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People try to change the outside world in lots of ways. But many of those ways aren't just pure good.
I made a video, which was called (a message to millennials), it was called, “How to change the world properly”.
A bit of on the pretentious side, I suppose. But I was trying to produce something that was a counterposition to this idea that what you should do is go out and fix up other people.
You know, that's just not right. And there's a New Testament line about, something about not worrying too much about the speck in your neighbor's eye when you have a log in your eye.
It's like, yes, no kidding. But you know, do you really want to face that?
So, what you want to do is start to tell and act out the truth locally, within the domain of your actual competence.
The world presents itself as a series of puzzles, some of which you're capable of solving, and some of which are not. And you have many puzzles in front of you that you could solve, but you choose not to.
It's like, “I should really do this”, but you don’t.
I had this idea a long time ago, I thought, “Well, what would the world be like if people stopped avoiding the things they knew they should do? The question is, how much are we contributing to the fact that life is an existential catastrophe and a tragedy? How much is our own corruption contributing to that?
“Well, you know, that place over there could use a little work.” So you clean that up, because you can, then things are a little clearer around you. And you're a little better off because you've practiced a bit.
You're a little stronger, and then something else manifests itself and says, Well, maybe you could take a crack at fixing me up too.” So you decide to do that.
And then that gets a little bit more pristine. It's humble. You're not exceeding your domain of competence.
It's like, “Don't be fixing up the economy. 18-year-old.” You don't know anything about the economy.
Can you even clean up your own room? “No.” Well, you should think about that.
Because if you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?
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