I'm grateful to the warden of New College for having invited me to give this lecture, and we're all grateful to Alec Roche for having so generously caused these lectures. I'm glad to be speaking in Oxford and at New College. Four of my brothers attended this university, two at New College. Another brother and I were caused to go to another place, presumably on the vaguely Hegelian ground, that Cambridge is not Oxford and vice versa. The self finds its selfhood in recognising the selfhood of the other, as one might say, if one were a German idealist philosopher. On the relative merits of the two places, I will say nothing, except to recall what Samuel Johnson of Pembroke College in this university said to King George III when the king visited Oxford and asked him whether Oxford or Cambridge had the better libraries. Dr Johnson said, I hope whether we have more books or not than they have at Cambridge, we shall make as good use of them as they do. I'm sure we all share that hope. Humanity is suffering from an acute form of psychopathology. Humanity's psychopathology has deep roots in history and in philosophy, in what we have done and in what we've thought. We can't undo what we've done in the past, but we can always reinterpret it. We can re-understand what we have made of ourselves. We can't re-think what we've thought in the past, but we can always re-think, we can re-imagine what we are and what we should be. And that's really what I want to talk about this evening, re-imagining humanity's idea of itself, re-imagining the human world. Throughout our history as a thinking species, we've constructed mental models of the three worlds we inhabit, the human world, the natural world, the supernatural world. For this purpose, we've used three wonderful integrating capacities of the human brain, philosophy, science and religion. There are three forms of universalizing thought. I don't have time to argue the point now. I'll simply assert that an effective treatment for humanity's psychopathology will not be found in global theocracy or in scientific absolutism. That leaves philosophy. Philosophy is thinking about thinking to borrow Hegel's formula. Philosophy is the mind thinking about the mind. Philosophy is the mind thinking about the worlds the mind has made. Philosophy is the royal road, the via regia to human self-healing. A heavy responsibility rests on the shoulders of those of us who think for a living. Those of us whose function in the social division of labour is to keep thinking at every level of thought from the most practical to the most abstract and universal. Humanity urgently needs a new enlightenment, a universal human metanoia, a general reforming of the human mind. You'll be glad to hear that this evening I have time to speak only about one aspect of that new thinking, the social aspect. A striking feature of our social world is that it has been lived at two levels conventionally referred to as the national and the international levels. The strange thing is that the two social levels have developed differently. They've had interlocking but distinct histories as a matter of fact and as a matter of thought. For 5,000 years some of the most creative and active minds have applied themselves relentlessly to the problems of human social coexistence at the level of particular societies. And for thousands of years great struggles of social reform and revolution have been devoted to the practical and theoretical aspects of the organisation of particular societies. Who is to control whom? Lenin said that was the ultimate constitutional question who whom? Human beings have struggled with that question for all of human history. Lenin knew enough of Karl Marx's idealism to know that who controls whom through the power of the mind as much as through the power contained in social structures and systems. At the international level, the level of all humanity the social coexistence of the whole human species the picture has been very different. For some reason the most creative and active thinking about social coexistence has stopped at national frontiers as if there were no way of making sense of the outside world, the international world. I always find it difficult to make people see the amazing peculiarity, the madness of the international world. Then our follows yet another effort to cleanse the doors of people's perceptions. Could we imagine an enlightening model of human supranational coexistence in its present form? I'm going to offer three enlightening models of the existing international system. Number one, in films about organised crime there's always that scene where there's a gathering in a dark room somewhere, usually the back room of a restaurant. Men in double-breasted suits, old men with grizzled grey hair, men with shiny black hair. How come I lose these three good men in joys? I'll translate that as, oh dear, somebody's murdered three of our own men in the American state of New Jersey. But Mugsy, the operation in Atlantic City, got to look out for a dent, we. Well, dear Louis, he's excused s'accuse, perhaps a French connection there. But Mugsy, are you suggesting, notting Louis, I don't do no suggesting, and he produces a machine gun from under the table. That's the Contralto image of the international system. And the Contralto meeting always reminds me of the UN Security Council. Men in suits glide noiselessly into the Security Council chamber. The 10,000th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The only item on the agenda, I should say the provisional agenda, is the question of recent events in Bandaria. Mr. President, the representative of Utopia has the floor. Mr. President, my government objects strongly to the use of the word question to refer to the genocide of 2,000, 200,000 ethnic Utopians in Bandaria. Is the representative of Utopia suggesting an amendment to the title of the agenda item, substituting the word situation for the word question? Monsieur le Président, I give the floor to the representative of France. Mr. President, my government sees more than a semantic difference between the words question and situation. We propose the establishment of a Bandarian Emergency Investigation Group, Unbinge, to occupy 35 people full time for three months, staying in luxury hotels at the expense of the international taxpayer. A very rare happy moment occurs occasionally in the grim life of the UN when someone creates something known technically as a pronounceable acronym, UNTAD, UNSCOM, UNIFIL, and so on. In UN circles, pronounceable acronyms are called PACS, so you'll hear people say, there's X, he's a four PAC man. Mr. President, I give the floor to the representative of the United States of America. Mr. President, you and other members of the council will know that a contact group will be working on the text of a Chapter 7 resolution, which we hope to present to the council later this evening. I just want to draw attention to Operative Paragraph 15 of that draft resolution which reads, quote, calls upon the United States of America and anyone else who feels inclined to join in to take all necessary measures to sort out the awful mess in Bandaria. Unquote. I should make it clear, Mr. President, that the United States government, president presently, has no plans to do anything necessary or otherwise in relation to the question of Bandaria. This meeting of the Security Council is adjourned. So that's the contralto image of the international system, respect among thieves. The new Security Council is the New York Speakeasy. Number two enlightening scene. The second image of the international system is morning break in the school playground.  Shant, clunk, that's not fair, says who.  Give me your cell phone. Shant, clunk, that's not fair, says who. That's the realest image of the international system, sometimes known technically as the other golden rule of morality. Do unto others unilaterally what you would not have them do unilaterally unto you, but do it quickly. Pre-emptive immorality. The third image of the international system is the day room of what used to be called the Atlantic Asylum. Morning Mr. President Flotsam. Don't call me Flotsam. Sorry, bonjour Napoleon. Heil Hitler, how are you doing? Oh, it's snowing outside. Guess you and I won't be doing much invading today.  I'll press the button on the coffee machine and not put a cup under it. You're right, Addy. Right is might, Addy. Dispossession is the tenth point of the most natural, of all natural laws. The self finds its selfhood in recognising its own selfishness and the selfishness of the other. Love you, Addy. Love you, Nappy. They embrace distantly. That's the madhouse view of the international system, otherwise known as diplomacy. I can't resist recalling what Harold Nicholson said about the qualities of a good British diplomatist, as he always called them, in his delightful little book called Diplomacy, published in 1939. Note the date. Quote, the good British diplomatist is tolerant and fair. He acquires a fine balance between imagination and reason, between idealism and realism. He's reliable and scrupulously precise. He possesses dignity without self-importance, demeanour without mannerisms, poise without solidity. He can display resolution as well as flexibility and can combine gentleness with courage. He never boasts. He knows that impatience is as dangerous as ill temper, and that intellectual brilliance is not a diplomatic quality. That may be a dig at the French. Intellectual brilliance is not a diplomatic quality. Continuing the quotation, he knows above all that it is his duty to interpret the policy of his government with loyalty and common sense, and that the foundation of good diplomacy is the same as the foundation of good business, namely credit, confidence, consideration and compromise. One doesn't know whether to laugh or cry when you hear that. A famous definition of diplomacy was given by Ernest Satter in his Guide to Diplomatic Practice published in 1917. Note the date. Quote, diplomacy is the application of intelligence and tact to the conduct of relations between the governments of independent states. An alternative definition of diplomacy might be diplomacy is the application of tact and