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the op. That's the opt. The you're gonna be the op. They're gonna always be the op. Now'll never want to be a part of that, and they do. But oftentimes, if you were blessed enough to not have to move a lot, you know, or or stay in a particular side of town from for you know, the most part of your childhood, most likely the kid on the other side of the gun, on the other side of the you know, robbery or whatever the case may be, like

you kind of know them. Y'all was in the same head Start program, y'all played the same little little league baseball if he was from South Central, like you know, we was looking at the same even if he was across town. It was like, yeah, they're like Sunday like little track meets, you know, all the little stuff that they would do that after school, the summer camps, the vacation Bible schools. You kind of know these kids, you know what I'm saying. They made not to be the

ones from YO block, but you kind of know. And then middle school happens and he recruited you. You join your thing. I can say specifically, like I remember specifically school ending in the summer coming back and I could think of two particular dudes that were like all of the sudden looked out in my mind. It was all of a sudden, now we couldn't kick it no more.

And now he's trying to like he always got something to say every time I walk around, you know, And it took me a second to like really like, because you know, we're kids, to really understand, like, man, when did I become the opp And even though like when nobody around, sometimes we walk over school together giggling, laughing, you know what I'm saying, because like fam like we grew up together. You know. Now I happened that since I happened to move a lot by the time we

was finally settled. Is is around this this time of my life, you know, so I was able to know someone a little longer. You know, my story is like a lot of people's stories where your your time was split between whether it was divorced parents or my grandmother you know, essentially like watched me and my cousins for a lot of our child So like there's kids that I grew up with that were in my grandma's hood,

who I would see them weekends or whatever. Right, but all of a sudden, like there was this time where it was like, Okay, things have actually changed. You know, we are now at war no matter how we feel about each other. Where I war, and sometimes that's a cold war. Sometimes that's a peaceful war. Sometimes there are beautiful, fleeting moments of agreement. Like I said, like when I was walking home, you know, talking basketball or just cracking jokes about like Ms Williams, you know what I mean,

in fifth grade, like just whatever it was. But when lgs come around, everything changes. You know. I go to my side, You go to your side, and that's just it. You You you pick your heill you die on and you just die on that hill. And the point I'm making is even if it don't make sense, even if you know the person on the other side of that doesn't matter. That's the ay. Even if it's actually detrimental

to all of us, don't matter. That's the OP. When I got into hip hop, which was my kind of exit out of this sort of you know, sort of gang situation, is like you was either mainstream or underground. You know when people talk Biggie Tupac, We was like boot camping Wou Tang. We was like k her as One Snoops our favorite rapper. We were like far side, Common Souls a mischief. We were backpacking. We didn't listen to the radio. You know what I'm saying. You weren't

allowed to. Like jay Z, you weren't allowed to even if a song come on. He was just like, I don't no, man, he's kind of spitting up. You know. The lines were very clear. Jiggy rap, radio rap, commercial rap, was like, you don't they're the ops. They're destroying hip hop. He we talked about mass P, mass P and Puff Daddy destroyed hip hop. That's that was. We're backpackers, you know what I'm saying, Like you just close minded backpackers.

They always dips where at war to save hip hop with our rapidi raps, you know, save it from the money, you know what I'm saying the mainstreamers. I was a true believer, you know what I'm saying. Then along comes somebody like a Kanye West who was like, well, I

came from backpacker. I don't know, like he was his I don't know if you watched his his documentary, but Rouckess records with like most and quality and Pharaoh maage and just like these like spiders, like he was kind of came from that, but he was also he was also Imphan's bleak. You know. Jay Z is also jiggy, you know what I'm saying, like commercial rep like he

liked fashion, you know. So he was this first like hybrid at the time that we had never seen, which gives birth to somebody like a Kendrick Lamar who can do uh. And now, like it's it's such a stupid thing to talk about now because at least hip hop, in my mind, has gotten over it. We all see it all as beautiful. Unfortunately our politics have not. Let's talk about what it means to be in a culture

war hood politics. All right, that was a long intro for this, But politics, y'all, I want you to understand some of the stuff that's like happening, especially again going into this election season. These are things that like some terms you're gonna hear that my desires that you really understand what that is and you can draw your own conclusions.

