And we're a better way to do this.

Let me show you a better way.

You don't have to be another facing you.

And we are live, good Monday morning, and welcome to episode 3,812 of the survival

podcast.

And today we're going to do an episode called Leadership versus the Herd.

And we're going to be talking about this in part due to some of my observations with what's going around on both camps with the current situation in Iraq and the Middle East as a whole, or Iran in the Middle East as a whole.

But I hope that we very quickly move past that.

I'm only even bringing it up because today's episode was

inspired by what I'm gonna call a social media experiment I did something

crazy I asked a question and open any question very simple question yes or no

question I made no statements whatsoever about what I thought.

I just asked a question.

And of course, the ship flinging, flying monkeys came in.

And I also had another situation where I made a statement of fact, not of opinion, about something being illegal. And when you do this, you're going to get your ass beat arrested and thrown out of a building.

And the response to that was, well, why do you support this war?

Well, I didn't say a word about the war at all.

And this just shows me that everything I've said over the years about the false dichotomies,

about a lack of individual leadership, about the lack of the ability to think clearly has gotten no better.

In fact, I would dare say it's gotten worse.

In fact, my wife is convinced, and she's done a pretty good job of convincing me, and I have no pushback available,

but a certain thing that certain people put in their body, some people many, many many many times about four and five years ago has further corrupted the ability of people to think both

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