for taking money from from China? How about Dr. Fauci's role in the Wuhan lab? How come that guy was studying there? Is that where the virus came from? Like it may have come from a bat, but I don't think that bat with the was consumed by an individual at a wet market. It clearly seems like some sort of a bio weapon to me. How can you have a vaccine for the coronavirus? The vaccine people take for the flu works. I don't even know if I would say that it works.

It's effective maybe 10% of the time. They never know what strain it is. They just are injecting you with something that they believe is going to help stimulate your immune system. Isn't it also funny that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for the harm their vaccine does? So part of me was thinking that the solution to the COVID crisis, if it is indeed a bio weapon or if it is indeed a pandemic, one of the reasons why people can't go back to work is because the insurance companies can't find out who's liable.

Is it the employer that's liable who's accepting his employees to unsafe work conditions? Or is it the employee who maybe has the COVID that is the person who's liable because they are bringing it into the workplace? Is it the guy that owns the restaurant or is it the patron of the restaurant? As far as I note, it's all their faults. And there's really no way to sort out that liability unless, unless, unless you could give everybody a vaccine and then say, look, everyone's had the vaccine. No one's liable. And you can't sue the pharmaceutical companies. Right? Then everybody has to go back to work. And if you get it and die, oh, well, you got a vaccine. Some people say that the COVID stands for certificate of vaccines. Vaccination ID 2019. Certificate of vaccination ID 2019.

And if you look up Bill Gates and MIT, you can see that what they've been working on there, it's called a quantum dot, a quantum dot. And it's like a, it's a lot like a, almost like a little tattoo, with maybe like some RFI like an RFID chip in there. I'm not sure exactly, but it's minute. And once you have that particular quantum dot embedded in your skin,

you know, it serves as a easily scanable chip that could be used to track you. It could be used to keep track of your records. It could be used to keep track of a new currency if we were to go on some sort of a digital currency. and you know it's like it's like tracking cattle except instead of putting that thing in your ear that's going to put it right in your arm I think that there is there's some dark forces out there that really want this to happen they really think

and it comes back to the technocratic ideas of understanding patterns of commerce and behavior if they could just if they could just chip everybody they could see who's spending what where they're spending their time and then they could better understand of how to set up a smart city. They could better understand people's patterns. At least that's their idea.

That's what they think. And look no further than Africa right now. Like this is actually ongoing in Africa right now. You could look it up and check it out. It's it almost seems like we're in a movie. Are you guys taking the chip if they bring it in here? Hey, this is the vaccine. You got to take this thing.

Hey, you can't work. Hey, you can't get on an airplane. Hey, you can't get a driver's license unless you have this. It's a fascinating thing to think about. You know, it all could be. It all, there's a lot of talk about the great reset. Is there going to be some sort of like a great reset where debt gets wiped out? Is there going to be some kind of great reset where everyone takes like a banking holiday or?

I don't know. I mean, how would that even? look, okay, no one has any debt anymore. Okay, there's no college debt. Okay, there's no mortgage debt. You would definitely stimulate the economy, right? If no one had any debt, you could just start over. It's fascinating to think about what's happening on Wall Street right now.

It's fascinating to think about, albeit scandalous and kind of demeaning, it's still fascinating. We're printing so much money and just giving it to the bank. Did you guys see on the PPP loans the banks made like $12 billion just in processing fees? Isn't that just a way of bailing out the banks? Okay, we're going to come up with this loan scam where we're going to give anybody that wants money. If they can say they have a business, we'll give them up to $2 million. And then the banks will process that fee. You know, it's maybe that's the reason why the wording on those PPP loans was so vague is because they needed the banks to get at least

you know, $12 billion. So that way, they knew that if the banks were going to charge 3% or 5%, then they had to give away at least, you know, however, like a trillion dollars or whatever. So the banks could get, you know, a percentage of that. But if that's how deep we're in, if we're in so deep right now that the government is just giving money to Wall Street and giving money to Black Rock and giving money to everybody, like there's no. no, there's no way out, right? Like, think about people that have been in their house now for, I don't know, five months or six months and haven't paid any mortgage payments. Haven't paid any rent payments. You know, if you live in a tourist destination, how about all the people that work at the hotels?

