Can we Really Create a Parallel Society – Epi-3573

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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We talk about this a lot in the liberty community. A parallel society a parallel economy, etc, but is it a legitimate goal or what I often refer to as “mental masterbation”. What I mean by that trope is are we simply telling ourselves a lie so that we feel better about the situation we are in. My view is the answer as is always, is, it depends. I think for many using the term, it absolutely is a pleasant lie, something comforting with no real demand on us to actually do anything. The other side though is there are … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	There's a better way to do this.
0:09.0	Let me show you a better way.
0:11.0	A better way.
0:21.0	better way. You don't have to be another face in the crowd. And we are live. Welcome folks to a brand new week. It is Monday, October the 21st,
0:28.0	which means we're 10 days away from Halloween. But that's not where we're going to talk about today, but in a way we are going to talk about how some people play
0:37.2	make-believe, which is what Halloween is really all about, is playing dress enough as ghouls and goblins or you know some sort of like being a
0:45.0	soldier or some other profession or whatever you come up with in your mind whether
0:48.9	it's as a kid or is an adult kid going to a bar or something.
0:52.8	That's what Halloween's all about.
0:54.2	Make Believe.
0:54.8	And sometimes make believe is great.
0:56.0	Sometimes make believe is useful in determining reality.
1:00.8	And sometimes make believe is an escape from responsibility to the point
1:05.2	where we allow make believe to prevent us from taking real action. I don't want
1:11.1	that for this community I want this community to like if you're not working on something I want you to know you're not.
1:17.0	It's okay. We don't have to work 24-7. There's time for recreation. There's time for screwing off. There's for time for
1:23.0	time for
1:23.7	fantasy sci-fi whatever there's even time though I pick on some of you younger people
1:28.2	about it all the time there's even time for freaking video games once in a
1:31.8	while what there isn't time for
1:35.0	freaking video games once in a while. What there isn't time for is the belief that somehow we're advancing ourselves and our goals and our agendas for ourselves, our community, the world.
1:42.0	Well, we're not really doing anything. So we hear a term all the time.
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