Why They Want Us Divided | Trending Ep368

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SPEAKER_01 0:05

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Monday's episode of Trending. Well, the news is dominated this morning in the UK by England's incredible 3-2 victory in the World Cup round of 16 that puts them through to the quarterfinals on Saturday night against Mexico. I slept downstairs on the uh on the lounge floor with my boys. We got up at 1am to watch the game. It was delayed for an hour because of lightning strike. So 2 a.m. Just a few hours ago, it kicked off in Mexico City against Mexico. All the disadvantages against England, altitude, you're playing in an absolute cauldron of the home nation as well. And uh lo and behold, England have come out on top. And I know many people will be watching and will think, but it's just football and bread and circuses and all those lines that get chucked at sport. And I understand that. Um, but what I will say is I think sport in perspective, where it's not the be-all and end all of your life, it's it's a part of your life, it's an addition to it, it enhances it rather than defines it. I think it has an incredible place. I think those people who live and die by sport and it distracts them from things that are more important. I understand why the bread and circus argument is used, but I think in perspective, it can give you some incredibly magical moments, and I think it's a very good metaphor for life as well, because on the good side and the bad side, um, because the amount of unity that can come through sport, and equally the amount of division that can come through sport. And what's quite interesting is to use this analogy, if you watch watch this scene for a second, this is the end of the end of the match after England had won the game. So you can see there thousands of English singing that famous Oasis track. Players stood in front of them, lots of unity, arm in arm. There'll be people in that crowd, hand in hand with people singing that they don't know. They're just other English that were out there watching the game. There'll be people that will have gone on their own. And there was a real togetherness. The atmosphere was incredible, even though it was half three in the morning by the time we saw this bit, me and my boys were up singing downstairs. You know, the togetherness was amazing. On a Saturday in the Premier League, the domestic competition here in England, those fans probably can't stand each other because one will support Man United, one will support Chelsea, one will support Liverpool, and they're probably shouting a load of abuse at each other. But when there's a common aspiration, which is England in this case, the national team, a common goal, something that binds people together, all of a sudden those fault lines are gone. Those divisional lines are gone. And people stand shoulder to shoulder with each other, hand in hand. In the same way that the players on the pitch for England all play for different clubs. And those fans, those same fans that are cheering their names, when they're playing for a team that's playing against their team, they'll be hurling a load of abuse at them. But now there's a common goal, they're fully behind them with support. So I think sport is a really good metaphor for life because you have incredible moments of unity, of togetherness, of jubilation, of euphoria, and equally you have moments of devastation, disappointment, division. And I think we can learn so much from situations like this that when we are together, that's when the magic happens. When we're apart, when we're fighting each other, when we're allowing fault lines of division to be drawn, whatever they might be drawn on, race, religion, ethnicity, football team, that's when we get into the problems. That's when we're easy to separate and control and divide and rule. When we're together, we are bulletproof. And that doesn't mean that we all believe the same thing. All those people in that video, shoulder to shoulder, singing Wonder Wall, would probably have completely different beliefs, completely different philosophies on life, completely different attitudes. But in that moment, none of that matters. They're just together because there's a common goal. Well, to bring that back to what we face, our common goal is that the world is run by a psychopathic network that seek to enslave everyone. Unless you're part of that cult, they seek to enslave you. That's a pretty good common goal for us to get behind, isn't it? Means a bit more than winning a World Cup. And it supersedes any other fault line that you can describe that divides people. If someone believes something different happens after you die, if someone worships a different man in the sky to you, what's more important? That or coming together to overturn a system that seeks to enslave you regardless of whether you believe this or someone next to you believes something different. It's very, very clear what really matters. And I think in these moments, people do realize what really matters. They realize that actually life is about more than focusing on what divides us. Let's focus on what unifies us. Because there's a hell of a lot more people have in common than they have that separates us. But as I've said many times on this program, the media, social media, the broadcast media, they focus on the extremes. The extremes on both sides. Now, if you do that, you will always have polarities, you will always have conflict. Because two extremes are always going to be so far apart from each other that unity seems impossible. Whereas the vast majority of people actually sit in the middle. They actually don't agree with this extreme and they don't agree with that extreme. So if we're the unsilent, or the silent should be unsilent, majority of people in the middle, why are we allowing these people and these people to dominate the conversation to the point that it makes unity seem an absolute fantasy? I don't believe that unity is a fantasy at all. I believe that deep down most of us want the same thing. Most of us want to be left alone, to enjoy our lives, to have a family, to see the world, to enjoy time with people that we care about, to have something that fulfills us, some kind of