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as well. A So we're gonnatalk about a few things today, talking

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about Western civilization. It's fragility beingunder attack. Is it going to collapse?
Are we in a doom loop?Are we on the verage of the
end of it? It always seemsthat way, and it doesn't seem to
happen. We'll talk about tax fansonly in the context of James sent me

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this video about relative taxes between theUS and the UK. What's more fair.
I'll talk a little bit about that. I think the question is is
a little is wrong in a sensethe whole approach. I'm not gonna show
the video you send me, James, if you're there, I'll talk about

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why I'm not gonna show it ina minute. And then I've got a
song review of a song. I'llfigure out what song it is in a
minute. And also I promised areview which I owe for a long time,
of the Last of Us episode three, the Last of Us episode three,
so I've review that one as well, and we could talk, so

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we'll talk about that as well.Remind you I do TV show episodes for
two hundred and fifty dollars, moviesfor five hundred dollars, and songs for
one hundred bucks. All of thatis available in terms of reviews. All
right, yeah, I mean nextweek shows as usual, nothing special there,

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Okay, let's talk about with thecivilization and and and where we go
where we go from there? Andoh oh yeah, I did want to
say this. I saw I justsaw just before the show started. I
saw this video clip of a ofa libertarian criticizing me, criticizing knows and
criticizing me and making fun of ofof my I guess making fun. It's

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a short clips. It's hard oftime, but it only seems that way,
particularly of criticizing Mike and knows aroundthat Auban interview which I showed you
you show you saw my show onit where where I guess uh uh,
you know Auban is saying, uh, you know, the hyper individualists,

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and then there are people who sayfamily, nation, nation, and God,
and the libertarian is saying, butthat's ridiculous. That's the thing is,
how can he call us hyper individualists? I can you call us individualists?
You know, we trade with otherpeople, We produce stuff and then

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interact with other people. So we'renot acting individualists because we we trade with
other people, we produce for themand they consume from us. And you
know, capitalism benefits everybody who participatesproductively, so we're not happy individualists.

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That is so shallow and silly andsuperficial and understanding of what individualism is.
You don't go into a trade inorder to benefit the other side. You're
going to trade trade to benefit yourself. You produced in order to make your
life better. Nobody, there isnobody in the whole history of the world,

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as far as I can remember itright now, that argues that individualism
means as a as a as asupportive individualism nobody who is a proponent of
individualism, who says, oh,no, we should all live on desert
islands. We should all live byourselves. It shouldn't interact with anybody else.
And trade, Oh my god,trade is the worst. And that's

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ridiculous, that's bizarre. That's likethe King of all straw men. Nobody's
ever made that argument. Nobody makesthat argument. On the pro individualist side,
Individualism means pursuing your own values.Individualism means having your own values and
your all happiness, but frimarily yourown values, as you know, as

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your guide, using your own mindto pursue your own values, your own
mind, not being a second handand I just following orders, not doing
what they collective tells you, butthinking for yourself. That's what individualism mean.
So of course individualism implies trade.But again you're not training, you
know, to make the old thebetter place. The world will become a

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better place, but not because soyou know, libertarians, it's so silly
and ugly. And then he hasa parting comment about how you know objective
is support dress then and Nagashaki andHiroshima, So we're the real collectivists.

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No, we're just egoists. Wedon't want to die, and we're willing
to kill the enemy who started thewar to prevent ourselves from dying. That's
pretty individualistic and egoistic and rational.But okay, that's for another show,
another time. All Right, Ijust thought i'd mentioned that, just because

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I just saw it before I beforeI dropped up. He tagged me on
this little video on Twitter. God, how how how shallow can a libertarian
get? Very shallow? Very shallow? It turns up, all right,
Western civilizations. So we talked alot about Western civilization, and then you're

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on book show. I've I've definedit, We've we've talked about its history,
we've talked about it's it's fundamental principles. But but constantly you see this
argument regarding it's fugility. It's it'son the verge of collapse. It might
be on the verge of collapse becausewe've got hordes of barbarians who are who

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are non western sive people coming fromfrom the outside. Uh. You know,
it's on the verge of collapse becauseof immigration. Immigrants are gonna destroy
Western civilization. It's on the vergeof collapse because the left, the left
just doesn't get it. The leftis advocating for nihilistic policies that are just

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going to destroy everything that is goodabout Western civilization and and and uh,
and it's going to self destruct.It could be. And if you listen
to my show, maybe this isthe message you get that it's religion.
You know, it's a religious right. The religion is going to destroy Western
civilization well on the brink of annihilation, and any day now, Western civilization

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is going to end. It's superfragile, it's not being defended by anybody,
and therefore it will indeed collapse andand disappear. Or you might believe
that you know, the one Ukraine, no matter what side you take of
that wall, whether it's led MePuttin or whether it's Ukrainian, but the
one Ukraine will destroy Western civilization.Where do you think it's because Vlood Puttin

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is going to use nuclear weapons andlike Jordan Peterson, or where do you
think that Ukraine might win? Andthen by extension, the left wings and
then Western civilization is destroy one waythe other. Everybody out there is convinced
Western civilization is a decline. Andit's not just in decline it is,
but it is on the verge ofcollapse destruction. It's super fragile, it

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doesn't take much, and it's gone. And when I think we suffer from
that, we suffer from that asobjectivists, because there's a there's a tendency
within interjectivism to say, look herethe philosophical ideas that are quite to sustain

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Western civilization. Here the philosophical ideasthat made Western civilization a reality. Those
ideas are slowly being diminished, They'reslowly going away, They're being under attack
constantly. I'mand is the only onedefending those ideas. Iron Rand is too
small. There are too few ofus, and as a consequence those ideas,
since the ideas are gone, westerncivilization has gone as well. So

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I want to push back a littlebit on all of that, although of
course there's some truth to everything thatI've said in terms of the dangers to
Western civilization. We talk about ita lot on this show in terms of
those danges. But I want totalk about this idea of fragility and how
fragile it is and could it justdisappear and could it just collapse? Is

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it like and I'm mature you asyou know I'm reading this book and Christendom,
so we've covered kind of the collapseof Rome and the transition into the
Middle Ages or the or the EarlyMiddle Ages. He doesn't like to use
the term Dark Ages, but Iwill the Dark Ages and could could you

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know, could it happen? Couldcould Western civilizations just fall off a cliff?
Could it truly just collapse? AndI think the answers, of course,
yes, but I think the fulleranswers it's very unlikely. And if
it's going to happen, it's goingto take a long time, and it's

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going to be a slow glow.It's not going to be one of those
falling off a cliff kind of events. At least I don't expect it to
be such. And why is that? And I want to hear to step
back from kind of how we've alwaysdefined Western civilization if you followed the show,
I always talk about it in termsof Western civilization being this basically two
ideas, the idea of reason,thefficacy of reason, and the idea of

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individualism, and those combined have created, those taken seriously, have created the
world in which we which we recognizeas Western civilization and Western civilization really is
is a project. The project started, if you will, in the Renaissance,
reached its height maybe with the creationof the United States of America,

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and Western civilization is still gliding basedon those ideas, the ideas explicitly developed
during the Enlightenment, but inspired reallyfrom their innascence onwards and all that.
That story is the right story.It's a story. I think it's a
true story. And I think everythingI read only supports and reaffirms that.

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So those ideas, the ideas ofthe Enlightenment kind of launch this civilization.
They meet possible this civilization. Andbut when you look around today, how
does that civilization manifest itself? Itdoesn't manifest itself in people writing about reason

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and individualism. It doesn't manifest itselfin good philosophers, unfortunately, which they
were good philosophers. But it doesn'tmanifest itself by thousands of intellectuals advocating for
the ideas of the Enlightenment. Sadly, right, where is where is Western
civilization? What would you point atif you were going to point at what

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is Western civilization? What constitutes theWest today? And I'd say it's it's
the implicit manifestations of individualism and reason. So what are those what are they
what are they implicit? What arethe manifestations of them in people's day to

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day lives. Well, one,I'd say, if we're looking at the
concept of individualism, it certainly isa culture of consumption, a culture of
production, a culture where people pursuecareers, a culture where people pursue buying

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cool stuff for whom for themselves.It's a culture of fashion. It's a
culture of cool toys, it's aculture of amazing electronics. It's a culture
of just people on a day today basis having you know, having the
focus on production, using producing,but then using that production for their own

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well being in one way or another, whether it's to get a massage,
or whether it's to read a book, or whether it's to buy a nice
clothes, or whether it's all ofthose, all of those manifestations. So
yeah, I mean, as objectivistswill get towards looking first at production and
at the businessmen. But and that'sall true, But in terms of the
masses, in terms of the massivehumanity, the massive humanity is embedded in

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westensive to the extent that they valuetheir own life, their own happiness,
their own enjoyment and that they havethe opportunity to express that in the marketplace.
And it's fascinating to see that everywhereyou go that Western civilization touches.

