Hi there, my name is Jerry Mikulski and it is two days before the 2016 general election on November 8th by the time I get this out it'll be tonight, so it'll really be one day before the election and Clearly we're in front of a really remarkable moment, and I'd like to take a Moment to try to explain. Why did Trump rise? Why did this all happen right now? And what might we do now? I'll do this by talking about why people are supporting Trump Why this all is of the moment right now and what we might actually do and if you're a conservative listening to this I'm clearly tilting the other way Please hang in there because I think you'll find in find things in here that resonate with with your thinking So let's dive in the TLDR the too long didn't read answer is that this is really complicated So this is not a three-minute video. In fact, it'll take considerably longer to get through these issues Let's start with why people support Trump and I'm going to quote Hilary's Deplorables comment. I'm going to say that some part of the human population in some part of the US population is xenophobes and Islamophobes and the KKK and neo-nazis and nativists and There's a blurry line because there's racism and sexism and homophobia in a much larger piece of the population And I don't mean that everybody who has sexism is a deplorable But I mean that the hardcore racists who are really pushing this are in fact deplorables I'm foreshadowing on the left. It says see ghosts. What I mean is there's a section coming up Where I say that we haven't really dealt with our ghosts Donald Trump has ripped open the Overton window. He has brought deplorables into mainstream discourse The Overton window is basically the window of what's okay to talk about So acceptable discourse. There's kind of like well We do this, but we don't name names or we don't insult people Trump has just shredded this Overton window And what he's done is he's opened a wide enough space for These deplorables to step in and become part of mainstream discourse There's also a bunch of gullibles and I'm sorry I'm just going to call them gullibles because after 30 years of very careful training by the conservative machine They believe that Hilary will take our guns that Hilary is going to open all the borders that Hilary is a criminal That Hilary and Obama are Satan all those kinds of things and I just have to tell you She's pretty much not gonna take down the Second Amendment She's no I'd no desire to throw open all the borders and and she and Obama don't smell like sulfur They really aren't Satan you can all calm down a little bit But you're also gullible and that you believe that Trump is the best businessman and in retrospect I have to say that you know several years of the apprentice and celebrity apprentice is Genius strategy to tell the American public that you are the best businessman even though Trump's business affairs are a train wreck a continuous and ongoing train wreck in particular Shafting everybody he's dealt with it's insane And ending up with less money even though he's a billionaire Ending up with less money at this point Then if he had just invested the stuff that his dad gave him when he started so Trump has the best businessman You're pretty gullible too that the economy is a shambles No, there are some people in the population who are suffering I'm with you on that and I'll get to that but the economy is far from a shambles crime is not at all-time highs It's in fact close to all-time lows Nobody respects America Maybe because we're contemplating electing Donald Trump, but actually respect for America is pretty damn high and oh We're gonna get internment camps in the US. They're the country's run by lizard people Come on people get a grip. You're gullible and you need to sort of wake up and read around now I'm looking ahead a little bit here because Conservatives in some sense are reaping what they sowed over the last 30 years and I'll get I'll get to that history in just a second There's other reasons why one might support Trump. Hey, he's really not such a threat. He's he's all talk no bluster Well, you know what his record doesn't indicate that his record indicates that he is a hip shooter He is happy to aim high and try for stuff. He will do pretty much anything Scott Adams has taken a kind of a peculiar approach. This is the the author of Dilbert He's taken a very peculiar approach of shifting his support from Hillary to To Trump in particular because Trump seems to be a master of persuasion and here Robert Cialdini and sort of the dark arts of Persuasion rise to the fore and what Adams is saying is that we need the best salesman possible and that happens to be Donald Trump Because nobody can touch him on selling these sorts of ideas and I think that logic is completely wet I do admire Trump's sales strategy. We'll get to that. I think it's one of his core skills But I don't think what we need is an unprincipled sales guy You might be voting for Trump out of spite or to scare the system or just to roll the dice I mean I kind of get that but really when the stakes are this high You don't want to be just trying to scare the system You might think we need a real authoritarian and boy, I've seen that plot come a couple times I grew up in South America and I watched Argentine Dictatorships sort of come and go That doesn't go well and then and this is not the first time I'm going and not the last time I'm going to mention Adolf Hitler, but you know Hitler won an election. He ran against democracy When he was running he said look at this crap. It was the middle of the Great Depression 1933-34 and he said look at what's happening in Democratic countries. They are falling apart They have riots in the streets. You need somebody who knows how to control things and only I can do that sound familiar You may also believe all the conspiracy theories that I alluded to a moment ago that that you know There's there's murders and giant conspiracies Most of those are false There's a little bit of people behind the scenes doing things and I'll get to that a lot of it Send the conservative side or you may be Russian or in some other way wishing that America were weaker on the global stage And you know Trump's great for Russia. In fact if Trump gets elected, I'm pretty sure Putin's gonna go for Estonia Latvia Lithuania, maybe Poland. Who knows whether Hungary Hungary's already got a far right Guy in charge. So who knows that might actually work There's a bunch of conservatives who are holding their noses and voting for Donald because and it's often one issue The one the main issue I think is that right now there is an empty seat on the Supreme Court There will very likely be over the next four or eight years the next one or two administrations Maybe three seats open which means whoever the person is who gets to nominate those people if they pass Will actually tilt the court substantially. It'll either swing very far right or maybe not far left I think if Donald gets in power, he'll try everything he can to go far right But if Hillary comes in I don't think anybody's gonna let her swing far left So I think it's going to be pretty moderate moderate like garland right now Or maybe it's reproductive rights, and you're a one-issue voter about abortion should be illegal and so forth Maybe more. It's party loyalty. I always vote Republican.  I'll get there in a sec You may also believe that any democratic success and we're going to be out of power forever And I'll say that this has been a note in the background for 30 years I'll talk in a moment about the GOP's scorched earth strategies and what's been happening But but the idea that a democratic president might achieve something is anathema to conservatives because that might mean that one Democrat might succeed another might succeed another and then we'd look back and say hey look at this record of success our our electoral system our Political system is set up so that nobody really wants the other party to succeed Which means everybody's really working against the interests of the country And that's kind of this last point is that a lot of conservatives may see that their job Security is more important than our national security that having a stalemate in government that Putting in some guy who might actually push the button on nukes that whatever it is that might happen But would keep them in their nice cozy power seat is much more important than those outcomes And I've got to say I would hold my nose talking to you because that's a pretty Unprincipled pretty unethical stance to take so it's it's amazing to me that that Donald Trump at this moment has more than 40% Of the country backing him at least that's what polls say if you believe any polls given his Absolutely proven misogyny and assaults on women and I don't mean just that he's out of fairs I mean Newt Gingrich has had affairs Bill Clinton is out of fairs I mean that he seriously seems to think of women as nothing more than objects to fuck and He's just dive. He's gone straight into that over and over again, and I don't think it's just an act I think in fact he is deep down like nice into the core a misogynist his continuous Incredible lying. I don't mean just sort of lying a little like fudging the truth Hillary fudges the truth because the truth is beat around the head before you know things things have landed on the Clintons really hard But when Donald just yesterday says hey, you should have seen how Obama dealt with that heckler that that Trump supported guy who showed up at the at their talk He was screaming at him. It was awful. I'm totally ashamed if you actually watch the video of Obama handling the heckler you will see somebody who is principled and polite and respectful and saying this person Is ex-military is older and and has a different opinion and we live in a democracy and for these reasons we should respect so Good God like like Donald has the big brassy balls to lie all the time and to Manufacture his own reality. We'll get to that in a little bit, too. He is a narcissist everything He does is self-serving. He is ignorant and doesn't have any curiosity There's some very good articles about his total lack of a moral center or a moral compass He does not listen or apologize to anyone for anything He might have listened a little bit in this last little period to people saying hey use the teleprompter and stop running off message so much and if you think his apology about the Grabbed them by the whatever Comments was really an apology just listen to it for a second. He said gosh I'm really sorry for that thing that Hillary started etc. etc so He really doesn't know how to apologize and he's doing this in the middle of and a world of insane double standards I mean the things that Hillary has to live up to and the things she gets bashed for Compared to the things that Donald Trump has done repetitively and Endlessly are unbelievable and this this sets up a world of false equivalents where things seem to be similar all the time There's a lovely cartoon, which is you know Donald Trump did this and that and then the next slide is and Hillary Clinton has a Spinach in her teeth and then the reporters were saying well well Obviously these two things are the same and they're not but maybe Trump Maybe people love that Trump tells everyone to fuck off that he is his own