My name is Wim Hendricks, so I'm from Nokia, so I was supposed to be a computer by John from Google, but unfortunately he couldn't make it, so you have to deal with me. So the talk that I'm going to give, the title is rather extensive, right? But I think there is three important aspects that I believe that are represented in the title that are important. So the first one is collaboration. The second is manifests, and the third is scale in complex organization. So I think these are the three main themes that I'm going to, let's say, talk about and try to get a representation on how we deal with this in a specific example. So because these are concepts which are very generic, right? So I think it's always good to look at a specific example on how we could deal with those. One thing I would say is that the example that I have is Telco because I'm from Nokia, right? There's also people from Ericsson here, so what I want to say is that the example as such, or what you see here as a framework that we are building, it's not specific to this use case, okay? So keep that in mind, right? So there was a talk this morning at 11 o'clock for someone who was talking about how to deal with large YAML manifests in an organization. You see that the approach that we are taking is actually also applicable in such an environment, right? So keep that in mind, right? So we use Telco as a use case, but it's not limited to it, okay? Now, how many in the room are from the Telco space? So quite a bit, okay? Thank you. So half of the room somehow. There are a bunch of acronyms here, which probably for the rest of the people doesn't mean anything, right? So when I talk about UPF or as an AMF, think about as an app, and I'm looking at it as a network function, right? So that's how we call it. So it's a network function, it's an app, and when we talk about manifests, we talk about the manifest to deploy or configure such an app, right? So just to give you that perspective, why did I put this example here? First of all, it's what our main business is about, but secondly, there are two important things that you see here. It's one is scale. If you look to the numbers at the bottom, right? You see here on the, let's say, right-hand side, 100,000 plus sites, right? So all of these things are being developed more and more in cloud-native way. So that means that they are leveraging Kubernetes, so they will be deployed on a Kubernetes environment in a cloud-native stack. And as such, that gives a certain set of, let's say, complexities that we have to deal with, right? The second thing that you see with these workloads is they have quite some interdependencies. So you see here the, let's say, the lines in between those network functions, so they have dependencies between each other. So if you want to deploy them or if you want to operate them, you have to somehow deal with those relationships and dependencies, right? And that, of course, given this large scale gives a set of interesting attributes and we are trying to address and develop an approach that deals with that. Now, before I go into more of the solution or the approach that we are taking, I want to give you also a little bit of context, right? Why that organizational part that I put into the title is important, right? Because if you deal with this environment, you see that you have lots of relationship and dependencies, right? And it's not like, hey, I have here an application and I have all the freedom and I can do whatever I want and I deploy it. That's not what typically happens in the real world. We have people who are infrastructure people. We have people who are application. We have DB people, storage people and so on and so forth. Various roles inside an organization that deal with the particular problem space that we try to represent. Now, in particular, when we talk about the network function, so you have to keep in mind that we used to develop this as a hardware black box system, right? As a vendor. So that has been our main business. Now, with all the things that are happening in cloud native, you see that we are decoupling that and we are making it truly cloud native runs on Kubernetes and so on and so forth. But the culture that we have inside this means we had full control over everything, right? And we are going into a world where the amount of control that we have is lesser and lesser, right? We should only take care of the app, but the surrounding environment on which this is deployed is less and less under our control, right? Now, that also means that we have to, that's a journey as a vendor, right? That you have to go through and understand how to do so. And that's also why those relationships and roles in this whole deployment and orchestration, if you will, are very important. Because what we used to do is we said, OK, we do cloud native, but we said, OK, this is the infrastructure on which this can be deployed and you have no choice. So probably if you are people who are living in the true cloud native world, they will say, OK, that's not cloud native, right? So as such what you see, it's important to get a set of, define an environment on which those relationships and those dependencies, let's say, disappear and are decoupled. You can still say, I want a set of requirements, for example, how to deploy it, NUMA, Azure Iov and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But you don't want to be 100% in control. It's actually the infrastructure people that take care that that will happen, right? So decoupling is going to be important. The second or the third thing that is also very important that led us to the approach is that I built this thing of a house, right? So think of, for example, in this context, we have network, compute and storage, right? Each of that house is represented like that. Why I believe that Kubernetes is so successful is they gave you a plug-in to make it extensible, right? And there is various vendors on CNIs. There is several vendors on storage and compute and stuff like that that could do their own thing. But they all were given an environment on which they could operate independently, right? If you look back on how we in the telco or as a vendor were operating, we want to be in full control of that house, right? So rather than saying, here you can develop your app or put your app, we want to also define all the surroundings around it, right? So the reason I came or I'm talking about this is like four or five years ago, I started to onboard our applications on a public cloud environment, and I said, this is a challenge. And I started to, inside of Nokia, I say, okay, we have to change the approach that we are taking. It's not working very well. We have too much dependencies and so on and so forth. And so I started the journey to say, okay, we have to move more and more native to inside of a Kubernetes environment and focus on the app, but the surroundings, we have to define in such a way that they are true cloud native. And we don't have to define the surroundings. We just have to be able to deploy it or get deployed or get operationalized in that environment that someone else has defined for us, right? And that led to the following is that we, in parallel to us, Google started an open source initiative which is called Nephio. And I don't know who in the room has heard about Nephio before. Nobody, very few. So like 10, 20 people. So Nephio is a project in the Linux, so LFN, so in Linux Foundation, on which we are developing this, right? So Google has pioneered that, but there was people from Ericsson, Nokia, several service providers who together where we are defining that architecture. Now, what is the goal of Nephio is basically, as represented here on to the slide, is use Kubernetes as that unified layer and make sure that we can automate all our elements in that environment. So rather than having our own house and so on and so forth, we want to use a unified Kubernetes layer on which those systems are built, right? And so, of course, this is a huge problem space, right? And so we divided that into three categories, right? Because to get a bit of context. So first category is what we call infrastructure, right? This developing or deploying clusters, right? Now, just to be clear, we are not going to come up with a new cluster API system. We are just using it, right? Because we have to understand which clusters are there, and we potentially have to instantiate the cluster, right? But we are not going to take care of how to do it. We are just going to drive that, and we are going to use the tools that are available, right? The second pillar is we have the network functions, right? That has to be deployed on a certain infrastructure, and we have to deal with that, right? And there's the third pillar, which is the configuration of those network functions, right? Now, third pillar is a bit interesting, because if you look at the PetForce's Kettle approach, right? So what is actually the configuration management is that you have an existing, let's say, container running, and you want to change the configuration of it while running, right? So you can have two approaches. You could say, hey, I deploy a new one, right? So like a Kettle, so you basically throw it away, deploy a new one, and you're fine. Or you could say, no, I want to have granular control and have the ability to change certain configuration parameters during the lifecycle of the operation of that thing, right? And depending on the environment, you have different approaches. But what you also have to bear in mind is that with this automation framework, we don't want to be limited to purely cloud-native application. So we also want to control, for example, physical network elements. So we don't want to limit ourselves to that. And of course, when you go to a physical network element, like a top-of-rack switch or a device that is running into your network, you probably cannot just kill it and get rid of it and deploy a new one, right? So depending on the environment that you have, you can either use either approach. And as such, we believe that configuration management is also a consideration that we have to take into account. At the moment in FEO, we are focused mainly on the first two pillars, right? But also the interdependencies between the pillars, right? So in other words, if I have a network function X and it has a set of requirements on the infra, we want to do that in a way that we can do that at scale. And secondly, that we can do that in a way that we have some organization boundaries that we take into account, okay? So high-level goal that we have in FEO is, first of all, it should be intent-driven, right? So focus on the what, not on the how, okay? Secondly, if you look to the scale, we want to do that in a very scalable and distributed way. So we have central control, but then once you have defined what you want, you want the actual workloads to be independent operating. But if you see that there has to be some changes, you have the ability to interfere with that. And then thirdly, we want to do that in a uniform way and try to have some guardrails around the changes that are happening in order to ensure that what you deploy is actually going to