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What you see is that it beingone of the expressions of that. So
if you go to Japan, oryou go to South Koreo, even if
you go to China, or ifyou go to Thailand, if you go
to a lot of these places,one of the manifestations of Western civilization is
them all and and and the orientationof the people there to go and buy

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cool stuff, and and and andbuy nice stuff for themselves. I mean,
it's amazing first time I was inChina to see in the streets of
Shanghai all the luxury stares Louis Vitanand Chanelle and Katie and all of these
things. It's like, you know, the part of the things that made
it very real to me that communism, there's no communism here. You don't

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have those kind of things in communismcertainly don't have them out in the public.
Maybe maybe the high ups go toyou to go to the West and
buy those stuff for their wives,but they're not on display in the main
streets. With big billboards and bigsigns, such a certain spirit and orientation
that you know, in some sensecomes easy to people, right once they're

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exposed to it, once they havetheir wealth to experience it, once they
they immediately want it, and theyimmediately jump on it. And of course
to do that, you have toproduce. And the idea is you get
to choose production, you get tochoose a career, you get to choose
the work that you do. Thatthat's all features of Western civilization didn't exist

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in pre westernized Japan or Korea,Europe or China. Career choice, romantic
choice. So one of the mostimportant expressions of Western civilization, in other
words, one of the most importantexpressions of individualism is choices, the ability

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of people to make choices and andand and they're interest and willingness to go
out there and do that, anddo that wherever again, wherever there they
gain the liberty to do it,they jump on it. And if you

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look at the world, in spiteof popsimistic when it could become, if
you look at the war, ifyou look at the world today versus fifty
years ago, think of how manymore people in the world in the globe

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today have choices, choices about lotsof things about their lives. But what
can we are to pursue, whatjob to have, wh who to fall
in love with, who to marry, who to what stuff to buy?
How much of that stuff to buy? Way to live? They can move

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up to a point, right,the choices, choices of the way in
which individualism manifests itself and pre preenlightenment Europe, you didn't choose you to
marry I was arranged by your family. You didn't choose what profession you went

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into, your whatever profession your fatherhad. And women had no choices period
about anything in their life. Really, you didn't choose wait to have kids
and want not to have kids.No birth control. Birth control provides choices,
product of science. So individual isn'tmanifests itself in the availability of choices

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out there. And I just wantto say, how how you know,
how easy do you think it's goingto be to take those choices away from
people, to bring people back toa world of twelve twenty right, Michael
knows where they don't have choices,where they're giving up those choices, where

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somebody else makes decisions for them.Now there's a centioie that's already happening.
The regulatory state, the tax state, is already doing that, but it
does it purposefully in a stealthy wayin order to keep us living thinking we
have as many choices as we alwayshave. Indeed, the pretense of the

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regulatory state is they're protecting us sothat we can have those choices. So
not easy for people to give upthose choices. And when people take take
away those choices, there's a backlash, always is, always is because people

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don't understand the ideas necessary to defendindividualism. People don't understand the concept of
individualism, even libertarians don't, aswe saw from the video I described.
But they know it's manifestation, andthey know what they like about it,
and they know what they want aboutit, and they're not going to give
that up easily. And even ifthey give it up in a particular place

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easily. It's a global phenomena nowin a sense, the West is now
global, and people want it,even people who live in places they don't
have as many choices. They wantmore. That's why one of the big

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reasons why they want to get upand move to places like the United States
and Europe where they can gain thosechoices. So implicitly, this idea of
individualism is strong. Now I completelyagree with Rand and everyone. Ultimately,

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the implicit is not enough. Ultimatelythis gets eroded slowly systematically. One day
it won't exist, at least inany particular geographic area. But it's hard
to do. It takes a longtime, much longer than I think anybody
anticipates. And it's not necessarily goingto be a global phenomenon. It's not

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necessarily going to be the choicest that'staken away from people. Ever we win.
So yeah, I mean, Westerncivilization is about people being able to
choose what kind of life they wantto live, what, where, how

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with what, and with whom theywant to live until logic extent, logic
extent, it's very difficult to takethat away from them. Now. You
notice the Dugan quote that I gaveyou the other day, right, the
Dugan quote. It was kind ofa funny quote. It says, yeah,
we need to get used to buyingthings that are Russian, just we

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need to get used to saying goodbyeto the West. Notice it sounds just
about saying goodbye to the West,because we're saying goodbye to Western stuff,
and now we're stuck with Russian stuffthat doesn't work, that's expensive. That's
all the things he said, whichwas kind of funny. I hope that's
a real quote, but that waskind of funny. But but it's much

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more than that. We have tosay goodbye to the West. In terms
of literally having the choices. Wewon't have the choices, just like in
the Soviet Union. You'll buy thethings that the party produces. You'll buy
the things that Russian in dust,your policy produces. You won't have choices.
And that backtracking away from choices canhappen maybe pretty fast in Russia,

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and even there it won't be easy. And even there a lot of people
are leaving as a consequence. Alot of people are leaving Russia because of
that, and more will leave inthe future if they have the opportunity to
do so. So giving up onthe West is giving up on options,

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choices, giving up on individualism.That's what's individualism means. It means the
recognition that individuals should make their owndecisions about their own values, guided by
their own minds choices, rather thantold what to do how to live as

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so many on left and right wouldlike to pose on us the second idea
of Western civilizations, of course,the idea of reason, and this,
of course is under attack even morethan individualism. It has been for a
long time, yet it continues tothrive out there in our granted, declining

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but still existing respect for science,the realm of reason, engineering, innovation,
progress. I mean, all ofthat is an implicit recognition of you

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know, the value of reason,the value of the mind. I mean,
even the idea of individualism is ofcourse dependent on the idea of reason,
because individuals need a mind in orderto make choices. If we all
assumed, if the assumption and theculture was well, people are stupid,

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people are irrational, people have noway to make choices, have no way
to decide, then we wouldn't ina sense that we wouldn't leave them free
to do so. They're leaving themfree to do so implicitly, again,
rests on the idea that they're capableof making choice of themselves, at least
to some extent. I don't wantto overdo it, but at least to

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some extent. And there's very littleguidance out there that says, yeah,
you should just follow your emotions.Don't think thinking is bad for you.
I mean, some people argue that, but they're really Nobody takes them seriously,
not really, not in large scale. I mean it's argumented about how
much to think and what thinking is. And but on a cultural level,

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not on a on a again,on a day to day be level,
not on the at the at thein a philosophy to mental of the academia,
on a day to day, butlevel. People expect it to think
through problems and to solve them.And whether you call it reason or something
else, people expect it to be, at least to some extent outside of

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the world maybe a politics and relationships. In most things in a life,
they're expected to be somewhat rational,somewhat reasonable, I think. And of
course there is this massive campaign againfor both left hand right, saying you
can't think for yourself, don't tryit. This is a God, that's

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truth, or you need to knowis to know God. You don't need
to think for that, or realitydoesn't exist, the world doesn't exist,
don't need to think about that.There's no point in thinking because you can't
achieve anything. It's a dead andpostmodernism critical race theory. All of that

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stuff is all kind of based onthis idea of a the impotence of the
human mind. But again at acultural level, at the day level,
at the level of how people interact, this assumption is that reason is that
the mind is the thinking is agood thing, and that's gonna be very

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difficult to dislodge. So when theimmigrants come to us to move to the
United States from cultures that have don'tallow for choices, don't allow for thinking,
authoritarian violence in their nature, theycome to us, and what happens

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They say, Oh, I reallymissed that violence and lack of choices.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'mgonna adopt that ideology here in my new
place. I mean, that wouldbe nuts. They know why they're leaving,
they know why they're coming. Theymight not know the full implications of
it. They might not know thefull implications of what their particular vote or

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their particular habits have to do with, you know, the long term potential
of individualism and reason to exist.They don't think in those terms suddenly.
But the reality is they come herefor the choices, They come here to
use their mind, they come hereto pursue their values. Their values,

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and if our civilization is worth anything, if Western civilization with anything, then
it should be easy for us toassimilate them and to have the confidence to
embrace them and make them part ofour civilization. To fear them and to
view them as causing out decline givesthem a lot more power, given that

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Western civilization is the best civilization everin history and is embraced by almost every
culture that has the opportunity to doso. If it's in Asia, if
it's in South America, if it'sin Asia, if it's an Africa,
wherever it is, they embrace elementsof it to the extent that they can.

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So I find this fear of theimmigrant is so is bizarre because just
a little bit of confidence on ourpart and they become us. Just a
little bit of confidence on our part, even more confidence in our part and
a better farm policy. Many manycountries around the world become us. Embrace

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Western civilization. But that requires alittle bit more work. And the same
is true of the lefts and thereligious conservatives and so on. Most people.
Whatever put it this way, whatevernegative impact they're gonna have, and
they're gonna have a negative impact isslow, it's erosive, it's long term,

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it's already being along. They've beenaround for a long time, They've
been promoting their ideas for a longtime, and it's core. Day to
day life in America is still prettymuch the same as it used to be.
In spite of the frustrations of thosewho was sent Richmond North of Richmond,

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American life is not that different thanit was fifty sixty one hundred years
ago, and in many respects it'smuch better richer in some ways. A
free speech today is better protected inAmerica than it was a hundred years ago.
Your individual right to sexual orientation,to sex generally, to all kinds

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of things. You remember, LennyBruce was arrested in the nineteen sixties for
saying on a private stage with theowner's approval, the F word. He
was jailed for that. Can youimagine that now? Take for example,

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take for example COVID lockdowns mandates thehorrors of that. Yeah, it was
truly horrible, and it was ahorrible sign of of I guess what is
possible, but look up, butlooking back at it, look it up

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quickly, we rebounded, look itout quickly. We've been back to normal.
Now have we learned to write lesson? Is this a precursor to an
authoritarian state in the future? Maybe, or maybe we learned that we don't
like lockdowns and there were real infringementsand we won't tolerate them next time.

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We'll see. But yeah, lockdownswere horrific. They were anti Western,
they were denial of our reason anda denial of our choices. But when
they went away, they went awayquickly, and they disappeared quickly. Oh,

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Robert Gomang is here. Hey,Robert, I hope, I hope
you're recuperating. Roberts is getting treatedfor cancer in China, which is sure
an interesting experience. But I thinkI read some way that Robert says that
in some ways Chinese healthcare system isfree in some ways than it is in

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the United States, and I kindof believe that. I mean, that
is interesting. Great to have youhere on the chat of it. Right,
let's see what was a I mean, lockdowns in the United States.