intelligence in ways which may lead to the mass murder of millions of people, the devastation of whole countries and to social injustice of every kind, locally, regionally and globally. But you will say there are obvious flaws in all three of my models of the current international system. In the organized crime situation there's always the FBI. In the playground there are always the teachers. In the lunatic asylum there are always the doctors. The international mobsters make the rules for themselves, the international bullies themselves, the international lunatics talk to themselves that's called diplomacy. But someone may say but there is someone above them all the international lawyer and you'll be right. We international lawyers do advise the international mob. We say, quote, before you use the machine gun say you looking at me and then it's called anticipatory self-defense. And of course we tell them about Yusin Bello. That doesn't mean don't shoot people in the belly. Yusin Bello means do try to murder people as humanely as possible. And we international lawyers do advise the international bullies. We say, it's no use saying says who after you grab the cell phone. Before you grab it say your possession of that cell phone is subject to conflicting claims. Then grabbing the cell phone can be regarded as self-help as a last resort. Or else it can be regarded as quote, grabbing which is necessary as the only way to safeguard one's essential interest is the disputed cell phone to quote more or less verbatim from article 251a of the International Law Commission's amusing draft articles on state responsibility. And also according to the ILC's witty draft articles on state responsibility we must tell the bullier that grabbing the cell phone will be regarded as a lawful countermeasure only if the bullier bulliee fails to carry out his obligation to hand over the cell phone when notified that the bullier intends to grab it. And that's taken more or less verbatim from articles 491 and 52 1b of the same draft articles on state responsibility proposed by the International Law Commission. When I describe the ILC's draft articles as charming of course I mean that they are an abomination of desolation. The International Law Commission consists of lawyers appointed by governments in-house counsel to the mob of all mobs. Governments gave the ILC the task of inventing law law that governments can then use as they see fit. So the International Law Commission is the Geneva Speakeasy and we international lawyers do gladly advise the international lunatics. We say in a sense you are of course Napoleon. Everybody who thinks he's Napoleon has a perfect right to be treated as such. That's what international lawyers call recognition, sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and domestic jurisdiction. I don't know why we need five fancy names for the same thing. All it means is I'll pretend you're saying if you pretend that I'm saying I'll look the other way when you do stuff as long as you look the other way when I do stuff. So diplomacy and war are social processes of the pre-social international system. Games the governing classes play. It seems impossible to make people understand the true nature of war. It's surely beyond belief that there's still something called the law of war. Think about those three words for a moment. Three sinister syllables which seem to naturalize and rationalize and justify a terrible evil. And listen to this for a moment. It's from an essay by Tolstoy written in 1894 and drowning the despair in their hearts with singing, debauchery and vodka torn away from peaceful labor from their wives, their mothers and their children hundreds of thousands of simple good-natured men with weapons of murder in their hands will trudge off where they were sent. They will march, will be frozen, will be hungry, will be sick dying of disease until at last they reach the place where they will be murdered by thousands and will themselves not knowing why murdered by thousands men whom they've never seen who have done them no wrong and can have done them no wrong. Or consider this by Rasmus in 1515 quote Whatever evils war brings must be put the account of those who find reasons for war. What is war indeed but murder shared by many and brigundage all the more immoral for being wider spread but this view is jeered at and calls scholastic ravings by the thick-headed lords today. Rasmus goes on to discuss a threatened war against what he calls the Turks a war he says for which there are three alleged purposes to convert the Turks forcibly to Christianity and or to defend Christian civilization against the threat of the use of force by the Turks and or to get hold of their wealth. I wonder where we've heard those three arguments before and even rather recently if one substitutes the words Western Ideas for the word Christianity. So how on earth did we get into this situation of international criminality, activism and lunacy? The answer to that question is long and complicated. The ancient Greeks the amazing ancient Greeks gave us many things in particular a way of analyzing the human condition and a mental activity which we call philosophy. Their way of analyzing the human condition can be found in Homer and the three traditions Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Their analysis located three factors or vectors in the human condition the one, the many and the all. Even in Homer but especially in the Tragedians we come across individual human beings not allegorical figures intensely human beings and we see each of these unique individuals as a one in relation to the many of society and in relation to the all that transcends society. Think of Helen in the Iliad and the Odyssey divided in her loyalties between Greece and Troy between her two husbands with her destiny seemingly determined by powers that transcend all human power or Antigone in Sophocles who analyzes her own situation quite explicitly as her relationship with society and with what transcends society the one of the mercy of the many and the all. All these very human individuals were living their lives in relation to particular social forms but also in relation to the transcendental the all either in the form of personalised gods or else some transcendental order fate, Moira, one's own destiny or the destiny of the universe such was the quintessential Greek model of human existence. The second great thing that we owe to the Greeks is a remarkable invention one of its parents was mathematics the obsession of Pythagoras and his followers with a particular universalising capacity of the human mind. Generalisation and abstraction and definition are the essence of philosophy as they are of mathematics any particular triangular theme is an instance of a generalised and abstracted theme in the definition of a triangle. What the obsessively abstracting Greek mind noticed was that there was a way of thinking that is not mythology or religion or mathematics but which is nevertheless a way of thinking abstractly in universal terms about everything including about everything human. This method, philosophy could be applied to the extraordinary diversity of societies known to the Greeks the ancient heretic monarchy of Egypt the intensely multinational empire of Persia the extreme particularity of the Greek city-states and the Greeks saw that such societies might be regarded as particular cases of various general species one of which could be given the species name of Polis a human society whose public affairs are organised in a particular way with its own particular polytheia or constitution each political society has its own substance its own ontogeny its own self but each political society participates in a universal essence the phylogeny the species characteristic of such societies in general every political society is unique all political societies are the same Plato and Aristotle devoted much thought to social metaphysics integrating into a single system of thought the self-ordering of the human individual the self-ordering of society and the self-ordering of the universe the all Plato sometimes called the all god Aristotle usually referred to the all as nature intrinsic to their metaphysics was an ethical view of society for both Plato and Aristotle ethics and politics are two sides of the same metaphysical coin in Aristotle's words society is a natural phenomenon quote originating in the bare needs of life and continuing for the sake of a good life unquote and the idea of a good life implies an idea of virtue that is not merely socially determined but is universal or at least transcendental in relation to any particular society to quote Aristotle again quote hence it is evident that the same life is best for each individual and for states and for mankind quote this way of thinking gave us great power over our social existence we have a way not only of understanding social phenomena but also a way of judging social phenomena in other words this philosophical way of thinking gave us a permanent revolutionary capacity and so from ancient Greece up to the present day up to the present moment we have constantly imagined and reimagined the physics and the metaphysics of human societies and of course I am suggesting that the time has come to reimagine the physics and the metaphysics above all of international society the society of all humanity the society of all societies so the question needs what happened to the Greek analysis of the human condition the philosophical integration of the one the many and the all if we can answer that question we can say why the international world is as it is now and we can say what the international world could become in the future ancient Judaism had established a rigorous integration of the individual the social Israel and the transcendental God early Christianity modified the Judaic integration placing a central focus on the transforming presence of the all in the life of each one in each human individual the rule of love the rule of love rather than the rule of law leaving to Caesar the things that are Caesar's probably early Christianity relied on the assumption that the inward presence of the all in the human individual