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Have you ever wondered how life would be like with no rules?
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Okay, maybe don't answer that.
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But this is the very question that the character on today's episode sought to answer.
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And today we're taking a look at a villain who wanted to plunge the world into chaos
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because he believed that freedom is only found in the chaos.
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And of course I'm talking about the leader of the Red Lotus, Zaheer.
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Hey what's going on guys my name is Nate and you're listening to the Itaku of Liberation.
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A show where we help you break the chains that are holding you back in your life by
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connecting some biblical principles with themes from your favorite anime.
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And without further ado, let's get on into it.
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So Zaheer's ambition is probably the most radical one we'll see this season.
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But it's also something that you will have to honestly think deeply about.
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Or at least I did, right?
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And it's pretty interesting.
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So Zaheer's basically motive behind his ambition was the belief that disorder is the only true
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order.
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Okay, what does that mean?
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Basically, like I said in the intro, he believes that true freedom, being free from things,
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is only found in chaos when things aren't the status quo.
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And honestly, he had a little bit of a point, maybe not to that extreme, but let's take
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a deeper look at it.
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So Zaheer was the definition of an anarchist.
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And again, he wanted the world to be in chaos, for no real rhyme or reason, right?
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There was nothing that there was no hidden agenda with him.
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What he said was what he wanted.
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He just wanted the world to essentially be on fire.
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And the reason for this, the reason why he was like this is because he blames the world
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leaders for the major imbalances in the world.
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So think back to Amman and Unalak's ambitions.
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Both of them more or less blamed the state of the world for how the nation's leaders
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acted.
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Again, Amman with the inequality between benders and non-benders and Unalak with the state
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of the world and its lack of spirituality.
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And honestly, again, like I said, in a way Zaheer was right.
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It's because of the corrupt leaders at the top of the nations or not even necessarily
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corrupt but those who weren't as involved as they should have been led to the state
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of the world that they were in at that time.
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Case a point mainly with the Earth Queen in Ba Sing Se.
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Because she was really only in it for the power that the position held, not so much
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what she had to do for her people.
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And again, thinking back to the council of a republic city, right, before they had a
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president, it's the same type of issue that Amman dealt with because there's no non-bender
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representation on that council.
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And that led to, it's more or less the issues of non-benders being kind of swept under the
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rug because no one was really there to defend them, to be their voice, right?
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And so this is kind of what Zaheer was talking about is that kind of corrupt leaders need
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to be taken out.
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And so I'm not going to go too deep into this, but it kind of holds true because the improper
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leadership can cause major problems, especially when you're talking about the state of the
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world as a whole and beyond just your own city, your country, your nation, right?
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And you start talking about the state of the world at large, then it's like, okay, it all
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starts from the top.
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So if the top is out of line, then the rest of the nation is going to follow.
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So again, Zaheer has a point in the fact that corrupt leaders or those who are unfit to
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lead should not be leading.
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But again, he took it to the extreme and said, it's going to plunge the whole world into
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chaos.
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And I don't think that's what the people want.
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So let me ask you this.
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So what good can possibly come from chaos?
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Just think about it.
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Because I know the way I see it, I'm going to answer it.
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Is that really the only good that can come from it is that that someone more suited is
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going to come up out of the chaos.
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Because I hope I'm saying this quote justice, but it's like the mother of invention is necessity,
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I believe is what it is.
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So basically, you know, invention or ingenuity or whatever you want to call it is comes through
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because of a need of a dire need is either like life or death type of thing is either
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we get this done or this happens or else we're going to die.
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And I think that whole environment is good because we get some of the best invention
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to come out of it most times.
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Right.
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And as we'll see on a future episode, again, like with everyone else this season, the idea
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is good, but the execution was not.
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So so yes, I do say that some good can possibly come out from chaos.
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But with everything, it kind of comes with a grain of salt.
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Right.
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So next, we're going to move on to to Zaheer's method.
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We've covered his motive.
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His motive is belief that disorder is the only true order.
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But the method he used to achieve his goal was his cleverness and innovation.
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Now if you've seen the series and you know this, but for those of you who haven't seen
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Legend of Korra and Zaheer always seemed to be one step one step ahead of Korra and the
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rest of the team, no matter what.
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And it was it was kind of scary.
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During his during his initial imprisonment, Zaheer showed that he was a smart and patient
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individual waiting for the right opportunity in order for him to do something.
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So kind of kind of going back to the harmonic convergence and all that stuff after Korra
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defeated Unalaq and she kept the spirit portals open.
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After that, many nonbenders around the world gained ability to airbend and Zaheer was one
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of them.
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And Zaheer didn't know if this was the opportunity he was waiting for, but he still he still
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decided to act then and there because again, he's a learned individual.
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He's very competent with his abilities.
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And just within a few, I don't know, maybe days or hours of having airbending, his rough
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form is his rough usage of the of the bending style coupled with his already intimate knowledge
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of just the way that they are nomads in general made for an exceedingly dangerous individual
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already.
