0:09

Alrighty friends, I'm excited for today's topic.

0:11

It may get a little bit exciting,

0:13

a little bit controversial. You know, I

0:16

love the episodes where I get to

0:18

be really actionable and practical with

0:20

you like our episode last week when we talked about

0:22

wheat berries and all of that. I

0:24

also love the episodes where I can get a

0:27

little more high level and we can look at

0:29

different trends and patterns in

0:31

the Homestead Movement. I have a vested interest

0:33

in the movement because I was

0:35

one of the first people to start talking about

0:37

this online. I'm not saying I invented it by

0:39

any means, right? But

0:41

I had one of the first Homestead blogs,

0:44

one of the first people to start doing

0:46

all these crazy old fashioned things publicly. So

0:48

I'm always interested in patterns and trends and

0:50

perceptions and where things are going. And I've

0:53

seen a big pattern emerge lately, mostly

0:55

through conversations I've had online and

0:57

in person, but

1:01

it's a little bit concerning to me. Primarily,

1:03

because what I'm seeing happen is

1:05

people are being actively pushed away

1:08

from the Homestead Movement and

1:10

the idea of growing their own

1:12

food and being a creator versus

1:15

a consumer and living more

1:17

intentional because somehow,

1:19

thank you, internet, that

1:21

idea of skills and that group

1:23

of concepts has somehow become tangled

1:26

up in the idea of

1:28

conspiracy and paranoia. And

1:31

I even had someone say, hey, I didn't listen to

1:33

your podcast forever because I just assumed that you fell

1:35

into that bucket. And then I listened to it, I

1:37

realized you don't and it was so refreshing, blah, blah,

1:39

blah. But I'm like, oh, how many other people are

1:42

feeling drawn intrinsically? We

1:44

know humans are supposed to be drawn

1:47

into this idea of being more connected

1:49

to land, community and themselves, but this

1:52

new connotation around the Homestead lifestyle is making

1:54

them go, oh, no, thank you. So

1:56

I want to break this down today. I think

1:59

it's important I have some thoughts for you and

2:01

probably some surprising revelations that you might not

2:04

see coming. So let's do this. So

2:07

welcome to Old Fashion on Purpose. This is

2:09

the show where we explore what we have

2:11

left behind as we have raced towards progress

2:13

and how we can reclaim all the good

2:15

parts and leave them into our modern

2:17

day-to-day. I'm your host

2:19

Jill Winger and way back in 2008

2:21

I bought a tumbledown farmstead that nobody

2:23

wanted with my husband out here on

2:25

the wide open Wyoming Prairie and we

2:27

turned it into a homestead bit by

2:30

bit and piece by

2:32

piece. And we have now the privilege

2:34

of getting to teach all those skills and all the

2:36

things we learned to the rest of the world and

2:38

that's what I now do here on the podcast, on

2:40

my blog and on my social media accounts. So

2:42

I have a pretty cool gig and I'm

2:44

really thankful for it. So been

2:46

in this world a long time. I've seen homesteading

2:48

go through a lot of iterations. I remember back

2:50

in the day when I didn't

2:53

even know how to describe to people what I

2:55

did because I'd be like, I have a garden

2:57

and I have chickens and I have a milk

2:59

cow and they're like, what? That's

3:01

weird. And they

3:03

would be like, are you doing this commercially?

3:06

I'm like, no, it's personal food production. They're

3:08

like, blank, no comprende, I didn't get

3:10

it. And so I

3:12

love the term homesteading. It's an imperfect

3:15

term. It confuses people sometimes and

3:17

I talked about this on the show before, but

3:19

I still think it's the best way I've

3:21

found just to encapsulate someone who's living old

3:23

fashioned. You're growing your own food, you're not

3:26

necessarily selling it, but you're just trying to

3:28

get back to basics and return to your

3:30

roots. And homesteading is just an easy way

3:32

to try to wrap it up in a single word, even

3:34

though it does have some weaknesses and sometimes

3:36

people think you're doing it on free government

3:38

land or whatever, but whatever. You know what I mean?

