Middle Nation 100 Days Challenge: Qawwamun

I hope it's live, InshaAllah. InshaAllah, you can hear me?

InshaAllah, verify that. It's now just waiting for the next chapter show before we begin properly. We have completed about ten days of 10 between ten to twelve days of content.

And it's getting completed. Right?

Yeah. Completed, and we just began the new theme for this week.

Ah. And what's the theme for this

week? Psychological decolonization.

Aiwa. Okay.

And it will take a few this will go on for about three weeks or so. A lot.

So for anyone who doesn't know, let's just do a recap of what this is. Yeah. The what the that we're doing something called we're calling it the middle day one hundred day challenge.

Yeah.

Because I'm I'm sort of recapping this because we've gotten a lot of new subscribers over the last, I don't know, twenty four, forty eight hours. Yes. A lot of people have come to the channel as a result of the Charlie Kirk incident

Uh-huh.

And the and the video response that I made to it. So there will be probably potentially people who will see this or who might join the live who aren't actually that familiar with the channel or with the channel's content. Mhmm. Once you come to the channel, you'll see that there's what? 12,000 sorry, 1,200 videos Mhmm.

Or so?

1,400.

1,400, sorry. A 400 videos. It's a lot to go through, obviously. And some of them are relatively long as well, so it's a lot of content to try to sort through. So Middle Nation came up with the idea to sort of pick key videos Mhmm.

On themes.

Based on certain themes. We came up with a series of themes, and then a series of videos that match those themes, or that sort of elucidate those themes. Mhmm. And then we're going through each video. Sometimes sometimes over a over a course of a few days for one video to break down the different points that are in the video.

Yes. And then Middle Nation people, Middle Nationers, if you wanna call it. Mhmm. I've never known what we should call people. People who who who follow Middle Nation and who participate with Middle Nation produce their own content on the basis of the prompts that that we give them for the themes and the specific subjects or topics that are covered in the videos.

Mhmm. So the last one that we just finished and that we're doing a live now, sort of to to to close it off Uh-huh. Is the original channel was called from the ayah in Quran about So that was the original channel. And then when I felt that I had covered that topic as much as I when I said everything that I had to say really with regards to that topic, it was it was basically in response to the red pill nonsense that was very rampant at that time, still rampant until now. I I created that our moon channel specifically for that purpose to deal with relationship issues Mhmm.

Men and women, gender issues, and so forth in the context of Islam. And it's that was never a topic that was my area. It was never something that I particularly enjoyed doing, but I felt that it was a necessary thing to do. So that was that's I think our moon is roughly 200 videos.

About 140 videos.

Okay. 240 videos.

You have all the playlist?

Yeah. The playlist is there. So when I when I changed it to over to Middle Nation where we were now discussing geopolitics and sort of social critique and so on, and and Middle Nation, the the three objectives of Middle Nation, as I want you to know by now, is economic sovereignty, political independence, and psychological decolonization of the Muslim world and the global South more broadly. When we changed it over to to to Middle Nation, and that's that's the area of my real expertise and interest, Then we just turned into a playlist.

Mhmm.

So when going through the Middle Nation challenge, we didn't overlook the original content because also the content actually deals with an aspect of psychological decolonization. Because because the red pill nonsense and all of this gender nonsense and all of this relationship confusion is symptomatic of Western thinking. It's it's it's really arising out of the West because people in the rest of the world, certainly people in the rest of the Muslim don't have these kinds of issues unless you bring them to us. Yeah. And that's why I I initiated the channel in the first place because I was seeing that you're trying to bring these you're trying to bring this confusion now to the Muslim world.

Yeah. Basically, there's one video where it wasn't covered in the challenge,

but it

was our problem their problems are not our problem.

Precisely. Their problems are not our problems. Yeah. And their solutions to their problems are not our are not our solutions.

Yeah.

