Fundamentally everyone is a good person. Feat Ramy Youssef
Summary
Ramy Youssef argues that fundamentally, everyone is a good person. They're just infected. Infected with greed, hatred, lust, whatever takes them away from being good. He tells Kareem that bad people only pull off terrible things because they still contain enough good for others to trust them. Take George Bush and his paintings. People see the art and think he's a good guy, then he pitches another idea before the side hustle. Youssef developed this theory during COVID when he realized you love someone but can't be near them because they have the virus, not because they are the virus. Bush? Infected with capitalism and the military-industrial complex. Elon Musk? That's different. He's an alien. Youssef's convinced because Musk is obsessed with going to space. He just wants to go home to Mars, like E.T. wanting to return to his family.
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So, what's your take? Fundamentally, everyone is a good person. 100% disagree. I can think of countless examples of bad people. I'm not even going to rattle them off. People are not bad. They're infected with whatever it is. They're infected with hatred, with greed, with lust, whatever it is that takes them away from being good. But I would argue that they're only able to go through with how much bad things that they do because they contain good. So, people pick up on the good, right? They pick up on the good that's in them and then they think, "Okay, well, maybe this is a good plan. Let's play a little game."
Hit me. George Bush. Have you seen his paintings? I mean, you see the good beaming out of them. People probably saw his side hustle with the painting and they go, "This is a good guy." And then he goes, "Well, before I launched the painting thing, I got another idea, a rock." And I had this unlocked during COVID where, you know, you love someone, but they've got COVID. So, I was like, "Well, I can't be near you." You are not COVID. You have COVID, right? You are not greed and hatred and all these things, but man, you are fully, fully infected by them. So Bush is infected with what?
Oh, all sorts of things. I mean, I think like capitalism, the military-industrial complex. I mean, these are all very serious infections. Being infected by capitalism is hilarious.
Yeah. Yeah. It's a really bad disease. There's no vaccine. Um, who else is bad? There is an argument to be made that some people might not be people. And that's where we kind of get into like aliens. We get into Jinn.
Okay. What about Elon? Alien. Straight up. That is an alien. And I think you know he's an alien because of how obsessed he is with going to space. He wants to go home. Elon—it's like an E.T. story. Like he basically just wants to be with his family on Mars.
So you feel bad for him? I mean, dude, I'm from New Jersey and there are so many things I've done to go back to Jersey. And you'd be like, "Dude, you're in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Why do you want to go back to Jersey?" It's my home, right. So Elon is here. He's got all the spoils and the riches of Earth and all he's talking about is Mars. It's where he's from. He wants to go home.
Yeah, he wants to go home. E.T. phone home.