be right, right? So sometimes we call that shift left, so we try to give you more and more tools to upfront try to validate what you are going to put on the runtime environment, right? So that's part of the collaboration part as well. So these are the three main pillars. Now to give you a bit more, because so far this was probably a little bit fluffy, so I'm trying to give you an analogy on how you should, let's say, look at the example that I'm trying to give, right? We all know probably Kubernetes on how it works. So we have clusters, we have nodes, and we schedule pods, right? All good. If you look to the approach that we have in nephew, for us the unit on which we schedule is a cluster, okay? We deploy network functions, so it's apps, and when we talk about the manifest, it's the apps related to that, the manifest related to that app. And then thirdly, I mean, people know when you schedule a pod on a Kubernetes, you can use daemon set, you can use deployment, you can use stateful set, so you have various mechanisms to deploy it. We have a similar approach which we call package variant set, right? But so you can basically say, okay, I want to have this network function running on this set of nodes with these characteristics and so on so forth, right? So you see, there is a lot of analogy in how we are operating. Secondly, the use case that I'm saying it's edge clouds and so on so forth, you can see that in IoT or in other environments, it's a similar type of thing that you need. You sometimes need to have the same thing deployed on various environments, right? That controller that you have here that does that fan out, if you will, or that scheduling is not contained to network functions. I could deploy a set of manifest that do something, right? So the same controller does that. We want to make also generic building blocks that are reusable for multiple use cases because it's not, if you do specific things, you have the problem space that we are trying to address in Nefio is huge, so we have to build these reusable components, which is something probably I will repeat a few times. Now, so this is a bit high level what we want to do, so I'm trying to go into how we approach that, right? So first of all, we are a heavy consumer of KRM, and we are 100% consumer of KRM, so we love the KRM model that Kubernetes came up with, and we believe that it's very important to standardize that whole automation system on that, okay? So why is that? Because the schema is well known, we have standard metadata tools, and so you can build very generic code on that KRM without understanding necessarily the full integrity details on what those things do, okay? So that's one. The second thing that we did or that we are using is we are using a concept called configuration as data. I don't know how many people have heard about this before. I'm expecting very few, okay? So it's a new approach, and by the way, if you scan this QR code, so this is giving you a link to a website which has a lot of information around that. But the approach is a little bit different than what we have done so far. First of all, we defined the configuration artifacts, so we built a concept like a package. So a package consists of a bunch of, let's say, KRM files, YAML, in the normal case, and that can be anything. And that package is just a list of YAML representation that together does something. In our case, it's deploying network functions potentially or in the example I'm explaining, but it could be anything, right? On that YAML or that package is version controlled. So you have a version backend on which that package is living, and so any change is version controlled, right? So any change that we do, you know exactly when it happened, who did it, and that goes into the collaboration approach.  So you could mutate.  You have a function to say, change the namespace from A to B, right? Or a function, so you have these functions are, first of all, there is a standard set of functions that are developed and already available, but we can develop those functions based on your needs and that's what we are doing inside of nephew so far. Now, what is nice about the approach is that we have a full trail while you do changes and while you clone those packages towards your needs. So for example, you'll see in a bit that we will fend this out towards various environments. You get a trail towards the source. That means that from the moment you do a change in one of your blueprints that you have defined, you can still trickle it back down all the way to the end where it was, for example, deployed. So that means that you never lose track of a trail of the origin and at any point in time you can do a change and it follows through all the way, which in my view is something that so far has not been accomplished and I think it's a very nice attribute because that means that if you deploy or you define what I call a blueprint design and you're going to use one for dev, prods, or so on and so forth, you have that same set of capabilities. If sometime the blueprint changes, you can still do the updates and understand where it was deployed, who is using what and so on and so forth. So that's a very nice attribute and the other thing is that those functions could be instantiated using containers and then the new hotness, which is WebAssembly. So they are very tiny, extensible, and you can basically execute as you will. Now, of course, in order to make this work, there's one important thing is they have to be idempotent. So you have to write them in a way that they are idempotent because otherwise, depending on if you get different result based on different environment, that's one thing. But the nice thing is they are very tiny and they are very extensible. So you can use them in the context as you wish. Now, to give you a bit of context on Nefio, right, and so this is the architecture that we are, let's say, adopting. So you have here on the, let's say, on the left-hand side, I believe, we have a management cluster on which a bunch of, let's say, controllers or functions. So we have the choice to use controllers and functions. They are going to do a number of things on a package. So the package is our unit that we operate upon.  So that could be mutating. We could do validating. And we can do generation of new KRM resources that we need. And I'll have an example in a bit that hopefully clarifies a little bit better of what I mean, okay? Of course, that management cluster has a good backend. So in order to ensure that we can do collaboration, that you have multiple organizations be able to act upon that package in a way that their responsibilities are set to perform a certain task within their organization, right? And then we have a set of workload clusters that are going to be the ones where the actual app, in our case, or in this example, a network function, is going to be deployed upon and is going to run, which we call the run time, right? Now, we have a layer in between. So people, when they look at the system, they say, okay, you're doing, let's say we are doing GitOps. Yes, we are doing GitOps. But so far, when people talk about Argo and Flux and stuff like that, it's simply I get a set of YAML files and I synchronize them onto the cluster, right? That happens at the lowest layer, right? Where you see that we are using configuration as data is all the way from the deployment side where potentially you run, so we are using at the moment config sync, but you could use Argo or Flux. So all the way from this guy where you start the, let's say the intent, the whole engine, all the way here, we are using configuration as data to do that manipulation and version control in that scale out way with that link back to the source always to understand from what the origin is, right? And if you look here, I try to conceptually give you what is happening on that management cluster before you get deployed. So we have something what we call a blueprint package which is a set of manifests, so YAML, that someone defined. So in our case, it is a set of artifacts for a network function in the example that I'm explaining. And what happens then typically is you need, you need to put that onto a cluster, right? So that could be one, but that can also be thousands, right? So we have what we call a fan out aspect. So it's the same package that we take, we clone it for that particular environment and we add, so what we call injection, we add some context where that package and what is the context in which it operates. So that could also be prod, for example, Dev and prod. So that could, anything that you can imagine, the use case that I have is really the scaled out edge deployment. So now that same package is cloned towards a specific, let's call it instance on where they should run, right? But of course, if you say I want to run on a specific cluster, you still need a set of attributes that are aligned with that environment. And that's what we call specialization. So specialization is, for example, I need an IP address of which is aligned with that subnet provision on that side, or I need a VLAN, or I need another context that is specific to that environment. So during specialization, we again change the content of that package based on the, let's say, functions and controllers that handle that, right? So what you see now, you have this nice orchestrated system that at some point is going to result in something that you can deploy at runtime. During this step, when you have done this whole hydration, as we call it, you have an artifact that you can control, so you can run it through a CI pipeline, you can do some validation upon, you can see what is the changes that you have from version 1 to version B. So we have full control over what are the changes that you are going to apply to the cluster in order to avoid any problems while you are deploying, right? That doesn't mean that nothing will, that everything will be nice, but so we are trying to limit things that get deployed and give you the controls to be able to handle that, right? Now, just to give you an example, and maybe I'm not sure whether the example is very good, but what I try to represent here is to give you a bit of context on how this works. On the left-hand side, we have this blueprint package. As I said, any YAML or any KRM resource that you can think of, you can put in there. One important thing that I did not say so far is that not all of these KRM resources have to be applied to the API server, right? Because think of it, right? If we have 100,000 sites and we need, let's say, five IPs, we have half a million entries in the API server, right? So we also have a way to offload certain things because sometimes that IP address that you need, you don't necessarily need to put on the API server. It's an intermediate resource that gets scheduled in order to get to the final result, you see? So we also have a way to offload whatever is put in the API server, but you will see in a bit, we have a mechanism to give you the same philosophy that is happening on a controller to act upon that. So that's the other important aspect that you have to remember is that the content of a package, you have control over what you