Tyranny’s Temptation: The Eternal War for the Soul of the 24-Year-Old Man | Ep. 75

📍David Rutherford delivers a powerful warning about the ongoing war for the soul of young men. From the trenches of World War I to the digital battlegrounds of today, Rut reveals how the same forces that radicalized generations of men now use algorithms, ideology, and despair to recruit the next.

He challenges every listener—especially young men—to reclaim their sovereignty through faith, purpose, and truth. History is repeating. The question is: will we break the cycle?

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Imagine being twenty four years old. You're either living at home,
you're living in a pack apartment with your friends. You're
not sure about where you're going to end up or

(00:32):
what you're going to be, and you're frustrated with how
you feel like your life is going. Now, I would
absolutely acknowledge that if you're a woman that's different than

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if you're a man, and I do so and acknowledge
those differences because the outcome that I'm going to lead
you through ultimately impacts men, because men are the ones
that feel the most unfortunate fate as a result of

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this frustration or dissatisfaction with existence. Women are more adaptive
and cunning and recognize how to navigate the catastrophes with
which men bring to society into the world as a whole.

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And I'm not excusing. There's certainly been female influences that
have driven many negative aspects of history in terms of
conflict and war and sorrow and devastation. But mostly it
falls upon our shoulders, but not upon those shoulders of

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that twenty four year old disenfranchised man. Think about it.
You're wondering what you're supposed to do with your life,
What aspects of your life are going to give you
a grand sensation of fulfillment. What's going to lift you up,

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what's gonna give you joy, what's gonna reduce fear, What's
going to inspire you to leave a substantial mark on
the legacy of yours existence? Now, these are things that
men think about, perhaps not in the context of of

(02:43):
of that monumental conundrum, but certainly young men are stuck
in this space of trying to figure things out, this
seemingly circular pattern of of evaluation. Now, whether or not

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you come from a place where you've been dutiful and
you're your assimilation into what society sets up. You went
to the school, you accepted the things they were teaching you.
You were evaluating, uh, and doing and staying within the

(03:27):
confines of your left and right lateral limits. Uh. You
didn't react into staunch of a negative reaction. You did
what you were told. You adhered. You were a a
a willing member of the civilization or society that governed you.
And if you were coming from the other side, where

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you were of modest means or outright poor, right you
you you acknowledged that the hardships were undefeatable because you
were a child. There was nothing you were going to
do by the fact that your mother, your father or
both of them, or your siblings were older siblings or

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younger were unable to provide opportunities that would release you
from the state of what you were born into. And
there's most likely a time as you were adhering to
that agreement that you were probably consumed with an idea

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of boredom or monotonous or frustration that whatever you were
being influenced upon was not directly influencing you upon to
be independent, free thinking, and in a grander sense of
the liberties that should be God given rights. You went

(05:06):
along with it. You did it. You said, Roger, I'll go,
I'll do, I'll listen, I'll pay attention, I won't act out. Obviously,
in some cases, as a young, rambunctious male, you probably
did some dumb things. You probably got tied up or
enticed to test that system a little bit here and there,

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if not overtly, most certainly in your own interpretation of it.
And underneath all that, as you began to scratch at
the veneer of that which was being pressed upon you,
you started to have some deep questions about is this

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really what my life is going to entail? The the
willingness of myself to slip into the noxiousness of conformity
or slip into the predisposed purpose for me, and that

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pulling of that is palpable. You can feel the thing
pulling you into it, right, the thing that gives you
a modicum of satiation, the thing that gives you a
sense of fear that if you don't conform, the reaction

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to that could be a condemnation that leads to incarceration,
a condemnation that leads to ostracization, a condemnation that leads
to incarceration. And so you're trying to figure out what's
my purpose and all of that. And eventually, after you

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go through the system that's set up for you, the
system to get you into that conformity of some construct,
the system that uh uh creates the lanes with which
you have to adhere to, it ultimately dumps you into

(07:21):
the real world where you're outside of the scope of
the protective nature of the womb of family, where you're
outside the scope of education, where it's it's given you
all it's going to give you, and now it's expected
the expectation is that you will once again assimilate into
the limited or or or fundamental opportunities that exist within

(07:48):
the particular society that you've that you were born into. Now,
what does that look like? Is it some shitty job?
It certainly has to be indicative of the grinding, right grinding,
every day, waking up doing the thing you're supposed to do.

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In order to do the thing you're supposed to do right,
which is earn a wage, eke out enough to put
a roof over your head and feed yourself to sustain
the activity with which is built into the system. Barely
getting paid, you feel like there's no way to get ahead,

(08:32):
you run into the thing that is the provocation which
generates what Right, the fact that you might start to
believe that your future looks pretty bleak, that the opportunity
that was professed to you, that if you do the things,

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then ultimately you will evolve and there will be opportunities
that you can rise above that which might otherwise hold
you down. Right, If you're educated, you read, you can write,
you can think abstractly, you can study, you can gain
information and intellectual become an intellectual force to be reckoned

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with or you develop some particular skill set that gives
you an advantage over others, and that particular skill set
working with your hands, or working in a factory, or
working in support of the grander system, right, whether it's
a white collar job, blue collar job, whatever it might be.

