Tell the Truth or at Least Don't Lie - Akira the Don

One way of conceptualizing yourself is that you’re one speck of dust among

seven billion

And

When you conceptualize yourself that way you might think

Well what difference does it make what I say or do

And that’s actually quite convenient for you

Because if it doesn’t matter

What you say or do then you don’t have any responsibility

And you can do whatever you want

The price you pay for that is a bit of nihilism

But if you don’t have to shoulder any responsibility that’s a small price to pay

The other way of looking at it then this is actually the accurate way of

looking at it

Is that you’re in a network

You’re a note in the network

And so

You can do a little bit of arithmetic very rapidly and just figure out how

powerful you are

You know a thousand people

They know a thousand people

That means that you’re one person away from a million people

And two persons away from a billion people

And you’re the center of that network

And now the way networks work is that the information propagates in a network

manner

So, don’t underestimate the power of your speech

Don’t underestimate the power of truth

There’s nothing more powerful

Tell the truth

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Or at least don’t lie, that’s a start

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Or at least don’t lie, that’s a start

Now in order to speak what you might regard as the truth

You have to let go of the outcome

You have to think alright I’m going to say what I think

Stupid as I am biased as I am ignorant as I am

I’m going to state what I think as clearly as I can

And I’m going to live with the consequences no matter what they are

Now the reason you think that, that’s an element of faith

The idea is that nothing brings a better world into being than the stated truth

Now you might have to pay a price for that

But that’s fine you’re gonna pay a price for every bloody thing you do and

everything you don’t do

You don’t get to choose to not pay a price

You get to choose which poison you’re going to take that’s it

Tell the truth

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Tell the truth

Or at least don’t lie, that’s a start

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Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Or at least don’t lie, that’s a start

It’s almost impossible to provide people with enough protection so that they

feel safe to speak

Okay so we’ll address that directly

It is not safe to speak and it never will be

But the thing you gotta keep in mind is that it’s even less safe not to speak

Right it’s a balance of risks

It’s like you want to pay the price for being who you are

And stating your motive being in the world

Or do you want to pay the price for being bloody serve

One that’s enslaved him or herself

But that’s a major price man

That thing unfolds over decades you’ll just be a miserable worm at the end of

about twenty years of that

Right no self-respect

No power

No ability to voice your opinions

Nothing left but resentment because everyone’s against you

Say what you think carefully

Pay attention to your words

It’s a price you want to pay if you’re willing to believe that truth is the

corner stone of society

The most real friends if you’re willing to take that leap then tell the truth

and see what happens

Tell the truth

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Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Or at least don’t lie, that’s a start

Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Tell the truth

Or at least don’t lie, that’s a start

You think «Oh well I’ll lie and I’ll get away with it»

It’s like no you won’t

You can’t get away with warping the structure of being

It’s like, «I can lie and get away with it»

I see

Here’s your theory

All this reality around you that you don’t comprehend at all

There is not that much of you

There is a lot of it

And you’re gonna do something that isn’t in harmony with that and it’s gonna

work

That’s your theory