apply to the API server of Kubernetes and which pieces you don't, okay? And that allows, again, for scale, right? But you do not lose a number of things by doing so, okay? The second piece that is here is, and that's, by the way, also part of the package, it's a kept file. So we use kept and porch, which is the configuration as data. So what is in that kept file is the pipeline of which functions and which controllers you actually use in order to do that specialization, okay? And then once that pipeline has run, you typically get, all right, you still have this manifest on how it started, but you can have new resources, KRM, that that whole specialization phase results in, right? So for example, here, the use case is new network attachment definition because we are using multis and so on and so forth. But again, think of this as a very generic approach. It can be, it go from A to Z, or it can mutate A with a little bit of mutation to A prime and so on and so forth. So any mutation and permutation is possible, okay? Now, what is important, I think is also the approach to do that specialization because I think one thing that I like so much about Kubernetes is the, what I call the loosely coupled framework. So you have a bunch of independent actors, right? That together achieve a certain goal, right? Would that not be great if we have the same thing that can act on that package that does that specialization, right? And that's what I call or what we call the conditional dense or the conditional choreography. So you have a set of independent actors. What are actors? They are either functions or controller. So you have the choice what you pick, right? But together they achieve a certain result, right? Now, why is this so nice? I think if you look to when you schedule a pot on a Kubernetes cluster, you have actually the same dense. It's not explained in this way, but you have someone you need to see an eye, right? So someone will take care of that. I need storage. Someone will take care about that. You just see that that pot gets scheduled and if something didn't work, you will see in the status why, right? The same philosophy is sitting behind this, right? But we are applying it through the automation layer, right? And what that helps us to do is have these independent actors that together achieve a goal, right?  It's a very nice way to have independent actor act upon that KRM package that you saw and then mutate it, do all of these specialization and do that in a very independent way that if you say, okay, we changed one of these parameters, we can do that independently, okay? Also, what you see here on the slide is that you see this VLAN backend, IPAM backend. You can even do calls outside of the package, right? So it's not limited or constrained to KRM that is located. So you can even call out through an API system to say, hey, I want to reach out to an IPAM system or anything that you can imagine to actually get information about something, right? So it's not constrained to the functions or KRM that lives into the package. It can actually reach out to the outside world, okay? Now, I talked about organizational complexities, right? So I didn't go so much into the details so far, but of course that whole system has to be built in such a way that people who are responsible for infra and people that are responsible for network functions or other roles that you have. You have security people and so on and so forth can all do that in harmony, right? And as such, we have this concept of a consumer provider so there is a clear delineation of who... So for example, the network function people want to have certain constraints to the infra and you have a consumer provider relationship, right? You see that the CRDs or the KRM that we have in that package have a clear role of who owns that and who acts upon that, right? So you could have a consumer that says I want an IP and then the provider who is owned by the infra people actuate that, right? And then we have this loosely coupled and this extendability framework that allows to add vendor extensions and so on and so forth because we did what... So the other nice attribute of that package is you can extend it with whatever KRM you want. So if you say that your vendor has these specific attributes you just basically say put the vendor KRM inside of that package and have a function that acts upon it and you're good to go, right? So that's the other, I think, nice thing or property of that package is that it's not contained to a certain CRD. You can put any resource in that, okay? Now, probably we don't have a lot of time but what I wanted to do, so this is a very busy slide but what I wanted to do is in nephew rather than building... Okay, we are using the telco use case as an environment but we are building these generic frameworks that help achieve those roles. So what do we have? We act on KRM, we use packages, we use configuration as data, we use this fan out controller so we use this conditional dance and so on and so forth. So we are building a set of generic capabilities that I believe are applicable in various other domains, right? And I would love to talk to people to see how that would be applicable and try to see what their feedback is on that. So with that, I would like to thank you all for listening. We are doing all of this in open source, by the way. So everything that I talked about is open. It's part of the Eleven, so Linux foundation. Here are a bunch of links on how to follow and figure out what and what is going on. And with that, I would like to thank you and open it for questions. I don't know whether you have time for questions or not or... No? Yes. I think there is a mic.  The question is, do we run a KPT in the cluster? So in the management cluster, I did not explain that. So KPT has a set of attributes. So there is... Porch is a component of the configuration as data. So Porch is the backend that runs inside of the management cluster. And that has a component of the configuration as data. Inside of the management cluster, and that has a Git backend. So that's the thing that we're using. So if you look to the management cluster specialization and all the fanouts that interacts with the Porch API, which is a Kubernetes API, that we are talking to in order to then do all the changes to the backend and to Git and to get this version control and so on and so forth. So there is a component of KPT which is called Porch that is doing that.


Are you the Saint-Peternal victim? Do you find yourself, repeatedly, unwillingly, in situations where you are being abused, disrespected, obstructed, or at best shunned and ostracized? Why is that? There's a single, simple step you can take to prevent this from happening again. And this is the topic of today's Uplifting Video. My name is Sam Vaknin, and I'm the author of Malignal Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited, a former visiting professor of psychology and currently of the faculty of CIAPS. So before we go to the video's topic, I would like to clear a few of your quandaries and queries. Number one, many of you have written to me to tell me that I'm wrong. Of course, no one writes to me to tell me that I'm right. Many have written to tell me that I'm wrong and that narcissists and psychopaths are capable of morality, self-serving morality, but all the same. And they deploy this morality, sometimes ostentatious morality, in order to accomplish their goals. Narcissistic supply in the case of the narcissist, manipulation, gaslighting, and other features or strategies of the psychopath, goal orientation determines the narcissist and psychopaths' morality. Can I use the word know when I said in my video yesterday that the narcissists and psychopaths are incapable of knowing morality, they are incapable of moral reasoning, and they are definitely incapable of moral behavior? I didn't mean it in the cognitive sense. There are many narcissists and psychopaths who are judges and lawyers. And of course they realize the connection between actions and consequences, and of course they are aware of the various systems of morality in West and East. That's all I'm saying. Knowing in psychology has a different meaning to the colloquial use of the word knowing. Knowing in psychology requires internalizing the knowledge, reacting to the knowledge emotionally. The narcissists and psychopaths are unable to realize the causality, the connection between their choices, misdeeds, misbehavior, and misconduct, and the untoward deleterious outcomes. And it's not because they don't know cognitively that actions lead to outcomes.  It's because they haven't internalized it. They don't really believe in it. They feel immune to the consequences of their actions. It's as if this causal chain, this chain of cause and effect applies to other people, to everyone else. But the narcissists and psychopaths are exempt. They're above the law. They're immune to the consequences of their actions. They don't feel. They don't emote. They don't feel that they're deserving of punishment. They have no concept of dessert as it applies to themselves.  They know well what punishment to expect if they get caught. It's just they don't believe they will get caught. And if they do get caught, they believe they'll get away with it. And they feel utterly immune, utterly oblivious to the consequences of their actions. In their world, in their fantasy worlds, actions don't carry, don't lead to adverse outcomes because they are godlike. They are omnipotent. They're omniscient. They're above human laws and mortal regulations and mores. Got it? Okay, next. People ask me, is a psychopath capable of love? And I answered yes. The narcissist is incapable of love. Narcissists are incapable of accessing positive emotions. They have these emotions. Narcissists have these emotions, these positive emotions. These positive emotions are trapped in an underground chamber. The narcissist doesn't allow himself to access these emotions because this would bring up many additional negative, overwhelming, life-threatening emotions like shame. So narcissists do not tap into the positive strand or the positive seam of emotions that they do have. Consequently, narcissists don't do love. They don't do anything positive. Narcissists have only negative affectivity, envy, rage, hatred and so on. Psychopaths are capable of what they call love. There's a lot of mislabelling. Many narcissists wouldn't cease that they are capable of loving and are in love and have loved. But this is, of course, fantasy. It's a figment of the shared fantasy. Similarly, psychopaths. The psychopath's love is a euphemism for possession. Possessing someone is a psychopath's way of loving. It is limited only to select members of the psychopath's in-group. However, the narcissist is incapable even of this limited version of psychopathic love.  So now to today's topic. You constantly find yourself in environments, in situations and with people, poisonous toxic people, other people, and they keep abusing you. They keep disrespecting you and your wishes. They keep breaching your boundaries. They keep obstructing your goals. They keep ostracizing and shunning you. They keep mocking and ridiculing you. Why is that?  