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And don't forget there's always the enticement of the outsides
of those the edges, the things that are the easy
way around cheating, stealing, becoming a group of an outcast
component of the culture that acknowledges what you're doing. But
yet in that one case, you do know you have

(10:01):
this somewhere along the line, there's been this uh moral
framework that was introduced to you, and so you you
push back on it. You you resist the temptation if
you will, But you still can't afford a house, you
still can't afford to have a family, and you still

(10:24):
can't afford free time, which is essentially the essence of
of of of what I think most human beings want.
They want time to be able to experience and enjoy
the fruits of their labors, the fruits of their uh,
their desires and morality, the fruits of their liberties, the

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fruits of of peace, the fruits of the things that
give people a grander sense of meaning and purpose. They
want that freedom, and yet it's just impossible to stop
noticing that there are powers that are outside of your control,

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that seem to be controlling the systems. And these systems
are diverse all around the world. But yet it's still
that same twenty four year old male that's being subjected
to the systems, driven towards the systems that ultimately create
or restrict the opportunities for them to gain those that

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grander sense of meaning. Right, And these people, all the
while that they're out there and they're in control in
some capacity, they are displaying the benefits of their own creation,
like drunken materialists swimming in their own pools of cognitive dissonance,

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and have no intention to spread the wealth of their freedoms.
And the separation is distinct and knowledge and acknowledged. And
they actually in many cases use verbiage or vernaculars or
descriptions to demonstrate the fact that that twenty four year

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old male is ill equipped or underprepared to move into
the systems as the future to take control over it,
or to manage it, if you will. And the management,
the management of those systems, those are the ones that
almost act as gatekeepers to the evolution of that twenty

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four year old. After a particular amount of time, after
a particular amount of of of awake awareness, yeah, self awareness,
that you exist within that ultimately, what can happen That

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twenty four year old can start feeling as if they're
a slave to that system that they didn't create, but
yet they have to sacrifice their blood, sweat and tears
in order to assimilate into it, so that the system
continues to grind on and grind on them. Now, this system,

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or this idea or this fensation, this feeling ultimately forces
a young man to question what he believes in. He's
forced to question what he was taught. He's forced to
question why life is unfair over and over again, over

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and over again, and what ends up happening as as
a person sits there in stews in a in the
midst of that negative insurgency, that external pressure that constantly
is is is deluding his sense of of of ambition,

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his sense of of hope. It's almost as if it's
like it's this He's being drenched in this inescapable reality
that life is self is imbued with suffering and pain. Well,
he ends up circling that proverbial drain of his own

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hopelessness and sorrow. And then it happens as the emptiness
of his faith regarding his own future burns, the emptiness
of his own self begins to ignite something else, which

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is this idea that meaning comes from another place, It
comes from this deeper sense of strength. Now, I know
that seems a little simplistic for sure about about a

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young twenty four or old man. But I can tell
you this, that man, that real man, seeks that strength
out day in and day out. That's what men are
conditioned to do. That's what men have always been conditioned
to do, to find the strength in themselves to hack

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out their own existence in this world. And this is
not something that that dies because of some type of programming,
although there most certainly always is throughout history a program
that seems to direct that quest for strength towards particular

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ideas regarding religion, politics, ideologies, philosophies, the whole gambit of
that human condition. There are programs designed to direct that
twenty four year old male into that space. Why, because
the twenty four year old male is the person that

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ultimately governs whether or not the system will stay in
place or the system will collapse. Now, when that sense
of strength is ignited, right, that little fire in their
belly of I want to be strong. There's something growing

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in me. I feel something burning that what I've been
exposed to isn't right. What I've been exposed to doesn't
sit well with me. And through a casual relationship or curiosity,
the twenty four year old ultimately hears a message that

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embodies something that's bigger than himself. He hears a message
that provokes the one thing that all real males want
to be imbued with. He hears that message that says,
if you hear this, you act upon it, you will

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feel the strength that you've been searching for. And guess
what happens? This sense, this feeling, in this message that
he hears, It moves him. It stirs his loins, right,
it stirs the legacy that has been down him for
centuries by his family's ability to fight and survive and

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thrive amidst the constantly changing systems. And that fire in
his belly is lit. So what does he do? He
seeks the truth behind what was said. He seeks the

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truth by what was by behind what was said, because
guess what, it stirred his soul. I think that's what
all young men are looking for. They're looking for the
thing that stirs their soul. They're looking for the thing
that that gives them that sense of energy, that sense
of strength, that sense of of of emerging power, that

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sense of the grip of that that that sword in
your hand, or the bow in your hand, or the
arrow which releases, or the sense of the trigger and
the round impacting that which is trying to alter that
sense of strength. And he wants to understand those ideas.

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He wants to understand that message that is igniting the
fire in his gut. And so what does he do.
He seeks out that sensation, he seeks out that feeling,
and he opens the door to the knowledge of good
and evil. Now where have we seen this before, Well,

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it's pretty much just about any time in history you
can think about this taking place. I think the ones
that are most relevant right now come from the twentieth century.
Why because it's still within the living memory that we

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can understand there are people that have still existed in
these two scenarios. If you will In fact, there are
many many people that have direct correlation to these scenarios.
And the scenarios I'm talking about are when large groups

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of twenty four year old males become disenfranchised with the
particular system that seems to be keeping them in place,
from the ascension to that sense of freedom keeping them
in place to the ascension that they can have control

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over that which tries to control them that strength, if
you will. Why, Because young men are impressionable. Young men
are seeking that deeper meaning in that purpose, and so
they're always searching for that message that makes that fire

