I’ve just started reading Chris Brady’s new book called Rascals. It’s another great reminder about how much we need to resist the ‘compliancy pressures’ of the modern incarnation of late stage capitalism.
If you’re ready to press ahead with the essential project of becoming your truly unique and wonderful self then this episode will be another step of encouragement along your special path.
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Speaker:So I just wanted to get this out.
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Speaker:I wanted to try and give you some gold.
Speaker:And, uh, in the previous episode, I was sharing a beautiful insight from Uttar.
Speaker:Hargan the, um, American theater teacher.
Speaker:And she was really talking about the need to be authentic, to be who you
Speaker:are, because otherwise you run the risk of a life, lived in mediocrity.
Speaker:You know, that any life can be mediocre in and of itself because
Speaker:every life is so unique and precious.
Speaker:But it's possible to live under a set of assumptions and beliefs that allow
Speaker:us to lead a life where we don't get to contribute everything that's within us.
Speaker:I wanted to follow that up with a book.
Speaker:I started reading yesterday by Chris Brady.
Speaker:It's called Rascals.
Speaker:And it's an exploration of the kind of mindsets of people that
Speaker:really walk their own path.
Speaker:And in the video version today, you can click through on the links
Speaker:here, but the video versions, I really went to town on this.
Speaker:I really want to, I guess, be clear that I'm not talking about arrogance pride,
Speaker:you know, that kind of self, relentless, reckless self promotion, or, you know,
Speaker:Uh, imposing our will over other people.
Speaker:That's basically Nietzschean psychology, which has been highly destructive
Speaker:in the, uh, 20th century alone.
Speaker:So we're not talking about radical self-assertion we're not talking about.
Speaker:Thinking that we are better than other people, but we are is different.
Speaker:And this is what this quote is going to remind us of.
Speaker:Listen to this quote from Chris Brady's book Rascals.
Speaker:Doesn't it seem.
Speaker:That the most interesting characters in a novel play or history tale are
Speaker:the ones who walk their own walk.
Speaker:Go their own way and seem to resist right for it.
Speaker:The compliancy pressures of the world in video today.
Speaker:I love that term.
Speaker:Compliancy pressures.
Speaker:I believe from the youngest stage.
Speaker:Compliancy is a perfect tool of late stage capitalism, late stage
Speaker:capitalism thrives, basically on two things, debt and consumption.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So many of you know that in the last few years,
Speaker:Uh, I went, you know, deep down the role of the whole rabbit
Speaker:hole of global macro finance and central banking theory, as you do,
Speaker:everybody's got a secret backup career.
Speaker:Um, but late stage capitalism really thrives on a debt based
Speaker:monetary system, but then on consumption right for the system to
Speaker:continue, it requires consumption.
Speaker:How do you get mass consumption?
Speaker:Well, you know, I guess you create products and services that are useful to
Speaker:the largest possible number of people.
Speaker:But the other thing you need to do is to be able to advertise
Speaker:and market effectively.
Speaker:You have to homogenize your.
Speaker:Our target markets.
Speaker:You have to use compliancy pressures.
Speaker:You have to get people to at once.
Speaker:One level think that they are wildly free individuals.
Speaker:I mean, look at the early marketing of apple, you know, this kind of,
Speaker:you know, think outside the box, think differently, kind of be your
Speaker:own radical culture change agent.
Speaker:But at the same time, we need vast numbers of you to think
Speaker:and believe the same thing.
Speaker:So you buy the same products cause you were trout at you.
Speaker:Attributing ascribe value to those things.
Speaker:So you see what I'm saying?
Speaker:As a culture.
Speaker:And I always say with culture, we can.
Speaker:There's plenty of negatives, but you know, I always like to say having
Speaker:a flushing toilet puts us ahead of about every culture in human history.
Speaker:So I'm pretty happy with that as I'm sure you are.
Speaker:So there are benefits to our culture, but we have to see the emperor's new clothes.
Speaker:You have to see the emperor's naked.
Speaker:We have to see through the veil.
Speaker:We have to see some of what's actually going on.
Speaker:And some of what's actually going on in these compliancy pressures.
Speaker:We get it in school, we get it in our families.
Speaker:We get these things fit in, do this thing, this dress this way,
Speaker:you know, I got teenage kids, you know, it's, it's what you want.
Speaker:For them as a parent is radical individualism, not selfishness, but
Speaker:you want them to be who they are.
Speaker:And one of the fears that, you know, you can have as a parent is that your kids
Speaker:are going to do dumb stuff, doing what?