man and that he didn't get this far On his own. I mean he did get this far on his own and it kind of is a miracle I don't think there's a big room of genius is pulling Donald Trump strings I think he's probably got ties to Putin and whoever else And and organized crime, but he he did get this far on his own Which is both an indictment of media and politics and as we will see in a moment the way our society is set up But it's pretty impressive. So maybe you like that and you're like well, let's give this guy a thing Above all, I think Trump's level of support says speaks loudly that there is a deep-seated anger and sense of betrayal in the United States of America and and it runs very very deep and The Democrats have not been able to lance that boil They have not been able to credibly address those things for a variety of reasons part of which is they've been demonized Part of which is they don't have great policies, but compared to the threats that are sort of on deck Mediocre policies and a continuation of Clinton Obama to a new Clinton doesn't seem bad whatsoever So here are the most reasonable reasons why one might support Trump The first one is called they're cutting in line an early Russell Hock child a sociologist Has written a book and several really interesting pieces about this notion that that normal working people feel like they're They're standing in line up the hill to success that at the top is the American dream But the line is kind of stalled and they haven't really made any progress yet If anything, they're slipping and people seem to be cutting in line Affirmative action any kind of benefits for other sorts of people or the closing of opportunities for them are Some way of losing a spot and I'm not going to read this quote, but just hit pause or come back to it But Arleigh talks about this. This is sort of the metaphor that's going on Second point is loss of privilege and here I mean mostly white male privilege and I'm one of those I'm a white guy and there's really I think as we modernize and as progress happens And we realize that everybody is equal and we ought to make a society where we treat everybody as equal whether they are disabled Whatever their love preferences, etc. You know color gender White males are going to feel like all of that is a loss. They don't see diversity as a win They don't see equality as a win. They kind of have to but many don't So when I say reasonable reasons, I don't mean I'm agreeing that that's there's a loss of privilege I mean that there's that very definitely a sense of loss of privilege a Different point is that nobody has been speaking for me and nobody else says the things that Donald Trump says out loud He is the only one who's calling out stuff and I hate to say this But every now and then Donald Trump says some says something that I agree with that nobody else has the courage to say For example, he said that President Bush w of 43 took us into the Iraq war On purpose and that it was a huge mistake. There was a problem and there are very few other politicians Who will say anything like that never mind whether Donald was in favor or against the war beforehand separate issue But he during this campaign has said that out loud And I think that takes some courage if not just sort of a reckless disregard for for outcomes But I think there's a lot of people for whom he's saying things some of whom Are the deplorables some of whom are saying well shit I've felt this way about those damned immigrants and everybody else for all these years finally We can talk about that and man that is that is really problematic when When the door is open or the windows the Overtown window is opened enough for everybody to just crawl in and say hey This is legitimate. Let's go do it because it really is not legitimate discourse I'm happy to talk with people about biases and prejudices, but we really need to aim higher And then a separate reason here the system is broken and needs to be shattered and here's a place I also agree and there was that famous flowchart at the beginning of the electoral cycle about Bernie Sandler's and you know shit is broken and fucked up was kind of the The system is broken was the first decision point and Bernie and Trump were on the yes It's broken side and Hillary and the rest of the Democrats were on the nope It's not broken. We're just gonna do you know business as usual side and here's the fellow from Occupy And I actually agree for reasons that I'll this goes a lot more in a moment when I described this idea called the relationship economy Globalization has sucked for US workers. In fact kind of the the middle wage laborers have really suffered We've had some rise in wages and wealthy people have gotten way way wealthier But the ability to just move work anywhere in the world hasn't worked well Capitalism does shaft workers. So that's totally legitimate. I'll talk a bit more about that in just a second Then there's a bunch of other people the people I've met who were like this are in conservative sometimes very religious communities and They would tell you we've been holding the country together and nobody seems to care We take care of our elderly. We watch our kids. We don't have to leave our you know We don't lock our doors We leave the keys in the car our communities are in pretty good shape And we look outside at the world and the world is falling apart and nobody cares what we're doing In fact, they're against us in different ways So that might be a reason to stay conservative Even though man, you'd really have to hold your nose If you're principled on the on the kinds of ways I just told you you'd really have to hold your nose to vote for Trump then the last one which I think is a is a super duper strong one if I don't support Trump I will lose my support my community my identity my job my whatever I will lose everything around me that kind of matters I'm going to cover this in many different ways from scorched earth strategy to the consumerization of our world To holding our noses, but this is very very real people fall in line over time because This is about their identity their community all the different things that hold them in place and Stepping outside of that is a very risky sort of proposition and Partly what I'm asking those of you who fall in this category to think about for a moment Just to consider is that it might take an act of courage to go do that and remember the ballot is secret The ballot goes into a box people can't tell how you voted So why did all this happen now? Why is Trump so of the moment? Why does he feel like good God almost inevitable at this second? First I think Conservatives are reaping what they sowed over the last 30 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the Berry Goldwater Election cycle a lot of Goldwater lost in a big way and a lot of Conservatives were completely disenchanted and they started picking out the ideas of Leo Strauss and Hayek and a bunch of other ideas They then over the years built a patiently in with a bunch of investment from a very conservative people like Richard Mellon scape and and Hauser-Busch and sorry Coors The Coors family and a bunch of others they then built an echo chamber that worked really really well Fox News with until recently Roger Ailes in charge Ailes who was a political operative for the Republicans forever And Ailes fashioned a very very capable Ratings winning news service that was in fact creating that the very thing we're staring at right now It was it was caught it was sort of emulated and echoed by conservative blogs conservative talk radio Conservatives in fact own talk radio pretty much Think tanks that were created American Enterprise Institute heritage foundation is a whole bunch of very conservative think tanks that were ginning up white papers to explain Why trickle down economics is going to work? Well, it doesn't why this why that and also the religious right which has been around for a very long time and has a complicated relationship with The Republican Party but but has almost always been on board and then most recently the alt-right and the alt-right isn't just Sort of a bunch of these people under a new label the alt-right really is an umbrella for the deplorables It really is the people that I I would have a hard time hanging out with the people who are you know Down and dirty racists and bigots and other sorts of things And they're now in the echo chamber and this echo chamber is very very functional I Date some of this back to the gingrich revolution So the conservators basically decided that They were gonna do a scorched earth strategy that they needed to destroy the Democratic Party because anytime the Democrats would come into party if they achieved anything they might stay in power as I said earlier So back under gingrich in 94 gingrich becomes speaker of the house And we also have the midterm elections in the US big Republican victory They're called the republican revolution based on something called the contract with America and they had Signatories to the contract which were a bunch of people and all of a sudden Republicans were separated from Democrats and You may have proof otherwise, but as far as I understand it before this moment Republicans and Democrats used to rent apartments together near the Capitol and they would sort of share rooms They used to dine together in the same dining halls They used to work out together that it was okay for them to sit and talk in the hallways After the gingrich revolution it was not Your money was going to be taken away You wouldn't you were not going to pass your next primary which on the Republican side is the important thing to do is to Doing your primary and going off message was penalized with being cut off. It was really draconian You are not to talk to the other side. You're not to compromise You are not to allow for any Democratic victories and just look at the history of Obamacare going through There have been more than a dozen extremely tough efforts by Conservatives to take down to first to prevent then to take down and now still to reverse Obamacare And of course Trump's first pledge when he went if and when he's elected is to reverse Obamacare So just watch how hard one any Democratic victories actually are So this has become a land of obstructionism, which I think really is on the Republican side Republicans held the country hostage and shut down the government all these sorts of things and guess what obstructionism is in fact a self-fulfilling Prophecy which ironically is playing out for Donald Trump right now because what happens is it gives you a Non-functioning Congress it gives you deadlock in other sorts of places if you won't approve an even an odd numbered Supreme Court justice then you'll get deadlocks in the Supreme Court So all of this the party of no has done such a great job with this that we are now kind of in in these dangerous quarters So there have been many different movements on the conservative side from something called movement conservatives to the neocons That gave us the contract with America then the Tea Party sprung up and kind of scared everybody and changed the nature of primaries More recently the House Freedom Caucus has been doing this scorched earth strategy There will brook no compromise and now the alt-right is in the mix There's a good article on