3:41

It's just a nice word to describe what people like

3:43

you and I do. So

3:46

it's concerning to me that there's a shift

3:48

around this term because words

3:50

do matter, right? I found

3:53

myself, even though my business

3:55

has traditionally been branded all over the place

3:57

with the word homestead, the Prairie Homestead,

3:59

and my courses all have the word homestead in them,

4:02

I've kind of thought started using it less

4:05

because it makes me a little bit

4:07

uncomfortable sometimes that people just lump it

4:09

together with a certain set of beliefs.

4:13

So before I get any further I want

4:15

to say you know we're going to talk a lot about

4:17

conspiracy theories and those sorts of ideas today. I don't

4:21

like the us versus them mentality. I'm

4:23

not doing this episode to try to

4:26

create division. If you are

4:28

someone who tends to believe in

4:30

more of those things, you follow more of

4:32

those things online and that's your motivations for

4:34

homesteading, you're still welcome here. I'm not trying

4:36

to kick you out of my communities or

4:39

say you're stupid or say you're not welcome.

4:41

Like you're still welcome here. That's my point

4:43

today is not to create these you know

4:45

us versus them but rather I just hope

4:47

that it will help you ask some questions

4:50

and be curious and think through things in

4:52

a different way and maybe at the end

4:54

of this you'll have the same

4:56

beliefs and same ideas and nothing will have changed but

4:58

as long as you dislike consciously thought

5:00

through what you

5:02

believe and why you believe it I think that's

5:05

a really important exercise in all

5:07

of our life not just about today's

5:09

topic. So that's my caveat. I'm not kicking anybody

5:11

out, not pointing fingers, not trying

5:13

to create a war. I just

5:16

am hopeful we can come to this topic

5:18

with an open mind. So since COVID,

5:21

I mean not surprisingly that's when this started

5:23

and I think it started then

5:25

for good reason, you know

5:27

there is an increase with

5:30

people coming to homesteading for

5:32

potentially different motivations than they

5:34

did ten years ago, right?

5:37

They used to be all about the food

5:39

and now we have people really flooding into

5:41

the movement. We've seen so much more interest

5:43

around homesteading after COVID just because things felt

5:45

so shaky and so weird and we have

5:47

supply chain shortages. All of those

5:50

are very normal reasons that people go back to

5:52

the land. We've seen that historically during the Great

5:54

Depression. We've seen it in the 1970s. If you

5:57

have my book Old Fashioned on Purpose, I talk about this.

5:59

is a normal human response to when

6:02

our human structures feel out of whack.