Speaker:Trying to be like someone else, trying to be like everybody else.
Speaker:I mean, look at the dumb things.
Speaker:Most of us did going through high school and stuff.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Most of that stuff was a chronic desire.
Speaker:Two a.
Speaker:Accommodate compliancy pressures.
Speaker:So, what I love about this book from Chris Brady, what I love about this
Speaker:idea is let's acknowledge that the characters that we love in literature,
Speaker:art music, Ah, the radical different people that walk their own path.
Speaker:Here's one that just comes to mind.
Speaker:Johnny Cash.
Speaker:My son, he's 12.
Speaker:We used to sit out the background.
Speaker:Around a fire and I used to play Johnny Cash and he was
Speaker:probably the only 12 year old.
Speaker:Really honest to a Johnny Cash, his back catalog.
Speaker:Now, Johnny Cash was a chicken dude.
Speaker:Like he had a really different eclectic.
Speaker:Background.
Speaker:He was a wild guy, and then he had a sort of spiritual conversion
Speaker:in life as well, and is really full, interesting, different life.
Speaker:He was an addict.
Speaker:He was this, he was that.
Speaker:We could.
Speaker:I'm not picking on in particular, I'm just saying you could pick anybody.
Speaker:You've all got people that you can look at and say, you know what?
Speaker:That's a big life.
Speaker:That's a life just lived using those unique talents.
Speaker:And just living their life to the fullest fullest, where they possibly could.
Speaker:So my message for you today is we all got to get better at this part.
Speaker:We all got to get better at the self-censorship.
Speaker:Now, again, by self-censorship I don't mean being rude or aggressive or saying
Speaker:things that are needlessly upset people.
Speaker:But self-censorship, if you look behind, it will almost always be fear
Speaker:based behind self-censorship is fear.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:Well, I'm not saying what I think I'm not doing what I want to do.
Speaker:I'm not wearing what I want to wear.
Speaker:I'm not going where I want to go, because if I do that, I will
Speaker:probably offend or upset somebody.
Speaker:That's the nature of the fear behind self-censorship.
Speaker:So listen friends.
Speaker:Look for that.
Speaker:Look for that filter of self-censorship.
Speaker:Now I'm all for courtesy and I genuinely am.
Speaker:You know, I think it's really important to be conscious of and
Speaker:respectful of people's feeling states.
Speaker:And to not ever cause needless harm suffering to others.
Speaker:But we've also got to be as authentic as we can possibly be.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:Because the world needs this.
Speaker:We're living through this moment, friends.
Speaker:Where the forces of technocracy biomed.
Speaker:That I mean, the forces of the merging of late stage capitalism.
Speaker:The state and mainstream media are kind of coalescing into one big unit.
Speaker:That's kind of getting us all to think and believe the same things.
Speaker:Trust the experts, trust the experts go where we say, do what we want you to
Speaker:do believe what we want you to believe.
Speaker:Friends that's totalitarianism.
Speaker:We don't want that.
Speaker:What we want is authentic freedom.
Speaker:What we want is to be who we are, what we want to push back against structures,
Speaker:structures in our own mind that hold us back structures, uh, you know, political
Speaker:power structures that hold us back.
Speaker:I know for some of you, you think in Jonathan, what have
Speaker:you been drinking today?
Speaker:Well, friends, nothing.
Speaker:I had a little bit of Pepsi max before I came in the studio, but that is the
Speaker:sum total of what I've imbibed today.
Speaker:But I'm passionate about these things.
Speaker:I think the things that, that force us to comply the things that force
Speaker:us to think and believe and say the same things, the destructive forces,
Speaker:because ontologically at the essence of being at the level of the ground of
Speaker:being of who we are, of what we are.
Speaker:These things we were, we were creatures created for freedom.
Speaker:We're creatures.
Speaker:Created to manifest the unique attributes that the creator made us with.
Speaker:So the more that we homogenize, the more we cave into compliancy
Speaker:pressures, the list we're living, living the truth of who we are.
Speaker:And that's not cool.
Speaker:And I just sort of say that the way you look at it is to say, look at your kids,
Speaker:you got kids, what do you want for them?
Speaker:You want them to be who they are?
Speaker:And some of you'll go, well, I want them to fit into society.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:But at what costs.
Speaker:How much fitting in, do you want them to do.
Speaker:I mean, how much would be too much.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I think we can all work that out.
Speaker:It's part of the complexity and mystery of life, but we've got to start doing
Speaker:who we are being, who we are bringing those gifts to bless other people.
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