Transcript
Hey everyone welcome to another DailyJim it's the episode for june 23rd thursday 2022 I wanted to talk about um, continuing what I was talking about yesterday when it came to distrusting the majority or trusting the majority of people. And so I watched the january 6th committee today and they had a hearing, talking about trump and talking about Department of Justice officials who were basically telling trump over and over again that these claims of election fraud are not true. We have investigated them and they are not true and went through extensive evidence on how they investigated certain things. They didn't say it, but um they went into a little bit of evidence saying how they investigated different claims and they came up with no truth to them and.
And yet trump continued to push on. And then there's a part of me that goes okay, but here's the problem. I think a fundamental problem that we have is that some people believe that trump may know better than everyone else, that everyone else is lying or incompetent and trump just knows better. Trump is one. They think he's being honest and he think they think he is maybe smarter than the other people and with that perspective, no matter what somebody else says like this is the evidence that we found, they can say, well no, you're biased, you're biased and you're lying and you're corrupt and you're going to make stuff up. So, for example, some people were commenting afterwards how some of the representatives were seeking preemptive pardons. And this idea being um seeking a pardon from the president of the United States, the only one in the country give it at the federal level and for crimes committed. So they're saying, well, if somebody was seeking a pardon, they must have been assuming that they were guilty of committing a crime. Possibly they also could be assuming that the next, because, if they assume that everyone is corrupt and everyone is out to get them then no matter what happens in the next government, someone will be out to get them and frame them and manipulate the system to make them look like they're the bad people. And if other people believe this, they can fall into that trap. So the idea of saying, well, they must have thought that they were guilty of crime, not necessarily true, They may think that they're surrounded by people who hate them, and I think that's much more likely to be true. I think it's probably a combination of both. They thought they may have committed a crime and they also think that everyone's out to get them. So I think the question I want to keep asking is one why do we, some of us in general, why do we believe that other people are out to get us? I think we all believe this to a certain extent, maybe not the majority of people, but I think we all believe that there are some people who are don't care about us or who are actively seeking harm against us. And so I want to ask that question. Why like what at the foundational level is the reason or other reasons or frankly the feelings we have when we think about some of these people, do we feel ashamed? Do we feel terrified? Do we feel anger? It maybe being abandoned in the past whether it was from a family member or whether it was from a romantic relationship, or whether it was from a government official, not protecting us from getting screwed over by a business, etcetera, etcetera. So that's the one question I wanna ask. The second question to ask is how can I how can we but how can I show up and let people know that no matter what they do, I still care about them. Because I think that is one way to cut through this idea, this this belief that people don't care about me, you know, and I think that is one of the challenges. How do we maintain? How do I maintain my love for people even when they're. Insulting me and threatening me and ignoring me and abandoning me and betraying me and doing all these different things that make me want to close off and run away, or build up my anger and strike back. So I think these are the conversations, at least I want to hear conversations about what's happening on the emotional level, which I believe drives what happens on the political level. So I think what happens in the Supreme Court is driven by what happens in uh Congress and is driven by what happens locally, just kind of in society culturally, which is driven by what happens emotionally, and inter personally and intra personally, I think it goes all the way down to basically the emotional relationship we have with ourselves, and what I want to know is what kind of emotional relationship do we have with ourselves, and how can we improve that relationship with ourselves and with the people around us that we really care about and restore some of our faith in each other. Because I think that's the fundamental problem is that many of us have lost faith in and humanity in other humans. And so I think if we can fundamentally start to restore that, then a lot of these downstream problems fix themselves on that note, I'm gonna go sleep and talk to you soon.
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