Nation And Teams Part 3 (Final Remarks)

The speaker wants to have a discussion about goals and suggests that instead of focusing on doom and gloom, we should talk about how to fix things. They believe that teaching is an important profession that should be rewarded. They also question the cost of teaching and compare it to the government taking over industries during World War II. The speaker mentions the importance of nuclear power and suggests finding ways to safely dispose of nuclear waste. They argue that other industries produce harmful waste as well and that we should focus on diversifying the economy. The speaker also discusses the idea of a global governing body and mentions the show Star Trek as an example of a post-scarcity future. They bring up the McCarthy era and express a desire for more compassion in society. I just want there to be a discussion about what our goals are. I don't want to poison the well. It's great to hear some people talking about it, just acknowledging. Maybe we should stop talking about doom and gloom all the time and talking about what we can do to fix it. I'm just one person. These are just some ideas, and I'm sure that we can come up with something, like a better system. People performing the service of teaching something, that's a good profession. That's one that we need to have, and they should be rewarded. That's a real profession that provides a real service that's really important. Ergo, it should be worthy of reward instead of magic tricks with numbers. So when I say that everyone has a right to knowledge, I don't mean that we have to just stop whatever we're doing and just turn and start explaining things to people without making anything. We should have specific people selected to do that that are good at that, and we do, but we don't really pay them so much. It's not an easy job. Yeah, and then we have this whole tenure thing. The way we do teaching in our world, I wonder how much would it cost? I mean, during World War II, the government took over pretty much the private industry, almost 100% of it. They no longer got to decide what to make. They were told what to make, right? Isn't that kind of what happened? Or, I mean, they just said, yeah, we need, you know, you're going to make gunpowder, you're going to make shells, brass or whatever, and you're going to make the bullets, you're going to make this barrel type, and whatever. I don't know. I just think if we didn't have to spend as much money as we spend on the military, I don't know what it is, it's like 10% or something, 20%, I don't know, I forget. I really ought to do some more research before I just start spouting off statements. I have done research on that topic, but my brain hurts, and it has to come out. At least that's what my doctor told me, and I think he might be right. I think he's right. I think it should probably come out and get fixed. I think it's under warranty. I'm not sure, because I am almost 44. Yeah, shit. I think, I forget, is the warranty on our brains until 40, or is it until 50? I can't remember. It's one of those two. It might be 40, so I might be kind of fucked. Oh well. I guess I'm just going to have to stick with this damn brain. If you have the really good insurance, you get new brains every year, so that's a little unfair, frankly. That's kind of a big impetus behind one of my motivations for social progress, is to level that playing field, because anyone that wants a new brain should have access to a new brain, period. I think that's a no-brainer. I'm just so goddamn hilarious. Yeah, many people have thrown out ideas that are clearly better ideas than what we're doing, but we're kind of stuck, aren't we? Why are we so stuck? Who benefits by us being stuck? Quibono, which is Latin for who benefits, and also means I'm pretentious. What was that movie? Maybe it was Emilio Estevez, and the guy that plays Amadeus. He's the guy that, you know, mocked me. Anyway, I'm getting way off topic. One thing that I wanted to come back to was the nuclear waste thing. I didn't really complete that thought, and all I really did was a whataboutism by pointing out that there's other things that are also very dangerous, in fact, much more dangerous. The waste products from refining coal, refining oil, yeah, they're extremely dangerous, too. Remember that time, the Cuyahoga River caught on fire? Yeah. What were we doing there, like around there, that led to that? Was it nuclear power? No. I don't actually know the answer to that. I think it was steel more than anything, but there probably was some coal or oil. Either way, there's a lot of industrial processes that result in very harmful and very toxic products, and yet, for some reason, we're just hyper-focused on the waste of nuclear power plants, when it's really not that bad. We have the technology now to reduce the radioactive part to something that's not radioactive anymore, make all that a complete reaction or something like that. There's a term they use, those genius nuclear people, physics. But then the other waste product is the coolant water, right? I mean, we literally label all of the water, we label that water as radioactive waste. It's hardly more radioactive than normal water. That's my understanding. If we were to take that water and just dump it into a fine mist over a huge area of the ocean, I don't think there'd be any way that would contribute to anything, getting cancer at a higher rate than it normally would have. Maybe someone can step in here and correct me on that, but I think we can come up with a few different ways where we could put that water back into the water cycle without it harming anything, rather than trying to treat it as if it was literally just as bad as the incompletely used fissile material, which we have buried all over the place. But we could dig up and use some of that because we have better technology now. We could keep using the fissile material until it's not radioactive anymore. We should build those kinds of nuclear power plants, like right freaking now, like 20 years ago. Well, as soon as we had the tech to do that, we should have been doing that. So I really wish we could come back to the nuclear power discussion. Because I remember we were having that discussion a lot around the time when I was in grade school, and it spilled into the classroom, even in grade school. It was a topic of discussion at my grade school. What should we do about this global warming thing? We have to find a better power source. This is back in the 80s. I was in fourth grade. I don't remember. I think it