would also transform the activity of the many in society if only Islam returned to the integration of the one the believer the many the umma the faithful collectively and the one and all of God for Islam the human being in human society and God are morally inseparable the Christian church in the meantime had established itself as a sort of post-Roman imperial mega-polis multinational transnational and supranational a new powerful integration of the one the many and the all well a world historical function of the Roman church would turn out to be as the cradle of a particular civilization a civilization that would ultimately repudiate the church's authority and reimagine itself in other word in other ways Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century undertook a hazardous intellectual enterprise he was himself a product of the 12th century renaissance like our new universities the works of the philosophers of Greece and Rome were available again Aquinas became as it were a new voice of Aristotle but by elevating reason to a status close to that of faith Aquinas and his formidable ilk sowed the possibility of the amazing development of the natural sciences also the possible development of a wholly non-religious view of the human condition and that is of course what happened Aquinas himself picked up the golden thread of what I call the platonic Aristotelian ethical view of the state the idea that society makes possible the good life for the individual citizen by using law to determine the common good of society seen as a reflection of the transcendental paradigm of justice in Aristotle's words quote we call that legal and just which makes for and preserves the well-being of the community through common political action unquote or in Cicero's words quote the state is quote an assemblage of people in large numbers associated in an agreement with respect to justice and a partnership for the common good for Aquinas law is quote a rational ordering of things which concern the common good and Aquinas himself refers to a famous and splendid passage from Augustine of Hippo writing at the beginning of the fifth century quote remove justice and what our kingdom has but gangs of criminals on a large scale what are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms a gang is a group of men under the command of a leader bound by a compact of association in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention if this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized territory established as a base captures cities and subdues people it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world not by the renouncing of aggression but by the attainment of impunity and then Augustine goes on with this quote for it was a witty and truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the great the king asked the fellow what is your idea in infesting the sea and the pirate answered with uninhibited insolence the same as yours in infesting the earth but because I do it with a tiny craft I'm called a pirate because you have a mighty navy you are called an emperor and Aquinas went one step further which would also play a part in the subsequent history of the theory of the international system he took up an idea from the post Aristotelian steaks the idea of natural law the idea of natural law is the idea of a law discoverable by reason which is above all human law and which is human reasons understanding of the moral order of the universe the order of the all seen as nature natural law was an attempt to establish a rational transcendental dimension within the philosophy of human society a set of values by which human law could be judged and to which human law could aspire as an ideal natural law was obviously a rather vulnerable hypothesis it was obviously rather vulnerable to the very different ideas and values of the criminals, bullies and lunatics the self aggrandizing pirates who were becoming the governing classes in the sense of self constituting of the new European politics but the natural law hypothesis was vulnerable also to intellectuals like Marsilio Padre who looked at the social reality that the criminals, bullies and lunatics were making and found as a philosopher one could not be as sanguine about social theory as the Greeks and their intellectual heirs had been Marsilio himself purported to be a disciple of Aristotle and he's sometimes been treated as a prophet of liberal democracy both views are wrong Marsilio is important for our story he was the first legal positivist the prophet of the organic state the self sufficient and self justifying state having no need in its theory for any form of transcendentalism whether of reason or of faith for Marsilio law is essentially the coercive force in society he defined law as a rule backed by sanctions so a pre-ecco of Bentham and John Austin a pre-ecco of Iheri and Max Weber Marsilio is a sort of Franciscan Carl Schmitt of the 14th century a Carl Schmitt of the first Reich one might say fierce justifier of secular power fierce enemy of the arrogant claims of the papacy fierce defender of the German emperor in other words he was much as much of an intellectual nuisance as such near contemporaries as William Ockham and John Wickliffe in parenthesis I may say Oxford must have been a lively place 700 years ago with Don Scotus and Roger Bacon and William Ockham and John Wickliffe as fleeting or permanent presences all of them plotting a revolution in the mind so I'm presenting Marsilio as the symbolic and prophetic representative of what we may call the totalitarian tendency the idea that the many of society become one in the state which internalizes the all and recognizes no need for values beyond its own socialized values well the subsequent story of the development of social philosophy at the national level is very familiar as we know it would come to contain another strand the democratic tendency and the democratic tendency was a negation of the totalitarian tendency as the totalitarian tendency is a negation of the ethical view of the state Marsilio's Defender of the Peace was published in 1324 however by 1324 great changes in the real and legal constitutions of many European countries had already begun to make Marsilian ideas inappropriate at least in those countries those revolutionary developments are the decline of feudalism the rise of urbanism capitalism capitalism and parliamentarianism above all the rise of an urban middle class and a rural gentry Aristotle had already suggested that quote the city which is composed of middle class citizens is necessarily best governed and those states are likely to be well administered in which the middle class is large and larger if possible than both the other classes well the middle class have a personal interest in wealth creation and that requires an efficient system of law and government the middle class are natural individualists who nevertheless have a strong interest in a well organized society so in the city states of Italy and Germany England and Holland the totalitarian tendency would meet a new tendency republicanism the democratic tendency a new story that the middle classes and the rural gentry in British America were glad to hear Hobbes and Locke with great ingenuity devised a republican theory of society which combined individualism and collectivism a subtle new balance between the one and the many and the all in which the all is represented not by God but by nature in particular an idea of the naturally social nature of the human being in the Hobbesian form natural self-interest collectivized as common interest under the sovereignty of the law in the Lockean form natural sociability causing each citizen to recognize the rights and interests of all other citizens under the protection of the law so for both of them Hobbes and Locke and hence for what we call the theory of liberal democracy society is only justifiable in relation to its intrinsic purpose its transcendental purpose in the Lockean version the natural transcendental purpose of society even sets limits on governmental power an idea which would generate a subset of ideas that came to be called natural rights fundamental rights human rights we're all familiar with the benign Aristotelian sayings of John Locke quote the end of government is the good of mankind government is for the good of the government governed laws can only be made for the public good those who make the laws are themselves subject to the laws well one version of post reformation Protestantism seemed destined to reintroduce a theocratic strain into social philosophy reasserting the moral inseparability of the one, the many and the all individual society and God Martin Luther said that all of Aristotle's books should be burned in England this theocratic tendency was excluded as a possible theory of our society in the context of what is known as the civil war in the first half of the 17th century a form of the theocratic tendency crossed the Atlantic with the Puritans and led to many theocracies in several of the British settlements in America with consequences that are detectable in the American mind and American society so in the middle of all this rethinking of the metaphysics of national society what was happening at the international level two big things that happened a so-called new world had been so-called discovered in America and secondly Europe found itself to be teeming with hundreds of extremely diverse polities in a state of more or less continuous change and competition and conflict the social philosopher faced an intellectual challenge far exceeding that which had faced the philosophers of ancient Greece what theory could possibly rationalize the coexistence of such a mass of diverse and unstable social phenomena well the great Spanish progenitors of one international law Victoria and Suarez tried a five track method Christian theology natural law moral rationality human experience and social philosophy moral rationality is another of Aristotle's inventions practical reason as it's called the idea that the well-developed human mind can find moral principles within itself by use of the mind's reasoning capacity for Victoria writing in 1528 the