6:04

So I am not surprised that homesteading grew. But

6:07

what I also saw really change during

6:09

that period is there was

6:11

a lot of people coming to it

6:13

with a very fear-based and almost a

6:15

paranoid mindset. And again, I

6:18

get it. COVID with the weird things

6:20

that happen in government and authoritarianism, and

6:23

it was bizarre, the stuff

6:25

that went down and it made everybody question authority

6:27

and question our leaders and

6:29

everything felt like we

6:32

couldn't trust anyone anymore. So I understand. But

6:34

what I see now four years later is

6:36

that fear in paranoia is still

6:38

at an all-time high. And it

6:40

has started to really seep into all

6:43

areas of the homestead movement or more areas than it used

6:45

to. We used to just have a few people on YouTube

6:47

or whatever that were really speaking to that and the rest

6:49

of the world was like, meh. But now

6:51

I'm seeing more and more creators, whether

6:54

it's on social media or YouTube

6:56

or blogs, like really diving

6:59

in deep. And

7:01

I think that's what's really causing people to

7:03

be turned away from the movement. If they don't

7:05

buy into all of those theories, then they feel

7:07

like, I don't belong here. These people aren't for

7:09

me. And I've even seen some of those people

7:11

who believe in the theories really get aggressive. They've

7:14

been aggressive towards me actually, not

7:17

to mention other people, when we don't buy

7:19

into this set of beliefs. So

7:21

I even had someone the other day, and

7:23

this is really what prompted this episode. I

7:26

posted about how you can homestead out

7:28

of different motivations and fear. And she's

7:31

like, it was kind of condescending. She's like,

7:33

aha, whatever. Obviously, you're new here. You'll

7:35

catch on eventually. Kind of alluding to the fact that

7:37

I haven't thought through it yet. And

7:40

that's why I don't believe this set of conspiracies

7:43

yet. And so it got me to

7:45

thinking, and I'm actually like, you know, it's actually the opposite

7:47

that's true. The reason I don't buy into this

7:49

same set of conspiracies and this fear that I

7:52

see that's so prevalent right now is because I've

7:54

actually been there, done

7:56

that, and got the t-shirt already. I

8:00

actually grew up in a

8:02

culture that was very motivated to this

8:04

end. We weren't homesteading, but everyone around

8:07

me believed that the end of the

8:09

world was coming very, very soon. So

8:11

that was a topic of conversation. There

8:14

was a lot of suspicion and distrust

8:16

of government woven in there. I'm not saying that that's

8:18

always a bad thing. I think the government kind of

8:21

just is not great a lot

8:23

of the time. And when humans get into power, things

8:25

get wonky. So I'm not saying that's all bad. But

8:27

that's kind of the cultural I was raised in. Back

8:32

when I was a younger girl, one of

8:34

our Sunday night activities, we'd go

8:36

to church in the morning and come back for

8:38

church in the evening. Like we would watch different

8:40

documentaries occasionally as a church. And a lot of

8:43

them were about this end of the world phenomenon.

8:45

And it would depict all of these horrible things

8:47

that were going to just befall people. And I

8:49

remember one where people's heads were getting chopped off

8:51

and families were being torn apart and there was

8:54

mass killings and black

8:56

helicopters. Like we were all

8:58

sitting there in these little girls dresses watching these documentaries

9:00

in church. So

9:03

many nightmares after that. Like I've talked to so

9:05

many other people who watched similar things

9:07

in the 90s. That was like a 90s church

9:09

culture thing. I'm not really sure why. But

9:11

like, you know, persistent nightmares after

9:13

that. As a teenager,

9:15

we prepped for Y2K because we didn't know it

9:17

was going to happen, which, you know, I don't

9:20

feel like that's all bad. But we

9:22

had buckets of rice and beans in our

9:24

basement and we watched the TV as we

9:27

started to hit midnight around the world and we were

9:29

waiting for all the lights to go out and all

9:31

the technology to go away. And

9:33

even the area of North Idaho where I grew

9:35

up, like a ton of people moved to that

9:37

area to live in the woods and they made

9:39

bunkers and forts and all sorts of structures

9:42

because they thought Y2K was the end of the world.

9:44

And so we were ready and it felt normal to

9:46

me to prepare for that. It also was a

9:49

little anticlimactic when we realized like,

9:51

oh, well, these places all hit midnight.

9:53

Nothing happened. So moving on, like

9:56

this normal again. Even

9:58

after I moved away from home. I

10:00

still just was positively surrounded by people who

10:03

believe this end of the world was imminent.

