So anyways you got these two-bit hoods here who think they're really something they also think they're tough and dangerous
and and they're not they're just you know cowardly and
corner dwellers and and they confuse their
unwillingness to abide by reasonable rules as indication of their heroic courage
which is something else that low-rent hoods like to do you know and it's partly because
Lots of people who just attend to the law do do that because they're cowardly which is a Nietzschean  observation
Are you good? Are you just afraid?
Well, let's start with afraid first, before we proceed to good and that the reason that you follow the rules is because you're afraid of getting caught
You know those kids who?
Often University kids who are in like a hockey riot, and they end up breaking windows and stealing things
And you know they get nailed for it and afterwards they're really
Blown away by their own behavior. It's like well. They're in that camp
It's like they think they're good people
But they're not they're just never anywhere where you could be bad and as soon as you put them somewhere where they could be bad
It's like out. It comes just like that and that's
That's really worth thinking about because most of you many of you
But not all of you I suspect
Have never really been somewhere that you could be really bad and get away with it
and so you might think well you wouldn't do it, but
But people do it all the time so
Anyways, they're talking about some exploits, and then they see that this character named Stromboli. Who's a marionette? He has a puppet show right and
he's kind of a wheeler-dealer too
Remember I showed you that knit that mask that was glaring out Pinocchio when he got his voice. It's like
Stromboli isn't one of his manifestations these the Fox here is another one of his
Manifestations and all the negative characters throughout the movie are manifestations of the same thing
It's partly the adversarial individual, and it's partly the tyrannical aspect of society. It's the negative masculine
That's that's one way of thinking about it so and you know when men go bad
They often go bad by being antisocial and tyrannical so it where there's way more antisocial men than there are antisocial women
Which is why there's 20 times many men in jail as there are women. You know? So each gender
Let's say each sex has its own path characteristic pathologies
And there are some antisocial women you know and there are some high neuroticism guys
Who are who are or some guys who are really agreeable as well so but they're rarer
So anyways he sees this this
Poster advertising Stromboli's puppet show. So Stromboli is a puppet master
Now that's really worth thinking about because that's an archetypal theme
Or it's at least attached to an archetypal theme
Some things behind the scenes
Pulling the strings and everybody always wonders what that is right? What's actually going on what's actually going on with Trump
Who's actually in control is it Putin? I mean, that's that's the that's the fantasies of the left its Putin
It's like well
The question always is what's going on behind the scene right and the question is that's the case certainly on the political landscape?
business landscape
interpersonal relations
What's--what are you really up to?
Everyone's always wondering that right?
That's why they're watching your eyes
Because your eyes point at things and they can infer
What you're interested in and then what you're up to by looking at what you look at.
and that's why your eyes have whites
is so that we can see where you're pointing because gorillas don't and
so
So what that means roughly speaking is that all of your ancestors whose eyes couldn't be reliably tracked
are either killed or didn't mate
It's a big deal for us to see where people's eyes are pointed, and so we're always watching each other's eyes constantly
What are you up to? What are you up to?
What are you looking at?
What do you want?
and I want to know because if I know what you want I can predict how you're gonna behave and
That also means I can cooperate with you, or I can compete with you, or I can lie to you
but all the information is in the eyes is surrounded by the facial display right because that's also an indication of
motivation and emotion, and so we're trying our eyes are so good at that that for you guys sitting there in the back
I can tell if you're looking at my eyes are at my chin and the deviation in your eyes is so tiny
That it's--it's a kind of miracle that we're capable of making that perceptual observation
It's really important to us so and we have really good eyes, so that's another thing about us so anyways
What's going on behind the scenes? Well if you look at Stromboli
You might be thinking it's not clear he's someone you'd want to have pulling your strings like there's a little bit of
Forced enthusiasm, let's say there, and he's just not a very savory looking character
so anyways the Fox knows him and
They start talking about Stromboli that old Joker and then what they could how they could possibly
involve him in some sort of scam because he's back in town and then
they see the puppet and
The Fox does his equivalent of thinking, which is you know pretty sad, but and and nasty?
But that's what he does and then they see this puppet with no strings
And they think hey man a puppet master would pay a lot for
Something that is capable of semi- autonomous movement like that
it would be kind of a miracle and so they decided that they're going to take him to Stromboli and so they grab him and
He's got an apple to take to the teacher which I think it's the cat promptly eats and
That's the Fox uh acts out is sort of false enthusiasm
About what Pinocchio is up to and pretends that he's his friend.
Which is of course what your typical pedophile will do and so this is in the same kind of category and and it truly is
so and one of the things that's interesting to know about pedophiles, and is that they're predatory right?
and so
They don't go after kids that are
assertive and likely to be noisy they watch and they watch to see if they can find a kid who's defeated and
That's good enough. Who's defeated and who's gonna need a friend
And who's not going to object
And so when they check out these are the ones who do the stranger abductions which are by the way extraordinarily rare?
They look for a victim-type. They look for a kid who's going to be easy to take down and
So you know that's one thing you don't want so you might think well
One of the things that was really big
It's probably even worse now when I was a parent of young children was to teach your kids how to be afraid of strangers
It's like--uhhh
No.
Wrong. That is not what you teach them.
Because all you do is teach them then to be timid and fearful and the real predatory types they're-
They're pretty much thrilled about that because you'll also make them sheltered and naive
You know? (So that isn't) you make your kids courageous, and you get
their eyes open and that's the best thing you can do to protect them against people who are truly dangerous
So none of that
terrifying