I plan on for the most part, holding my opinions about these things to myself unless I think that it's like absolutely necessary to express them for the context of the show. I've never wanted to develop a show that is that is to kind of chew your food for you and say, hey, this is what it tastes like, but more like, let me give you the ingredients that

you cook your own meal. Because sometimes we may feel like people are talking over our heads and I just want again, I keep coming back to this, like nobody is talking over your head. You actually understand this stuff, you know. So this is one of those episodes because like, okay, make it makes sense. Republican Congressman Glenn Thompson, right, goes to his son's gay marriage three days after voting against federal protection of said gay marriage. Make it make sense?

Is there a cognitive dissonance there. Well maybe maybe it's like I said, some people ain't true believers, they just playing the game. Others are like, well, how like, how does this work? Tell you how? Because we're in a culture war. Culture wars, politicians will say stuff like the soul of our nation is at stake, the single most important issue of our time. You know, these grandiose statements that are designed to be exaggerated. You know, they're they're

they're hyperbole, hyperbole. I love that word, hyperbole, hyperbolic, hyper believe. I digress they are because they're they're they're trying to get your attention. They you know, they want to get you on edge. And being on edge, you know, ignites a certain part of your brain that flight or flight you're you're amygdala, you know, the part of your brain that says, I have to make a decision right now.

You know, I have to feel this. I'm convincing you that your life is in danger, your very futures in that your children they in danger, you know, And who's the danger? Them fools? The the OP is always coming to get everything You've got, dao problem you feel, I'm saying, look, try it like this. Basically, if you want to translate it. It's very simple. We are at war for what the culture ought to be. Now, let's do some history and some animalogy about the term culture and where we got

culture war from. All right, okay, we're back now. Culture. I honestly believe most of us don't even know what that actually means. Like when you say, well, what is culture? You know what it? What it? It's such a large question. Now I feel like, you know, especially among like you know, urban communities, we were like, yo, we did this for the culture. Uh, it's the culture. You know, you gotta wrap the culture. No, man, like you gotta do this

for the culture, Like, well, what do we mean by that? What? What? Here's what's crazy? We we know what we mean. Yeah, what I'm saying, like, you know exactly, we know what we mean. But it's very you know, tricky to put words to it. So this woman helped, y'all do Let's put words to a culture at its very most simple academic definition. It's too humans trying to figure out how to survive. We are the one species on the planet, you know, due to our large frontal lobes. I don't

know that aren't necessarily born with everything we need. I mean, if you leave a baby in the woods right after it was born, it dies. We we don't have all the faculties already. We don't have everything we need already. You could look at I'm gonna give you a couple of books on this one if you're ready to do some reading. This is from his book called Sacred Canopy. When I was writing my terraform book, also I got

telephone coffee, you know what, telephone cobrew dot com. But when I was writing the book, this was some of the source material I used for research. And it talks about how culture is made, what is culture, how it's made, and then how it makes us, you know, like deers, horses, like other mammals, fish like whales. See what I'm saying, Like a whale is born swimming, but he already know how to swim. You know. You see horses and cows and they give birth that baby walking in an hour,

like just within the hour, it's already walking. They got everything you need you already in the pack. It already noticed. Stay in the pack, you know what I'm saying. And of course you got the motherly you know, fatherly instincts that we see all across the animal kingdom. Whatever quote unquote air quote culture they have is us imprinting our experience on them. Won't know what they're doing. It just looks like what we're doing humans. However, we had to