Vox the Republicans wage the three decade war on government. They got Trump. I highly recommend you read it So the strategy is hey, let's shut down discourse. In fact, there's a strategy I called denial a tactic I called denial of discourse attacks Which is just flood the media with so many stupid comments and so many accusations and so much that it's impossible to actually have a conversation Separate everyone from each other create reasons for doubt also so so so doubt Demonize the opposition. Don't just say the opposition, you know has a different opinion and here's how we do how we disagree but in fact say the opposition is Satan the opposition is evil the opposition is criminal do that Disable the media and fog the facts so make sure that the media is no longer a useful tool and The one of the ways to do that is to fog the facts ignore the facts right over the facts change the facts I remember there was a Bob Schieffer interview with Ted Cruz and Schieffer was basically basically saying so when and I'm going to paraphrase poorly so when you shut down the government When you did the sort of the government sequestration shut down all that blah blah blah and Ted Cruz says oh, I didn't do that The Democrats did that and you can watch Schaefer do a double-take and a triple-take And then he goes back and asked the question and he's incredulous that Ted Cruz would be rewriting history like this and Cruz was the leader of the shutdown It's insane. So this is happening all the time Now in these kinds of battles in scorched earth strategies the player that cares the least about losing often wins That's the problem is that if you're trying to hold together discourse if you're trying to be fair about Conversations if you're trying to promote democracy It's really hard to go up against all this crap as a side note Dick Cheney was a big fan of a guy named Robert Boyd a Colonel a Marine Colonel who was a crazy brilliant guy and Invented something called the OODA loop observe orient decide act and if you're using the OODA loop you can outmaneuver your adversaries and back in Bush Gore Sorry Bush carry I think that the Republicans understood this very deeply and they basically blew carry out of the water by using the OODA loop over and over again Now it seems like both sides understand the OODA loop and they're sort of trading blows in the arena That's just a side side note if you'd like to see an ironic An ironic way to read what's happened here read the poem home to roost by K Ryan Here it is. You can come back to it. I'm not going to read it out loud But boy, that's what's happened to the Republicans and they have lost control of their party So Trump Managed to hack the media. He's been brilliant at it. The day I really realized this was the day that Trump rolled over Mitt Romney Remember the day when Mitt Romney stood up and said, you know, don't vote for Trump.  This is going to end badly and then Then I watched as CNN Held two-thirds of their camera for an hour saying Trump to respond and it was just an empty stage with flags behind it And on the bottom was the banner Trump to respond and on the one-third on the left was a you know Whoever was speaking the talking heads. He's about to talk. He's about to talk And then they gave Trump an entire hour of free airtime Trump was a master of getting free airtime During which Trump basically rambled on did his not only did a plug for his hotel and his usual campaign crap but denigrated Denigrated Mitt Romney in a variety of ways and effectively rolled over Mitt like he was a little bump on the road And I thought to myself. Wow. What do you do in this case? If you were running CNN? Maybe what you do is you stop the cameras and you step in front of the camera yourself and you say I Apologize Donald Trump appears to we've been hacked. I don't mean that Russians or Chinese have broken into our servers I mean that this man Donald Trump has figured out how to use us Against you and for the moment, we're just going to turn off the cameras and we don't know exactly what we're going to do With this we could use your help on this I wish that had happened, but Jeff sucker behind the scenes at CNN seems to be a bit of a Trump fan So things like that have definitely not been happening. In fact, the opposite has So Trump has really flourished in our broken media industry and the media itself has become infotainment It's um, we don't really have a news business the way we used to have news that had kind of principles think back To Walter Cronkite think back to our famous journalists and the kinds of principles they seem to stand on Edward R. Murrow So I've already talked about it's amazing that Trump has greater than 40 percent. I put it in here as well on the media, but his skills Are not to be taken lightly. So one is black belt media hacking He absolutely knows how to say things to stay in the public eye. All attention is good attention for him If it happens to be bad news, but they're talking about him 24 7 he seems to really love that He is fantastic at deflecting So everybody who tries to say no, no, you actually said that tries to fact check him. Nope. Nope. Nope Uh, I've never heard of David Duke. Uh, what do you mean? I don't even understand what white white supremacists are Uh, despite his meetings with duke before and his support for them, blah, blah, blah He's a fantastic Bullier. In fact, if you read up on the tactics of abuse between spouses between people and intimate relationships Gaslighting which is denial of what happened projecting Which is accusing the other person of the thing that you in fact are doing a favorite trump tactic Denigration of other people and there's a long long list here.  Arguably to this point the most powerful nation on earth The the beacon of democracy and free really So I did a video that I'm not going to play here, but it's down below about trump's favorite tactics What is his playbook so you can you can play that elsewhere? So here's here's the stuff I think I might be bringing to the conversation because everything I've said so far You've probably heard someplace before Um, and the thing I've I'm holding is an idea that we're entering a relationship economy that consumer mass marketing capitalism Is broken That we consumerized Everything in our lives and consumerization Includes industrialization automation standardization Commodization, which means turning non-monetary things into monetary things commodification Which is basically when you make things so cheap that you can make a lot of them Capitalism globalization all those things are sort of behind the curtain of consumerization In front of the curtain is do you want the Cheerios or the cocoa puffs? Do you want The trump or the hillary right and I think you can see that the electoral process has become a consumer mass marketing exercise plus media hacking so What happened was we actually consumerized every sector of our lives we consumerized our our housing and how we build cities We consumerized our educational system. We consumerized our electoral process We consumerized money finance how we see our homes All these different things have turned into mere consumer exercises In the process when you treat us as mere consumers and not as whole people We break trust. We lose community. We lose society We lose the responsibility for the task at hand My only job in the educational system is to absorb the next the material for the next test and Barf it back out for the test and then flush the buffers because I'm not actually I don't have enough time to learn for meaning and to learn for context You've sort of put me in a military institution that drills me and and has deadlines at every turn So I don't have the responsibility to learn In cities with with governments and all that I don't have the responsibility to take care of my neighbor because We have institutions for all that we institutionalized all this stuff away It's all sort of part of the consumer economy All of this took away our sense of agency all of this took away our ability to perform critical thinking And all of this went to our educational system as well If you'd like to learn more about this whole thing, I did a ted talk back a tedx talk back in 2012 You can find it if you search for what if we trusted you on youtube and I'll put the links to all these things at in the YouTube comment field When I publish this So by consumerizing everything we replaced citizenship With voting and I gotta tell you voting is not really democracy voting is a pale substitute for actual Democracy where people are sort of debating and and figuring things out. We also threw in pro sports. So for example Go Niners. Thank god for the cubbies finally winning the world series Having some team to root for that feels like your city is a nifty substitute for actually being a citizen And being involved in governing your city We substituted happiness with consumerism. You can buy your way to happiness The american dream have your own house with its own picket fence and cocker spaniel and and suv We substituted community with pseudo community on tv the shows like cheers and friends We took the commons which we used to live on and take care of together scroll back far enough in history With natural resources which corporations are it's okay for them to plunder unless we sort of over regulate them We substituted cooperation with competition and I actually think humans are naturally cooperative and social They're not naturally selfish and competitive. You may disagree with that. These are just points of view but but That point of view has taken me down this path of logic So consumerization has given us alienation apathy anger amnesia We have people who are angry in in part because they've been treated as consumers There's a bunch of other good reasons. They've lost jobs. They've been ignored whatever else might be happening But other effects other more specific effects of consumerization We ended up militarizing our police So instead of having relationships with communities, which a few cities are rediscovering including los angeles Um, we militarized it and all the surplus equipment that came out of ascanis and iraq got bought up by cities across the country Most cities have swat teams and we militarized our schools things that used to be something where the kid got Sent to the principal are not things where the police or the swat team come in and then the news business basically Lost its ad base from the internet lost its subscriberships and suddenly became eyeball seeking infotainment and can't hold up its end of the bargain All of this means that consumerization of our society, which happened We didn't actively go do it, but it happened around us to us We were kind of complicit in some ways depending what you were doing during the time But we've we've sort of been born into this Consumerization prepped us for a donald trump and trump was the perfect dude to come along and do this In the same way and forgive me here.  