01:00 In which room and in which clothes do you watch this show?
03:00 New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West,
https://www.amazon.com/New-Cold-Wars-Invasion-Americas/dp/0593443594
13:00 Stephen Walt: Biden’s Foreign Policy Problem Is Incompetence, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/04/biden-foreign-policy-gaza-ukraine-foreign-policy-incompetence/
20:00 Shut Up Joe Biden, https://newrepublic.com/article/153762/mighty-mouth
25:30 DTG: Slavoj Žižek: When is a shark not a shark?, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/slavoj-zizek-when-is-a-shark-not-a-shark
28:00 Tom Landry’s trick plays were designed to make him look smart, not to win Super Bowls
33:45 Eastern Europeans enjoy irritating people
40:00 Why is everyone on steroids, https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-on-steroids-now
49:40 Zizek is a classic secular guru
50:00 How Zizek is like the streamer Destiny
51:00 Dr Delgado’s anti-White scholarship, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/dr-delgados-anti-white-scholarship
54:00 The Tower and the Sewer, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/20/the-tower-and-the-sewer-why-liberalism-failed-deneen/
1:07:50 What is psychodynamic therapy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6eel0K24MQ
1:10:00 Remember when the intelligence community and the MSM said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation?
Speaker 0: Day. Mate 40 here. So I’m just curious. Did you keep a special room in your home? That you just solely reserve for watching this show?
Or do you put on special garments? For example, do you put on your your Sunday best, when watching this show. You? Right? And have you ever were considered just writing me a letter why you watch the show or let me know what activities you engage in when you watch the show, or they’re there is a particular art that you like to have nearby or are there particular drinks that you like to engage in or are there particular tasks that you like to launch into while watching this show.
I just… I’d like to think that there’s a special room in your home. There’s solely reserve for watching my show. And that there special garments that you put on that would properly accord the solemn of what we’re doing here. Alright I’d like to think that that my soul is connecting with your soul and This kind of sole connection is easier when we make it physical when you have, no, concrete commitments.
And concrete expressions of your devotion to their show such as a particular room in your home or particular works of art, he’d like to have nearby when you’re enjoying this show. I’m reading a new book by David Sang. It’s about the new cold wars. China’s rise, Russia’s invasion, and America struggled to defend the west. There’s at least 04/16/2024, and there was a bit in here that made me chuckle.
Talking about… Ukraine revolution in 20 14, which overt through a democratic elected pro Russia leader. And it was classic Joe Biden. Right? Classic Biden.
And so what do you think is classic Biden? Right, David Sang writes, He inserted himself into a complex dispute half a world away, convinced that his long experience in diplomacy and personal touch. Could make a difference. Like a hostage negotiator, Biden was trying to build a rapport with the pro Russian president of Ukraine Yan covid He didn’t he tried to talk him down to convince him to take a deal that the European Union along with the Russians had broker to guarantee elections by the end of 20 14 and end the crisis. Alright.
So classic Joe Biden, right, sticking himself into complex disputes that are, way out of his Iq level to solve very different from the reactions of a much more intelligent man Right? Barack obama. So for president Obama in 20 14, the urgent question was how to respond to Russia’s move into Crimea as a clear violation of Ukraine sovereignty. But Obama resisted those in his administration such as Victoria New, the Russia Hawk, He was serving as Obama’s assistant secretary of safe, European Eurasian affairs. Alright?
She was pressing him to act. Biden was eager to make Moscow pay in blood and money. Alright, for moving into Crimea back in 20 14. Alright, Obama resisted the effort. Much wiser a man the Joe Biden, Don’t get me into a war with Russia he warned his aids repeatedly.
That first and foremost was his goal, and that should be any American president’s call. Such a war. Would without any be a new conflict with potentially unimaginable consequences for the United States. Alright? It’s a different calculus taking on nuclear arm state.
It would. Become a fundamentally losing battle. And Obama was absolutely right. He told his aides that Russia would always care more about the Ukrainians that Americans would Intervention would have been a violation of the guiding principle of foreign policy that he once boiled down or reporters on Air force 1 into 1 pit phrase. Don’t do stupid shit.
Right. That was Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Fate of Crimea, Obama determined was important, but hardly a court Us security interest. So that nothing to do with Us security, just like the ga and conflict has nothing to do with Us security. Right?
The welfare of Americans is completely unchanged no matter what goes on in the arab israeli conflict. In public, Obama sought to downplay both the geopolitical significance in the impact that Us involvement would have, Ukraine, which is a not Nato country is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia. No matter what we do. Alright. Think about how much wiser Barack Obama was than Jay Biden.
In Belgium less than a week after the annexation of Obama had already made up his mind, this is not another cold war that we’re entering into. Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia leads no block of nations. No global ideology. So Barack. Alright.
Considerably wiser, when it came to foreign policy. Then Jay Biden. Good article here in foreign policy magazine. Americans don’t want a wartime president. This is Mark writing.
If Biden can avoid the temptation to be a worry at defending allies abroad, might have a better chance at winning his battles at times. So foreign policy is 8 99 percent liberal left publication. Right, early on the rarest of occasions they publish anything on the right. So Us president Joe Biden pitches his bid for reelection as a defense of American and democracy itself. Remember for the first 2 years of his reign.
He talked about the great struggle between democracies and auto. Well, he stopped talking that way. But what a a ludicrous conception of Us foreign policy? Right? What a Ludicrous mission to put Us on?
Because there are going to be times when… Right? Auto democracies gain a bit serve American interests. Right? Then a democracy, Alright.
And press 1 in the chat. If you’ve ever rubbed 1 out while watching this show, press 2. If you’ve ever rubbed 1 out to listening. To imagining Rich richard Spencer face. Looking down not you.
Alright. Joe Biden is creating a strategy of portraying himself as a bull of democracy, not just at home, but cross the globe. Alright? He’s supporting Wars Ukraine and the Middle East that are gonna keep grinding on through and past election day. Right?
This is a strategic mistake. Right And and these authors and this publication desperately wants you’re biden to win. Against donald trump. So at a state of the union in March biden and warned that Us democracy is under assault, but He dilute his message by swiftly tying that to attacks on democracy overseas by referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into , a powerful political issue for Americans, it is not. So Biden administration Rhetoric just keeps upping the anti.
And it claims that the war in Ukraine is not simply a regional conflict to the particular historical origin, but as part of a existential global battle between and democracy. Right? He insists un framing things ideological, and he just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Democracy Alright? So when when the author tells the secretary say Anthony lincoln that Joe Biden framing dis distort the central nature of the Russia Ukraine conflict that the ideological framing of versus comes straight from Joe Biden.
So why is Joe Biden waging in international crusade for democracy? Democracy Right? Because he is delusional. Alright? Because he is completely out of touch with reality, he imagine himself and his capabilities is much greater than they are.