They you're trying to you're trying to export to the Muslim world your solutions to your problems when we don't even have those problems to begin with, and your solutions never do anything but create more problems for you.

And yeah. And confusion

and Yeah. That's that's their that's their approach. If we solve a problem by just creating more problems, so we won't forget about the first problem. Exactly. That's their problem solving approach.

There's a brother here who I believe is a brother. Thank you, Ustad, for becoming a woman. He prepared me for marriage more than

you know.

Brother, I'm makes me

very happy. I'm very happy to hear that.

Yeah. And pretty much I I think I think you've you've you've covered the ground. It's a comprehensive

I think so. And I and I and I also like, when I was actively posting, okay, the channel wasn't big at that time at all. Mhmm. It was growing very fast. Yeah.

And if I had any sense as a social media or what do you call influencer or what have you, YouTuber, I would have just stuck with that content because it always gets fused. Yeah. Because everybody's in relationships, so once they're in relationships and and it's a it's always a trending topic. So if I had any sense Yeah. And wanted to have a really big channel, I I just would have stuck with that.

Mhmm. But I really felt like I had every I had said everything that I had to say about it. And none of the red pill advocates, none of the red pill resellers Mhmm. Were ever able to really respond intelligently to anything that I had said. They they were never able to debunk my debunking.

Mhmm. And so I felt that I had dismantled it sufficiently Yeah. And and could could rid myself of the topic. Because like I say, it was never really a favorite Yeah. Area of mine.

Because I I I honestly just feel it's all rubbish. Mhmm. All of this is rubbish.

I mean, previously, we had political independence as the theme and we sorry. We we were covering the OCJFC.

Mhmm.

And several videos, we we we had to pass through the video over a course of number or a number of days. But for the Kawamong section, the 240 videos that you will be going through are very short videos.

Yes. Yes. That was that was sort of my my thing was was most of the videos are four minute four to five minutes in length. They're, like, bite size. Mhmm.

Very quick.

Exactly.

I yeah. I don't think I had think maybe the longest that I had was maybe ten minutes

Yeah. Perhaps. Every every video that it has like a again, it's a collection of information all, you know, summarized and clearly explained in a matter of minutes, you know, four minutes average.

And and and and really that's that all that does is show you the extent to which all of these problems and all of this confusion really is nothing but nonsense. Mhmm. And it it it can be relatively easily dispensed with. Exactly. It doesn't take much.

It it only takes a few four minute video. Apparently, two hundred and forty four minute videos Yeah. To to dismiss it.

But we still have demand, you know, for more of that content.

Again, because I know. Because this is something, you know because everyone is busy in their own life Mhmm. And everyone is busy, you know, the the the things that are the priority for everyone is their own immediate sphere Yeah. Their own immediate personal sphere. And, you know, obviously a lot of the audience is American.

Mhmm. Obviously, almost the entirety of the audience is either English only or at least English speaking.

Mhmm.

So this is a big problem or a big issue, say Yeah. For people in the West, for for English speaking people and so on.

So Yeah.

You know, it's always going to be a topic.

So okay. So let's just move forward to the different the dozen or so videos that we have to go through in the Kowloon series. So again, I would like to emphasize, as Shahid has already mentioned, this was the past challenge. Today, began the new series of psychological decolonization series. So look out for these prompts and and all the the history of the prompts that we posted in the main discussion group as well as the social media brigade group, so you can

Yeah. Please them. Yeah. If you again, if you're new here Yeah. We have a Telegram discussion group, a Middle Nation discussion group, and we have several sort of associated and related groups on Telegram.

Like, have a book discussion group. We have a social media brigade brigades group. We have a regions group that has, I think, over 600 people in it Mhmm. Where you can talk to people and learn from people in different parts of the world to to to know about what's really going on in the in those different parts of the world and get a perspective from people in those different parts of the world Yes. Which I think is for for me personally, the Regents Group is the most one of the most valuable Yeah.

