Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE, covering AWS Public Sector Summit 2018, brought to you by Amazon Web Services and its ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone. This is theCUBE, we are live in Washington D.C. at Amazon Web Services, AWS Public Sector Summit. This is their big event, this is their reinvent for the public sector, but it's technically a summit. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante.  Great to have you on, thanks for coming on. And thanks for having us. So you guys have a lot of experience working very on the front lines with some really big deployments, implementations with cloud, working with some agencies. So first question is right on the gate is, is this really happening, this cloud thing? Yeah, absolutely, and it's been a, we started the company in 2010. One of my partners and I had done, worked on recovery.gov as a cloud engineer and it was just something that at the time, no one knew what the cloud was and we really looked at this as an opportunity when we started the business, this is where things are going to go. We didn't realize when we started the company though, as a small business, you can't just get started and say yeah, we know the cloud, we can help you do these things. You have to have past performance, you have to have relationships and so it's taken so long for the government to get around to the point where they're really at this, just starting now to put a lot of larger production workloads into the cloud and it's been a long journey where you've had this, it's like Groundhog Day, you have the same conversation over and over again with different people and different organizations about security, about compliance, about a variety of issues, how you procure it and everyone has the same questions, has the same problems and it's so much about education. And there's a lot of upfront medicine you got to take. Like you said, if you're new, it's like a jungle, wait a minute, I thought it was going to be easier. How did you guys, what was the key motivational point? How did you keep going? What was the driving force? Was it Amazon Tailwind for you? Was it more of grinding it out? The Amazon, our relationship with Amazon Web Services has been great. They've been a tremendous supporter of us and as a small business, they've really relied on their partners to be a force multiplier for them in the public sector space and that's been tremendous for us. They've really allowed us to play. And that's true, that's actually, they're doing that. Yeah, absolutely. And not necessarily the case as much on the commercial side where they're more apt to deal directly with the customers but they really relied on the partner network and partner ecosystem on the public sector space to really help them drive things forward. So for us, to have that relationship has been tremendous value for us. But also, we do things and allow those to broaden the group of what we have from a vehicle's perspective, small business set-asides that allow us to do business with organizations that AWS can. Let's take a minute to explain what you guys do. Great commentary on the cloud and your opportunity. What do you guys do for service? What kind of services are you providing? And can you take a minute to talk about the company? Sure, I mean, so when we started the company in 2010 and really it was a two partners and I said, we had been consultants in the IT industry, had worked in the belt way, and felt like we should do a company that was different than everyone else. More of a commercial style focused entity where it's about the technology and how do you bring that disruptive technology to government and business so that they can take advantage of it as opposed to being overwhelmed by it. And the cloud is really that underlying core technology that really affects, it's really a paradigm shift for how organizations do business. So for us, you know, it was, that's the area we want to get into. When we did a lot around mobility, a lot around collaboration, virtualization, virtual apps, virtual desktops, but really at the end of the day, cloud- Are you writing software or are you doing integrator? No, no, no, we're really, again, we, it was about building a company that technologists who are in this area, who are, you know, there's some great, smart people who are working in this area. From a, people in the belt way, you'll sit at a desk doing a job for five years. Your company that will lose that contract to some other company, you'll stay in the same seat. You'll go work for a different company for the next five years. Somebody else will win the contract and you stay in that same seat. So it's a, you're really working for the agency and not really working for the company that you're employed by. And we really wanted to build something that was more commercial-esque where it was about, what do you bring to me as an organization?  So this morning, Teresa showed a slide. I think I counted 60 consulting partners. Now you guys have achieved a premier consulting partner status. Yes. You're not like an everyday name with some of the big guys that are on there. So how did you achieve that? How do you differentiate in that sea of really world-class consultants and how do you achieve that premier status with AWS? It's been a lot of work. I mean, for us, I mean, I think there's, there are some organizations that've gotten it just based off of their size and it was what AWS needs to have those larger partners. We, I think we really did earn it. We've met every requirement to get to that status. And for us, it's a huge badge of honor that we've achieved that. And it's a lot of hard work for a small company. We have, we're coming up on 70 employees. So we're not, you know, not a 10,000, 20,000 employee environment. So for us to achieve that and have the level of sales and that we do in the space, it's certainly not easy. It's really being singularly focused on the vision of how we want to run the company and sticking to that, even though the market may try to push you other directions and even your customers say, we're not ready for cloud, that you have to really stick to it and be focused on that being your core business. You talked about moving production workloads to the cloud earlier. I wonder if you could help us sort of squint through that because when you talk to what Andy Jassy calls the old guard, John, right? The old guy, they'll say, people aren't moving production workloads into the cloud. When you talk to AWS, you just referenced production workloads are going into the cloud. I'd like to talk to consultants who are, at least quasi-independent, what's really happening there? What kind of production workloads are going into the cloud? I think we're just now hitting that part of the market where we're starting to see more of the large scale production workloads being moved to the cloud. We moved our first organization, a 2,500 user environment, that we moved to the cloud three, four years ago. So for us being able to do that kind of workload to be all in on the cloud isn't something that we shyed away from. But when you started to deal with a lot of these organizations we had prime contracts with NOAA, which has massive data, US Pat trademark office and work with USGS. Some of these agencies have massive data. They just weren't really built as an organization to be able to adopt that cloud technology. So we really looked at it a couple of years ago and made a bit of a conscious effort to help to push them as an organization to understand the structure of how they need to really build their organization. We're very much an ITIL shop on how you build an IT process. But even with that, it doesn't really take in innovative technology. The speed at which AWS innovates and produces new technology, new features is something that I don't think that anyone has seen before in an IT realm. So building an organization that's able to understand that, to be able to implement that technology and be in a compliant manner to make it available to their application owners and their users is something that you really have to have the right organizational structure to be able to achieve. And why is that not a problem for AWS customers, your customers? Because if a legacy IT vendor, first of all, they can't innovate that fast. But if they were to innovate that fast, they tend to move at a much slower speed. The IT organizations that buy from them. Why is that pace of innovation not problematic for your customers? I think it is, but it's, and again, I think our challenge has been to help them to build the type of an