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in their gut burn brighter, that elevates or lifts up
or strengthens their convictions that sense of purpose. And so
the first scenario I just briefly want to cover was
that within the twentieth century of early Russia, and that

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was the revolution that took place otherwise known as the
Bolshevik Revolution. Now it's critical to understand the scenario the
context the times Russia had been engaged in World War
One from nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen. Now, by nineteen seventeen,

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there were over two million dead Russians that had taken place,
that had died and many many defeats against the Germany
Austrian Hungarian War that they were engaged in the Great War,
the War to End all wars. Right and Russia was

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facing food shortages, inflation, supply breakdown which led to massive demonstrations,
uprisings in cities like Petrograd. And what had happened was
there was enough of the stir that they began to realize,
unbeknownst to them what was going behind closed doors with

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the czar and funding and bankruptcies and financial strains of
waging wars, that the population that was engaged in the
slaughter was becoming disenfranchised. They began to recognize that those elites,

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the czars right, the bourgeois, they were making decisions that
continuously led to the suffering of the other twenty four
year old men. And so in March of nineteen seventeen
there was a revolution right and forced Nicholas the Second

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to give up control. Now this was led by liberals
and moderate socialists right from the Duma. It aimed to
establish a democratic republic and continued the war effort for
an honorable peace. Now, simultaneously, right, you had this deep, deep,

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dark socialist group that was the Soviets that were emerging.
And in the midst of this other provisional government that
was started, there was also this Marxist revolutionary group that
was gaining ground right led by Vladimir Lenin who had

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been exiled in Sweden. And the iron the irony of
this stuff is some German politicians were the ones who
funded and got Lenin back to Russia for this Russian Revolution,
thinking that they would pull Russia out of the war
and that Germany would ultimately be victorious against France and Britain,
as well as the coalition of other groups of nations

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that were fighting, but mostly them, and also hope that
it would kind of diffuse the workings to try and
bring the Americans. Now, when you think about what the
ideological foundation of the Bolsheviks were, right, it was based

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on Karl marx e Communists manifesto. It was the revolution
that the people would be in control of their own fate,
that no longer the powerful few would have have control
over them, that there would be an equal and equitable
distribution of of what the value system was, and the

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value was in the worker right and that's why peace, land,
bread and workers control and these these phrases that he emerged,
these slogans, this propaganda that began to emerge, began to
take hold right and so from you know, February of seventeen,

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there was this rise and through these this this group
of Bolsheviks. They began with about twenty four thousand members
and by October that two hundred thousand. But before we
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let's get back to the Bolshevik revolution. Because these people

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were radicals. They were not about integrating into the political
structure that had been in control for a very long
period time. They were disruptive. They thought that all of
that need to be broken apart, broken down, and that
out of that to merge this sense of equality, the
sense of freedom, the sense of collective ideology that we're

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all in this together, this utopic framework of production, the
means of production and the means of production are not
just the factory of the farms or whatever you are.
The means of production, the twenty four year old man
was the means of production. So the revolution wanted to
gain control of that, which was the ideas, the meaning,

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the purpose behind that twenty four year old man. And
they did. They got hold of that, and by October
the Bolsheviks controlled the Petrograd Soviet chaired by Trotsky and
the majority influenced key military units like the Petrograd Garrison.
Now they started gaining military control and under Trotsky's Military

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Revolutionary Committee, red guards and sympathetic soldiers see strategic Points,
Telegraph Office, Bridges Banks, Winter Palace, which was the seat
of the provisional government. The takeover was relatively bloodless, fewer
than ten desks in Petrograd, with a minimal resistance. Now

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why did they succeed because there was relatively weak opposition
with those who are in control, which is always the
sense of those who are in control. Fundamentally, most people
that are in control are doing things that only serve
their own interests, regardless of what the political structure ideology

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they're using. Most of the time they just continue to
serve themselves, and so they don't have a lot of opposition.
In particular, when what when the twenty four year old
that acts as the person that's in the military, that
keeps the peace, that keeps those that are in controlling
class of the controlling class of the system, who can

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push off the masses that are disenfranchised and keep them
at bay. Once that collapses, guess what, those who were
in control, they lose the strength. Now, the other is
that this group, this this Bolsheviks, these Marxists, these communists,
they had great ability to organize, to bring together to

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create structure. Right, and remember also the country itself was
been devastated by four years of catastrophic fighting. Now they
were well funded too, these outside this revolutionaries, they were
funded by outside groups, you have to know. And those

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outside groups were outside groups that were in what control
of the money, control of politics and other places. And
they realized the opportunity what to influence under the guise
of revolutionary spirit, those who can speak well, those who
can oorate, those who can influence, those who can you know,
inspire those twenty four year old men that you are

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being oppressed. This is your opportunity to break free. This
is your opportunity to regain the strength that was taken
from you. So what took place the Russian Civil War
from nineteen eighteen to nineteen twenty two. So they opposition

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coalesce into White armies, which are monarchists, liberals, nationalists, supported
by foreign interventions. Britain, France, USA, Japan provided troops and
aid to prevent the Bolsheviks spread. But guess what, it
was too late. The brutal conflict the Red Army organized
by Trotsky versus the Whites, the Greens, the peasant rebels

