How...as a message to people who are watching this and trying to work their way through a lot of young people who are trying
to navigate this increasingly...
perilous minefield of
Divisive politics in today's day and age. How do they know
what are the heuristics they use, what are the signposts they use to understand, "Am I on the right path? Is...
Is what I'm being taught, or is what I'm being attracted to
politically...
motivated...
from a sense of what's actually best for the community that I'm nominally caring for?"
Well that requires...you might say, well that requires
careful meditation and prayer. You know, if you wanted to be traditional about it,
I would say you have to orient, you have to determine. This is a process of soul-searching.
What are you oriented towards and the answer could easily be nothing! Well, this is why I produced the future authoring program.
You like...you got to be oriented towards something.
Because otherwise you're disoriented you just spin around in circles
and then you suffer.
And so the people around you it's not a good solution orient yourself towards something you have to figure out what it is
What will work for you? What goal?
Would would justify the suffering of your life start trying to piece that together you're going to get better at it
but it's a personal [process] and and
you should use your
Education to inform that so you need a personal place to stand because otherwise you're going to be
Handed a place to stand on a plate, and it may be one that that makes you a puppet of someone else's goals
so I would say you know I
What are the what [are] the processes well? I think what I've recommended to people is
Clean up your room
That's a good start organize your local landscape schedule your time start taking control of yourself
See if you can stop saying things you know to be lies
that's not the same as telling the truth you don't get to do that to begin with because you're not good enough at it to
Even attempt it in some sense
But everyone can stop saying things they know to be falsehoods they can use their own damn definition of Falsehood, right?
But in your definition importantly I think in your definition Falsehood includes
the
higher level
Moral truth yes. It's living wrong. You can say something [that] is literally true, [but] [of] course like you said earlier
it's a black truth in the sense that at a moral level you're saying something to cause a social effect as I
Say stop saying things that violate your conscience
Instead [of] stop saying things you know to be untrue because we run into the truth problem, but I would say stop here's another idea
Stop saying and doing things that make you [feel] weak
It's all you have to do is pay attention to that some things you do will make you feel
Disintegrated it's a physiological sensation
disintegrated and weak, it's something that carl Rogers commented on he thought about that as part of
Well, I can't remember the word
[something] like integrity
But that isn't the word he used but some things
Some things improve your integrity and some things
Disintegrate you now the things that disintegrate you you often do to impress other people or because you're taking a shortcut or you're escaping
What you know to be your moral obligation and your moral obligation stems
Naturally from your Aims like once once you have aims you have Moral obligations
They come together because the moral obligation is what you need to do in order to obtain the Aim
So and if you don't have an aim well, then you're aimless, [so] that's not a solution
So along with the aims come the moral obligations, then when you violate the moral obligations, you'll have a sense of that violation
It's like well you [have] to stop doing that or or that's something you could do you don't have to
You not do any of this, but I would say that's where where people should start you start small
It's not small you think it's small. It's not small
I had a girl [come] up to me last night at the end of my talk and this happens all the time she said I
Started cleaning up my room
Last year, and it completely changed my [life]. She said your room is an external ization of your mind, and that's right
That's exactly true to the degree that you're in your room the room is you?
Now that doesn't how people think but that's okay. It doesn't matter if they [think] that way that's how it is, so
Straighten up what you can straighten up and quit saying things that make you feel weak, and then then you'll know what to do next