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Look how normal life is today giventhat. I mean, it's no excuse.
I'm not excusing anything evil happens thatwas evil, But did evil fundamentally
change Western sieve? Did it fundlymentally change our culture in our lives.
Luckily, the answers no, becausewe are resilient, We're not fragile.

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We went back to normal, andmaybe next time will rebel even sooner and
prevent them from even starting it.Okay, So my point is basically that
I think that Western civilization is alot more resilient than many people give it
credit. I don't fear immigrants.I don't think any of us should fear

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immigrants. I mean I was justlooking at, you know, the growth
and and the changes in population acrossEurope and countries like Fans, population of
expanded dramatically. Is fans having problems, Absolutely that they have horrible riots with

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immigrants. Absolutely, there's fans onthe verge of banning all western sieve.
No, French economy is doing fairlywell. People in Fans still make the
choices. Fans will survive as longas it stands up to violence, will

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survive. It's, you know,the barbarism of some of its immigrants.
It's just like we survived BLM riotsin twenty twenty, just like we are
surviving the violent spike in twenty twentytwo. It's massively in decline this year.

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Violence is down. Fans will surviveit. Fans has grown significantly.
The UK has grown a lot.Now the UK is struggling economically, It's

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got a lot of economic problems,but none of that has to do with
immigrants. It has to do withBrits do it bad policies. But the
UK has grown significant and has massiveimmigration. It's not, though, on
the brink of losing its fundamental characteras Western. On the contrary, what

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happens to the immigrants as they becomewesternized, they gained respect for the choices
they have. Now. If theculture is weak like it is in the
West today in terms of explicitly advocatingfor these ideas, then it takes maybe

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a generation or two. If theculture is strong, like it is a
little bit more in the United States, like it could be if we had
the right ideas, then it wouldbe almost immediate. Then the melting pot
really works. The melti pot isstrong. And one of the beauties of
the melting pot is because I thinkit's a good metaphor is the Western civilization.

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One of its strengths is that itlooks around and it identifies good things
in other cultures. And just embracesthem and just makes it part of it.
Yeah, I know people are panickingbecause of Sharia law in Sharia in
Europe. There is no Sharia inEurope. They are anti blasphemy laws passed

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in Denmark. I criticized those afew days ago in the show, and
they're horrible and they're disgusting and theyneed to be fought. But they're not
the end of the West. Thereare a lot of bad things that have
been happening. I mean, theWest survived communism, Western civilization survived fascism

(40:44):
and Nazism, and the West hasevery possibility of surviving what's going on right
now. And you now, themore explicitly the West understands its own values,

(41:05):
the more explicitly the West stands upfor its own values, the most
explicitly the West understands it is thegreatest civilization in human history and is willing
to defend that fact. The easiestassimilation becomes, and the less pain we
will have to go through in defendingit. The weaker we are, the
less we talk about it, themore dangerous it's going to become. And

(41:29):
ultimately Western civilization will they rode anddisappear It takes a long time, though,
and those of you are young.It's been like this forever. Western
civilization has been under attack forever.I mean blasphemy laws right now in Europe
and and and the the the Muslimsin Europe are nothing like the existence of

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the Soviet Union. They're nothing likecommunism within and without. Communism is so
much beg a threat to Western civilization. We survived it. We'll probably survived
this, although we're weaker today somaybe we won't. But it's not gonna
happen tomorrow. And the pessimism andhysteria and the panic and the fear is

(42:15):
just unwarranted. Yes, history isshaped by philosophical ideas, but not in
the way you think. Not.These philosophy rise and their flore civilization immediately
adjusted to that philosophy. No,we're still shaped by philosophical ideas, and
the West is still shaped implicitly bythe Enlightenment, and there's still enough rational

(42:38):
voices in the civilization to keep usgoing. We get weaker and weaker every
time weekend and weaker every time,but we're still standing and we will continue
to stand. Immigrants didn't destroy Rome. I mean this is I mean I

(43:00):
don't know where you get this real, superficial and understanding of history. Rome
invited immigrants, and out of aposition of strength, Rome was destroyed from
within. One was weakened from within. Rome was destroyed by Christianity. It

(43:27):
was destroyed by its own hedonistic andnihilistic values that weakened it. But Christianity
had a huge role in weakening Rome, and the barbarians the sact Rome were
actually Christians. So it was morenow an internal dispute within the empire,

(43:57):
within a Christian empire. Then itwas us true barbarians from some other place
rejecting Roman values. Roman values wereready gone by the time they were sacked
by time Roman's act. So againI'm not trying to be pollyannish here in

(44:20):
the sense that you know, Westerncivilization cannot disappear. It can. And
the more we fear, the morewe fear the other, the more we
fear, the less West than weare. But if we believe in the
greatness of Western civilization, we shouldbe arguing for its greatness, We should

(44:43):
be promoting its greatness, We shouldbe arguing for its superiority, for its
great for how great it is.And trying to expand its reach, not
build walls around it, and notcower in fear and height in a corner
because we're afraid. M I hadthis dispute with Douglas Murray because Douglas Murray,

(45:13):
you know, an event and rotterdumb. I think I think it
was rotter dumb. But it's eventing, rotter dumb. And Douglas Murray's view
is, yeah, the most ofthem are going to destroy Western civilization.
My view is that's ridiculous. That'sridiculous. The only thing they can destroy
Western civilization is us turning our backson it. And part of the way

(45:37):
to turn our backs on it isin the name of protecting it, retreat
from it, in the name ofdefending it, abandon it. The ideology
that ultimately would destroy wester civilization isVictor Aubon's ideology. It's oh my god,

(46:02):
you know, we have to protectWestern civilization, which means religion.
So we need to do away withliberty and freedom, and we need to
strain and constrain and limit individual freedom, all in the name of family,
nation, and God. The enemyis among us, and it is us.
It is not out there. Andagain, you know, just just

(46:25):
go to. You know, oneof the one of the amazing things is
you go to places in Asia andyou know they're very Western. They're very
Western because human beings. Western civilizationhas attuned to human beings. It's attuned

(46:45):
to human needs. All right.I think I've gone too long on this,
So I don't believe it's fragile.I believe it can go away.
It's suddenly being eroded Western civilization,but it's going to take a lot more
than what they're throwing at it rightnow to get rid of it. It's
not it's not sixteen nineteen. It'snot going to destroy it. It's not

(47:07):
Wokes, woks, just the latestPC. It's it's this is another one
of those cycles and the left's attemptto destroy Western civilization. Now we have
the right wings attempt to destroy Westerncivilization. But I think, I think
ultimately, while we continue to erodeit, it's much less fragile than every

(47:27):
generation seems to think it is.And I look forward to having the same
discussion with you guys in ten years, and hopefully we'll be starting to move
Western civilization in the right direction atthat point, not to the right,
in the right direction. At thatpoint and away from from this fear.

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Fear is going to destroy Western civilizationto a logic extent. All right,
don't forget to ask questions. We'vegot quite a few in the two dollar
to ten dollars range. We needa few more in the twenty to fifty
dollars range, so please jump inwith that, all right. So I

(48:09):
want to address a video that JamesJames sent me. James G who often
asks questions here and a is asuper Chat regular super Chat contributor, and
he sent me a video to talkabout and some money associated with it.
But I don't see James here unfortunately. And James, yeah, so again

(48:34):
he's a regular on the super Chat, particularly on the news beeping. But
what he sent me is a videoof a young guy in the UK discussing
the differences in tax regime between theUnited States and the UK and kind of
bemoaning the fact that the US systemseems to be a lot more fair than
the system in the UK. He'sobviously from the UK. He feels like

(48:55):
he's being screwed by a tax systemthat is more that is less fair than
than the US system. Your systemsees to be more fair. Why is
the yours. So so first let'ssay why he thinks that your system is
more fair. I mean, letme just say, I'm not showing the
video because the video is I mean, it's a pretty bad video. The

(49:17):
video is so full of errors,factual errors, just a complete understanding economics.
I'm sorderstanding with the tax system.I miss understanding hard work, certainly
a miss understanding of the US system. It completes. So I'd have to
comment on every two seconds of itbecause it's all wrong. Everything pretty much
is wrong. But his argument isthe US taxes wealth much more than the

(49:42):
UK. The UK focuses on taxingincome, and taxing wealth is more fair
than taxing income. Now, solet me just say, first of all,
that's a bizarre interpretation of fairness.Taxation is not fair period. Taxation
is you know, by you know, direct extrapolation. Taxation is theft,

(50:07):
and there was no when you're whenyou're taking somebody's stuff, there's no fairness
involved. There's no fair way totake somebody else's stuff, and you're taking
it by force, and you're notproviding him a value in return, or
the value is very distant. You'retaking much more than the value of providing
is worth national defense and police,right, but you're taking a lot more

(50:31):
than just that. So so thewhole idea of fairness is wrong. But
also this view that America taxes wealthand the UK does not, I think
it's flawed. And his main argumentabout that is that the United States taxes

(50:51):
property tax, has property taxes,and the UK doesn't. Which the UK
has kind of something called the counciltax. But a council tax is not
linked directly to the value of propertyand doesn't go up at infiniteim in terms
of its level. Now, whyis it fair to tax my property?
Notice that property taxes are double tax. I earned income on which which was

(51:17):
taxed. I accumulated it, boughtsome property a house with after tax dollars,
and now it's going to be taxedagain because I used that money to
buy a house. If I usedthat money to buy stocks, wouldn't be
taxed. If I used that moneyto buy stuff, Well, there's sales

