[0:03]Okay. Okay, now it says I'm live. Hello, hello, hello. Hi everybody. I'm Kirson Peck and I want to thank you for joining me tonight on this first episode of my new show. betrayed by Trump, the guide to self-discovery and the rewards of a positive mindset. That's the name of the book and this is the weekly check-in. um, the weekly visit because I realized that I wrote the book uh last year. And it is a instructional guide book to help people figure out what's happening in politics. Is this what we voted for? And what are we doing about it? Is this going the way that we want it to go, okay? So I am updating this channel. I've been off of it for a while because I was traveling and frankly I went to Oslo, Norway and the Arctic circle over the holidays, all the way up to the end of the end of the earth, which was great fun. And when I was in Oslo, I went to the Nobel Peace Institute and went into their museum and their art gallery where they were hosting a art show called War is Peace. And the show was very intense, a little bit graphic personally. But um, the big part of this was that how important it is for the arts, artists and authors and playwrights and musicians and sculptors and painters, all types of artists. Get involved with politics because of the social connection that we all have. And that the art speaks to our emotions and help process what's happening in the world. And so it says here in this book, uh, the title war and peace is borrowed from George Orwell's 1984 novel. And the novel imagined a world where language was twisted to serve power. Decades later, Orwell's vision feels less like fiction and more like a lens through which we can understand our own time. The manipulation of words, the blurring of truth and the reframing of peace, they are part of our political reality. Our mission at the Peace Center is to use ideas and the work of the laureates to engage and inspire for a better and more peaceful world.
[3:12]Through the exhibit, the invites us to reflect on how symbols have been used to legitimize war and how it can also be used to resist it because with knowledge comes power. And language can be a shield or a weapon. That's why dialogue and reflection matter. And so those words uh bring out to me and I have to get back into the political situation. I have to get back to the book that I wrote a few months ago and continue talking with people about how to decide if we are being betrayed as a country. And if we are, what are we going to do about it and how do we move forward? What do we do? Um, so I was a civics and English teacher in high school and I decided to put this event together weekly to try and give people a chance to start having these very difficult conversations. Because they're hard. They really are. And that's part of why I hesitated to even consider doing this because I have an opinion. I have to admit it. I have everybody has an opinion. Don't don't say that you don't. You have one. And yet I have to say I am open to hearing other ideas. My mind is flexible and can be adjusted with new information. I like learning new things. I like talking to people. I enjoy problem solving. And so I have to get past my own fear and step up and be let's do this. And so I I'm putting this one together and it's a little bit on the fly because this is a work in progress. I'm not an expert million dollar consultant. I was I'm a semi retired high school teacher and I really have to still keep working at this because I can't accept what's happening in our world. I can't accept it. And I'm not going to sit back and let it just go. That's not me. And so, you know, this is it's this is not a political debate. I'm not here to debate. I'm here to have a dialogue, to listen, to share and to try to figure out how we're going to negotiate this because we have to live together in peace. That's it. So the other fantastic guide book that I picked up at the Nobel Institute is literally the instructions. So I'm just following through these instructions and I'm going to be reading the books and we're going to be doing it together and this a common thing that we have to figure out. So thank you for joining me. Please subscribe here, follow along, buy the book. My book's over on Amazon. It's also on my website, which is Joy West Press.com. Actually, I have a sample of the book on Betrayed by Trump.org. I got the .org cuz I'm not about trying to get rich, I'm trying to solve a problem. Betrayed by Trump.org. Okay, let's get back to this. Here's our the what we're going to do. This is the eight principles. The dialogue should be a basic attitude. We got to stop being so self-centered that we only talk and listen to ourselves. We have to have a conversation and a respectful dialogue, okay? Number two, create safe spaces. So that's what I did. This is the garden. I'm here in quiet, dark at night. This is private, this is confidential. It's between you and yourself. Self-awareness and journaling, these are all things you're going to do yourself. I'm kind of leading it and we're going to talk about it, but it's up to you. It's your life, okay? Number three, include all the relevant parties. That means I can't do this sitting here by myself. I need I need people to participate and I need people from all sides, all the parties. I can't figure this out. Please explain it to me, okay? In a dialogue, you must listen. Number four, I'm here to listen, so I'm not talking. I need people to talk to me, okay?