Things that we've created. But the social media engaged group is we have the people who are participating in the challenge Yes. Who are creating content on a variety of platforms on TikTok, on on x. Yes. And I don't know.

On YouTube as well, actually.

Yeah. YouTube.

On TikTok.

Instagram. Yeah. Yeah.

And so there, you can also get some kind of training. Yeah. Some sort of social media training. This is completely free, obviously. Yeah.

Just to, like, help you with your with your content, with what you wanna write, what what you wanna say, how you wanna say it, what you maybe should or shouldn't say, and

so forth. So for the priority, have a few priorities.

Alright.

How do I join? So first, you join the main discussion group, and then you will be directed

Yeah.

To the relevant channels that you would have to, you know, take the prompts go off of the prompts and and participate in the challenge. So basically, for step one, join the middle nation

Join middle nation discussion group. Now now let me just say for for people again who haven't joined before Mhmm. Or maybe who also aren't familiar with Telegram, there are impostors just as there are impostor accounts for me on TikTok. There are impostor accounts for me on Instagram, impostor accounts for me on X even. Mhmm.

So just make sure that it's the real thing. I participate personally in the Middle Nation discussion group and in in all of the subgroups as well. So just search Middle Nation or maybe some one of the one of the moderators can put a link.

Yeah. I'm gonna share the link. Yes. Samira has already shared

Okay. So you'll see the link there. If you go there, then you can join the actual Middle Nation discussion group.

Yeah. And So without further ado, I will now start to recap the videos that we went through. So we began with the practical principles of men, the first video.

Yeah. Kind of remember that one.

Yeah. Thirty thirty two. So basically, talking about how men have to frequently negotiate with the dunya Mhmm. Between their principles and their responsibilities, and how men have to bend until they break, dust themselves off, and then stand stand up straight again, and this time knowing how far we can bend without damage.

Correct.

Basically, you know, like balancing between your ideals and what can be realistically achieved.

Right.

You know? And I thought it was an interesting point, an interesting video to go through because we were just covering about the leaders, you know, the the the kind of choices, difficult choices that the Muslim leaders have to navigate. Mhmm. In order to chart the course, understanding the landscape, the geopolitical landscape and the difficulties that they have to grapple with in making decisions that would benefit us in the long run. You know, it was tied with the, you know, our discussion on the preteral for Deglia as well.

Mhmm.

And then, it was a good connect, I mean, was a link, you know, in in continuing the the challenge. So I thought it was a good

I think yeah. I think it's very useful because, you know, it it will help you how can I say this? I think that I think that people look at politics and look at at at, you know, state actors. And they apply different standards, different human standards, to what you apply to actual people, which is not correct because they're nothing but people and dealing with people. Politics is the business of dealing with people and dealing with with real existing circumstances just like you have to do in your personal life, just like you have to do in your own individual private life.

And so anyone on the on a on an individual level, you know this already. You already understand that as as a man, there are some things that you can and cannot do. There are some things that you obviously want to do. But in order to achieve them, you have to maybe, compromise. You have to maybe sacrifice.

You have to negotiate. You have to make some sort of trade offs, some sorts of deals, and so on. But you have to do that in your own personal life. What do you think is what do you think is like on the state level? Mhmm.

But somehow you want states, and and and and leaders of whole states who have millions of people depending upon them making wise decisions. You want them to act rashly. You want them to act recklessly for the sake of, quote, unquote, ideals Mhmm. For the sake of morals, for the sake of moral ideals. More you want them to behave moralistically when you know perfectly well that you in your own life can't do that.

Exactly.

You have to you you you know, everyone actually understands realpolitik because you all operate upon realpolitik in your own life Mhmm. In in in your own decisions as you move through the world. You have to be realistic. There's not another way to survive on this planet. You have to be realistic.

Okay. And, I will now proceed to the next video

Okay.

That we discussed, substantive

Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Let me let me just pause that because this is something that that is men specifically because this this video was talking about the practical principles of men. Right? Practical what?

