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Somebody asks, how do you deal with arrogant people who think you are a kind of animal?

Well, there's a big secret to life.

Most people have no internal standards and therefore you get what you permit.

Most people have no internal standards and therefore in life you get what you permit.

Carve this in your forehead.

Write this in lipstick on your makeup mirror.

Do whatever you need to do to internalize this because that is a foundational truth in this rather amoral time. And,

you know, this is the most moral time in history, because moralists aren't just being outright

killed. It's a big plus when the job description does not include hemlock and crucifixion.

So, yeah, most people in life, they don't have any internal standards of behavior,

and so they do what they can get away with.

I think of people as a whole, as water, right?

As water.

So if you want to contain water, you have to put it in a cup or a bathtub or a sink, then you can contain the water.

I remember when I was a kid I'd get so thirsty that I would fill a sink full of cold water, dunk my hole here, and it'd slurp like a horse.

That was delightful.

But yeah, so most people have no particular structure, no particular values, no particular

virtues. There's, they permit themselves just about anything. And the barrier to what they do

are the boundaries of other people. They spread like water.

Right?

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