David Whitehead, Cult of the Medic |531|

David Whitehead seeks to understand the origins of the “medical industrial complex.”

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A lot of people think Google’s just a search box and Facebook’s just a place to see what my friend. What they don’t realize is there’s entire teams of engineers, whose job is to use your psychology against you. I was the co-inventor of the Facebook like button.

I was the president of Pinterest, Google, Twitter, and Instagram. There were meaningful changes happening around the world because of these platforms. I think we were naive about the flip side of that coin. I always felt like fundamentally it was the force for good. I don’t know if I feel that way anymore.

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That’s a clip from the Netflix movie, the social dilemma, Netflix. There’s an irony. And even though that’s probably old news to a lot of people that are listening to this show, It is at the same time, really a controversy and it hard to believe for a lot of other people listen to this show. You know, I started kind of on the frontier science realm of parapsychology and near death experience, all that stuff still have a lot people that I really like and respect friends from those areas of frontier science.

And I talked to those people. And they don’t get it. They don’t understand.

And if you don’t understand that, not withstanding the spin that they give it, which is really kind of sets it off kilter a little bit. Then you probably can’t. Totally wrap your arms. Around this. Today’s guest David Whitehead. And his new documentary series. The cult of the medics. Here’s a clip.

[00:01:35] David Whitehead: We don’t choose a side when, when we’re talking about morals and ethics and, and what’s going on in our society, if you’re in the middle, you’re undecided, if you’re in the middle, you’re in a place and I’m not talking about being in an objective space of a scientific objectivity, where you’re trying to gather all the information.

This is when you have all the information and you still choose to stay in the middle because of this mechanism that we have though, speaking about the sort of a psychological blind.

[00:02:03] Alex Tsakiris: Everybody has an opinion. Everybody has it. No one has it. That’s why no one’s facts are better than anyone.

Else’s facts. It’s all relative. We can all get along. Let’s just all not take a stand on anything. Don’t get too excited.

[00:02:17] David Whitehead: Yeah. Like, okay, here, here’s here’s an example, right? Like, , I tell people that I’ve had many debates with people about the peace people believe evil doesn’t exist. Okay. This is the new trendy thing that evil is just this term that we use and it’s old fashioned and it doesn’t really exist and all of this.

And, , I think it’s a cop-out.

[00:02:34] David Whitehead: Not taking a stand for their own, , freedom . That to me is an act of evil against yourself to start with. Right. So forget about the evil done by people, to other people. What about the evil we do to ourselves?

What about the way we abuse ourselves and talk down to ourselves? Sort of the, sort of the inner conspiracy,