10:05

And that even people, and I saw this

10:07

a lot and I think it's hard for

10:09

people to admit this, but

10:12

like they were kind of hoping it would happen because then

10:14

they could, you know, shoot, they would always say,

10:16

I'm going to shoot the UN peacekeepers and I don't really know where they

10:18

got that. But that was like a big thing. And I have my bunker

10:20

and I have my guns and I'm going to do this. And if someone

10:22

tries to take away my guns, this is what I'm going to do. And

10:24

there was like this such this, we would

10:26

talk about that over lunch. Like it was a

10:28

normal topic of conversation. Like obviously this

10:31

is happening soon and now I

10:33

can kind of do whatever I want and

10:35

justify whatever actions because it's the end of the world

10:37

and there is no rules anymore. And

10:39

again, that was normal to me and

10:42

I was constantly surrounded by that. So

10:45

I see a lot of different conspiratorial

10:48

beliefs come and go throughout

10:50

the decades. And it's funny because the ones

10:52

that were such a big deal back in

10:54

the 90s that felt so imminent are now

10:56

like forgotten. And now we have a whole

10:58

new set of conspiratorial beliefs that we think

11:00

are like the thing and they're so real

11:02

and they're so accurate. And I

11:05

think the biggest thing that kind of started to

11:07

pull me out of that culture and really changed

11:09

my mind is to see how

11:11

cyclical it was. Right. And

11:13

seeing that, oh, well, we

11:16

all believe that thing to happen then, but it

11:18

didn't. And now we're onto a new thing and

11:21

it's just like kind of replacing one

11:23

for the other. And

11:26

when you start to understand those cycles, not just of

11:28

those sorts of beliefs, but

11:30

just about economies and nations

11:33

and governments in general, it's

11:35

kind of reassuring in an odd way. And I

11:37

think one of our biggest issues right now as

11:41

a culture, because we're all kind of

11:43

wound up tight right now, I think

11:45

that our worldview is so tiny

11:47

and we have this idea that we're

11:49

like the most important time in

11:51

history and it all is pivoting around our

11:53

little era, which is so short in the

11:55

grand scheme of things. And when we start

11:57

to get hyper-focused like that, Get

12:00

pretty skewed. I'm. We

12:03

think our era is just so

12:05

novel in so unprecedented as actually

12:07

not. Pretty. Precedented if you want

12:10

to be honest, So I'm

12:12

one of the ways that I've

12:14

really. As. If he did myself. About

12:16

this is centered bucks ago and I love

12:19

to read. Ah, here's a few examples of

12:21

you guys wanted to add dig into this

12:23

little deeper. So I'm right now listening to

12:25

a book called Pill Writer by Laura Linney

12:27

And it's about the Spanish Flu Than eighteen

12:29

eighteen flu epidemic. Fascinating.

12:32

I'm. So fascinating. I

12:35

mean obviously lots of anecdotes and there, but like

12:37

the party just blew my mind was a she

12:39

was talking about the government response to the flu,

12:41

the people's response to the flu. The.

12:43

Conspiracy of the People Created or snuff

12:45

Will could. that was scary. And it was.

12:47

You know? Bizarre. To them on

12:50

it. and honestly it was so.

12:52

That. On. I stopped the

12:54

book audio book and i with google

12:56

to see when it was written had

12:59

i'm like oh god she had to

13:01

have after cove it. And she's trying

13:03

to prove a poll about quoted. Know.

13:05

It was written in two thousand and seventeen. So.

13:08

It could have been a play about of

13:10

what happened during poll bad thing even had

13:12

a fight back in nineteen eighteen or whenever

13:14

about what to call it and they were

13:16

some an awkward failure Dramatic called it the

13:18

Spanish flu and then other countries are trying

13:20

to call it a flu from another country

13:22

to point is if you remember we did

13:25

the same thing with how that in arguing

13:27

about. What? Hunter It came from a

13:29

what we should name and and if it was offensive

13:31

right like down to that. Ah, we've

13:33

been. Here before, not to

13:35

mention virus in themselves. Are

13:37

cyclical and we can see throughout history as

13:40

it is little and we have recorded. That

13:42

there have been viruses that go

13:44

through and wipe out masses of

13:46

the population. And that just happens

13:49

in humanity. It's just a thing

13:51

that happened and it happens more.

13:53

now. I'm because. We. Are so

13:55

connected to the culturally travel and it doesn't take

13:57

a comet awful. To pop up off the world. Walker

14:00

debate on whether I received from I'm Not. I'm

14:02

not wanting to get into that the day on.

14:05

That is really a moot point. My point is

14:07

that. The. Response to the virus

14:09

which we feel like was so and same with

14:11

it I mean I will admit it felt and

14:13

saying a reports about by didn't like in you

14:15

know I talked about that publicly than the prove

14:17

with how the government's respond to that but it's

14:19

an echo of what has happened in the past

14:21

and I remember so many times. We also this

14:23

is unprecedented and I'm like actually. It

14:25

was President and ah. You

14:28

know it. Unless and year everyone is obsessed

14:30

with the election and Rp want to talk

14:32

about voted completely consuming our focus. On.

14:36

I. Was googling prior election that

14:38

were super dramatic and go google

14:40

the Eighteen Twenty election between John

14:42

Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Kind

14:45

of hilarious. Like epic mud slinging.

14:47

I think maybe even more mudslinging

14:49

that we have now. I'm like

14:51

they were making jokes about each

14:53

other's moms and their wives being

14:56

fat and like. Like

14:58

on that believable. You think that

15:00

people like. John. Adams. Then I'm.

15:03

Andrew Jackson without a little more truth but

15:05

know it was rolling around in the mud

15:07

doing. Whatever. It's up to track. Try to win

15:10

the election. Played super dirty. Everyone

15:12

super wound up about interest. Rates right now

15:14

I get at a high. If you're trying to buy

15:17

homes that it's frustrating. Ah, We've

15:19

actually really recently seen high interest rates before

15:21

Nineteen eighties, right? I think I was googling.