Principles, was it?

The practical principles of men.

Practical principles of men. Yeah. Because men don't have the luxury of being idealistic. Men in this world, you don't have the luxury of operating in an idealistic manner because no one is gonna take care of you. There's no scenario If you're a man, there's no scenario where someone's gonna take care of you.

You're the one who always ends up being the one who takes care of others, whether it's your wife or whether it's your parents, your mother, your siblings, your children, and so on. You're the one who ends up having to take care of people. You're the one who ends up being held accountable. You're the one who has to fix things when they go wrong. You're the one who solves the the the problems of of the people in your family as best you can.

That is expected of you. Mhmm. Now you may or may not succeed in that, but that is expected of you in ways that it is not expected of women. Mhmm. Women are the ones who are taken care of, or it should be that way.

Women are the ones who are taken care of, and you're the one taking care. Mhmm. So this means that you don't have the luxury, and it is self indulgent for you to be overly emotional, for you to be over idealistic, for you to be utopian, for you to be any of in any of these very any of it's for you to have any of these qualities that you can only safely have when you have no responsibilities. If you have responsibilities, it's a must that you're a realistic person, and you're able to make compromises, and you're able to do trade offs, and you're able to bend until you break. And then, as you said, learn from that experience how far you can bend without breaking.

I mean, it's a it's a it's a load, you know. I I don't know how anyone would imagine that they could take the take that position, much less think, you know, of what they would do in their shoes, you know.

But this is the thing also about this is one of the things that really irritated me about the the whole red pill movement and still does, except that I don't see much of it anymore. We don't have a problem with this being the case. We take pride in this. As men, we take pride in this. We take pride in our ability to take care of.

We take pride in our ability to be responsible for, to be the one who solves problems, to who bears the burdens. We take pride in that. Whereas the the red pill movement They're complains about it. Yeah. Complains about it and acts like it's unfair and so forth.

You actually have a problem with being a man. Mhmm. You actually have a problem with the burden of masculinity because it's a burden to you, not something that you're proud of. Mhmm. Rather than being proud of the fact that you're the one who can bear the burden.

Yep. This the you're you're actually trying to inculcate in men weakness. And feminine qualities, and no offense to women, but the feminine qualities of not you know, wanting to share the responsibilities and so forth rather than taking pride in the in the fact that you're able to take responsibility and to take care of people Mhmm. And the the people over whom you are. You have authority and responsibility.

Mhmm. Which now okay. It's a very good tie up to the following video. On day 33, substantive masculinity, the quality of selflessness. You know?

So, again, we talked about how Allah has chosen men only as his most accountable and responsible slave, and the the necessary qualities to succeed in his in this role is basically selfless selflessness. And this is the essence of masculinity, the essence of chivalry, and at the heart of man's nature. We need to advance the discussion of masculinity to talk about real substance and not superficial issues of manhood away from confused, immature, western, non Muslim concepts and revive stoic and selfless character taught in Islam and embodied in the prophets.

Yeah. Absolutely.

Basically, you know, this it's just a continuation

of Yeah. Yeah. This is I mean, yeah. Exactly. This is this is this is also, you know, the the the the whole red pill movement and the, you know, men's rights

Yeah.

Advocacy and and whatnot is like in the infantilization. Yeah. The infantilization of men. Why are you supposed to care about the material things and the and you know what I mean? Like, it like, they're they're always these are the types.

Right? With the with their sunglasses and and their expensive clothes and their fancy cars and their yachts and their mansions and how to become a millionaire and the high value man and all of Yes. This and and all of this very very western superficial, you know

Markers.

Hoarding Mhmm. Mentality. Mhmm. This is all weakness. Mhmm.

This is very weak. This is this is not masculinity. This is not historical or traditional masculinity. It certainly isn't masculinity in Islam. Yeah.

