WEBVTT 00:04.910 --> 00:12.830 Borges is one of my favorite authors. I came to know about his work through an 00:13.670 --> 00:20.490 old heart mentor of mine by the name of René Levan. If you knew if you know 00:20.490 --> 00:25.530 about my kind of history as a performer, as a card magician, sleight of hand 00:25.530 --> 00:35.110 artist, then you'll know a lot of my my previous performance styles on stage was 00:35.110 --> 00:42.910 heavily influenced by René. And René himself was heavily influenced by Borges. 00:44.250 --> 00:50.170 And the reason why I like reading his work is, as in Borges' work, and I've 00:50.170 --> 00:54.550 been to Buenos Aires myself. I've been to Argentina, stayed there for about three 00:54.550 --> 00:59.470 weeks, went to Montevideo, Uruguay, knowing that he was a blind man or 00:59.470 --> 01:04.670 developed a blind affliction. His writing became very introspective and often he 01:04.670 --> 01:13.270 would explore subjects such as loneliness, darkness, isolation, and the deeper 01:13.270 --> 01:14.030 philosophies. 01:18.150 --> 01:26.530 Some of my favorite works of his is a man on pink corner, or the street corner man, 01:26.730 --> 01:32.590 which is a short story that came out in 1939. Another one is The Garden of 01:32.590 --> 01:39.150 Forking Pass. Another one is The Circular Ruins. Another one is The 01:39.150 --> 01:50.390 Rolls of Paracelsus. Very good short story. And another one that I do also enjoy 01:50.390 --> 01:57.750 is The Approach to Almutacim. Yeah man, these are my favorite stories. Oftentimes 01:57.750 --> 02:04.520 when I read Borges, it makes me think about human nature, which is what I 02:04.520 --> 02:09.480 want to talk to you about today, but I've been on the jobs since 5 a.m. 02:09.600 --> 02:13.020 Fucking early. Yeah, we start early, man. We start, well, we start on a weekday, 02:13.100 --> 02:15.920 because we all prefer about six. Yeah. Because we've got to be there for, like, 02:16.580 --> 02:19.020 half an hour. Fuck. That means that we're waiting for about three. 02:19.440 --> 02:22.960 Is that what you're going on? No, no, no, I finished. I finished about one 02:22.960 --> 02:26.160 a club, but I was walking around, went to the library, got some books, 02:26.640 --> 02:32.100 now it smells like a fat blood. Oh, fucking hell. You've got to change your 02:32.100 --> 02:42.140 head. Back at the old hang, if you remember, I used to live in this area. I think they 02:42.140 --> 02:46.360 try to grow some food over there in this, I'm not sure what it is, you know, some 02:46.360 --> 02:52.280 community garden, because if they are, seriously, I want to help out, you know. 02:54.340 --> 02:58.840 Look at them, very nice. Is it dandelions? I can make tea with those, you know. 02:59.380 --> 03:02.840 I should jump the fence, like, at the nighttime and just fucking cut some. 03:03.620 --> 03:08.720 Oh, look at them. Look at these daffodils. 03:11.100 --> 03:17.860 I see all sorts of shit here. I see some nettles. Yeah. Very good. Very good. 03:18.020 --> 03:24.960 Very good. Back at the old hang. I don't know if you remember this place. 03:25.560 --> 03:35.060 This is Rawlins Street. I grew up here, specifically on that top floor there. 03:36.040 --> 03:43.620 You see that, the one on the far corner, the three windows. Yeah. 03:47.240 --> 03:57.180 How things have changed here. If you remember my old videos, you'll remember me sitting here and 03:58.820 --> 04:06.560 doing joints in the evening. Remember the joints in the evening? The sun's out, everyone's out. 04:06.940 --> 04:08.120 Can't find a good place to sit. 04:12.500 --> 04:24.030 What are you laughing at? The sun is really messed up. I can't put you guys over here, 04:24.170 --> 04:28.530 because you see, we'll be in your face. So I just have to put you guys over here. 04:30.730 --> 04:36.530 When I was walking around that area with the seats, I regret not being able to record a 04:36.530 --> 04:46.330 very nice conversation with a, I think it's in his 50s, and all the Jamaican men that I kind of 04:48.270 --> 04:55.150 met when I was still living in that area about a year and a half ago, and