
202 Censorship Destroys Human Nature By Ending Debate & Thinking
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They say censorship is about ending misinformation and getting the truth out there, but is the real goal something far more nefarious and destructive? Live 3/21/2026.
0:00 – I hate censorship being an artist/writer & studying USSR | levels of censorship, acceptable censorship
1:26 – Debate is as old as society
3:32 – Censorship is necessary to end misinformation, but its really about silencing debate | silencing opinions as misinformation
5:50 – Debate is how we learn & part of human nature
7:11 – Censorship about censoring & destroying human nature by changing thinking under the excuse of ending misinformation | cult thinking tries to change thinking | censorship destroys what makes us human, makes us dumb
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I've never seen censorship be a good thing. I hate censorship as a writer all my life or from, to be honest, a third grade was when I first started writing, it didn't like censorship. I want my ideas to flow on the paper. I don't want anyone to tell me what I can't and cannot say and cannot do and what is proper and what is, I want to be able to express myself. It is art. And as someone has also been an artist on my life, before I was a writer, I did a lot drawing. I didn't want censorship. Studied Russian culture in high school and college, I considered myself a Rousseff Faye, I was fascinated by the Soviet Union and there's no way you can study the Soviet Union and walk away going, censorship is good, no, censorship is horrible. There are levels of censorship, so for example, we don't allow porn on TV because anyone can walk shit and we feel, or traditionally we feel, it seems like society has changed, that putting naked people on TV isn't right because anyone can see it and then anyone might
include a child and we don't think that is good for kids to see. Is that censorship? It is sort of censorship, but you can still get that porn, you can still find stuff, there's a store downtown you can go to here in my town and there probably isn't your town, if there isn't, I'd be shocked. Well, with the day and age of the internet, you can get it on the internet, I'm okay with that, so I was reading some Epona shots, it was recording some Epona shots just now and I came across a dialogue and I came across what essentially I would describe as like a thousand year old Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson or something or Tucker Carlson interview, these people who debate ideas and I'm reading these Epona shots, I actually recorded like five of them this morning and my mind was turning over this idea of this debate and people
going back and forth and I'm like oh my god, the world hasn't changed, this is what we do now, we debate and we get into these debaters and we love them or we hate them or whatever or we're obsessed with them, I personally love them, it's sort of what I do here but without someone respawning back, let's be honest and it was like they're doing that a thousand plus years ago, they're basically doing it but in print form what we do today on TV and in books, matter of fact, I actually have a book right here, I'm not going to be a shine shirt, it's a pap you can and it's very interesting except and totally dissecting and destroying George W. Bush, this exact same thing is the Epona shot except here we're discussing a politician and his crooked views of America and how they don't work and the Epona shots, I'm sure in my lap right now, are discussing some spiritual idea but it's the same sense of debate, now it shouldn't be a shock to anyone, I mean we know debate exists,
anyone who knows anything about history knows debate exists, the whole world of philosophy, what is philosophy but debating ideas to try to get somewhere, this is human nature, Joe Rogan, you might think is evil but he's doing what we've been doing for how long? Since the dawn of recorded history, quite honestly, what does this do with the censorship I just said, let's tie these together, so there is, and I'm on X and I follow the news, I'm a news chunky, people out there who would silence you because you speak misinformation, you speak lies, you don't speak the truth, it's a very Soviet feeling type of world that they want to create a very North Korea type of world that these people want to create, you know who I'm tying out and you know one I'm tying out, there's about a million examples but there are people out there who are really pro censorship because you spout something they don't agree with and they don't want you to
debate it, they want you silenced, essentially there is a group of people high and low as in politicians and not who want to silence, debate, right? Because what is misinformation? Yeah, sometimes it's not having the right information, well I just wanted to tell everybody that this piece of paper is blue, no it's white, clearly I'm an idiot if I think it's blue or a color blind, so there's misinformation, whereas if I said to you, well you know, Papu Canyon has made some really good points I quite agree with and my view of George W. Bush has just radically changed, is that misinformation? You may read the book and then have a completely different opinion, that's oh no no, he's totally wrong about everything, he says in George W. Bush is for the greatest presence we ever had, Yadayana, and is one of us spouting misinformation, no we're spouting an opinion and then we're going to have a debate over this, but there are people who would silence you if you have an opinion.
We see it today really big and an issue that's actually very close to my heart, I find it very fascinating and that is men and women sports and I'm just going to say it men and women sports, trans women in women sports, trans women in women spaces, trans women in women's restrooms and showers and women spaces, this is a big issue that if you speak out against this they will censor you and that to me is wrong, that's how we share, that's how we learn, you know maybe I said George W is this and then you come back to me going no you don't quite have it and you give me this amazing argument and maybe you give me another book and you go well here's this other book now balance it too and then I'm like oh yeah you're right I totally had it wrong about what Pat said wow you know thank you so much I'm glad we had this debate because actually I learned something unlike a Facebook debate we don't learn anything in this debate we actually learned
something thank god I allowed you to speak that's how we grow if we did not allow debate the hero to philosophy would be dead it would be non-existent it wouldn't be able to exist because the moment you counter me well sorry misinformation kind of censor your opinion it's misinformation we have no more no more debate so looking at the history of this debate and here I was reading these upon a chance and here we have debate going back to the dawn of time I think we can clearly say that debate and sharing ideas is human nature it's truly human nature I mean as much as we eat and we drink and we have to do that and as much as we think and learn and strive and have goals this is a part of human nature so last time I was reading this upon a shot and I was thinking about Joe Rogan a thousand years ago or this upon a shot was kind of twisted so I'd say Dr. Jordan Peterson of a thousand years ago because I couldn't really get what I was
reading if we censored debate we are censoring human nature and that's the thought that was coming in my head and then I was thinking like what the what the hell that's what this is this is destroying human nature to try to turn us into something else am I wrong is not massive censorship of debate and saying things are misinformation is it more than just just going well we have to have the truth out there well who decides the truth the person who passed the law and and the truth is dictated by Joseph Stalin he decides the truth and the truth changes whenever he feels like wherever out drunk he is he tried to change human nature actually would go back and say Lenin and Trotsky tried to change human nature by making people think in a certain way and they fought for the state instead of themselves didn't really work out never does but that's what I was thinking about how
when we're censoring these things we may say it's misinformation we can't spread it we're spreading lies and people are doing this and that and they're hurting people whatever but really I think it's more than that I think it's a desire by some people to control others by trying to destroy human nature I would prove this point by also saying this same group can't tell you what a woman is and would tell you that a man is a woman and a woman is a man unless the man is an on binary which he is not a man he is not binary but is also not trans what is trans it is neither they try to confuse you to change how you think and that's what you do when you want to change human nature trying to change how people think you're trying to make them think in a certain way that's what cults do matter of fact they tell you don't do this don't do this yeah but I feel no doesn't matter what you feel doesn't matter what you think I'm telling you as you're as you're
Bhagavan what you are supposed to do and it doesn't matter that's what cults do they try to change the person and what's the goal to put money in someone's bank account and to make someone with a small ego into some huge famous raving you know control freak there is really no other control cults are not about finding God we're trying to censor and we say it's one thing but really we're trying to destroy what makes us human censorship on an extreme level denies what makes us human denies us the ability to grow to learn to exchange ideas to criticize to be able to criticize and that is so scary to me because history has shown you can't change human nature but yet we have people now who are trying to do it and trying to confuse us and actually trying to make us dumb so dumb that we're not smart enough to realize what they're doing that's the goal
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