(51:40):
tax, but you know, butthere's sales tax, another double tax.
Right, not every state has asales tax. I'm stays Stone have sales
tax. So property is double taxation. It's nothing fair, good, decent
any respect around that, so it'sirrelevant. And notice that property taxes in

(52:09):
the United States are done by localgovernment, almost all to funded education.
It's how most school districts are fundedis through property taxes. That doesn't justify
it. It's an immol tax.It's wrong. It's basically a violation of
our property property rights. I mean, you don't really own property in the

(52:30):
US, you're renting it from thegovernment. And the best illustration is status
trying not paying it. The UKof course, has that, which is
much higher than sales tax, whichis another form of dabl taxation. So
it's terrible. Generally, taxes inEurope are worse than in the US,

(52:52):
but that's primarily because they're higher andthey encompass more things. But this guy
is advocating for now a property taxin the UK to make the UK better
somehow. And then when he talksabout when he talks about income taxes,
he says they're higher in the UK, which is true, but they're not

(53:14):
that much higher in the UK whenyou take into account the fact that the
United States, who has to paystate income taxes, not not everywhere,
but if you take an account state, local and federal taxes, they're not
that much higher in Europe. Suddenly, not if you live in New York,
in California, or in New YorkCity. Maybe if you live in

(53:34):
Florida, then you only pay thefederal taxes, and those are lower.
But again, if you live instates that have state income taxes, you're
not paying less. And of coursestates that have lower or zero state income
tax often have higher property tax,which is another form of double taxation,
which seems unbelievably unfair. His whole, by the way, his whole context

(53:59):
of fitness is tax the rich.That's fair. Right, It's a tax
property, that's fair. And thenhe talks about the inheritance tax and the
fact that in England, even thoughthey have it's hamance attacks, rich people
can get around it and and uhand avoid it because I guess they don't
pay inheritance tax on property. Butthat's true in the US. I mean,

(54:23):
wealthy people create trusts and states andall kinds of mechanisms by which they
avoid paying inheritance taxes, inhibitant taxes, primility effect upper middle class and small
businesses more than anybody else, andthey get hammered by them, and state
taxes awful again, another phone ofdouble taxation. You've paid income tax,

(54:45):
you paid property tax, and nowyou pay an inheritance tax. Three ways
of taxation. So anyway I'm sitting, the video is just it's just full
of everything about that video is wrong. And there is no fair tax system.
I mean, there are ways tocreate one that is better economically,

(55:07):
the ways to create a tax systemthat is in some sense fairer in the
sense that it doesn't tach reach peoplemore. See I think any tax system
and texts reach people more than everybodyelse is unfair. So a flat tax
is fairer in quotes than a thana progressive tax, A consumption tax is

(55:30):
quote fairer than other tax other formsof taxation, and better economically. But
the examples this guy gives in thevideo, none of them. None of
them are fair, none of themare right, none of them make any

(55:51):
sense. And the comparisons just justjust don't don't add up. They don't
add up. All right, Sleep, We've got a couple of quick reviews
and then we'll go to your questions, and Peo, please feel free to
ask questions. I mean, Iknow a lot of you had comments about
my stuff on Western civilization, andhow bad Europe is about bad? This

(56:14):
is how bad that is? Askme a question, challenge me in the
super chat. That's the best waybecause there I actually respond directly to what
you're writing. I can't follow thechat while I'm speaking to be able to
completely to completely respond. You know, some people have already asked about that
topic. But use the opportunity.You know, again, you can do

(56:36):
it at five dollars or two dollars. In some cases, ideally you do
it at twenty dollars. But yeah, use the super chat. Use it
as an opportunity to challenge me,question me, contradict me, and ask
me questions. All right, coupleof a couple of one is a song?
This is John Glue Who's I guessnot here, but John asked me

(56:59):
to review the song Dead by theMight the might they might be giants.
They might be giants, which isthe band and the song is dead.
So this is this is a songthat's uh. It's got a very whimsical,
whimsical harmony melody. It doesn't havemuch of a melody, but it's

(57:20):
it's it's it's very whimsical. It'slight, lighthearted in the woods the way
it's sung kind of is whimsical,but the content is pretty serious and depressing.
It's about dying without taking having theopportunity to actually live. It's about
not taking full advantage of the lifethat you have. It's about the missed

(57:42):
opportunities that so many people experience intheir lives. And it really is focused
on and how terrible it is tohave those missed opportunities. But it doesn't
give you any hope. It's notpresenting that as go live, go take
advantage. It's just a how howawful that I expired before I had a

(58:05):
chance to really live. So Ifind that the lyrics depressing and not they're
not inspiring, and they're not particularlyI don't think the particularly clever. But
what I really didn't like about thesong and I don't like the song is
sorry you guys, I know Idon't like a lot of the music you
send me is the actual music.It's I find it doll and boring and

(58:30):
repetitive. And there's some harmonies,some interesting harmonies they attempt to some interesting
harmonies, but but not that Imean, not that interesting, not that
original. I found it mainly boringand the music, the lyrics somewhat interesting
because you're trying to figure out whatare they talking about. But they're pretty

(58:52):
depressing with no no hope, uhand no upside, just just everything it's
bad. So the music is justnot good. Six Nuns good. This
is the song dead by the Theymight be giants. I mean, they
have nice voices. This Harmony Day. You could sell that this group probably

(59:15):
has some good songs, but thisone is not one I liked. So
sorry John, all Right. Finally, I mean I was asked, I
think we're true shots, but maybeit was somebody else to review the episode
in the Last of Us. Idon't know if you guys saw the Last

(59:35):
of Us on HBO what used tobe HBO now it's called Max And this
is episode three in the Last ofUs. And you know, the Last
of Us was a I thought avery good show. I think episode three
is one of the best episodes inthe show. And but the show generally

(59:58):
I thought was excellent, and Ithink What May did a particularly good show,
and the final episode, the finalepisode of the show was very controversial.
But I think what makes the showparticularly good and why it rose so
much above I think the video gameitself. This is a show based on
a video game. And why mostcritics said that it was better than a

(01:00:21):
video game. And I don't knowif it's better than a video game because
I don't play video games, butthose of you who do probably know this
game is that the show was veryfocused on characters. It was very focused
on the stories of people. Thechoices individual people made an asode made it

(01:00:45):
powerful, the good choices, thebad choices. Always, the focus was
on the characters, love them,hate them? Now, remember this as
a post apocalyptic movie about zombies.Yeah, it's a zombie movie. It's

(01:01:05):
only zombie TV series I've ever watched, actually, and I watched it because
the characters were really interesting from thebeginning, and the zombies, except for
a few episodes, don't play thatbig of a role in the movie.
They kind of move elements of theplot alone. They create the circumstances.
But what's really the focus is onwhat happens to these characters. How did

(01:01:27):
they respond to these events, howdid they live their lives given the circumstances
that they're embed Embedded in Embedded in. Episode three is a good example of
this. Episode three is about aguy who is a survivalist. So when
this post acopolyptic thing happens, ina sense, he is ready, is

(01:01:51):
the only person who survives in hisneighborhood. He immediately builds a fence around
the neighborhood, protects that fence,puts you know, electrified, is it?
He has a can try if it'sa generator. He produces electricity.
Somehow, he manages to produce electricity. He grows his own food. He's
got a massive pile of weapons thathe has stacked, you know, for

(01:02:15):
a long time, and he hasbasically has isolated himself in this place.
He is going to survive. He'sa survivalist. He's ready, and this
post apocalyptic thing is not going totouch him. But it's kind of sad
because he is alone in this thing. And he interacts a little bit with
people who pass through this and hetrades with them, but many of them

(01:02:37):
are cooks and robbers and want tosteal from him, and he he fights
them off. He kills them ifhe's necessary, and he fights them off
anyway. At some point he encountersthis other man and he invites him in.
He invites him in, and youknow, I'm not gonna get into
all the details, but basically whatthey discover is they discover that they that

(01:03:00):
they are both gay, and thatthey both like each other. And the
rest of the episode is like thelife is about the life they built together,
and it's this It really is quitebeautiful. It's you know, here
two people who thought they were goingto be alone for the rest of their

(01:03:22):
lives. They're living in a postapocalyptic world. They're living in a world
where pursuit of values is almost impossible. Talk about the collapse of Western civilization.
This is there is no civilization,it's gone. People want to kill
them. On the outside. Thereare a few people here and there they
interact with and can trade with.Generally, they don't trust anybody. They

(01:03:44):
can't trust anybody. It's just them. And yet this episode, with the
episode illustrates is how the two ofthem, you know, kind of build
a life and create a life togetherthat is loving and beautiful and values oriented
to the extent that the pursuit ofvalues is possible within the constraints that are

(01:04:06):
being created from the outside world.And it's a beautiful, touching love story.
And it's a beautiful, touching lovestory in the context of you can
still pursue values even when the worldaround you is falling apart. And I
say this to you, guys,where the world is not falling apart.

(01:04:27):
We do not have zombies running aroundin the streets. The population of the
earth is not a tiny fraction maybeone percent or less of what it was
in the past. The Western civilizationis not completely collapsed. Values are attainable,
and it so many people do lessin pursuit of their own personal values.
That needs to guys in the middleof a completely destroyed world. They

(01:04:54):
listen to music, they take walks, they do wonderful fun things together.
They enjoy each other, and theysustain their life. They look in or
that they grow their vegetables, theygo hunting, They do the things that
are necessary, you know, tosustain their life. And at the end

(01:05:15):
one of them is gravely ill andit's slowly deteriorating. And of course they
don't medicine. The hospitals and theysustain him as much as they can.
And then he says, and Ithought this was super beautiful, and I
mean and and right, he says, Look, you know, I'm just
a burden on you. I'm notenjoying my life anymore. Life is it's

(01:05:39):
too much pain. It's just notenjoyable. I want to die. And
it's a case of assistant to side. So he gets commits to say,
and his partner in this situation says, look, if you're gonna die,
I don't want to live alone.This world is it's a dead end.