As I say, you take pride in the one who provides. Yes. That's not what I'm I'm not here for the stuff. Yeah. I get the stuff so that I can give it

to you. Exactly.

And and and and I get the honor and the pleasure out of being able to be the one to do that. Mhmm. And now you're complaining about not being able to have the stuff for yourself. Well, is this is a I'm sorry. This is a womanly quality.

This is a womanly quality.

It's very petty.

Now you want the satin pillows? You know? What is this?

Okay. Somebody's asking, spanky two one four two x. Could you know they should simplify some ideas for kids? It would help parents explain world events through an Islamic lens as a counter to what our children learn in the media.

That's a very interesting idea.

Yeah. We will we will consider it, and and obviously we've we've been talking it.

We have been talking about it, and I think that there is one sister in Middle Nation Yeah. Who is who has already prepared some, but this is based on Kabomun, I think. Is I it

believe she has a a number of, geopolitical

Okay. Okay. She's putting together a kind of a curriculum, I think, just for her own kids. Yeah. But that might be useful for for others.

So we'll see about developing something

like that. Yeah. She she was quite generous in sharing Yeah.

She was. She she shared it.

So once again, SPENCY2142X, if you're not in the middle nation discussion group, please join the discussion group, and we will direct you accordingly. Shahid is present on most days in the discussion group, and he actively participates in it. And there have been some questions also in between Okay. About current affairs

Alright.

That I would like to highlight because again, if you join the channel, the discussion group, and if you go through the chat history, you will find that Shaheen has talked about some of the questions that have been placed here.

Yeah. And also I'll I'll just say also, when you join the when you when you join the discussion group, you can you can it's public for reading. Mhmm. If you want to speak, then you have to join Yeah. I believe.

Yeah. And what I would advise is that you come and observe for some period of time Mhmm. Before you join in order to speak. Mhmm. Because for one thing, we're it's it's quite a disciplined and orderly discussion.

It's not like a a free for all. Mhmm. This isn't, you know, some Reddit or or or, you know, like I say, a free for all type of a forum. Mhmm. Just the same way that we do the lives on x if you've participated or or been an audience on on the x spaces that we do.

Mhmm. We're ex we try to be very disciplined. We try to be very organized. We try to be very orderly. And it's not like, for example, it's not it's not just open.

Yeah. It's the middle nation discussion. We talk about issues that are relevant to middle nation that are usually featured in the videos. There is, you know, a free flowing discussion on a number of topics. However, if you if you if you say how can I say this?

There's there's a standard. I'll just say it like that. You know, one of the things that I always talk about is the fact that we need to erect partitions around discourse, and there there needs to be really an entry requirement, an entry level standard of being able to discern whether or not you're going to be able to participate fruitfully for yourself and for the rest of the people in the disc discussion.

Yes.

Whether you can benefit and whether we can benefit from you being with us.

Yes.

So come and and observe the chat and see how it works

Yeah.

And see how, you know There's rules, Yanni.

Yeah. Follow along with the I mean, again, we invite you to join the group to and and for any of your queries, your your questions, you may refer to the chat history.

Yeah. Most of the things there are so many so many so many issues that are, you know, frequent frequently come

up. Mhmm.

And and we have definitely discussed them, you know, depending if it's a frequently discussed issue Yeah. Then it is something that we have addressed in the chat.

You'll be

able to find it by doing a search.

For example, Sammy Gitt, you've asked what is Shrei's view of our the recent Qatar attack. You may Mhmm. Once again, I would like to refer you to that.

Okay. Yeah. Well, I was yeah. I was in the discussion group talking about it as it as as the news Unfolded.

Came Yeah.

What I'll say about the Qatar attack, I I said when it initially happened that it it my my my gut feeling was that it's unlikely that Qatar was not aware and did not accept this to happen. However, it's possible that it went sideways because I don't think that there was any if now, this is all obviously conjecture and speculation based on patterns in in the way the different players have relationships between the different players in the region. There is reason to believe that Atar was aware of this, approved it, agreed to it, just like the attack on the base, by the the Iranian attack on the base. Mhmm. That didn't come as a surprise to anyone.

