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Right? We know censorship, right? Was out of control. They turned the industrial censorship complex that was built for color revolutions overseas. They turned it internally. Just look at the Twitter files, right? The head of the general counsel for Twitter was a former FBI general counsel Baker, right? How many CIA people work at Facebook? How many CIA people work all around, right? Nsa, right? They essentially have converted the very thing that people have been sucked into doing for social convenience and social responsibilities and social relationships, improve social and mental health. All. All lie. We know that now. They were involved in that. Immigration. Immigration is the best thing for America. We need people to pick our fruit and to clean our toilets and without them it wouldn't happen. Blah, blah, blah, blah blah, right? So we what, we let 20 million people in. What does that do to our educational system, our medical systems, our insurance system? The fraud that now exists, we've seen with Shirley's in. In Minnesota and Maine, California. The homeless problem at every level, at every place. And then my favorite is the, the absolute gaslighting and lies that took place to cover up the fact that Biden was a freaking vegetable. And the auto pen. How many people like he. We know out of all the pardons, there was one pardon that he actually signed. And over the 8,000 pardons that him. And there's theories out there that the pardons allegedly were being sold to people as well too. Lies on top of lies on top of lies, right? And now the ultimate which just continues and it's the Epstein files. Anybody telling you or trying to tell you that it was not that bad, right? And anybody affiliated, man, it's just guilt by association, right? I. I might agree to that in some capacity prior to 06 or 05, but anything after that is an absolute sham. This guy was a convicted sexual predator of young girls. If you had any relationship with him Whatsoever, fundamentally for business or whatever, you lied to yourself in order to get ahead, period, because of his skill sets. And he's not just some wealthy, whatever. Now we know the whole aspect of his background was a lie. Who he worked for, how he got the jobs, all that manipulated, right, lies. And now we just see the un, Un. Unfathomable lies taking place with the government and, and the DOJ right now, basically covering up for pedophiles. I mean, if you listen to Sean's rant that came out the other day to has millions and millions and millions of views and now they're attacking him, they're calling him a liar. Oh, you're a CIA guy, your plant, whatever. But if you're protecting or justifying in any way, shape or form a pedophile, you are lying to yourself. And if you're lying to yourself that it's acceptable to interact with those people or support them or to distract the severity from it in some capacity, then at the base of your lie is evil, pure and simple. It's just what it is. You can't justify pedophilia, you can't walk it back, you can't sugarcoat it, you can't lighten the impact of it. You can't do any of that. And if you get to the. I think everybody's willing to get to a point that say, oh yeah, he, he was trafficking girls, then let's just stop there and say, well, where are the people he trafficked the girls to? Oh, there's no evidence of that. It's just porn, Lies, redactions, lies, the whole thing. And that's coming out and it's going to continue to come out. And at some point you have to make the correlation that the level of lying that's taken place is a derivative or rooted in what is evil. All right, now before I get into the main reason that provoked this, which is this book right here. You can't. For the video, you can watch it for sure, but it's called People of the Lie, the Hope for Healing Human Evil by m. Scott Peck. Dr. M. Scott Peck, and he was the author of the Road Less Travel there, you know, 10 million bestseller. Well, this was his book that really got me. Right, because what he was able to do was correlate the, the, the, the regularity of lying to, to evil. And he did it in a very sophisticated and scientific way, I believe. But there was also a level of theology that's in there too. And I probably think that that's what, you know, is able to People are able to quell the importance of the book a little bit right. Now there's another component too, right. Lying we learn from a very early age. We learn it, I mean from basically ages 2 to 3. Right. And I, I did a little research on this, on, on where it starts. Right. And, and, and this is, emerges as a normative part of child development. Right. You know, and it's, it's a lot of child development specialists. Like this is a part, like this is you're actually looking for your child to start lying as a, as a, an observable component of like a milestone. Right. Other than a bat, than a problematic behavior. And you know, when you start to see this taking place, right. And, and you know, from 2 to 8, right. With about 20 to 30% of children attempting similar deceptions. Right. And these aren't great lies. They're just like, did you eat that cookie? No. But you know, like you can see it emerging. They're trying to frame out that tit for tat game playing with, with other kids, free play, the whole thing. And, and there's a lot of documentation that, that, that's what you're looking for. You're looking for kids to emerge in that, that structure. Right. When even in preschoolers when, when lying actually peaks. Right. In prevalent prevalence. Right. With about 80 to 90% of children understanding the concept of lying and engaging in it regularly. Right. Now some studies show that kids at this age lie about one to two times per hour in social interactions. Right. And these are like, these are settings that are kind of non structured settings. It's just like social exchanges, teacher exchanges, parental exchanges. Right. It's right there. Right. Well, it, you know, with the school age 6 to 12, it stabilizes a little bit. About 50 to 70% lie occasionally with rates in higher situations involving peers and authority. Right. You lie to get out of trouble, right. Did you, did you bully that person? I didn't do that. Oh, hell no. Because you knew the social exclusion or the labeling you as in some negative way, you got to protect yourself from that. Right. And then adolescence, man line frequency is lower overall