À-Bas-Le-Ciel vs. Ask Yourself! Racism, Veganism & the Meaning of Life!
30 September 2017 [link youtube]
Some people will rush to ask, "Did we talk about racism?" Or even, "Did I confront him about Cory McCarthy / Tara McCarthy?" Yes, we talked about all that of those things at length (and more!), but there was nothing confrontational about it: we had a totally productive conversation.
THIS IS JUST A PROMO. Maybe it'll take 12 hours to upload the "real" video, we'll see. However, I don't mean to mislead you: the video I'm uploading now is just my set of reflections after the conversation wrapped up. We DID NOT record the original conversation, partly because it transpired between 3:00 AM and 8:00 AM in Isaac's time-zone! He said he wasn't feeling too sharp, but, in fact, he was exceedingly sharp throughout the entire dialogue.
Youtube Automatic Transcription
keep his cool he did an excellent job throughout the whole conversation I can't find any fault with him frankly uh the audience really got restless and he's got offended well they were really challenged by this in a way they weren't expecting to be challenged in this conversation if there's a disaster some people are running away from the disaster and some people are running toward it now why are they running toward it yes in part it is simply because they believe they can make a positive difference they believe they can try I don't want to be one of the people running away but of course this is only in small part due to the possibility that I can make a positive difference with many of these problems the enormity of them is so great that anyone can say as an objective fact maybe I can't make any positive difference or the positive difference I can make is very very small whether we're talking about vegan politics First Nations value the most fundamental value I have shaping this whole direction this whole side of my character that links me to both research and humanitarian work and issues as diverse as Cambodia and the Kree in a jib way in Canada the most fundamental value I have under this heading is of wanting to take responsibility even if I can't there's no way that I or you or anyone can take responsibility for the history of the British Empire and the terrible decisions they made in how they've handled Canada's indigenous people the Cree the ageia the den a the Mohawk the airflo okay there's it's it's actually impossible for me to take responsibility for that but I want to it's impossible for me to take responsibility in any sense for the daily atrocity the unbelievable moral obscenity of factory farming we've had this cultural development over hundreds of years that led up to the current stainless steel perfection of the meat and dairy industry right there's no way I can take responsibility for it but I want to and I want you to as well I want you to try ibonus yen [Music] ba Lu CL