create language. We built, shelters, we built cities. Are familiar units, are family ties? Like for example, what is your mama's brother to you? Your uncle? I guess why? I mean, what that fool got to do with you? That's just your mama's brother. Like what what do you care? What about your mom's brother's children? Those are your cousins. Why as far as sir, cousins is always trouble? You know what I'm saying, We didn't all we're all getting troven

day around. What difference does it make what they are to you? Well, when we was traveling to African Savannah, trying to like not get eaten by a tiger, the thought was, I need to make sure that the people around me are going to not give me a poisoned berry, that you somehow care about who I am as a person. That so you're you're developing safety when you have to

travel in pacts. I gotta understand that this track, this pack is safe, and then I need to know that when I meet another pack, there's a way to communicate with them. That's the language I gotta be able to communicate with this. This is just we're just trying to survive here, you feel me. And then we create aided art to express ourselves the motions that we have that we can't necessarily put into words. And then if I need to communicate across time and space, we developed language.

These are all ultimately culture, the collection of all this stuff, the rules for which are rules of engagement are familiar ties are our our our languages. They're all listen and they don't exist in nature. We made them up like you, like you, I can't stress us enough. Culture is made up. It's all in our heads. The American culture, you know, it didn't always exist. We made it up collectively us. Yeah, nobody wrote ap wrote it down on a piece of paper,

but we That's how culture is made, right. And then what's crazy about how culture works is what's this stuff is made and enough time goes by, then it starts making us. What do I mean by that? When I gave you the example of you know, uncle and cousin, the thought I'm sure, the thought never crossed your mind that wait, there was. It wasn't always like that, Like, that's just what it is. Were you're talking about, That's

just what it is. There's no way for you to look at your uncle and not see him as your uncle, because it's made us now, right, even if you've never met him, You're like, well, that's my uncle. You ever thought about the fact that, like, there are people with no uncles and cousins because both their parents were only children. Yet of course there are millions of people that do this, but like, it's just a weird thought to me. But yeah, or you form cousins from friends auntie's and uncles from

family friends. If you brown folks, half of your cousins ain't your cousins, you stand, I'm saying that was your mama's friends kids. Half of your aunties and uncles ain't your aunties and uncles? There your family friends and they or they just people you went to church with. Are you following me? We made them up, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, And I dare I dare you to run up on somebody to be like, that's not your real cousin. You're like, oh, word. It's not my

real cousin. Okay, that's my cousin. It's just it is what it is because we make them up, and then they make us because we had to find a word for that person. These this, these extended family members that ain't really blood family, Well what else do I call them? Except for family? Culture made us. Cultures also include an origin story, who we are, why we understand who we are? That's all culture. We made that up. Like I can't

stress us enough. The American origin story of our pure meritocracy, that if you stand up for what's right, if you work hard, you'll succeed. Now we all know that that is a fairy tale, you know what I'm saying, Like

who already now? Who who's sitting right now listening to this podcast at work, whether you in the office or you're working from home, and it's somebody you got an email right now who might be making more money than you, that you know is dumb as a bag of rocks that only got that job because they know somebody they earned that. You're telling me, the person that show up on your street, if you're from l A, the person that show up on your street, the hard working toughest nails.

Mexican man. I'm just look, I'm not trying to be y'all understand what I'm saying. That's just how the city work. The person that comes cutting your grass, that's a Mexican man. He working four times harder than you. But you you're sitting down working from home. The it's a it's just a story we told ourselves. You know what I'm saying. It's not right or wrong. It's just a creation, myth. We formed our identity by it. We have to believe that,

like our nose is better than anybody else's nose. That's why when gas prices change, we think it's an American president doing it. Like as you crazy gas prices, that's a global commodity foods thinking. It's like it's an entire planetary conspiracy to keep Trump out of office. You think the whole planet care. It's because of what we tell ourselves that's formed our identities. I know some old g's my whole girl's dad like a triple O G. Right,

