TrueLife - The Dissolution of Perfection: How Imperfection Shapes Consciousness and Culture

Episode Date: June 18, 2021

One on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. Use Promocode TRUELIFE for Get 25% off monthly or 30% off the annual plan For the first yearhttps://www.district216.com/Perfection is an illusion, a mirror reflecting what cannot exist. In this episode, George Monty delves into the paradox of imperfection — why chaos, failure, and breakdown are not enemies but catalysts for transformation. From cultural systems to personal growth, we explore how dissolution opens space for creativity, resilience, and awakening.In this episode:The psychology of perfection and its illusionsHow breakdown fosters innovation and consciousness expansionImperfection in culture, leadership, and personal lifeLessons from entropy, systems theory, and human evolutionWhy embracing imperfection may be humanity’s greatest survival toolTranscript:https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/71643670Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome back. My friends. Welcome back. Hope everybody is enjoying the day. The moment in your life, your relationships, your constant classroom, learning the idea that as you go through life, you begin to see things from different points of view. Hopefully, hopefully the lessons while difficult are rewarding, what is better than a good story? Speaker 1 (41s): Pizza, boatloads cocaine in a stripper, Speaker 0 (47s): You might think to yourself, a good story that makes me think, and its in that spirit that I have a story for you today. Are you ready? Here we go. There were five brave warriors Speaker 2 (1m 6s): Who set out on a quest. Speaker 0 (1m 10s): They set out on a quest on a journey. Speaker 3 (1m 15s): They set out to do something. No one had ever done before. Speaker 0 (1m 20s): Not because the task at hand was impossible. It was more of a fantasy. Let me explain in this world, in which these five warriors lived, there was often a yearly story Speaker 3 (1m 40s): That was as such a magnitude. Most people would never walk out of their houses. The lightning, the thunder crashing the torrential rains and winds made it almost impossible to be outside. However, there was a myth in this village slash town that if one was brave enough and could go out into these storms and could sail the seas during this storm, it was rumored that they could move through the waters and sail to a mythical island where everything was perfect. So that's what these five warriors decided to do. They have been preparing their shit. Speaker 0 (2m 42s): They had been preparing their minds and their rations in their weapons. Clouds began to role in the sounds of thunder. Enlightening came crashing down upon seeing the storm heading towards their village. The young men prepared their boat and set out to see the journey began, wins, crashing the sea, being angry and tossing the boat. But the men moved on. They kept pushing Speaker 3 (3m 22s): Forward and before long Speaker 0 (3m 26s): They were out to sea. However, they could not see anything unsure of which way the boat was heading. The large sails began to rip and tear into shreds. The boat was thrust up against walls of water, cracking the hole. On one side, the crewmen were thrown from side to side before long the boat was in tatters and the men had collapsed, but that's not the end of our story. It's just the beginning. They woke up all fives on a boat in pieces in tatters, but on a reef Speaker 3 (4m 26s): And not far from the shallow reef, they saw an island one that wasn't on any map Speaker 0 (4m 33s): That had ever seen. They made their way. The short distance from where their boat was to the island, upon reaching the island, they were greeted by men and women who looked almost like themselves, but seemed to be more perfect in that the skin was flawless. There a tire was magnificent, flawless, not a wrinkle on their clothes, not a spot on their shoes that I hear out, a place. The strangers welcomed, the five warriors. The strangers told the warriors that they will be able to repair their ship and they will be able to heal them in most of which had injuries from their violent sea voyage. The men were taken into the town into a large homestead where they were given rations and medical attention. Their boat was taken to a shipyard to be repaired on the third day, when the men began feeling better, I thought they knew a little training. So the five warriors make their way to the training grounds for some exercise and to look around the island a bit. And what they see is, or appears to be a world much like their own, but almost perfect cobblestones are smooth. The architecture beautiful. It seems immaculate. The five warriors begin trying to comprehend all the things they are seeing and they are taking in the beauty and they are blown away by how precise and how exact and how seemingly beautiful perfection can be. As they're thinking this, a young woman from one of the stables comes by to bring them some refreshments in to check on. And as the young woman makes her way towards the five warriors, she slips on a cobblestone and as she slips the refreshments, she brings, she's bringing to the men fall from her hand and spill everywhere. And the wine stains, the cobblestones. And as they can see this, their first thought is, Aw, this poor girl. And they begin making their way towards that young girl that fell. But before they can get there, every other person runs over to the young woman in a violently beat her using stones to crash in her skull, kicking her, stoning her until she dies. Five warriors are blown away, not understanding the violence, the extreme violence they've seen not understanding why they don't say anything that off the bat, because there's nothing to say. When one sees that type of violence is the type of violence that takes a little bit a processing to Think about and understand that. I really see that. Is that something that really happened? So the men go back to training somewhat and another woman comes out and this woman does not fall. She brings the RefreshMints and one of the warriors asked her, what was it that we just saw? And a young woman says in our world, in our village, on our island, the emperor does not tolerate imperfection. And it is our emperor's wish that those who cannot be perfect must die. <inaudible> the next day, the five Warrior's much more cautious of the world in which they are currently inhabiting begin to see other acts of violence. A slip of the tongue causes all the patron's in a bar to swarm on a man, violently savagely, beating him until he dies. The bodies hauled off the area's cleaned up. Life goes on like nothing happened Speaker 3 (10m 3s): Later that day. As the mineral, walking through the town and heading back to their residence, to see a child walking through the streets, playing with his ball, throwing it up, catching it, throwing it up, catching it, throwing it up and missing him. And just like a y...