Dignity is never about winning. Dignity is about fighting for what you believe in. If you are out there competitive, ambitious, out to win at all costs, this is going to antagonize many people. And you're going to create a lot of bad blood and ill will.  So the first rule is fight for what you believe in regardless of the expected outcomes, even if you know for sure that you're going to lose. Your dignity and self-respect rely on this. But why would you need to cultivate and nurture your dignity and self-respect? Why is this important? Because of the information asymmetry you know about yourself, much more than anyone else will know about you. There is an information asymmetry here.  People pick up cues from you. This is social learning theory, modeling.  They form an opinion based on the information that you provide them. Almost 100%, by the way. So they absorb this information that you transmit and emit and broadcast. And around this information, around this core, they form an opinion about you.  People follow your transmissions blindly and uncritically.   Be very careful about the way you treat yourself because people are looking. People are observing their spectators and audiences all around.  You know the golden rule? Treat others as you would like them to treat you. Well, there's a compliment to the golden rule. Treat yourself as you would like others to treat you. If you disrespect yourself, people will disrespect you, everyone almost. If you hate yourself, you will be universally hated. If you constantly self-defeat, self-sabotage, self-obstruct, self-trash, self-destruct, everyone will collude with you and collaborate with you in your own downfall that will push you over the cliff, over the edge, and watch you tumbling down to your death. Because that's what you want. Because that's your transmission.  If you seek pain, people will give it to you. If you're self-destructive, people will gleefully ruin you. And all this time, people will feel egocintonic, they will feel comfortable and good with themselves. Because after all, they're just helping you to fulfill your wishes, to realize your fantasies and to self-actualize. If you consider yourself unattractive, unworthy, inadequate, unlovable, so would everybody else. After all, you must know something about yourself that they don't, information asymmetry. If you keep telling people, I'm a monster, I cannot be trusted, I'm a liar, avoid me, stay away from me, I'm dangerous, they're bound to believe you, period.  This is the base-rate fallacy. People believe 90% of what they are told uncritically. They don't bother to check, there's no time, there's no time to go into an elaborate research project as to who you are. You say you are something? Why not believe you? Definitely if you're saying negative things about yourself. If you cast yourself in a negative light, why not believe you? This is why, for example, in the legal system, a confession is absolute proof, because why would anyone confess to a crime if he hadn't committed it? If you broadcast guilt, you are guilty. If you wallow in shame and self-pity, people will give you good reasons to do so. They will shame you.  They will deny you basic needs, emotional and physical, so that you have an excellent reason to feel disgraced and ashamed and self-pityous.  Failing constantly is an accomplishment. Your only skill is to fail. Your only success is at failing. Many people will set you up for failure and for defeat, because that's what you seek, that's what you want, that's what you're proud of.  So all these victims online who brag about how bad their relationships have been and so on, they attract the wrong kind of people. They attract the kind of people who will keep them, maintain them in a victimhood status for life. And yes, I'm talking about the overwhelming vast majority of self-styled experts on YouTube.  Now that's politically incorrect and probably is going to reduce the viewership and probably going to be shadow banned by YouTube for saying this, but the overwhelming extensive vast majority of people are brain dead, dumb as rocks, and I've just insulted many rocks. People are chimpanzees. You can convince people of the most outlandish and counterfactual claims about yourself. Be careful what you say about yourself. Be careful what rumors you're spreading about yourself. Be careful with your observable conduct. Be careful when you're depressed and anxious and down or under the influence of substances. Be careful because people pick up on these transmissions. People are watching you the same way they are watching the internet or television.  Be careful when you make claims about yourself for better or for worse. If you yourself believe in these claims, if you passionately insist on the veracity of these claims, so will everyone else. Don't get people to like you by pleasing them.  Affiliation, belonging is overrated.   The only way to turn your life around is to treat yourself the way you want others to treat you. That's the complement of the golden rule, the mirror image of the golden rule. Don't worry, people will pick up on your new transmissions and they will follow your lead. Ultimately people seek to please and to conform. So never mind how bad it has been until now, you can turn this train around just by making new claims about yourself, by vociferously protesting the previous version, by becoming someone else and letting everyone know about it. And lo and behold, miraculously you will have become that someone else and people will start to respect you, they will never abuse you, they will seek your company and they will help you reach your goals. It's entirely 100% up to you. So get to work.


What's up Summers, so it is my firm belief that every person who matters on the internet that includes you Should have their own personal website Now why do I say that in the past couple years actually? 2018 was probably the worst year ever for the internet in fact It's been getting worse and worse with every passing year And it's been getting worse because of these things called social media sites now. I've talked about upcoming before I've talked about the psychological effects of social media sites But I'm not talking about that here what I mean by that is actually let me Nostalgia is for a second you zoomers might not remember it But back back in the old days of the internet the internet was truly a magical place Anyone could just put whatever on it. They still can but nowadays the internet is dominated by these huge sites And everyone goes to them but in in the past This is this is something beautiful that many of you guys don't remember back in I don't know the 90s mid early 90s something like that All sites were sort of equal. There was no Twitter. There was no Facebook, of course And every you know each HTML page which all had horrible formatting. They were all something special They were all full of folklore and magic and gifts of flying UFOs and all this kind of stuff and Anyone you know there was a kind of equal footing there was a kind of I don't like the word democracy I'm not a big fan of that stuff But there was a kind of democratic aspect of the internet back then And you know you put everything in the proper perspective.  They have all these people who are talking in straight faces And really it's just a psychological trick to say things matter-of-factly so you believe them That is what the internet is like nowadays nowadays. We have fact-checkers Fact-checkers Twitter will tell you what is right by putting up what story you're supposed to believe in the trending area Facebook does the same thing all these social media sites now these social media sites exist for a reason They didn't I mean it's not just an error. They exist. They did something provided something good. Sorry I'm like walking on a log. I apologize if I fall The social media sites did provide something good that is the internet per se is a little difficult to use It's it can be a sort of hard process to set up a Email server a web server an IRC server I don't know maybe even an RSS feed things like this So social media sites make that process easy and that's what they did at the At the beginning, you know if you don't want to if you don't want to make you run website Hey come to my space. We will create a page for you that you can customize and weirdly enough Well, you've actually since my my space used to be very customizable nowadays. You have Facebook No, you can't really customize anything, but um, you know there what social media sites provided it Is they made the process of making a website even though it wasn't really yours easier? Now what has happened of course is that now that all of the eggs are in that one basket? Um You suddenly realize oh social media sites can go bad they can do bad things they can use the Extreme amounts of power in bad ways and that was especially that's been especially evident in the past couple years because you know Especially in 2016 people realize oh me magic is real like the internet can affect real life They can actually It can actually become a threat to the powers that be so the powers that be have to do something about it They have to make the internet like network news They have to use social media sites not just to give people platforms But also to decide who gets to be a real person and who isn't if Facebook if all these services are using Facebook and Facebook now Has a kind of officiality to it well We can now keep you from existing by banning you from Facebook now of course I guess I don't exist because I don't have a Facebook I never really had actually I did for a brief period someone made me one, but I deleted it But they're You know now that people think in the these narrow terms of specific websites It sort of causes a lot of trouble for the internet now again as I said I think that all people the ideal for the internet is for every person who has something to say should have their own Website that's why in a couple weeks maybe in a couple days I'm gonna be doing a series on how to set up your own web server server and all the stuff You need to know if you don't know anything about starting up a website. I'm gonna Do a series on it so But of course there are resources out there now what one of the problems again social media sites made this kind of process easy Or it's not it's not really a process because you know you're not actually getting a website out of it But social media sites made that stuff easy and I think in order to go forward Oh, let's put it this way a lot of people ask me about alternate social media sites What do I think about I don't know mastodon? What do I think about? I don't know there's some Facebook alternate I don't know all these alternative sites and for me the alternative site is just the internet the internet has a Chat protocol it has you know email messaging messaging protocol. It has RSS feeds It has all the things that social media sites have it's just an issue of making it accessible to people and making it So, you know normal people can actually use it That to me is the problem So for me, I am not in the mood to rely on a social media platform I'm not gonna rely on their consent to exist