Clint > Richardson | Red Pill Sunday School: Seeking Reality In This Digitized Realm
Author, researcher and documentary maker Clint Richardson returns to help us find clarity on what is real and what is artificial. We explore occult language dynamics, the gods vs. God, Simulation & Simulacra, our choices with the legal realm, what what the phrase "time is money" is really saying.
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Core themes
God as a Verb, Truth as Reality
Chance opens by proposing that once truth is defined as reality itself, nobody needs to go seeking it, because what exists is the truth. Clint builds on that through grammar. He argues the legal system runs on nouns, names and titles, which are empty forms, while verbs and adjectives stay closer to the truth. He notes that "the truth will set you free" is a Bible verse most people quote without knowing it, reads God in the old sense of a magistrate or anyone holding power over you, and says Webster's 1828 treats Jehovah as a verb, so creation is something always happening rather than a past event.
Rock, Paper, Scissors as an Order of Needs
Clint offers rock, paper and scissors as a ranking of human priorities. The rock is need, the foundation and the truth. The scissors are ease, a tool like a plow, and also the intellect, which cuts and categorizes. The paper is want and desire, a thin covering like a noun, and in a materialist world he says it has covered the rock. Chance notes the paper is two dimensional against a three dimensional rock and casts the scissors as the reason that can separate fiction from reality. Clint answers that the same tool can lead to sin, a word he links to synthetic and to words carrying the prefix dis.
Simulators, Copies and the Replaced Axe
Clint says the original script of The Matrix made it a voluntary virtual reality people chose and then lost the will to leave. Clint argues that in the old dictionaries simulation means hypocrisy, knowing the moral law and acting against it, while a simulacrum is a copy without an original. Chance recalls an example from Clint's own show, an axe whose head and then handle are both replaced. Clint carries it into transhumanism, asking whether a person rebuilt from new parts is the same, and says change is part of life and worth embracing. In his outro Chance points to Cyberpunk 2077 as that transhuman future.
Why Freedom Means Self-Responsibility
Clint describes church and state as a mutual pardon, the priest class forgiving the politicians and the politicians forgiving the priests, and cites maxims of law holding that the king can break no law. Chance says this is why he is not chasing researchers who promise ways to game the legal system. Clint argues most slaves would not have chosen freedom because the plantation felt safe, and reads offers of hope, safety and security as the sign of coming tyranny. Freedom, in his telling, is self-responsibility, including self-sustainability, which he doubts anyone manages alone. He adds that insurance still recognizes acts of God, and that legal freedom really means franchise.
Time as the Currency of the Legal System
Clint argues that legal equality means everyone is equally punishable, so a poor man pays for a crime with jail time while the rich and corporations pay fines, because time is money and money is time. He asks whether a contract or a mortgage could bind anyone without a due date, suggests a good job is one you would keep doing without pay, and calls time one of the four corners of the fiction. Chance adds that debt-based money works like musical chairs. In his outro he explains Clint's cartoon metaphor: a life logged as timestamped transactions, frame by frame, looks alive to an algorithm.
Quotes
“Creation is something that's always happening. Creation didn't just happen. It is a continuous, beautiful thing that keeps going and going and going.”
“When we stop asking what is truth and actually answer that question by defining truth as reality itself, we no longer need to seek truth.”
“Freedom is one and only one thing, self-responsibility. Included in that has to be self-sustainability, obviously.”
“Without time, there is no legal system. There is no power. There is no debt. There is nothing.”
“The real time, our spiritual currency, is what we pay attention to and how we change based on what we're taking in, what we're choosing to continue doing.”
“What's the meaning of life? That's a question I've heard quite a bit. And honestly, if you think about it, the answer is, again, self-evident. The meaning of life is life.”
“Don't allow persons to have power. Persons are not real. Well, what is a corporation? It's an artificial person.”
“The higher you climb the spiritual mountain, the further into the dark valleys and the shadow of death you'll be able to peer.”
Clint Richardson (styled "clint > richardson") is an independent legal researcher and author of "Strawman: The Real Story of Your Artificial Person," and hosts the YouTube channel Red Pill Sunday School; he appeared on InnerVerse multiple times discussing strawman legal theory, Unidroit, and private member associations.
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