we man who's going somewhere? And he was like immediately he was like, oh where you live now? And I was like, oh, yeah, I'm over here. I live on this street in the street and he names the hood immediately he's like, oh, yeah, no, I don't go over there no more. And I'm like, bro, it's like hundreds tens of thousands of other people here that don't care at all about any of these politics, any of that, like literalhood politics. They don't care. But that's like, that's

your world. When you're in that world, that's it shape your whole identity. It's grocery stories. You don't go too because you got enemies over there, like bet oh no, I got Opts over there. And I'm like, man, yo Op is picking up their child from eighth grade right now, And I'm like, I'm trying to tell you right now, like you're good. But that's your world. That's us in America.

We think everybody care, everybody watching, you know what what I'm saying, Like, and people care in the sense that you are on the planet. But like fam, we don't control the gas prices Spain, like no, we you know what I'm saying. You can't even tell me nothing about their history, but you expect when you go to Spain that they all know our history. That's just because we loud, we make culture.

The culture make us. But the origin stories, you know what I'm saying, and most and what happens is like if you don't, you don't understand the origin story or how this stuff works. A lots on don't even notice it's happening. He has his motif where he says, look, if you were to ask a tropical fish like, yo, what do you think of the cold waters of the deep that fishes answer, if it could talk, would be like, uh, what's water? Because you're just in it, you know, I'm saying, like,

I don't know, I'll point at it. I'm just just in it. So that is culture that makes sense. Now culture war. Oh this is ah a motif that kind of came from twenties thirties. You could say John Birch society and then I think you know kinda got It's coined its phrase from dudes like James Dobson, Chuck Coulson, these like elder statesmen that are like really at towards the end of their life. Now you know what I'm saying.

Like Chuck Coulson was involved in like Watergate. He was one of the guys that kind of had to go to jail. He took. He took the fall. You know what I'm saying, somebody had it. They needed blood. You know, I'm saying somebody had to go. He kind of ended up taking the fall. He went to prison. He started this thing called prison Fellowship. You got somebody like James Dobson, which is, you know, you come from like American evangelicalism,

that man walk on water. Uh. He started a thing called Focus on the Family, you know, and it was kind of became like a a hammer for that Western evangelical zeal to get into politics. That's saying this sweeping you know, lean towards liberalism and not American values is destroying our families and the way that we raise our kids. They believe that the pinnacle of how society stays well is a healthy family, which is of course a marriage

between a man and a woman who's raising their children. Purity, culture, all this stuff, like a lot of this stuff came from, which means it would follow that the problem with the black community is that there's not enough fathers. The fathers aren't in the city. If the fathers were in place, it's not the police, it's that the fathers aren't in place.

You following me, James Dobson, focus on the family. You know what I'm saying, so and and and the premise is we are at war for the soul of the nation, and the war is waged with our children, you know, so like and you could get you could you can trace all these seeds back to like, you know, desegregating, taking prayer out of school, like all this stuff, you know, abortion, like all this stuff for them was mission drift to say that, like, we need to fight to bring America

back to something. So if you're against that, you're the app Flip it on its other end with more of the sort of liberal leaning progressive movements, which are like,

are y'all crazy? We need to adapt and change and get rid of these demons or we're never gonna go forward right there, Like, look, I'm trying to exercise these demons, like these are things that like and anybody that speaks to any ideal that feels to us regressive is the op We all know that progressive you can't even talk to, like, don't it just we can't even have a regular conversation because like it's just all war. Nothing anyone else has to say, even you who might agree with him makes

sense and can ever be repeatable. Nothing y'all saying makes sense. And we are in the same culture at war with each other for the soul of that is a culture war. Now, how do you interpret your place in this? Coming up next? Yea, all right, here's another book recommendation. This guy's name is Michael Sandow. He's from I think it's Harvard. He wrote a book called What Is Justice? I absolutely recommend this.