rules of the law of nations could be derived from natural law and from quote a consensus of the greater part of the whole world especially in behalf of the common good of all and Suarez writing in 1612 said quote the rational basis of the law of nations consists in the fact that the human race into however many different peoples and kingdoms it may be divided always preserves a certain unity that's the human race preserves a certain unity not only as a species but also a moral and political unity as it were therefore although a given state commonwealth or kingdom constitute a perfect community in itself consisting of its own members each one of those societies is also in a certain sense and viewed in relation to the human race a member of that universal society Suarez was here picking up another idea of the post Aristotelian Stoic philosophers the idea of humanity as a natural unity of moral consciousness with humanity as a universal ethical category called humaneness humanitas as well as a metaphysical category well Grosius writing in 1625 spoke from a reality of which he was only too personally familiar a Europe seeming endlessly at war including terrible wars of religion among so called Christians well Christian theology was now itself a source of dissension and conflict and was evidently no longer available as a moderating force so Grosius tried to combine two others of the Spanish philosophical methods he tried to uncover principles of moral rationality present in the deep structure of human experience of international relations our experience of what he called war and peace well Grosius's method was an unpromising method for two obvious reasons unfortunately recorded human history is full to overflowing with accounts of the very bad behavior of the criminals bullies and lunatics abused and abused the coexistence of actual human societies through all of recorded human history and secondly the criminals bullies and lunatics of Grosius's own time were probably beyond the redeeming force of intellectualism however intelligent and worldly wise and indeed there was a very obvious and very serious danger that Grosius's moral rationalizing of their behavior would encourage the current governing classes to suppose and to claim that moral rationality is on their side which is of course precisely what happened Grosius, marketed as the lion tamer of the international criminals bullies and lunatics became a paradoxical hero of the European governing classes he said what they wanted to hear but then some very dramatic events occurred, events that would make the international system which survives to this day dramatic events in the real self constituting of our societies and dramatic events in the ideal self constituting events in social practice and in social theory social philosophy was facing yet another new world the new world of the industrial revolution and the french revolution and the rise of the nation state and yet again the necessary social theories were ready and waiting society's new real self constituting found yet again new heroes of its ideal self constituting namely Rousseau Adam Smith and Vattel they each imagined a sort of natural law of society not natural law in the Aristotelian Stoic sense but natural law in the Newtonian sense a physics of the metaphysics of society it all happened in a period of less than 20 years Vattel 1758 Rousseau 1765 Adam Smith 1776 Rousseau's general will Adam Smith's invisible hand and Vattel's national state masterpieces of philosophical model making they share the characteristic that they suggest that society has a systematic existence that is organic a totalizing mechanism which is virtually that of a living thing and above all it is a natural process the all of nature determines the relationship of the one and the many politically, economically and internationally the general will and the invisible hand are of course metaphors, fictions but wonderfully powerful theoretical models of social philosophy models which cause individuals and whole societies to behave in conformity with them Vattel's nation or state is another metaphor another fiction a powerful theoretical model which has caused governments to behave in conformity with it and I'm going to quote Vattel quote when men have agreed to act in common and have given up their rights and submitted their will to the whole body as far as concerns the common good it devolves henceforth upon that body the state and upon its rulers to fulfill the duties of humanity towards outsiders in all matters in which individuals are no longer at liberty to act and it particularly rests with the state to fulfill those duties towards other states since men are by nature equal and their individual rights and obligations the same as coming equally from nature nations which are composed of men and may be regarded as so many free persons living together in a state of nature I say that again nations which may be regarded as so many free persons living together in a state of nature are by nature equal and hold from nature the same obligations and rights since nations are free independent equal and since each has the right to decide in its conscience what it must do to fulfill its duties the effect of this is to produce before the world at least a perfect equality of rights among nations in the conduct of their affairs and in the pursuit of their policies the intrinsic justice of their conduct is another matter which it is not for others to pass upon finally so Vertele ingeniously uses very traditional and very fashionable ideas nature was a terribly fashionable idea in the 18th century but integrates them in a dramatically new and ironical way nature, the state of nature nation, state, sovereign freedom, equality, rights and duties will, interests, common good duties of humanity the Vertele world view is a collection of autarchic autocracies an unsociety of self-contained self-justifying self-seeking societies of the greatest possible real world inequality but reimagined for legal purposes as equal sovereign persons and the hesitation implied in Vertele's disjunctive category nation or state was full of enormous real world potentiality a potentiality that would be actualized in terrible events in the 20th century the 19th century would see the inexorable rise of the conjunction of the nation and the state the nation as a natural and imperious social subjectivity and the state as the ultimate natural embodiment of the nation Vertele became another paradoxical hero of the governing classes of so-called great powers he told them what they wanted to hear to tell powerful people that their status and their power are imaginary categories but categories that are natural and inevitable is to tell them something that they are glad to hear well we've lived in the Vertele fantasy world for 250 years has come to seem inevitable but now of course in this very interesting 21st century the new millennium we find ourselves in yet another new world the world of globalization I would define globalization as the socializing of all humanity in the absence of an appropriate theory of international society with globalization the old game is over the internal has exploded into the external the external has flooded into the internal national and international are inseparable revolution from within gives way to revolution from above diplomacy gives way to collective government tribes of national and international civil servants huddle inside their pronounceable and unpronounceable acronyms like orphans in a storm national government becomes residual in relation to international social phenomena war gives way to the management of world public order social phenomena above all economic and cultural and antisocial phenomena crime flow promiscuously and uncontrollably across national frontiers dominated by non-state actors the most urgent and difficult problems of social coexistence and our global problems requiring global thinking global decisions and global action the criminals, bullies and lunatics at last have the whole world as their oyster whole world as their playground their turf, their asylum but are they pleased about it no they are at a loss disorientated, adrift unable to control phenomena which far exceed the explanatory and justificatory capacity of all existing social philosophy national and international humanities this new real self constituting has made obvious what was long there to be seen the fatalian ideal and legal constitutions are obsolete not zeitgeist but zeitgespenster ghosts of time past the geist of a former zeit, like diplomacy and war the inhuman comedy is finished the ancien regime is philosophically kaput and to tell the truth so are existing theories of democracy and capitalism they are also the geist of a former zeit the ancien intellectual regime both national and international is philosophically kaput if madness is defined as supposing that you live in a reality that is not the reality in which you actually live then the human world is mad so what are we to do to bring about the necessary revolution in the mind to meet the challenge yet again of reimagining society including a new idea of international society as the real ideal and legal self constituting of humanity well I've offered an answer in eunomia new order for a new world and perhaps more accessibly elsewhere humanity is the new many and the new one Nietzsche in the birth of tragedy suggested the characteristically peculiar but interesting idea that Plato in the dialogues created a new art form the novel I am now following distantly in that track with a novel comprising three novellas with extensive self explaining appendices in an effort to get through to people who may not normally relax with a nice book of philosophy a novel is or can be imagination in the service of reason I'm going to quote a formula Camus a philosophy put into the form of images in philosophy mise en image that was in the review of his assertions La Nose in the Algeria Biblica in 1938 well the title of my novel is invisible power invisible power is softer than soft power but more powerful so what is the conclusion to all this tragedy is in an awful mental mess self harming is a capacity of the human mind but so are self knowing self healing, self redeeming self surpassing and self perfecting they are also capacities of the human mind the possible is possible and so is the impossible