That was choreographed. So it's possible that this was also choreographed. However, it's also possible that they didn't have any they did not approve for any Qataris to die in that attack. So when that happened, when Qataris were killed in that attack, the the the how to say, the plan is annulled. Mhmm.

And and now we're we're going to move in a different direction. The other possibility, of course, is that Netanyahu was just acting rogue. Mhmm. Even rogue against The United States, and he was just acting on his own. Now I know everyone knows how implausible that is.

It certainly is impossible. I'm just naming it as a possibility that he just operated on his own. Mhmm. The the official story that seems to be coming out and that Trump himself sort of put the story out Mhmm. Was that he learned about Netanyahu going to attack Qatar.

He was mortified that that was gonna happen, and then he tipped off the Qataris that it was going to happen. So that's sort of the official narrative now. Okay. That may or may not be true. Okay.

There are there are a number of ways for you to try to discern what actually happened. For example, there there are there are people on social media. There are outlets on social media, individuals on social media, and legacy media who are reliably liars, who are reliably spinners of narrative, who are reliably propagandists, neo con propagandists. So if you see them saying something, you'll know that what they're saying is completely wrong. So that helps you to dismiss certain narratives.

For example, Qatar is weak. Qatar got caught out Uh-huh. And they're afraid, and they're scared, and they're just kowtowing to America and so forth. Okay. So that we could put that aside now because I know that this is being said by people who've never done anything but lie.

Mhmm. So you can put that aside. I think that in a situation like this where the details of what happened are not clear and are probably not knowable, the best approach is to take a sort of a a a theory of geopolitics where you just look at the macro trends, the macro trajectories, and the momentum of those trajectories, and then just see, does this event now that now I'm not just talking about the event in other

Mhmm.

But just generally. This is a general way to approach this. When event happens that the, reason for it is not clear or the the motives are not clear, look at the trends, look at the trajectories and the momentum of those trajectories, and then see does this action halt that trajectory? Does it or does it halt the momentum? Does it reverse the momentum?

Does it accelerate the momentum, or is it none of the above? It has no effect whatsoever. Now if you look at the the situation in Qatar, it does nothing but accelerate the existing momentum. Mhmm. The momentum of the isolation of Israel Yeah.

The momentum of the elimination of Netanyahu from political life Yeah. The solidification of the Arab region on one strategy, on one agenda, on one plan, united plan Yeah. And the removal of America actively Yeah. As a mediator Mhmm. And as well as the removal of American military force Mhmm.

From The Gulf, the military bases. Mhmm. All of those things, that was already a trajectory that we're moving in. There was already a momentum that we were moving in. Now the attack on Qatar does nothing but accelerate that.

Yeah. It just solidifies

So then you can then you can that that will help inform your hypothesis about what happened and why.

Mhmm. Alright.

So Because because I'm sorry to interrupt, but but but because also there are some sometimes oftentimes, in in politics and in life, predictable behavior is manipulated. Yeah. It doesn't mean that the that the actor whose behavior is being manipulated is taking orders. Mhmm. But I know how you're gonna

act. Yeah.

So if I do this, I know that you will do that. Mhmm. So I will do this so that I can get you to do that. You see what I mean? Yeah.

So for example, if you know that Netanyahu is in the position that he's in, he has all of these corruption cases. His the settlers are even storming against him. Even the settlers are against him. Mhmm. He's he's holding on by a thread politically.

Zionism is in its last last breaths, and his own political career is in its last breaths.

Mhmm.

The European Union is turning against them or has turned against them really. The Palestinian state is gonna be recognized by multiple European countries.

Mhmm.

You're about to have a UN vote on acknowledging or recognizing Palestinian state.

Mhmm.

