the culture of hate the culture of saying fuck you of being able to jump
immediately and judge one another this is stimulated by this week and it gets
stimulated every week by something in the media but this time about football
players taking a knee to the national anthem and how it disgraces our country
and flag and all this other sort of stuff and and how they're not being
heard and this person isn't being heard and Donald Trump is great or he's the
cause of it all and so on and so on and see the thing is is we've moved into a
culture not just the nation but a sense of humanity a sense of people in an
expression of ourselves that is no longer about who we are what we think
and now it is about some sort of cause some sort of political thing that
somehow is supposed to make sense in this one weird way that's surrounded by
facts but not about the human experience and the more we deny that the more we
are left with a shell of what we're really fighting to express with people
and value amongst ourselves and we become a broken culture a broken world
not just a broken nation but far far beyond that this is the daily awesome
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that all being said let's get back to this so we have a problem when do we not
have a problem whether it's feminism or men's rights or black lives matter or
you know patriotism NFL over paid players that are somehow disrespecting
and district gracing the flag and so on and we turn our discussions as a people
not even as just a nation anymore but is that people of a culture where this is
respected where we want to be either the black or the white the good or the bad
and if you are on the black side you are convinced that the white side is wrong
and when you're on the white side you're convinced that the black side is wrong
and the more that we define ourselves in that way the more we divide the less we
become an expression when we live in the trap of the black and white we live in
that world where it's us versus them we leave our choice at the door we leave
the things that we value and probably that we're fighting for at the door and
what is this really about because what I see happening is people
discussing about this and they get heated they start stating some stats
they start talking about the issues and I'll tell you this if I were somebody
that we're talking about like man there's a reason to protest man there's
a reason why why I say this there's a reason why I feel that things aren't
being voiced to me the last thing that I want to hear is that I'm wrong and the
last thing that I want to hear are a bunch of stats about why this thing is
it should not be respected and this goes for both sides you know you think about
you see this over and over again but we as human beings cannot see what we are
doing and think about this man the manner that is upset that they're
offended it let's say players taken the knee you've disrespected the nation
you've disrespected the flag you've disrespected these things to the guy
that's you know lives in that world that's taking the knee or so honor is
chosen that side of it says man fuck you you know what I go through you know bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla we stopped listening to one another and I'm
not saying you can't have a choice but we'd have now started to think that to
entertain that side that let's say I'm an anti-trump guy but I start to
entertain what a pro Trump guy thinks or whatever the fuck it is that I start
going man I put myself in danger that I might be
infected by something and see that's the problem we make a big deal we make a
tragedy out of something that happens that may not even directly affect us we
make a tragedy of something that does affect us but we take it out on social
media we make a tragedy about something to justify hate towards people that we
don't know and nothing that you believe in and nothing that you value should be
something that fuels that sort of hate that sort of anger that sort of
confusion and that sort of dissonance amongst people see here's the thing man
what does it mean to be a member what does it mean to myself being American
but what does it mean to be a member of the world what does it mean to be a
member of this group what does it mean to be a member of whatever party or
ideology that you belong to if it means that I have to have an enemy if it means
that I am constantly under duress or threat then what can I be Who am I and
see it's a core of this all I don't think that that's that's what this is
about but somehow we've turned it into that
we've turned our choices into sensationalism many years ago of course
if you listen to the TSL podcast you know that we've done this with sex sex
isn't about communication it's about selling something it's about the bright
lights it's about hysteria it's about porn it's about conservative
values it's about marriage it's about all this but it's not about what you
feel in your body anymore it's not about the act that you have that's intimate
with somebody it's not about a choice and the more that we take that
expression out of our lives the more we fight fight fight for a definition to
make sense out of this and the more that we do that then we start seeing a right
and wrong with things and that is a sad thing because we have taken the humanity
about this out of the fuels that drive us which this is about identity this is
about hearing me all these points have validity to them but why are we speaking
past each other why do we fuel the divide why do we Yool the the stuff
which makes us see us as separate and I want to end with this is
a story so I have a brother amazing guy my brother is awesome he is somebody
that every single person who knows him respects him and it's almost impossible
not to is an athlete as a professor it's an academic is somebody who's so
accomplished in his life to make the choices that he makes in the
determination and dedication people respected but his ideas about things
maybe it's choices maybe his things that he believes in politically are things
that I may not agree with and they're things that all those people that
respect him also may not agree with but that's not a reason to hate him the
reason why is because my brother and I we grew up together we shared love
together we that carries over his friends that he went through experiences
with they shared something that meant something far beyond a choice or a page
in a book or maybe a chapter in the book of his life and are able to see so much
more why would we do that why would we I don't care if you're a feminist I may
disagree with it I don't care if you're a men's rights activist I don't care
about all these other things but we've gotten so good at saying fuck you to
people we don't know saying fuck you just because somebody can't hear us
saying fuck you just because we can't share and exchange something and we've
mastered that skill and we think that's what we call friendship life values
that's a reaction and that's a sad sad world we live in see here's the thing is
in my life I've fucked up a lot and I've had to stick my hand out for help and
many times that person who helped me up that awesome core moment of humanity has
been somebody that I got to know and I disagreed with on so many levels but
that gift that force and I'm not saying you need some dramatic thing in your
life to make you see this but that gift of that force where I just needed help
and I'd have to feel that and see that no compassion and I needed love and I
got that man that made me overlook whatever their stance with was on
perhaps a matter racism perhaps a matter of abortion or
you know do we like Mexicans and so on what I learned is there's a human
connection that comes comes into play that overrides all this stupid shit and
when we live that we become great people great people god unity is beauty because
when we can unify and see what brings us together what makes us the same which
what cannot change that Brotherhood that love those different things that we have
then we can rise to be individuals but like I always say especially with the
sexes if you're a man and you live a life without women you have now chosen a
life against women if you're a woman and you choose a life without man you choose
a life against men because you're denying parts of yourself drivers within
yourself to be a part of so much that all being said within my life I've
learned to also reach out my hand to other people and what kind of a fucking
person would I be to deny compassion love caring all these different things
that I value in myself because I've lived them just because of what somebody
thought that I didn't agree with and more importantly it's probably something
that I don't understand fuck that is a beautiful act to be able
to do and live in those sorts of ways and if you think that if you do that
that somehow that brings you into danger that somehow you are compromising
yourself in a way where you could get hurt and harm other people man
expression doesn't live in fear expression doesn't live in scarcity
expression lives in openness and you know what you don't have to be an idiot
to stay alive or not die or not get attacked but that's how we create wisdom
that's how we create choice that's how we create a man who can determine when's
the right time to put up his garden when's the right time for him to share
some of the greatest qualities about himself and people
aren't teaching that I don't know what your stances are and things but you know
what I want to know you and the man behind what you believe or the woman
behind what you believe rather than the woman that that I see on the surface the
man I see on the surface let's live that world man let's live
what that is man that is a fucking beautiful thing and if we created a
world with that and individually out of that individuality out of that fuck man
I could only I could only wish for it in any case guys this is the daily awesome
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these bad things are gonna happen but it's that I am a part of something I
have an identity of who I am and what I do and how I am affects you and within
that we have a brotherhood that we believe in ourselves and why would you
want to let that down so we create that sort of thing man we live good lives and
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