Everybody has a competition in their brain...
of good thoughts and bad thoughts.
Hopefully they wi--the good thoughts win.
For me, I always have both.
I have like the thing I believe, the good
thing.
That's the thing I believe.
And then, there's this thing and I don't believe
it, but it is there.
It's always this thing and then, this thing.
It's become a category in my brain that I
call: "Of course but maybe."
I'll give you an example: okay, like, of course--of
course children who have nut allergies need
to be protected.
Of course.
We have to segregate their food from nuts,
have their medication available at all times.
And anybody who manufactures or serves food
needs to be aware of deadly nut allergies.
Of course.
But maybe, maybe if touching a nut kills you,
you're supposed to die.
Of course not.
Of course not.
Of course not.
Jesus.
I have a nephew who has that.
I'd be devastated if something happened to
him.
But maybe, maybe if we all just do this for
one year, we're done with nut allergies forever.
No, of course not.
Of course if you're fighting for your country
and you get shot or hurt.
It's a terrible tragedy, of course.
Of course... but maybe... maybe if you pick
up a gun and go to another country and you
get shot it's not that weird.
Maybe if you get shot by the dude you were
just shooting at, it's a tiny bit your fault.
Of course, of course.
Slavery is the worst thing that ever happened.
Listen, listen.
You all clapped for the dead kids with the
nuts.
For the kids dying from the- from nuts.
You applauded.
So, you're in this with me now. Do you understand?
You don't get to cherrypick.
Those kids did nothing to you.
Of course, of course.
Slavery is the worst thing that ever happened.
Of course it is. Every time it’s happened.
Black people in America.
Jews in Egypt.
Every time a whole race of people has been
enslaved, it's a terrible, horrible thing,
of course.
But maybe, maybe every incredible human achievement
in history was done with slaves.
Every single thing where you go, "How did
they build those pyramids?"
They just threw human death and suffering
at them until they were finished.
How did we traverse the nation with a railroad
so quickly?
We just threw a Chinese people in cages and
blow them up and didn't give a shit what happened
to them.
There's no end of what you can do when don't
give a fuck about a particular people.
You can do anything!
That's where human greatness come from.
It's that we're shitty people.
That we fuck others over.
Even today, how do you have this amazing microtechnology?
Because the factory where they're making these, they jump off the fucking roof 'cause it's a nightmare in there.
You really have a choice.
You could have candles and horses and be a
little kinder to each other, or let someone
suffer immeasurably far away just so you can
leave a mean comment on YouTube while you're
taking a shit.