And Americans are not eager for their country to act as the sword and shield of democracy overseas. Alright? Americans don’t care about the war in Ukraine. And frankly, they don’t really care that much. About the war in Gaza.
Right? Americans want Washington to avoid escalation into wars overseas. Alright. Ukrainian morale, a momentum is sag. Alright, Putin is reportedly seeking a peace fire, a cease ceasefire.
Right? There’s broad support in the United States and in Europe for a negotiated settlement. Alright? But Joe Biden is still pushing this war forward. Right?
It’s insane. Right. People don’t want Americans don’t want the United States to be so excessively involved overseas at the cost of our well being and at the cost of our finances and the cost of American lives. Right? So there’s no reason for the United States to remain in Nato compared to the reasons for getting out.
Right? United States should place it its priority on keeping China in check. Right? What Israel does versus Hamas? Right, doesn’t affect American welfare.
So I I don’t think Americans should be funding Israel, that I don’t think Americans should be subs Israel, like, Israel should should stand on its own 2 feet. Okay. What the heck going on in the news.
Speaker 1: Much fuel will be focusing on. Political rep retribution of his enemies. I’m.
Speaker 0: Alright. Let’s get a first from Fox.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Jesse Water’s prime time. Tonight.
Speaker 3: He wants to put him all in jail. Who wants to put them before firing squads. He will
Speaker 1: be focusing on political rep retribution of his enemies. I’m concerned for myself I’m concerned for my family.
Speaker 2: The revenge tour, a hoax or not.
Speaker 4: Number 1, they’re wrong. It has to stop.
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Speaker 8: Plus, where’s is Hunter?
Speaker 7: He’s a bad boy. Min hopes alert.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, we have another hoax. Cut off the press from the Biden campaign, quote, Donald Trump confirms plans to jail opponents. Biden is now accusing Donald Trump of doing exactly what he did. Naturally, the campaign coordinated the hoax with the media, We woke up this morning to headlines like these. The New York Times.
Trump vows to prosecute rivals put rule of law on the ballot. Trump vows legal revenge against enemies. Trump wants retribution. That’s dangerous, unlawful and on American. The guy who got thrill up his leg is now getting a chill.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, who wants to put the before firing squads, basically, he wants to put him all in jail. He’s unbelievable the way he talks about his opponents. Tony Trump, That end up rolling the score. I’ve got the Congress. I’ve and I’ve got the Supreme court.
I own it all. I am a dictator.
Speaker 2: Now firing squads, wind did Trump say firing squads. He didn’t. This is what sparked their hoax watch.
Speaker 6: Focus on those that want people to believe that you want retribution. That you will use the system of justice to go after your political
Speaker 4: No number 1, they’re wrong. It has to stop because otherwise, we’re not gonna have a country. Look, when this election is over based on what they’ve done. I would have every right to go after them, we can’t have this stuff go on. Because, what?
When Biden goes out, everyone says bye bye, and then he gets indicted 2 days later and they go after him. The the country doesn’t want that. And what they didn’t wanna…
Speaker 0: Okay. Steven W rights here in foreign policy magazine. Biden foreign policy problem is… Incompetence, Us military collapse pierre in Gaza is symbolic of a much bigger issue. Right?
So we have spent 300000000 dollars. Right. Talk about an expensive P stunt, building a peer to send aid to people in Gaza. Alright. And we’ve managed to deliver 60 truckload of aid before rough seas damage the structure and aid deliveries had to be suspended.
Right? So we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this peer that that doesn’t even work. Right? But it it’s part of a larger problem of Us incompetence in our overseas Intervention. Right?
19 sixties and seventies. Right, Smart people understood that South Vietnam had no intrinsic strategic value. And yet our leaders insisted that we couldn’t withdraw short of victory because it cast out on our staying power and undermine our credibility and encourage our allies around the world, Right? To side with with a communist, but that’s completely bogus. American power, does not depend upon pronounce and interventions overseas.
Alright. American power depends upon its economy and its military. We spend more on defense than every other country in the world. Put together. Right?
So there’s a fetish of of credibility with people who want some highly intervention foreign policy. Right? And and our dominant foreign policy establishment, that’s embodied by eds like J biden. Right? Believe that if we simply try hard enough, we can meet any goal.
But people who live there, like Iraq Yeah, Afghanistan. Gaza. Alright? They’re gonna have far more to say, and they’re gonna have far more consequential actions with regard to their home than anything that we can do. Right?
So seeing credibility and influence only as a matter of will, overlook another ingredient, which is more important, and that is competence. Josh joshua Rand says my perfectly reasonable quarter prayer was censored from the chat. Hate brothers absolutely hate this site with all my being. Prayer If the main institutions charged with conducting American foreign relations, national security council, the Department of State defense. Treasury commerce, intelligence services.
Various congressional committees are not very competent. Right all the will in the world will not convince others to take our advice, so Think about the Berlin Air left in 19 48. Alright? It’s a clear signal of Western resolve, but it would have backfired if the United States and partners would not have been after pull off. The Berlin air left.
Right? We were able to undergo this complicated logistical effort we’re able to send man to the moon when we’re much for trusting and cohesive and homogeneous society. Right? When we restricted immigration 19 24 We launched 4 decades of unparalleled, American success, American dominance, American prosperity, American military might, and american technological breakthroughs. Right?
Where we’re more cohesive more trusting, society and we just cut off immigration. Since 19 64, we’ve turned the taps up on immigration, tens of millions of people are flooded in here, As a result, we have considerably diminished quality of life, much less social trust and social cohesion. Alright We can’t fulfill the lofty goals that we usually set for ourself in in foreign policy, like we lose every war since Vietnam. Unless it’s with some total loser state. Right.
We have these lofty plans and Nothing tends to come from them. Josh randall text me. Boycott, Youtube Bro. At it’s says Satan. Right.
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Right? Speak freely on kick. So 5 different outlets that you can speak freely on when I I stream this show. Alright. We have taken all these steps to create AA2 state solution to the arab israeli conflict, which is never worked out.
We accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Be grade in a clumsy and avoid war over kosovo in 19 99. We had all the policy, errors and intelligence failures enabled the 09:11 attacks. So that’s a little bit like Israel on October seventh. Like, Israel was incredibly incompetent. If they’d be incompetent, they could have slashed the Hamas invasion and just Slaughtered the Hamas invaders, but Israel is incompetent.
As a result, 1200 Israelis died. And, what? Dozens, if not hundreds of those Israelis were killed by quote unquote friendly fire. It took the Id 3 days to repel. The Hamas Invaders.
Hamas Invaders got… Halfway to the West Bank. And so in their response, right, the Id was incredibly incompetent, like slaughtering at dozens of Israelis while trying to fight back Hamas. If Israel has simply defended itself confidently, they wouldn’t have been dragged into this In Gaza. And so forget about the 35000 dead gaza, and the hundreds of dead Israelis.
