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0:00 there's a really great philosopher this is this is my maybe my one and only Grand tribute to Peter Thiel but he he is he's a huge supporter of a philosopher named Renee Gerard and I agree with a lot of a lot of that a lot of Renee Gerard's philosophies and basically it's called memetic Theory and the idea is you're born without preferences and then you kind of just copy what's around you and so what the other person
0:31 wants is what you want and that's what ultimately leads to a lot of conflict and the only way to resolve conflict is is with a huge Grand sacrifice of some kind okay and if you think about it here if you're going to really put you know cancel culture if you're gonna kill it there needs to be some just massive escalation and conflict around this idea that allows us to resolve it in one way or the other in One Direction or the
1:00 other and I don't think this is it I think it's not big enough quite honestly I think it's a little bit sort of like you know there's folks like us that love comedy and we're willing to keep it in a very strict box which is let people say what they're gonna say be shocked with it and don't take it on to yourself and don't you know and go and reflect it into the world it's entertainment and
1:21 you can you know it's like I choose not to watch violent stuff because I don't like it I find it I find it very offensive or you know I don't play first person shooters I find it really unsettling you know Grand Theft Auto I found it really outrageous and other people will feel like that about Chappelle my whole thing is we should all be allowed to make those judgments because I think we're all still pretty rational people at the end
1:45 of the day and do the right thing in the normal world but this isn't the thing that's going to get this issue to be resolved so I don't know how it comes there needs to be some huge escalation around this thing I suspect what happens is it actually just dissipates and goes away and the reason is because everybody who's much younger than us has such a huge digital footprint that they've created through their whole life there
2:11 is so much that's out there God yes that they just have no choice but to let everybody else off the hook we we are in a very different situation because we were doing some shady stuff always on the down low always hidden whoa easy there but that's how it was you would roll deep and you would just you would pretend you would not you know and now the culture is very different and I think with that comes a lot of
2:39 acceptance every you know every kid at some point may or may not be on Tinder Bumble Rhea you know grinder whatever so there's going to be a body of that content that's up every kid will have said something crazy you know on tick tock and all of this stuff will be there and so you'll have a choice which is if you're gonna hold me accountable I'm going to hold you accountable and so it's mutually assured destruction and I
3:02 think that's what causes cancer culture to go away in time it's the Last Vestige of very guilty people of Our Generation