Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your Girl daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 1: You know, folks, this week, I feel like we are
Speaker 1: just spiraling out of control, Like as a country, as
Speaker 1: a world, I really do feel like most of us
Speaker 1: are hanging on for dear life. I talked about this
Speaker 1: on The Danielle Moody Show one of the episodes that
Speaker 1: I entitled The United States of Dystopia, And it's this
Speaker 1: feeling that everything that we've been told, right, like, think
Speaker 1: about the things that you've been taught since you were
Speaker 1: in grade school, you know, to be kind, to be empathetic,
Speaker 1: like you know, right versus wrong, you know, setting a
Speaker 1: moral compass, like all of these things, sharing right, Like
Speaker 1: all of these things are principles that were to lead
Speaker 1: us to educate us on being kind, good humans. And
Speaker 1: what we see is that like that was all just
Speaker 1: one big fucking gag because it is the greedy, the vile,
Speaker 1: the monstrous, the hateful that succeed. Whether you were looking
Speaker 1: at the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare and
Speaker 1: the fact that this man was in the midst of
Speaker 1: insider trading that had his claim to fame as a
Speaker 1: great CEO is having denied tens of millions of people
Speaker 1: healthcare coverage when they needed it so that he could
Speaker 1: pocket the money as well as his shareholders. That these
Speaker 1: are people that don't stock again to enrich themselves off
Speaker 1: of the despair of other people. But he's at the
Speaker 1: top of the pyramid. You look at Elon Musk, whose
Speaker 1: fortune is like teetering on, you know, being into the
Speaker 1: trillions of dollars, and he's being labeled as a genius
Speaker 1: because of his amassed wealth and not a greedy son
Speaker 1: of a bitch right, who hates people, who hates freedom
Speaker 1: of speech, who hates trans people, but he is celebrated.
Speaker 1: You look at Donald Trump, who has been named to
Speaker 1: be the Person of the Year by Time magazine, which
Speaker 1: we know is not necessarily an award, but it is
Speaker 1: recognition again of the vileness that has ushered him into
Speaker 1: office yet again. And you know, when you sit and
Speaker 1: you look, it's just like, why are we teaching young
Speaker 1: people to be decent? Why are we teaching them to
Speaker 1: be kind? And as a matter of fact, the words
Speaker 1: that come out of our mouth are very contrary to
Speaker 1: the actions that are taken by those around them that
Speaker 1: they see and they see, notably what success is supposed
Speaker 1: to look like. You know, I was at an event
Speaker 1: the other day, and this is how folks. I also
Speaker 1: know that like, I am old right because I believe
Speaker 1: in those virtues of like empathy and kindness, of like,
Speaker 1: you know, engaging in things like conversation that leave you
Speaker 1: feeling nourished and recognizing like that's just not where we are.
Speaker 1: I went to this event where you know, I honestly
Speaker 1: I was surrounded by like twenty somethings. And this is
Speaker 1: not like an admonishment on the younger generation, It's just
Speaker 1: an observation where you know, I remember going to you know,
Speaker 1: company events, networking events, you know, congressional receptions, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera, when I was in my twenties, and the
Speaker 1: whole point, right was to network, right, was to connect,
Speaker 1: broaden out your network, which would then help you right
Speaker 1: moving forward in in your career. And I go to
Speaker 1: this event for a you know, an online magazine, and
Speaker 1: there was no conversation that was being had between people
Speaker 1: except for the people that you came with. There was
Speaker 1: just a parade of folks with their phones and selfie
Speaker 1: lighting and creating content just in every corner as individuals,
Speaker 1: not as like a collective, right, And again there was
Speaker 1: no there wasn't even any necessarily any branding that was
Speaker 1: out that would tell you who this event was being
Speaker 1: thrown by, or like why you should care about it.
Speaker 1: It was just happened to be in an instagrammable restaurant
Speaker 1: and that's all that people were doing, not talking to
Speaker 1: each other. So there was like why are you even here?
Speaker 1: You know? And that's kind of where like I know
Speaker 1: that that's just it's like why are you even here?
Speaker 1: It's not to connect with other people. It's not to
Speaker 1: engage with people. It's to engage with like, you know,
Speaker 1: these imaginary followers that you'll never actually meet in real life.
Speaker 1: Most likely, it's to show people how great and how
Speaker 1: cool and how slicky you are. Look at where I am,
Speaker 1: and all of it is just like one big fucking illusion.