Right? It israel would not be sunk in an absolute in Gaza, if they’d simply taken care of the border. So to the United States, if they’d simply taken care of the border, Israel Right? Racially profile people getting on planes, right, to to the extent that that is a useful enforcement strategy. And if the United States is simply being competent with regard to these terror threats.
Right? We would not have been prompted. Into those disastrous wars of invading Afghanistan and Iraq. So we’re incompetent defending our own interests, and then we over We get into the 2008 financial crisis. We have all these scandals and collisions at Cs, see involving the Us Navy.
Right? As the Us military becomes more diverse. It simultaneously becomes less competent and less trusting. Right? We’ve got a bloated defense procurement process.
They can’t pass an order, the buyer’s aircraft that are really ready for action. Alright. We we thought that economic sanctions would destroy the Russian economy didn’t happen. Alright. We we encourage Ukraine to engage, in their doom 20 23 counter offensive that killed just thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian.
So now that we’ve got a big crowd, tell me you reserve in a special room in your home for watching this show, where you only enter that room to watch this show and tell me about the special garments that you put on. Right? When you watch this show. Do you dress up in your Sunday best. So what the heck?
Right The Us doesn’t fail at everything, but most of our overseas intervention has just been… Disastrous. And this reminds me of a hugely consequential article that I read back in the fall of 19 86. Started reading the new republic, and I came across this essay titled shut up, senator to Biden, and it was by the Abc National news correspondent of the time Brit hu. Like, whoa, like, it it was amazing to me that a national correspondent for a major network.
Right, could write an article in the new Republic that was so lively, but it was so Ap pro. It was so much fun to read. I’ve never forgotten that article. I could tell you the title of that article over the past 30 years. And it’s always been the prism through which I’ve understood Joe Biden because it works.
It sums him up. Alright Shut up, Senator Biden. The guy is just a murder mouth and has considerable, exaggerated sense of his own competence. So back in 20 20, Brit Hu tweeted. My article on Joe Biden is using about to run for president 33 years ago, which I told him he is a win bag.
He took that with good humor. I think it’s a balanced piece that the editor promoted on the cover with the line shut up senator Biden. I’ve never got this essay. Just left in Dal ball impression. Never got the headline and another…
So New republic article that I remember from this time was the id of Urban life, and then it got rejoin her essay sa the id of rural life, and that theme, I’ve clashed with the Elliot B on this show many times. But Anyway, here are some excerpts from this Brit hu essay in the new republic in 19 86, and it still applies very keenly to Joe Biden. The rhetoric further of his stump speeches and his debating style have earned him the reputation of man whose mouth runs and runs and runs well ahead of his mind. Right. When Joe Biden first learned this article had been commissioned.
Right? He… The senator, Joe Biden and telephone, the editor of chief of the new republic tried to have the assignment called off. When that failed if first refused to sit for an interview, then Ae agreed to an informal chat over coffee, the It says I wanna find out why you don’t like me. Break here remembers this is incredibly awkward and extraordinary conversation.
Biden wants to know. Does Brit Hu harvard deep personal and tip to Jay Biden? No. That what is it you don’t like, Joe Biden Nas, Senator came the reluctant reply I think you’re a wind bag. Biden seemed greatly relieved.
He laughed. And he said, yeah, There’s truth to it, and he agreed to cooperate fully. So Joe Biden has long had a reputation among reporters for enjoying the sound of his own voice. Right? When…
He was at the confirmation hearing of Alexander Hay hague a secretary state, Biden took his entire first time 10 minutes to ask A single question when he was finished, nobody knew what the question was. Right? Everybody laughed, including Joe Biden, Another foreign relations hearing, he went on at such length late in a long session, the broadcast correspondence at the press table fashioned a white flag from an napkin, and a microphone pole and waved it in the air. So reminded of the incident back in 19 86 Biden and said he knew he had a tendency to go on too long, but he had now curb it. Right?
So all those character flaws that you believed you’ve curb in all likelihood you haven’t. Right? Joe Biden completely delusional thinking. Back in 19 86 that he curb his character for being the win bag. Right, Joe Biden thinks out loud, and then has difficulty figuring out what he thinks.
And there there are a lot of people like him. And there’s been a growing movement of outrage in the chat that I have not played anything from decoding the guru So their latest edition, they decode s. So Rich richard Spencer talks about Z a lot. So G is 1 of these colorful, , dramatic characters, , constantly seeking attention, who I just find incredibly annoying. He he’s a Marxist.
I I don’t find redeeming quality in him, but this, , rhetoric overstate, And dramatic gestures for attention is just what’s so wearing about most of the people giving pun on the right that Richard Spencer loves Xi because Xi is is a a colorful dramatic personality, much like Richard Spencer are constantly seeking attention like a Nick Or a bench shapiro or Dennis P. Right, constantly using rhetoric overstate to say, look at me. Look at me.
Speaker 9: Have listened to the history of them. The first of the terrible events. Right? And you get in get in hindsight. We look back on the american civil war being, I kind of necessary.
It was devastating, but people look back at it as necessary. And ultimately a good thing.
Speaker 7: What Aaron is asking. Right? Like, if you’re condemn revolutions like during them, of course, terrible and, , causing breakdown of society and stuff but like, aren’t they necessary. At times when, , the societies have gotten like this. And so he there…
If I interpret what he said correctly, it was like kind of, he would condemn Lenin because Lenin also would have led to a rep oppressive regime even if he yeah survived.
Speaker 9: I’ve… Yeah. I’ve read what it I was saying is, like you can’t… You can’t just point the finger at Stalin and say that Stalin High. A regime that was heading towards.
A nice democratic socialist. The egalitarian and free kind of country and was ultimately liberating people because it probably wasn’t headed in that direction. Yeah.
Speaker 7: But So that first answer would seem to be sort of negative. And then the french revolution 1, he moves into this kind of responsibility Exactly.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah. So were those mistakes should that those not happen. Clearly clearly, there’s a place for huge disruptive deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah is, but I think that I’m here simply a better. That the way Ke saw it correctly. No. You have to go through this terrorist moment, which fails, and then the troops struggle begins, will anything good survive from this. Ke saw this very clearly well, he condemned the French terror, but he made it very clear that.
Nonetheless a more liberal democratic order was possible only through that excessive moment. Or to give you another example that I like. I read the book I forget. Which 1 old denial, which deals with this problem in says, even if not actual violence in a at moments of radical emancipation, you at least need a threat of more radical, deadly measures. For example, this guy looks at the in the sixties Martin Luther king for black full black anticipation emancipation the struggles.
