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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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How to Deal With the Bullshit

"There's so much that we've given up. We're not trying to swat it away," he says. "We're just overwhelmed by all this shit and all the lies and all the deception that's coming at us all the time" He adds: "It's a fucking shit storm of bullshit, I think that's why teenagers are killing themselves."

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He's starving. He's dying. And I feel like that's how we are with the bullshit that's coming at us. There's so much that we've given up. We're not trying to swat it away. We're not trying to protect ourselves. We're just overwhelmed by all this shit and all the lies and all the deception that's coming at us all the time. I mean, how many times have you clicked? This is, they force you to participate. It's not just that they're lying to us and we need to fucking smile and pretend we don't notice it's that they force us to participate in the lies as well. How many times have you clicked? I agree to some fucking online document to update your software and I have read and agreed to the terms of this. You didn't read that. Everybody knows you didn't read that and you don't know what you're agreeing to. I don't know what I'm agreeing to. They know that we don't know what we're agreeing to. It's a fucking shit storm of bullshit. I think that's why teenagers are fucking killing themselves and cutting themselves and freaking out because they're coming to consciousness in a world that is just total overwhelming bullshit. So I started putting together a little list of things that are just one of the things that sort of triggered this for me is I was looking for an office chair. So I thought, well, maybe I'll splurge a little bit and I'll get a leather office chair. Okay, this is embarrassing. I had an office chair and it had like a memory foam cushion or something, some kind of foam cushion like most of them do. I really shy. This is weird. This is one of these things I would say to a podcast audience of thousands of people but I probably wouldn't say this to a friend who was sitting in the room with me. But the chair started smelling like farts. It was this fucking office chair was like a fart absorbent foam and it just like sucked in the fart and then held it. It was horrible. And you know, I've been known to fart now and then especially if I'm sitting in an office chair for five hours and this thing was just like a fart collecting mechanism. It's horrible. So I sent it back to Amazon. I actually did say in the return I was like, I don't know, there's something wrong with this cushion. It smells really weird. And then the company was like, let us give you your money back. And I think they were sort of like, let us give you your money back and please take down that review that says our chair smells like farts. But anyway, so I got my money back. And so I thought, well, maybe I'll splurge on a leather office chair, right? His leather doesn't is not a fart absorbent material as far as I know. So I went on Amazon and I searched leather office chair and there these office chairs come up 120 bucks, 130, 140. Like, damn, that's awesome for a leather office chair in the description. It says, you know, material leather. Some of them said, P you leather. I don't know, P you leather is, but okay, says leather. It must be leather, right? Well you see where I'm going with this. It's not leather. It's fucking polyester or polyurethane. I guess that's what the P you is. And then there's bonded leather, which is a mixture of polyurethane and like shredded scraps of leather, I guess. That they get, you know, from the sweepings in a leather manufacturing plant or something. And so leather isn't leather. But you, but they're allowed to call it leather. It's not leather. It's not the skin of a cow or any other animal. It's made from oil, like most other things. It's plastic essentially, but it's legal to call it leather. It reminded me of a friend of mine who's a guy I know who's a gem, gemologist. And he told me that turquoise isn't turquoise. Very, very rarely when you look at a piece of turquoise, is it actually a stone? Turquoise, most 95% of the turquoise you'll see is plastic or it's plastic mixed with dust that comes when they cut turquoise and they mix it in with this plastic and it takes that color, that sort of blue color.

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