(01:06:00):
It's finished. It's I'm not gonnafind anybody else, you know, And
and there's nothing else out there forme and the values of values we share
together, and I don't want tocontinue living. And what happens is that
they both commit suicide together and theydie, and it's just it's a beautiful
story oriented entirely around living, aboutbeing alive. I guess it's controversial because

(01:06:26):
they gay, but it's it's twohuman beings making the best of the circumstances
they have and then getting to thepoint where it's possible, not possible anymore
to make it the best, it'snot possible anymore to live as a human
being, to pursue values as ahuman being, and thefore they both commit

(01:06:47):
suicide, and again, beautiful touching. It's episodes like that that made The
Last of Us a good show.A good show. I don't think it
was a down at all. It'sa real upper because it shows what is
possible. It shows what is possible, and it certainly shows what is possible

(01:07:11):
to us where we don't live ina zombie apocalypse. So many people out
there are so down, are sopessimistic, are so concerned. But the
reality is Muslims are not taking overthe West anytime soon, and the Left

(01:07:32):
is not destroying all your job opportunitiesanytime soon. And as much as I
complain about the theocratic right, Americais not going to become a theocracy anytime
soon. Oh, Donald Trump mightbecome president. That is something to be
worried about, because that accelerates allthe negative trends. But stop being so

(01:07:57):
depressed, stop being so down,stop being so committed to your own misery,
Stop being so focused on all thethings you cannot do, Stop focusing
on what you think is missing andall the dangers they had, and focus
on living the best damn life youcan live. Focus on being the best
human being you can live. Focuson finding a soul made, focus on

(01:08:21):
finding a career, focus on findinga life worth living, and live it.
Don't let woke cause you to selfsense and live a different life.
Don't let the right abandon your individualismand your reason, don't let Muslims intimidate

(01:08:45):
you. Live. There's a millionways in which you can live and live
a great life in this world,in this world right now. And every
minute you waste and dwelling about Ohmy god, these bad things are happening
in the world, there's a minuteyou're not living. It's a minute you're

(01:09:10):
not engaging. It's a minute you'renot pursuing your values. And your values
can still be pursued. Your valuesare still attainable. So stop being such
complainers, so focused on politics,so focused on stuff that's outside of your

(01:09:31):
control, and go live. Livewith a capital hell, enjoy life,
Embrace life. There's so many thingsthat are in your control. There's so
many values available to you right now. There's so many benefits that this world

(01:09:51):
has. Go take advantage of theminstead of being miserable again about things you're
probably not gonna be able to control. And unfortunately, your misery causes you
often to embrace politicians, ideologies solutionsthan are actually gonna make it worse,

(01:10:13):
not better. I'd rather you disengagewith politics completely than allign yourself with some
of the people that some of youalign yourself with, who are only going
to accelerate whatever decline. The Westis experiencing live capital l It's what it's
about. Remember, we're about me, my, We're selfish, we're about

(01:10:40):
ourselves. So focus on you,the nation, the politics that's secondary,
that's secondary. Make your life thebest life that it can be. And
then when you spit time, ifyou have some stuff, maybe you can

(01:11:00):
make you can make a difference inthe political world. So yeah, God,
go out there, find a girlfriend, Stop dwelling about Muslims, Go
listen to some great music, startdwelling about woke. Go get a fantastic

(01:11:24):
career. And as Shaw's BT saysfamous line, don't forget to eat the
strawberries or blackberries or blueberries or whateverberries you like. Right, pursuit truth.
Pursuit beauty, right, truth andbeauty that you can still do.

(01:11:51):
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(01:13:18):
YouTube. I think a second warningand they drop you. I don't know,
but anyway, there is a possibilitythat your on book show just disappears,
at least from YouTube. That ispossible, and it's pretty hysterical.
Why am under warning from YouTube again? Right? This is the second time
I've been under warning. They wereattracted the warning the last time, and

(01:13:42):
the warning this time is because ofmy criticism of what RFK had to say
about the COVID vaccines. I mean, it's literally the short video I did
with RFK about RFK and the endthe vaccines where I defend vaccines. I
defend vaccines, and they're claiming I'mgoing against community standards that because I am

(01:14:04):
providing misinformation about the about the aboutCOVID and the vaccinations. And yet now
you remember the last time this happened, it was an Amish adulge. It
was on the show, and theywanted to ban that episode because it was

(01:14:25):
providing quote, misinformation, and Amishis like one of their experts about COVID
and he had a right to themand say go listen to this, and
they had to attract that one I'mhoping they attract this. I appealed and
it rejected my appeal, so I'mdoing a second appeal and we'll see what

(01:14:45):
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YouTube. YouTube gives me. OnYouTube has been great to me. YouTube
is fantastic and it is giving meall these opportunities plus everything once smoothly.
On YouTube. Everything works except forthis COVID thing where they misinterpreted what I
say. But I talk about COVIDenough that it's quite possible that I'll get

(01:15:10):
that third strike and I'm out sobe where. I'm still hoping that they
will come back and they will retractthis warning soon. But it is a
little ridiculous that and it just showsin a sense, it shows how well.
It just shows how pathetic this is. Even on appeal, supposed to

(01:15:33):
be a human being listened to it. They can differentiate between what they perceive
as okay speech and what is notokay, because hey, I'm conventional when
it comes to the COVID vaccines.One of the few things in life I'm
conventional on actually think the COVID vaccinesare good and the boosters are good for

(01:15:55):
the right people, but God,And yet here we are they are rejecting
it somehow. All right, they'retaking off his k side. You think
he would be the one they werekicking out, not me. All right,
thank you. We passed the halfwaymarks, so we got three and

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twenty dollars to go. So gofor it, guys, we can make
it. Let's see. Ryan says, I love the critique of Knowles.
Please do more. You kept askingwhy do all of his molls? Why
do all of his assertions? Iguess why does he just assert them while
he has no answer. I thinkif he was pressed hot enough, they

(01:16:39):
would have to admit because the pieis fixed dark Age's mentality thoughts. Yeah,
I mean I think a lot ofit is kind of a fixed pie.
But I think more importantly, hismal assertions come from tradition, revelation.
He is. I don't think hewould be embarrassed to say, I
know this is true because that's whatGod says. How do you know what

(01:17:01):
God says because it's in It's innow tradition, it's in the book.
And I say, well, myGod said different. That wouldn't bother him.
His God is the right God,and his God is that he knows.
Truth is knowable through God, andthere's no embarrassment, there's no challenge

(01:17:23):
there. That's just it spooky andscary. And so knowledge, in a
sense, this is your or someis a fixed pie. Knowledge is written
in some ancient book. Knowledge iscommunicated to some unique individuals who have that
capacity. That's it. That's whatknowledge is. And therefore you don't need

(01:17:50):
more justification than to say God saidit or it was revealed to me a
really really smart people. If you'resaying this for two thousand years, it
must be true. You don't needmore than that. Yeah, Roberts says,

(01:18:16):
a fender was doing an online trainingsession and she was punished by the
government, which was of course listeningin because training about the laws, she
had to talk about the laws,and you're really not allowed to talk about
the laws. So that's China.That's that's why it's heading. That's uh,

(01:18:38):
that's the decline of Western civilization.Still holding up, Bailey, but
still holding up. But that's that'sthe direction, and that's what technology allows
these people to do. Right,And of course you're going to be punished.
You're gonna be punished no matter whatyou do, because that's the whole
point of non objective law. Itgives them power over you whether you violate

(01:19:00):
the law or not, because youcan't ever tell if you're violating the or
not. All right, rypn Ox, rip Knox ripnocks first time super chat.
Thank you rip knocks really really appreciateit. Uh, this is this
is great. Thanks for participating.All right. Could bidens plan to price

(01:19:24):
control medication lead to more socialization ofR and D? Yes, there's no
question. So what will happen isas the bidens, you know, set
the bidens. As government socializes moreand more of the of drugs, price
controls on them, drug companies haveless money to invest in R and D.

(01:19:45):
People complain about the lack of innovation. Government says, well, you
know, private business won't do Rand D anymore. We don't know why.
You know. Pharmaceudic companies used toinvest a lot of R and D,
but they don't anymore. They're beinggreed, they being selfish. They're
not investing in R and D.So we have to invest more. So
we need to tax you more.We need to restrict pharmaceutical companies even more.

