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The vast majority of people are just surviving on a earth that has everything. It's just so backwards, bro. It's so freaking backwards. When I was younger, I feel like I was just exposed to more of the human spirit. Life was about stories, media. You know, we're just consuming art. When we're babies, that's all we really can do is consume art, read books, watch movies. We're painting, we're drawing, we're going outside, we're creating, we're exploring.

That's all we did in the beginning. That was the first thing we were able to do, consume and create even before studying, analyzing, or before we started all the deliberating. We were artists. And I can't imagine a world where I'm estranged from that. It feels so foundational that I low-key feel pain like on a sensory level at the fact that so many people are deprived of their ability to create. The idea of that core nature being systemically siphoned, taken away from us, it hurts like viscerally.

But on the other side of that coin imagining a future that's different feels really good. So, I need more people to imagine that. I need more people to switch their thinking from oh, I need to do this. What do I need to do? What do I need to do? To instead what do I want to do? What do I want to do? Making the foundational plot of life recreation again because it's been so ingrained layer after layer after layer across generations now that it's all about work and proving your worth and adding value and even just It's just all work when the purpose should be play and work is just what's there to sustain the play, you know?

It's it's maintenance of sorts. It should never be so draining. Work should be to make things work so that we can have more play. Work should be serving the play. Like work should be serving recreation. I don't know how else to put it. Work should be a byproduct of our desire to live, things we want to do. Oh, we want to go to the moon. Okay, then I guess we're going to work to do it. But that that kind of work is fueled by passion.

It's sustainable. It fans the flame of your soul versus siphoning it out. The kind of work people are doing today, working in a way that doesn't even sustain like a basic quality of life, working so hard, pouring all their time into something, and they still can't afford their basic needs. So there is no play. There is no recreation. I guarantee you, as much as people hate their jobs, I'm not going to say we don't hate our jobs.

A lot of people hate their jobs, truly. But if you told that person that they could just keep working at their current job, and every need would be met for the rest of their life, that means when they need to rest, they can rest. They have vacation. They have they have comfortable a comfortable safe home for themselves and their families and everyone they care about. And they have plenty of time to play, and they're encouraged to do their hobbies and pursuits and everything they wanted to do was like within their reach, fully funded.

They could afford it all. They stay at their [ __ ] jobs. >> [laughter] >> You know what I mean? Like I don't know. I just Uh, that's just one way of looking at it, you know? There are other ways I see it, but it's just so backwards, bro. It's so freaking backwards. We're supposed to create, bro. Go into your imagination. Play in there. Make stuff. Follow the trail of your imagination and see where it takes you. Regain agency over your life.

Decide what you want to do. Change the course of your day. Dip your toe in something. Decide to take it back out. Like, you know what I mean? Like, try stuff. Live your life creatively. Create things. Agency. Have impacts over the happenings in your life. Throw in the curveball just to experience something different. Be active. Create your day. What's an experience you want to have? Add it to the calendar. Live. Make a new connection.

Make a decision. Finally make that decision that you've been procrastinating making. Live. Everyone's surviving. This planet has anything you could dream of, yet everyone's surviving. The vast majority of people are just surviving. On a Earth that has everything. Anyway. I digress. For now.