Darkness struck, a gut-punched theft, Sun ripped away, her health bereft. I roar at the void. This ain't just fate, a cosmic scam I spit my hate. The games rigged tight, shadows deal, blood on their hands, I'll never kneel. Yet in the rage, a crack ignites, occulted sparks cut through the nights. The scars my key, hermetic and stark. To see, to rise, I hunt in the dark, fumbling, fear. Fearist through ruins maze lights my war cry born from the blaze.

The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Codex Seraphene. Check out the entire song at the end of the cast. Welcome back, my friends. Welcome back. I hope everybody is enjoying the day, the moment, your life, your relationships, your constant classroom learning, the idea that as you go through life, you begin to see things from different points of view. Hopefully, hopefully, the lessons while difficult are rewarding.

What is better than a good story? Pizza, bongloads, cocaine and a stripper? You might think to yourself a good story that makes me think. And it's in that spirit that I have a story for you today. Are you ready? Here we go. There were five brave warriors. They set out on a quest.

They set out on a quest on a journey. They set out to do something, no one had ever done before. Not because the task at hand was impossible. It was more of a fantasy. Let me explain.

In this world in which these five warriors lived, there was often a purely storm that was of such a magnitude. Most people would never walk out of their houses. The lightning,

the thunder crashing, The torrential rains and winds made it almost impossible to be outside. However, there was a myth in this village slash town that if one was brave enough and could go out into these storms and could sail the seas during this storm, it was rumored that they could move through the waters and sail to a mythical island where everything was perfect. So that's what these five warriors decided to do. They'd been preparing their ship.

They had been preparing their minds and their rations and their weapons. Clouds began to roll in. The sounds of thunder and lightning came crashing down. Upon seeing the storm heading, towards their village. The young men prepared their boat and set out to sea. The journey began winds crashing, the sea being angry and tossing the boat,

but the men moved on, they kept pushing forward. And before long, they were out to sea. However, they could not see anything. unsure of which way the boat was heading the large sails began to rip and tear into shreds the boat was thrust up against walls of water cracking the hole on one side

the crewmen were thrown from side to side and before long the boat was in tatters and the men had collapsed but that's not the end of our story it's just the beginning They woke up all five on a boat in pieces and tatters, but on a reef. And not far from the shallow reef they saw an island. One that wasn't on any map they had ever seen.

They made their way the short distance from where their boat was to the island. Upon reaching the island, they were greeted. by men and women who looked almost like themselves but seemed to be more perfect in that

the skin was flawless their attire was magnificent flawless not a wrinkle on their clothes not a spot on their shoes not a hair out of place

the strangers welcome the five warriors the strangers told the warriors that they will be able to repair their ship and they will be able to heal the men most of which had injuries from their violent sea voyage the men were taken into the town into a large homestead where they were given rations

and medical attention their boat was taken to a shipyard to be repaired. On the third day, when the men began feeling better, they thought they'd do a little training. So the five warriors make their way to the training grounds for some exercise and to look around the island a bit. And what they see is or appears to be a world, much like their own, but almost perfect.

The cobblestones are smooth, the architecture beautiful. It seems immaculate. The five warriors begin trying to comprehend all the things they're seeing and they're taken in the beauty and they're blown away by how precise and how exact and how seemingly beautiful perfection can be. As they're thinking this, a young woman. from one of the stables comes by to bring them some refreshments and to check on them. And as the young woman makes her way towards the five warriors, she slips on a cobblestone.