(01:20:09):
You have to tax them even more. So that we can invest in
more R and D now are theseare ready heavily socialized? So much of
basic science today, a majority,vast majority of basic science today is done
by the government. But the morerestrict the ability of a business is to
make a profit, the more restrictability of our business is to innovate and

(01:20:31):
to go in new original directions.The more the more we are moving the
world towards greater socialization of research anddevelopment, which is horrific. Friend Hopper
says, after listening to your booksand others, I have come to hold

(01:20:51):
that the best measure of a currency'shealth is its purchasing power. Is that
an accurate way to think about it? The US dollar seems to be healthiest
at that rate. Yeah, Imean, at the end of the day,
currencies that you know, unhealthy currenciesand courrencies that are losing the purchasing

(01:21:15):
value quickly. That's what inflation does. Look at Zimbabwe, look at Argentina,
and there's no accident that the Libertariannominee for president in Argentina wants to
replace the Argentina pestles with the dollar. Why the dollar, because the dollar
is of all the global currencies outthere, it's the healthiest. It doesn't
mean it's healthy, but it's thehealthiest. I wish he would replace the

(01:21:43):
Argentina pestle with some kind of goldstandard, but that's he's afraid of that
and maybe too radical for him,or maybe he's not a believe in the
gold standard. I don't know,but you know that would be better.
Better dollar is a big improvement overthe pace. So so yeah, the
purchasing power and the stability of thatpurchasing power are key. Andrew says,

(01:22:09):
a country self esteem depends on itsrecognizing individual rights. A country self esteem
depends on its recognizing individual rights.Absolutely. The West values individualism implicitly,
but increasingly rejects it explicitly. Howdoes that contradiction affect your view of the
West survival? Well, yes,I mean, of course that contradiction exists,

(01:22:30):
and it continues constantly. I stillthink that the West, the erosion
in the West is going to beslow because the reality is that people so
like the benefits of the individualism calledit that's out there, They want to

(01:22:55):
live that life, even though theydon't understand where it comes from these origins,
and they're gonna keep insisting. Andthis is why you know, we
talk about the pendulum going from leftor right, and and the pendulum goes
because whenever they really get a sensethat the way that the way they're living
is under real threat, they votethe bastards out. So they're only willing

(01:23:19):
to go so far in, youknow, in letting the enemies of individualism
gain the upper hand and and uhand dominate. Right now, Yeah,
at some point explicit philosophy will winout, but it takes longer, and

(01:23:40):
of course the longer takes the moretime, the better people have to argue
the opposite ideas, whether it's objectivistsor whether it's just better people out there.
And they are better people out therethat are arguing for reason and full
forms of individualism. So you've gotto, you know, you've got to.

(01:24:05):
You can't just look at the explicitphilosophy in a culture at any given
point in time and say, okay, well it's finished, it's doomed.
People have free will, people couldchange. And as long as good philosophy
is still alive, and as longas we have the ability to spread it,
to educate people about it, totalk about it, then there's a

(01:24:26):
chance that things get reversed. AndI think we have that chance, and
I think we have that freedom,and I think we have that's the time,
because I don't think everything's falling offa cliff. I think it's slowly
deteriorating, it's slowly getting worse,but it's not falling off a cliff.
Why not because our intellectuals are sogreat, not because the philosophy is so
great, not because our politicians areso great, but because basically people like

(01:24:53):
the freedoms that they have and they'renot quite ready to give them up,
and implicitly they still embrace. Andwe're in so much better shape than Rome.
I think this is an important pointto make. Rome was always authoritarian.
Suddenly post republic, it was authoritarian. It was very much at the

(01:25:16):
whim of a dictator. Many ofthose dictators, many of them were completely
nuts. Nuts. Think Caligula andNeuro. I mean, they make our
political leaders seem like angels. Incomparison. Rome had no enlightenment to come
before it, and I'd had theGreeks, so it's had it had some.

(01:25:36):
Aristotle definitely had Plato, but Platowas more dominant than Aristotle. Plato
dominated both Roman pagan society and Christianity. And there was no counter there was
no well established uh you know,well established who's the Tillian's fighting for liberty?

(01:26:02):
And if you add to that,if you add to that that there's
Today we have we have a muchbetter understanding of Aristotle, we have much
better understanding of individualism. We havethe Enlightenment, we have the Renaissance,
we have so much more cultural positivecultural baggage, positive cultural context. And

(01:26:23):
Rome also only dominated a small partof the world. There was a completely
defense civilization in China, there wasa completely different civilization. In Persia,
there was gaining ultimately you know,well, in Arabia there was a completely
different civilization, although much of ithad become Christian and some of it was

(01:26:45):
under Roman control. But there wasa whole area was outside of Rome control.
I mean, the world was unknownto the Romans as much as Rome
was a big deal. The UnitedStates of America has more global dominance today

(01:27:06):
and has that for the last twohundred years, in spirit and in wealth
than the Roman Empire ever had.The United States has more influenced and put
aside of the United States, Westerncivilization has more influenced on the world today
than Rome did. Western civilization ismore outshoots all over the world than Rome

(01:27:28):
ever had. Western civilization is fundamentallyfree. Individuals are mostly free. Nobody
in Rome was free. We areso much richer, we know so much
more about the world. Like takeengineering knowledge. In Rome, they had

(01:27:49):
pretty advanced engineering knowledge, a fewpeople, very small group. And once
Rome felt the engineering law, engineeringwas disappeared. But think about it.
Engineering knowledge in the world today,engineering knowledge that all comes from innovations.
It came out of Western civilization.But we have millions of engineers in the

(01:28:11):
West, tens of millions of nothundreds of millions of engineers in Asia,
in in in India and China andSouth Korea and Taiwan and Indonesia and Malaysia
and every country we have probably millionsof engineers, even in Africa. That

(01:28:33):
is, we're not The civilization isnot exclusive, it's not small. It's
the and the and the fruits ofcivilization, the benefits of civilization, which
primarily in Rome, you know,benefited the wealthy and the and the people

(01:28:55):
associated with Rome itself. But mostpeople under Roman rule didn't know the difference,
say elites and and and and thecitizens of Rome itself, and even
there not clear today the benefits ofcivilization, of Western civilization, are everywhere
all over the world. So totake that away, to see that completely

(01:29:19):
gone, to viscerate that, it'sgonna be really hard because you're affecting everybody's
lives. When Rome fell, thatthe lives of common peasants in Gaul in
the middle of France change much.Now. Instead of Roman Empire, they

(01:29:41):
had a they had a French youknow, Gaulish king also, who came
from somewhere rights one of those Germantribes. They you know, towards the
end of the Roman Empire they willprobably start to become Christian already, and
they stayed Christian because Christian is whateverybody expected them to do. And the

(01:30:06):
Romans were, you know, destroyedall their pagan temples anyway, So what
choice did they have If they weregonna worship of God. It was a
Christian God. But they were stillmassively superstitious and believed in lots of different
things that had nothing to do withChristianity. Nothing in their lives really changed,
maybe warfare a little bit, becausewarfare became more local that that changed

(01:30:28):
dramatically. There wasn't a professional armyanymore. It's every lord you know was
involved. You know, post Rome, the world became more violent, sou.
But if what's the civilization goes thelives of everybody affected, everybody colarly

(01:30:53):
the people who don't who oppose wasthe civilization, everybody's lives becomes worse.
This is a global phenomena with globalreach and global impact. So it's much
different than Rome. It's so muchmore well established, it's so much more
well solidified. It's so much moreAnd yes, we're losing touch with it's

(01:31:17):
the fundamental ideas that made it possible. Some people are, but there's still
a core group that's still holding onto those ideas. Where there's US,
where it's other classical liberals. Maybeit's even people who are not completely committed
to individual rights, but just afragments of it on the left and on
the right that are not ready totrash it all. Yet that helps.

(01:31:40):
I don't think. I don't thinkyou have a real appreciation for how good
life is today and how many freedomsyou enjoy today, and how widespread this
good life is in the world todayrelative to Rome, or relative to three
hundred years ago, relative to evenone hundred and fifty years ago, if
you think globally, or one hundredyears ago or sixty years ago, if

(01:32:02):
you think globally, you know,arguably you could argue that over the last
fifty sixty years, Western civilization hasincreased its influence, not decreased it.
Now China is moving away. SoChina is a defeat in that it's moving
away from progress towards civilization. Butthe rest of Asia, the rest of

(01:32:27):
the world inspired and again, theidea that we should cower before a few
immigrants, The idea that we shouldcower before a few primitive states. They
cower before putin, cower before anybody, is absurd and ridiculous. Ali people
don't know that all don't know thatnot all Muslims are the same. There

(01:32:53):
are tons and tons of different interpretationsof Islam. Not defending the religion,
but treating one billion Muslims as oneunit is not why I agree completely and
viewing Islam kwai Islam is the enemyis I think I'm as a mistake and
I've said so. The enemy wasis a certain form of fundamentalist Islam.

(01:33:14):
It's it's a jihadism, Islamic totalitarianism. However, we want to call it.
But yeah, there's plenty of secularMuslims. There plenty of Muslims who
don't take their religions that seriously.There's plenty of Muslims who are religious but
don't want to inflict that religion onother people. And there plenty of Muslims

(01:33:39):
who'll been westernized almost completely. Someof them even live in the Middle East
and they've been westernized. Now,the sad thing about the Muslim world is
some of it is moving in thewrong direction, is becoming less Western rather
than more Western. Partiately, that'sthe fault of the West. Partially it's
their own fault. But you know, it's a mistake to paint all Muslims

(01:34:01):
the same. It's a mistake toview all immigrants is the same. I
mean, I remember getting an uberride in copen was copening, and and
the uber driver wanted me wanted topick me up in a particular place because
because he was because if he pickedme up right in front of my hotel,

(01:34:23):
the taxi drivers would would go afterhim. So he wanted to be
a little away from the taxis.I went, and then the whole time
he complained about the lack of economicfreedom in Copenhagen in Europe, and you
know, he's telling about about allhis ambitions and about you know, talked
about how, you know, howgreat Uber was and how the taxi drivers

(01:34:45):
and the political cronies were awful.And then he described to me that that
that he wanted to move to theUnited States. The United States was where
the real action was, that's whereliberty was, That's where freedom was.
He didn't want to be regulated,he didn't want to be taxed. He
wanted to be left alone, andhe wanted to pursue his own life,
and he wanted to be successful,and he wanted to achieve stuff. And