So top of the year, it was with Dougie And like this can happen somewhere throughout the year So like but it seemed like all you know You'd be wanting the best for everybody and you'd be trying to like see the positive in every situation Do you like feel like you do that too much? Yeah, I feel like I do it that too much and sometimes at all the times that I do it Is it like you don't always go is like how I plan a high vision did you feel me so it's just like different He's like you can't help everybody. I feel like so I learned that I would have never learned if some situations would never have Happened or if I would never met them people I would never learn like damn. You really can't help everybody I always I can help everybody.   I caught the big-ass chain.  I got a publisher deal I'm not even really signed. I'm really like lit and I make all my money on my own my masters I do all my shows like I get everything a hundred percent. So it's like So that was just a lesson learned can't help everybody but even as far as like Jada y'all not cool no more like do you like feel like Do you feel like what do you think now?  I really not I don't really care about nobody.  It's up if it's me against everybody That's what it is, but I'm not falling short on my end. So I hope you talking about so So you follow us for more exclusives at WW dot talk of the town show comm like comment and subscribe


Welcome back to the 21 convention 2021 of Orlando, Florida 15 year anniversary at 21 summit our next speaker is a returning speaker to the 21 convention First speaking last year in Orlando, Florida here at 21 summit. He's also the founder of Bond found it over 31 years ago out in, California He's an amazing man or amazing as some of you might already know and he's a pastor and a reverend for Christian men Without further ado, please tell me welcome back to the 21 convention stage Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson Welcome back, Jesse Good morning Hi y'all I'm still sleepy from cuz we got in like really late last night So I gotta wake up first. I want to say congratulations to Anthony and 21 summit 15 years. That's amazing Bond has been around amazing. Yeah, I Was saying to Anthony earlier that Bond been around 31 year, but it doesn't seem to be 31 years And he felt the same way and I really admire Answering from what he's done because he started off as a what teenager. How old were you? 17 when he first started this organization and it proves that if men really really really really want to do something They can but you have to have a made-up mind And you must be willing to endure all things in order to succeed in life Bond been around 31 years and then I want to take some questions for you guys, right? Cuz I like to deal with the folks But bond been around 31 years and our purpose is to rebuild the family by rebuilding a man and And the reason I started bond 30 The purpose of rebuilding a man because when I first started I Realized that black men were weak and that they were blaming and that they were crying racism And they had leaders and they thought that that white people were their problems And I realized that it's not racism. It's not they don't need leaders They need to take charge in their own life So we started bond in order to wake black Americans up to tell them that it's abnormal for a man to be weak Do we have any weak men here? Can I see your hand? Nobody wanna admit it, huh? I'm sorry I said that first But uh, and so we started out with just dealing with black men But after a while the principles that we talked about applies to all the men mankind So we open it up to everyone and so 31 years later We'll deal it with men around the world men and women now because the women like oh We need help we need help so we started working with women as well And I know I'm speaking tomorrow to I guess married men and family like that I think and today all you guys a single man for the most part, right? I'm sorry What okay, and so What I want to talk about is What first I want to let you know that there's an order to life and that orders God and Christ Christ and man Man over woman and woman over children and it's abnormal Abnormal for men to be emotional for men to be angry. Oh Any male have in a man here has anger. Oh Good, let me see your hand again So it's so I know it's early, but you can we can talk nobody watching just around the world Let me see the guys with anger. Oh Okay Did you know that any man that has anger is a woman? Hi ladies Did you know that any man that has anger is a woman?   I love that word. I Use at first. They say don't say that word in LA. That's a that's a mean word But that word explains everything and so what we want to do today this morning It's to show you how to overcome that anger because it's totally Abnormal for a man to have anger men are not angry. They are logical They they deal with things in a simple way and they have no fear and no doubt So what I wanted to do this morning because some of you like slap makers too, right a lot of slap makers Who want to be a slap maker? Oh? Okay, I Want to talk to you about the anger with the hat. Can you go to the mic?   Bitter bitter bitter better and you've been married before Married divorce married widowed really and what happened with why did you divorce the first time around?  You were married to an educated woman an educated woman Never never never never ever ever ever But never never never never ever ever Never married educated woman Educated woman does not make for a good wife or a good mother Because she's going to be in competition with you women think that they're equal to men and they're not But when they're educated, they're even worse If why did you marry an educated woman? She wasn't educated at the time and why did you let her go get educated? I thought I was supporting her. Oh you did And so and I'm asking this because You're supposed to start thinking for yourself, right? Why did you think you were supporting your wife and getting educated? Well, I I was educated and I thought it would be of good value to her too. I was wrong a good value to her And now you realize you're wrong. I was wrong. So do you want to do you have kids?  That's good. They're all dead. They're all dead.  What's wrong with them? Well lost two to miscarriage one to abortion. I don't want to talk about that one and Well, I was a slut maker. Yeah, and one I lost to drugs. Oh, I see the So, what do you think about all that that you've gone through? My choice is to become more empathetic and compassionate Towards other men and what they go through. Don't feel sorry for me. I've learned lessons. Let me warn others I think what you've gone through is amazing Did you learn anything about yourself through that?  Oh really The thing I want you to know is the tough times in life are your best times in life It's like when life is seen to be well and all is going good That's no good. It's okay to have it, but when you're going through Situations and when you're going through those tough times Those are your best times in life because you're not gonna grow in life until you have those good I mean those rough times in life But a lot of people think that the rough times are the bad times, but the rough times are the best time I got in the last 31 years. I've gone through literally hell, but it made me a better person and So I want you to learn to appreciate those rough times.  You bet. Let's bring it on. Let's get rid of her. You want to get that, right? It's not normal for men to be angry because men men represent God The man came from God and the woman came from the man But in today's world started with Eve Satan is the woman's God and God is the man God And so when you're dealing with the woman you're dealing with evil versus good, right?    We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spirits and personalities Right, so you're attracted to what you hate and you're never going to be able to deal with a woman until you overcome your mother Would it also be accurate to say I projected you? Rejected projected you progested. Yeah, I projected some of what You're talking about on to my wife Absolutely because every woman you get involved with you become the boy and she'll become your mother Man are looking for love from a woman, but women don't have love And no such thing as a woman of love right women get the love from man as you get it from Christ and so Women hate men that they can control like that.  She died in August. Oh But you're gonna have to forget how about your father. Is he still living? No, he died in 1991 You know how weak you are right? You see how weak and Bitchy you are right. Oh, I see it.  No, we're hearing you I'm sorry we hear you I hear you. I'm happy to be here in a disagreement with that None none, you know God said that we must be born again, right?  They're looking for men who can Leave them rather than follow them a man should never follow a woman any man ever follow a woman Yeah, yeah a man should never do that. It would never work out All right, any questions or just agree about that No, maybe a conversation offline not when we're being recorded. Oh, I see. That's why you hold it back a little bit No, there's just a lot more truth to it, and I know what's under it But this is not the venue right now for that. Oh, okay Amazing. All right. Well, I appreciate it, man. Thank you anybody disagree with that So What we've been doing and I have to tell you I would the issues in life are never ever ever physical With it's spiritual all the time and there's this empathy between men and women and women can't help it Because they hate the image of a man is not her But it's the spirit that made a home in her and the reason that men are so subject Sexually for women is because they're looking for love.  He gave her nice hair. What does she do? She cut it off a well weak He gave her a nice breast.  