And he said Why did Martin Luther more or less? The Na was on succeed. Because behind Him there was a threat of much more violent radical deaths. Look at Mandela. The apartheid we made a deal with him because they were afraid.
There were much more radical blitz waiting.
Speaker 7: This are kinda like then. I mean, it’s not inconsistent necessarily, but he is not switching to endorse the necessity. But wasn’t he before saying v professor?
Speaker 0: I just so tired of this florida. Attention seeking language that seems to be be the mains day of burst of our pun and guru. Right? Flo, attention seeking language. You get it from.
Spencer from Ken Brown, Ben shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Brett Eric Weinstein, Candace Owens. Dennis P. It reminds me of it’s Tom Land, who would always design trick plays for the playoffs because it was really important to him to look very intelligent. So as opposed to Chuck Noel who just wanted to win Super Balls. And 1 4 Super Balls Tom Land, only won 2 Super Bowl.
Now never forget that first drive of the greatest Super Bowl ever, when the sailors defeated the cowboys 35 31 in 19 79. Cowboys got the ball first, and they just drive the ball down the field through their running game alone. Right? They’re just driving, driving, driving on Pittsburgh. It’s the only time.
The only drive in the whole game where they consistently succeed in running the ball on the steelers. And then Tom Land calls in a double reverse. And it’s fumble, the steelers recover and and they go on to to win the game. So, yeah, I I tire this flo attention seeking.
Speaker 7: Mandela, that revolutionary moment is, , it’s just bullshit it. But not nice saying, the threat of violence and populist, , uprisings are a very necessary Part of any, , revitalization or or change. So like it feels. Well I feel like
Speaker 9: he’s he’s he’s doing with the question, but I’m sympathetic to him here because I I feel like it’s a it’s an impossible question. , these these great upheaval and revolutions often, , there there is a seesaw saw effect, , and France ultimately, like, it it’s seesaw from, like of for multiple revolutions of Republics and then another park coming back and then another king coming back. It’s sort of the os isolation even out and it kind of reconciled itself to somewhere, , where it is now, which is not too bad.
Speaker 7: When So I I don’t know much about French Revolution, the history of it. Right? But I know you listen to a lot of about. But Robes Pierre possibly filtered for, , op ovarian and all references. My image is that He is famous.
And, like, a complex historical figure, like, love, I mean, the there’s a magazine called the Jack. Right? Named, after the movement that he would evolve whatnot But also that he was AAA ironic figure that killed a whole bunch of other people that he considered Imp. So like he’s he’s previously a villainous character was the way that I understood as well. But the way that Z talks about.
He kinda present him as a, like, a good guy. And he said, yeah. Yes he did some… , he was a bit, like, heavy handed with a purchase, but fundamentally, if you read this stuff before he died in he was still, like, an. Yeah.
Have a…
Speaker 9: No. Look I’m not I’m not qualified to picture the deferred events about Rob. I am aware that it is… It’s complicated. Right Like he
Speaker 7: said no good guys my guys. I think. Yes.
Speaker 0: So a friend of mine had a dilemma. Came across a bunch of middle aged ban discussing Israel and Gaza predictable norm. Dialogue, consider dropping a bunch of red pills on the conversation then thought better of it and kept a noble silence. Good for your mate.
Speaker 9: Like like they were just some degree idea, and they were putting a lot of people dead on the other hand, they were actually percent. By traders and and and enemies on all sides, and then later on, a lot of the people that were being put to death were the actual nasty people who are abusing their power other people there earlier on, and you could interpreted it as this horrible circular firing squad, but also there was a kind of high minded retribution there too, and I don’t
Speaker 0: that there’s nothing good. About being an ideal. Right? Sometimes an ideal is a good thing. Right frequently and ideal is a bad thing.
Right? Ideals is an extension of other word idea, and sometimes ideas are a force for good and sometimes ideas are a force for for ill. So having superb intentions and and love the ideals. Right? Is just as likely to create disaster as it is to enhance human goodness.
Speaker 9: I know enough about the details of the past judgement character, but they’re just no complicated characters like they were… It’s some ways horrible and in some ways, ideal. And…
Speaker 7: Yeah. That’s… The he… That’s just in nature of if. I was just curious because it’s clear in his commentary that he’s regarding this as a provocative thing that he’s saying.
And it it lined up as being provocative with what I… Vaguely have consumed the right robes here after the future. But III don’t know enough to know if that’s because of the culture war presentation of them.
Speaker 9: I don’t. I think it’s Yeah. He generally like if to read a basic history. He doesn’t come off well. I’m aware that there are more detailed in nuanced kind of alternative readings.
Yeah. I don’t know what the truth is Chris.
Speaker 7: Well, just to meet your point, maybe a bit stronger matt, and paper of z tech. The last… Time that these asked the same question. Because Our understanding is Can respond. Okay.
But let me just be clear what, what you’re say… And the the third time, I think he gets an answer which points to the nuance Eu Amazing.
Speaker 10: We were saying about, you said the 1 hand law and order communists. Yeah.
Speaker 0: But then
Speaker 10: on the other hand, you’re saying that, like, what, implicit within that for me is
Speaker 9: that you basically would amazing discard any possibility of change through revolution, but now you’re saying.
Speaker 5: No No No No I I just think we should judge from gay case. For example, let’s go to the burning literally burning gas. A question today, Come hamas. I was booked out attacks all around Germany really covers.
Speaker 0: Oh, man. I got my time Stamps wrong because he talks in here… What what are the hosts encoding the guru, talks in here about… Haiti and how good it was that Haiti had a revolution. And how wonderful that was.
Well, Haiti revolution was they killed all the whites, the first revolution, and then they asked the whites to come back, and then they slaughtered them all again. And Haiti has been nothing but a hell hall, since they slaughtered all the why under repeated occasions.
Speaker 5: Sorry? For not saying that I un definitely recollect what Ham hamas did. And this was not an empty phrase. Because my israel israeli friends who are left there, close to Palestinians, told me they knew people in that key boots and Ravens. They were the best of…
Speaker 0: This guy just flo. Yeah. But may maybe there’s maybe there’s something in what he saying.
Speaker 9: Let’s And to have everyone nodding alone, but to actually get
Speaker 0: Alright. That’s Matthew Brown.
Speaker 7: And I annoyed these people. But just like heather.
Speaker 9: I don’t wanna I don’t.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Xi, like Richard Spencer, Many other pun. Absolutely glory in annoying people.
Speaker 9: They’re a talk entire of peoples, but I I I’ve I’ve met eastern Europeans. And I’ve met about them. Like to enjoy this. Anyway, he fits he fits with principal in that sense. And, anyway, that is an enjoyable aspect picked of he’s character.
Speaker 0: Whoa. Whoa, racial stereotypes here by Matthew Brown. Aussie. Principal psychologists saying that Eastern Europeans enjoy irritating people.