[8:19]Next up. Five, let everyone share their experiences, okay? So I'm going to be sharing my experiences here because I'm talking to myself and I'm talking to you guys all out there. When you subscribe and when you start leaving me some comments, I'll be able to start having this conversation, okay? Moving on. Ask questions. Yeah, I I don't understand how does that work? How did you get there? Why why did you say who told you that? That's why I Who told you these things? Okay, number seven, talk about difficult topics. Politics is difficult, the economy is different, difficult, the war is difficult. Sex is difficult, all kinds of things we have to talk about and then they're all interrelated and they all build on each other and they all have to get resolved. And number eight, contribute to forgiveness and reconciliation. And I think this is going to be hard because people feel hurt, people feel damaged by what's been going on. Okay? And it's hard to forgive somebody when you're feeling hurt, but you also have to kind of say, you know, humbly, maybe they were lied to. Maybe they were betrayed, maybe they didn't think this was what was going to happen and the whole give people a chance. So forgiveness and reconciliation is where I'm at and I think that the word betrayal is the key to getting us to that peace of forgiveness and reconciliation. And so a betrayal is not your fault. You go into it with best intentions and somebody else betrays you. They they don't follow through on their promises, they they break your confidences, they do damage intentionally. Those are things that happen when you are betrayed, okay? And so I I'm going to uh I'm trying to keep notes here and again, I'm just asking for feedback and sharing of information because we got to get this figured out, okay? Um, in the book, uh, I think the best place to start really is with the values clarification. So here's a list, and let me see if I can get this onto the camera here, a minute. Uh, I have to do this better. You can see some of the values here, happiness, inner harmony, justice, kindness, loyalty, all sorts of things. And I'm going to start this off by saying, I have two here on this list that I think are my pet peeves with President Trump and the MAGA party that he is the head of. And those two are respect and truth. And I I'm going to talk about respect and truth for a minute and then I I really want people to explain it to me because I don't understand, okay? Um, when I taught high school, there was a video I used to show the students about values and how do you pick them and which way are you going to go. And the topic of respect comes up with and it was a it was in the video. It was about a boy with a dog and an old man that was angry at the dog barking. And the question comes up, do you give respect or do you get respect first? And the I I believe that you give respect because you're putting the positive forward, your best faith, your best effort is out on the forward. If you hold respect back, then you are, I feel, you are being controlling and judgmental. And if someone looks at you funny, you feel disrespected. You're not giving them the respect back. All of that kind of negativity, I think comes from holding respect or saying, you have to earn the respect, earn respect. I I personally don't believe that. I believe that respect is given freely. Everyone deserves respect, everyone is a human being, everyone is a child of a parent, everyone has the ability to have children, everybody is a neighbor, a sister, a brother, a friend. Give respect, okay? And please explain to me otherwise. Um, so that was the first one that to me when President Trump or then he was back then he was candidate Trump and he started with the disrespectful, making fun of people and just being, I think he's horribly obnoxious and disrespectful of people. The second one is truth. And I am not a I'm not a fan of a liar, of a fraud, of a trickster. I don't really like jokers, I don't really like pranks. I don't really like that because you're you're taking advantage of somebody. And if you are honest and truthful, I believe that adds to your value as a person going through the world as being credible, as being realistic, as being dependable, because you tell the truth. And now I have to stop this a second. Um, and so it we so lying. So please tell me how can people lie, how do people lie to you all the time and you just keep going along with it? How do you keep spreading lies? How does lying keep getting spread around and keep going and going and going? It's got to stop. It's really got to stop. And the only way to make that happen is to say we're not going to do it anymore. Not doing it. Not.
[15:40]And so I I know people's identities get tied to this because it's been an ongoing situation. It's like joining your favorite football team that you follow and that you're a love or sports teams, people live and die by their sports teams. I get that. People live and die by their musicians. I get that too. I travel with a band, I've seen a band, I get that. They're part of my identity. I get that. But on the other hand, I'm not such a groupie of the band that I lose myself because I'm a groupie of the band.
[17:41]I we got to step back out of that and we got to kind of distance ourselves a little bit from that cult or that giant identity that has consumed so much of our consciousness, so much of our thinking, so much of our ideas are wound up on that energy of, I believe negativity. I think it's negative. And so I'm trying to provide a place to talk about it. I'm trying to practice skills that I teach in high school, practice, maybe the rhetorical strategies and I maybe that's what I need to start doing again and back to this. What is propaganda? And if you hear a if you hear it a grandiose grandstanding, what are you supposed to do when you hear that? Because you're not supposed to believe it and start cheering along with the band stand. That's a that's a strategic thing that someone's doing to manipulate you and you're taking the bait. I so yeah, I'm trying to teach it. I'm trying to live it and I'm trying to have conversations around it. So check back, subscribe, follow along. Please tell me what are your values that you think are worth being part of this MAGA movement and continuing to support the president and tell me why. Maybe I'll maybe you'll change my mind. I'm open to it, maybe it'll change my mind, okay? I swear, I'm open to it, okay? Um, also, finally, I'm doing a setting up a survey, an anonymous survey to try and get this figured out because I am a problem solver. I study social studies and I'm believing that this is turning into a big experiment. And so I started writing the book. I knew I knew my book was an experiment. I took a strange position, I made a strange hypothesis and I'm putting it together. So this is the next step of the scientific process of figuring this out because we have to figure this out. I believe we are being betrayed. I believe the whole entire country is being betrayed. I believe the whole entire world is being betrayed and we can we can get it back together. We just have to find the commonality. And as I was saying on this morning, I think it was, the commonality, I think is our kids, our children, the next generation, or we're not going to have one. Obviously, and the second piece of that is going to be the environment. If we don't have planet Earth, if Mother Earth is not here, it's not going to happen. Those two things to me is this ultimate reasons why. So please share these ideas, talk to me. We have to share it. This is a safe space. Email me confidentially. Join the website, come visit me here in Puerto Rico. We can talk online, we can do all sorts of stuff. The book is on Amazon. I'm done with the plug. This is me after dark. I'm tired, I'm stressed. I got through all of this. Okay, I got through all of this. Yes. Now, arts tomorrow, the rest of the week, I'm only doing politics on Mondays and Tuesdays because I have to focus on it. I can't ignore it. I can't ignore it. So that's my story. Visit the website, Betrayed by Trump.org. Get the download sample, see what it's about. Go get the book, subscribe, follow along, all that stuff, okay? I'll be back next Tuesday night with another edition of this and look forward to seeing you again. Okay, I got to go. Bye. Thanks. Bye.
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