organization that can respond to that. Knowing that there's one constant in IT technology today, which has changed, that whatever's here today is going to be different tomorrow. There's going to be new features and you have to be able to build an organization that isn't just, we're going to build a data center, build a bunch of firewalls around it, put our data there and we're going to be safe. Today's IT landscape moves too quickly. You really have to build, look to the way that it's done in the commercial enterprise is the way a Netflix builds really to be disruptive, I mean, to be destructive and how they build their technology knowing it's going to fail and look to do that same type of an implementation to help build your security within a federal organization. You got to change the culture and process, all of everything all at once with new tech. So I got to ask you the question that was in everyone's mind, mine included is what's your observation of the current state of affairs with respect to cloud native and cloud because you got people who might jump on and say, I love this, so it'll be fearful. You're in there, what's the new aha moment that people are having? Can you share some insight into what's going on in the mind and the actual implementations? What's changed? What's the most important story that we should be telling? I think that we're right now at that point. I think that's probably, I've heard reports less than 7% of the data center workloads have been moved to infrastructure as a service. I think that's probably even on the high side, 7%. But you're now starting to get all the work that we've done with a lot of these organizations is they've been pilots, proof of concepts, really dipping their toe, large organizations just dipping their toe in the water. We're getting to the point now where these organizations are approaching their primary applications for their organization and saying, we're ready to move that too. And for us, it's a lot, it's been so much education, so much work to try to help get them there. So for us, we're just excited to actually see it come to fruition. In 2010, the round of time you started your company, I remember John VMware at the time Paul Moritz was saying, any app, any workload will run on VMware. And there were a lot of skeptics and they've largely achieved that. Remember they used to talk about the software mainframe. The cloud, similar kind of narrative. Now it's a little different now. Let's take an example of Oracle in particular. You're seeing Oracle use, for example, it's pricing power to really try to force people to use its own cloud, jacking up prices if they want to use it on Amazon. What do you tell customers that are basically reliant on that Oracle database? Should they move that into the cloud? Should they try to figure out, okay, let's go to Aurora or Redshift or some other patent. What's their right strategy? So I mean, we're technology agnostic, generally speaking. That's why I can trust your answer here. But we really do lean toward what we call best in breed technologies. So AWS has been something that we've been all in on AWS since 2011, 2012. We've made that a conscious effort. And they've really done some things, I think as part of their business model that we really appreciate as a partner and as a customer. We've always had our infrastructure from day one on AWS. Also our infrastructure on Office 365. So we understand where to focus those efforts. When it comes to what the organization like an Oracle, I don't want to necessarily disparage them, but they're not necessarily focused on bringing the best value of their customers. A lot of times it seems that it's about what's right for the bottom line of their stockholders and what drives up the price of stock as opposed to what's the best solution I could put forward to really be great at database. So I think if you look at it, AWS has already built a roadmap to where you can get 70 to 80% of your database applications to be migrated to an open software database model. And you can massively reduce, so many of these large organizations, a large portion of their IT spend is on those Oracle, those specialty applications. So if you can drop that cost by 60, 70%, but we always tell our organization, don't just throw that money away, take those savings. Roll that into making a better application. Use that 60, 70% savings and fix how you deliver. Make your data more mobile, make it more available to your user base. Invest in analytics. Invest back in how you're doing it, using Redshift or whatever other analytics to get better results. Yeah, awesome, Craig. Great insight, congratulations on your success at JHC Technologies, you're the founder and CEO of, and congratulations on all the hard work. And you got to just, I won't say do your time, I've heard that quote in the government's sector, you got to do your time. Time's shrinking with the clouds. So, you know, got a great opportunity. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Yeah, thank you very much for having me. Okay, you're watching theCUBE here live in Washington DC. I'm John Furrier, stay with us. Day one here is continuing. Be right back.


This is the way Star Wars Hey guys, this is my review for the Mandalorian the first season the show that was produced on Disney plus majority of it written and directed by John Favaro as well as other very talented filmmakers like Debra Chow take a Wahidi and Dave Ioni. This show is literally the very embodiment of what everyone called Star Wars when it first came out It's a space western. No, really. It's a space western. Freaking Carl Weathers gets shot And he's saved by a block of the really expensive stuff in his pocket. That's straight out of a western movie This is the amalgamation I would say of the best parts in terms of its tone from Rogue one and it includes all of the memorable Aspects that we have come to know and love from the original Star Wars trilogy. This is not the Disney Star Wars This is its own sort of idea all the while being a massive fan service Respectfully as well as its own entity cannot applaud them more so for that I honestly didn't think John Favaro had it in him to do this sure He kind of started off the MCU but that more so was taken on by Feige But this he does really well the character of the Mandalorian made me love this show The world building with the entire Mando creed made me love this show It also made me like Mandalorians never understood the Boba Fett Phenomenon I know that he's more interesting in the books the legends the comics even as a kid I didn't think this guy was that interesting because he didn't do anything in the original trilogy He fell down a hole and in all of the eight episodes I would only say that the fifth one the middle one which is unfortunately directed and written by Defione It's probably the most pointless episode But otherwise it's like a good dip like this from beginning to end the initial three episodes being about Baby Yoda the absolute amazing pop phenomenon that's going on right now and his connection with the Mandalorian all the while We're still figuring out more about the character more about his past then we get some kind of rando episodes like in the fourth episode Which is 100% seven samurai? I'm surprised that no one made that much of a comparison to it because it's Literally the seven samurai and it's directed by Bryce Dallas Howard Collie Kajena is in it too and she's pretty kick-ass then there's a really boring episode and the sixth episode is its heist kind of a Jailbreak literally like a western movie Bill Burr's in it And he's it kind of seems like he's on some form of morphine because he's not as energetic as I'm used to from his stand-up I wasn't as into his characters I thought I would be considering it's Bill Burr one of the best parts about that episode though Is when everything starts to go topsy-turvy Mando goes from being the hunted to the hunter And we see just how good of a fighter He is in that episode then the seventh and eighth episode are obviously building up to the finale which was a lot better than I expected It to be characters died. There was consequences. There was a really cool emotional moment with the TK robot Which I didn't expect I loved its consistency was staying in this realm Keeping this sort of adult as much as you could with the PG-13 Disney product and keeping the same Love and appreciation of Star Wars that people came to know and love from the original trilogy And I really think that this shows that John Perferro and Dave Fiona should definitely have more association with Star Wars Maybe not Fiona as a director Maybe like as a supervising writer or a producer which he should be this was so much better than I expected It had a massive influx of people watching this This is one of the most streamed titles in history probably a lot of people canceled their Disney Plus accounts right after this But they'll get it right back once season two arrives I enjoyed every aspect of it even Carl Weathers with his hilarious pose like this I couldn't take it seriously every time he's doing this stance Mando. I am a job for you I beat up Rocky Woods fantastic narrative fantastic characters great world building an enjoyable pace for the middle a Fantastic final product so my final score for the Mandalorian season one is a six out of seven I'm kind of curious to see what they do the second season considering How they did the arc of this first season they made characters from the first five episodes Almost all of them come back and have a matter in the final episode if they keep this same creative team It's going to be great. It's going to be fantastic. 