Speaker 9: But and I think that’s generally a good thing. Right, not to be wanting to make people feel comfortable. And to have everyone nodding long, but to actually give not not to what he thinks, but to give a version of what he thinks that he’s gonna be troubling and and cause the people that he’s talking to to… I don’t know. , I guess, he’s reacted to to react and reflect or, , I been imagine bit more.
Speaker 7: I think it actually is part of his philosophy. Right? That he yes. Will do these trans acts to challenge people to recognize their ideologies, like how it’s functioning. Right?
And he might overdo it. I’m not talking about like, like, these specific examples. I’ve got many more where it’s clear that, like, he records himself as as very provocative, and, , like, he’s constantly mentioning. And it’s a little bit like, , if you want to be mean, you could say it’s a bit like jordan Peterson and weinstein constantly talking about how, , they’re being silenced to cancel, But he’s more playful with it, but he does. It’s actually against some the other.
You’ll constantly say, yeah, I’m not allowed to talk to these people. These people are very annoyed when I said this, and I have many examples that we can move through. Know.
Speaker 9: It is a role that he he likes to, like a I collect likes to around. Yeah. Which is a bit like our other guru, which is, , I keep saying the unacceptable things. I’m disappointed everyone, , I , And it is… And it’s the truth topic, but but it is but it is also a stick And, , it’s that’s maybe.
Speaker 7: But I think where he is a little bit different than some of the guru who do the same poses is like, he does. Go to venues and say things against the dominant ideology of that venue whereas, Mh. Like a brett weinstein thing or whatever, we’ll go to a a header setting. And they’ll just say or an back setting, and they’ll say everything that everybody else there agree. So, like, words he kind of intentionally creates friction in whichever environment he’s in.
But in a playful way. I’ve got really good illustration of this.
Speaker 9: Just before you do, chris, there was something I keep your clips on it, but there was a I topic that’s a favorite of his that I I wanted to ask you about, And 1 of the things he talked about is. Is this idea of trans acts and ceremonies within an ideology. And again, just trying to para very briefly, Z ideas here. The idea is that, I got a a dominant ideology, it is always going to have these aspects to it which are totally trans and inconsistent with its general p. Beliefs and intense, Like, an example would be, , the West is all about, , open markets, and and at promoting freedom and democracy around the world, very much against war and unproductive depression, but it will quite happily, , do drone strike here there and everywhere, and and doesn’t condemn it’s its allies lives in various parts of the world for for un unwanted violence.
And so he he makes a lot of this and, , he talks about, like, he’s rituals and as as a right of admission to various things and and it did… I, I know how much truth like, empirical truth there is to his ideas, but it didn’t maybe think that perhaps the value in someone like These because at least sort of makes you think. I guess 1 of the things that they me.
Speaker 0: Okay. I I just don’t find any value in G, but good article in G q. Why is everyone on steroids now? So let me just play a little bit here.
Speaker 11: Work. He started supplementing with testosterone and eventually fell into what he described as the More better trap. Experimenting with ana antibiotics on top of tea to get huge. Odd things started to happen. Not necessarily bad things, women approached him in the grocery store and squeezed his arm.
At investor conferences, he was mistaken for security. Today, still quite big. He saw insecurity at a lot of users motivations. Think it’s a personality thing. He said, I think a lot of men are attracted to trying to fix a hole in their ego.
Others were chasing a long lost feeling said Jessica C.
Speaker 0: Yeah. So some people get into radical politics, some people get into religion, other people get into steroids. Right? People seek salvation. In in many different to end bizarre ways, but these are all desperate attempts to fill a hole in the soul.
Speaker 11: Runs an integrative medicine practice in Los Angeles. She told me the questions she hears from new patients is often the same. Can you make me feel like I’m 18 again? 1 of the biggest fights I have with patients is men wanting more testosterone? She said.
They abuse it and then they give it to their friends. I cannot tame them. I make them sign a waiver saying if you abuse this outside my office, you’re taken off. This is the 1 area in my whole practice where everything is about compliance. What patients sometimes fail to grasp, she says, is that testosterone doesn’t operate in isolation.
The endo system is similar to an orchestra where hormones work together for balance, not c. She mentioned she also saw a lot of renal issues and men from consuming too much protein and too many supplements. They’re taking crazy amounts of supplements and their kidneys are getting knocked out, researchers in the Netherlands have linked steroid use to left ventricular hypertrophy. And impaired systolic and diastolic function. Steroid use has been connected to mood and anxiety disorders.
In 20 22, the Washington post documented more than 2 dozen body builders who died young. Meanwhile, multiple experts told me there’s a general lack of education around Pet in the medical establishment. The On top of that, there simply isn’t enough good empirical data, extensive medical trials for a typical position to consult, which perhaps leaves the average user. Especially a new optimization focus user roaming around this N wild west, more open to bro science and harm, Reporting this story, I heard gnarly anecdotes of people getting con, guys pinning themselves with bunk ear, and I heard from people with no complaints who love their peptides. Loved their tea.
And I ran into anecdote after anecdote filled with d and pain. What can we expect with normalization, Ideally, we’re education, or accurate information and in a Utopian world, an adult could make an informed decision about using Pet with medical oversight. But right now, unless the laws changed, that’s not the case. 1 night after a series of interviews, I turned to my wife and said, I think this may be the saddest story I’ve ever done. Despite the warnings from doctors, the embrace the Pe is a party that appears to be only growing.
Next year, if organizers prevail in their plans, 1 of the wilder experiments and mobilization will get underway. The enhanced games. The inaugural event is being planned with support from among others.
Speaker 0: Okay. Peter t apparently is funding that. Let me just fast forward that section
Speaker 11: Post injection, he developed large lumps under his skin. I couldn’t go over speed bumps in my car without win. Homemade steroids are a combination of a hormone powder, alcohol, and a carrier oil where the powder gets dissolved and heated into a solution. Nick suspected the drugs he bought weren’t prepared properly. If you don’t cook steroids long enough, they don’t transition from powder in the liquid.
He explained. It means your gear is crashed.
Speaker 0: Do you have you have you have you had friends who cook their own steroids?
Speaker 11: Still, Nick stuck with them and gradually added other compounds. He rattled off some of the drugs he tried during his career with such familiarity. They sounded like underground hardcore bands. Ana, Abel, Mp. At times depending on the compound he was shooting every day, a thousand plus milligrams per week.
Speaker 0: People want these big dramatic external solutions to what’s At core and internal lack of ease with oneself, that then translates into a with other people, which translates into loneliness, and then the more disconnected you get from other people, the more delusional you become and you have to build up some artificial sense of self because your your real self is so disappointing so you get on pe. You or you get into na or you get into religion or you get into radical politics?