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and others, estimated seven to twelve million deaths. Let me
repeat that Red army was responsible to set for seven
to twelve million deaths from fighting famine and disease. And
that's from nineteen eighteen to nineteen twenty two. Now, the
Bolsheviks won due to centralized command. The other groups couldn't

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get together, they couldn't hold together a coalition, and they
had centralized command right defend the revolution. The communistic war.
State control of the commune was implemented, but ultimately led
to what a famine that devastated another fifteen supposed fifteen

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million people. Now, what happened after a result of that,
That twenty four year old male in Russia continued to
suffer unless they did what, Unless they join the Communist Party,
the Soviets. And then if even if you did join,

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if you didn't say the right things or whatever, you
just moved right into that structure of tyranny. You gave
up one system of control for another system of control.
Why because the messaging sound good, You believed what they
were telling them. Now, as a result of their control

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and their lead, in particular, after Joseph Stalin took over, right,
what happened? He rose to power, took over and caused
the Helotomore, which was a famine that ultimately led somewhere
between eight to twelve million starvations and deaths in Ukraine

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and Stalin's era from nineteen twenties to nineteen fifty three.
Right five year plans, the Great Purges nineteen thirty six
to thirty eight, executing rivals including the old Bolsheviks. Right
estimated was how many deaths twenty million deaths from repression,
famine war. Who were those deaths? The twenty four year

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old male, twenty four year old female, elderly children, professionals, professors,
the bourgeois Christians all annihilated in order to protect what
the new system by using what the twenty four year

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old male to inflict havoc, Those disenfranchised males, those ones
that were on the front, that came out and were
promised the new utopia, were used in order to go
out and kill the other twenty four year old males
that potentially would stop the tyranny of that new system.

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The other example is this, Think about it. The twenty
four year old male that had just gotten back or
been wounded in the trenches on the Eastern Front or

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Western Front, mostly the Western Front, over and over, going
back and back and back, again, who had lived in
those trenches, in the horrific conditions for years. The lice,
the typhoid, the rats, the rotting corpses, the rotting flesh,

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the famine, the starvation. That's not even the warfare itself.
When you understand the sol the first month, the battle
of the somewhat actually it might have been in first
few days, sixty thousand casualties. You listen to these historical

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counts of this and you begin to understand, and you
begin to realize how destructive warfare is. World War One
is one of the greatest examples of how human beings
can annihilate each other without any conscious moral framework whatsoever.
Why because the other guy's idea is a threat to

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your idea, an existential threat, and you believe the fact
that the other guy's ideal is coming after your way
of life and is going to kill you. Why because
the twenty four year old kid believe what they were
told that that's the other twenty four year old kid
wants to destroy your way of life. So what do
you do? You charge endless charge thousands and millions of people,

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young men, whole generations of young men, running to their
deaths across those open fields and Flanders questioning their meaning,
questioning their life. And so those Germans end up having
to give up because the people of Germany were like

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no more, no more. And also what I have to
understand is that the rise of communism was exacerbated. If
you don't know, Karl Marx wanted to begin the communist
revolution in Germany. That's where it was, That's where he
wanted to begin. It took hold in Russia because of
their fatigue, and now they were trying to move it
into Germany and have it explode into the German And

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so those Russian revolutionaries were infecting those young twenty four
year old kids who were sick of going to the trenches,
and those communists were going out and they were converting
people and putting them into the trenches themselves, and they
were saying, why fight, what are we doing for? Who?
Who's this? So we can reinforce the people that are
in charge, right the chancellors and the rich and the

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bankers and all the people that are in control of us.
So what happened, It became peace, the Treaty of Versailles,
and then what happend in Journey after the Treaty of Versailles.
It became subjugated to the humiliation of what took place
as a result of that treaty. They went into profound debt, hyperinflation, destitution, poverty, suicide, cannibalism, prostitution,

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child prostitution, a loss of national identity or consciousness, the
demoralization of that twenty four year old man again. Now,
the Treaty of Versailles took place in nineteen nineteen, right,
and they were forced to pay six point six billion

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in reparations extrapolate the modern modern day. And they also
took territory losses. Territorial losses thirteen percent of all land
and colonies that they had fought for the previous centuries,
military restrictions, right, one hundred thousand man army, no air force,

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and the war guilt clause. Germans felt stabbed in the back.
And who did they begin to blame? The socialists, the
politicians and other ethnic religious groups. Now, ultimately, the wein

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Mare Republic was a bunch of unstable in terms of
fourteen different governments over fourteen years. And what that hyperinflation
did is it destroyed the middle class. Now what rose
out of that? What emerged another young man who was disenfranchised,

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who was dejected to moralize and defeated, and so out
of that, out of that destitution, a destruction of meeting
young man emerged Adolf Hitler. Now he was inspired, obviously

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by Mussolini's March in Rome, and so he tried to
do the same thing. And what happened. He was arrested
and he was sent to prison, not for six months,
not for a year, but for five years. After winning
multiple distinguished medals for his time on the front line

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in the World War One, serving his country, getting injured
and going back to the front, he was thrown in
jail for his political ideas and beliefs. Now, when you
incarcerate the mind of a twenty four year old man
who believes that they have been wrongfully persecuted, that they

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have been attacked, belittled, demolished, destroyed, it only makes sense
that that imprisoned mind wants to break out. That imprisoned
mind needs that strength, needs the sense of individuality, of

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identity to take back control of that individual's meaning, and
they seek out those things that reinforced their strength. And
so while in prison, what did he do? He wrote?
Mind coomp again, another radicalized ideology, that young men can