meaning, whatever you get that from, that will differ from person to person. Most people don't want conflict, they don't want war, they don't want violence, they don't have any form of discrimination against others, they just want equal opportunities. They want people to have respect for each other. There's some exceptions to this, of course, but I would say the vast majority of people simply want that. And they want to believe that the future is going to be better than the past and the present. People want to believe, I've got I kind of always concluded that this is kind of what aging is, when you accept you're old, is when you accept that your best days are behind you. For me, that's kind of an acceptance that you're older. Now, obviously, your life changes as you get older. Your life evolves. Things happen that are not going to happen when you're younger, and things happen when you're younger that are not going to happen as you get older, for example. You know, I I've got two beautiful children, and the days that they were born were two of the best days of my life. I know I'm not going to have that again because I'm not going to have any more children. However, that relationship with the kids will evolve and there'll be new firsts and new things that you've never seen before as time goes on, which are new challenges and they're different. So you're not saying your best days are behind you because you're not going to have any more, you're saying that it's changing and it's evolving. Whereas I think when you look at the future and go, actually, this is as good as it's going to get, that's when I think people get disheartened, they get disengaged, and on the age side, they'll probably start to go, well, I'm basically slowly dying now. But to bring it to society and the world, when people look towards the future, people want to believe that things are going to get better. They're going to have more financial security, they're going to have better health, they're going to have a more prosperous career, they're going to have better relationships. The world's going to be a more peaceful place. People look towards the future and want to believe it's going to be better than it is today. They don't want to believe there's going to be a constant decline. Except now, I don't believe the vast majority of people look to the future and genuinely believe, hand on heart, things are going to improve. Because we've got a track record now of at least a decade to go, well, it hasn't, has it? Whoever's been in government, there's still been conflict. People's financial security has still been pressed and pressed and squeezed more and more, whether that be through lower income, taxation, higher cost of living, conflicts wage on, as I say. Division between people is gaping when it wasn't not too long ago. The engagement and belief and trust in politicians is at an all-time low. The competence of any politician is at an all-time low. So people probably look to the future now and think, well, maybe we maybe we had it as good as it was going to get. Maybe the 90s and the early noughties were as good as it was going to get. And I see things around on social media quite often saying, you know, people didn't know how good they had it. You know, petrol was 85p a litre, and you could buy a house for under 100 grand and all of those things, and that's true, you could. And the fact that you can't now, or the fact that income is not relatively um improved in line with that, shows that there's clearly incompetence slash a design system to make things better, sorry, to make things worse over time. That's not by accident. So once again, what supersedes in importance in people's minds? Arguing over invisible fault lines or coming together and going, well, actually, this system is designed to make our lives progressively worse over time. And that's not a conspiracy theory. That's I ask anyone listening that thinks I'm talking complete rubbish to look at your life and compare it to 10 years ago. Are you better off? Do you feel safer when you walk down the street? Does the world seem safer? Have you got more money in your pocket? Do things cost less? Well, there'd be a very, very small percentage that might argue yes, but it would be a very, very, very small percentage. The vast majority would say, well, no. Everything's everything's got more expensive and wages haven't risen in line with that. And well, the world's on a knife edge in how many different regions? And yeah, walking down the street now, you have you have to have to have your wits about you because you you're constantly scanning for who's around. I'm scared to send my kids to school because of stories I read online. It's so obvious to see that the world is going in one direction and it's not going there by accident, it's going there by design. And if there's one thing that we can take away from sport in particular, in this instance, it's that when there is a common goal, the fault lines that usually divide people disappear, and unity is inevitable. Well, why don't we take it one step further from just sport and apply that to the world that we see? Because if there's some unity, then the days of terror, the days of the reign of these people is over, it's finished, it's the end. And for me, it's more important than ever that we do that, and we do that bloody fast. But for now, the three lions march on to a Saturday night quarterfinal against Erling Haaland's men, Norway in Miami. And uh, I'm sure many of you, including myself, will be up watching that and hopefully taking us through to another semi-final. Right, maybe we'll go one step further or two steps further this time. Right, thank you for tuning in with me. If you're watching with us on YouTube or Twitter, I will see you on Wednesday morning. Take care. Bye for now.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Don't mention the reps of those days. Even less is said about the Grey Pope, which some believe to be the true ruling power in the Vatican. Humans in Macadress. All of them had little sickness. I've never seen it before. It's a transition that this is the ultimate suicide. The symbols around us every day are just ornamental. We have to think of these. What is their instructions?

SPEAKER_01 13:48

It's not manipulatable.