Speaker 11: And he grew muscle, lots of it. And he also grew paranoid and felt extremely let outside the gym. And yet, the second you touch a weight you’re a god. I was gaining 20 40 pounds on my bench press every 2 to 3 weeks, it was madness. Meanwhile, 1 of the drugs turned his sweat yellow, also is semen.
The His hairline rec seated and he switched to a Mohawk. This is the progression of body builders, full hair, Mohawk, bald. Plus, he experienced such bad acne. He started going to tan Salon multiple times a week mainly to roast his back. Eventually, Nick started making his own gear.
Partly to save money, but also to make money. A single bottle of steroids cost him about 6 dollars to produce and he could sell it for 50 dollars to 90 dollars. Unfortunately, cooking was easy. The first batch bubble over in the kitchen by that.
Speaker 0: Okay. So people are looking for salvation in a religion. Just age people would find salvation in Christianity. The time of the renaissance, people found salvation in reading. Now some people find salvation in various live communities, but these are all external solutions for what is at core an internal problem and it’s gonna play just a couple more minutes from decoding the guru on.
Speaker 9: It was just about… He’s just gonna be thinking about these trans rituals and just trying think of concrete examples. Is there any, like, to to make it see if there’s some truth to it to me. And maybe think of the the comm in in the catholic church where… Which was always seemed on to me, right?
Because have the situation where that the parisian is all knee down. And and the Barista sticks a little piece of bread away in any each of their mouths which they then that hold is transmitted into the body of Christ, which they then go on to eat. Right? So just on the face of it. Right?
It’s trans in multiple ways. Right? You shouldn’t be eating people. And, , adults sticking food to other people’s mouth, it’s not really. It’s you might feed a baby like that, but it’s not something that you do a person.
And, like, did you think… Like, would you… Like, you’re a scientific sort of scholar of these kinds of things. Do you see some truth in there. That that is of rituals are kind of necessary important to the broader ideology.
I don’t know.
Speaker 7: Yeah. There is a a thing called nominal Rituals, which Victor turner. Was talking about, and it’s it’s a little bit different that concept, but it’s talking about how there’s various thresholds where status is inverted. The lower status individuals are able to mark the higher status and all this. And this serving as like a kind of release of pent up social frustration or, , you need these trans acts in order to solidify social harmony, especially when they’re in, like, quite hierarchical settings, and this kind of.
So that is certainly, I think well tested to, at least in a certain category of rachel’s, but that’s a bit different than this concept I… This is talking about… In the case of, like, the catholic
Speaker 0: So when a Chris Kavanaugh or specialties is why do people engage in group rituals that hurt? Such as fasting among Jews or, , other other rituals that hurt. And the reason is that It creates a strong bond with other people. It feels less alone in the world. So I mean, saw every day with a cold shower.
I don’t look forward to a cold shower, but everything after that cold shower is easier. Right? My my day just gets easier after the first 5 minutes.
Speaker 7: Eu. I think that you could view that as a trans of ritual, but it’s 1 that’s been new. Almost entirely because, like, no there’s an… I mean, there there wasn’t is a theology around that, which justifies it, but it’s also not really taken in any way as a trans act 9. Right?
Like, it’s it’s being ritual to the point of, there’s nobody at a mask like hand going oh. Yeah. Yeah. You. I really the blood of of christ.
Yeah.
Speaker 9: Like, doesn’t have that f on. Right? No III take your point.
Speaker 7: But it it has however, That that point has not escaped the notice of, like, protestant theologian o. Right?
Speaker 9: And I should imagine.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Because the 1 of the issues is, like, I the trans pronunciation doctrine in the… Like, the debates between the different sex of Christianity, like, whether trans pronunciation actually occurs or whether it’s do this in in memory of me. Right? Like, it’s just a ritual enactment of that you just did little last of your suburb.
Right? So… Yeah. It can be a
Speaker 9: bit like, reading meeting into the shock. I think it is is what you’re saying. Yeah. Like, like, like, you maybe be thinking about those trans things. And as a as a like a relieving attention and trisha, like, a good example would be, like, the stereotypical gist in the court of a king Right?
Henry Henry Striking. Know what Mean? He’s the 1 person who’s allowed to be disrespectful. He’s allowed to whatever and everyone has a good laugh and might go too fast sometimes and get his head cut. But, I guess, yeah.
It’s a broad brush that was to reach to them, say that’s the same thing. The as the… Like, keep people probably point to, like, the illegal activities of intelligence agencies or covert military operations in a democratic society is kind of is necessary to the ideology it goes against the audio as necessary, and it it seems like a very different thing, I guess, you might think.
Speaker 7: Well, there’s also, like, there’s, anthropology article Famous 1 by Marvin and Ing. That was talking about military service and the nation’s as operating through blood sacrifice, like it’s legitimacy being achieved by the fact that soldiers are willing to die, Famous for the defense of the nation, and this not being presented as, like, a ritual sacrifice, but it has very many of the elements that that have Right And I think in that respect , it’s all in the way that you free him, things because there is a way in which being capable of having members of your society willing to die to protect. The laws and the rulers of your society can be framed as a a blood sacrifice right, and there are ways that nation states do things, which are trans of their values, but at the same time or potentially reinforcing their power to, like, , project their values.
Speaker 9: Yeah. And that’s my thing. If I mentioned John Peterson saying these things and talking about as being a blood sacrifice and stuff I I’ll be like, no. Like, a simple explanation for the existence of covid military operations and Mi 5 and stuff like that is that it’s like a practical necessity, hypo critical though it might be. To the reported principles.
Speaker 7: But you can… I think you can get more I’d of seen… There are various things that, like nations states and secular institutions do, which are pure pageant or completely hypo critical of the stated values? And, like, the pure pageant thing would be an inauguration ceremony. Why do you have to have that and why you have these rituals performed you have Oath have to be sworn in a specific way.
Right? Like, Obama didn’t say 1 line. Right? And he needed to say it right the next day. And do people think if he didn’t say that exactly right that the power.
Had not transferred. Like, obviously not, but it but vigil was important. So the sad aspect and then there’s the fact that, , various countries the Us chief amongst them who are promoting or democracy in the middle of law, but famously have taken various geopolitical political moves where they’ve supported product regimes when it’s suited their national interests. And you’re like, it… It’s too.
And there are analyses, I think that you can do of that from philosophical points of view or more interpretive things which are compelling. But like you said, I think a lot of it honestly comes down to okay, but are there less flurry interpretations that also fit the evidence and often oftentimes the answer is, Yes. So Yeah. I I guess I don’t know enough of about his trans thing to to see it. But it there certainly are trans effects in terms of inconsistencies.
Right? In. In all societies. That’s ideology. So sure.
Speaker 9: That’s fair. I like that answer That’s good. Okay.