on the internet. It's just not gonna happen. I'm not I don't even bother I mean YouTube is the closest thing I come to and every day I think about what am I gonna do when I'm banned from YouTube That's that's just the thought that basically everyone has to think about nowadays because you never know Where the strikes are gonna be coming from you know So anyway, that's pretty much all I had to say again the internet it's not supposed to be the way it is There's a magic to a decentralized what internet where everyone has their own crappy sites and people are less reliant on these big ones So that is what I encourage you to do invest in creating your own website invest in having your own independent existence on the internet and You will not have to worry about all this stuff Continually happening because although they can oh they can you know do this or that they can try and get your registrar to You know get rid of you But when it comes down to it people who get banned on these sites who have no who just have a Twitter I just one example. So a couple years ago Milo, you remember that guy Milo got banned from Twitter And he didn't have anything besides a Twitter. So when he got banned from Twitter, he basically stopped existing Okay, his life was over Compare that to recently Alex Jones was banned Alex Jones He had his own site that he had curated for decades He had all the infrastructure worked out and although Alex Jones took a big hit when he was banned He still exists people still consume his content It's probably less than when he was on YouTube, but he still exists So you can be a peer-reviewed spy relearn and say oh they're gonna come for me eventually No, well, that's not an excuse for at least having contingencies. So start your own website Start your own independent web existence and I'll help you with my coming series or you can just look for another series online But anyway, that's all I had to say in this this video. I'll see you guys next time


Today, let's learn how to design an email template in Gmail using Google Add-ons. Rod here, and welcome to Burn to Learn. These add-ons are third-party apps that provide additional features to customize your design. Great, let's do it! Once in your Gmail account, go to the upper right section and click on Settings. Within Settings, click on the Advanced section here on the right. Here you'll find canned responses. Just enable this option and don't forget to save. Okay, now let's take a look at add-ons' functionalities. In the top right corner, click on the Settings option, and there you'll find Get Add-ons. Another way to find this option is on the right side. Here you'll see a vertical menu, so click on the plus icon and there it is. In either case, a list like this will open. Here, there's an interesting add-on called Be Template. Click on this app and a pop-up window will open with an overview of this app. Just click on Install. Now in the vertical menu, click on the new icon that just appeared. In order for the app to kick in, you'll need to open an email in your inbox. So just open whichever you'd like. Again on the vertical menu, after clicking on the app's icon, you'll see a list of templates you can choose from to create or compose a new email. For example, I choose Educational. Let's edit this template. Start with the logo on the left and select the logo on your computer and drag and drop. In my case, the image is too big, so I'll resize it. If you click on the social media logos on the right, you can change or remove the links. Now let's change the template body. In order for the text to be centered, press Enter after the title, in this case, after emails. If you want to insert your own image, do the same and just drag and drop the image from your computer. You can also edit the text within the button and add a link. Now as final step, to save your template, go to the lower right corner, click on the three dots for more options and select canned responses. Then on save draft as template and then save as a new template. Give a name to your response. In my case, it's email marketing. Save it, send it, and you got it. Now whenever you want to compose a new email and use this template, go back to the three dots in the corner and there it is, ready to use. Now we know how to design an email in Gmail. In the next part of this series, we'll take a look at how to design an email in MailChimp. Thanks for watching. Also join the inner circle, our Technical Skills Learning Accelerator.


Ladies and gentlemen, Friedrich Nietzsche lived during the times of Bismarck, the originator of the modern welfare state, and Nietzsche was a very sharp-eyed and clairvoyant thinker with great power of imagination. His serious illness, he had syphilis, which already broke out in his 20s, raised his sensitivity. Also, Nietzsche was a good observer and listener, always traveling and in correspondence with remarkable contemporaries. As a philologist, he knew the history of Europe from the very beginnings, and he was a philosopher more even a poet, certainly one of the most important ones in German culture. All these talents and skills made him a kind of seismograph, adjusted to apprehends the finest nuances, shades and other tones. In many ways, Nietzsche was a kind of prophet, and he, who fell into mental derangement in the year 1890 and died in 1900, foresaw the big issues and problems of the 20th and 21st century. He predicted them as clearly as no one else did in his time. The 20th centuries that Nietzsche will bring gigantic wars, ones which the human race has never seen before, quote, the battle for earth sovereignty, the compulsion to big politics, quote. And then, after the great slaughter in the 21st century, nihilism will overcome mankind and the great tiredness, which will make the people tame, defenseless and turn them into dumb house pets. This nihilism which Nietzsche considers as a direct consequence of democracy and the modern state is, quote, unleashing of lazinesses, tirednesses and will rise up to interoperability at the end of the 21st century and finally will bring the reevaluation of our values. This reevaluation that Nietzsche will be carried out by an aristocracy of mind, which will be an example for the rest of the human race. Nietzsche, who described this evolution in the 70s and 80s of the 19th century, was aware that he himself was a child of these end times, however a child that was ahead of his times. He saw it as his task by way of trial to philosophically anticipate the reevaluation of our values. Nietzsche saw himself as a philosopher of the end times and he thought that philosophy, especially in the times of decadence, has the opportunity to show profoundness and shine a light into the future, quote. Insofar as the slavery of public opinions increases and freedom is endangered, philosophy can increase its dignity. These are the times when ethics stops having a common place, quote. These lines remind a lot of Hegel's famous saying, which although formulated practically claims something very similar. He wrote, Real of Minerva starts its flight at dawn. Not until dawn the awe of wisdom engages in its occupation. Not until it gets dark, its strong eyes are capable of seeing the world. The question of this talk, if one can freely Nietzsche from a present day perspective a right wing anarchist in Mises Rothbard tradition, then indeed there's a lot that speaks for a yes, but also a lot that speaks for a no. What speaks for a yes is the fact that Nietzsche radically rejects the state. The state, he writes, was never interested in truth, but only interested in the useful truth. More precisely, generally in everything useful, be it truth, half truth or fallacy. An alliance between the state and philosophy only makes sense if, by all means, philosophy promises to be useful to the state, which means that the well-being of the state is to be rated higher than the truth. For Nietzsche it is clear that a philosopher who thinks something of himself has to find himself in opposition to the state. And surely no one that has a mind and is capable of reason should waste his talents by working for a state. He wrote, quote, as little state as possible. No political and economic conditions are worth it that especially the most talented minds should concern themselves with it. Such a waste of minds is fundamentally worse than an emergency. They are and stay the working places for lower minds. And others in the lower minds should not stand in service to these workshops. Nietzsche thinks it's a rumor that the state, in exchange for one service, produces general security. Quote, for that price one pays way too much for general security. And the funny thing about it is that one actually brings forth the other side of general security. The modern state Nietzsche writes in the surviving papers of his literary remains makes every one of us irresponsible and forces us to unnatural behavior.  But the tremendous machine of the state overwhelms the individual so that he rejects the responsibility for that what he does. Everything that a man does in service to the state goes against his nature. Just like everything that he learns in respect to his future service in the state goes against his nature. Only individuals writes Nietzsche feel responsible. The multitudes are invented in order to do things that an individual would never have the courage to. When Nietzsche rejects the states and its institutions, it doesn't only mean the rejection of democracy and socialism, but he equally rejects nationalism and militarism as an all egalitarian phenomenon which were made possible only through the rise of the modern state. Nietzsche's critique against the state is fundamental. However, it isn't formulated in a scientific, rational or analytical way as in his framework of the Austrian school, as in the framework of the Austrian school, but mainly in a poetic and heuristic way. This is expressed most clearly in the passage of his Magnum Opus d'Arth, which holds the title about the new false gods. Quote, anywhere in the world are peoples and herds, but not here my brothers. Here there are states. State? What is it? Now listen carefully because now I'm going to tell you my words of the death of peoples. State means the coldest of all cold monsters. Cold, it also lies, and those lies crawl out of its mouth. Me, the state, I'm the people, as folk, alive is. It were the industrious people that created the society and hung faith and love about it, so they served life. Where there is still a society, no one understands the state. It is hated as an evil eye and the sin of morals and rights. Everything he will give to you if you just adore him, the new false god.  Just look at these useful people, riches they acquire and become poorer with them. Power they want and first the crowd power of power, much money. He's poor man. After throne they all want gold. It is their insanity as if happiness would sit in the throne. My brothers, it is better you shatter the windows and jump into freedom. Avoid the bad smell. Leave the service under the false god of the superfluous. Still the earth stands open for great souls. Still a free life stands open to great souls. There where the state ends is where man begins. He is not superfluous. There where state ends.  