I'm invoking godwin's rule, I guess But alice miller a psychotherapist from switzerland wrote a bunch of great books including The drama of the gifted child, which is her most famous one But in the book for your own good she analyzes hitler And she talks about poisonous pedagogy in germany austria switzerland And she refers to a book called struvo peter among other things and struvo peter says on the fly leaf I wish I'd remembered to put that into the prezi here, but i'm thinking of it now It says on the fly leaf only good little boys and girls will get to see the contents of this book You turn the page little tommy suck his thumbs didn't wouldn't stop sucking his thumb You turn the page and there's a giant ogre with giant shears that has cut off tommy's thumb And it's gouting blood and like that it's basically object lessons for kids This is poisonous pedagogy basically trying to scare kids straight so they'll behave Alice miller argues that this kind of pedagogy including the german the prussian military education system Which we later imported prepared germans to be really obedient and to look for an authoritative leader like hitler Paved the way for him so that when he came in he was hailed as the solution He was in fact a different kind of solution So that's the long way around on how we consumerized everything If you want to learn more about consumerization and this perspective go to the prezi link That's at the bottom of the circle Let's move on to capitalism, which i'm just going to get to scratch the surface of Capitalism as it's currently instantiated in particular in the us is carnivorous It really is kind of the giant vampire squid Partly because the market forces that make everybody do really short-termist things and really get in the way Of long-term thinking of taking care of the commons of doing any other sorts of things unregulated Corporations habitually over and over again destroy society the environment and our future You can go to many periods in history where we had to do trust busting We had to come in and do regulation We had to do a bunch of different things to stop that from happening The industrial revolution gets really dark and nasty pretty quickly Uh, I can show you a bunch of history on this if you'd like Corporations really had few compunctions about moving their work to cheaper countries They really felt no responsibility for retraining the employees that they cut off There were no social pressures really besides local communities in distress To make them care There were plenty of media distractions that that wasn't getting that much attention And they were under insane pressure to behave this way from markets investors even the media So go on MSNBC Go read fortune magazine or Forbes and you'll see that hey all we really care about You know is is making money Under weak regulation capitalism always overreaches and breaks things the problem here is not capitalism as a whole Which I think can be healed and fixed But it's the consumer mass market capitalism that we're in is really cruel We've managed to cut away most of the safety net. We've managed to make Poverty a cruel and dismal trap. We've done a whole bunch of different things And if you look back again over history capitalism has pretty much always taken advantage of some kind of population It it basically ate this country and took it away from the locals It imported slaves and had a An economy almost entirely predicated on slavery a bunch of different things and currently we have wage slaves We have people who don't make enough money to actually leave their situation Who are stuck in the three or four d jobs dirty dangerous disgusting and dull Um, and that's what they get to do all the time So more on this in just a second when I talk about the ghosts we haven't dealt with And and one bright light is that four benefit corporations? And I don't mean specifically b-corps, but I mean also special purpose corporations L3c's there's a bunch of different governance models here But four benefit corporations can at least let give companies the the breathing room to focus on social Benefit role models here are companies like Patagonia There's a company in brazil called semco, which has a workplace democracy that's really fantastic If you want to dive deeper into capitalism and its critiques This is a screenshot of my brain go to jerry's brain.com And you can circle through and search for a thought each note is called a thought called critiques of capitalism Each of those icons below links to if it's a little a it's an amazon It's a book on amazon if it's an s the big red s It's probably a salon article if it's a little red triangle. It's a youtube video, etc If it's a little w it's a wikipedia video But there's a whole bunch of materials that i've been collecting about this and everything else that i've been telling you about in my brain So Part of our problem this minute is that we haven't dealt with our ghosts And we keep rejecting this conversation and it's funny I thought of this notion that we haven't dealt with our ghosts and then it suddenly dawned on me Why am I saying ghosts? Well, there's two books that I read over the last decade both of which really stayed with me One is called king leopold's ghost about king leopold the second of belgium Who basically took over what is now the democratic republic of belgium and turned it into a rubber plantation With the most insane working conditions for anybody and when I say working conditions, I really mean slavery If somebody didn't meet their rubber quota, they would have their hands cut off So there were you know There are portraits of lots and lots of people with their hands cut off because they couldn't meet their rubber quota Anyway dark history for for congo and we wonder why things are you know still dark in the congo And then the ghosts of spain where it talks about how they started discovering 2012 2014 mass graves that dated back to the franco era And how the fact that that spain had never had a truth and reconciliation moment that spain had never sort of admitted to What happened and had the conversation Part of the deal when franco turns things over to king juan carlos Part of the deal is that there won't be prosecutions. Nobody really talk about it But juan carlos doesn't do what franco thought he would do He actually reinstates congress and turns things back over to a democratic republic Um, which franco would have like gone crazy about but except he was dead If you want to see more about this and understand more how our prosperity was built on the backs of a lot of people read Howard zinn's very famous a people's history of the united states and just read it with an open mind And if you're a white guy like me, uh, don't feel assaulted read up the rules of how to be a good ally and understand that It isn't all about you and sometimes it is a little bit about you And you've got to sort of be graceful about how this works But in our country, uh, we haven't dealt with these things and the 800 pound gorilla in the room is misogyny and hillary is a woman And there appear to be a whole series of people including a bunch of women who don't want to see a woman in charge of this country, even though, uh, there've been tons of women leaders, uh, across the world in many different places Even though she's insanely capable and overqualified, et cetera, et cetera Misogyny is still a big front and center and i'm not going to go too deep into that Instead i'll talk a little bit about how we've treated first nations There's a reason why right now there are protests at Standing Rock and there's the no Dakota pipeline movement going on, uh, if you want to see more about this, uh, go see erin huys tex talk about the treaties We've aggregated with the natives. He is a photographer.  We did this to you. We're trying to make amends. We don't do that in america. We We hate it when obama or clinton or somebody goes and apologizes for something. We actually did in some other country Um, we need to we need to buck up and look at history Slavery man if this is if this is not also the the yawning chasm I i just finished reading, uh, the american slave coast because i met the authors, uh, husband and wife Uh at a speech recently at a conference and I have to say that I I already thought I knew a lot of american history And was pretty jaded american slave coast blew my mind In particular in this notion that there was an organized american slave breeding industry And that it was inhuman in ways. We don't even think about, uh, you know, never mind the fancy movies We make to try to depict this it was worse than what you think But the american economy was so dependent on it that they say our revolutionary war When we broke away from england was actually a successful civil war So that our founding fathers wouldn't have to drop slavery because they couldn't imagine Nobody could see how the american economy would work without slavery. Nobody not the north not the south Then i'm now watching this documentary The 13th about the 13th amendment and about how the old plantation and slave system has been replaced by First it was replaced by jim crow, but now it's been replaced by mass incarceration That that has kind of taken its place. No wonder we have a black lives matter movement going on We militarized our cities and we have this this bias That we can't seem to talk about can't seem to fix we can't seem to diffuse these these conflicts So of course we have a lot of a fight going on my favorite saying about Many of these topics is that the privilege of privilege is not noticing the privilege I don't know whom to attribute it to I heard it years ago and all I know is that when I Go outside and drive around the block I'm not worried about being randomly pulled over and maybe shot and killed because i'm black When I walk down the block, I don't worry about crossing over to the other side of the street because some tough looking guys coming down And i'm a woman. I don't notice those things and I at least I realized that I don't notice those things so When conservatives complain about political correctness and about microaggressions and all this kind of stuff You know Some of trying to get the the scales tipped back a little bit may sound like persnickettiness or overcompensation But it's not these are people who have historic beefs that are systematically ingrained in our culture today Because we haven't surfaced them and dealt with them So that's all kind of bad news and there's a little bit of good news. Uh, it's been worse before Back just before the civil war. Remember our country tore itself apart over slavery and had a civil war in which like some 400 000 people americans were killed so the democratic The democratic representative from south carolina preston brooks Almost beat republican senator charles somner to death on the floor of the senate with a walking cane Because somner had given a really eloquent speech against slavery.  