So why are you trying to please her? It is a weakness to try to please the woman But I understand a lot of men are doing it because they don't know it about it They have been told try to please the woman the woman is wonderful. She's special The woman is not wonderful. She's not queen and she's not special She's just another human being that is a female that came from the man and man came from God And so what they really really need is for you to leave them. It's that normal for It's that normal for men to be afraid of women Men are afraid to be aren't how many men have been slapped by a woman. Oh Whoa Everybody What not everybody?  You can come up into the mic for me. So we got And so what happened It was about 19. She caught me cheating. She slapped me. So what now? I was 19. She caught me cheating. Oh, she caught you see.  Yeah, just grab her hands.  She caught my car at the girls place Oh, I see and so will you live it with her at the time? No, you were not only 19. Oh 19. It was college. Yeah, okay And the reason I asked because what I noticed is that a lot of men today have been told do not defend yourself from the woman That you're bigger and stronger.   I remember I when I was growing up I have like seven sisters and five brothers. Well, I have five brother, but three of them three is dead now.  Oh, he hit me He hit me and she would ask that you hit him. She's like, yeah Well, you should get hit back if a woman hit me I made it clear you going down. I Ain't gonna put over that. I remember being at a grocery store recently And there are these two black women in there one fat with a fro and the other one kind of not so fat and Oh, and I didn't have a mask on and so I saw that I was right behind them in line and they were saying to the They were saying to the teller.  That's okay. No problem. And I put it on and when I put it on I said tell me two bitches to stay out of my business And when I said that they got to They were so mad they saw you know black women all right When you fight a black woman you gotta fight a black man And so they were like When I call them bitches, they're like, yeah They were carrying on I had my Trump sign my Trump shirt They're like just a Donald Trump supporter and they were right up and down the walk in the store Yelling and screaming and they came over to war me as though they'll hit me I said look, I would advise you not to hit me because I'm not like those little millennial men that you could hit and I said, yeah, if y'all bitches hit me you're going down Yeah, I said it's so loud the whole snorkeling here And and then and they ended up they ended up I Leave this soil they were all bitchy fussing and arguing walking out right but they didn't touch me Men are so supposed to be of love of strength and love is not an emotion That love that you feel as an emotion is not real love that love come from hate it come from anger Real love come from God and in real love. There is no fear. No doubt. No worry. No insecurities No depression No anxiety. It's nothing but perfect peace I have perfect peace in my life and I was a beta but at one time But no one would ever beat me but I was a slut maker I used to think that I could not live without sex when I was before I overcame that issue I used to think that I had to have it and so when I would break up with one girl I would have to find me another have her waiting in the West Wing in order for me to break up with the one That's how pathetic I was anybody else been like that you go for woman-to-woman Yeah, and I used to literally think that I could not live without sex But it wasn't until I over Began to examine myself and I wonder why am I so weak? Why am I so emotional? Why do I have fear and what I started to wonder about thing and question things? That's what I started to understand God caused me to see that I wasn't myself I was in a fallen state.  I just don't have fear. I don't I'm not I'm never depressed I'm I never fear anxiety. I never worry about anything.  Have you overcome your mother? Yes, you you went to her I didn't go to her but I set a level of Standards and if they don't meet them then I just I push it And why did you go to her and forgive her for what you've done to you? I don't know I don't care You don't care, but you should care. Why don't you care? Just doesn't matter to me. What does that mean? How old are you now? 31 oh What doesn't matter to you? Um just having Honestly having my parents in my life doesn't really matter to me Well, you don't need to have them in your life Right, you just need to overcome them so that you don't repeat the same. Well, I think psychologically I have overcome them because I watch you all the time. You watch me. Yes. Oh, so you know what I'm talking I know exactly what you're talking about. And so why have you are you afraid to go to her and forgive her? No, I think I just don't care But I don't understand what and don't you want to have you were created to lead and if you if you don't care How will you lead? I have to forgive her to be able to lead. Yes Because right now you have her identity because I have not forgiven her right Okay, I don't really understand what you mean. I don't care. What is it that you don't care about? I don't know Do you know why you were created? No, you're not just created to be a slap maker Right. Did you know that? I do now No, you said it Look guys, you guys can relax. We can have some fun. It's not a big deal. All right Did you know do you know why you were created? to uh I'm sure it's got something to do with carrying out God's work or God's plan absolutely you created So that God could create love through you the love from from him through the man, right? And if man love is happening on the earth and family, we will have peace on earth But as long as it's coming through the woman, we're just going to have the hell that we'll uh a deal with you Supposed to care and when I say care, you don't want her out thinking. Oh, I care. I care. I care, right?  They don't know that they they're not bringing love.  What what do you think about that? I agree And so how long you've been listening to me? Uh, probably a year and a half and are you still a slap maker?  No And it's because you don't care I guess yeah Are you afraid to go to her? No, I'm just kind of comfortable with the way I am and I don't I don't see how Going to her is gonna benefit me. Oh, so you don't believe that that that can possibly work. Oh, I don't know I just I you know, I feel I feel like a real man. I don't have anger. I lead Um, I exhibit a lot of alpha male qualities.  Don't ask for forgiveness, but forgive them and I will forgive you you'll be free Couldn't I just forgive them in my mind? Do I have to go and tell them I forgive them? Right? You have to jail them because what's going to happen when you face her You're going to get your courage back And telling her your mind is a cow of the way out and it's because you're afraid to face her And when you face her which if she started crying, that's fine If she get angry, that's fine If she if she fall out and die, that's fine like oh mama did and And go into the kitchen If she died go into the kitchen and looking at draw right next to the civilware. That's where the insurance paper is And turn the paper in real fast before you tell your brothers and sisters And have a little cheap funeral and go live your life But you're not you're not going to be free until you face her Because she took away your courage when she made you when she imposed a will on you She took your courage away as well. And so Uh, that's why you have to face it. You're going to shake in your boots But it'll be the last time you ever shake with anything or anyone about anything I grew up in a single parent household under my father's Under my father not my mother Oh under your father. How'd I say with your father? Good Oh, yeah, so you don't resent your father at all There are some things that I don't agree with. He's a beta male all day.  He his father wasn't in his life telling american Emotional crazy yelling screaming type people and he was raised by his mother So he's got a lot of beta male qualities very emotional So, uh, I don't agree with and so have you forgiven him? Um, yes, I have you went to him. Yes. Okay. How'd they go? He didn't like it That's fine. It's not about them liking it or not and about you overcoming them They don't that's why God said see human beings don't forgive It's impossible for a human being to forgive. But what happens is you apologize for judging them Anyone who has anger has hatred and anyone who has hatred is judging And when you judge, you become like what you judge, right? And so that's why God said go and forgive them and I will forgive you They don't have to apologize. They don't have to admit they can get mad But long as you forgive them, you will go free your whole world will start to change You will overcome and it'll be amazing And life will just become amazing for you. You will find yourself dealing with all kind of issues Are you able to go and talk to your mother if you wanted to?  I don't know. I think I think um Understanding my father was more important to me. Okay. I just I mean Yeah, I'm more concerned with uh father-son relationship than my relationship with my mother. All right. It's just unimportant to me Well, you will always be controlled by women Until you overcome their nature You're gonna always look to get love from them. They don't have it sex is not love As a matter of fact when you have sex, it's a it should be a quick quick bam bam. Thank you, ma'am It should be all the licking and lapping and lasting for half an hour and you know what I mean You're not into that, right? Yeah I'm not I'm not looking for love. I don't women. Let me get that Well, you have said do you do a quick bam bam. Thank you ma'am. Sometimes. Oh, okay. Yeah. Keep it that way because what happens Will you have what happened when you go for a long time you licking and lapping and you carrying on Then the woman is controlling you You're worshiping her because you're doing it for them. Yeah You're worshiping her. You'd be surprised. I'm about is really a spiritual battle And it's the battle between the men and women and a lot of women don't understand what they're doing either And you'll be surprised how you're being controlled by evil When it should not be that way you should overcome evil. You should not be controlled by evil And so do what you want, of course, but I suggest you face your mother So you can completely become the man that you should be Because women need that your children are going to need that if you ever make children Otherwise it's not going to work That makes sense it does so If you do have children, how do you prevent the mother from Influencing them and and what's going to happen when you return to the father You're going to see that he would provide all your needs And so why why you're just living he'll provide all your needs And if your heart desires to be married he will add a woman unto you a man should never look for a woman Because when you look for the woman, you're going to find the wrong one every time But because god loves us so much He will add the right woman unto you and you will have a marriage that will last you until after your part And you will be able to stand between the woman and your children so that she doesn't pass that spirit on to them You will see it. You will have the right relationship.  