Speaker 1: And so like I found myself sitting there and I'm
Speaker 1: just looking around, and I you know, and I was
Speaker 1: a marker for me of a moment when you realize that,
Speaker 1: like you're old, right, because like I care about conversation,
Speaker 1: I care about the content that people are putting out
Speaker 1: and folks are ingesting and like that was not the thing,
Speaker 1: that was not the vibe. You know, I care about
Speaker 1: who we highlight, who we put a spotlight on as
Speaker 1: like you know, the person of the year or like,
Speaker 1: and again it has nothing to do with what good
Speaker 1: people are doing, because good is not actually celebrated in
Speaker 1: this country or rewarded. It's those that have like that
Speaker 1: are so self serving, so self involved, so fucking greedy.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that get the most followers. Those
Speaker 1: are the ones that get elected. It isn't about like
Speaker 1: who is doing good and how to model that, And
Speaker 1: I just I honestly, it had me just really thinking
Speaker 1: this week about what kind of society we will live
Speaker 1: in moving forward. And I do think that it is
Speaker 1: not going to be community based at all. I do
Speaker 1: think that it is going to be every person for themselves,
Speaker 1: a dog eat dog type of dystopia where we could
Speaker 1: give a shit less about who lives next door and
Speaker 1: down the street and how we can be of service
Speaker 1: and of help like that being of service right is
Speaker 1: going to be something that goes extinct. And I just
Speaker 1: think that we're going to experience just this hardening of
Speaker 1: our spirit, of our hearts of our connection, because what
Speaker 1: we see being rewarded are people that do the exact
Speaker 1: and total opposite of the lessons that we were taught
Speaker 1: in elementary school. So it's like, you know, whether or
Speaker 1: not you're directing kids to model themselves after Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and Elon Musk and others, you know, by virtue of
Speaker 1: who is celebrated and the fact that we adore like
Speaker 1: just you know, the adoration for wealth. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: just so we're bankrupt everywhere else. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the answer is. I don't know how to bring us
Speaker 1: back to a place where kindness and empathy and generosity
Speaker 1: is celebrated. The fact is is that I don't think
Speaker 1: that we're ever going to get back to that place right,
Speaker 1: and I think that that is where I find myself struggling.
Speaker 1: Is the way to combat the onslaught of hatred, vitriol, harshness.
Speaker 1: The only way to combat that is going to be
Speaker 1: through collective love, joy, empathy, and community building. Because the
Speaker 1: way that fascism and authoritarianism takes hold is by pitting
Speaker 1: people against each other, is by creating this false sense
Speaker 1: of scarcity, is by having neighbor turn against neighbor. But
Speaker 1: if you see now through the environment, through like the
Speaker 1: lens of like extreme capitalism, where you know, as was
Speaker 1: said with the movie Wall Street back in the eighties
Speaker 1: Gordon Gecko, greed is good. Not only is greed good
Speaker 1: right as seen in this country, but it is elevated right.
Speaker 1: It is made to be the model that we should
Speaker 1: all aspire to. And so, knowing this, and people continue
Speaker 1: to ask me, Danielle, then what do we do? What
Speaker 1: do we do? And I'm like, you got to start locally.
Speaker 1: You have to, you know, define for yourself, for your family,
Speaker 1: for your friends, Like really, what is what is your
Speaker 1: moral compass? What connects you and keeps you grounded in goodness?
Speaker 1: And you know, the whole purpose now is to turn
Speaker 1: these self serving, you know, greedy oligarchs into our new
Speaker 1: you know, kings and queens that like we serve at
Speaker 1: their pleasure, and if we kiss the ring and we obey,
Speaker 1: then maybe they'll show some kindness on us. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: you know, throw a few coins our way, and then
Speaker 1: those coins that we are able to grab then make
Speaker 1: us just a little bit better than those that are
Speaker 1: below us, you see. And that's the goal and the
Speaker 1: role and so if you know the game right ahead
Speaker 1: of time, like you can decide to opt out of
Speaker 1: it and opt into building real relationships, opt into finding
Speaker 1: value in things that are internal rather than external. All
Speaker 1: these people want is attention and adoration, And what if
Speaker 1: we were to decide that we're not going to give
Speaker 1: it to them, We're not going to bestow it to them.