So there are so many things happening, and he is a desperate man at this point. So you have to you have to look at you know, if he if you know that he's going to behave in a reckless manner, it's possible it's you can theorize that it's possible that he was given a green light to attack Qatar precisely because it would accelerate the trajectory and the momentum of everything that's been happening, and it will it will expedite the end of his political career. That's possible. I'm not saying that that's what happened Mhmm. But that's possible.

It's also possible that he just did it on his own. But either way, I said this about Syria when the when when Bashar al Assad was removed Mhmm. By a consensus of regional players

Uh-huh.

And Russia and China. When he was removed and and Iran, well, that's in the region. When he was removed and Sharah took power, there was all kind of discussion in our group, in the telegram group Mhmm. About, well, what about this or what about that, and what about the Jews, what about the Christians, and what about Egypt, and what about this, and so on, and ISIS, and and what about The US, and and all of these, and Israel. I said, look at the waters, not the boats.

Because most of the boats in these waters don't even have motors, don't have rudders, don't have sails. They move in the way that the water is moving. Mhmm. They're just like rudderless vessels in the water. They will move whatever way the current is moving.

Mhmm. So as long as you know which way the current is going, you don't have to busy yourself with the details about who's on which boat because everything is still moving in a certain direction. Yeah. And that's the case in The Middle East. Everything is moving in a certain trajectory.

When the when the recording is posted, please rewind to this section, listen to it again. This is really really critical in in whenever we assess or analyze anything.

I think so because you can you can get very busy.

Yeah. With all the noise.

Yeah. Yeah. And like everyone is busy now with the Charlie Kirk issue. Everyone is very busy with the suspect, and now there's gonna now they're gonna be even more busy about looking up the history of the suspect and whatever he ever said on Facebook and and Twitter and coming up with all kind of theories and so forth. And you're you you you'll waste so much time with this.

Yeah. We we are and we are supposed to be an example for mankind, so we should be distinct in our approach because our understanding is guided.

Right. You have to be able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant. What's what's relevant information and what's irrelevant information. And they want to keep you busy all the time with irrelevant information, making you think that it it's world changing information. If I get to the bottom of this, if I get these details, then, you know, it's it's gonna shake the world.

Yeah. But all of it is irrelevant.

Yeah. Okay. So moving on to the topic. So from, Substantive Masculinity, the quality of selflessness, we moved forward to Rudula not being performance. So masculinity is not performative.

So it's a very connected entirely. It's a very brief video, and I think we've already covered much of this subject. And then we proceeded to talk about how alarmism is not masculine. And how we have to have the ability, men, have to have the ability to accurately assess risks and danger. So that they can, you know, they'll they'll be able to balance whatever alarming information that comes to them against a set of contextual information to determine what level of concern is actually called for.

Mhmm.

And again, this is also tied with It's

tied it's

all exactly.

It's tied with politics. Yeah. Exactly. So tied tied with politics. Yeah.

Because because I've I've said this before, if you're in the middle nation discussion group, then you would have seen, for example, when the when the when the more recent attacks were going on between the tit for tat were going on between Iran and Israel. Uh-huh. Everyone everyone was in on social media, across social media, and even in the mainstream media. Oh, it's World War three.

Yes.

It's Armageddon. Everyone in the middle nation discussion group knew that that was not the case. Yeah. Everyone in the middle nation discussion group was calm, cool, and collected, and we knew what's really going on. Mhmm.

And we did not overreact. We didn't we didn't allow ourselves to be alarmed. When that's part of that again is because this is a thing that we've talked about many many times, region and politics and the relationships and everything like this. So that's the reason for that. But just as a general rule, when something happens that is alarming, your knee jerk reaction should not be to immediately talk about it on Twitter, on TikTok, on X, on YouTube, or what have you.