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Thank you again for tuning in to will mega TV Please subscribe click like drop your thoughts in the comments area And if you really want to see us continue to push out great content supporters Cash app will mega that's dollar sign will mega dollar sign will mega. Thank you Good afternoon everybody It's an honor to be here Oh Thank you. Thank you. This is like home now And the other library branch is beautiful and to come in here today and see This be these beautiful pictures of the wall these beautiful books on the shelves and see all you beautiful people here It's really something special to open up a library at a time But they're trying to close libraries trying to shut down schools. They're trying to hide books from us They're trying to erase our curricula and instead here in Wilmington. We do in the opposite That doesn't have my accident It takes struggle everything we've ever gotten as a people's come from struggle Every curriculum we've opened up every school we've built all of it comes from struggle and the struggle right here Wilmington a big part of business brother right here. Do you want please get him around? I have a career in media to career in academia And before I would do any of that I was at the kitchen table I was about three years old And uh, my mom came home. She was a school teacher in Philly and she would borrow books from school We still got them books you borrow I thought all books started with property and fill up his school district But I opened up the book And I read and some of y'all hold up to remember Dick Jane and spot See spot run go spot go dick. It was this whole Family of just deliriously happy white people But I learned how to read But what I didn't learn was that we had families That we had imaginations that we had stories that could be in those books that we were eligible to be written into history But it wasn't because we didn't do it We got long history of writing You go anywhere around this country and find a philis weekly ymc or usually ywca philis weekly was the first african-american To publish a book first Public but also the first person to publish a book man or woman And when she tried to write poems on various subjects religious and moral the first thing they did was say she couldn't write this book This black woman 16 years old Sin of the leaves of one officer. She couldn't have wrote this so they had a trial for philis weekly They said did this black girl write this stuff. Did she really write that letter to general George Washington? Did she really write that Elegy for a fallen soldier. Did she really write that poem on being brought from africa to america? He said it ain't possible for her to know greek. It ain't possible for her to know latin And so all these people from thomas jefferson to the wells leads to the open all these people whose names is now these fancy white colleges That also don't let us in They put her on trial, but it wasn't just her on trial.  We did it anyway The world knows who you are The world knows what you're capable of they said y'all can't read and write but they made laws so that we wouldn't learn how to read and write They know who you are They said you're lazy for major slaves. They said you were dirty for how to clean their houses. They said you are uncentralizing. We raise their children They know who you are But now but now We have to remind ourselves of who we are That's what's in those books and once again Those same children they say are violent those same children of ours our babies that they say aren't capable of doing anything in the world They do with everything they can to make sure we don't go in those libraries They do everything they can to make sure those history books stay closed or if they open them that they got the wrong things in them So now just like when we were running From plantations just like when we were fighting In hush harbors to read our bibles and our karans just like when we were building schools Just like when we were doing everything we could to get into those School districts not because we thought our IQs would go up when other people were there But because we knew books would be there Just like in those moments. This is another moment where we have to fight for the soul of our community We have to fight for the spirit of our community.  That's cool. We should read about white people. We should read about black people We should read about everybody. I learned a lot from dick jayden spot I did I learned a lot from Are you there god? It's me mark or judy bloom Do you mean imagine being this six-year-old boy reading ahead of his grade level in north philly? I must I must I must increase my bus But I learned some things from these books But then I found my own people I found my own tradition I'm so happy to be talking to my dear sister eliasa because I opened up the autobiography of malcomax And I ain't been the same since It transformed my life It transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world Not just the book itself But the lesson inside the book which taught us that books had the capacity to transform your life that reading and love Had the capacity to transform your life So what we're doing here in earth woman to today is not just opening a library. Although that's important We are standing on the sturdy shoulders of our ancestors Who opened the door for us to read these books to write ourselves into history and to fight another leg for freedom So I want to thank y'all for coming I hope y'all come upstairs and building us And again, I want to thank the number one in the library for this historic achievement


An appeal court, seating in Port Harcourt, has fixed Thursday 28 October 2021 to hear and rule on motion for interim order of injunction brought by former National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secundice, against the PDP and others. Prince Uche Secundice brought his council, Payo Oyetubo, and is asking the court to suspend the October 31st National Convention of the PDP, and allow him the right to preside over the convention. When the matter was mentioned in court, six other members of the PDP drew the attention of the court on their application for jointer. This was not opposed by council to Secundice and was subsequently granted by the three-month panel of the appeal court. Defendants, council including those who joined in the suit, however, opposed the motion for interim injunction by Secundice's council. I have an application on behalf of the Prince Uche Secundice to restrain the holding of the National Convention, which is scheduled for 30th and 31st. And so many people came to say they want to join, which caused some delay. And the court felt that it was necessary to hear everyone concerned. So the court has given them opportunity to come and say whatever they want to say. And the matter is adjourned to 1,000 days. So the court said it would decide whether the convention should go on or not on 1,000 days. So everybody is waiting for the decision of the court on 1,000 days. That is when everybody will know whether or not the convention will take place. It's an appeal of 300 against an interim order made by the High Court on 23rd of August 2021. The court has agreed with all the other appeal is academic, it's a therefore being struck out. In appeal number 340 by PDP against Mike Lenz and Uche Secundice, PDP's new council, upon going through the processes in the appeal, did not see any need for PDP to appeal against the judgment, which is a confirmation of steps taken by officers of PDP.


