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One way of conceptualizing yourself is that you're one speck of dust among seven billion
And when you conceptualize yourself that way you might think, well what difference does it make what I say or do?
And that's actually quite convenient for you because if it doesn't matter
What you say or do then you don't have any responsibility and you can do whatever you want
The price you pay for that is a bit of nihilism but if you don't have to shoulder any responsibility that's a small price to pay
The other way of looking at it then this is actually the accurate way of looking at it is that you’re in a network
You're a note in the network
You can do a little bit of arithmetic very rapidly and just figure out how powerful you are
You know a 1.000 people (You know a 1.000 people)
They know a 1.000 people (They know a 1.000 people)
That means that you're one person away from a million people and two persons away from a billion people
And you’re the center of that network and now the way networks work is that the information propagates in a network manner
So, don't underestimate the power of your speech
Don't underestimate the power of truth
There's nothing more powerful
And when you conceptualize yourself that way you might think, well what difference does it make what I say or do?
And that's actually quite convenient for you because if it doesn't matter
What you say or do then you don't have any responsibility and you can do whatever you want
The price you pay for that is a bit of nihilism but if you don't have to shoulder any responsibility that's a small price to pay
The other way of looking at it then this is actually the accurate way of looking at it is that you’re in a network
You're a note in the network
You can do a little bit of arithmetic very rapidly and just figure out how powerful you are
You know a 1.000 people (You know a 1.000 people)
They know a 1.000 people (They know a 1.000 people)
That means that you're one person away from a million people and two persons away from a billion people
And you’re the center of that network and now the way networks work is that the information propagates in a network manner
So, don't underestimate the power of your speech
Don't underestimate the power of truth
There's nothing more powerful
You know one of the things that
Revolutionary movements have to offer young people is a sense of romantic adventure
I mean, if you're working at 7-Eleven in a dead-end job
And you're offered an adventure, the chance to demonstrate
Dramatically for a messianic cause
Especially if you're young, that's gonna call to something deep inside you, and excite you
Because everyone needs a higher purpose
And that belonging can be addressed by romantically inclined ideologues, but there are better ways of addressing that longing
I believe there's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth
[Chorus]
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)
Revolutionary movements have to offer young people is a sense of romantic adventure
I mean, if you're working at 7-Eleven in a dead-end job
And you're offered an adventure, the chance to demonstrate
Dramatically for a messianic cause
Especially if you're young, that's gonna call to something deep inside you, and excite you
Because everyone needs a higher purpose
And that belonging can be addressed by romantically inclined ideologues, but there are better ways of addressing that longing
I believe there's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth
[Chorus]
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (Telling the truth)