Speaker 1: And I think that in a twisted, weird way, we're
Speaker 1: seeing that happen with this, with the celebration of this
Speaker 1: alleged shooter. You're seeing people really look through a lens
Speaker 1: that is allowing us to really critique how we got
Speaker 1: to this place in the first place. Like I said this,
Speaker 1: you know, on on the episode of The New Abnormal,
Speaker 1: which is out today as well, and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: with my co host Andy, I was just like, the
Speaker 1: problem that the media is having around this shooter, Luigi Maggione,
Speaker 1: this alleged shooter, is that they can't just shrug their
Speaker 1: shoulders and say he was crazy, right, like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: insane and this is just you know, and brush him off.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, he was educated in the same you know,
Speaker 1: elite systems. He comes from a wealthy family, is in fact,
Speaker 1: a rich, you know, white man who you know, by
Speaker 1: virtue of having his own pain right, his own chronic pain,
Speaker 1: started to look at this system that profits off of
Speaker 1: his pain and profits off of everyone's pain, and that
Speaker 1: really strike a chord. You know, if you looked at
Speaker 1: his alleged manifesto, it was one that like doesn't read
Speaker 1: like a crazy person like these other manifestos that we've
Speaker 1: seen where people are hailing Donald Trump after they shoot
Speaker 1: up a synagogue or a church or what have you,
Speaker 1: you know, because of their racism and their hatred and
Speaker 1: their bodas. It's like, no, you can't look at this
Speaker 1: system and say that people can only as Elizabeth Warren stated,
Speaker 1: and that she's receiving pushback for people can only be
Speaker 1: pushed so far. And right now, billionaires who are trying
Speaker 1: to create this new American oligarchy are going to push
Speaker 1: people to their breaking point. As the saying goes, when
Speaker 1: there's nothing left to eat, you eat the rich. Right
Speaker 1: when there's no more appeals to be made to those
Speaker 1: that gleefully rejoice in your suffering, than you're going to
Speaker 1: takestic radical action. I say that, you know, violence is
Speaker 1: not the answer, but it seems to be the only
Speaker 1: answer that America actually listens to. You can't look at
Speaker 1: this country whose founding was steeped in violence, right, and
Speaker 1: then look at people for celebrating this shooter and say, oh,
Speaker 1: you're depraved, really, because I think that denying healthcare to
Speaker 1: millions of people who pay into a system that is
Speaker 1: essentially a Ponzi scheme is fucking depraved. I think that
Speaker 1: sending weapons that murder children and women and innocent civilians
Speaker 1: and saying that this is justified is fucking depraved. America
Speaker 1: is being revealed in this moment, and it feels like
Speaker 1: things are being turned upside down. But I really don't
Speaker 1: think that they are. I think that they've never been
Speaker 1: right side up. I think that we have been fed
Speaker 1: and narrative that has this belief that if we just
Speaker 1: work hard enough, right, if we just do good and
Speaker 1: do right, then you too can reap the rewards of
Speaker 1: this parasitic capitalistic system. And that is not the truth.
Speaker 1: The people with the immense amount of wealth in this country,
Speaker 1: they didn't fucking work for it. It was inherited. Right.
Speaker 1: So when people say like, oh, I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: wake up and rise and grind and like, hustle so
Speaker 1: hard and blah blah blah, you know, to make my
Speaker 1: way into being a millionaire or a billionaire. It's like, nah,
Speaker 1: you were just born into the wrong family because those
Speaker 1: people did not hustle hard. They inherited stolen wealth and
Speaker 1: profits from other people, and we were told to again
Speaker 1: adore them, to aspire to them. You know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: until I'll tell you this, the marriage of Megan and
Speaker 1: Prince Harry right and the treatment that she received from
Speaker 1: the royal family, from the people of the UK and
Speaker 1: the media there, that it took a lot of folks
Speaker 1: to realize, why aren't we fucking celebrating this royal family
Speaker 1: to begin with? These people who have a mass their
Speaker 1: wealth on the backs and deaths and murder and torture
Speaker 1: and thieving that they have done for generations. But somehow
Speaker 1: we're like, oh my god, look their royalty there. You know,
Speaker 1: they're blue bloods, they're this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 1: They're craven, they're craven. But they go and they've conquered
Speaker 1: and colonized and made the very people that they conquered
Speaker 1: and colonized worship them. Oh, look at their philanthropy. Look
Speaker 1: at their fucking philanthropy. You mean that they stole and
Speaker 1: extracted and then they sprinkle around stolen goods and we
Speaker 1: called that philanthropy. All we've ever done is celebrate the villain.
Speaker 1: But you would know that they were villains because they
Speaker 1: have been the author of the story, contorting it to
Speaker 1: fit their end. So if you're looking for leadership and
Speaker 1: for those to be a moral compass, you need look
Speaker 1: no further than yourself, because I see no one around
Speaker 1: us that we should be aspiring to. They are setting
Speaker 1: a prime example of everything that is actually wrong, and
Speaker 1: it's disheartening. But the minute that we turn our eyeballs
Speaker 1: and our dollars away from those that do us harm,
Speaker 1: they will cease to have power. And that's what we
Speaker 1: need to remember. That is it for me today, Dear
Speaker 1: friends on wok af As always power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Yet woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fock