I was smoking my pipe 04:55.150 --> 05:01.670 on that same bench, and he came up to me and he started talking. And all, you know, 05:01.670 --> 05:08.610 right away, I knew he was a man that has been awake for a long time. You know, 05:08.690 --> 05:14.850 we were talking about cut to the chase, like this COVID shit was all bullshit. You know, 05:14.890 --> 05:24.970 we kicked off from there. And then I got talking to, like, on many other different subjects 05:24.970 --> 05:36.410 like things like racial history and origins of programming and MK ultra and all these things, 05:36.750 --> 05:41.950 you know, and I just bumped into him while he bumped into me. I was reading, I was reading, 05:43.030 --> 05:49.810 actually I was reading this edition of Borges, which is Labyrinth, which is a part of his 05:52.070 --> 05:57.270 selected fictions, which is also a part of his collected fiction, which is a very thick book. 05:58.290 --> 06:04.110 You know, I borrowed this from the library. And then it's lovely. This is lovely. It's 06:04.110 --> 06:09.890 right size for my hand. I can hold it with one hand. I can hold the pages, you know, 06:09.930 --> 06:15.270 like, like this, when I'm smoking my pipe, which was what I did exactly. And I guess he 06:15.270 --> 06:21.490 smelt my pipe tobacco. Oh, I'm smoking some condor ready rough in my pouch here. Now, 06:21.510 --> 06:25.410 God, I've got so much shit in my pocket, but serious in my little pouch, my doctor thumb pouch. 06:26.690 --> 06:30.550 So he came up to me and he started talking to me again. Man, he's like, yo, man, 06:30.630 --> 06:35.310 Chin, I haven't seen you in a long time. Where you been? You know, how you been keeping? 06:36.450 --> 06:42.010 And it was as if the conversation never stopped. We just picked up from where we left off. 06:42.630 --> 06:46.110 You know, of course, we were talking about the whole Iran shit, where, you know, like the 06:46.110 --> 06:52.590 whole narrative behind that and the whole weaponization of the Islamists and the whole 06:53.890 --> 06:58.950 weaponization of the narrative of the East, West West and what's that all been about, 06:59.050 --> 07:11.130 you know, and it's very good to be able to talk to someone on a level. Just last night. 07:11.710 --> 07:16.530 Me and my housemate, we had a very good, very good smokeout session in the garage. 07:19.410 --> 07:31.230 And we, well, here's the truth of himself. You know, we spoke about a lot of different 07:31.230 --> 07:37.110 subjects, but being Polish himself, a lot of the things were moving to what in our kind of 07:37.110 --> 07:44.950 dialogue, we're talking about war, preparing for war, fighting combat, these type of things. 07:46.090 --> 07:54.950 And now with the situation, the economy is being weaponized against the masses. 07:58.850 --> 08:00.950 The money is being weaponized against the masses. 08:04.530 --> 08:09.810 Poverty is being weaponized again, you know, to the masses, not by the masses, to the masses. 08:13.490 --> 08:18.490 And we were discussing all these layers of different programming, you know, all these 08:18.490 --> 08:24.490 different layers of MK Ultra programming. And we were then talking about natural versus 08:24.490 --> 08:33.110 unnaturalness. How things now in this modern society, if you're in the so-called first world 08:33.110 --> 08:40.830 countries, and you're living in like the cities or whatnot, or the common wealth countries, and 08:42.470 --> 08:47.450 you're in your metropolitan kind of like infrastructures, man, the sky is so beautiful today, 08:47.510 --> 08:56.170 I gotta, I gotta fucking find up my pipe, man. Just for old time's sakes. Folk and pipe. 08:59.630 --> 09:08.770 I think I got a bit of Samuel Gowith's 1792 flake in this, coupled with a condor. A very nice little 09:08.770 --> 09:20.690 combination. Very nicely dried too. It's crushing your hands and anyway. What is believed or perceived 09:20.690 --> 09:28.470 to be natural is very unnatural. And what were the natural ways have been perceived in 09:29.270 --> 09:35.110 the bubble of the metropolitan kind of like islands, which you guys call cities or whatnot, 09:37.230 --> 09:45.770 to be very, I got confused. Sorry, I've been up since five, I've been up since like three 09:45.770 --> 09:50.170 a.m. in the morning, man, shit, man. It's like fucking awful in the afternoon in my island, 09:50.310 --> 10:00.910 so I've been at work. What is deemed to be natural is very unnatural. What is deemed 10:00.910 --> 10:06.090 to be unnatural is deemed to be natural. And if you open your eyes, you can see, 10:07.510 --> 10:11.550 you know, on the faces of the people, the way they live, 10:13.090 --> 10:18.770 the things they pursue, the dreams they have, the aspirations, the troubles, the woes, 10:19.490 --> 10:27.530 everything's perverted. The pain and pleasure pathways have been perverted even neurologically. 10:28.710 --> 10:34.870 It's in a point where we don't know what's real, what's worth pursuing, what's valuable. 10:40.070 --> 10:41.790 Yo, what's going on? 10:43.930 --> 10:53.110 So, yeah, man, it got me, got me thinking. 10:55.810 --> 11:00.670 Why is it so difficult to speak to some people about these subjects? 11:01.650 --> 11:09.210 Yeah, why is it so easy to speak to others? Maybe strangers on these subjects, 11:10.230 --> 11:30.410 subjects on human nature, you know, for the past couple of years to at least find worthy comrades. 11:32.570 --> 11:37.270 I'm not saying that I haven't found any, but in my pursuits, in my journey, 11:38.150 --> 11:49.750 of course, there's been more obstacles than anything else. And when I was speaking to 11:49.750 --> 11:52.970 these people that I'm mentioning in the video here, 11:55.790 --> 11:59.930 even though these people have never met, their answers to me are the same. 12:05.490 --> 12:06.750 Who's Boston Magyberal, are you? 12:07.090 --> 12:07.590 Serious. 12:13.060 --> 12:17.220 Yeah, even though they've never met, these people have given me the same answers, 12:18.040 --> 12:26.360 which leads me to believe that it's not a, it's not a sudden thought, 12:27.500 --> 12:31.300 you know, what they see, what they perceive, and what they tell me. 12:31.840 --> 12:37.460 A lot of people, the ones who are wide awake, they perceive it too, you know. 12:40.580 --> 12:45.640 So, what is it that allows people to see it, and what is it that allows people to not see it, 12:46.260 --> 12:46.600 you know? 12:50.100 --> 12:54.840 And then speaking with my Polish housemate on the subject, 12:58.160 --> 12:59.120 he told me this. 13:00.540 --> 13:01.300 What's going on? 13:02.420 --> 13:03.640 What's going on ladies, you okay? 13:05.280 --> 13:06.700 Ah, there's a butterfly, okay, yeah. 13:07.720 --> 13:11.800 So, speaking to my Polish housemate, he told me this. 13:14.700 --> 13:16.140 Probably the millennials 13:18.760 --> 13:30.260 were the last of their kind to be able to live with the radar of caution and danger still turned on. 13:31.040 --> 13:33.680 The radar has not been switched on. 13:39.940 --> 13:41.680 Where we going? Where we going? 13:45.620 --> 13:46.380 So what? 13:46.720 --> 13:48.920 Yeah, road industry number 14, that was where? 13:49.040 --> 13:49.440 Oh, not that one. 13:49.620 --> 13:50.040 Where? 13:50.300 --> 13:50.760 Number three. 13:51.000 --> 13:51.440 Number three? 13:51.440 --> 13:52.160 Yeah, up here. 13:52.320 --> 13:55.680 Oh, I used to live number 14, so I'd like to come back here. 13:55.820 --> 13:56.460 I see it. 13:56.640 --> 13:56.960 Yeah. 13:57.280 --> 13:59.580 Oh, do we walk around here as well? I'm not this side though, mate. 13:59.740 --> 14:00.840 I'm around there, born and bred. 14:01.000 --> 14:01.440 Oh, shit. 14:01.660 --> 14:03.120 I'll let him come down and say, how's the joy? 14:03.320 --> 14:03.700 Oh, okay. 14:03.920 --> 14:04.300 Well, I don't know. 14:04.300 --> 14:05.680 What was that one's body carrying for them? 14:05.900 --> 14:06.080 What was it? 14:07.120 --> 14:07.980 Not actually, right? 14:09.040 --> 14:10.240 Is that for the body moving in that? 14:10.360 --> 14:10.660 Aye. 14:10.980 --> 14:12.600 Well, I think he might have walked past me. 14:12.720 --> 14:13.360 No, he's there. 14:18.580 --> 14:20.300 Sorry, chatting up some cute girls. 14:20.780 --> 14:21.620 Speak to you later.