Don't you see it? The rainbow and the bridge to the legal match? If you would have asked Nietzsche what kind of political culture he would have preferred, which political situation would be the best for the humans and the evolution, then I think he would have definitely chosen the world of poise of antiquity as an optimal way of living together and as an unrepeated cultural ideal. As a philologist he knew the historical sources especially well. It is the time of presocratic philosophy, the time before the appearance of Socrates, the time before the Athenian democracy under the rule of Pernicus. The Greek polis was a little manageable administrative unit, a city with a few villages around which were not dependent on any ruler and administrated themselves. There were no taxes and no administrative costs. Elected male citizens undertook all necessary public tasks on an unpaid voluntary basis. There was no standing bureaucracy, no standing army and no full-time politicians. Because the vast majority of the population about 95% were slaves, the vast majority was excluded from public taxes. Amongst the three citizens there was equality in the sense that no one meddled in the business of someone else and everyone had to fight with his own weapons in the case of war. Every proposed change of legislation was lengthily and thoroughly contemplated and the person that suggested the change remained liable for his whole life for eventual negative consequences even if he was supported by a majority. The law was the same for every three citizens and no one was subordinated to anyone else. Frequently Nietzsche talks about the aristocracy of mind and the elite of the future that still has to be created and which will overcome the European decadence. But before this will be the case one day nihilism must come. The therapeutic welfare state of the day which Nietzsche anticipates conceptually, quote, what they seek to achieve with all their powers is the general green pasture happiness of the herd with security, no hazards, convenience, ease of the life of everyone. There are two most worn out ballots and teachings are called equality of rights and compassion for all the suffering. And suffering itself is seen by them as something that must be eradicated. And in another passage he writes, whoever examines the conscience of the contemporary European will always have the same imperative to pull out of the thousand normal creases and hiding spots the imperative of the herd fearfulness. We want something, we want that some day there will be nothing to fear, some day. Everywhere today in Europe the will and path towards this is called progress. The cultural and social price for this improvement is enormous, quote, the costs of all sum up to an overall loss. Man became less so that one doesn't know anymore for what this monstrous process was actually good for. For what? A new for what? That is what mankind needs. High culture and cultural blossom, said Nietzsche, are contrary wise all ways to be expected when life is dangerous and unsafe, quote. We, countries, who have opened up an eye and a conscience for this question, where and how so far the plant human has grown the strongest and highest, we mean that this always happens under contrary conditions. That the situation of man has to become very dangerous, that his creativity and imagination, his mind will develop under long pressure and force into the final brave. This will to live has to be raised to the absolute will of power. We believe that harshness, violence, slavery, danger on the street and in the heart, hiddenness, stoicism, temptation, odds and demolition of every kind. That everything evil, scary, tyrannical predator and snake-like of man leads as well to the uplifting of the specious human as the opposite. Nietzsche imagines that this aristocracy of mind that one day will undertake the re-evaluation of all values, who recruit itself among those people that suffer from the conditions of the nihilism and decadence the most.  Out of yourselves shall grow a chosen folk and out of it the ubermensch. Imagine this an elite that does not place its own happiness in the center, but that feels obligated to making the greatest of thoughts. It is this, the basic idea of culture insofar as this knows to give everyone of us one task, the creation of the philosopher, the artist and the saint within us and the sight from nurturing us and therein to work on the perfection of nature. Modes of behavior and attitudes that nurture such a life directed at the philosophical, Nietzsche explains under the title ten commandments of the free spirit as follows. Ten commandments, you shall not love nor hate the folk. You shall not do politics. You shall not be rich, not a beggar. You shall avoid the famous and powerful.  You shall let your children be raised by your friends. You shall not subjugate yourself to any ceremony of the church. You shall not regret what he is doing, but because of it you shall do a good deed more. You should, in order to say the truth, favor exile. You should let the world do as it likes and let the world let you do as you like. Nietzsche uses the term free spirit often. In contrast, he saw anarchism appropriate to his time as a variation of socialism and unmistakably rejected it. Against the thesis that Nietzsche is a writing anarchist in the Mises Rothbard tradition is his way of thinking which has no roots in either various totalian or epicorean idealism, nor nuclearism, nor liberalism. Classical English liberalism is definitely identified as proto-socialistic and thrown in one part with socialism. Liberal institutions make one small cowardly and idle with them heard animal triumphs every time. Liberalism in Germany heard animalization.  Later on there are no worse and more efficient destroyers of freedom than liberal institutions. Which with Nietzsche I think is quite right. Nietzsche's own definition of freedom sounds like the following. What is freedom? That you have the will to self-responsibility.  That one is ready to sacrifice man including oneself for the cause. Freedom means that the manly, the instincts joyful of war and victory rule over the other instincts, for example over the ones of happiness. The freed man even more, the freed spirit tramples with his feet the spicable kind of well-being that grosses Christians, cows, broths, the English and other Democrats dream of. The freed man is a warrior. The folk that were worth something or became worthy never became so under liberal institutions. The great danger made something out of them which deserves all. The danger which teaches us about our tools, our virtues, our defense and weapons and our spirit which forces us to be strong. The first principle, one has to have the need to be strong or one will never be. The classical liberal view of freedom as a theory of equal rights quote, the idea of equality which appears in the idea of equal rights basically belongs to decadence. The abuse between man and man, class and class the multiplicity of types, the will to be yourself, the race to raise oneself. That is what I call pathos of distance belongs to every strong age. The elasticity and distance between the extremes get smaller and smaller nowadays. The extremes themselves are finally blurred into likeness. Nietzsche identifies the fight of classical liberalism for equal rights for everyone as an expression of Récenti More, he uses the French word, as an expression to revenge of the little man, excuse me, as an expression of revenge of the little man which can be seen as a political constant as the ideological root of the therapeutic welfare state of today. Important however said Nietzsche is the very opposite quote, that everyone is freed of revenge. That is my bridge to the highest hopes and the rainbow after long downfall. Together with the liberal tradition the liberal economic science is rejected because for Nietzsche it is a co-perpetrator of the development of the modern world. Nietzsche always mentions politics and economics in one go, quote, to save the society from thieves and fire and make it endlessly comfortable for every exchange and change and to transform the state's destiny into a good and bad sense. These are lower, lukewarm and completely dispensable goals. Our era, as much as it talks about economics as a waste, is a waster. It wastes the most precious thing, the spirit. Nietzsche's fundamental critique goes so far that he rejects the European culture of mind as a whole, beginning with Socrates. To him, the history of European philosophy is a history of Becquatens, which was accelerated by the triumph of Christianity as labor. This little ugly, pox-cared, overweight and poor Socrates is to Nietzsche the beginning of Ressentement, the origin of modern revengeful intellectuals. With his cleverness, Socrates takes revenge on the rich, the powerful and the beautiful and thinks that because he is so clever, he is now the one in charge. This, however, says Nietzsche is the mistake of the Enlightenment par excellence that the clever man, the reasoning and arguing man, had to set the tone and call the shots because what came out of this in the end, we can clearly see today that a philosopher speaks against Socrates is truly remarkable. Now, here Nietzsche stands almost alone with this, but one can understand what he means. The core evil which started with Socrates is rationalism, with the tendency to ask asceticism which flattens life like a pressing iron. The rational tradition tamed the humans and that is exactly what Nietzsche is against. Nietzsche's central value is what he calls life and he meant life in its highest possible manifestation. Passion also belongs to life and this should be a Dionysian, a dangerous life, not simply a good or even a comfortable life. The central point seems to be the following. Certainty or truth are not the highest values for Nietzsche. Valuating itself is the highest value. Valuating comes first. Quote, The question of value is more fundamental than the question of certainty. The latter acquires its earnest only under the requirement that the question of value is answered. I believe here is a clear difference to the economical and philosophical approach of the Mises Rothbard tradition which is a rational tradition because it puts the question of certainty as the first and fundamental question in front and only then is certainty established as a conclusion comes to the question of values. So the question which this talk asks is difficult to answer because but I don't want to leave before trying. I think he would have felt comfortable among us, amongst us however we would have properly viewed him as an art person.  His classes never had more students. He was a cross-eyed nerd by excellence who was afraid of women and had a beard which nowadays we would consider quite unappetizing. But he was an extraordinary philosopher who can recommend everyone of you to read. One learns very much when one reads Nietzsche and Nietzsche hated democracy in the state like hardly anyone else. Insofar I think that Hans Simon Hoppe would have loved to invite him to give him a speech today. Thank you.