Speaker 7: Well, we’ll move to an example of Z breeding Peppers and
Speaker 5: Who kind need hour.
Speaker 0: Okay. Hundred and 40, that’s 2020 minutes. Alright. Let’s get
Speaker 7: Mix these has the problems which lots of philosophers have. They’re very good at about experiments and, , like, we just heard giving good illustrative examples and making you think through things. But also they’ll really approach things it’s scientific anticipated. But Yeah. This confirming an example…
Speaker 0: Yeah. It does seem like in general philosophers, and primarily go from their own feelings. Right? They don’t pursue things on an evidence basis.
Speaker 7: Well, especially in his cultural, , interpretive stuff is not there. But even he wouldn’t claim him, otherwise, I something. So I I appreciate him for what he is. I like just the inc nature of him. , it’s nothing around us the edge beside Jordan Peterson in the suit.
And he’s he’s clearly a very smart guy. Nothing there. There’s clear depth in him. And, , you can agree or disagree with his positions. But I I think that’s appointed like, he’s perfectly fine with without and he likes, , posing questions of he to me is kind of what by philosophers are supposed to be a anyway.
And Yeah. I don’t take much as issue, even though , it depends which version of his politics, you you land on, But, like, he would certainly not say He’s just a moderate liberal person. Like, I I don’t find him very objection and, like, lots of the things the advocates for. So that makes me. A, A moderate conservative come.
Speaker 9: Here you go. Wim Max is too. , that would be better rather than making him out to be a human.
Speaker 7: Right
Speaker 9: Annoying and frustrating, I think, , just mainly those weeks those waffle weeks That the the cultural criticism and amyloid. Movies in that way. I’m not a huge fan of it. I don’t why people doing it recreational, but I don’t think you can build a force out of those sorts of observations. On the other hand, when I did some reading about philosophy and, , I it’ll seemed kind of fine and relatively interesting.
A lot of time what we got to at the end. Yeah. He’s just guy with Opinions. , he’s doing social commentary doing political commentary. He’s answering questions about what he thinks gonna happen next and what you think about this and, you at the entity gives are like good ones.
So, , I wouldn’t be I wouldn’t be concerned if you’re younger brother with a former was in disease. He’s girl doing…
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, but I think he does come close to fit the secular Oh mode in a whole
Speaker 9: bunch of different ways. The few red flags sorry interrupting, but I’m sure you’ll think of more, but the 1 of the ones was, of course. Making up that everyone hates him but that he’s an icon class that he’s
Speaker 7: Yeah Yeah.
Speaker 9: . And, like, I just haven’t Encountered much He’s kite out there. Like, there’s lot of Destiny hate there. I mean, love
Speaker 7: would He’s someone who came clap.
Speaker 9: But he’s rarely headed by many people. But he… Have you seen any others He’s…
Speaker 7: Kinda Those get controversy from times to time for statements, see me had… Like I seen that. I of him saying the. That be like that’s neat. Anyway like that.
Yeah But I but I think history to say he’s lost my a wide array of people and having Jacob tip justin in a, big begin death article on this new and was, like, , you shouldn’t not take exact seriously. Right? And… It’s a book which is calling for an Easiest atheist Bay or a secular. Chris down or whatever.
So, like, yeah I I think he is more popular than he likes to let on. But, yeah. That’s fine. He likes being and I icon on. That is a part of the secular.
Guru pose, , presenting ideas which are not that revolutionary has been, , dramatic and
Speaker 0: I just find that Tires.
Speaker 7: Significant. But, , these are relatively by notes since. And I think he does have interesting ideas interesting to something novel perspectives. And so, , he’s a he’s an intellectual and he’s cultural and critic and he’s have tony.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I just find him incredibly annoying. Alright. Talking about critical race theory. Doctor Del Ga, Richard Del ga, Mexican American legal scholar in Seattle.
Just paving the way for some kind of racial war
Speaker 12: is embedded in our thought processes and social structures and institutions of society. So only aggressive color, conscious efforts to change the way things are, will do much to media misery. Using this kind of language when every conceivable non nonviolent means, including again, flat out unconstitutional anti white discrimination, has already been attempted and failed to produce Del ga desired power shift indicates that Del gallo probably has force in mind. And nowhere in his book does he say otherwise. Most telling Crt potential for causing anti white violence can be found in Del Ga earlier work, as well as that of other Crt c cofounder like Harvard professor Derek Bell which shows that he has been contemplating this kind of crime for decades, specifically in counter stories published in prestigious law review journals.
Counter stories, a major element of Crt, are either fictional or non fictional deep dives into a minority writer’s own thinking. And or background, which reveals some p societal equity that the biased dominant white narrative supposedly overlook. But often enough, they avoid intellectually rigorous analysis that would not to support the author’s biases and pre. In 1 of Del Ga counter stories, Rodrigo third chronic Rodrigo, a fictional mixed race Black Italian American lost student who Del garner refers to as his alter ego has recently gotten back from a trip to his native Italy and is complaining to Del Ga that civil rights laws are not working because whites think of blacks as beyond love. Del Ga as a man of color sympathetic agrees, and Rodrigo proposes a frightening aggressive solution.
Rodrigo. It’s easier to think of what the new form of coercion would be. It must come from us, not from them, at least initially, I think it would be some form of what your society calls terrorism or sabotage. Surely, the most perceptive among your white friends, know that continued neglect can only cause more violence, more frustration, more uprisings like those in New York and Los Angeles. Del ga.
A few of us have dared to breach that suggestion, but unlike you, we have tenure, Giving consideration to such ideas and then citing them 30 years later is dangerous and irresponsible. Anti white violence is a plausible result of Del ga advocacy of crime, paired with his obsessive and irrational focus on white racism, as a cause of une racial outcomes. And he flat out rejects the obvious possibility that une racial outcomes substantially result from biological differences.
Speaker 0: So please rejoice. I have renewed my subscription to the New York review of books. Terrific essay sa terrific series of essays in the latest issue. 1 is called the tower and the sewer by Mark L, Catholic post liberal think as opposed to modern liberal individual ism, less interest in transforming people’s unhappy lives through the power of the Christian gospel. That jo for political power is the vanguard of a conservative revolution.
Well, people will tend to gravitate towards that which gives them the most power and status. And access to sex with attractive young women. Right? That that tends to be the thing that drives men into public life. Now, liberal is a pretty good system of government in many circumstances.
Alright? This idea that individuals have certain ina ina rights, And it’s the purpose of government to enforce and protect those rights, the declaration of independence, Us constitution. Right? Pretty good documents. Right?
