B (47:24)
Yeah. Do the ends justify the means? I mean, I think this is, I think it's really important to live with integrity and to, to not intentionally mislead people and to lie to people. So I think, you know, when you believe something that's true and you've done work to understand it, Like, like one of the ways that you avoid getting deranged is you constantly quite question yourself and your motives. Like you, you have, you look in the mirror and you try to accurately evaluate yourself and you have other people around you to give you feedback as to what you're doing, people that you trust, people that you respect, people that have what you want in your life to keep you in check and make sure you don't, you know, go off the deep end. And like, when they give you feedback that might be uncomfortable, it's important to really like, take the heart instead of, you know, just being like, oh, you disagreed with me, so therefore you're an idiot. Like, you know, really like trying to evaluate it, you know, in question you might disagree with them, but you spend the process of thinking that. And, and so I think this pursuit of, of truth is important in general and I think we can all get off the map a little bit. But I think this having an end goal and trying to intentionally mislead people into getting to that end goal is problematic. And we're experiencing this right now of universally across the world, individuals have been a part of people trying to mislead them in a certain direction. We're dealing with the consequences right now. There's, there's blowback from it. And part of the reason why I don't particularly like to partake in the, in the sloth is it, you know, it sets me back. Like, you know, I, I could have a lot further reach, but it's just not my intention is to, to like, really get a lot of, you know, validation from the plebs or whatever. Like, I just want to, to say what I think is important and tell compelling stories like that's that's my goal. Like, I, I just enjoy the process, you know, crafting these. These stories. Like, it's just. It. It's a fun thing to do and like, it feels really good when people respond to it and see it is validating. But, like, I just don't really, you know, care about, like, a broader acceptance of, like, attempting to, like, get it launched on the podcast tour, you know, whatever. But so I think that's. That's the key is just like, you know, with. You can slop, but don't lie and don't, don't just. And I think, you know, have that process of critical evaluation because, like, when. When you're intentionally trying to mislead people. I think it's just a general disrespect for other people. And I think people might find, you know, they might accuse me of being disrespectful because I, you know, could be a little bit sharp with criticism sometimes, but I don't think the criticism is necessarily disrespectful. I just think it's. I try to be truthful with it, and oftentimes I'll criticize people but also share what I do like about them. It's not like this person is entirely bad, but I like, I think, you know, a lot of the problems, because you look at the way that discourse happens generally, from what I've seen, is a lot of people spend a lot of time trying to worry about what other people think and how they live and what should be done. Like, drugs should be illegal because somebody's gonna do it and not take care of their family or, you know, this. The law should be set in place because, you know, we need to take care of these people. And it's kind of a stupid waste of energy to spend a bunch of time, you know, in the, like, the bitcoin ecosystem does this a lot where they're like, we need to fix the money so that we can fix the world. We need to fix the incentives, you know, and, you know, make everything better for, you know, the fiat idiots who, you know, don't listen to bitcoin podcasts and read the bitcoin standard and use the language that we use. You know, the reality is, is, like, I think, you know, you have to think for yourself and focus on your own life, your own success, the things that you control. And believing that other people have the capacity to do that is having an attitude of respect for other individuals and not. Not having this, you know, very arrogant perspective of, like, I have the power to make decisions over other people's lives, you know, through. Through these policies or, you know, you know, whatever, like being a control over other people. And I, I really think it's through the empowerment and inspiring, like one of the ways that you empower people as you inspire them. And I think if you inspire other individuals to think for themselves, mostly by being an example, you know, start pursuing things that are important to them instead of being a, you know, a slave to the system, you know, just surrendering their mind to, you know, thought leaders or gurus or, you know, leader white, whatever it is. That's really where the change happens. And I think oftentimes just the emphasis, because the problem with the slop, you need something beyond the slop that's compelling. The slop is what brings people in. But you need something to keep people compelled, interested, engaged. If this ecosystem, in these ideologies, which a lot of us believe in, this idea of separating money and state and kind of libertarian.