Mhmm. Your immediate reaction should be silence and observation and deliberation and reflection, and try to understand what what has just happened. Mhmm. Measure it, weigh it, know the parameters of it, know the the shape of it, and and and make a a reasoned calm assessment of how much danger or risk is involved in this issue and or this event that has just happened rather than immediately flying off the handle. Mhmm.

And and, I mean, we would be in World War five by now, at least. As many times as we've been told that World War three is about to pop off, it was gonna pop off with Ukraine. Mhmm. It's gonna pop off with Iran a couple of times. Now that they attacked Qatar, oh, it's gonna be World War three again.

Okay? We would already have had multiple world wars by now

Yeah.

If if that had if they if these analysts were right. All of these analysts, by the way, who said these types of things, if you follow them, you should unfollow them. Go back on anyone's on anyone's Twitter thread or X thread, what do you call, feed their account. Anyone who has just just, you know, search the word. Search search their account and and the term WW one one one

Okay.

Three three, you know, w w three. Anyone who has said has even used the term in the last six months to a year, just unfollow them because they don't know what they're talking about.

Yeah. Again, to to use to exaggerate the importance of like isolated incidents, to create hysteria and and panic, you know, just to drive, I don't know, people to your content or whatever.

Exactly. It's all sensationalistic. Just for the point of driving engagement.

Exactly. And okay. So

Which is really despicable. This is very despicable in my opinion. Mhmm. And it's and it's it's it's very poisonous, and you're poisoning your culture, you're poisoning your society, not just individual minds.

Mhmm.

You're poisoning like, because you get you get trapped in a in a whirlpool, in an algorithmic whirlpool that just pulls you down, that just drags you down into a crisis state in your mind where you really feel like the whole world is falling apart and the sky is gonna fall down. And then this can drive you to desperate actions. Mhmm. It can not just drive you mental. Yeah.

You know, you you become, you know, the anxiety and the stress and the what and and then this can potentially drive you to the actions of, for example, the person who just shot that man.

Yeah.

That boy. Obviously, everyone is going to be talking about whether or not he's a plant, whether he's real, whether he's Mossad, whether he's blah blah blah. I don't care. I I could care less Mhmm. What he is.

And and I'll just say, I don't know if people in the chat are asking about this this topic. Not yet. Okay. I'm surprised. That's that's that's good on the chat.

Yeah. The the they just announced that they've captured, that they've arrested a boy, a 20 year old boy who supposedly is the one who shot the 31 year old boy.

Okay.

I'm just I'll just say for for the record and for anyone who who wants to to hear my opinion about that, it is completely irrelevant who the identity is and what his motives were. And why is it irrelevant? Because it happened in America. It happened in America, and in America, the only thing that matters is narratives. And it doesn't matter what the police investigation doesn't matter what law enforcement concludes.

It doesn't matter what the judges say, what the court says, what his sentence is, or what have you. No one cares about that because everyone is gonna follow whatever narrative suits their political agendas.

Right.

There is never gonna be a unanimous acceptance of whatever law enforcement concludes about this boy. Mhmm. Never. Just like there isn't until now about Kennedy, there isn't about 09:11, there isn't about Martin Luther King's assassination, there isn't even about Malcolm X's assassination or any assassination, RFK's assassination. Mhmm.

There's no consensus. There's no consensus. There's no unanimity.

Uh-huh.

Everyone does not accept the official version, and that will be the case with this case. Mhmm. Everyone will follow whatever Mhmm. Narrative suits their agenda.

Yeah. Today and years from now.

So it it if if the killing happened in a civilized country, in an intelligent country, then it would matter who did it. Mhmm. And it would matter why they did it, and it would matter what the investigation found. All of that would matter. And the conclusion of the law enforcement investigation would be accepted by the public.

There wouldn't be any any dissenting strange theories about it. But this happened in America. Therefore, anything that happens into in in America is immediately inserted into the narrative meat grinder, and what comes out comes out. And it has no resemblance to truth whatsoever, and no one cares. Yep.