At some point in time, they either, you know, it seems like we're getting another stimulus package, but at some point in time, those people are going to run out of money, right? or does the government just keep on sending it out? I don't know. Since we're going down the woo-woo tree, there are some people talking about that this whole thing right now is because we're about to get hit by an asteroid or multiple asteroids.

Imagine that one. Imagine that they're trying to keep people happy, and not panicked, but come September, you're going to start to see things in the sky. And then everybody's going to realize, oh, shoot, we're about to get deep impacted.

You know, on some level, you could think, well, that's why essential business is running. There's not a whole lot of danger right now. However, there's going to be, and we don't want people out. We don't know where these rocks are going to hit. We know there's going to be a lot of them.

We don't know where they're going to hit or when they're going to hit. We want to keep people in their houses. We want to, you know, how do we get people to start getting prepared without scaring them? How do we get people to change their behavior for an event that we don't want to tell them about? And it's worldwide, right? COVID is not just in the U.S. It's worldwide. Maybe it's just a pandemic.

Maybe the earth is like, hey man, getting sick and tired of you, parasites just squandering everything. And it's time for me, the earth, to let you guys know that you are an evolutionary cul-de-sac. Adios, amigos. It could be that we're just suffering from stagnation. It could be that there's no new ideas. It could be that all the banks, all the companies have bet big. on tech. They have bet big on the ideas of

flying cars and new technologies and they made big bets with side chain derivatives and none of those companies panned out. None of those companies produced the product they promised. That's plausible. It's plausible.

It could be that we are preparing for the great reset and we already are putting the new system to work. And what I mean by that is, have you guys ever read a, excuse me, that book, Ready Player One? It's a, if you haven't read it, you should totally read it. It's a great book. It's a fiction book. I know.

So people don't like fiction, but you should read it. And it just talks about this boy who in the future, you know, he's going to school. But what's important about the book to this topic is the way he was going to school. He was going to school via virtual reality. So we had like a headset and like a console. And then he would, you know, you just, you put on your headset and then you go to your Google meet. And then boom, you're in the virtual classroom. You know, I don't have the, I don't have the, uh, the vibe or the auction.

I got the one headset where you can put your phone in there. However, I've heard good things about the Vibe and the Oculus. And I can't imagine. Imagine if you had a really cool headset and you put that headset on and then you're in virtual reality with kids from all over the world, taking classes like an elective from a history teacher in Switzerland. And if you like that guy, then everybody just puts on their headset and you go to that guy's class. you know, kind of does away with the education in your community, right?

Whether that's magic or tragic, I don't know. But it could be one opportunity for like truly global learning and truly a coming together of global ideas. Whatever it is, I think it's important to note that power, be it the government official, the corporate executive, or the military leader. Power is never given up. People don't give up their position. Power is taken. Power is taken. It's always taken. It's never given up. It's never abdicated. It's either overthrown or it's taken. And that kind of brings us back full circle to propaganda and, you know, the printed word and linear speech and linear thinking. Throughout your whole life, at least in the U.S., what are you taught?

Nonviolence. Hey, I don't condone violence. Hey, let's try to find a nonviolent solution. You know, it's like the people on the top are trying to, from a very early age, influence kids not to fight. when if you look back at history, the only real change has come from violent revolution. And I mean, you can, maybe this is a conspiracy, but it seems like at least the men in some parts of the country

have been softened up with this whole theories of nonviolence and transgenderism. soy boys and you know lord knows what's in the food and the lower testosterone counts that's one thing i really i really admire about hawai is it's it's still at its core like a warrior culture if you're in the you say the wrong thing to the wrong person you're you're gonna get your ass kick and like as as a man there's something about that's kind of liberating like yeah that guy deserve to get punch in the face. Yeah, that guy deserved to get his ass kicked.

