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Happiness Is A Side Effect Of Meaning | Proudly Made in the USA

Happiness is a Side Effect of Meaning | Proudly Made in the USA

Happiness is a Side Effect of Meaning | Proudly Made in the USA

It's a beautiful day to be alive here at the peak of recorded human history

GO FORTH AND BE MIGHTY!

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I'm dead serious about this, it's like, sort yourself out

[Joe Rogan] Sort yourself out before you try to figure out world, and that's the primary objective

[Joe Rogan] That's your that's your most important thing that you can do, sort yourself out

Absolutely, sort yourself out, and and
Marshal your arguments, and put yourself in order, so that
When someone pushes you a little farther than you should go

[Chorus]
You can say, "No."
You can say, "No."
Then when someone pushes you a little farther than you should go
You can say, "No."
You can say, "No."

Here's some fundamental rules about the shadow that you might
Think about as you move forward through your life
So a lot of times you're gonna have to negotiate on your own behalf
[Chorus]
Most of it's illusion
Most of it's illusion
Most of it's illusion

So you know, I said what I had to say
I'm sure that I could've done it better, and many people have told me how I could have done it better, although it didn't mean they would actually do it
And you know, my job was at risk, serious risk for about two months, and it destabilized my family
They’ve been very brave about this, so like thumbs up to them, man
Here's the optimistic news, the universe has left me alone completely, I shook hands with the Dean two weeks ago, we're on friendly terms
They don't want this to go any farther than it has already
The students were tremendously welcoming when I came back to teach in January
But why would I put my job on the line to have an opinion?
I know why, because the ability to speak your truth is the bulwark against hell
And losing your job, that's nothing, that's nothing compared to where things can go when they go badly
For me, it was just preventative
It's like, this isn't going in a good direction
Well, should you take a risk?
It's like, you don't have that choice
Your silent, that's a risk
Now most people don't understand the risks of silence
I happened to understand the risks of silence, because I've been studying them for 40 years

[Chorus]
It's my language
I'll take responsibility for what I say I am not saying your words
It's my language
I'll take responsibility for what I say I am not saying your words
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
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)

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