I think I've mentioned like pieces of this and informer episodes, but like I want to give like a full thing on it for you. He explains this idea of when we talk about what is justice and what is just work, oftentimes we find that there are, at least in America, three different definitions of what we mean when we say justice. Depending on what you mean by that will a lot of times tell you where you are in this quote

unquote culture war. And then I'm gonna, I think at the end of this episode, uh, blow up the whole motif of like the war. This is one of episodes I'm an actually tell you my opinion. So he would say,

there's three basic motifs here. If what you mean by justice is the greatest amount of good for the most amount of people, Right, what is the best thing we can do for everyone, which may not be actually everyone, but the but if it's the best we can do for the most amount, then we've done the right thing. So those things usually tend to be left leaning in liberal universal health care, you know, free public education, free college tuition, eliminating debt, because that's doing the best we

can do for the most of it. There are people that can afford to these things, so if we could provide ways for them to get to then it's the greatest amount of good for every just you know, wealth redistribution, like like spread the wealth around, like it shouldn't all be sitting in one place, because now only a few of us in our world are actually getting the things that we need. And how can society go forward? How can culture be healthy if all the resources are focused

is only on a few people. And a lot of times that you know, your perception is those few people that got on the research, they ain't get them. Honestly, they got them by stepping on the people that ain't got the resources. Does that make sense? Like you didn't get rich on your own again, meritocracy, you got rich standing on the poor, So like that can't be this. We we can't survive like this. So the greatest amount of good for the most amount of people is one

one sort of motif. It's usually liberally, And a second motif is justice is the ability and freedom to flourish without any hindrances. Right, So it's like, just leave me alone. I'm gonna do the right thing because I understand that if I'm succeeding, if I'm doing what I got to do, if I got all the tools I need to do what I gotta do, and you got all the tools you need to do what you gotta do, just leave us alone, and if it works, it works. If it fails, it's my fault. But don't get in my way. Let

me make that decision, you know what I'm saying. Look, if if it ain't no school for me, let me figure out how to do it, and I'll make it succeed. I don't need you all to do it. Like, look, if I need to put more money into my local school, I'll put my money. You don't make me put my money in my school. I'll do it. Usually, now this is your more libertarian approach, and to be honest, with

you libertarian? Is this idea of like, look, I got sense it, don't it don't do me no good for me to have a seven bedroom house on a block when everybody else is starving. That just don't do me no good. Like I'm of course I'm gonna like, Look, my neighbor's kids is hungry. I'm a feed him, Like, I don't need you to tell me this because you know, I'm like, I can't have them disease written. You know why, because that's gonna get my kids sick. So it just

makes sense. If we're out in the forest, you know what I'm saying. If I'm chopping wood you need what? Of course I'm gonna give you wood, I like and dove you need water, you'll give it to me, right, I mean, I just gave you wood. I need some water, Like I don't understand, don't we both want to survive. I don't everybody tell me that. I don't need a government to tell me this. I don't need you to take the wood from me, Like I got sense, And

if I fail, I failed. I've always said to that, Like, if it wasn't for racism, I'd probably be a libertarian. I'd be like, y'all leave me alone. I got sense, I figure it out. But because racism, I can't trust my neighbor to do the right thing. Like people like, here's here's the The official misunderstanding of affirmative action is this is people feel like in race called is people feel like, Okay, you got in just because of the color of your skin. And I'm like, are you serious

if a black man got into Yale University. I didn't get into Yale. I'm black, I don't got the grades. It ain't got nothing to do with It doesn't mean that you're not capable. What it means is I don't care how capable you are. They wasn't gonna let you in. So what the government is coming in and saying it's like, yo, I'm compelling you because they would have never chose you no matter how qualified you are. It don't mean you not qualified. It means they was never gonna choose you,

whether you was qualified or not. That's how affermative action were. Now. I remember our first time, like triving to through Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee and really trying to understand like why y'all act like this? And one of the os was like listening. Here's the thing. It's like he was like, Yo, my dad worked at the electric company thirty years, never got promoted the manager. Why he was like, because none of them white boys would listen to him. They would never

