X Is A Battle Zone Protect Your Mind

In the old, I mean, people still do it. They just put like thoughts, you know, and they want somebody to think about a post that they put. It means, you know, they're not co-signing it. They just want to know what people think about it. Well, let's take that one step further and make the question when you put something up, if you don't know and you want to get people, okay, you have, put it this way, you have an audience and you are quote unquote, the leader of that audience. You have a responsibility. And wouldn't it be better to take the responsibility to invoke critical thinking rather than just, hey, push this out. And by invoking critical thinking, what does that look like? It means asking when you put that post out, is this truthful, believable, neither or both? Because then you're bringing that awareness to your audience going, wait a minute, because the light will come on at some point that they'll go, I believe it, but wait a minute, do I know it's truthful? And you're at least start your, now we're building a culture of people with discernment. Being able to not maybe, because I always say this, use your emotions very conservatively. Because once that emotional button is pushed, again, the critical thinking skills go out the way and then you become polarized. The polarization, what is polarization? It's the manufactured sense of life and death. Oftentimes, just like you were saying, I don't even know what's real anymore. Because, and then you've got brain chemistry, dopamine, serotonin, you've got all these things that happen when people are looking at something. You used to, dopamine used to have to be something you had to work for, now it's just something that you can get those dopamine hits just from looking at things and it's designed that way. So you wanna make sure that you're not short-circuiting your ability to think things through. And we can, as a culture, people out there who are managing accounts, large accounts with a lot of followers, like I say, use your powers for good, Spider-Man, and make sure that you're encouraging people. I mean, there's a reason why in session one is this has got to fit generation warfare. There's a whole section in there on what critical thinking is. Because people say the term all the time, but do they really know what it is? Do they really know the definition? And are you using critical thinking by definition to apply to the information that you're receiving? And then there's entertainment. Sometimes it's just entertainment. Sometimes social media is just entertainment. That's what people use Instagram for. It's just entertainment. You go on X, it's a different game. Now you've got agendas involved. And you go on Facebook and boy, that's pretty much relegated to entertainment too because they did so much shadow banning of people that were trying to share ideas and that just got out of hand. You just can't even, it's not the place for that anymore. So now we've got these social media platforms that have their own personality. Like if I'm on IG, it's entertainment. If I'm over on Facebook, I just want to see what my friends are doing and kind of still be involved in their lives. And I should be on the phone with them and hanging out, but I just want to see what they got going on. It's a way to stay connected. X is a battle zone, period in the story. That's what X is. It's the place for, it's the battle zone. It's the battle zone for ideas. It is a manifestation of the cognitive battle space. That's what X is. And so people have to recognize the environment that they're in when they're on these platforms and act accordingly. And I'll kind of bring back, Joe had mentioned Socrates. So I mean, it brings to mind his famous quote, the only thing I know is that I know nothing. And there's some humility in that because we're all learning as we go and just trying to piece together what we can see. And I think that maintaining a degree of humility and not speaking from a soapbox as though you're dictating the truth. I think it's important because things are fluid, right? We're learning new things every day that contradict what we thought we knew the day before. Things are fluid. We have to learn and unlearn and relearn, right? I mean, that's the thing about today's information. If this was 1976, where would you be getting information? You get it from a newspaper and somebody would talk about an article and you had the six o'clock news and you had the 11 o'clock news and that was about it. And everybody would worry, you had two or three different stations that people could turn onto and it was real hard to flip back from one to the other. So the information came in slower and the people that were putting out the news, they had a different methodology and they worried a little bit more about their legitimacy, I think. Of course there was manipulation and there always has been humans are humans, which is basically a primate. And what do primates all work off of a pecking order? So we have to be aware that people are going to manipulate us because they're trying to rise to the pecking, rise up the pecking order. And as long as we realize that is the nature of humans that we can kind of, like you said, be a little bit more humble. Like this is not, it's not always a life and death situation. It might feel like it is, but is it really? No, it's really not. So don't dedicate so much of your emotions to it. Okay, so Boone, so I agree with you. I have latched on to something that you say all the time, protect your mind and control your emotions. I legitimately apply it to everything that I post or talk about on the show. There is, however, certain people, personalities, news entities that we look to for signal, right? Donald Trump being one, a spearhead, right? So Donald Trump has said some things over the last few years that will make a conspiracy theorist's head spin off of their shoulders. People like General Flynn, people like yourself, Newsmax. You can go right down the line. There's certain things you go to for signal, the drops. Nothing seems to line up perfectly, which is where the- It won't line up perfectly. I'll give you a good example. And Ayo and I were talking about this before the show because I wanted to bring it up today. This, these executive orders to get rid of DEI, right? Now folks are like, good, now everything's equal and there's not this favoritism and blah, blah, blah. That's really not what that's about. But there's a learning curve when you learn what that's- Those are the effects. I mean, those are definitely secondary effects. But what are we really doing? We're breaking down a Marxist structure that is creating class warfare. It's cultural individualism. And that's how you get into class warfare. So these programs were put in place to develop an environment for class warfare. That's bad. So when you see Trump knocking these things down, is it really, is he really gonna do, is he gonna go into song and dance about class warfare and Marxism and cultural individualism? Is he gonna go into song and dance about that? No, because it leaves too much room for people to get into that argument. And it can create distractions. So he just does it. But the effects, what's behind it, he's removing a structure that performs in such a way that promotes class warfare. He's tearing down Marxism. The creeping Marxism has gotten into our country and into the rot and the corruption of agencies. That's what he's doing. That's what that really, really is. And you know that's what it really is because if it wasn't something that big, he wouldn't take the time on it, wouldn't take the time. But I'm pretty sure there's been conversations about all this stuff, and someone has identified all these critical factors and centers of gravity to this Marxist agenda and said, okay, we're gonna get rid of that one, we're gonna get rid of that one, we're gonna get rid of that one. First, you gotta cut off the messaging, you gotta cut off the programs, and you gotta cut off the funding. That's all happening right now. So when people are, what we're looking at right now is we are undoing, absolutely undoing a Marxist takeover of our country. And it's really interesting because Trump is doing it in sort of a way where we're maintaining our national will because the less national will we have to defend ourselves against our external enemies, the more vulnerable we are as a nation. Well, he's actually raising national will at the same time he's tearing down the structure that has kind of corrupted us from within. This is an amazing feat. This has never been done. It has rarely, rarely ever happened this way. Go back to China. Okay, when China got into a war, when Japan attacked China prior to us getting into World War II, when Japan attacked China, that was when the communists, the Kumitang were fighting the Japanese and the communists says, hey, this is a great opportunity to take over our own country. They refused to fight the Japanese and they went out and started getting these farmers to start killing the landowners. And then they-