15:23

There were up to sixteen seventeen percent, I

15:25

think is. The highest they bought and came

15:27

back down and they go back up. That. That

15:29

like that. the cycle of economics. And

15:32

Pulsar on. it the

15:34

second happen a lot. right? So.

15:37

I think if we can kind of. See.

15:39

Our place in human history as

15:41

a speck on a timeline. Instead

15:43

of like this magnifying glass, April

15:46

focused on every little detail. I

15:48

think it helps I'm not saying or make our day to

15:50

day. Now. Much easier because the

15:52

reality of the reality of them have another

15:55

wonky election this year. We

15:57

have her into say. I'm you

15:59

know? Fluid. And viruses

16:01

happen. But. I think for me a

16:03

gives me some solace. Know hey this is. Happened.

16:06

Before and part of the bigger cycle. If

16:09

you want them reading. Ah, To

16:11

get into that a little deeper. This two bucks

16:13

they're not easy reads. They are. Books.

16:15

You have to really to your way through. But.

16:18

There's a changing world. Order by rate. I'll yell.

16:20

I. Will admit some it apart really gets

16:22

into the super financial stuff. I. Like

16:24

zone out side fast forward it. But.

16:27

Ah, the man's brilliant with an incredible

16:30

perfect of a governments and economies And

16:32

how this cycle. Added. Another

16:34

and called the Sovereign Individual by

16:36

James Dale David thing. again not

16:38

an easy read that talks about

16:40

cycles back from kind of when

16:42

we started recorded history. When. The

16:44

industrial revolution came. Now we have the

16:47

tech technological revolution and he talks about

16:49

the transition to power and government and

16:51

all of that fascinating. Also.

16:53

Does. He noted me some

16:56

peace to know that it's happened before and

16:58

it happened again. So. I tell you

17:00

all this not because I don't. Believe

17:02

that we. Could be facing. Some.

17:06

City. Times in America? I think

17:08

that possible. And. We.

17:10

Felt the seeking a stirring poll then

17:13

and it could still be continuing. I

17:15

have sued in my basement. If you watch

17:18

my youtube. Video that showed you my book, food

17:20

storage, I was so thankful to have

17:22

that during cold that I didn't see. Supply

17:24

chain saw it is coming and they did

17:26

and I was so grateful that I had

17:29

wheat various and a grinder and. I'm hooked.

17:31

Ohio and Salt in both. I didn't have to

17:33

go to the story like we would have run

17:35

out of food and saw that. Allows us and

17:37

how to com score store. I didn't have to worry

17:39

about it, it was. So awesome and

17:42

so reassuring. I'm. Christian.

17:44

And I have our assets and our finances

17:46

set up in a way that Anna, no

17:49

matter what the economy does, were cushion right

17:51

and might not mean or businesses are riding

17:53

in a certain year if work in the

17:55

middle of a recession. But we have our

17:58

athletes an organized and we have enough. Christian

18:00

and we have enough different diversification of

18:02

what. We're doing that if one part hang it

18:04

not been it is breakers overnight right? For we

18:06

aren't we. Do think about this. Chris

18:08

and I are very much minded to

18:11

be prepared. What I love about home

18:13

setting and I have read this from

18:15

the rooftops is the best part of

18:18

this lifestyle is. When. You can

18:20

see him to it and learn the skills

18:22

and do the thing just for your own

18:24

enjoyment and pleasure and because he loved the

18:26

food and rub the land and rather community.

18:29

The. Side effect of that. Is

18:31

that you are prepared for whatever life

18:33

throws at you. You are more stable,

18:36

you are more resilient, and you're not.

18:38

Losing. Sleep. On.

18:40

Having high blood pressure because of this year

18:42

and the panic and that's what I have

18:44

seen happen. In. Some of the circles I

18:46

have runway. Prior the

18:49

him and a previous life is

18:51

those people who built their entire

18:53

lives on paranoia and conspiracy. That.

18:56

Affected them physically after a while.

18:59

At that meeting physically fill you could see it

19:01

in their bodies. He a see in their faith

19:03

and it makes sense right? if you feel like

19:05

you're gonna have. An. Event:

19:08

The papers for lack of a better, were

19:10

under susan. Acrobats. What people have to say?

