“If You’re Still Trying to Be Rational Now, You’re Crazy"

Comedian Tim Dillon on Being Informed vs. Being Ignorant

Episode #524

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I don’t want to debate you. Or here why candidate A is better than Candidate B.

I want to finish my next book, go on stage, do comedy, interview people.

And live my life.

That’s (one of the reasons) why I don’t watch the news. And haven’t for two decades.

Another reason?

Because “being informed” doesn’t really mean anything.

It doesn’t make my life better.

“There’s a complete disconnect between happiness and knowledge,” Tim Dillon said. “The happiest people I know are not informed. Ignorance is, to an extent, bliss. I mean if you find out the way the world works, I don’t know that you’re going to be happier or better for it. And there are things I wish I didn’t know…”

“Like what?” I asked.

We talked about JFK’s assassination, elections, entrapments, government experiments… but Tim made it funny.

That’s his job.

He even said, “As a comedian, the baseline of my job is to say, ‘This seems odd.'”

Then he gave me an example.

He goes home for the holidays. And he’s hearing his family debate the election. Then he says, “You didn’t know who Elizabeth Warren was 6 months ago… And now she’s either your God or the worst person you’ve ever seen. Isn’t that interesting? That your entire experience on Earth is being programmed like a TV network? Here are the stars. Here are their storylines. And you’re going to react exactly the way we knew you would.”

We all think we know why we’re doing something. But do we really?

And should we want to?

Tim and I debate this on today’s episode. We also talk about the reason why people get stuck in dead-end jobs or dead-end relationships. How to get out. And how to question your own line of thinking.

This is the first step to mental freedom… questioning. Observing. And choosing to opt-in. Or opt-out.

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Quotes from this episode:

“There’s a complete disconnect between happiness and knowledge.” – Tim Dillon

“History is written by the 1% of winners who have a very specific agenda to get their narrative of the events on top of all the other news with different perspectives.” – James Altucher

“The happiest people I know are not informed. Ignorance is, to an extent, bliss. I mean if you find out the way the world works, I don’t know that you’re going to be happier or better for it ” – Tim Dillon

“The ship is headed towards the iceberg and we all see the iceberg, but we can’t do anything about it.” – Tim

“If you’re still trying to be rational now, you’re crazy.” – Tim Dillon

“That’s the big rabbit hole. The rabbit hole is just the question why?” – Tim Dillon

“As a comedian, the baseline of my job is to say, ‘This seems odd.'” – Tim Dillon

“We’ve taxed a lot of people. Rarely does it end up in the hands of people who need it.” – Tim Dillon

“If you find out the way the world works, I don’t know if you’re going to be happier or better for it.” – Tim Dillon

 

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