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gravitate towards words. Whether it was Communist Manifesto or mind comp,
it's the same principle. It's a new system that gives
strength to young men to take over the system that
has been oppressing them since the dawn of their existence. Now,

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if you don't believe that these pieces of literature are
that powerful, by nineteen thirty three, two hundred and twenty
eight thousand copies of Mine comp had been had been sold.
God to also remember that a best seller, even in
modern times is thirty five thousand books, So two hundred

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and twenty eight thousand books is substantial. That's how movement begins. Now,
in twenty four he was released right and he reorganized NSDAP.
This is the National Socialist Movement. So they kept building

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and recruiting, and by now his oration skills had emerged,
and his confidence in what he was doing was unchecked.
It was overwhelming in his dedication to what he knew
he needed to do to rebuild the idea of Germany,
which he bled for on the front. Although he swore

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he would gain power illegally or legally, right, what did
he do? He exploited the democratic flaws of the weinmar Republic.
Now he kept gaining more and more power pulling and
what was it in twenty eight Nazi Party pulled around

(44:52):
two point six percent. What they were doing is they
were building the infrastructure of the party. They were going
out to the common people, the common twenty four year
old man that was had no job, no future, no family,
no ability to pay for a house, pay for children,
His sense of meaning, his belief systems, his heritage was

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all under attack, was devastated across the board. And they
started to build these youth groups and women's organizations, these
local cells that people could gravitate towards these twenty four
year old men, who could begin to feel what the
strength again that they had been, that had been taken
from them. Now, what launched this into high, high gear

(45:38):
and high speed was the crash at twenty nine, Because
not only did the US banks crash, so did German banks.
The world economy collapse and employment went from one point
three million to six million, thirty percent of the workforce
of Germany. There were soup kitshen shanty towns, and most
of the youth lived in an utter and perpetual despair.

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The twenty four year old man. So what happens to
that that twenty four you mint, you know, old kid
searches for something to give him, what strength and meaning
and purpose. So the Nazi Party exploited it and the
Nazis and nineteen thirty election jumped from twelve to one

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hundred and seven seats eighteen point three percent of the vote.
The second largest party thirty two to two elections in
July jumped to two hundred and thirty seats thirty seven
point seven the largest party in November one hundred and
ninety six seats, thirty three point one. Right, they got farmers,

(46:42):
they got workers, veterans, gave them honor. What else? The
Hitler youth grew. The Hitler youth grewed over one hundred
thousand members. Now at the same time as the Communist
revolution in Germany, he was trying to take hold and
they were doing very similar things that the Nazis were.

(47:05):
Knas party were able to come and defeat them, get
rid of them, and all these battles and these conflicts
that they were engaging in, and so Goebels his Propa
Caanna became intensified through what radio films right Hitler gave

(47:26):
two hundred plus speeches in nineteen thirty two. Right, why
did it resonate because they feared communism? Right, and communism
was growing and there was mass murder that they were
aware of, killing Christians and Germans and Poles and all

(47:47):
these people that lived on those borderlands. And so what
were they doing. They were praying once again on the
twenty four year old man now because the system was
so unequipped or unprepared for the rapid rise of power.
Not even rapid, I mean it took a while, and

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eventually they kind of made a deal to put Hitler
as chancellor, thinking they could control him. And guess what,
the older group that thought they could control him, right, Fritz,
theesen Franz von Popping popping, They thought they could take

(48:28):
care of this. But they couldn't because what did They
failed to recognize that Hitler was resonating with the twenty
four year old and they weren't. So Hitler knew that,
so he increased his power, seized total control February March
in nineteen thirty three, which was followed by what his dictatorship,

(48:54):
and then it passed the whole series of political diaship rights.
Things were moved right, all other parties were banned, became
a one party state. He consolidated his power as the
feure trade unions crushed, banking systems were turned by controlled

(49:19):
by the state, kicked the bankers out, arrested some of them, right,
and the Nazi Party took over. And once again what
resulted sixty sixty five million deaths around the world, nineteen
plus million Germans, twenty two plus million Russians, both those parties,

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both the radicalized nature of those parties, Communism, fascism, right Bolshevism, Nazism,
all going after the twenty four year old male, inflaming
them and then annihilating each other. Now, the other thing
that's interesting about all these times is that a lot

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of the people that were funding these wars, they continue
to make more money, right, whatever you want to call that.
The elites here, the elites there, people who had companies, businesses.
The thing that kind of is fascinating to me is
is Ford Motor Company supported both sides of that, the
Russians and the Germans with equipment, aircraft, vehicles, all different

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types of raw materials. There were other companies in America
that supported a German or British companies, French companies and
what it ended up happening. Who suffered the most, the
twenty four year old male. This is not something that

(50:54):
is disputed. This is not something that can be ignored.
Is the fact. This is what happens when you have disenfranchised, demoralized, attack, beliaguered, empty,
twenty four year old males. This is what's happening now.