19:13

hum to your door it any day and

19:15

take your children and your guns. Like yeah,

19:17

I'm not going to sleep super well either,

19:19

But I think we have to be honest

19:21

with ourselves that maybe we're just working ourselves

19:23

up a little much. So be prepared. Think

19:26

ahead, be wise. But. That doesn't

19:28

mean you have. To be paranoid.

19:30

And another thing that can help me.

19:33

Sit Out Of This. Belief.

19:36

System of Conspiracy The or maybe even

19:38

paranoia that I carried as a younger

19:40

person. Was. It's kind of understanding

19:42

how are human brains work? right?

19:44

And it makes sense when he so to

19:46

understand of pieces why people are so easily

19:49

kind of seduced into movement. Whether.

19:51

It. conspiratorial movements or

19:53

other movements and we have some

19:55

weaknesses are brain of name's a

19:57

belief can a capitalize on So

20:00

a big one, and you probably are familiar with

20:02

this, and it's confirmation bias, right? Another way to

20:04

phrase it is if you look for something, you

20:06

will find it. And

20:08

this works in so many places

20:10

in your life. We

20:14

like to find information that

20:16

is consistent with our existing beliefs, right?

20:20

We all do that. It feels good

20:22

to us. So for example, I recently

20:25

read the book, Bad Therapy by Abigail

20:27

Schreier. It's not on this

20:29

topic at all. It's about parenting and how this epidemic

20:31

of kids not wanting to grow up and being stunted

20:35

loved the book. But one

20:37

of the big reasons I love the book is because it

20:40

validated what I already believed about

20:42

child rery. So I

20:44

love that there's evidence. I love that she's speaking to it, but

20:47

I had to be honest with myself. I'm like, you

20:49

liked it a lot because she's a brilliant woman,

20:51

but also you kind of already agreed with

20:53

it, right? So I

20:55

asked myself a lot with my beliefs of all

20:57

kinds. I love reading things that make me feel

20:59

good about what I already think, but what can I read if

21:01

I'm gonna challenge what I think? That

21:04

doesn't mean I just flip flop silence all

21:06

the time, but it means I'm being open-minded

21:08

and not falling into that confirmation bias trap.

21:11

One of the scariest parts about social media, and

21:13

this has totally happened to me, the

21:16

algorithms are set up for confirmation bias.

21:19

I do not believe this is a

21:21

government plot. I believe it is a

21:23

plot by corporations to make more money

21:25

on social media. So

21:27

if one of the algorithms learn what you like

21:30

and learn what makes you react, whether it's a

21:32

like, a share, or a comment, they're

21:34

gonna show you more of that thing. The algorithms

21:36

are smart enough to do that. They do

21:39

it all the time. So if you

21:41

like a post about, let

21:44

me think of an example that's not too

21:46

dicey here. If you like

21:50

a post about giant green lizards

21:52

living under the Yellowstone volcano,

21:55

then they're gonna show you another post of

21:57

that same theme. And You like that one.

22:00

Misha you more and so you more because

22:02

they want to keep you liking uncommon thing

22:04

and what happened to us you start to

22:06

go oh my gosh every one believe there

22:08

are dying breed mother that living under the

22:11

Yellowstone volcano. We. Are the majority the

22:13

have to be right. This is the only

22:15

way to think about. This is the only

22:17

way to believe, which is the only. The

22:19

case is probably a very small percentage of

22:21

people who actually believes that others have a

22:23

lot of other evidence that opposes that. but

22:25

you're not being so not because of the

22:27

algorithms. so. That the weakness never been

22:29

a weaknesses maybe I the doesn't do that

22:31

on purpose again not to try to her

22:34

our brains. That to try to make more

22:36

money for their corporations are we need understand?

22:38

That. We can discuss really

22:40

fast things to confirmation bias. Another

22:44

principal on that is helpful here

22:46

when you start to get wrapped

22:48

up, are worried about events or.

22:50

Things. Happening And you're watching youtube videos and

22:53

they're claiming that there are these motivations for

22:55

this thing. All the scary thing. Happening. That

22:57

just. Flat out, not everything is a

22:59

conspiracy, and that's one thing that concerns me

23:02

right now. How do you think?