And when he said سبحانه وتعالى that يارزق من يشاء بغير حساب. يارزق الله من يشاء بغير حساب that Allah provides whomever he pleases without any reckoning. الله سبحانه وتعالى has no reckoning like merchants. In this world they reckon that something cost the added value, transportation. They look at all those, they examine all of these things and then they look at what their reasonable profit is and then they sell it for that. And the person buying it also thinks about he might go and look at other places because he reckons people in this world they reckon and why? Why do they do that? Because they're limited. Their supplies are limited. Their capital is limited. The person purchasing knows that he has a limited budget. As you go buy a house the first thing the real estate agent says to you is what price range are you looking for? Because they don't want you to waste their time because they know you're limited but they don't know how much that limit is. Is it 2 million, 5 million, 10 million? Those houses in the bay area 15, 20 million dollars. There's people who can afford those. So everybody has limitations on their bounty, on their wealth. But Allah SWT has no limitations. So He has permitted houses to be set up where He can be glorified in those houses by night and by day. And He visits and tells us that the people that are going to occupy those houses are people that aren't diverted by their تجارة and their بيق. By the world the concerns of this life engagement in activities. But this group in here or wherever we are in the bay area there's a number of massage in the bay area. This is a limited number. But if you look at the actual people that are in the massage and how much they represent first of all of the overall community it's a minute amount of people. Most people right now are working. They're waiting till 5 o'clock. Thank God it's Friday or 4 o'clock. So they can leave their offices and go and do what they do on the weekend and return on Monday. Where is their primary activity? Their primary activity is the acquisition of wealth. That's the primary activity and what people are doing out there. And humans have to do that because we've created very complicated societies where we need exchange of goods. Nobody can do everything. We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We have situations where we go and we work and we do these things and we help each other.  When I was in West Africa it's very easy to make a pair of shoes. It's not hard. There won't be nice Prada shoes or some kind of Italian shoe but it's not hard to do. You can even, there's homeless people that have cardboard that they just tie onto their feet. Humans can do a lot of things but we've created complicated societies in a certain way we like to be fashionable whatever. So all of those things create complication. The more complex a society becomes the more difficult it becomes for any one person to become independent. No, they're completely dependent on others for groceries, all these things. We don't farm, we don't do this. This is the the hour of human nature. But the majority of people become so obsessed with the acquisition of wealth that they forget the primary purpose of life. Not only do they become so obsessed with the acquisition of wealth but their obsession wears them out. And because they get worn out they need recreation. So the weekend in our culture becomes two days or two and a half days of just trying to restore some of their vital energy in order to go back in to the fay of the work week. And then at the end of the day they're so exhausted every night that they literally go home and just drop dead. Literally. And wind down as they say. Wind down because they're all wound up getting tighter and tighter. So they wind down. Wind down usually with things like wine in this culture. That's how they wind down with wine. But Allah SWT tells us in the Quran that the primary purpose of life is not your commercial activities. The primary purpose of life is not the acquisition of wealth. In fact we're warned about that in the Quran. In many verses. There's people who say اهلكتو مان اللومدد. The person that does it he's not self-reflective and he says اهلكتو مان اللومدد. He's boasting. اهلكتو مان اللومدد. There's people who in the Quran Allah SWT they say اهلكمو تكاثرو. حتى زركم المقابر. Divying with one another in the acquisition of goods has you so preoccupied. It has you entertained. In fact the word لحو really the root of it is entertained. Entertainment is when you are diverted in something that is not primary does entertain me. In Arabic لحو is to be concerned with something that is not primary to your concern to the detriment of what is primary to your concern. Now the proposal I sent permitted لحو in homeopathic doses. He permitted لحو during weddings E-festivities things like that. Occasionally لحو is important recreation. One of the things one of the Sahaba said sometimes I use باتن things that are meaningless things in order to أستجمع in order to recreate for حق in order to recreate in other words to restore my energy for حق so you can exhaust yourself in حق and باتن but in our society most people have become so preoccupied with their acquisition of wealth and then with trying to sustain the energy necessary for that complete preoccupation. الله سبحانه وتعالى says both of those things are in reality waste of time if those are your central activities if that's why you're doing them if you're doing the work in order to sustain your باتن or if you're doing your باتن in order to sustain your work so people in our culture are trapped in a vicious cycle in a vicious cycle they work for play and when they play in order to go back to work so it's really like the rat spinning and that's why what do they call it the rat race because rats race on those little spinning things and they're not going anywhere but they think they're going anywhere now if people stop and reflect on this they have anxiety attacks so they go to the psychiatrists and he gives them things like angiolidic drugs that's why there's a massive industry in our culture for people taking drugs to calm them down from their anxiety so there's all these people out there that are on these drugs they're driving around you go to the grocery store and they're smiling and you don't realize that that smiles the result of a drug I'm making this up you just read the numbers in in the drug everybody's got economic downturn except the people selling angiolidic drugs they don't have economic downturns in fact they go up when things go down because people get more anxiety they're worried about losing their jobs if they understand their religion don't have those same types of anxieties why? because Allah says that man is created in anxiety a state of right? when good comes to him he starts withholding why does he withhold it because of the anxiety if I don't hold on to this I'm going to lose it if I lose it I won't have any money if I don't have any money I won't be able to buy food if I live by food I'm going to start it up if I start it up I'm going to die if I die I don't exist anymore that's the way people think in states of anxiety but Allah says إلا المسلمين except people that are in a state of prayer why? because they're not entertained in their acquisition of wealth from remembering the real reason that they're here which is to remember Allah SWT there was a time in the Muslim world where when you couldn't go into the soup without having the majority of people either with a subha or reading Quran while they were waiting for customers to come in that was the Muslim world the Muslim world was filled with people that actually knew that the primary purpose of their existence was to know their Lord ما خربتوا الجنة ورنزة إلا لي عبدون ما أريدوا منهم يرسق وما أريدوا منهم يطينون أنا only created همين الجنة ومعهم ومعهم ومعهم أنا only created them to know me to worship me to adore me أنا لا أريد أريد منهم أريد منهم أريد منهم أريد منهم they don't need like you see in feudal culture in pre-modern world and still in corporate feudal culture because it's a type of feudalism people just think they're free now as opposed in the old days they knew they were a slave but now people think they're free but they're still trapped in feudal systems in the feudal system the corporation is like the slave master the people that come in to the corporation are like the slaves now you have to take care of the slaves to a certain degree because you want them to work more they have you can go to seminars here that teach you how to make your employees more happy because happier employees have higher productivity so they're not being nice to you because they're nice people necessarily they'll fire you if they think they can make more money by firing you but they're nice to you because they know one there's going to be less chance of suits against them in a litigious society where people sue very easily but the main reason why people had servants and slaves and these things is to increase their wealth to do things for them the main reason they want to increase of wealth freedom from anxiety and a sense of security they want a sense of security and they want to be free from anxiety that's what everybody wants right as it hasn't said the foundation of human existence is just trying to get rid of anxiety that's what everybody is really looking for is how do we get rid of anxiety so what they do these people out here is they create systems to free them from these anxieties they still have anxiety because there's no freedom from anxiety by conditions that are anxious creating conditions in the first place as well as you're in the world you're in a state of anxiety because the world is uncertainty you have economic up turns down turns you have bubbles the bubbles burst people lose jobs there's no nothing there's no security when was there security there's no security right now in this room I'm in tomb you know do you feel secure that Allah can't shake the earth from under you we're in California it's one of the biggest fault lines in the world they've been predicting that this this state's going to fall into the ocean we could have a major tsunami it's not impossible what happened in Indonesia there's no security the only security is with Allah and the only way you secure yourself with Allah is Eman that is why Eman and security are related Eman is from Eman ام انتو بيلا can literally mean in Arabic if you take the literal meaning of the word I made myself secure with God that can be ام انا بيلا I made myself secure with God that is what massage is all about it's about being in a state of security and preparation for the great day of anxiety the day where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety where there's no anxiety حتى Those who do a massage to do the massage up are people who believe in Allah and the last day they have a sense of understanding of where who they belong to and where they're going. Who we belong to not the corporation, not your employee. إذا كان شخص يقول أني لا أستطيع أن أذهب إلى جمع، لماذا؟ لأنه سأنقذ my job. هذا هو أين يقومون بأنهم يقومون بحياتهم. يقومون بحياتهم مع حياتهم. هذا هو أين يقومون بحياتهم. ونحن بخير. أنت قلت بخير. أنت قلت بخير أن تأتي إلى جمع اليوم. أخرى قلت بخير أن تبقى behind their computer journal وأنت تعملون. وأنهم يقومون بخير. وأنهم يقولوا أني أشعر. إنه بخير. إنه بخير. إنه بخير. أخبرني أن أخبرني أننا سنذهب إلى جمع. وإنهم لا يذهب إلى جمع. لأنهم لا تردون أن تضعونهم في حالة where maybe their employer will think about firing them before they fire other people. أنت تقومون بخير. حتى بخير من المساعدة من الشخص إلى المغرب. كل شيء أكثر منك ستأتي. لا يوجد شيء منك. البأر يقول بك. لا يوجد شيء منك. لأنهم لا يقومون منك. كل منكم ست أننتeng لقد خارجنا. كل거 على أن تردون كل منك لذا يريدون على نفسك. لا تتحرك بمشيء ما في فيديوك. المملكة مالذي يتحدث؟ ما تريدون المساعدة؟ ونقل أنهم فلوز الشخص في تحويل هذا السلوك وقل أنهم فلوز الشخص أكثر من أنهم فلوز الشخص فلوز الشخص الذين فلوز الشخص أكثر من أجيب المتاكس في هذا السلوك لذلك ، في أخر العالم ، إنهم فقط يروجون الناس ونريدون أن يروجون ما يكن أنهم لم يكن أعرف ماذا يفعلون أعالما ، محاولاتهم . محاولاتهم نظران في time and famous. فاللو سبحانه وتعنى أعصابuds that those who establish and occupy the houses of God are people who believe in Allah and the last day and established the prayer and prayed as a cat and don't fear anyone that God. They only fear God . They don't fear losing their job. They don't fear this job or the other. They don't fear Tom or Dick or Harry. They only fear Allah. Those are the people that established the houses of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. So the house Allah has called us to a house in this world.  من بنا لي اللهي بيتم في بنا. من الله لي بيتم في بنا.  This is a Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. That is the Masjid. The Masjid is the place of Sujood. Where is Sujood? It's a state of abject humility before Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Or before a creature. That's why people used to do Sujood. In the old days, when they went into the king, they would go into prostration. There's people that still prostrate to people. And they can do it in other ways than just the physical prostration. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى says, when he told Adam, what do you do to Adam? فسجدوا إلا إبليس. لم يكن من السجدين. إبليس wasn't from the Sahajid. Why? لا مناعك. إذا أمرطوك. What wrong that you don't make Sujood when I told you to make Sujood? أنا خير منه. I'm better than him. وخدقته من بين. He's using logic.  And you created him from mud and water. I'm better than him. Why should I do Sujood to him? So what stopped him from doing Sujood? أرغم. تكبر. Allah said, in fact, get out because there's no room for kibble in my presence. What does Allah سبحانه وتعالى say? He says, make sajdah and draw near to God. And you come into the presence of God in sajdah because it's sort of humility before Allah سبحانه وتعالى. What is humility in English? In Arabic. In English it comes from a Latin word. همس. همس is earth. Humility is knowing that you are from dust. Humility is knowing your origin. So Allah called people to Sujood in this world. Now in يوم القيامة, Allah سبحانه وتعالى says يوم يكشف وعن ساق. On that day when this momentous affair, when all of humanity is bought before Allah سبحانه وتعالى well you don't want to eat a Sujood. And they're called to make sajdah. خلال استطيعون. They're not able to make sajdah. خاشئةنا بصاره. Their eyes are completely in a state of downcast and utter terror. خاشئةنا بصاره. They're in a total state of humiliation. Not humility. Humiliation because there's a difference between humility and humiliation. If you do not humble yourself before Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah will humiliate you before His creation. And they're related. Humility, even in English, they're related. Humility and humiliation. وَلِيَنُ عَرْبِتْ means humiliated, but it also means tractable. Like a camel that's... وَلِيَنُ is one that's easy to ride.  They've lost their dignity.  They lose their dignity. What happens to the people of humility here? They're elevated and they're given عزة and dignity before Allah سبحانه وتعالى. That's the difference. So you choose what you're going to do. Here, you choose.  But Allah سبحانه وتعالى says وَقَدْكَانُوا يُدْعَوْنَ إِنَ سُجُودَ وَهُمْ سَانِيْنُ They were called to Sujood when they were well, when they could do it, when they were salimone. They had everything they needed. And Allah said اشتدو Make sajdah before me. 5 times a day. 34 times. If you just do the thought, you're going to go into a state of sajdah before Allah سبحانه وتعالى. And draw near to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. But if you ignore that command of coming to the Masajid, the place of Sujood, the Masajid is Ismar Makhan in Arabic. It's the place that you do something. It is the place that you make Sujood. The place of the Masajid are places of humility before Allah سبحانه وتعالى. It's forgetting about your position in Jinnah. You might be a big engineer.  They might call you high names, wherever you are. They might say yes sir, no sir. You could be out there. There's people in here that are in those positions. You're the big doctor. That's the doctor. What do you think we should do doctor? The nurses. We're making the decisions. But when you enter that door, you're nothing. You stand next to the street sweeper. You stand next to the homeless. You stand next to the most poor people in the community. That's the Masjid.  Because this is the place where Allah knows what's in the hearts. Allah knows what's in your heart. I don't know what's in your heart. I don't know who's arrogant here. I don't know who's fueled with their nafs and their ego. I don't know that. Only Allah knows. That's what this place is about. It's about humility. And that's why when you enter that door, you enter with humility.  This is the place of humility. This is the place to learn humility. This is the place to cultivate humility in your heart, so that you can go out in the world in a state of humility. That's what these places are about. Now, I'm just going to end on saying one thing. The Muslims in this country are asleep. There's a deep sleep. We could almost say it's still a coma. Because the thing about coma, I used to work in a critical care unit. And I had coma to those patients. The way we used to test them was to put needles in them. Where you poke them and you see if you get some kind of reaction because if somebody's in a deep coma, there's no reaction. You check their pupils, pupil dilation, these things. When you're in a deep sleep, Allah SWT throws things into your life to wake you up. If you don't respond to those, they just get worse. They get worse and worse. The best thing that can happen to Muslims is tribulation. Really. After 9-11, they suddenly organized thinking about where they're going, what they should be doing. And then now they'll tell all Obama's and everything's better. No more orange suits.  And then they'll go back to sleep. But there's a benefit in tribulation. But I'll tell you, this is a tribulation. If you don't think this is a tribulation, you don't understand what's going on in this country. We have Muslims all over this country. They're increasing exponentially. We have large families. Three to seven children. Muslims aren't like people now that have one child maybe or no children. They still have three to seven children. I have five children. That's happening all over this country. We're not thinking about where we're going institutionally. You can build, you can rent places to pray, but think about this phenomenon because this is being replicated all over this country. And if we don't seriously start thinking as a community about where we're going, about what we're really supposed to be doing here. Is this really about just getting the American dream, having your home, don't getting your Nexus, driving to your work every day, going home maybe Fajr and Aisha if you're at the highest person that's all it is. A Hasim and Nass and you're going to go home and have a good afternoon. People think they can say I believe and they're not going to be tested. Because if you think that's what this is about, you're in the wrong religion and you're on the wrong planet. I'm going to call you how to stop from the one you work with besides the Muslim. الحمد لله وسلم على سيدنا وحبيبنا رسول الله.