Also, the democrats aren't innocent There's been plenty of stuff going on on the democratic side But I just have to say If you kind of look at it objectively, there's strategies pale in comparison the things they've done pale in comparison and some of the things they've done like linden johnson escalating the the the vietnam war or what have you or jfk, you know, approving the bay of pigs invasion or clinton Basically starting the mass incarceration acceleration, etc. Etc. We're in political reaction. We're whatever but but I gotta say There wasn't this politics of no lbj in fact famously was the guy if you read caro's caro's books on him Was busy trying to you know figure out how to how to wrangle people and how to get some kind of compromise The bad news is that all of this shit can easily get worse that we are not at the end of this This stuff can easily get much worse So what do we do now? I'm going to divide this up into the next day so before election day and then after election day there's two outcomes I guess uh, and you know not saying that there won't be a fight over the win But at some point hillary wins or trump wins Uh, so i'll talk about it in in kind of that direction and you'll see there's two circles in the middle between Hillary and trump victories which are two sets of things that just need to happen whoever wins whatever's going on so first It's really late We're a day away. There isn't some of you have been out canvassing and making calls and writing beautiful pieces Which i've been reading and cataloging. Thank you for that Van jones has been visiting conservatives in gettysburg and doing a beautiful job of it Seriously a moving job of at least having a conversation that we have managed to close off because For some people not having the conversation suits their message and their goals Which they're putting ahead of the country as far as I can tell so ordinary citizens are under unbearable pressures right now people are breaking up friendships because Hey, I can't believe you're you're supporting trump and and this whole video i'm recording It's my way of saying please don't vote for trump. This is you know I can't believe you would still do that even though I think I understand most of your reasons and if i've missed your reason Write me on twitter and send me what your reason is and i'll add it in But people are under unbearable pressures in particular all those conservatives who are holding their noses and still voting trump Dudes and dudettes Don't do it Step up to principle. Remember which side of history you want to end up on and do the opposite vote for hillary Don't hold your vote back. Don't vote for steiner johnson vote for hillary because we actually need We actually need a landslide which we're probably not going to get it's kind of crazy We can't reverse the consumerization of the world overnight The problem is as big as I described it happens slowly over decades But the good news is that it's being punctured and fixed all over the place in movements like restorative justice and traffic calming and open space meetings and Civic civic participation and so forth all over the place The best thing you can do for the next little period is actually listen Really listen to people who are on the other side and about to vote for trump and talk these things through have a conversation Take people by the hand to vote make sure everybody gets out and vote And in case it's not obvious enough. I had to add this late in the process vote for hillary. Please do The dangers if this goes the wrong way And I don't think i'm being chicken little here I I'm of this of the side that doesn't think that trump has just been talking and he's going to be really different And he's going to come around I think trump is trump and his whole record. I mean trump might be sort of a secretly trying to Punk us and say ha made you look look you even elected me president But I wasn't serious and look what I've done. I've exposed all these deplorables I've made you all hate each other and whack each other Look at what I did I managed to turn this country into a dumpster when it was kind of doing pretty well So the dangers here are that we actually continue to lose civil discourse that we lose even the notion of facts We've already shredded trust already with corporate trust governmental trust Media trust every institution is really not trusted very much And that things fall apart further with a little nod to chino achebe We could easily see much worse things happen. This could be the tipping into another civil war or a world war or whatever else I I don't see that those things are off off the table right now So one of the two things that need to happen regardless who wins First the media the news really need to sort this out Funny thing is i'm not sure fox news survives this cycle I think what happens is whether trump wins or loses we're going to see a trump tv network and The one entity that should be most worried about trump tv is fox uh now ailes is already advising Advising trump. So maybe ailes is in charge. Maybe hannah to be in charge I don't know But the the the three syllables that must scare everybody at fox news right now would be trump tv And this is a trivial item in the larger scale of things But but it's kind of a fun. It's sort of a fun thing to think about trump managed to weaponize the media against us he managed to turn tv radio print whatever else against us because tv in particular was so hungry for audience and the news was so divorced from actual journalism and so close to how many eyeballs Are we getting and can we get paid more that they were unable to turn off that eye when things got bad And trump knew that and took constant advantage of it He also knew that media attention is short. It's little scallops It has a very very short attention span because the media segments, you know an eight minute segment is a luxury three minutes Is more typical so if you can wait things out by avoiding dodging denying They won't stick to it and the few people, you know jake tapper now and then A few others here and there i've seen i've seen a couple journalists try to stick to it and still not be able to land the Blow of you've been lying. You haven't just been lying. You've been manipulating So stuck in this business model the news has not figured out how to respond And worse now discourse is broken. In fact seem powerless It could be done but you need to get your shit together for the state You need to sort this out and figure out how to reconnect with the rest of us and earn your trust back Second we need to return to civil discourse. We need to dissolve the scorched earth system One of my mentors was russ a cough one of the people who invented systems thinking and he used to say It's better not to try to solve a problem. It's better to dissolve it and he gave a lot of examples He would call a cost fables one example of dissolving the this this sort of chasm between us Our van jones's conversations with conservatives another lovely example Is nc dd.org here and here come too many syllables the national coalition for dialogue and deliberation Which is a terrific group that involves facilitators and other kinds of of conveners who host conversations about legislative input about peacemaking about all sorts of things that have to do with Dialogue and deliberation and discourse. They're lovely. So join that conversation and learn from them how to actually have a conversation We need to come back into community. We need to rediscover our sense of agency taken away by consumerism There's a lot of work actually to rebuild the fabric of worldwide society There's a reason we use the metaphor of social fabric in that all these little threads The little connections and interdependencies between us are the things that bind us into society And we have been systematically cutting and shredding and tearing them Including the tearing of discourse, which trump has done right now, but but not limited to that There's a whole bunch of this that's happened. So we need to make our way back to civil discourse then What's going to happen uh to the gop. So what are the what are the repercussions if trump wins? What happens to the gop because it seems like 80 percent of the gop is is backing trump And there's 20 percent of conservatives who are either holding their noses or Going elsewhere One can only hope but they might need to have a party and they might not want to stay in this particular party I already talked about fox news of survival or Does this just go further down into trumpistan and do the conservatives go fascist on us? So there needs to be a call to conscience for true conservatives here to figure out What what does it actually mean to be a conservative and can we do that again? Or and i'm just going to put this in here It might be the entire subject of other people's pieces We'll trump defy all of our expectations including most of what i've said here and do well Will he say hey, i've been punking you and uh, you know, I just wanted to to have some leeway to act and look I'm going to do good things And I I just don't think so You know, I just don't think so. It's really likely to be bleak If trump wins the supreme court will likely be deeply conservative for about three decades Because that's sort of how the life cycles go We are very likely to fall into military adventures and mistakes He seems to think that a strongman posture is the way to go And you can't bluff too long with strongman posture You actually have to send people out to die in your name And just because he's had five deferments and uh was happy that somebody gifted him a purple heart I'm just remembering that now and I just can't believe How painful it is that an award given to people who've lost limbs and shed blood for war Was given to a guy who's avoided war and would happily take a Do you see why i'm doing this? We might also lose our global allies except we might be a lot closer to the rising far right So let's see. Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Erdogan There's a whole bunch of countries that are surprisingly swinging to the right Uh, England just voted for the brexit France might be having a frexit and uh marine le pen is very very happy and the sidelines hoping to take her country further to the right There is a lot of right word movement We need to be concerned about and then just loss of progressive progress So all the things that got more equality whether it's marriage equality or other sorts of things will probably be rolled back in In these kinds of administrations Never mind and here I come to the one point that I haven't mentioned so far that doesn't get brought up in debates That is some people's sole issue that really really matters and i'm sorry to give it such short shrift but The earth is not doing very well. The seas are dying. We've killed off most of the most of the fish species The every part of the environment is facing calamitous catastrophe including of course climate change and and For somebody to be running the country who doesn't believe in it and will roll things back I mean ironically when ronald reagan moved into the white house one of the first things he did Was he removed he removed the solar panels that jimmy carter had installed on the roof of the white house removed them Paid somebody money to go up on the roof and take down something that was saving them money and making energy He was just trying to make a point of course But I think what's likely to happen under trump is much much worse than that So that's kind of the picture What happens if hillary wins well Very likely she'll be governing in gridlock because there have already been promises to not approve any supreme court nominees As long as she's in office, which is crazy and undemocratic Who knows what happens or Maybe we have to get adjusted to a new new normal that hatred and racism are now mainstream that we don't have facts How do you operate in there? So we need to figure out how to fix both the democratic party and democracy And then I'd love To affect some real change and this is