(01:35:06):
he was like, God, Iwish I'd met some Europeans like this.
Who was the superdriver. He wasan immigrant for Afghanistan. Afghanistan one of
the most barbaric places in the world. But put an Afghan in Copenhagen and
he becomes westernized. And some ofthem becomes so westernized as they don't like
Europe anymore because it's too authoritarian.I want more people like that, not

(01:35:31):
less. Now I'm not saying allAfghan immigrants are like that. I wish
that were true. Not all ofthem are like that. But the more
we embrace Western values, the morewe stand up for Western values, the
more we articulate Western values, themore we integrate them into our society by
allowing them to work and forcing themto work by not giving them welfare,

(01:35:54):
the more they will become like that. Much of the lack of integrat ra
of Muslim immigrants in Europe is causedby the fact that they can't look,
they can't get a job, andthey're excluded for much of society by the
Europeans. And this is certainly truein France, which puts them in their

(01:36:16):
own neighborhoods, give them their ownjobs, doesn't want to have anything to
do with them, doesn't impose doesn'timpose the rule of law on them,
and gives them wealthare That's not howyou integrate, all right, David,
I think that this is David's firstsuper chet question. I think I saw

(01:36:39):
that. Yes, David, thankyou really appreciate David says. I'm seventeen
years old, and I think manykids my age would be interested in objectivism,
but wouldn't want to read long novelslike Atlas Shrugged and Fountaine It.
What videos of books would I recommendto use them to objectivism. Well,
I do think anthem is not abad introduction, although it only focuses on

(01:37:02):
one elements of objectivism, but Ithink that was most people respond quite positively
to it. Just to introduce themto name Mineman. I think watching some
of Fneman's interviews on YouTube, someof her some really all the interviews she
does on YouTube is a great wayto introduce them to the ideas. She
is so sharp, quick, interesting, a little strange in the way she

(01:37:28):
looks, probably a young person today, but you can't not be affected by
that mind and by those eyes andintrigued by what she has to say,
you know. And then it's amatter of if you don't think they're willing
to actually read a novel, thenit's a matter of getting them to read
some nonfiction essays. But I findnonfiction essays quite hard. But if they

(01:37:53):
can read the vote of selfishness ofcapitalism not known ideal, but again,
those are not easy essays, noteasy essays, right, But I think
her interviews, I think some ofher talks. Lennar Peacock has an introduction
to objectivism video up online, whichI think is pretty good for a young

(01:38:15):
audience. And then you know,there's so much content update today by so
many different people, but you know, you don't want it to water down.
You want the real thing. SoI think I'm Man's essays are the
best way to start, but reallyto the extent that you can get them
intrigued enough to read out the Shruggedthat the fountain Head. There's no better

(01:38:39):
introduction than that, really, nobetter introduction than that. But yeah,
Anthem is great, and the nonfictionis great, and yeah, I mean,
we don't yet have a really reallygreat intro book. I think Don
Watkins has one maybe coming out,But we don't yet have an intro book

(01:39:02):
that you can just send somebody too. We've got a few advanced books.
Yeah, somebody correct me if I'mmissing something. I'm missing a resource.
Oh pa, it's not something youshould read as a first thing. ITI
is not something you should read asthe first thing. Both of those books

(01:39:23):
that are much more advanced. It'sit's now, you know, philosophy,
Who needs it? That's a greatessay. That's a great essay to get
people interested in in her ideas.Philosophy? Who needs it? Right?

(01:39:45):
All right? Richard says, whatmakes adopting objectivism worth the effort. I
think most people would underestimate that effort. Yeah, I mean what makes it
worth the effort is a better life. It's it's you know, living in
harmony with your values, living inharmony with the world around you. It's

(01:40:06):
it's happiness. It's uh, youknow, a much greater commitment to values,
a much better understanding of your values. Yeah, I mean it's worth
the effort because it's going to makeyour life better. It's going to give
you the tools. Objectivism gives youthe tools to understand the world and to

(01:40:28):
understand how to live in it.I'll say it again, it gives you
the tools to understand the world andhow to live in it. And what
could be more valuable than that?How much effort does that require? As
much as necessary? Every other ideologyout there, in some ways undermines your

(01:40:49):
ability to understand the world and suddenlyundermines your ability to live within it.
Because it gives it gives you setsof now, it has elements of truth
in it. Because if they didn'thave elements of truth, then they've they've
died a long time ago. Theyhave just enough to keep you going.
But objectives and because you're consistent truthand doesn't undermine you, doesn't chop your

(01:41:13):
legs off at the knees. Itactually lets you live, live by your
choices, live by your mind,lived by your values, and not feel
guilty about it, and embrace it, and you know, do the best
that you can to flourish within thatcontext. All Right, we're still quite

(01:41:45):
a bit short of our goal.We've got about ninety people watching right now.
I don't know three people by everybody. Three dollars by everybody watching would
get us the way we need tobe. Just think of it as a
value for value. You're listening toshow, which means you value. It's
somewhat I'm providing a value. Let'strade a lot of You've already done that
through the super charts. I thankyou. You can do it through a

(01:42:10):
sticker. You can do through askingmore questions. We've still got time for
more questions, Okay. Ryan saysthe stick is a great way to support
the show. Yes, they are, thanks right. Hauppa Campbell says Western
civilization might not be that fragile.It seems magnificently resilient, given that everyone
is operating under bad ideas. Yes, and everyone's trying to destroy it in

(01:42:31):
some way, whether they know itor not. The bad ideas of antagonistic
to everything about Western civilization. Andyet it survives, and more than survives,
people thrive in it. And again, we can focus on the bad,
we can focus on all the negatives, we can focus on all the
cases where it's bad. But yeah, somebody helping me review a song that'll

(01:42:59):
get us close to target, orbetter, review a TV show that I'll
get us way to the target,and maybe even review a movie that I'll
get us way beyond the target.I promised to do it faster than I
have in the past. I nowmy main the thing. I'm correct me
if if this is wrong, ButI owe you guys the Star Trek shows,

(01:43:20):
Bot is Old Star Trek, anepisode of Stark Trek, and I
owe Mary Bands the her shorts,her novelette. I need, I need
to I still need to read that. And yeah, so that's uh,

(01:43:43):
that's my assignment for hopefully for nextweek. All right, Robert says,
hard to say if it sounds betterthan before without doing a direct comparison,
But it sounds very good, goodgood. I mean I liked the system
much much smaller, I went fromhaving a board and a pre am to
having one box that gives me alot more flexibility than I had before.
So I'm actually pretty excited. I'veonly played with it a little bit.

(01:44:05):
I installed it yesterday. It's calleda rogue cast a duo. Really cool
by road. But as I installedit yesterday, I still have to play
with it. I think I canactually get my phone on there through Bluetooth
and actually take calls on this usespeakers on microphone for the calls, but
also potentially And I wonder what youguys think of this. Here's a question

(01:44:28):
for you guys. What do youguys think of me taking live calls doing
some shows, not every show,but like having a phone number, setting
up a phone number to take callsthrough this setup, and having you not
just do super chet questions, butactually take live calls. How would I
charge you for that? I wonderif there's a mechanism by which I could

(01:44:51):
charge you like I charge for superchets. If anybody has any ideas on
how to do that, maybe wecan Maybe we could do that if there's
value in me taking actual calls.All right, Dan asked what did you
and your family do during the SixDay War in nineteen sixty seven. So
I was six years old and wewere living actually living in London in England

(01:45:16):
at the time. I think wehad arrived in England in nineteen sixty five
or six, maybe sixty six,and we stayed in England for another till
sixty nine. For I rememberid andso I was six years old and we

(01:45:38):
were in London and the world brokeout. My dad volunteer to go back
to Israel and fight. So basically, you know, after a couple of
days where he was trying to figurethis out with the embassy and how to
get back to Israel, and therewas a flight taking Israelis back to Israel
who wanted a volunteer, and actuallyPaul the famous actor musician who did Fiddland

(01:46:03):
the Roof, was on that flight. He was going back to Israel as
well to volunteer, and my dadflew back to Israel. But by the
time he got there, given itwas a Sixth Day War, the war
was almost over. He was sentto the Egyptian Front and he worked in
a field hospital on the Egyptian Frontwhile he was there. One of the

(01:46:26):
stories he tells is the US armywas short on equipment, so they gave
him a pair of Egyptian boots becausewhen the Egyptians, when Israel attacked,
the Egyptians started retreating, they ran, They literally ran. They retreated by
running away, and they took offtheir boots and they ran barefoot. And

(01:46:51):
you you, if you look atphotos people get photos from that war from
the Sinai desert, will see longtrails of boots from where they had run.
So he got Egyptian boots. Anyway, he was there, We were

(01:47:11):
in England. I don't remember muchof that, but I assume my mother
was, you know, fantic becauseagain, phone calls, no cell phones,
line lines were hard, long distancephones and all of that. So
that's where we were in sixty seven. Richard says, thanks for your answer
about the benefits objectivism. I wouldadd realistic cloudy as a benefit. Yeah,

(01:47:33):
clarity, knowledge of right and wrong. There's rampant confusion in the world
today from religion, including woke.Objectivism can cut through the crap. Yeah,
So it gives you a real toolto understand the world out there,
including the ideas that people hold,the politics, the whole thing. It

(01:47:55):
gives you the shop to to understandit and also when used properly, to
figure out who your friends are andwho your enemies are. Too many people
confused those Liam says, when youwere growing up in Israel, did everyone
think America was heaven? No,I don't remember talking much about America.