It's it's cruel quite frankly. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel My name is Jack the Buster. I should know me today We have episodes 290 and I believe in the 291 292 are filler So we skip over to 293 after this the last two we saw I guess a very a very fat tease of the power that that third gear Holds in that loopy just bust the doors down the doors that they went through to get through the gates of Justice just I think like an underground passage, but aside from that. Yes a big tease with Nami walking into Califa Baby thing or about to huh and then a big fat fight with Frankie and cha-pa-pa In which Frankie absolutely rolled him several times and outsmarted him at every turn despite being sort of outmatched in terms of powers I don't know Frankie's kind of a beast We're gonna hop right into this one if you knew the channel chop a sub and hit that big woodbell and let's get started on the pop chop Yeah, it's like the self-discipline of Luffy bro, maybe worse Where's he going? Oh, no, there he is. Oh life return was what he used when he snuck up on Nami Is it just what makes his hair do that? Oh no, oh shoot dang that's pretty sick do it again But what oh he reverted himself so he can do it again. I Like that we actually did for chopper Chopper attack him while he's doing it this time. It's shameless, but you've you just gotta do what you gotta do We's it's actually exhausting him. I'm doing it again chopper. He's not the brightest. Oh just meditating. Oh my gosh It's funny because he said you have no discipline, but then he has a thousand spent a thousand years like that Hey, he has full control of self bio feedback. That's just how much control he has over himself Son double food. He just got to that point of being Chopper not time to pop off, baby Franky did now you do Run boy run Right above you.  Look at that. That's almost hitting on me actually Your hits aren't gonna do anything either. Chopper needs to channel some of that battle IQ when he fought the priest in skype Yeah, oh he needs to find a weak point. Let's go. Has he already used one? Oh shoot. We'll be unstable. I don't even thought about stacking them. When did he take one originally? Oh My gosh, she should come on you gotta take a chopper you're fine CP 9 bro There he goes high risk for those high rewards, baby Yes, so three minutes on the one in six hours. Okay. Yeah, he wasn't able to pick the form it picked for him Boy, he said little control. This seems like no control over which form he picks I would say the room is dangerous of fire spreading But the entire building has been cut in half and might fall so that might be worse The visual them chasing them still even that feels like a minute ago, bro back in water seven No way does he pop another right?  Oh, no Yeah, he's just running in and the finger pistol Gonna be alright It was weird because he looked shocked whenever he got the last one I was maybe that don't you're shocked that chopper would just try to like take the brute force of it Maybe it's all part of his plan. He's quite intelligent sometimes when he wants to be he's still standing. Let's go, baby Let's go. Oh, no never mind He's down. I Guess it'd be no point taking a third because he said you'd pass out basically You just have to wait for it. It's got to keep gambling. Oh No, he tiny chopper. No wait, which one is our point? You just have to keep going Oh Shoot he big baby. He's gonna make the hit land, but he's those iron body with the cloven with the Even in this form like get through iron body Rozeo metal Knocked out a tooth. Oh that has to be enough. He's down dead. Yeah, what it did look like pedals Around There's no way to do anything else. He said that was his best hit. Oh, he's gone. Oh, oh my gosh, Coretta Interesting flashback. So he destroyed part of the village This intensive of flashback makes me He did all that I was gonna say yeah, you got it from him. I wouldn't really say choppers a troublesome seed Like he has to do something desperate like take a third maybe he will I don't know what other options he has He's the strongest move. I lose with toodle Dang That's so cold, bro. I like the way he talks Oh I don't think you'd even take another rumble ball even if he wanted to he's gonna use the queue Wait new chopper final form What are those elders nobody come in? Oh That's what happened. We oh When he did it the first time he destroyed that part of the village It's like power that he can't control Wait that design looks so insane, bro.  He's like these like twice his size triple his size Let's go episode to know my god wait 291 292 or filler 293. Let's go


Okay Shoshaneem and Shoshanot, welcome back to the Sam Vaknin Horror Show, with your host, Sam Vaknin, author of Maldigan and Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited, a former visiting professor of psychology and currently on the faculty of CIAPS, Commonwealth Institute for Advanced Professional Studies. And a proper horror show, today we are going to discuss what happens when the narcissist and the borderline switch roles, switch places. And yes, it is as ominous as it sounds, cue in the appropriate music. Okay, let's delve right in. Now you've all heard by now of narcissistic modification. There's a lot of nonsense online about this topic. I was the first to describe it three years ago based on work done in the 50s and especially the work of Libby much later in the 80s. Today, narcissistic modification is a buzzword and a catchphrase among self-styled experts who get it completely insanely wrong. Narcissistic modification is simply another name for public humiliation, exposure in public of the narcissist's shortcomings, mistakes, frailties and disadvantages. This kind of public humiliation in front of meaningful peers and significant others reduces the narcissist to a whining rabble. What modification does? It deactivates the narcissist's defense mechanisms. The set of processes and dynamics inside the narcissist that are intended to isolate the narcissist from bruising painful reality. When modification occurs, these defenses shut down. They are deactivated. One of the foremost, perhaps the most pivotal defense mechanism or defense process is the false self. So modification leads to the disabling of the false self. Consequently, the narcissist gets in direct contact with reality, with the world out there and this is an exceedingly painful process.  Inside the narcissist, there's a reservoir of early childhood shame and humiliation and rejection and pain. And the narcissism as a compensatory mechanism is intended to repress this shame, suppress it, ignore it, dissociate it, delete it, transmute it somehow. When modification occurs, everything shuts down, the shame erupts or re-irrupts and takes over the narcissist. At that point, the narcissist is skinless. He is utterly vulnerable, exposed, fragile and this causes emotional dysregulation. The narcissist suddenly gets in touch with his own positive and negative emotions and because he has no experience, he has had no time or opportunity to develop any strategies to deal with emotions and because he has never experienced positive emotions, the narcissist is overwhelmed. Modification leads to shame, shame leads to other emotions, other emotions lead to the total disintegration falling apart of the narcissist. He is overwhelmed and this is what we call emotional dysregulation by far the most important feature in borderline personality organization and borderline personality disorder and exactly like in borderline. The narcissist reacts to his own emotional dysregulation by acting out. He suddenly becomes reckless, unpredictable, capricious, dangerous, etc. Acting