where I liked some of the things that bernie was saying And just go back to what I was saying about the consumerization of everything If we actually trust one another and build institutions based on trust instead of mistrust Good things happen and we can start to fix a lot of these things That will take us down the road of healing rebuilding trust reconnecting with neighbors and colleagues Coping with the future together because one thing I haven't mentioned this whole time Automation is coming and it is a flesh eating bacterium that loves to gobble up tasks and work And we don't have social policies in place where that's okay because when your job gets automated It's not like you get a congratulations email that says hey You get to go work on the farm now and raise beats and goats and you'll be fine. Don't worry about it No, no, no, what happens is you've just lost your job and you don't know what to retrain for Because the time it'll take you to retrain is probably the time it'll take somebody back behind the scenes tapping away To automate that task. So where do you go? We're in a really dangerous place where we need to be working with one another Here's the collection of beautiful nicknames. I've discovered for trump He's the the rug wearing thunder nugget the short fingered vulgarian one that really gets under his skin The giant orange twitter egg the cheeto jesus The vulgar talking yam All these things are these are linked back to the articles and the people who who brought them to us in most cases These nicknames didn't show up just because the media is biased and people are hating on donald trump They showed up because this man Down deep in his little tiny core think grinch here Is an asshole and he's out for himself and he's just about to win he's right on the cusp of winning and God willing i think hillary's lead holds but you know what people thought the brexit was going to To fail and it passed so Think about somebody who has earned these names. Do you really want to vote for them? So that's my picture why trump why now what now i'm sorry it took so long I think you might understand why it took so long It's really complicated stuff and then a little bit of framing First thank you very much for listening. I am not a historian or a political theorist This stuff is just i've stuff i found and i believe and i'm telling it to you You can find the prezi i'm showing you prezi is this zoomable whiteboardy kind of thing You can find the whole presentation at the link i've got here, which i will put in the comments on the youtube video If you're in the prezi hit escape and then you can zoom around and you can go play the videos i've embedded here And i will in fact add the videos to the end of the prezi tour So if you play through the prezi and keep going it'll autoplay the five six seven videos that i've embedded here I've missed a lot of stuff. This is sort of my take on things suggest improvements at its changes and i will do those I will also if i have if i have the time break up this recording into multiples But i just wanted to do it once all the way through Uh, you're welcome to reuse and remix this material. I would love a little attribution So this is under creative commons by attribution and all of the things i've talked about The resources the articles backing up why i think what i think are in my brain Which is this concept this strange little concept mapping tool that i've been using since 1998 You can find it at jerry's brain.com or look in the app store for an app actually called jerry's brain I will warn you now though that my brain online is out of date by eight or nine months And a lot of the really great resources the juicy resources about this particular race are not in there, but Tweet to me and we can figure that out. Thank you very very much. Uh vote vote once Vote for hillary and make sure that everybody you know goes out and votes this really really important right now Thank you very much


A non-stressed test, NST, is a test to assess fetal well-being. It measures fetal heart rate and response to movement in the third trimester to ensure that the baby is doing well. On the day of the test, you will be advised to have snacks, water or juice as this helps in better baby movements. You must void urine before the test. This is a painless, non-invasive procedure performed by the nurse and usually takes about 20 minutes. You are required to lie down comfortably on the procedure bed. The test is done by tying two belts with sensors around your belly which detects fetal heart rate and uterine pressure. You will be given a marker to mark the fetal movements. You will need to press the marker button each time you feel the baby move. The graph will be assessed by your doctor during consultation.


In honor of St. Paddy's Day, we're firing up the Blackstone. You're going to need a pound and a half of corned beef brisket and a quarter pound of bacon.  We're going to throw this in the freezer for a minute. 80, 20. That might be the best sandwich I've ever made. Yum, yum, get you some happy St. Paddy thing.


Hi everybody, Jeff Helmholt from Mustang stadium after the Mustang men fall to St. Joseph's three to two here with John Gran and John You got the second goal of the game. So before we talk about the end result Give me a little sense of how that second goal got set up. Yanni gave you the assist and gave you guys the lead at the time Yeah, Yanni was driving down. I thought he's gonna play me in the middle. I just kept running. He played a great through ball I had to do was tap it tap it through so it's a great ball great work for by the team It was 2-2 at the half and then that late goal by St. Joseph's about 12 minutes from the end of the match Obviously deflating for you guys, but you just got to pick it up here, especially with the three-game road trip coming up I'm sure you'll look at that tape and bounce back from it. Yeah, it was unfortunate But, you know, it's a long season. We'll lose some games, but you know, we're looking forward to the next few games Hopefully, you know get back on track. So first road trip coming up You got a couple of the Penn State teams Berks and Beaser and then Pitt Greensburg before you come home on Monday Any specific plans for the road trip anything you guys need to focus on anything you take away from today's game We're hoping to finish our chances, you know, we had a lot of chances today a lot of one-on-ones open goals We just missed them.  Well, it's a tough break today John So thanks for the time. We appreciate it and good luck the rest of the way Thank you John Grant with us here as the Mustangs fall to St. Joseph's three to two at Mustang stadium


Hey there, Psych2Goers. Do you get butterflies every time you see or even think about your crush, and you can't help hoping they like you back? When you have feelings for someone, it's easy to see everything they do in a positive light. However, not every person you crush on is someone you should consider getting into a relationship with. So on that note, here are seven types of crushes you should avoid. 1. The Ghoster. Did you and your crush talk frequently once upon a time, but now they've just disappeared? Does your crush leave you on red or avoid you whenever you have a chance to see each other in person? They may have caught feelings, or found out you had a crush on them, and instead of rejecting or reciprocating the feelings, they've decided to ghost you. It might be because they feel uncomfortable rejecting people, or because they have a fear of commitment. But whatever their reason, you deserve someone who will consider your feelings instead of taking the easy way out. 2. The Braggar. Is your crush bragging to their friends that you have a crush on them? If your crush is stringing you along with false hope, it might be more for the benefit of their ego rather than their heart. Perhaps they found out about your crush indirectly, and don't see any harm in pretending they don't know about your crush on them. Everyone likes being liked, so they keep you beside them even when they don't reciprocate your feelings. They can't let you go because you make them feel good about themselves, but it's not about you, it's about them. This isn't very emotionally mature of them, because it can lead to a lot of emotional anguish for you. 3. The Humiliator.  Do they refuse to apologize or acknowledge and change their behaviors? This is another red flag that you should keep your eye out for. If your crush humiliates other people to make themselves look better, they may have self-esteem or trust issues, and you could become a target for these issues in a relationship with them. 4. The Bully. Is your crush rude to staff and strangers, belittles you or others, and isn't nice to your friends? While some people are attracted to the bad guy or girl archetype, crushing on someone who is mean or abusive to others will only cause you pain. Even if your crush is nice to you, their poor treatment of others is a major red flag, because everyone deserves to be treated with love and respect, and there is no guarantee that they won't ever treat you in the same way they treat others. 5. The Cheater.  If so, it might be a good idea to let the crush fizzle out. A study published in the academic journal Archives of Sexual Behavior found that a person who had cheated on a former partner sexually was three times more likely to cheat again in their next relationship than someone who had never cheated. Repeated cheating is a sign of commitment issues that your crush needs to work through before they can commit to a successful relationship, and you deserve someone who will respect you and remain faithful to your relationship terms. 6. The User. Does your crush ask you or others for favors without giving anything in return? If they suspect you like them, they may ask you for more favors because they know you'll see it as an opportunity to get closer to them. However, while they always make promises in return, they never seem to make good on them. If you catch yourself falling over and over for people who use you, it might be a good idea to take a break from relationships. Therapy to help break free from these patterns can also be helpful. 7. The Isolator. Does your crush often ask you to ditch the plans you've made with other people and tries to turn you against your friends or family? If so, this is a huge red flag. Falling for an Isolator could lead to a psychologically abusive relationship, so if you see signs that your crush is trying to control who you talk to and what you do, you should stop pursuing a relationship with them. While it can be hard to get over your feelings for someone, it's sometimes necessary. When your crush doesn't reciprocate your feelings, acts emotionally immature or shows red flags that would make a relationship with them difficult or abusive. It's better to move on. Although crushing on someone can be fun, it shouldn't be disruptive to your own physical or mental health. Have you noticed these signs in your crush or someone you know? Do you think these red flags can be easily visible to someone who has a crush? Let us know in the comments below. Also remember to like and share this video with those you think might benefit from it. Subscribe to Psych2Go for more content. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next one.