South African anti-apathite hero Desmond Tutu dies aged 19, but the death of course we will be taking a look at his life and the fight against apathite. What becomes of South Africa? Also on the breakfast, railway operators ignores government's free ride directives and sells ticket at inflated prices. And as always we take a look at the papers this morning for a quick review of the biggest stories making headlines across Nigeria. Great to have you on the breakfast here on PLOS TV Africa. I am Osauge Ogbama. And I am messable for happy holidays. Yes happy holidays that we don't get but happy holidays regardless. It's a good thing you know seeing less traffic across Lagos this morning on a public holiday and of course in the Christmas period. So of course welcome once again and we hope that we have a very very interesting Monday. We always like to start with some of the biggest stories and biggest conversations across the country. And yesterday Sunday of course Christmas services across Nigeria celebrate in the birth of Jesus Christ but there was something in particular that makes our first and second top trending stories this morning. The first one was in Kaduna state where Muslims did attend Sunday service to celebrate with Christians and of course to push you know for unity across Nigeria which was very interesting to see. A couple of those pictures and a couple of those people there was even pictures of videos rather of persons dressed in the Father Christmas outfit but doing the Muslim prayers. Mohammed Salah the Liverpool footballer also made the news because of his Christmas photo with his family and so these were some of the things that yes you can see that on your screen. I don't know who's on that who's in that picture though I don't know if that is Jesus or Jesus uncle but you can see that on your screen Muslims yes that's the picture. Who's that on the frame? I really don't know you know the conversations surrounding whether that's Jesus or not. We were just in the movies I mean. Who is this white guy? I mean it's something to laugh about that was also you know. Why you put on weights? No let's not even go there because I'm sure that we can actually just have a great time with this. This one is a little chubby. You know some people say that Jesus is but the apparantly he's added some weight and all of that. I mean that's on a lighter note but you know the internet has actually broken with a lot of comic comments if you look at that especially with that particular picture but let's even get to the crux of the matter I mean the you know the most important thing there is the fact that you could see that Muslims attended service which you know to some extent is also part of the tradition from time to time you get to see that happen and that's why I think that we're actually we should be moving towards you know society where we we can tolerate ourselves I mean where we can tolerate religious difference the fact that you believe your your booty is whatever it is that you're believing doesn't necessarily make you you know about this I should be able to tolerate and so I'm not trying to even you know force our religion on anybody's throat the most important thing is the fact that we're Nigerians and that should always be the watch what so whether or not you are from you know the south or the east or the west or the north and whether or not your Christian or Muslim or your traditionalist and whatever it is we should be able you know to put out all of that really just different so it was a beautiful thing but I hope it translates into you know actual peace and we say together not just a show of you know one-off thing it's really mostly you know about encouraging these people who you know made this move you know to continue to spread that message of you know unity you know across the country regardless of religious differences you know there should be more religious tolerance there should be more you know acceptance on understanding you know that we may believe in different religions you know have different type of religious books but you know the most important thing is love and unity and and understanding you know you know differences they always describe Nigeria as a place that has that thing when they say unity now diversity and some of all of that so it's a great move you know what's important is that these persons continue to spread that same message because there's those who also do not agree and if you look at the backlash at the Mohammed Salah picture you will see that there's a lot of people who a lot of Muslims who don't even agree you know with this idea with celebrating Christmas with you know with celebrating with their Christian brothers and sisters and so this message needs on pictures like this except that that Jesus pictures in work but moves like this need to be encouraged you know and people need to do more of such in across the whole country you know in the north in the south east and west everybody needs to be on the same train and continue to do the same thing I don't know much you know about and this might be an unpopular opinion I don't know much about Christians going into the mosque in to celebrate Salah but I know that Christians at the same time you know do not have you know a lot of those issues you know with regards religious intolerance there's a lot of people who welcome their Muslim brothers and sisters they do all they possibly can to ensure that you know they understand that we are one and so it's a great thing and you know we should encourage it as a people and as a country right from top to bottom of the president all the way down to you know the you know common Nigerian everyone should have the same message and the same energy around religious celebrations every time and you know the ability to you know look at everyone as one that's the most important thing absolutely and for more Salah that's always a tradition for him and he constantly comes that comes with a lot of you know back lashing and what have you the comments would always be there but I'm sure that you know if you look at the Quran not that I'm you know great student of the Quran but you also see even if the Quran did not categorically state talking about Christmas and what have you but he said that you should be compassionate and treat people right of all the religion and and I always say that the tenet of Christianity and you know the Islamic religion if you look at it at the same we're talking about love and that's the most important thing respect respect for one another treat people humanity and that's all that's about so it doesn't really matter whatever you're believing it doesn't matter what you you worship and who you call it's okay as long as you're human being one Nigerians we should be able to treat ourselves right so it's a good one I hope that we sustain this you know absolutely the most you know the biggest you know talking points you know from all of this where the with this picture which we showed you and of course the most a la picture and the video of the you know Farah Christmas you know doing his Muslim prayers you know I think there was about two or two different videos like that you know that emerged over the weekend but it's great to see and then also still talking of course in the same you know space the Shiites also were part of the celebration of Christmas you know they attended some church services also to you know celebrate with their Christian brothers and sisters and to also pretty much share the same message and that's also a very very beautiful picture that you see right there you know for you know a couple of people they might see it as you know theatrics and whatnot but for me what's most important is the you know is the the motive behind it and you know the energy around it you know and the fact that a lot of people will you know see it as a way of uniting religious religions across Nigeria you know the most one of the biggest challenges that we have as a country is the things that divide us you know politics religion tribe and the and the likes and so these you know moves here and thereby these persons whoever it is they brought up these ideas and then sure that they went ahead to do it should be celebrated they should continue to push for similar actions across the country including in Muslim holidays and the likes yes and I think we should also try a little bit of acceptance for traditional traditionalists yes because you have a lot of people who I mean a lot of persons who don't believe in Christianity a lot of persons who don't believe in whatever I mean different religion though of course you know Niger have to I mean major religion so you're talking you're Christian or you're Muslim but you also have traditional is you have a lot of people and there's some people don't believe in all of that you're not Christians you're not this you're not that but they're traditionalism we should be able to respect people's choices it doesn't make them less of a human whether they believe that there's a stone and that's the stone that gives them they pray to a stone they believe there's a stone that made them it's fine it's really you know so for a lot of those religions you know and that's that's where you know a lot of people get it wrong you know most people believe that there is that one God it is the you know path through which they assess that God that differs you know Christians is different from Muslims is different for the grail message you know members is different for the air can cause it's different for the rustic Christians is different for the traditionalist is different and it's really just the more the pathway through which you assess that God that you believe in but most importantly you know it's a belief that there is a God and even those who don't believe that there is a God we should continue to accept you know as long as they do not in any way infringe on your own rights to practice your own religion then accept them as they are and not even trying to you know force your you know how some you find some people who are believers or preachers who represent particular religion would try to want to force their religion on other people I just think that you know it's not supposed to be so because we are free free human beings I mean we're well human beings that are free we have been given a mind we have to think we can think on our own and I'm thinking that it wouldn't be right for us but majorly my concern is the reaction surrounding the fact that the shah