Or hey, that guy didn't deserve to get his ass kicked, but that was a hell of a fight. There's something about standing up for what you believe in. There's something about not backing down from what you think. Even if it's wrong, but you believe it to be right, there's something refreshing about fighting for that. I think we're missing a big part of that. I would like to see a return to, a return to questioning authority. A return to the rebellious spirit.

A return to violent protection of your ideas. Right? Anything in life worth having is worth fighting for. I think that. Which leads me to another point. you know one way of fighting and the first the first line of fighting is verbal and i think that's one reason why people aren't taught the trivium just to be clear the trivium is grammar logic and rhetoric and it was a a course that was taught to all scholars in ancient times right grammar we talked

about a little bit. Grammar is the ability to understand the structure of language. And the reason that's important is because the way grammar is structured is the way your reality is structured. Logic is the ability to think critically. Logic is the ability to forecast potential outcomes. Logic is the ability to forecast intent. Rhetoric is the ability to persuade the people with whom you are speaking. If you can master those three, if you can just have an idea of those three, then it's like having a purple belt in linguistic jiu-jitsu. And I kind of want to go, I think in a later podcast,

I'm going to try to dissect each of those and try and break it down and try to give everybody a foundation in each. Because I think that that's, we know we've spoken a lot about propaganda and we've spoken about how to recognize it. And those are great defensive moves. Being aware of what's coming your way

is a great defensive move. But I think we can work on some offense. And I think offense would be working with our grammar, working with our logic, and working with our rhetoric. Understanding the means in which we decide to use argumentation,

understanding the logical fallacies, like the appeal to authority or the appeal to emotion, understanding techniques that can help you in crucial conversations. I guess we could talk a little bit about them now. I don't have a lot of the work in front of me, but we could talk about a few strategies.

here's something you can try today. Whenever you, first off, know this. What is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? The purpose of an argument is to solve a problem. You see, too many of us, when we are in an argument, we forget the purpose of an argument.

And instead of trying to solve a problem, we try to win. See, it triggers that fighter flight mode. And it can trigger some emotions and it can trigger your adrenaline. And all of a sudden, instead of staying on topic about what it is you're trying to solve, all of a sudden, an ad hominem attack is throwing your way. And by that, I mean like a personal attack. is throwing your way, something off topic, but it's just thrown at you to kind of throw you off base. And so it's important to be aware of that.

If you can be aware that in any argument, the purpose is to solve a problem, that will automatically stop or at least slow and or hinder the fight or flight response. So you won't feel the anxiety rise. You won't feel your emotions rise. you won't feel your anger arise because it's not an attack on you it's a it's a lack of understanding between two people so if you can know that and repeat that to yourself when you find yourself in a confrontational situation you can better use your words to protect yourself so that being said something you can do to practice and use in a conversation and use

an argumentation is that whenever you speak to somebody, start like you normally would, and then let the other person talk. And as soon as that other person talks, don't answer them right away. In your mind, count two, five or seven. So I'm talking right now. As I'm talking to you, I'm going to show you what a silent, this is called the silent pause. I'm going to show you what a silent pause looks like. We're talking, we're talking.

That was seven seconds. you could probably do five. But if you do that, just try it out today. Just when someone says something, count to five or seven in your head. And I bet you, before you can even say another word in that seven seconds, the other person is going to say something else. People aren't used to other people are not used to other people listening and not saying anything. in fact that magic number of seven because you haven't said anything in seven seconds that other

person begins to wonder why you're not saying anything and it's just long enough for them to start second guessing what they said and nine out of ten times they will especially in a conversation where someone who claims to be in an authority position is trying to say something to you hey you know i noticed that this thing happened over there you want me to you want to talk to me about that? Seven seconds. That person in seven seconds will begin to think that their strategy is the wrong strategy. And there's nothing, you know, there's no law that says you have to answer people at all. But try the seven seconds thing. Try it out. Get good at it. Understand it. Understand its power. Understand why it works. You know, and teach it to your kids. The younger people can

use these strategies, the better it's going to be. But that is an effective one. The second one, which can be used on the heels of the seven second silent pause, is to answer a question with a question. So let's say you're sitting down with someone and are like, hey, can you please tell me why you decided to go and do that thing? When you say thing, what thing are you talking about? Are you talking about the thing I did yesterday? Or are you talking about the other thing? Okay, so you see what I did there? Let's break that down. They asked me a question. I waited seven seconds.

