Name: Greed is No Longer Attractive
Uploaded: 2018-07-20T18:15:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Greed is No Longer Attractive' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-07-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Greed is No Longer Attractive' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-07-20. Transcript available.

It's weird because it's people that want us to work so much. Some people want
life to be about work.
And they want life to be about money. And that's very alarming to me.
Like I start to really believe that there's going to be a thing where greed
is not fucking attractive anymore. Like I want to do well
for myself. Like I want to succeed. I want to have, you know, there's
some things I want to have. I want my children to have like, you know, be able
to clean their
teeth at night. And you know, and like feel like a comfortable blanket on their
skin.
And like things like that, you know. But I don't know
if it's money. I feel like that drives me. And if it really gets to be
like that, that kind of scares me a little. I wonder if that school of thought
is going to start to take over. That greed is not, it's not fucking cool
anymore. When we know so much that other like beings
are struggling. Yeah, man. It's not cool.
It's not. And it's painful. I mean that's the
you know, when people have a shit ton of money. Yeah.
Many of them are
philanthropists because they figured out that like
what is the best feeling. Right.
Giving it away. Yeah. And so they're
philanthropists and they're giving it
away. But generally like the
experience of selfishness is
self-cherishing is
incredibly painful. And
people don't realize that. So
trying to load up on money
is an attempt
to reduce their
levels of suffering. Right.
Yes. And that's a
I think that makes sense to me.
Like if it's like trying to put
but the problem is it's trying to put out a fire
with more fire. Yeah.
And it just doesn't work. It's just
it's like, oh, I'm thirsty.
God, I'm so fucking thirsty.
Let me eat sand. Yeah.
That'll help me not be thirsty anymore.
And so
I think that's kind of the problem is
what the thing you're talking about.
I hope what happens is that
people start realizing
that because we're all connected,
I tend to feel better
if I'm doing stuff for other people.
Yeah.
More than if I'm doing shit for myself.
And that's what 12 step programs are.
That's what all that is.
All that is stuff is about
usually is getting back to realizing that
the way you get out of
whatever is hurting you
a lot of times is by
helping somebody else
so you're not thinking about yourself.
Yes.
That's the
it's like if you want the antidote
to whatever ails you
just start helping someone.
Yeah.
And you
it's like so easy to do.
It's
you know right away
like you can do a scan
right away
and think
who needs help
in my life.
I'm not talking about
some kind of like distant
sending money off to charity
or anything like that.
That's great.
Do it if you feel like it.
I'm talking about
well this teacher
Jack Kornfield
who I've had on my podcast
he says
tend to the part of the garden
you can touch.
So
so just think like
who
who needs help
who needs a hug
who needs somebody
to take them to lunch
who do you notice
that's been drinking a lot
and
and instead of joking about it
with your friends
and making fun of them
which is okay to do
a couple times
but also
who could probably
is hurting
and maybe could use some
you know
and all they need
is just somebody to care.
Yeah.
You know it's crazy
the scariest
and the weirdest way
I was just thinking about this
a minute ago
I was looking at you
and I was like
how scary would it be
if I thought that
you loved me
you know
like not in like
a homoerotic type of way
but how scary would it be
if we approach people
and
the first thought
we had was
Right.
that this person loves me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like really
like if you like
it would
that would change the whole
it would just change
it would take me
so much out of like
whatever fear
that I lived in.
Right.
But it's for some reason
that's not the way
that we
are built to do it here.
And one of the ironies
about like
bringing
like
you know
about bringing slavery
whenever they brought
slaves to America
or probably anywhere really
I bet
specifically America
is
we took these people
that probably didn't have
that probably had a lot
of like neat practices
and they were probably
down earth practices
and like
you know
a caring environment
and then we bring them
into this place
you know.
Yeah.
But that thing
you're talking about
the love thing
this is
this can be cultivated
so sometimes
you'll run into people
who've cultivated that
and they do love you
when you're around them
but it's
and
so
it's sort of like
the
the idea is
like on one level
we have the
ego identity
right
which is just all our stuff
and the games that we play
and all this stuff
like your identity
as a podcaster
your identity
as a comedian
everything that you do
and then
the other level
is like the soul level
and that's love
that's your heart
that's this
universal
eternal
identity
that
that is
so beautiful.
Thank you guys
for checking out this clip
and if you want to see
another clip
then you can look at
this clip
or
this clip
either one of these
so
did you pick one
or are you still just
watching me do this
because
this is alarming.