than in younger children. Right. And some of that is social anxiety, which provokes that. And I think that begins to manifest its way at a little bit of more of a deeper level as the older you get. Now, factors that are influencing a lot of this parenting, right. Authoritative styles reduce antisocial line, you know, cultural influences. Right. And many collectivist societies encourage pro social lies. Right. Cognitive ability, better executive function correlates with more effective lying. Right. If you learn how to manipulate someone's emotions, you can lie at a higher degree. Right. You know, there are, are a bunch of key mechanisms and benefits. Right? Right. There's a cognitive and social skill development. Right? Right. And that goes back to the idea of this, this theory of. Of mind. Right. And the theory of, Of. Of of mind is a, A very interesting concept to think about and that's where you can think about thinking about others and how it affects you. And you know, that's a, that's a powerful moment for, for people. Right. And to give you a better definition of this theory of mind, or tom, is a foundational concept in cognitive psychology and developmental science, referring to the ability to recognize and attribute mental states such as beliefs, desires, intentions, emotions and knowledge to oneself and others and to understand that these mental states can differ from one's own or from objective reality. It enables individuals to predict and interpret behavior in social context, essentially showing us to read minds by inferring what others might be thinking or feeling. A key aspect and when. When lying plays a role in that development. Right. Pro social line and social hire harmony. Right? These are the little white lies we tell. Oh, you know, how do I look, honey? Oh, you look great, sweetie. That shirt's very becoming on you. Or hey, sweetie, don't I look great? I lost two pounds. Oh, baby, you look phenomenal. You look phenomenal. Or, or your, your. Hey, son, you know, how you doing in school? I'm killing it, dad. I'm doing great. Well, I saw your report card and it seems your challenge. Yeah, but that teacher's horrible. They don't like me. Right. All these little to create a harmony of impact or, or you know, telling people what that you think they want to hear that doesn't provoke, right. That. That contempt or resentment that can emerge out of knowing the truth about what people think about you. Right? There's a moral and emotional grub. Lying helps children grapple with morality. There's an assimilation challenge and moderators while adaptive, excessive and antisocial lying can hinder assimilation if it erod trust parenting influencing this responsive authoritative styles encourage pro social lying and reduce harmful ones by modeling honesty. Right? And that's the thing we really want to think about. Right? And I think that's the heart of, of what Dr. Peck gets to in the people of the lie. Now, Dr. Peck's an interesting cat, right? Grew up wealthy family, you know, attended Phillips Exeter Academy, a very prestigious prep school. We beat them in football when I went to Cho. So to hell with you. Phillips Exeter Academy Plus I couldn't get in there. That's a whole nother thing, you know. And so, you know, he, he had this profound pressure put him on him by his parents to succeed. And then they kind of shipped him off to the school. Right. He ended up getting a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard. He went to Case Western where School of Medicine, attaining his doctorate in 63. Right. Then he went on to serve in the military. And I found this was, was interesting where he specialized in psychiatry and he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Now he was stationed all over the place and later worked for the Surgeon general in Washington D.C. and these roles exploded into a wide range of mental health issues among service members, influencing his later views on human evil, group dynamics and personal responsibility. Because remember, this is during the 60s and 70s and what we have, we had post World War II challenges, post Korea challenges. And then we had the magnitude of the Vietnam War, which led into the anti war counterculture, the civil rights movement. All this taking place during this very unsettling time where again, during this time people felt that there was a lot of lying going on and under and the cause, root of that was evil. And so he was studying all this and evaluating. Plus he had his own clientele, right. And you know, he broke out of the, the whole thing after his military career and he wrote the book the Road Less Traveled, A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth. Like I said, 10 million copies. But then he began to shift and he wrote this book, the People of Lies. All right. You know, the interesting thing about Pack was that he, he really tried to aggregate his scientific analysis through a theological prism. And what he ended up, you know, coming to recognize was that, you know, evil is fundamentally a different form, is different from mental illness. Right. Mental illness is something that you can't really control. You're kind of, you're, you're, you're either born into it or you develop it for some, but it's treatable and you can get out of it. Whereas he believes that, you know, you know, evil, you know, is very different than neurosis, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, which are all involuntary and treatable. Right. What he believes is that evil individuals, by contrast, are fully seen and they're aware of their actions. Right. And I want you, when I'm saying this, think about the people you've seen lying to you online or lying to your face or lying about certain things they believe in. Right, Right. Because they're sane and they're aware of their actions and choose to lie to themselves and others to avoid personal growth and accountability. And what pack Dr. Peck calls this is militant ignorance, a willful ignorance, right? And you're not going to budge. You believe what you believe for whatever reason and the and you don't care what the impact of that lie is going to do to the people around you, whether it's your children, your spouse, your colleagues, church, friends, your social scene, whatever it is. Politically, you don't care because the point is to self grandeurize it. The grandeurization or that's not what I the right word. Grand design. Grandization, right?
