Rites of passage....bitcoin....& underlying motivations

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Speaker 0 (0s): Woo. Good morning, Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday. Well, you be go start another week, right? I'm going to try to be like a James Brown and get on the good foot. Right? Remember that song gotta get on the good foot. How'd you guys. We can do anything fun. 

I did. I did some cool stuff. I did some cool stuff. I got some time to think about a few things about, about our place in this world about interacting and transitioning and learning. Maybe judging, maybe some empathy. It seems to me that right now, our country, our world is in a pretty big transformation. 

In fact, when you start thinking about that, you go, yeah, there's a lot of things changing right now, but isn't that always the case. Isn't things always changing. It just seems that now things are changing at a pace that has picked up steam. And it's hard to, it's hard to understand where you're supposed to go. Unless you have a map it's hard to understand the right place to be at. 

Unless you have a guide it's difficult to know where you're going to end up, unless you can study about history or you can, unless you can understand where people before you have been in the same situation and what they've done. It also seems to me like there's a pretty big gap in demographics and, and intergenerational ideas. 

So what I mean by that is that people who are in authority positions tend to be, especially now, there seems to be a really big gap between like those people run in for mayor right now in Hawaii that are 90 years old, 75 years old. And while I'm not, I'm sure those people have a lot of good ideas. However, I'm not sure that there are, there are in touch with what the youth of today want the world to look like in the future. 

And it seems to me 

Speaker 1 (3m 0s): That you know, what, what it seems to me that a lot of the older generation, you know, they're living longer and they're, they're healthy. And they, they want to contribute to the world. They want to make their Mark. They they're beginning to think about their legacy and they, they want there to be a little bit of some of the great things in the future that was in their life. 

And so they're trying to make those things happen by clinging to power and staying in roles of leadership and, and leveraging their finances and their authority to stay in positions of power. And I think it's detrimental to the society at this point in time because the youth don't want what a lot of the older generation ones, you know, my, my nephew he's 10 years old and he was talking to his mom the other day. 

And he, this is what he told. This is what he told her. He says, mom, I don't understand why the people got to go and work so much and have so little, you know, why, why is it that corporations just don't hire twice as many people and give half the people six months off. And then the other people have six months off and you can, I mean, on some levels, it's a naive perspective, but it's pretty beautiful, right? Why not? 

Why not allow people the freedom to be creative? Why not allow people to have the ability to explore their inner nature and explore their own dreams. Now you can say, Oh George, when no one has to work for anybody, you're free to go out and explore and start whatever you want. 

Yeah. Kind of, kind of, but you don't get to pick who your parents are. You don't get to pick where you're born at. And if you come from a family that has it as well to do, it's much easier to go out and start something. Then if you come from a place of poverty, however, I'm kind of getting away from myself a little bit. 

I think that there's a, a road we could take where the older generation could maintain a high level of relevance and also, and also create a better place international bond. And I think we're missing in our society is like a Rite of passage. If you study like a lot of the Indian cultures and a lot of other cultures, you know, like in the South American culture is like a girl turns 15 and she has like a keen scene yet. 

All right, well, she becomes a woman like the Jewish boys have the bar mitzvah, come on, man. Some of the Indian culture, they had like a vision quest where they would go the men and they would, they would go out for their first hunt or they would be exposed to some sort of mind altering situation where it was signified that they were brought in to the next level of their life. 

And I don't think kids have that today. No, you could argue that the college experience is a of, but if that's the case, then not enough of our kids are getting the Rite of passage. And that's something that the older generation could do. They could develop a set. They could, we could develop as a society. As older generations, we could develop a Rite of passage that would simultaneously show the child. 

Hey, you've become part of the group. Now your roles have changed. You are no longer able to engage in, engage in activities that don't benefit the group as a whole. I mean, you can have your free time and stuff like that, but now you are going to, Hey, look, now you're a man. Now your responsibilities lay in providing service and providing for the betterment of the community. 

I think the Rite of passage serves a lot of things. It establishes a group cohesiveness. It establishes respect for your elders. It establishes, it establishes respect for, for the elder group, but it gives them purpose. It helps the younger generation to understand that, Hey, these guys that have gone before me have been in similar situations and are the best people to help me. 

It nurtures the mentor, mentee relationship. There's quite a few different ways to have a Rite of passage. I was reading this book and they were talking about how in this particular culture, when a boy turns 12, know he's free to do whatever he wants and play and learn. 

But when he turns 12, the men in the village, they dress up like demons and ghosts. And prior to the child's 12 year old birthday, the people begin telling the child, you know, there comes a time in a boy's life where his mom can't protect him and the spirits of the village come for him. And they kind of start psyching this kid out. And the kid's like, what, what are you telling me this for? And then on his 12th birthday, the men dressed up like spirits and goes, they come into the boys house and they, they awaken them. 

Right? And they start scaring them and they're like, the boy starts freaking out. So he runs over and tries to hide behind his mom and his mom. I mean, she knows what's happening. So she tries to protect them a little bit. But then the boy has wrestled away by the ghost in the spirits who are the men in his family. And they take him out into the forest and they, they then begin the initiation, the Rite of passage. And there's all these trials and tribulations that he has to go through for multiple days upon after graduating the trials, after being taught that the spirits and the people dressed up as demons are really the men in his family and the spirits and demons that attacked him are the forces of nature that will try to corrupt him. 

Then he begins to understand the nature of the Rite of passage. And it's beautiful in that the men are dressed up like the forces of nature, like greed and lust and corruption. And each man teaches the boy, be aware of this beware of beware of greed. You could have all of this, but you'll lose all that. And so it's just amazing what can be taught to a young individu...