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Let's kind of discuss some of the mind viruses, you know, and the spiritual warfare that's kind of like thrown at us on a daily basis in societal Maya because, you know, there's there's

quite a few mind viruses out there. And, you know, I'll say, I'll say the victim mentality and

cancel culture is one. So if you don't mind, just kind of give us a little bit of a highlight

of what you were talking about in that. Yeah. Well, I mean, for one, I think we're kind of in a place where everyone is constantly

attacking everybody else all the time. And what I was talking about in my video was that we have

this collective shame that we just have not dealt with. And for a lot of people, it's religious shame, but then there's also

shame where if you say you grow up and you have parents that are very woke or something, and

they're telling you that it's bad, that you have white skin, and then you're internalizing this.

And so I think that on either

side, it doesn't really matter if it's left or right. There are going to be some manifestations

of shame that are coming up in people. And so what is happening is we've learned that shame is

unsafe within society. We've learned that if something is shameful, it means we're going to be cast out from the tribe.

And this is kind of an evolutionary instinct that we have within us to know that, you know,

if we were cave people and the tribe cast us out, then we're not going to have access

to shelter. We're not going to have access to food, maybe not to water, to community or safety.

And, and so this instinct still exists within our nervous systems. And what ends up happening

is that we have learned that this is kind of like this game

of hot potato where if I have this thing about me that society considers shameful, I can either

leverage it to be a victim permanently so that I can kind of manipulate the situation around me in my favor.

So this would be like if I were to walk around all the time saying that I deserve special

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