23:04

we'll all. People. And government that don't

23:06

have our best interest in my i do

23:08

think that power corrupts. I. Do think

23:10

that vehicle to the system of government weather

23:12

for Roman empire anywhere else in the world

23:14

over thousands of years like. That

23:17

stuff happen thousand and get. This

23:19

toxic. Will quit So that's not.

23:22

that's not an A conspiracy right? The

23:24

government corruption, But. I'm.

23:28

Really? Sad to see every little thing

23:30

that happens in our culture every Facebook

23:32

as it hits every time on. You

23:35

know, The. A food planetary and

23:37

then they get a lot of he malibu that

23:39

so does hear me out. Every

23:41

every see, every single thing is

23:43

a conspiracy that can. I get

23:46

us into that world of paranoia,

23:48

right? I'm the Outcomes Razor Principle

23:50

is one to smell your eyes

23:52

yourself with and what are comes

23:54

Razors as is the simplest explanation.

23:57

that will account for a circumstance

24:00

or an event is most likely the correct one. I'm

24:03

not saying always, but it's most likely the

24:05

correct one. So could a chicken

24:09

plant burn down because it was

24:11

foul play? Yeah. And there

24:13

could be this incredibly complex web of people

24:15

who report to the president. The president hates

24:17

this and he wants to starve Americans and

24:19

then they he hires these people in like

24:22

black sweatsuits and they go in and they burn

24:24

the chicken plant and then they make it look

24:26

like this and that and then they you know

24:28

stage it so it looks like an accident. That

24:31

could happen. I don't have enough first-hand evidence to

24:33

prove otherwise, but is it

24:35

also possible that factories

24:37

are pretty complex and have a lot of

24:39

moving pieces and some wiring hadn't been updated

24:42

and it caught on fire because that happens

24:44

a lot. That's also possible. So

24:46

again, not speaking to one

24:48

or the other as being the answer.

24:50

I'm just saying let's be open-minded enough

24:53

to consider the more obvious possibilities

24:56

or the most obvious solutions sometimes.

24:58

And then the other psychological principle I wanted

25:00

to bring to your attention and this is

25:03

one you've probably heard of before in concepts

25:05

but maybe not in title. So it's called the

25:07

Biter or the Bader Meinhof

25:09

phenomenon or the frequency illusion. Sounds

25:12

fancy. It's really not. What this is is simply

25:14

that thing, that phenomenon that your brain does to

25:16

you, you know, you buy a new car and

25:19

all of a sudden you see everyone else driving

25:21

that same car and you're like, oh my gosh,

25:23

they're copying me. I have the most popular car

25:25

in the world. We all kind of laugh

25:27

about that because we know that's not the case. We just

25:29

know that now our brains are calibrated to see that car

25:31

because you weren't aware of it before.

25:34

Before you just ignored it, right? It's happened to me

25:36

so many times in so many things. It kind of

25:38

goes back to that confirmation bias. When you look for

25:40

it, you will find it. And

25:42

so if you start to

25:45

look for conspiracies and all

25:47

these crazy signs to tie together

25:49

and all of that, you're

25:52

going to find it. One of my silliest

25:55

examples is years

25:57

ago I did a YouTube video and I did something

25:59

with my... hands. I don't even remember what I did,

26:01

but I had like people commenting on the post. I'm like,

26:04

she's a part of the Illuminati because the way she's holding

26:06

her hands. I'm like, how?

26:09

I didn't know I was a

26:11

part of the Illuminati, but I also maybe just

26:14

accidentally figured out their secret hand symbols. If that's

26:16

the case, they really need to work on

26:18

some better secret hand signals. But

26:21

you know, we start to look for it.

26:23

We're going to find it. When you're hyper

26:25

focused to watch someone's hands, symbols or signals,

26:27

then you're going to see it everywhere. I

26:29

can assure you definitively that

26:31

I am not a member of the Illuminati. FYI,

26:34

just so you know, I'm sure that's what

26:36

they all say, but you know, just

26:38

putting that out there. So anyway, we

26:41

have confirmation bias. We have Occam's raise and we

26:43

have this frequency illusion. And it's just important to

26:45

know our brains are wired to play tricks from

26:47

us sometimes. That's just part of being

26:49

human. We all do it. We all been there,

26:52

done that. Right? And just be aware of that.