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There are twenty four year old males in this country
that are in the very same position. They know they
have been beaten down. Their hopes for the fulfillment of
that American dream have been deluded, demoralized, or beaten. The

(51:45):
idea of faith has been attacked. The idea of family
is under attack. The idea of freedom is under attack.
Now traditionally that comes from leftist ideas. Right, and those

(52:06):
leftist ideas have you know, the demoralization of white males,
the demoralization of masculinity, the demoralization of freedom of speech. Right,
you can't speak, you need to be canceled. Right, the
idea that better economic opportunities are afforded to other people

(52:28):
who aren't even from this country. These young people, they're
aware of it. You think they're not but they are
why because they're out there trying to find jobs. They've
done all the things you told them to do. They
went to school from kindergarten to twelfth grade. They listened
to the curriculum you thrust down there. You took away

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the people that they should have been heroes. That that
that idea of fierce individuality and liberty and a sovereignty
only under God himself. Right, you're in a ability to
be free. But they see all that as not truly
what it is, the idea that certain religions are under

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attack and certain ones aren't. And what's unfortunate is that
now this is a reality. And I think there's a
massive group of people and all the systems that are
at play or in control, or so they think, they're
all doing what right now, they're all vying for the young,
disenfranchised twenty four year old Native American, the twenty four

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year old immigrant American, the twenty four year old black man,
the twenty four year old Hispanic man, the twenty four
year old white man, the twenty four year old Christian,
the twenty four year old jew, the twenty four year
old musclim They are all being sought out from these
different groups trying to influence them, trying to bring that
sense of elective power or strength to them. And you

(54:05):
see so, and what's being projected as history or the
anomalies within history, or the manufactured state of history, or
only teaching one component of history and not all of
the other. The fact that somehow, somewhere, some way, that
our youth, that twenty four year old man doesn't understand

(54:28):
the gray nature of history itself is indicative of that
system that has been trying to manipulate them or influence them.
That they're have an inability to be able to evaluate
history and its totality and the total context of what
it was, how it came about, and the impact from it.
And any person that is not allowing that robust debate

(54:49):
about history itself isn't part of that negative influence on
that twenty four year old male. You look at the
movies or the streaming shows, or the book books, you
look at ai, the housing markets. You know how religion
is being framed. These twenty four year old males, they

(55:10):
see it. They're not stupid anymore. The powers that be
they woke them up. They woke them up as a
result of the pandemic by taking away their liberties. You
must stand six feet apart, why because we made it up.

(55:32):
It's control. You must wear a mask, why because we
want you to be silenced, to cover your face. You
can't travel. And unless you get this job, what is it? Well,
we can't tell you that, and we don't have to
tell you for seventy years. And oh, by the way,
if you get the job, you could get a different
heart problems, or we could your reproductive organs could be impacted,

(55:55):
or you could outright die suddenly. Oh and by the way,
we're to promote these other groups that can go out
and bitch and moan because they support it, because they
we were told that this drug dealing, drug addict, a
person that had been in jail, a person that was
high that was having an overdose, was demorl that was

(56:16):
killed because of this unchecked government authority of police officers.
When everybody now knows, can you can go and see
the statistics of how many black men, unarmed black men
were killed by police officers in twenty nineteen, in the
mid twenties, So we see these kids see that this

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is not right, this is a lie. They feel it.
It's a lie. They understand propaganda. Now. Why, Because there's
this thing called the Internet. There's this access to information
that can't possibly be governed the way it used to
be governed by the people who are in control of

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the system, who want to curtail what information gets out
and what doesn't. And in that access to that, what
do they feel? They feel one a place to detach
from the system that's demoralizing them. They feel a place
where they can engage with each other without the unirrational

(57:28):
influence or the illogical influences of the systems trying to
control them. They can go and feel a sense of
release from the destitution that awaits them in the abysmal
nature of their future right how by gaming, by streaming
and talking to each other, by producing stupid memes or videos,

(57:51):
or making fun or poking fun of it. And as
they were coming up into this world because that's the
only world they know socially, the old grip of the
social structure is gone. And for anybody that's out there
who's forty and older, guess what you need to wake
up and realize that you no longer have control of

(58:13):
the twenty four year old man you might think you
do but you don't. They are awake by what they
have gone through. We need to look at when these
twenty four year old men were born, what they were
leading into, and what got them to be so focused

(58:34):
on the fact that they were ready to defend themselves
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Let's get back to the twenty four year old man

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that was born in two thousand and one right after
nine to eleven. I didn't feel the impact of nine
to eleven. All they've ever known was access to a
device that was perpetually feeding them information, and through the
the growth of their understanding, the growth of their ideology,
the growth of their philosophy, their growth of their morality,

(01:01:06):
the growth of their theological or more metaphysical understanding of
the world around them, has been through their screens. They
have felt the impact of the different types of heroes
that they were fed or the different types of ostrasation
they were made to feel. They're they're the fact that

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you are not in control. You are a detriment to society.
You're a colonist, you're a bigot, you're a racist, you're
a chauvinus, you're you're a phobicist, or whatever the word is.
You're not worthy to be a functioning part of society.
In fact, you're not worthy enough. We're going to censor
you if you begin to purport ideas that don't fit

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within the traditional narratives that maintain the society or the
system that seems to be constantly improving the lives of
those at the top. And again, this is the interpretation
of the twenty four year old male. And so what

(01:02:13):
emerged out of that, What emerged out of that is
the ideas. What emerged out of that as the understanding
of their heroes. Now, as I go back and begin
to recognize what took place, because I think I was
on an edge of it in the beginning, and you

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had a bunch of these early twenty four year olds
that did what after nine to eleven, that went to war,
that went back to the trenches, because why they believe
the messaging. They believe that the American way of life
was under attack and was going to collapse if we
didn't go overseas, get back in the trenches and beat