And then I answered their question with a question. Because subliminally, on an unconscious level, the person asking the questions is usually the person in charge. Have you ever heard people say, hey, I'll ask the questions here. It's because they want to be in charge. Usually the person asking the questions is the person in charge. So to follow up, if you find yourself in that situation, the person brings you into wherever, they ask you a question.

So you wait your seven seconds and then you answer your question with a question. It's called the Socratic method. So now not only have you kind of thrown them off their base by the silent pause, but now you've begun to ask the questions and a tip on this part like a little side channel of asking questions. Think about how questions. So, for example, hey, why did this happen over here like that? You wait your seven seconds. How would you have done it better?

So now you're answering their question with a question, but you're using a how question. And when someone asks you how to do something, it changes your thought patterns. It changes the way the other person thinks, especially if they have a script of what they wanted to talk to you about, I'm going to ask this guy about that. I'm going to challenge him on this and see what he says. You've already thrown him off their game. You've given him the silent pause. You've answered a question with a question. And now the how question that forces them to think from your point of view. It's like a forced empathy. How would you have done it better? Now that person is obligated to tell you how they would have done it. And the chances are

they don't know how to do it better than you. The chances are they didn't think about how they would do it. The chances are they probably would have done it the exact same way you did it. And by asking them, how would you have done it? It forces them to think about that. It forces them. And what that does is it takes them off their script and it forces that empathy to be like, oh, yeah, well, gosh, I probably would have done it the same way you did.

Or a lot of times what happens right there. is that the person with whom you're arguing, they get mad right there. They realize that they've just lost the argument and they're way out in the woods. Like they're way out in La La Land because someone yelled at them. Now they're trying to use the same techniques to yell at you, but you have successfully sidestepped and used their momentum against them. So there's three techniques right there. And I'm just going to go over them again because repetition is the mother's skill, right?

repetition is the mother of skill repetition is the mother of skill the silent pause seven seconds answer a question with a question and try to use how questions you make good eye contact it's a great place to start and those are effective methods of solving a problem not trying to win an argument they're all some those are all things that you should be thinking about to be a better communicator. Those are all things you should be thinking about in order to get your point across. Those are all things you should be thinking about to talk to your children about. All of us will find ourselves in a situation like this. And the truth is, the best leaders are the best communicators. If you can understand someone's point of view, if you can put yourself

in someone else's shoes, if you can explain your thoughts. thoughts clearly, then you can better understand your motivations and other people's motivations. There's a lot of interesting techniques that we can use. Neuro-linguistic programming, part of which is priming and pacing and mirroring. There's also some really interesting concepts about language that I'm going to do some more research on and get to you guys that truly, I mean, they just, They get to the real foundation of what our language is. And, you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, we're the barbarians because we just babble all the time.

You know, we just, bah, ba, ba, ba, we're just babbling. We've forgotten what, what language is like. We've forgotten how to truly communicate. There's some schools of thought that say poetic verse is in fact the real way of communicating. when you speak in a style of poetic metaphor and everybody knows what I mean have you ever read a good poem and it makes you get goosebumps or you read a good poem and you start crying or you read a poem and it it helps you clearly see a vision in your mind like that is language that is linguistics you know what's not written in poetic form contracts user agreements insurance contracts. You know, none of that's written in poetic metaphor. In fact, just thinking out loud here, maybe that is the answer. Maybe that is the answer. But getting back to, I think it's called like a euphonics.