(01:48:16):
I don't remember. We didn't reallyhave a view of America. I mean,
remember we didn't have television when Iwas young. Now I moved to
America. I lived in America seventyfour to seventy six as a teenager,
and I hated it, hated it, hated in America, hated my experiences
here, did not like Americans,hated the American educational system that I was

(01:48:39):
exposed to eighth to ninth grade.Yeah, did not have a good experience
in America. So no, Imean Israel was very self contained. We
had a great life over there.We thought we had the best life anyway,
And we didn't have television blasting Americato us. And I was a
kid, and yeah, there wasI had no America was not real to

(01:49:02):
me in any kind of way,not like today with the Internet and with
television and everything. So no,I don't think we thought Americas having America
is this amazing place. We alsohave very and this is important, we
were very nationalist. We were trainedand grew up to think that everything was
as well. So I have thispulsion against nationalism, partially because it's evil,

(01:49:28):
but also partially because that's how Igrew up. Ryan says, please
make a customs sound for Michael Knowleswhenever the death of civilization sounds like a
whimper. Yeah. I need.That's part of the things I need to
figure out how this thing works.I have to load up like the beginning
of the show music. I haveto loaned up custom sounds. I have

(01:49:50):
to do different things. Maybe maybewhen somebody gives the first time super chat
I'll have I'll have a little clappingor or something. So, you know,
all to be worked out over thenext few days weeks as I figure
out how this new wonderful tool canbe used to make the show more entertaining.

(01:50:12):
Clark says, do you think thebad guys have opted for a manage
decline because they can't get the abrupt, apocalyptic collapse of Western civilization? No?
I mean, look, I don'tthink the bad guys want the West
to collapse. They want to beable to milk it for all it is
now. Some do, like theradical envitementalists, wanted to collapse. You

(01:50:35):
know, Michael Knowles kind of wantsit because he wants to live in twelve
twenty, but he doesn't really doesDoes he want not to have a YouTube
channel? Does he want not tohave all the material benefits that Western civilization
provides him? So no, noneof them actually want the West to decline,
not explicitly. They might implicitly wantit, but it's not that they're

(01:50:59):
managing it anything. You're giving themway too much credit by thinking they have
a plan. They don't have aplan. There's no master villains sitting somewhere.
Ah, I'm scheming to collapse civilization. And maybe we should do slowly
because we can extract more resources fromit, and maybe we should do it
fast because no, I mean,there's just no master villain, there's no

(01:51:23):
plan. There's no way too muchcredit. This is just the inevitable consequence
of bad ideas. Not that thebad ideas know that this is what they're
leading to. Again, with someexceptions like the radically vibe elists and the
and the and the radical religionists,to know they want a more primitive world,

(01:51:43):
Harpercampbell, Michael Knows give me thoseslick Nick Floenttis vibes. That twelve
twenty clip he did originally came fromNick Foenttis. Really well, Nick Quintis
is beyond the pale. I mean, like I would debate like Michael Knowles,

(01:52:03):
I would not debate Nick Fointis.Nick Quointis is disgusting and horrible.
Michael knows is too, but not. Yeah, there's a certain threshold he's
never crossed, and Nick Quintis isnot serious, He's just he's just disgusting.
I make Mex Turner made that argumenthe was a complete crown clown.

(01:52:28):
Thanks, I am good, allright? About two hundred bucks short guys,
so four bucks, no three buckseach? Anyway, we should be
able to make it shouldn't be thathard. Let's see Sabin just posted capitalism
is good. Starts are good,but developed towards conventionality. Yeah, I

(01:52:50):
think I watched Sabin's Capitalism is Good. I would argue it's conventional from the
beginning. Somebody wanted me to doa maybe it was you, John wanted
me to do a commentary on it. But it's it's it's so conventional.

(01:53:12):
I wonder if if you guys alllisten, if we had to sit through
the whole thing, if that wouldbe too much. So I'll still consider
it, but it's very conventional.I think it's kind of sad. She
gets stuff, but then she missesso much even when she's getting stuff.
That old doodle Bunny were Nazi concentratecamps a Soviet googles google igs basically the

(01:53:33):
same thing, yet the former isviewed as formal and speakable demonic. I
mean, there's a sense in whichthe Nazi concentration camps wars, and that
sense is that it was systematic,it was factory like, it was they
explicit mechanization of death and destruction ofwhole people's. The gulags were, you

(01:54:05):
know, a place where Stalin couldrationalize he was sending his enemies, and
of course he had lots of enemies. And even in the gulags, they
all died, and they were horribleand they were disgusting places, but they
didn't have the systematized death and destruction. He didn't have, you know,
gas chambers. I mean that thatis just a level of industrializing death.

(01:54:33):
It's just horrific, just horrific.So the gulags are evil. The concentration
caps are just a little bit worse, and I can't think of anything more
evil than them. Right, Clarksays, was, while you're up about

(01:54:53):
a good economist, Yes, Ithink he was. I think he makes
a lot of interesting economic observations,even makes some cultural obser as that are
pretty good. But it's when hewhen he when he's a as a political
philosopher and as a moral philosopher,he's awful. Ryan. If everyone here

(01:55:17):
shares the NOS show on X onFacebook, your subscriptions would go up.
Let's make it happen. Yeah,I mean, please share. I've got
those short clips of NOS. Pleaseshare. The more you share, the
more we get exposure, and themore will grow. Tubular Tubster, Tubster,

(01:55:40):
thank you, chubster. Another firsttime super chatter. I think that's
three and one show. There mightbe a record for first time super chatter
is. The lawyer that hired mesaid that I am doing good work,
but that the firm is not ina position to keep me on. Now
I have about four months before Ipassed the ball exam, and then I
can work as a lawyer. ShouldI take gum and benefits thoughts. I

(01:56:05):
mean, I don't think. Idon't think you It's not like I think
you shouldn't take gum and benefits,right, I don't think it's a moral
to take up and benefits. Youpay into them. You're gonna pay a
lot of taxes. As a lawyer, you're gonna fund those benefits and more
right, it really molays a questionwhether you want to take those benefits that

(01:56:26):
this. Would you rather take thosebenefits and find some audience job for the
next four months? You know,what does it due to you psychologically?
Do you want to sit around doingnothing for four months while you accept the
benefits? I suggest you get ajob, find a job somehow now if
you can't get a job, andthen take the benefits. But I just

(01:56:47):
think for your self esteem and foryour own sanity, it's better for you.
But I don't think there's anything morallywrong per se. We're taking the
benefits if you decide that is foryou, giving the circumstances, or if
you can't find a job. ButI definitely think earning, you know,
and if through your own labor,is always better than living off of other

(01:57:11):
people, even though you're gonna payinto it. So it's your money,
it's still it's still psychologically uncomfortable,and then you're not doing anything. It's
it's that good for you, right. Take it to you're young. Don't
you want to go out there anddo something, even if it's something you

(01:57:33):
know? Isn't there something you reallywant to do the some kind of work
you want to do something right,you might want to experience for a few
months before you pass the ball.So I don't think it's imold to do
for period. Just consider whether it'sthe best Opportionnity face again, because you're

(01:57:56):
paying it to the system. Thanks, I'm giving it some thought as I've
paid into them. I'd much preferto work, though, but I have
to study too, so yeah,I get it. I make something I
love about Poland is they embraced shoppingmalls. Yeah, but the whole world
embraces shopping malls. When don't theyembrace shopping malls? I need, in

(01:58:19):
some respects of the whole world isone big shopping mall. Michael says,
you're on. Have you already changedthe world in some small way? Yeah?
I mean I've changed some of you, right to the extent that I've
had an impact on your lives andsome of your lives, I've changed the
world. There's a saying in Judaism, he who saves one individual saves the

(01:58:45):
entire world. There's something like that. It's a kind of a loose translation,
and there's a lot of truth tothat. What is the world if
not individuals? By saving an individual, you saved the world. You saved
the life. A life is aworld. So yes, one mind at
a time, all right, quickly, Jonathan, thank you, Fred Hopper,
thank you. These all people aredoing stickers and helping us get closer

(01:59:09):
to the goal. John Bales,thank you. I'm just scrolling to see
the different stickers. Catherine, thankyou. West fifty dollars really appreciated.
Danny. I think I thanked earlierand it doesn't go any further back.
So those are the stickers. Thankyou guys for the support through stickers.
You can still support the show througha sticker and get us closer to the

(01:59:31):
goal, that would be great.I've only got two questions left, so
we're about to end the show asa two hours in thanks As Douglas Marie
interviewed Bruce Jilly about defending colonialism inWestern Civiliza is Western association in danger of
demise because of the legacy colonies fromEurope. No, I don't think so

(01:59:57):
at all. I think I'm notsure what way that would be. I
think the colonial the colonies whose peopleare emigrating into Western Europe are the ones
who appreciate the values that the Westleft there. They're the ones who are
probably gonna be there, gonna gonnaassimilate in many respects assimilate bass. But

(02:00:21):
uh so, No, I certainlydon't think the colonies or what are undermining
it's it's the it's the it's it'speople who have never been exposed to the
West who are most likely to beundermining anything. All right, apollo zeus.

(02:00:43):
Are we making a dent in theculture? Yes, making lots of
little dents, lots of little dents, Yes, no question about it.
And there's still a lot of goodstuff being produced in this culture. And
there's still a lot of decent intellectualsand people who are not quite willing to
give up on the West and notquite willing to just fold and give in,
but who are interested in willing tofight for the culture. And I

(02:01:05):
don't think you should give up onit. I don't think you should walk
away from it. There's still alot to be done and a lot to
be achieved. We are making dance, We're making more than Danse. Think
about the millions of people who readiron Rand. That has already made a
massive impact on the culture, andit's only going to increase, only going

(02:01:25):
to increase. All right, everybody, have a great rest of your day,
rest of your weekend. Right,and don't forget to like the show
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(02:02:06):
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