I'm excited to be here with Lana Dingwall. And we met because we have mutual friends, Greg Faxon, Gemma Gilbert. We share similar values, and we both love to help people with their business. So Lana, it's so interesting. You do both business coaching. You also recently started brick and mortar business, which I really admire because it's not easy to do brick and mortar. And you're really walking the talk. But I want you to briefly introduce yourself to my audience. Maybe you could say, what do you think makes you different than many or some business coaches out there? OK. Yes, my name is Lana. I do business coaching. I feel like though that's just like a word to help categorize the style, I work a lot with socially and spiritually conscious entrepreneurs. So people who really feel that their work is an extension of them and they're looking to find a way to have the impact that they desire, both out in the world, but also in their own lives as well, through whatever it is that they do and make money while doing it. And I also happen to really like those things. So that's why I found myself there. And the question was, what was the question you answered? I mean, I'd love for you to share. Is there is there a particular message or perspective that you feel needs to be shared more often in when people are thinking about creating a business that's aligned? Yeah. OK. Yeah, I would say I think the thing I always want people to think about is who are you without barriers, expectations, the shoulds, the social constructs, conditioning, all of that kind of stuff. Because I believe that as humans, but especially as entrepreneurs, where we're really looking to create something and bring it into existence, the more that we can understand and know ourselves without barriers, the easier it is for us to do with an alignment for us because I'm a big energy person. I have a feeling you are too.  And so I find entrepreneurship is really this beautiful space of mastering that in between, where to know ourselves without barriers allows what we want to come because we start to realize where our limiting beliefs, where we may be sabotaging ourselves, where we may be doing things because we think we're supposed to versus because we want to, but then also putting in the energy of actually doing and building and creating. And I find when you focus in that sweet spot, that harmony, that's where you really see people and entrepreneurs where they're able to create a lot of things and do it in a way that feels in alignment with them. So I think that that is definitely what I tell people. And that's like my style of coaching. I like as a human, like I'm queer, I'm non binary. So I also just even find like I already operate like genuinely in this, the in between space or the space between even, you know, the masculine energy, the feminine energy. And that's where I feel like I have this unique experience of genuinely living a life of both. And so it's this that has kind of impacted how I do my business and queerness in general for, you know, it's I feel like it's this beautiful gift where, well, society already has its opinions of me and already has these ideas of me. So I might as well just do whatever I want anyway. And it has been like this really interesting, liberating process. And that kind of I take that same energy in with my clients where it's like, how can you also liberate yourself from again, whatever boxes or things or expectations and so that you can build something that's genuinely in alignment versus building something that you think you're supposed to say you want to build and do because that's what you're supposed to say and do. Wow, that's beautiful. Yeah, I recently saw on your Instagram, your post about creative freedom and not the longing. Tell us a bit about that because I think that's that's a powerful message. Yeah, I think that this, especially with the world as it is right now, we are social creatures, like we are community oriented. So we so deeply desire to belong. And sometimes we want to belong so much that we're actually willing to betray ourselves in the process of group acceptance. And when we kind of look at belonging, I think it's important, again, getting to know yourself without barriers, like who actually are you and how do you want to express yourself and how do you want to live your life and what makes you feel most fulfilled and doing that and belonging to yourself. And and by in turn, like, you know, belonging to yourself allows you to attract other people who want to belong with you, even if even if they live differently or look differently or do things differently, you know, you have this commonality about you and there is creative freedom in not belonging because you can say, OK, well, whatever, I can do whatever I want. Anyway, it's almost liberating sometimes when we accept the fact that I don't belong here, but maybe I'm not supposed to. And instead of trying to make myself fit, maybe I actually need to figure out instead, where is it that I should be? Where should I put my time and energy? And it isn't about right or wrong. It's about figuring out what's right for us. Yeah, it's beautiful. And I this is a great message for for all of us who who care about making the world a better place because that dynamic of caring sometimes comes with people pleasing, right? I mean, it's it's it's related. And so I think there probably are a lot of people in my audience who deal with, you know, people, people pleasing. I think all of us growing up in in a structured educational environment and our upbringing, it tends to exacerbate that. So I really, really honor and appreciate your taking a stand and modeling what it's like to to not have to go go that way and to express. And so I I hope folks will follow you on social media and see how you're doing it. Tell us a bit about what is the service or product that you most love to provide and for whom? I mean, you've told us a bit about whom. But yeah, tell us more about that service or product that you love to provide. I know there's probably multiple. But tell us one. Yeah, I think one of I always love one on one coaching. So one on one business coaching, mostly because it it I have no cookie cutter. I feel like you don't either. So it's like this really beautiful space to come really intimate and deep dive in with a person and help them get to know themselves without barriers and help them create what they want to create. But I really love the Lighthouse Collective. It it has been years and years in the making. And it's so it's a community for socially and spiritually conscious people where we talk about business. We talk about not politics in the sense of like a divide around, you know, who do you like? What side of the thing are you on? But we look at it more again, as an example, the concept of we seek to oppress in other people what we are oppressing in ourselves. So we explore, like, what are we oppressing in ourselves and how is that maybe actually showing up in our politics or in our views of certain things in society? And then we have the spiritual conscious part of it, too, where we explore things. I mean, from from like, does the idea of living, thinking that you live just one life make you a worse off person, maybe more selfish than if you think of reincarnation because, you know, maybe in relation to Earth, you might be more environmentally conscious. Who knows if you think you're going to have to come back again. So we kind of explore all these different topics. And it's it's cool because none of them seem to fit. But in the Lighthouse Collective, they do. And it's interesting because not everyone not everyone falls in the same space of of it. But it it's such a safe community where, again, we really recognize there is no right or wrong. There's just what's right for us. And we're going to like respect and honor each other and just cool people doing really cool things in their business as well. So it's fun all around. That's great. Yeah. It's like a community of kindred spirits. And you welcome people to share authentically with with one another and in fine connections and encouragement, guidance. And that's beautiful. That's a really that's a great, great vision. So when I mean, I'm sure I'm going to have links below to your social media and website. What's the next step someone wanted to potentially work with you? I would say, well, yeah, there's always like the classic you can book in a call style thing. But I'm very well, that's very generous. And that's that's great. Yeah. You can definitely book in a call and also just, yeah, feel free to shoot me a message on Instagram or an email. If you just kind of want to get to know me and chat a little bit and ask some questions, I take a very friendly, open approach to to my work. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you so much, Lana. I really enjoy getting to know you and hopefully folks who are watching if you're feeling inspired, connecting with Lana's energy and message. Take a look at the social media and the website below and maybe book in a call with her if it sounds right for you. So thank you for having me.