was third grade even. I doubt that that was a part of the national curriculum. It just happened to be something that was being talked about at my grade school, in that class at least. I remember going over all these different pluses and minuses. At that time, the nuclear waste, there was a component that was going to have to be buried or something because we didn't keep using it to its completion. It was more of a negative. But even then, even then, it was a lot less of a negative than the other thing, which we keep doing, which we're still doing, and we can't seem to stop doing. We're addicted to it. It's not good for a country to discover they have huge amounts of it, is it? What does it do to that country? What has it done to Russia? What has it done to other countries? I don't want to point out. I don't want to single out nations. But I mean, while I'm singling out nations, let's just take a look at Spain, right? Remember when they had all that gold for reasons that I think everyone knows? What happened to them? Was that a good thing for them to just suddenly just have tons of gold, which equated to money, and in a big way, it still does? No, it was not. It kind of nearly destroyed them. So it's not good to just have a single undiversified economy, and especially one that's harming a freaking planet. But I mean, taking that aside, it's still not good to have an undiversified economy. For economic reasons alone, there's a benefit to, you know, spreading your eggs around, you know, instead of just putting them all into one basket. Diversity is good in economics, too. It would seem to me, I think that would be a fair statement. It's good to have a diverse economy as opposed to a non-diverse economy. Because then if any one of those industries fails, okay, well, that's too bad. But we still have all these other ones that are doing great. I don't like how, you know, here in America, it's just like we're trending down towards tech, and that's it. I don't think that's a great trend. We need to remember how to make stuff. You know, we have to have some amount of that happening here. Some amount of that has to happen everywhere. And we can't, well, whatever. If we actually did do the team or thing, then we could sort of have regions of the world that are specialized in making this, and another region of the world that's specialized in doing this. And it could be very much like a human body, you know, with different organs. It wouldn't be like a brain area. That would not really be fair for, you know, just to call one area the brain, and they get to make all the decisions for the whole world. That would have to be something that, you know, an elected body that has representatives to represent each area of the world or each culture of the world or something. And, you know, in a way that can't be influenced by money. We wouldn't even need money anymore if we did the Team Earth thing. Is there money in Star Trek? No. I don't think they had money, did they? No. Yeah. That was a, in case everyone forgot, that was a show about a post-scarcity future that was communist, like the entire world united in a communist manner, and no one needed anything anymore. And yet it was like a hugely popular show in America during the Cold War, right? Kind of nuts, right? That one kind of just slipped by. Yeah, that whole McCarthy thing and the blacklist, remember that? Remember when we used to have a left, I think John Steinbeck, all these people that were kind of thinking like, you know, left way. I'm not going to say communist because, yeah, it's not clear that John Steinbeck was a communist. He was accused for having communist sympathies. I don't think he ever admitted to it. It seems clear based on his writing that he did have maybe some, I think he had sympathies towards compassion and just not being a dick to each other. I don't know. Does that make you a communist? It's like, oh my god, the guy's not being a dick. Get him. Somebody get him. Tie him up. Throw him in jail because he's not being a dick enough. He's being too nice. I don't know. Maybe I just needed only mad men and children speak the truth and maybe I'm just mad, right? That's probably how this will get spun. If it ever gets spun or heard by anyone, it'll just get spun in some way to make me seem crazy and that'll be easy to do because, yeah, just take a look at me in my life and I'll look pretty crazy. I've been in a psych ward. I've been in psychiatric treatment. There'd be all kinds of ways to make me look like a batshit crazy person if they wanted to. I would be a very poor choice as a front man for any movement because they could just rip me to shreds in the court of public opinion. It would be very easy to make me look bad. I have things I can say in response to any one attack. Do you think that anyone would air my defense statements? Probably not. I mean, if it came down to some kind of leftist revolution with me at the forefront, that would just fail. It would just flop. It would just trip and fall on its face and they get hacked to pieces, devoured by a pack of wolves and that would be that. There they go. That was an interesting little blip there. It wouldn't last as long or have as much of an impact as even Occupy Wall Street did. It would just immediately die. It's not just like humility that I don't want to be the leader of anything. It's also it would be dumb to choose me to be the leader of anything in terms of like spokespeople. I would not be a good choice. I also don't have any platform to speak of and that's why I'm just rambling into a microphone. It's a message in a bottle and I really hope there comes a time when someone hears this. Is it actually in a place where they can do something about it? I don't know. Or they just take that bottle and beat them over the head with it until that other person gives them all their money and that's probably what will happen with it. I think I've said enough about teams and nations. I'm just going to bring this freaking train wreck of a series to a close for now. I'm going to try to turn these into animations. I've got a lot going on. Yeah, there's a lot for me to do right now. But I'll get around to it eventually because I think it might be more well received if there's like some funny little jokes to go along with it and stuff rather than just this. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture and kill them. To be the first kid on my flock to get a confirmed kill. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to fail me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will.