A woman would you don't know masculinity draws women unto you You don't have to look for that, right? But if you have not overcome that You think that you got to look for them. You got to buy them. You got to get them money A lot of men are spending their money on women. They're taking them on trips They're buying them expensive things. They're putting them up in apartments and things like that I know and you don't have to do that You should do that because all you're doing is encouraging the woman to use you to hate you And women don't respect men that do that. I remember in high school. I was dating this girl in the level of truck rape And at that time we had like bubblegum machines at school and it cost 25 cent to get one And so one day she said to me hey, jessie you got 25 cent. I'm like, yeah, why? She said I want to get a bubblegum I'm like wow this woman tried to use me And so I gave her the 25 cent and I adopted her Because I thought she would use me for my money Because in those days men weren't wasn't weak like that. We didn't give women money Sometimes we take them out by the McDonald kind of dinner But we didn't worship women the way men are doing it today And because we knew and understood the order of things And so Men are weak to women and it's just making things worse. It's not making it better guys It's not going to get better Until you overcome that and you'll see how to treat her in the right way Because you would treat her the way that you've been treated from your by your father within right Everything you're looking for Everything you want your talent your purpose everything you want is inside of you. It's not on the outside It's on the inside and when you forgive you start living from within rather than without and then when you live that way You cannot go wrong. You must you must return to the father. You cannot go wrong, right? So I want to encourage you guys you got to ask individuals Start questioning things Overcoming that father state otherwise your kids are going to suffer and each generation will get worse and worse and worse Because the father's weak The father got to be strong and you're not going to be strong Until you overcome that emotional state which come from your mother. You were not created that way It did not come from god. It's that normal for men to be emotional like that You got to do it now.  I mean no sweat off my back I'm just here to tell you if you want to be free you got to overcome the female nature You must be born of the father You must return to your father. The worst thing that can happen to a man and a female but in particular male Is to be turned away from his father. Our issue is the spiritual matter. It's not physical at all Any question about that? No, I watch you all the time, man. I Yeah, it didn't help me a lot. I was for sure Yeah Well take the next step and go and forgive your mother and you haven't seen anything man You will it would be as though you never went through anything It'll blow your mind the only thing that keeps you down is that emotional state and that mindset. All right Yeah Well, thank you, man. Thank you. Just you jesse has helped me see a lot of things very clearly and Honestly after watching him just about every day during lunch. I mean I get to laugh and it's really funny But he's helped me see things a lot clearly and uh Proved my life pretty good, man drastically. So watch this guy go see your mother, all right all right, so Uh Any question for me Anybody about in it? Okay. Come to the mic Hey, jesse. Hey, sir. Yeah. Nice. That's Sergio the music boy You guys heard of Sergio the music boy I'll do a radio show uh money's in front of I guess podcast and it's on from six to nine And we play Sergio music on there. He just came what's your name your new song surgeon? Oh, uh, douchey Douchey. Yeah, it's on my youtube. Yeah, a very nice song. So check it out. Go to jesseley peterson dot com uh, or Sergio What's your thing? Yeah, Sergio music boy Sergio music. Yeah. All right, and Sergio used to be a beta I was still working on it. Oh, okay. So yeah, I had a question because I was talking to attendees here and some of the speakers and uh, I hear that they're talking about how We're not slot makers, but that it's the woman's choice and it doesn't make us slot makers So I kind of wanted to hear Your perspective on that it's a woman choice. Yeah, so it's like they're they're saying that Oh, it's it's not us. We're not doing it. It's the woman choosing it. So we're not really slot makers. Are we? when women are Especially millennial women and younger, right? They are sluts today. It's hard to not to see a slap When I'm at the gym and these women wearing these tight clothes all of their butt and And they're looking around to see who's looking at them But what women are women are looking for father's love Because their mothers have turned them away from their fathers and that emptyness that all human being has When they when they are not closer to their father growing up It leaves a void in your life and in that void you start looking outside to fulfill that void And that's what women are doing women are looking for a father's love. But instead they get screwed, right? It's not the woman's fault. It's her job in that father's day to tempt you In order to control you because women are not that intersex But they'll do it because they are like sex dealers and men are sex addicts And so women will do it to control you But they prefer not to do it. They prefer you to correct them and bring them out of that state And it is the man's fault Starting the home with the fathers and the mothers the thing But it's the man fault that she's in that condition Because he won't break her out of that state He doesn't understand that he needs to overcome his mother So that he could break her out of that condition And if you notice women are getting worse today as men get weaker Women are getting worse. They're not good for house. I mean for wives They're no good for mothers because they need the men to help them overcome Yes, he is responsible for her action But it's really the responsibility of man of the man not to take advantage of her weakness to resist her Or her seduction and we get married You can guide her in the right way to go you have a good wife and and kids and we can create a new So every time like we go out and like let's say we're trying to look for women out in the streets And uh, every time we see one and you know, we tempt her or whatever we talk to her We have this intention of having sex with her It's it's really, uh It's really us to blame Yes Because you're looking for a mama's love you might not realize it But that's what you're looking for But once you overcome mama when you deal with women you're going to deal with them in a perfect way It's not that you won't deal with them, but you won't be subject to them They'll be subject to you and you'll be able to get to know them You will not have sex with them before marriage So you can see if this is the right person for me and she will see if it's the right person for her And when you win and if you do get married you would have all the issues that will happen today Divorces would be nonexistent or less Every your kids will have a chance But it is the man fault because if he resists he she she can't tempt him It's her job to tempt you, but it's your job to resist it But you can't resist it if you don't have not overcome your mother because you're looking for mama's love All right, so you go out looking for women No, you don't go out looking for them. No, oh, okay I do go out have fun, but not with that in mind. You should have fun. You should Enjoy women enjoy human being period but enjoy women but not for that reason women need men to be strong But men cannot be strong until they return to their natural state of being That's the only way it's gonna happen guys No other way because they would deal you sex Just to control you and sex is not love. It's just a ego feeling it makes you feel good And it's never enough the more you get the more you want right because it's just like going to a drug dealer And he's giving you your your drug free at first you become addicted You keep going back and after a while it's not enough you want more you want more and they end up destroying yourself And sass the only reason that we need sass is to make children To get married and make babies if you don't want to have children. There's no reason to have saps No reason at all Y'all might be quiet. Why are y'all so quiet? What? No Why well, that's all I wanted to all right. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Absolutely appreciate it Any other question about anything? Yes First of all, this is my first time seeing you and this is absolutely mind-blowing. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, so A lot of I guess I would say conventional wisdom is as men we have to Have consistent sex with our women to keep them satisfied and from strength Is that something that you disagree with wholeheartedly or what are your thoughts on that? Having consistent sex to do what? No to keep her satisfied to keep her satisfied. Correct. Oh Is that and your question is what? Do you disagree with that if you're 100 percent?  