out the externalization and transformation of aggression that had been hitherto directed inwards. Suddenly this aggression is externalized and verbalized and acted upon and this is acting out. Now here's the thing, to feel shame, one requires what is called object libido. In order to feel shame, you must recognize that there are other people out there that they are external to you, that they are separate from you, that they have their own inner world with hopes and dreams and wishes and preferences and priorities and emotions and cognitions of their own, independent of you. So the narcissist's contact with shame in the wake of narcissistic modification leads him to deploy to use object libido. Suddenly and thunderously and abruptly the narcissist realizes that there are other people out there that he's not alone, that he's not in control, that other people are not his extensions, that they are not internal objects, that there's no way he can manipulate them inside his mind and rearrange them in ways which are supportive of his grandiose inflated self-image. In other words, his cognitive distortion is shattered, other people, because they are not subject to his control and manipulation defy his grandiosity, undermine it, challenge it. So shame is one problem, the other problem is object libido, the narcissist transitions from self-directed catexes, self-directed emotional investment, to the realization that there are people who are external objects separate from him.  There's no shame without the recognition of externality and separateness of others. There's no shame when you deny the relevance and supremacy of society and social contracts and social mores and norms. Shame is normative.  That's precisely why narcissism is constructed this way in order to avoid the shame. But when the defenses crumble and the fortress collapses and the invading armies of reality penetrate the inner perimeter and you are under siege of shame and guilt and self-loathing and self-hatred and self-rejection, when the bad object inside you overpowers you and you begin to believe it, then you also develop inevitably object libido and this is a serious danger for the narcissist's longevity if nothing else and mental balance. This could drive the narcissist to psychosis anyhow is not far from psychosis. It could drive him to psychosis because imagine that you wake up one morning and you discover that you are the only person in the whole world, that all other people have actually been your illusions or delusions or hallucinations.  Imagine how you would react and the narcissist goes through the reverse process.  He has never existed. It's pretty terrifying.  And so this creates borderline-like or pseudo-borderline or quasi-borderline manifestations and dynamics. Most importantly, emotional dysregulation and the narcissist scrambles to restore the previous state. What he does, he entrains himself. He convinces himself by repeating all kinds of mantras and analysis and sentences and statements. He keeps hypnotizing himself. He keeps brainwashing himself. He keeps entraining himself in order to reboot narcissistic libido and use it to replace the newly-found and new-fangled object libido. Now, this is very interesting because a narcissist is always successful. Narcissists in the overwhelming past majority of cases recover from modification by restoring grandiosity.   How does a narcissist succeed to transition from a brief moment of awakening back to his fantastic space, his paracorsum? How does he affect this transition? He uses entraining. Now, this is very interesting therapeutically. It means, perhaps, that we can use entraining as a tool of therapy rather than an instrument of torturous manipulation and brainwashing. Perhaps entraining can be used in order to replace extreme object libido, object libido, which is dysfunctional. Object libido that is harmful, for example, in people pleasing or in codependency. Object libido in codependency in people pleasing is harmful. It's too much. It dominates the individual. It's overwinning and domineering. And actually, object libido in codependency and people pleasing situations and so on, displaces completely narcissistic libido and leads to self-harm and self-sacrifice. So perhaps we could use entraining in therapeutic settings in order to restore a modicum, some amount of narcissistic libido, so as to balance the excessive object libido in codependency and so on. Now, this excessive object libido is sometimes also common in borderline personality disorder. All I'm saying is, the narcissist successfully recovers from modification by rebooting his narcissistic libido and his cognitive distortions and his grandiosity. That is not necessarily a bad thing because the alternative is suicide. Similarly, in clinical settings and in other diagnoses such as dependent personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, all kinds of people pleasing situations, perhaps we could do the same to a much lesser extent. We don't want these people to become narcissists, but halfway, a quarter way, somehow subduing, repress the excessive object libido by igniting and booting an app of narcissistic libido. We have a lot to learn here. So this is a situation where the narcissist temporarily flashing the pen becomes a borderline and then entrains himself into reacquiring his pathological narcissism. And of course, when I say he's, it's her, when I say he, it's a she, get over it. Everything I say applies to both men and women. Half of all narcissists are women. Now, the mirror image, the mirror picture, occurs in borderline personality disorder. Abandonment, real or imagined, anticipated or actual, abandonment, engulfment, enmeshment, merger, infusion. So these two conditions, the absence of the, of the external object over, or the overwin, overwinning, domineering, subsuming presence of the external object. Too much external object, no external object. In these two poles of the spectrum, the borderline reacts with extreme anxiety. And that's why we say that borderline has the twin anxieties, engulfment anxiety and abandonment anxiety. So when the borderline experiences a loss of the love object, or when the borderline's love object takes over the borderline, subsumes it, consumes it. In both cases, the borderline's reacts with anxiety, emotional dysregulation, decompensation and acting out exactly the process. The narcissist goes through when the narcissist is exposed to narcissistic modification. We can therefore say that abandonment anxiety and engulfment anxiety are facets of borderline modification. Because the exact identical psychodynamic path, the exact same reactions, the exact same mechanisms, the exact same processes occur with a narcissistic modification and with a borderline when she experiences abandonment or engulfment. So why not say that abandonment and engulfment trigger borderline modification in borderline personality disorder? In the case of the borderline, her experience of borderline modification leads to the emergence of narcissistic defenses. The borderline becomes disempathic, narcissistic. Second, she transitions to a self-state of secondary psychopath. In the best case, she becomes a covert borderline, but mostly she becomes psychopathic or even malignant narcissistic. So again, that's a mirror image. When the narcissist is exposed to narcissistic modification, he transitions to a borderline personality organization or borderline state. When the borderline experiences borderline modification, she transitions into a narcissistic psychopathic state. There are mirror images of each other. One could even say that borderline is the mirror image of