accept no matter how much more skilled he was. They would never take directions from a black man. He's like in the and and it and the bosses was like, dog, you're right, like you are more qualified. I just can't make them listen to you. He explained other situations where it's like, again, I don't qualify. I don't care how qualified you are. We just don't promote black people. I'll be like, Danny, don't you all want to get to the money? They're like not like this, which is why

you needed laws against discrimination. I know, I got I know the college I went to is because they had race quotas. I get it. It would but listen, I still applied. So they had the grades. You know what I'm saying. My cousin ain't go. He ain't got the grades. So it's like, don't like, don't conflict this. But anyway that that like freedom to flourish is usually the like the libertarian approach. And then there's a third approach. That's um,

what things ought to be is the ideal. Now, this is the stuff you hear Jordan Peterson and them say, the ideal what things should be, That there is a right, a right way for things to work, and it is outside of us. It is fixed, and it is eternal. And what we are to do, no matter what any of us think, is to bend our will to what is right. Yeah, and sometimes I may not like it,

but that's what that's what, that's what's right. This appeals to the conservative and I mean clearly if you say that the those that are staunchly religious, is because it's appealing to this ideal of a divine rightness that is outside of us, and it is our job, no matter how we feel about something, to conform to that. And this is why when you look at the culture wars, we end as far as like things like gay marriage. Right now we're really getting into the meats here, abortion,

gay marriage, trans rights. These people are gonna tell you, well know, I'm just saying like they're gonna try to come with the like libertarian approach where it's like, well no, I'm just saying that, like I don't think government should be involved in any of our relationship. No, it's because that's not really the way you feel. You don't think

these things should exist in a perfect world. According to this world, everybody's hetero because that's the way, according to you, we were made, that's the way we ought to be. Into them. It's like full dune, like I don't understand, look at our genitals, Like what are you talking about? Like this any sort of deviation from what is the norm? You know, subtexts middle class white like if you don't succeed, it's because you're the malady, You're the the the variance.

So there must be something wrong with you, because in a proper society, you would be over there and we would be. It just it just feeds so much naturally, fitting perfectly with the racist white supremacists, homophobic for some reason, it just fits so well because of their definition of how things ought to be, and they feel like, well, they're letting go of things too. It's like why I wish everybody was wealthy. I wish I didn't have to pay taxes. But you know, things fall apart. We live

in a fallen world. Some things go wrong, and yeah, I mean, but look everybody's got to take You know, this isn't a perfect world, but if it was, it would look like this, which but what ends up happening is now we're not even arguing like the merits of the right, the argument the worldview. It's like it ends up being where you're arguing my right for existence. You know what I'm saying, Like it's not the only thing

I should have rights. You think I shouldn't exist, yo, But since my non existence is not an option, you just try to minimize my presence in your world. Right. But with that worldview again like putting yourself in their shoes, they're like, look, I ain't make the rules, do you

know what I'm saying. I just like, I'm just it's just this is just you know, when you try to explain to somebody like sort of some of these these these views that we're at, we're just like, I but I don't look, man, if you don't have corn, plant corn, I just why should I have to give you corn that I plan it if you ain't go outside and plant your oh corn. This is just how it works. That's why they begets so far it But now you got stuff like trans people in community and rights. That's

just a brain breaker. It's not that y'all shouldn't have rights, is that y'all shouldn't exist. This shouldn't be so in their mind, it's like, well, if I can make the culture like form itself to what things ought to be in this world. Again, because you're talking about what it ought to be. If you're a boy and you don't think you're a boy, something wrong with your thoughts according to them, because that's not how things ought to be.