You don't care about my Emotions, you don't care about how I feel right what she's really saying is you are not letting me control you anymore I can't control you. I used to have control over you and now you're not doing it.  You're not being my emotion. I feel disconnected Really what they're saying is you're not letting me control you And I used to control you when I first met you you catered to me. You gave me what I want We had a lot of sex. You're just saying they had control over you. That's all they'll complain about Don't give it to that guys. Otherwise, they will destroy you So just a quick observation and another quick question. Yes Um, so you're saying sex is used by women to control us one 100 percent. Okay.  Okay Question two marriage is obviously ideal, but The legal ramifications of divorce You know push a lot of us away from getting married involving the state and the government and our affairs.  Because you got to realize the nature of a woman is evil And she cannot help it.     It wouldn't happen to you Understood But because you're doing it the wrong way you're getting you're doing it in darkness You're setting yourself up to be destroyed by the woman It will not go right when you start out doing it the wrong way And i've been there i've done that and i understand that but you've got to start doing it the right way If you want to turn out right if you have sex with a woman before marriage it ain't gonna work Because you're doing it the wrong way if you get with an older woman it ain't gonna work Because you're doing it the wrong way a man should never ever ever ever ever ever Get involved with an older woman you get involved with mama As she will control you and it will not work But we got to do it the right way in order for it to work Because the courts are not for the man They are on the side of the woman because this world is of evil Controlled by satan right and satan is working through the woman So she's like ruling the world because her daddy satan is of the world I'm a father of heaven and inside of us if we live that way we can defeat the evil So when you do it wrong you can expect the court to do that But if you do it the right way the courts cannot interfere with your life because you're married the right kind of woman So thank you very much. All right. Did you overcome your mother? I will today Oh, you didn't know about until now, right? Yeah, okay. All right any other question Okay, well, I have a few questions and I'm gonna close this out. Um The man in the blue shirt Yes, can you come over to the mic for me? He's like what What Hey, what is it? Hi What hi, hi How old are you 24 24? Did did you know that all thoughts are all lies all the time about anything? Sorry, could you say that one more time? Did you know that all thoughts are all lies all the time? No, did you know that there's no such thing as a true thought? No, why did you know that? because I never thought about it that way, uh, do you think you create your own thoughts? Yes, and how do you do it? But just thinking how do you how do you start just thinking? What are the steps to start thinking? From what you believe what you see your surroundings give me an example how you create your own thoughts I'd say uh, let's say to me. You know how you got up this morning you got dressed you did You can tell me that stuff, right? So how did you create your own thought the first one you had this morning? How did you create that? I guess just routine Can you give me the steps of how you did it? Well, you gotta take care. Well, I know I gotta take care of myself in the morning. So Right, that's to go through the steps of what you want to do your teeth shower Use a bathroom all that stuff get ready for the day amazing it's just like nature like So you're the creator of your own thoughts, right? I wouldn't Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah, and so do you sometimes create thoughts that bring pain upon you and Caught you to do the wrong things? Yes, why would you create thoughts that would hurt you? I don't know. I don't answer that question Uh, and I have a reason to ask you guys this right, but let me ask um Have you ever wondered why am I creating thoughts that would bring pain upon me and make me make the wrong decision and think like that? Yeah, time to time I don't usually have an answer for that you haven't got an answer for that Is it possible you're not the creator of your own thoughts? Yeah, that's possible Because the one thing I want you guys to know You don't create thoughts They are not from God and they are not from you and every thought that you get is a lie No such thing as a true thought all thoughts are all lies all the time about anything And I'm saddened because I really want you guys can get to know yourself to pay attention to what's going on We really really pay attention to thoughts They make you think about the future that doesn't exist Or they make you think about the past that doesn't exist They won't let you live in the present and all we have All we have is right now Everything else is an illusion Whatever happened yesterday. It's over. It doesn't even exist anymore But Satan will remind you to make you think that it exists now And when today is bad for you, he'll tell you tomorrow would be better And when tomorrow come if it comes then it's even worse and now you're disappointed But if you can learn to just live in the present rather than living in your head You have an amazing life life would just unfold for you But you got to overcome the fallen state first You are not your thought anyone that think that they they are of their thoughts They have the mindset of a woman.   All right, and of course it is disagreement with that You guys can disagree we can argue we can yell whatever But we got to get it right. Yes, sir. How would you start? How would you start to overcome as you say?  For now, yeah How old are you 24? Bird Um Do you know what a beta is? Yeah Do you ever heard of a beta? Yeah Oh You heard my show before Uh, no Oh good Uh, why are you still living a home with mother with mama? It's just for the time being to like, uh It's not it's not permanent. It's just temporary. How old are you 24? It's permanent You should have gone when you turned 18 years old a man should never ever ever be at home after 18 years Oh, except with some type of emergency, right? Sometimes you just can't help it But any man that's home at stay home at 18 after 18 is a beta male Why don't you move man? What's your I guess it was always like instilling in me to like always like take care of the mother as you get older Take care of the mother.  You're not responsible for your mother Your parents were responsible for you. They're supposed to take care of you. It wasn't a An investment.    I don't like her. I don't like the way she treat you I don't like this, right?  What do you think about that? Otherwise, why would your mother need to around?  Here's what I recommend On my website Silent prayer dot video on my youtube channel right now What Silent prayer dot com I mean dot video I want you to start doing that so you can settle down And when you settle down you start to see from within and god will guide you he will show you how to overcome all these things And you will overcome by getting to know yourself All right, but you got to pay attention to self so you can forgive her for what she's done She set you up for you to stay there as long as you can And if you move she's going to follow you. I make you feel guilty You're not responsible for your mother Your father's responsible for her not you and if she ran your father off she's responsible for herself not you So I recommend you get two jobs three jobs You move out and you start dealing with the issues of life so you can grow up Men grow up by dealing with the issues of life. You don't grow up by staying at home with mama If you don't deal with situations, you can't grow into a manhood You got to welcome tough situations Don't get upset about them overcome them and your life will get better But as long as you're protected from them, you only get worse in life I remember when I was growing up my grandparents and my mother Told me at 18 you're out of here You're going to leave here at 18. I'm like, where am I going? They're like, I don't know and I don't care but you're out of here, right? And I grew up on a plantation down in Alabama under the chemical laws and all that But what they did they taught us to work and to be responsible How to save our money to take care of ourselves, right? So when I turned 18 I finished high school That May and I moved out and moved to Indiana got me a job moved to California And I went through I've gone through hell, but it made a man. I don't make me better or not better And my my mother didn't follow me anywhere. My grandmother or grandfather didn't follow me That's abnormal man. You got to get a job and get away from your mother You don't owe her anything But forgive her for doing that to you know She couldn't help it What do you think about that? I think you're right Yeah Any questions about that become my time is up any question about that? No All right Well, forgive her man and go live your life get two jobs Three jobs you can do it, but you got to get away from mama. Don't be afraid to take care of yourself. All right So Any questions? No. All right. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. All right Mr. Jesse Lee Peterson So here's what I want to recommend. I know I'm gonna be talking tomorrow But you got to take responsibility for your life guys. It's abnormal to be weak It's abnormal to have anxiety depression to be angry to be insecure You will create it by God to be of love and love is not a feeling It's not something you can taste or touch It has no fear no doubt no anything so that he can create love through you And we will have the world would be amazing if men were to wake up. All right So go to my website at jessilyp and uh www dot silent prayer dot video check us out at jessilyp Peterson dot com Or rebuild the demand dot com. All right. Thank you all so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Jesse