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ed to what they need or what's good for them or they even know how it's going to turn out. They've got short-term wants that are in conflict with their long-term needs. So I feel as if focusing on anybody's wants is going to give you some problems sometimes. The difference is mind-reading maybe. Apparently there's a class-action suit against the candy Skittles because there's some ingredient in…

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ve a chance. This food is engineered to overwhelm our whatever you think is your willpower, which is an illusion. So you're really operating against something that's scientifically designed to beat you. If you're fighting every day against an enemy who is scientifically designed to beat you every time, well don't be surprised if you lose because it was scientifically designed to beat you every time. That's the sugar, fat, salt combination. If you manipulate the sugar, fat, salt, which is the name of a book you should read, it's addictive.

There's a reason you can only, you can't eat more than one potato chip. That's real. I really can't eat one. I've tried. Have you ever tried to eat one potato chip? If you're all alone and you keep the potato chips in your room and you're still hungry, you just can't do it. I would say that if you were to rank me against other human beings in terms of willpower I think it'd be pretty high up there. Like I would say my track record of life suggests that I can put off pleasure for a long time to get some larger gain. I have pretty high emotional intelligence as you know, objectively measured. But I can't resist the second potato chip. That's crazy. I will just talk myself into it.

So I think we have to come to some kind of a realization or awareness. Our food supply is killing us. It's not even close to adequate. It's not even close. It's not even in the general zip code of food.

Have you ever met somebody who ate clean like really clean? Now you think you have because you have a friend who's a vegan or something like that. No, I'm not even close. The difference between eating clean like really eating clean, no additives, no preservatives, all that stuff, if you meet one of those people they're not like you are. They're not like you. Their bodies and their health is really different and it's very noticeable.

Yeah, I once briefly dated a woman who was just the cleanest eater and didn't use any unnatural shampoos or didn't even put things on externally. And it was so obvious that that human being was operating at a different level of health. It was just really obvious. And I don't think she started as the healthiest person in the world. I think it's what she eats. I think it's just that. Now I couldn't do what she did. It was just too extreme. It was just really extreme. But no question it worked. No question that worked.

All political movements of any scale are fake in terms of protests. Like big movements, whether it's your Antifas or your January 6 events or your fine people marches or your Antifa. I think they're all fake. And here's what I mean. I don't mean that the individuals who are marching don't have sincere feelings. They do. But they wouldn't be there except that some artificial entity funded it and organized it.

Now here's the thinking. You could imagine a time in the 70s, I don't know if it's true, but you can imagine a time when maybe spontaneous large-scale protests did happen. Maybe. But probably not even then. And here's the reason. It's that the organizers have too much to gain. They can monetize it. If it's possible to monetize leadership of an organization, well you're down here. Follow the money. What's going to happen if it's possible just if it's possible to monetize leadership of a political movement? Somebody's going to buy it. There's somebody who's going to buy your loyalty because the cat is for sale. You can monetize it.

Now without going into a long argument, here's the short version. If you follow the money it has to be in the long run that all major organized political movements are all artificial. In other words somebody just funded them to look like a grassroots movement. But it's the organizers that are getting everybody spun up. In the long run they all become owned by a bad entity because they're all for sale ultimately.

In the short run maybe not. In the short run you can imagine people spontaneously running into the street to protest something. And I think maybe the abortion situation on day one was probably just organic. On day one probably just people just said, oh they just got up and made a sign and walked outside. But wait a little while. Whoever has the most money and influence will eventually get to whoever the organic leaders are and say, you know you're doing well as an organic leader but you're not making any money. You're not paying your family. You're not feeding your family. How about I give you a bunch of money, make you muc

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h more effective? They say yeah, you're on my side. I mean what's the downside? I just get more money and I do the same thing. But people give you money on you no matter what your original motivation was. As soon as you start taking money you've got a boss. So basically every leader who might be organic in the beginning ends up getting owned by somebody who has enough money to do that. So I can't…

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