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Jun 22, 2026
My fun conversation with Patrick Smith, and the upcoming Larken Rose event, "Approaching Humanity"
45:48

Mark MarescaHOST
over time and how that's shifted and it goes in you know like like many of us this is not unique to you there are times when you are more active and sometimes you are less active could you sort of give us your perspective on that and share because a lot of us uh go through the same sort of uh dynamic
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46:06Patrick SmithGUEST
yeah yeah so It is a silly thing that some of us humans do where we shift our focus and our primary goal from our job, our career, our family and children over to I'm going to change the world.
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46:31Patrick SmithGUEST
The amount of, I mean, you don't really think about it this way at the time, but it requires quite a bit of ego to even think that you can move the needle of the world.
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46:41Patrick SmithGUEST
And so one of the first things you slam into when you decide to become an activist, and I...
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46:51Patrick SmithGUEST
At a certain point in my journey, I realized how screwed up the world was and how the superstition of just authority in the state is a fundamental core problem to To that, I said, okay, well, I'm going to approach this like all the other engineering problems that I tackle, and I'm going to examine the options.
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47:11Patrick SmithGUEST
I'm going to find which method of activism works best, and that's the one I'll focus on.
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