And there's a story about, there is a story. I think it's from Plato's cradleless. Here's a little blur. Let me read this little blur. The primary text in euphonics is Plato's Cratelus, a Socratic dialogue about the origins of language, and the influence of archetypal sounds on the formation of words. It is subtitled on the correctness of names. The debate is between Socrates and two other characters. Cratelus, who claims to know the science of nomenclature, and what there is in a name,

which makes it correct or otherwise. And Hermogonies, who denies that there is any science or inherent correctness in naming things. His contention is that whatever name you choose to give anything is its right name. The third party, Socrates, examines both arguments and comes down on the side of Cratelus. The dialogue is long, intricate, and in parts quite mystifying. In speculating about the original forms of names, Socrates teases his listeners with outrageous puns and obscure illusions which modern scholars are out of loss to interpret.

He claims no special knowledge of the subject, but offers the view that a name appears to be a vocal imitation, and a person who imitates something with his voice names that which he imitates. There are good names and bad ones, and a good name is one that contains the proper letters. Letters are appropriate or not in a name according as they serve to represent through their sounds the qualities of whatever is being named. Thus, the proper name for a thing is a composition of those sounds which imitate the ideas associated with it.

Near the end of the dialogue, Socrates speaks about the inherent meanings of individual sounds, The R sound, he says, is made by the tongue, and it's most agitated, and it is, therefore, expressive of rapid movement. It also, he adds later, stands for hardness. The Greek words containing R, with which Socrates illustrates his statement, justify modern interest in this subject. For the English translations also feature the letter R. They include run, row, trembling rush

race among other examples given are the L sound which has a sleek gliding motion sound and the G sound which is gummy and gluttonous I don't know

when I think a G I think of good looking greatness gregarious good humor giant hammer George Monty

That's just me though That's what I think But you guys get the point You know If there's a proper name for things And each letter Has a true meaning Shouldn't you apply that letter's true meaning

To the object Another way to think about it is Formation of names or words From sounds that resemble those associated with the object or action to be named, or that seem naturally suggestive of its qualities. The example given is cuckoo. And there are many other words, such as plop,

click, buzz, pur, hiss, hem, and haw, which are obvious attempts at imitating a sound. Similar attempts are made in all languages. The question which then arises is to what extent these imitative sounds influence the meanings of the longer composite words in which they occur. A previous essay on the poetical alphabet forms a chapter in a book called Pluriverse. American philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, he begins by telling of a discussion he once had as to why an icicle could not fitly be called a tub, nor vice versa.

It is in the nature of its name, he concluded. for a tub to be short and stubby, whereas an icicle sounds spindly and slim. At the sound of icicle, the irrational mind throws up the word bicycle, which is also spindly and often cold, explaining perhaps the popular acceptance of that word to name a pedal cranked two-wheeler. You see what's going on there? The nature of a word, the letters of a word, the letters of a word, the letters of,

of that word put an idea in your head. And that idea should be congruent with the object that it explains. Right? Like plop, click, buzz, pur, hiss. These are words that are imitations of sound. So shouldn't the names of things that we have imitate? It's an interesting concept. And it, if it is indeed true,

it just shows how far we've fallen from using the language appropriate to explain our environment. You know, when you think about names, you know, remember when you were a kid and certain people got made fun of. You know, one thing I've noticed here in Hawaii, and this is a little bit about what we're talking about, and it's about culture, but it's, it straddles the fence between what we're talking about and culture.

sometimes people that come to the United States, they come from like an Asian culture where the alphabet's different and it's difficult for people in the United States to pronounce names of different alphabets. And so that person will take on an American name. There was a guy on my route that was, I think he was Chinese. And his last, he took the moniker.