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And that's that's something to get to really think about, right?
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Because someone who's never had his ability before in his life is already taking out white
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lotus members, which are supposed to be like some of the elite benders, right?
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Because they're sworn in to protect the avatar, right?
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So they have to be at least capable in some some degree.
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I mean, he just took them all out in an instant.
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And I mean, that's just his physical prowess.
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Again, the main selling point, the main main trait of Zaheer is again his his smooth talking
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self.
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And it's funny because I mean, that's another one of his main selling points.
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He's very charming and charismatic.
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And these traits allow him to sweet talk his way into deals with all types of people.
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I mean, for he was able to basically go to Air to Air Temple Island and train under under
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Nantenzon's kids and with the rest of the newly formed Air Nation.
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And also he was able to convince us to connive his way into the Earth Queen's palace, right?
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Because he was like, yeah, we can get the avatar for you.
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Don't worry.
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And he's always he always came came off as somebody who was non threatening.
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And I think this is a skill that all leaders should have, regardless of your what you're
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a leader of, is that you should be able to speak and have people listen.
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Because if no one has no one's listening to you, then are you really a leader or just
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leading yourself?
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All right.
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And that's something that's truly invaluable, because as a leader, you're trying to garner
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influence for whatever goal you're trying to reach.
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And Zaheer had a deep understanding of that.
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That's why he was able to convince, you know, so many people that he was just this harmless
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dude when in reality, he's the leader of a terrorist movement.
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And and honestly, if you think about how a lot of serial killers are in real life, right?
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I don't think there's too many of them.
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There was like, oh, yeah, they were just this super weird person that nobody wanted to interact
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with.
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He reminds me of a lot of more super charismatic and they got people to let their guards down
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so they could, you know, do do their deed.
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And that says a lot, right?
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We're we're designed to be to be in community, right, to talk to people and interact with
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each other and to build a relationship and stuff like that.
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So for somebody, when you have a deep, when you have a deep understanding of how to interact
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with other people, or at the very least how you come across other people, that's powerful.
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That's really powerful, and depending on how you use it can make you can you can be the
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worst people in mankind or one of the best ones, right?
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Because no matter what side of the coin you're on, you're still able to build up that influence
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to gain that power.
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And it all comes down to how you use it.
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And I know for me, that's something I'm still trying to improve, right?
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Is to how to effectively communicate with people in my everyday life.
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And even now on this podcast, or even on my YouTube channel is being able to effectively
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communicate the message I'm trying to bring to you guys in the way that you can understand
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it.
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It's not too high level, it's not too overhead, right?
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And hopefully in an entertaining way, right?
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Because the whole reason I started this because I love anime and figure it's a it's a good
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bridge between the message messages I want to share and give me just some good entertainment
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because maybe shows are awesome.
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At least in my opinion.
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But anyway, in the here's case, it was because of these skills that he almost succeeded in
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his mission as a whole.
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I mean, he killed the Earth Queen, plunging the Earth King, Earth Kingdom into into chaos.
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And he almost succeeded in killing Korra in the Avatar state, which was one of his main
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goals.
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So for those of you who don't who don't know Avatar or about the series in general, again,
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the Avatar is supposed to be the bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.
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And of course, you know, they're masters of all four elements and things like that.
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But one of the key aspects of the Avatar is the Avatar state.
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So when they enter it, they basically get a superpower boost, you know, all their bending
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becomes more powerful and things like that.
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But what it also does is connect them to all of their past lives and all of their past
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lives are channeled into this into the current Avatar at the same time.
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So they have all of their skills that they may have cultivated, you know, their knowledge
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and things like that all at once.
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And as you know, for the Avatar, when they die, they get reincarnated into the next element
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in the cycle.
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Right.
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And it keeps going like that on and on and on and on because it goes from air to water
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to earth to fire in that order.
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And the only caveat to that is if the Avatar is killed in the Avatar state, since all of
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the past Avatars are just there together, then it effectively ends the cycle.
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Like if they're if they are killed in the Avatar state, the Avatars no more.
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They're not coming back.
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And that was Zaheer's ultimate goal, because he felt that as long as the Avatar was around,
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whether it was Korra or the next one after her, then the truly chaotic world he sought
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to build can never be a possibility.
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So he needed to remove that piece from the board.
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And he almost did it.
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I mean, if you think back to Korra's episode on the podcast, talked about how much trauma
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this man put her through from poisoning, kidnapping, and just really mess with her psyche even
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years, years after the fact.
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And it's partly because of Zaheer that the next person I talk about on the podcast was
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able to to do the things that they did.
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It's because of what Zaheer did to Korra during his season.
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And it's really oh man, it's again Zaheer again really one of the most interesting characters
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on this show, just for his whole philosophy, but more importantly his relationship with
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Korra and how he went from, again, spoiler, spoiler territory.
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All right.
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I mean, let me bring it back.
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Some of the stuff I'm going to share in the next episode.