26:54

Again, it might not change your mind. And I

26:56

do know that probably not going

26:58

to change anybody's mind from this episode. I

27:00

know if you believe what you believe, you're

27:03

probably going to stick with that. But what I do

27:05

hope that happens is

27:07

that you just maybe hold your beliefs

27:09

with a slightly open hand. You're

27:11

willing to ask questions. And

27:13

maybe you go through that process and you still come

27:15

out the other side with the same beliefs, or

27:18

maybe not. But I think that

27:20

process is so healthy. And it can

27:22

grow us so much and help us

27:24

mature as humans to just

27:27

ask better questions and be curious

27:29

instead of being stuck in our

27:31

ways. So I

27:34

don't know what the next 10 years holds.

27:36

I'm not predicting anything. I feel

27:38

like I'm ready for whatever, good

27:40

or bad. It would

27:43

seem that according to the books I've read, the

27:45

different cycles and empires and nations, America

27:47

could be on a decline of sorts.

27:49

I'm not saying it's a World War

27:51

3 situation necessarily. I don't

27:53

really think that it's a

27:56

top secret group of people

27:58

who are living in a bunker. somewhere orchestrating

28:00

everything like puppets, that just doesn't feel

28:03

plausible. But I do think that governments

28:05

have a life cycle and

28:07

people tend to get corrupted

28:10

by power. And I think that corporations

28:12

are motivated by profits. I think

28:15

we bring all those things together, just

28:17

things crumble after a while. So again, I don't

28:19

think it necessarily means that we're going to

28:21

be occupied by a different country or it's World War

28:23

III. But I think that the economy could

28:25

be little rocky, you know, little recession eat

28:28

for a while or things might feel a

28:30

little rough with the selection. But

28:33

I don't lose sleep over that because I

28:35

know I prepared and we hosted

28:37

out of love, not

28:39

fear. And I think that's really

28:41

important. And that is

28:44

going to help you enjoy what you're

28:46

doing in your kitchens and your gardens

28:48

with your animals and your barn so

28:50

much more than coming at it from

28:52

a place of this is falling. So

28:54

I want to encourage you today that even

28:56

if you've dabbled in a little bit of that

28:58

conspiratorial thinking, you felt your heart be a little

29:00

faster when you're watching videos or reading posts online.

29:02

I'm going to invite you to step away from

29:05

that because here's the deal.

29:07

You can wind yourself up and feed your

29:09

brain a constant diet of that and then

29:11

you're going to see it everywhere. Or,

29:14

you know, odds are you

29:16

watching a YouTube video about it isn't going

29:18

to change what happens anyway. So here is

29:20

my invitation for you as we wrap up

29:22

this episode. You know, the

29:25

world's going to do what the world's going

29:27

to do regardless of how many YouTube videos

29:29

you watch about the end of the

29:31

world or whatever else may be happening. And

29:34

all that happens when we feed our brains a

29:36

constant diet of that is it works us up,

29:38

it raises our blood pressure, and it

29:41

makes us start to see the bad

29:43

things everywhere because we start to look for it.

29:46

So you can choose to live like that

29:49

in a heightened state of

29:51

fear or you can choose to say, you know what,

29:53

it's going to happen, what's going to happen? And

29:56

I can still love this homestead lifestyle and

29:58

grow food. and connect

30:00

with my neighbors and build healthy soil

30:03

and create in my kitchen for

30:05

my own motivations. Out of love for all

30:08

of those things, out of joy and out

30:10

of passion, the results of what you create

30:12

and produce on your homestead will probably be

30:14

the same. You'll just be a lot happier

30:17

in the process and you'll still be prepared

30:19

no matter what the world may throw at us. So

30:23

I hope that was encouraging for you today friends.

30:25

Again, if you are more of

30:27

the conspiracy crew than I

30:29

am, cool. You're welcome here. I

30:31

hope you enjoy my content. I'm

30:34

not trying to ostracize or push aside. I

30:36

just want to keep our movement where it

30:38

is wholesome and welcoming to folks of all

30:40

walks of life, regardless of what they believe

30:43

about the end of the world. Because there's

30:45

so much good here. There is so much

30:47

good for all humans and all humans need

30:49

this, not just a certain group.

30:51

So I will keep preaching that till the cows

30:54

come home. So that's all I got for you

30:56

today. Thank you so much and we will chat

30:58

on the next episode of the Old Fashioned On

31:00

Purpose Pad Chat.