His American name was Peter Pan. right which every american kid has seen peter pan and so it goes without saying that you know it's just a lack of like he didn't understand this culture people didn't understand his culture however because he that name is stuck in the american lexicon as like a as the boy who never grew up all of a sudden that image is tied to it therefore this guy from china is imitating peter pan like he can't escape that he chose the wrong name but it goes to what I'm talking about as far as, you know, if you're, if you're on the playground or you're naming a child, you know, when you're naming a kid, you've got to think of like, oh, man, if I name it, if I name my girl Polly, is she going to be Pert Pauley or depressing Diedry or Bill Blunt or Willie Week or Cheeky Charlie or Big Bertha or slippery Sid? you know, there's

certain words that fit together that can be humorous. And if you're not thinking about that when your name and your kid, you could subcept them to hours and hours of torment on the playground. You know, this may seem childish and erotic, but behind such trivial lies

a feature of language which poets have always more or less consciously acknowledged. Names and words are made up of sounds and each sound has some kind of natural meaning. expressing and evoking a certain human emotion. In some cases, even the shapes of letters, the serpentine sibilant S, for example, seem to accord with the sounds they denote.

Academic linguists and etymologists amid their serious studies of secular derivations and verbal migrations have no time for such whimsical notions. But to a poet, this oral approach to language is all important. every sensitive writer is concerned not only with the proclaimed meaning of words but also with their esoteric subliminal qualities their pitch and ring and the irrational feelings produced by the sound and sometimes by the side of them that's a that's kind of a mouthful like but it's true if you're in tune with your language you cannot deny that some words have irrational feelings produced by the sound. Some words have subliminal qualities. Their pitch and their ring. Just the very sound of some words can cause you to feel a certain thing. And that's never, talked about. Imagine if you were a kid and at a young age, you begun to learn what the sounds of

letters evoke. What if right from the beginning in school, you learned that the letter S, it's serpentine nature. It's sibilant S. Like, look at it. Like, if you think of an S, it kind of looks like a snake. What does the word snake start with? An S, the serpent. Serptitious, seductive, salacious.

S, that's what that's the sound of snake makes. Like the letter S embodies that particular emotion that the snake produces. Thus, the snake or the serpent is a great symbol of the letter S. Every letter has something like that. And what happens when you could string those letters together to form the right names for the right object? I would argue that if you're able to do that, the world would make more sense to you. Not only would the world make more sense to you, if you could learn to speak in such language, people around you would be amazed.

The sentences you would stitch together, the words that you could flip off the end of your tongue, would dazzle the masses. It's an art form. And if kids could learn at an early age how to master that, which they can, the world would be a better place. I think that that's a pretty good spot for it. That's kind of the beginning of the trivium that we're going to work into a little bit upcoming. We can go through a bunch of letters. I do have a little bit here on the, like, so we talked about S.

Let me read you a little bit about the letter A. vowels hold emotions and feelings while consonants hold thoughts and the intellect a japanese sage gives the explanation of why people falling off building shout ah on their way downwards it is because they naturally wish to ascend and the ah sound is characteristic of uplift whether in body or spirit a gives a sense of alacrity of active, happy, alert, agile, attentive, aware, awake lads and lasses. The appropriate bird is the lark, which might thus be addressed. Audacious avian arise. Ascend aloft to azure skies. Alert to your angelic strain or aspirations soar again. So you can see that the proper application, the proper use of language,

an understanding grammar, understanding the power of each letter, how it influences people, how it, what emotion it might be able to evoke. If you knew what letters evoked what emotion, then you would know which words to use to tell people to get the desired response, fundamentally changing the way people communicate.

In fact, that should be, that would be an awesome legacy, right? what if your legacy was fundamentally changing the way people communicate? I would like that to be my legacy. I would like to help as many people as I can fundamentally change the way they communicate. Not only so that they have better relationships, not only so that their life is more fulfilling, but because it would make the world a better place.

Well, my friends, it's time for me to get on out of here. I love you guys. Thank you for listening today. Thank you for going way out. on the Woo Woo Tree Branch of High Speculation. We had a nice bird's eye view from that branch. And as the foundational branch began to break, we jumped down from the tree and landed into the linguistic arts of language.

I hope you're able to take a little bit from this. I hope that there was some argumentative augmentations you can make along the way. And I hope that you can change your relationships and change your life and teach your kids some of what we learned. So I love you guys. Aloha.