Free Thinking - Escaping Political & Social Conditioning

Um, but even if even if not, regardless of where you sit on the spectrum, if you know, free thinking and criticism of the same side of the aisle that you're on is not allowed or is uh shamed, you know, you're shamed for it, then you're probably too far in. What whatever whatever it is, it doesn't it doesn't really matter, right? You're too far in. If Elon is uh you know too special to be criticized, you're too far in. And simultaneously if you know whatever whoever whatever I there is no there's no figure on the left at this point that is you know important not to even talk about. Yeah. Exactly. you know, but what pick your favorite, you know, pick your favorite person, I guess. You know, if they're too uh too much, too big or too sensitive or whatever to be criticized and you find that, you know, people who you normally would share views with are antithetical to even hearing that kind of criticism, then you're too far that you're you're too far down that road either. So the the goal is to free is to highlight some of these things to free one's thinking because for me you know and the motivation in bringing this and doing this is that I see this and and we we both agree with this we see this as a problem as a large problem in society one that is like we can call it like maybe a social epidemic if you will and you know in Buddhist practice they they talk about like the suffering of change the suffering of conditioning And then the kind of the suffering of like the body aspects, body emotions, you know. But the the second one, the suffering of conditioning is is twofold is the the conditioning of the ego, right? That you're an isolated being outside of other other humans and other sentient beings as one one aspect. But then at the the sort of meta aspect, it's the conditioning of your family. It's the conditioning of your gender. It's the conditioning of society. And they mention this and it is, you know, as I do my practice every day and I know Eric does his practice, you know, every day. This is part of the acknowledgment when you practice is that you are intentionally softening the hardness that comes through with conditioning. Conditioning that is placed