And as she slips, the refreshments she brings, she's bringing to the men fall from her hand and spill everywhere. And the wine stains the cobblestones. And as the men see this, their first thought is, oh, this poor girl. And they began making their way towards the young girl that fell. But before they can get there, every other person runs over to the young woman

and violently beats her, using stones to crash in her skull, kicking her, stoning her until she dies. Five war. are blown away. Not understanding the violence, the extreme violence they've seen.

Not understanding why. They don't say anything right off the bat. Because there's nothing to say when one sees that type of violence. It's the type of violence that takes a little bit of processing to think about and understand that I really see that.

Is that something that really happened? So the men go back to training somewhat. And another woman comes out. And this woman does not fall. She brings the refreshments. And one of the warriors asks her, what was it that we just saw? And the young woman says,

in our world, in our village, on our island, the emperor does not tolerate imperfection. and it is our emperor's wish that those who cannot be perfect must die the next day the five warriors much more cautious of the world in which they are currently inhabiting begin to see other acts of violence

a slip of the tongue causes all the patrons in a bar to swarm on a man violently, savagely beating him until he dies the body's hauled off the area is cleaned up life goes on like nothing happened

later that day as the men are walking through the town and heading back to their residence they see a child walking through the streets playing with his balls throwing it up catching it throwing it up

catching it throwing it up and missing it and just like the young woman and the man before him, the child is savagely beaten, murdered, and discarded. Some of the warriors begin to become really uneasy. And they ask more people, why are you doing this? Why would you savagely beat a child? Why would you savagely beat a woman for a mistake?

And each time they ask someone, they're told, it is the wishes of our emperor. It is because of our emperor that we cannot tolerate imperfection. And that is our society. It is because of our emperor. Our emperor demands perfection. It is our society. It is the way in which our world, our island, is.

It is the wish of our emperor. Every time the men ask, it is the wish of our emperor. the five warriors begin thinking to themselves what sort of an emperor would demand this type of penalty for a mistake and so they decide

that they want to meet this emperor and they ask the patrons in which they're staying if it would be possible for them to meet the emperor the patron says of course sail alone that's what you do, just sail on You must go to the island next to ours, which is a safe boat right away. And on that island, which is the emperor's island, there is a castle.

And in that castle, there is the emperor. And so the five warriors make their way to the island. They travel safely from the island thereon to the island of the emperor. And when they get to the island of the emperor, they noticed it seems to be rather quiet. And they make their way to this amazing castle that seems to be out of place because it looks run down. No doubt in its time it was magnificent and still is.

However, the appearance seems to be unkempt. The five warriors make their way to the... large, grand hall of the castle. They enter the castle. And as they make their way to the throne room, they realize there's no one in the castle. And as they get close to the throne, in the throne room,

they notice that the man on the throne is dead. In fact, it appears he's been dead a long time. Merely bones left. Generations, he's been dead. So they take this emperor. They take his bones and they wrap him up. And they come back to the island in which they originally crashed. And they go to the center of the town square and they say,

is this your emperor? And they show the crown. And they show his jewels. And they show his shield, his coat of arms. And they say, your god is dead your god is dead

your god is dead he's been dead for at least a hundred years the entire town goes silent and then the entire town explodes not in a mushroom cloud

not in some sort of nuclear blast but in rage people began killing each other fires begin to be set on neighbors. Retaliatory murders for children killed in the streets, rage takes over. The young warriors make their way to their boat in the boatyard that has been repaired.

And one local woman escapes with them. And as the five warriors and the woman escape to their boat and make it out to sea, they continue to see smoke and fire and hear the sounds of despair screaming and yelling and rage coming from this island that was once so perfect the five warriors in there their lack of understanding

their bewilderment turned to the young woman that escaped with them and said we don't understand what is it that is happening why the rage why the violence Why now? The young woman says, isn't it obvious? For the last 300 years, we murdered.

We savagely beat innocent people for making mistakes because our emperor demanded it. But the truth is, since our emperor had died, he could not have demanded it. We committed these murders. We committed this savage. We committed these horrific acts. Because deep down, we wanted to.

That's it, that's the story. What do you guys think? What does that mean to you? What does that mean to you? I think it means, I think it means people are willing to commit random acts of violence. People are willing to do the most sad, to do the most savage and brutal things

if they don't have to take responsibility for them. And the truth is, it's always your responsibility. You always have a choice. And when you commit crimes against your own morality, then you, upon learning you had a choice, will find it very difficult to reconcile. You'll find it all. You'll find it almost impossible to blame yourself for such horrific acts.

Responsibility. You and you alone are responsible for what you do, regardless of what an authority figure tells you to do. If you do something you don't agree with, does that release you from the responsibility of your actions? If you enforce something that you know is wrong, you are to blame