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What's up guys take down here with another hockey card insert video for you guys today I have a foil card some numbered cards and then a bunch of retro cards that I've all pulled this year 2017 2018 Hope you guys do enjoy the reason I'm doing these as opposed to opening them up and sharing them I'm sharing my actual collection Reason for that is because people just want to see in the inserts a lot of people hate me for sharing all the cards But I just it's my first year of collecting. I wanted to share everything I got next year Hopefully I will change it and I'll share just the inserts my videos But it's gonna be pretty short videos if I'm just opening the pack and just sharing the insert with you guys So that's why I like sharing all the cards also if I comment or if I say names wrong Please comment down below so it will help me learn a lot of people hate me because I Mispronounced names all the time. It's not on purpose. I promise you it is not on purpose It's just I'm really bad with names. Anyways, let's just get right into this video So I got a foil card for Ryan Spooner Opieci 2017 2018. It's not numbered unfortunately But it is a great poll nonetheless. I have a artifacts emeralds variants for Johnny Goodrow Number six out of 99, which is a great poll for me anyways. I have an artifacts Ruby variants for Joel Palvelski, and it is number 173 out of 299 and Now we're just gonna go right into the retro cars starting off with Nikita so Shinet Kov. I started there, but I do apologize Zack praise which I think it's crazy, but I always miss pants it wrong I can never remember the right way of doing it a Brandon Saad Nail Yankov Seven Batrechy Eric Holla Cedric Paquette Anton Slapyshev. I think that one's wrong. It sounds right, but comment down below if it is Max Domi Which is a really great retro card. I do like the player. That's great for my collection. I Recently pulled this one David Becca's retro card for Boston Bruins. I do like this one a lot I don't think I showed you guys the back of them yet. Just a regular back and Then I do have the Marquis rookies for Brandon Lemieux Retro card. I have Blake Coleman Marquis rookie retro and I recently pulled this one Christian Fisher Marquis rookie retro and And last up my favorite retro card that I pulled this year Patrick Kane all-star retro card. I think it is amazing Give you a back view. This one has to be my favorites And then of course the Marquis rookie. I wasn't expecting to get any of them and let alone get three Christian Fisher has to be my favorite one, but I like the other ones nonetheless and then David Becca's and Max Domi are Also in my favorites list just because I think they're great players Comment down below what you think that I have that I just shared if you guys is the best I do like to hear you guys opinion but comment down below also if I mispronounce names wrong I'm not doing it on purpose. I've always had a problem mispronouncing names and a lot of you guys hate me for that I am at least trying my best and that's all I can really say I will leave this video here Hope you guys didn't enjoy and if you did please leave a big thumbs up because it helps me out more than you think Mentally with wanting to do these videos and as always I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace


Hi everyone, it's Vicky here and welcome back to another art journal layout today I'm going to play on my 8x8 disc bound journal This is watercolor paper and I'm going to play with my gel plate The gel plate that I'm using today is by ranger and it's quite large is 9x11 I'm removing the plastic protector from the top, but I'm going to leave the one underneath asses Now I'm going to work on an 8x8 page Which means that it's going to fit nicely on top of my gel plate And I'm going to start applying my acrylic paint for this you can use any type of acrylic paint that you have You will see that I switch from one acrylic brand to another just to show you that it really doesn't matter You're also going to need a brayer Now you can use of course different tools to get some texture before you pull a print such as This one or you can apply your paint with a spatula You can use little silicone tools to draw on your jelly plate Anything works really and if you don't have all these different tools, you can just use the back of a paintbrush It works pretty fine as well Now I'm using my spatula to apply some paint This helps me to control how much paint I apply but at the same time these are actually my acrylic dabbers and I don't have a flip top which makes it not easy for me to apply The paint on top of my gel plate. That's why I used the spatula So I'm going to use the brayer and apply my paint And then I'm going to pull a print Just make sure that they are nicely blended there And I'm not going to cover up completely the whole surface since I'm just going to be working on an 8x8 paper Now depending on the paper that you are working with you will see that you get different results The one I'm using here is watercolor paper and it has a lot of texture Which means that I will not end up with a really flat and really vibrant look Which I absolutely love but for example if you work on Bristol paper, which is really smooth You will see that you get different results Now I'm going to place another page underneath so probably you can see better Where I'm working on and you can see the colors even better now Of course you can use what paint is left on your gel plate to pull even more prints Which is actually something I did but I'm not going to show you every pull I did on this video I'm going to concentrate and show you only the ones that I did while working on this specific project Now I have applied some color only on one area of my plate and I have spread it out with my brayer And now I'm using one of the plastic comps to create some texture in different areas Now of course remember that you can use a plastic comp that you may have at home You can create your very own tools The tools that I have are really fun to use and make your life easy But you can improvise and be creative and use tools that you already have So you can see with this blue color. I'm also adding some border around my page And I'm also going to clean my comp in one area of my project And again, don't forget that you can pull even more prints since you have all the paints and all the tools are already dirty Now I am going to apply some green paint here on another area of my gel plate I'm spreading it out with a brayer and I'm working with a small brayer this time So I am trying to keep my paint concentrated in just one place Now I'm using one of those silicone tools and I'm adding some marks on my paint and again I'm going to play with my comps I really love playing with my acrylic paints on a gel plate because you never know what it's going to look It's so difficult to control and sometimes when it comes to art journaling It's always nice to have some surprise there So I'm working in different areas again adding a little bit of color And I'm going to call this background done when it comes to gel printing And sometimes you get beautiful results on your scrap paper.  You know By now if you are following my art journal videos that I always like to somehow create a frame from my projects It feels more finished to me and I love the look And I also think that when you add the black borders around your project It helps the colors pop even more. Now I'm going to use this large stencil by Darkroom door Which is full of stars absolutely adorable and so versatile And I'm applying some yellow acrylic paint over those stars in different areas I'm going for a Magical background today, and I wanted to create a kind of a sky but stay away flow from The usual blues that I work with so I decided to go with oranges and reds as you see as you can see In the finished project you will see that I will end up having more stars because I went back and added even more With my stencil, but for now I am adding some white splashes. This is white jesso that I have diluted with water This is an acrylic white marker. It's actually the deco marker by Pebeo But there are so many different brands of acrylic markers that you can use such as the Posca ones Or you can use the ranger ones although the ranger ones have a very fine tip So I use them for other purposes Now I want to create little pieces of paper with acrylic paint and for that I'm using a small gel plate I'm working with acrylic paint again mixing a couple of colors. These are yellows and greens and this time I'm working with deco media Acrylic paint so you can see that pretty much anything works on gel plate And The paper that I'm working with now is a crystal paper that is really smooth and you get a really lovely And flat finished look really vibrant If you compare it to the look that I got when I was working with a watercolor paper for my background Now I'm going to create a few of those little backgrounds And I'm planning to do some stamping here and then do my collage. So I'm just preparing my backgrounds Now I'm going to use a couple of blue shades And you don't have to be neat with your brayer.  I'm going to use stamps by stamp and those these are the magical horses And I'm going to stamp a couple of them. I like that these stamp set comes with a stencil I'm not going to use it today But I wanted to show you that you do get the positive and the negative of those horses Hopefully you can see them here Now I'm going to use my stamping platform and I'm going to stamp both my horses at the same time and I'm going to stamp everything with my black archival ink. I do have some repositionable tape at the top of my platform So I don't need to use the magnets which makes my life really easy So I have stamped my image a couple of times just to get a lovely impression And now we'll go ahead and use the next two backgrounds to stamp a couple of wings for each of my horses Now I'm going to use the matching dyes to cut out all my images.  So anyway I am using some foam squares at the back of my wings just to pop them up and The one is stuck at the back of the horse. So I end up having quite a dimension there Now those horses are not stuck down there yet So I decided first to stamp the sentiment to make sure that I have enough space for it And then I'm going to stick the horses down for my sentiment I'm going with make today magical and I'm going to stamp it using a concordant ninth Lovely alphabet stamp set. I'm just stamping a letter by letter And this is a lovely alphabet that I have been using for a long time It's called sophisticated script stamp set and I like it because when you stamp out the letters next to each other They look as if you have a beautiful handwriting I'm using my white glue. This is Nouveau Deluxe to stick my horses down And now I'm going to add some doodling and some extra color on my horses by using my deco markers Again, these are acrylic markers. I am using the ones with a 1.2 Knit, but they come in all different sizes of nibs So I'm just switching from color to color making sure that everything matches nicely on each and every horse And you can go of course as colorful as you like. I like that. This is acrylic paint, which means that it's Going to cover up completely what's underneath And it's going to stand out So you see here I'm using yellow on top of blue and it doesn't turn green It stays yellow and it completely covers up what's underneath lovely and opaque color Now I'm using a fine tip marker to go around my stars just to give them more to help them stand out more and Also notice that I have also added some white highlighting on my letters And I'm going to show you a really easy shadowing technique that you can do I'm using the scribble sticks and I'm going to apply some color around my horses Just only in areas that I need to deepen up the Shadows there and now with a wet paint brush I'm going over that color Which is going to help it spread out and it's going to create those shadows This really helps the horses to stand out against the background I'm not going to do it all around the horse just in the different areas here and there And you can of course do the same thing for the stars if you like I'm just going to do it for the horses in these areas And of course you can't have a magical project without some shine. So I'm using these iridescent stars by Studio Katia by the way, you will find everything linked down below just like always So I've spread out a few of those stars on my background And then I'm going to use my white glue and stick everything down By the way, the white glue is going to dry completely clear So nothing is going to show at the end underneath the stars And here is my finished project Hopefully you can see all the shine and the dimension that I got And all that's left to do is to put it back on my 8x8 disc palm journal And you can see some of the pages that I already made for every one of those pages There is a video available on my youtube channel So that was a project for today. Here are some close-up photos I hope you had fun that you got inspired Don't forget to leave me a comment and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't done so already Thank you all so much and have a lovely day