Hi _____,
I would be willing to have "a phone call" with you (meaning an internet-based call, of course) but I would really just regard it as a conversation in which we were trying to become friends (trying get to know each other better, etc.)…
…you will probably be astonished at the extent to which Melissa and I (both) do not need help from anyone, and we don't need "mental health" support of the kind you're describing.
Other people would need that, we don't.
What I say in my own videos really is true: I don't just preach this philosophy, I really practice it…
my problems are (still now) what I said in "Desperate Cry for Help" and the recent video about the contrast between comedy and research (I'll give the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiu1tSzIZM0)…
this is the stuff I really struggle with, this is what really causes me suffering, etc.
I'm not wearing a mask and talking about "false problems" while concealing what my real problems are.
And my political problems are, in part, emotional: Oct. 7th happens in Israel and nobody talks to me about it —nobody cares (about what I think or feel). I've given examples recently about Joe Biden and Iran. That is a huge emotional problem for me, not just "an academic problem" of a dry, theoretical kind.
I really need to have intellectual colleagues involved in my life, and I really am suffering terribly because of the absence of them (and I've said that on youtube for many years).
I can't learn Chinese without other people helping me, and I can't be a comedian or film-maker totally alone, etc. etc. —I certainly can't lead the vegan movement alone, I can't be involved in atheism as a movement alone, I can't influence the course of climate change / ecological politics alone, etc. etc.
[Another example: I can't make a documentary movie alone —although that would require fewer people co-operating than a comedy film, or narrative fiction of any kind.]
These are huge problems in my life: I am not "faking it" when I say that the cheating girlfriend scandal "is peanuts" (untranslatable English idiom) compared to the enormity of this.
Some people have the raw intelligence necessary to understand that I'm being sincere in saying this: MOST ARE NOT.