narcissism. It's a form of reverse narcissism, if you wish. In the case of the borderline, the restoration of the borderline state hinges on guilt and shame. Remember that with the narcissist, when the narcissist experiences modification and becomes clinically indistinguishable from a borderline, the narcissist restores his narcissism, his grandiosity, his shared fantasy. He restores his narcissism and he restores his narcissism by entraining himself, convincing himself of his own grandiosity. Now, the borderline does exactly the opposite, of course, because the borderline is the mirror image of the narcissist. Acting out in the case of the borderline causes her to experience shame and guilt, which involve, as you recall, object libido. So, her experience of shame and guilt restores her ability to interact with other people as external and separate to her. In short, her experience of shame and guilt eliminates her narcissistic defenses, suppress her narcissistic libido, and enhance her object libido. So, look at the mirror image. The narcissist's self-entraining causes him to suppress his new object libido and substitute for it with narcissistic libido, therefore becoming, again, a narcissist, a full-fledged narcissist, grandiose. While with the borderline, the modification leads to the experience of shame and guilt, which allows her to restore her object libido and suppress her narcissistic libido, and then she becomes a borderline again. And so, here we have another therapeutic hint, and this time for NPD. The previous therapeutic hint was that we may be able to use entraining to transition people with borderline personality disorder, codependence, people-pleasers. Maybe we could use entraining to transition them to make them become a bit more narcissistic, render them a bit more narcissistic, which is good for them. They're not narcissistic enough, but with the borderline, exactly the reverse, we can perhaps use shame and guilt to transition people with narcissism. Narcissists, perhaps we can use shame and guilt to transition them to object libido, to a more borderline-like state. So, transition the borderline to narcissism and transition the narcissists to a borderline, halfway, of course, not fully. These are major therapeutic improvements, and indeed, this is the core insight in my cold therapy. Now, one last comment. All these hinges in the case of the narcissist on narcissistic supply, and in the case of the borderline on her ability to process shame and guilt, and overcome somehow narcissistic defenses, which again rely on narcissistic supply. So the economy of narcissistic supply is crucial in these cycles. It is important to understand there's not such thing as narcissistic supply without self-supply. The first stage in any cycle involving narcissistic supply is self-supply. When the narcissist acquires external sources of supply, when the narcissist converts other people into sources of narcissistic supply, this is preceded always by a phase of self-supply. The narcissist grandiose fantasy renders input from others narcissistic supply. So it is the shared fantasy that kind of converts input from the outside and feedback from other people into narcissistic supply. The information of the data that comes from other people and the narcissist absorbs as a sponge would. This information and data are processed within the shared fantasy. They are cognitively distorted by grandiosity, and they only then constitute narcissistic supply. But this cannot be done without a previous phase of self-supply. When the narcissist is mortified, when the narcissist is depressed, when the narcissist otherwise fails to believe his own fantasy for whatever reason, the narcissist in these cases cannot convert external input or feedback into narcissistic supply. So when the narcissist is mortified, depressed, extremely injured, doesn't have a shared fantasy or fails to maintain it somehow, in all these cases, the narcissist is unable to supply himself, is unable to see himself as God-like and perfect. And because he is unable to see himself as God-like and perfect, information, data, feedback, input from other people will not be perceived by the narcissist as convincing. Let me give you an example. If the narcissist is depressed or mortified, it's very difficult for the narcissist to consider himself as a towering genius or irresistibly handsome. It's impossible because he is depressed, he is anxious, he is mortified. So he self-castigates, he self-criticizes, he self-rejects, he self-negates, he self-loaths, and he self-destructs and self-defeats. So he doesn't feel that he is God-like, he doesn't feel superior, he doesn't feel perfect, he doesn't feel brilliant.  None of this is going to register. Narcissists will perceive these kinds of sentences as fake or low-grade supply, which is unable to trigger the mechanism of self-regulation inside the narcissist, self-regulation especially of sense of self-worth. So self-supply catalyzes narcissistic supply. The narcissist has to believe his own confabulations, his own fantasies, his own inflated fantastic self-image and self-perception. He has to believe these, he has to be convinced that they are factual, that they are real, that they are fact-based. He has to adhere to these tenets, he has to convert himself first, he has to entrain himself first. And only when this phase of self-supply is successful, only then can the narcissist convert statements by other people into narcissistic supply. So only if the narcissist believes himself to be a genius, is he going to believe others telling him that he is a genius. If the narcissist for some reason reached a conclusion that he is not a genius because he has been mortified or exposed or I don't know what, then it's going to be impossible for him to believe others who keep telling him that he is a genius.  The foundation of self-supply, convincing himself of his own grandeur and grandiosity and supremacy and brilliance and perfection, this is a precondition for the very ability to identify narcissistic supply and absorb it. You could conceive of self-supply as a kind of filterative membrane, a membrane that filters information from the outside. And when the membrane pours, when the pours in the membrane are open, narcissistic supply can come in. But when these pours are closed in the wake of modification, injury or then no amount of external supply will be able to penetrate, the narcissist will wallow and shrivel and wither internally because he won't be able to absorb supply, narcissistic supply. Never mind how abundantly available it is. This is very crucial. This is one of the dynamics in the transition from narcissism to borderline in the wake of narcissistic modification and from borderline to narcissism in the wake of borderline modification. In both cases, there is a disruption in the ability to process narcissistic supply or borderline supply, which is kind of narcissistic supply, because there has been an undermining or destruction of one's self-image. And this destruction is a main cause for the isolation, the schizoid reaction to narcissistic, to modification in both narcissism and borderline. It's an attempt to avoid the world because the world has nothing to offer, cannot offer supply. And gradually these capacities of self-supply have to be reconstructed. The narcissist reconstructs self-supply by entraining himself, self-entraining. The borderline reconstructs narcissistic supply by reattaching to other people via enhanced object libido. Okay, it's been quite a mouthful and a lot to ponder. Feel free to watch and re-watch this video until you get all the topics clear. And I will see you next time. Shoshanim.