(01:02:57):
back the idea of this other thing, this other system
that was going to take away our lives. Why because
we were trying to figure out what our meaning was
at the time, where we were supposed to go, what we
were supposed to do, how we were supposed to do it.
And so those that were in charge of the system
created the opportunity for more war. And so you had

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the GWAT people emerged when these young twenty four year
old men were what were fourteen and fifteen, and so
they flocked to those GWAT voices. They started to flock
to the anti woke, anti leftist voices. They started to
flock to something that would give them more meaning, more purpose,
more understanding of the strength that they control that's inside

(01:03:41):
of their own guts and their souls. And who was
the catalyst for this? It was Trump because what did
he do? He thought back against the systems. He called
the systems out both right and left, which in my opinion,
are sol somewhat one and the same, actively battling for

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the souls and the minds of the twenty four year
old man to wage war against each other, to distract
everybody from what they're doing at the top, which is
continuing to extrapolate more wealth out of the productivity of
the twenty four year old male. He said what he believed. However,

(01:04:26):
I'm sometimes dysfunctional it was, or demoralizing. It was. He
said what he believed, and these young men gravitated towards
it immensely, to the pack where in twenty twenty there
had to be some shenanigans in order to keep that
man from gaining control and broak in the control of
the system that had been put in place for forty
fifty sixty seventy years. Wherever you want to start in

(01:04:50):
the development of the modern era, the new world order,
the consolidation of power, stakeholder capitalism, whatever you want to
soft power, pull up politics, I don't care how you
describe it. It's one continuous evolution of those who have
power trying to manipulate the twenty four year old male.

(01:05:14):
But they're paying attention now, they're paying close attention. I
think what you saw is in twenty twenty four is
you saw the system lose control of the system most likely,
I believe for one reason and one reason only, and
that's Elon Musk bought X. Prior to that, Twitter was

(01:05:36):
horrifically censoring, Facebook, horrifically censoring Instagram, censoring, YouTube, censoring all
social media platforms, censoring, censoring, censoring, demoralizing, diminishing the voices
of the tumergent twenty four year old males or those
who are trying to inform them be free, think for yourself. Now,

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because of that, the system could no longer control those
voices that were trying to emerge, finding strength and they
were able to access new pieces of truth that pant
those in power either side as an illegitimate and corrupt,

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and those that were thought they were in control, they
started losing control of that. Now these ideas once again
are becoming more and more and more radicalized, not only
from those who are in the system, but those who

(01:06:41):
are on the edges of society. And they're going after
who the twenty four year old man? Why, because that's
the person they need to fight their war, their war
of ideas and this fifth generation warfare, and actually they're
connect wars. Just look at Ukraine and Russia probably getting

(01:07:05):
close to two million young men, more generations of young
twenty four year old males that have been thrust into
the trenches for the betterment of the systems themselves. Now
Here in America, those twenty four year old men, they're
disenfranchised because the dream that I was promised is unattainable

(01:07:27):
for them. They can't afford houses, their jobs don't pay well.
AI potentially is going to destroy their opportunities. There's no
middle class, has been destroyed from offshoring of jobs. There's
thirty eight trillion dollars in debt. Even the political system
that they were gravitating towards because of the things that
Trump was saying is in question. Now, where's the Epstein persecution.

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Where's the purp walks for Russia Gate? Where's the purp
walks for all the leftist ideologies? Where's the purp walk
for the crazy judges? Where is the purp walk for
insider traders? Where's the purp walk for the manipulation of justice?
It's not happening. And the catalyst of all catalysts the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. Because the one thing that these

(01:08:14):
twenty four year old men started to feel some strength
with was the ability to have faith in themselves through
Christ and God. Why because that religion doesn't force them
to fight for anything other than their individual sovereignty to God.
Christ does not tell me to go out and fight.

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Christ tells me to go out and love. Christ tells
me to go out and listen. Christ tells me to
go out and search so I can find. Christ tells
me to be humble. Christ tells me to be be
aware of different ideas and opinions, but to be able
to have open conversation with others, to be able to
profess the good News and the Gospel, to tell you

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that you well be said that God loves you, regardless
that Christ loves you. And so you had millions and
millions of young men gravitating towards it. And we saw that.
But guess what. He was assassinated. We don't know why,

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because why the system that's in control, the systems that
are in control of the information. They don't want to
tell the twenty four year old male why. They don't
want to tell the twenty four year old male what
the purpose was. They don't want to tell the twenty
four year old male. And there are active people within
the system itself on the right side as well, restricting information.
At least that's what the twenty four year old male feels.

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If you don't believe me, go listen to the people
that are starting to rise up in this the new system,
the system of tomorrow, which is the system that the
current twenty four year old male is going to fight
for in some way, shape or form in the future,
in the near future. Now, I'll tell you what. There

(01:10:06):
is another war brewing. I promise you that there is
another war brewing, just as there always has been. It's
the same war. It's the war for the soul of
the twenty four year old man. It's always lurking beneath
the surface of those who are trying to influence that
youthful army. And the reason is because those that are

(01:10:29):
in power, they don't want to do the fighting anymore.
The old days of the king on the horseback riding
in the battle, those days are over. General Washington crossing
the Delaware. How many generals died in the gwat. It's

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a twenty four year old man that does. There is
a war for these ideas and is taking place every
single day and every single aspect of what's being thrust
down their throats, what they're being influenced on through the algorithms,

(01:11:10):
through the silos of ideology, through the podcast because that's
are the streamers, because that's where these young men are
getting getting their information now through podcasts and streaming, through
videos online, and these bits and pieces of things that
are provoking the deeper thought in them to find out
what they believe in. And these young men are being

(01:11:32):
pulled into a fight. They're being pulled into a fight,
the same fight with the same ideas spun by a
different muse. Those trying to consolidate their positions of authority
through social outrage and condemnation of another group of collectivized people.