But here's the problem. What they do exist. You you're trying to end gay marriage, it's not because you don't believe in marriage. Equality is not because you don't believe in marriage. It's because you believe in marriage. Only like this, it's actually homophobic. Now again if we're talking culture will now getting no way, let me finish this. So that is the third way of what you mean by justice. Justice is what things ought to be right, And you

might find yourself somewhere in some of these places. Now, what a culture war does is says that anybody in these other motifs don't get it. So that if like like let youse, let use the gay marriage thing as an example, right, if in this election cycle. The conservative movement is gonna take this on because they they've floating

on this Roe v. Wade victory. Right, And then Clarence Thomas was like, well, let's look at this stuff, let's look at birth control, let's look at this right, Whereas the majority of like the populace is like, well, I mean, if we're if we're talking conservative populace like following me, they're like, well, we think it's weird. Weren't reel with it religiously, But like, I mean, what what do I care? Like, get the taxes, you know what I'm saying, It's fine

if this is an institution that you believe. Again, a loving family is like the cornerstone of our society, and why would you take it away from people that agree with you, Like you have these LGBTQ couples that are like, yeah, you're right, a healthy family. I'm in love with this person. I want to solidify it, pledge my love, and I want to bring some children into this place. There's a lot of people, well there's a lot of kids out there ain't got families. We agree, but we can't because

you're the eyes. It took me a long time to get to this part of this pot. I hope y'all stuck through me. But like, this is where I was saying, But what if the makes sense what they're kind of saying the same thing. This is the perfect example of that, right, Or let's go back to universal healthcare. You know you're like,

well it sounds like socialism. Well, I mean like maybe, but you know, if you think that this is just like a black brown like a minority issue, It's like man talked to that toughest nail, you know, sawmill logging. He ain't got no insurance, can't afford no healthcare. That company showl ain't giving him nothing. Y'a don't see all them commercials about Mezzo Theaoma from working in them cold mines. Bro, you think your company care about you? Don't You wouldn't

you like, don't you think? Don't you think it'd be kind of cool? It's like, you ain't have to rely on this company that don't care about you anyway for your safety. It's crazy to me to have to rely on somebody that I know don't care about me for my security. That's ridiculous to me. I don't trust you. You don't trust me? Why the hell would I trust you for the health of my children? Now I need

to talk to somebody else. And then somebody else's argument might be like, woll, why would I trust the government for you for the health of my children? My argument would be because the government needs you, that company don't need you. The problem is I also agree with them by saying, well, what government program work? Well that's what Look you see how the options making sense to each other.

But I can't because you're the eye culture awards. Now. Lastly, as you'll go into these voting boosts, as you'll think about where you want to go next, I would suggest to you to not let yourself. I don't care where you fall on the spectrum, not let yourself fall into this motif. Let me tell you why, because these people are talking as if culture is something separate from us, like as it's its own entity that we're fighting to save. When culture is us, We made it. It's not separate

from us. We are it. If you're trying to save culture, I can't consider half of you my enemy because you're making it and the fact that we're fighting is why our cultures. Wait, is you know what I'm saying now, I'm not saying stop fighting. What I'm saying is fight for the right things. You get in there, you do your homework of your local elections, you put the right people in office, you know what I'm saying, and you apply to pressure on them. And of course this is

like Pie in the Sky talking. I'm just trying to tell you, man, don't let these listen again. Don't get into this motif where the op is always the op, because I don't know if any of us, like mainstream media, like you got a point now, I know some things are non negotiable, like my right to exist. You feel me like, that's not nothing. I'm willing to be and don't. But if I drop a disk track on Trump, you know what I'm saying, don't be like well Biden and

I'm like, man, I know, yeah, what is Cupcake like? Now? I'm cool. I'm cool on on old Brandon. You know what I'm saying. That boy is beige Saint a Biden. Stand Come on, fan, don't fall into the motif because culture not separate from us. Culture is us. So if you had war with culture, Loki, you at war with yourself. Little politics. Yeah, this here thing was recorded by me

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