it's actually visited you know some churches across the entire country to celebrate still the same thing a lot of people are not in support and one of the arguments that people are putting forth is that oh this is also the fact that you're not in terms with the Sunnis and so it's more like trying to form an alliance division so my point is must we always you know be at that point where we look at things and we begin to say oh they're actually coming together this is not just a I want just sure this should be an undertone you know we're beginning to read meanings so it they're trying to form an alliance with the Christians and that's because you're not in tunes with the Sunnis and what have you but if you look at it it has always been part of their tradition and I know that a lot of people were not support as much as you can't find in the Quran where they say you have the which wish Christians Merry Christmas and what have you and all of that but some of the tenets some of the potions on the Quran would actually tell you how to be very tolerant to respect them treat them with respect be kind to them tolerate them and love them and so it's still one and the same thing that we're talking about and like you had mentioned I'm thinking it's time that we constantly encourage all of this I'm sure we'll go a long way in reducing all of the tension that we're faced with in the country and just constantly we see ourselves as one it should be a message you know from you know the spirit spiritual and traditional and political leadership and not just you know a word of mouth you know there should be acts you know that you see across the country by these persons that encourage immunity but what do we put the native doctors they who they well you know it's still you know put them in the traditionalist yeah but is it okay to have you know native doctors come to church absolutely absolutely so so I think without we being very judgmental about them so I think it's really because of the notion that we have about these persons and where they get their powers from but they also believe you know in the in the source of their powers you know comes from you know God I believe so it's really just that understanding and the stereotype that we've placed on these persons but they are traditionalist and you know every now and then you hear that you hear this thing about adult people you know people who make these statements that oh if you could every other person has a you know an uncle has a shrine or you know some you know small small shrine in back of the house which is not true but that's a stereotype that has been placed on you know on my people basically it's a stereotype that has been placed you know in the same way when they say oh you know you you know your people fly a lot you know it already has painted it you know in a negative way but you know I would continue to say you know as long as their religion and the practice of their religion doesn't infringe on your own practice or doesn't in any way hurt your own practice of your religion then let everybody be who they want to be and we'll all be fine alright alright moving away from talking about religious well the things that happen over the weekend in churches and celebration of Christmas let's also talk about something not very good now and that is the fire disaster at the next cash and carry supermarket in Abuja there of course was breaking news sometime yesterday that the supermarket was a superstore was on fire but that's not the only thing that made headlines initially it was that the place was being looted while you know fire service was you know still trying to sort out the fire yeah you have a videos of the store really really really really sad the video of the store being burnt but of course you know pictures then emerged short videos emerged of people moving property and goods from the superstore which initially seemed like these were looters because I'm sure that everyone remembers what happened in 2020 here in Lagos and a few other places in the country but apparently of course information reaching us much later in the day showed that these goods weren't actually looted they were saved from the fire by Nigerians who ran into the superstore to see what they could salvage which is also a very brilliant thing in the spirit of Christmas you would expect because initially I was gonna say that well you know it's not it's not peculiar to Nigeria you know to see looters even in the United States you see people looting stores but you know eventually this turned out to be a good story that some of the goods that were you know in the store were salvaged by citizens who were able to rush in and make sure that they put them or bring them out we're hoping of course we would still like to get further details and further information on this but we're hoping that the fire service was able to at least save the store to some extent now you know you know that first of all like you have mentioned a very commendable of you know the people around to be very kind and that is part of the element of humanity we constantly talk about because you know as humans I would always say that we're human beings and as long as you have that at the back of your mind it just informs how you treat the next person and how you relate it's all about love it necessarily doesn't even matter who you are or what you are but you know when when it's time that you're able to show that gesture so great one but my concern is do you know that when we get to this part of the time I mean this period do you type period every other time it's serious fire outbreak I'm not saying that fire incident don't really happen every other time but mostly the festive period so you want to begin to run that check right now entire the country looking at the entire country I mean 36 states of the FCT you front of that pockets of fire outbreak here and there now I should think that you know the fire service apart from the fact that you're firefighters should always end back on was it called sensitization we you know go out there and put out that message I don't know how to do it maybe campaigns via television via radio what have you go to the market places and let people understand you know what they need to do so that we can get not get to that point what we have a fire outbreak because from different things it could just be some carelessness from the sergeant what have you the things that people need to know so so that it's more of a saying you we need to be more proactive so we reduce the incidents and all of these fire incidents that happen because if we constantly engage the people we educate the people we carry out this campaigns and what have you people would know what to do and what not to do and they will not get to that point what we have to and then also I don't know if it's all presence of the Nigerian police because it's a good thing that you know the police wasn't looted and then you had people working but usually when you have an incident like expecting that you see men of the Nigerian police was around and all their security agents well in other countries you would have the fire service there within minutes and you know that of course it comes along with the police you'd also within minutes but we're Nigerian and you know in response to the thing that you said initially 9 in Nigeria is one of the countries in the world that never learns so we never learn any lessons we never make any changes you know after disaster strikes nothing nothing is bad enough for us as a country for us to actually learn lessons and make changes that's why I say this it's not the first time that we're here in a supermarket fire it's also not the first time that we're hearing of a market now you know an actual market being burned but you would see that nothing really ever changes with policies with building structures with you know licensing and some of all of that after that fire you know we simply just wait for the next one and then complain again if you remember months ago there was the Ibaneau fire that I remember that I went on on screen that morning and I spoke a little bit about the absence of the thing called a sprinkler system and you know of course when you're building superstores I'm sure that there's you know bodies that that should give you a license I should be able to check you know that it is safe that we have every single bit of fire safety mechanism in the stores Nigerian superstores I do not believe have adequate and you know functional fire systems a sprinkler system in every store that every time that there is a fire it goes off and you and you ensure that of course it tries it at least does to some extent put out the fire I don't think we do and we simply would move on until there is the next fire disaster a superstore that will cost billions of Nair should have no excuse there's no excuse why that store should not have an appropriate inadequate sprinkler system what is fire response system but we don't seem to make all those changes and if you look also in the market places when there's a market fire we complain traders you know complain that they've lost all their goods and whatnot but we move on by the next week and nothing seems to change how much different is how much more effective is the Nigerian fire service after every fire disaster how much more effective is the building a framework for building a marketplace after every fire disaster there's nothing that changes there is no fire hydrants there is no you know building the markets in a way that a fire truck can get into every single part of the market nothing absolutely nothing changes until the next fire disaster and then we'll have the same conversation and move on so we don't actually learn lessons I'm expecting that every superstore in the country right now should invest doesn't matter how much it will cost in an effective sprinkler system and it may be a small fire station close to it but rather than you know just wait for you know the fire service to show up usually there are always several excuses why you know they can show up and probably not have feel in the truck or probably don't have enough water to come through and all of that where you know all of that will be sorted hopefully all right that's of course our top trend stories for this morning we'll take a short break when we come back let's look at the major stories making headlines across Nigeria this morning and we will have our guest joining us to share his thoughts on these stories stay with us