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They're your problem. They're taken away. If you don't attack them,
if you don't don't go after them, then you're wrong.
They're the beginning of the new Nazi Party. They're the
beginning of the new Bolsheviks, They're the beginning of the
new whatever. Come join me, join me in the fight

(01:12:16):
that we're in against the radical nature of the left,
against the radical nature of the right. Pick a side, now,
what can you do to fight the temptation of that
misgoded strength. What do I wish was told me? Told

(01:12:39):
to me when I was that twenty four year old man.
Your true strength is your own sovereignty. You are not
beholden to a very specific ideology. You are not beholden
to a particular philosophy. You are beholden to the thing

(01:12:59):
that is God gave to you, which is your liberty,
God given right to peace and freedom. I recognize that
there are a lot of people out there that would
come up to me and say, hey, rut, that's horseshit.
You know it is the system determines what your rights

(01:13:21):
are for, And I say, no way. Your ability to
think for yourself is yours. Nobody can take that from you,
nobody if you don't want them to. Your ability to
find meaning and the ideas that grant immunity from tyranny,
that's your responsibility. That's the strength you're looking for. That's

(01:13:44):
the strength we need to have, is that I'm not
going to fall prey to some fancy oration. I'm not
going to fall prey to the ability to blame one
specific thing versus the complexity of what all of what
society and civilization has been doing to each other over
and over and over and over again. Tyranny is tyranny,

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no matter what time frame it takes, no matter what
form of politics it's playing. Fascism, Nazism, Republican Democrat, right,
left right. The idea is that if you're a sovereign individual,
you have your own ability to believe what you want

(01:14:32):
to believe, and in my opinion, those beliefs should be
rooted in something that gives you a sensation of self,
and that self is a derivative of what you're willing
to sacrifice for others so that they can maintain liberties
in peace and the pursuit of some deeper meaning in
their life. And so for me, what does that mean?

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That means my faith in Christ and what Christ ultimately
wants me to be. Now, I know I can never
live up to Christ because I'm a sinner. But what
I can do is I can try and live up
to those apostles who are just men like me. And
the other thing is that my family, what the meaning
that my family gives The sacrifice I'm willing to make

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for my children, traveling every work, every week so that
they can go become educated, traveling every week so that
they can have the beauty of competition and sport, traveling
every week so that they feel the grand sensation of
their own emergent individuality. To my wife, who is a

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perpetual supporter of me and how we raise our children,
and me of her, which is to teach our children
to be strong, intelligent, empathetic individual thinkers that believe in
that the beauty of what represents liberty. After you listen

(01:16:00):
to this, I want you to think about the things
that you are processing, the things that you are seeing,
and the information that's going through your feed and what
you're watching. What is the intention behind it? Is it
to pull that twenty four year old male to one
direction in order to prepare for the fight that's coming,

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Because there's a war coming. There's no doubt. Unless you
the twenty four year old man learns to think for yourself,
learns to evaluate history correctly, learns to evaluate religion correctly,
learns to evaluate politics correctly, learns to evaluate morality correctly,

(01:16:50):
learns to evaluate liberty correctly. What I'm asking you, the
twenty four year old man, is to think for yourself,
to sovereign only to that thing which gives society or
civilization opportunities to live in peace, to somehow break the

(01:17:13):
cycle of war that the system is so desperate to
recruit you for. That's what I hope that you'll hear.
I want to thank y'all for those who pay attention

(01:17:34):
and listen. If you could share this with the twenty
four year old male or a young man, is the
metaphorum trying to say, give them this and share it
with them. Listen to it and try and share that
with maybe your twenty four year old daughter or your
young people around you, or even listen to yourself and
pull yourself out of the influence of the thing that

(01:17:54):
is driving us to war. We don't need anymore. We
need time to figure out what this future is going
to look like. We need time to reinforce our young
twenty four year olds that, guess what, You're in control
of the future, and the future is up to you.
You can break the cycle. It's possible, not through radical ideologies,

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but through that steadfast resolve that we each have an
opportunity to live our lives independently of one another, without
influencing each other negatively towards war. So please subscribe like share.
It would mean the world. I want to thank all

(01:18:43):
those that have kind of helping me awaken, all those
people out there that are talking about that space of
a moral framework that governs us to be decent to
each other, to listen to each other, to accept that
free space each is the way we illuminate tyranny. And

(01:19:04):
this is and an arena of ideas. And those that
are unwilling to listen and hear each other's ideas are
the ones that ultimately are going to need the twenty
four year old. So the twenty four year old must
be independent thinkers to resist the temptation of going to
war for different groups. I want to thank my family.

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I want to thank Christ for teaching me the majority
of these lessons. We're at a come in to a crossroads.
You feel it, I feel it, and I just hope

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and pray that we can find restraint from the temptation
of war. Godspeed,