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But just understand that Zaheer, Zaheer's main asset was his ability to let people's
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guards down and basically have people listen to his voice when he spoke, which is something
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truly, truly invaluable.
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So now after all the things said and done, the main result from Zaheer's ambition was
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actually the power vacuum that he left behind after he killed the Earth Queen.
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So despite Zaheer being defeated and captured, the damage was already done.
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True he didn't plunge the entire world into chaos like he sought out to do.
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He didn't kill the Avatar in the Avatar state to end the cycle, but he did do something
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very significant.
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He killed the Earth Queen in Bossing Sei, which essentially plunged the Earth Kingdom
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into chaos.
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I mean, there were riots and looting everywhere.
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Now granted, it's because a lot of the people were oppressed.
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Some of the poor people were felt less than compared to the rich upper echelon of the
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society.
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So they saw their opportunity and took it.
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And honestly, it was nuts because Zaheer's removal of the Earth Queen created a power
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vacuum for anybody to join.
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Right.
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It was just up for grabs.
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I mean, the Earth Kingdom wasn't complete and utter chaos and dismay.
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Which is what he wanted.
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Which is what he set out to do when he first set off on this path.
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And it's just honestly, just this whole idea, not just for Zaheer, but for anybody, right?
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When you set off for this grand goal, right?
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I'm just thinking about another phrase or quote, whatever you want to call it.
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If you aim for the stars, you may end up on the moon, right?
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Or something like that.
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Which basically is you shoot for something that's so far off, something that seems impossible,
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right?
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But just for you attempting it, you end up closer than you ever thought you could have.
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And I know in the here's case is a very morally wrong type of ambition, right?
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But just think about it.
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Think about how close he was actually achieving his goal.
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And not just how close he was, but the impact he actually left.
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Because his goal was to plunge the whole world into chaos, to create a world free from order,
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so it can be truly free.
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But what he ended up with was an entire nation in that state.
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It wasn't the whole world, but the Earth Kingdom, I honestly think at this point was what?
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The second largest?
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I think it was the largest nation in the world.
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And he did pretty well for himself considering everything.
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But that really sparked a thought with me.
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I have all these different ambitions of where I want to go and who I want to be, whether
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it's with my brand, my ministry here on the podcast, on YouTube channel, and whatever
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else comes of it.
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My goal is to revolutionize the world and change people's lives for the better.
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And I may get there, I may not, but I do know that I'm closer now than I was a year ago,
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right?
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Because a year ago I didn't have this podcast, I didn't have the YouTube channel, I didn't
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have even an idea of what it is I truly wanted to do in the world.
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And I was just going to be stuck in the rat race, working the nine to five that I just
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didn't really like for years and years and years and years until I retire and don't really
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enjoy life.
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And honestly, just looking back now, looking back over the past year and how much things
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have changed, it's really eye opening.
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So I just imagine what Zaheer's feeling in this moment, knowing that he accomplished
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something even if it wasn't his entire goal, right?
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And honestly, another kind of relapse that stems off from this power vacuum is that in
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the chaos, in the chaos that Zaheer made in the Earth Kingdom, arises Kuvera, who is a
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former resident of Zalfu.
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Zalfu is like the metal city founded by the Beifongs, Toph and her daughters, and everyone
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there can metal band and is pretty futuristic compared to the rest of the world, I think
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even by Republic City standards.
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So Zalfu is pretty well off.
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And Kuvera is from Zalfu.
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Now Kuvera sees this power for herself under the guise of uniting the Earth Kingdom.
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That's what she says she's doing it for.
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But as I will cover in the next episode, we'll see it's a little deeper than that.
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But the main point for this episode is that Zaheer's actions led to the creation of something
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that he despised, an oppressive regime.
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Think about how ironic that is.
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This man set out to get rid of the impressive leaders, to get rid of the corrupt and wicked
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leadership.
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But in his quest, he actually made room for an even worse leader to get put in the place,
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get put into power.
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And that's just, man, that's nuts.
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That's nuts to me.
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It's just like, man, I've worked so hard to finally accomplish my goal.
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And now everything that I hated has come to pass because of what I've done.
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And if I can just sum this whole thing up, what I learned is you got to be careful with
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what you wish for and be ready for the consequences of your actions because we never know how
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our actions are going to pay off in the long run.
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Something so small, something so a choice, so insignificant in the moment can be life
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changing without us even knowing.
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So we have to be careful of the things that we do, the actions that we take and the ambitions
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that we hold because we never know what's going to come up and on the other side.
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So I hope you guys love this episode.
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Let me know by leaving a comment down below or a review and share it with whoever you
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think needs to hear this message today.
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And join me next episode for the finale of this season of the attack of liberation, where
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I talk about Kuvira and her rise to power, though extreme, was necessary for the future
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of the Earth Kingdom.
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And I also have a special announcement towards the end of that episode that you don't want
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to miss.
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So until then, always remember you are the main character of your story and that story
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doesn't end until he says so.
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All right.
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Thank you guys for watching.