I I think the the general history of the United States has been awesome, However, we replaced effectively the original constitution with the new civil rights constitution starting in the 19 sixties. And we gave away large parts of our freedom to own property and do with it as we will and freedom of Association, and we opened ourselves up to a lit and vengeful society. So white people thought they were doing something sweet and kind and nice and Christian when they support civil rights, but black people in particular thought that civil rights meant that white people were admitting that they were guilty of being horrible. And so white some blacks reacted to civil rights legislation in completely different ways. Once you had the first major civil rights bill passed in 19 65, you then hadn’t huge outbreak in criminal violence that has never fully res seated.
Alright. Great article here, Mark. Later. On an overcast morning, the late 19 eighties, I visited the church across the way from my apartment in in Paris. I was curious.
The Parish was then the headquarters of Archbishop, Marcel Le fever. A schematic opponent, the Vatican 2 reforms, but just being ex communicated by Pope John Paul second. So conservative Catholics from all over the city squeezed into the church on Sundays, here Gregor chance and the try mass resided in Latin, a beautiful forbidden experience. After the service, Number of con gathered in the church’s small courtyard to chat and to leaf through some of the right wing boxer and newspapers that are being laid out on unfolding tables. When I hovered it over 1 of them a young man behind it mentioned a shop, where I could find more books in the same vein.
Remember the thrill of discovering books shops, when I would travel as a kid, the the destination number 1 for me was books shops, and I love to get more of the the just William series Right just William book series. I wanna get more and more of these books. Alright. They they would chronic the adventures with the unruly school boy William Brown, and were published over a period of 50 years. Between 19 22 at 19 70.
I I probably read about 40 of these books, they were written by an English author at Rich moore Cro, So William Brown is a middle class boy of 11, and I just love these books. So wherever we’d go? Alright. I I’d go to bookstores and try to find. Cheap books.
And I Ashamed the 1 thing I did when I didn’t like the price at 1 bookstore, was like 7 dollars 50 for a just William book. I lick my finger and I rubbed out the price, and then I asked the clock for how much the book was. Ugh not… Not a very good sign about my character. So I was 11 years of age at the time.
So this young man tips him off where He can find more right wing books. He, Tears off a scrap of paper write down address tells me the bookstore has no sign as there have been arson and attempts at earlier locations and that I should just knock on the door. So I go. I knock I’m given the once over and then I’m admitted. So I passed through a thick k crimson drape and I discovered a jumble of overs stuff book cases, lining the walls of a big room and turned out there was order in the disorder.
The collection had being laid out chronological, according to the French rights conflicting historical obsession. So the first book case is devoted as the Neo pagan of the N, the new right, which since the 19 sixties has been inspired by the writer in Editor Alain alain D and Benoit. His 19 81 book on being a pagan is considered 1 of its foundational, text. So this group is the most rad if the smallest force on the European right, because it places eden so far back in time that it blames the advent of Christianity to millennia ago for Europe’s relentless decline. Next book case, contains histories ex ex Christianity victory of pagan and pin for the simple harmony of the monastic middle ages.
So if you are not a liberal. Right? If you’re are right of center, then to varying extent you are meet evil in your outlook on life. Right? So as opposed to the modern secular human liberal notion that we can have a buffet identity where we’re buffett.
So if there’s, , das things going on next door that doesn’t have to affect us because we have the individual capability of creating our own meaning and morality in life. So that that’s what it means to have the the Buffett identity, but from a medieval perspective, that is absurd, of course, what’s going on next door affects me. My most cited quote on the Internet is everything we do affects other people. So another part of the medieval outlook is that there are special people and regular people. There are special places and regular places.
Right? There are special rituals that that the world is imbued with the varying degrees of significance. As opposed to the protestant and secular protestantism, which is world culture that we all can overcome, , all material circumstances and develop meaning morality just through the force of our own rational faculties. So next case finds lush volume celebrating the grandeur of the Catholic House of Bourbon. Then you’ve got both cases given over the catastrophe of the French revolution.
You’ve got geographies of the counter revolutionary uprisings. And father down the aisle or the strongly anti German books focused on the Franco Prussian war of 18 70 18 71, which the Germans won, Then after that, you’ve got a book case filled with anti dreyfus side works. Right? All these books proving that even if Alpha dreyfus wasn’t a German agent, Right? Dreyfus was a jew.
Then at least your supporters were. And then next book case you find follow germanic biographies of Nazi J generals like Owen Rom. And books about Heroic Vic collaborators. Right? Then you got another book case on angry books on the French Algeria, which France abandoned ruling Algeria in the 19 sixties.
Then you’ve got memoirs by officers who resisted the French withdrawal from Algeria, and in retribution tried to assassinate French president Charles D Gaul in 19 62. In the last book case contains attacks on the student rebels of May 19 68, who also pointed to ask Charles d gaul, though for different reasons. And then at the end, on the floor, next to the cash register is a wire bin filled with cassettes of racist heavy metal music by bands with German names. So it’s a a movable feast of right wing, thought and music. So the author says here in the New York Review of books has always been more difficult to make sense of the radical right than the radical left.
I I don’t think so. Right, To be on the right, means that your greatest fear is contamination and disorder and that you prefer traditional ways of doing things. As opposed traditional ways of organizing families and communities as opposed to the left which believes in trying innovative new ways of organizing families and as opposed to hierarchy and wants to try new things and the the left biggest fear is ignorance and bigotry. So as opposed to the serious left wing books workshops that catered to active socialist. Right, The right seems held sculpt.
Right You… So on the left, you got Utopian Authors rubbing shoulders with Stalin, and ak with T. He got Devote of the Chairman Mao with interpreter of the wisdom of the Albania leave leader En H. You remember him, that’s 19 seventies things. Right?
So you got Shell vote, to all these different types of post colonial liberation movements. But despite all the intellectual geographic variety, the Right? The authors are aiming the same abstract goal or future of human emancipation into a state of freedom and equality. But was the goal of those on the radical right? That’s harder to discern.
Contemporary life is compared to a half imagined lost world, but that inspires and limits reflection about possible future. So there are many different pause pass that en pause that inspire the militant nostalgia of the various factions of the right. So you might think that the political right is hopeless f. But remember the days of by streaming back in 20 16, 20 17, 20 18, and all the different types of the distant right, we’re talking to each other. Right.
Now it’s possible right now, you can attend right wing conferences and you get speakers to what national conservatives to enamored of the piece of West australia. Isn’t that from the seventeenth century. You’ve got secular populace, enamored of to nineteenth century American President, Andrew Jackson. You’ve got Paleo Catholics, an emmett of the fifth century Christian Church. You’ve got gun lovers, em of the nineteenth century wild west.
You’ve got hawk ne of the twentieth century cohort. You’ve got isolation, em of the America first movement prior to the second world war, and you’ve got acne, young men, waving around thick manifesto by prop preposterous figures known preposterous bigger known as Bronze age per, and they all get along. So, yeah, back in 20 16, 20 17, 20 18, we could all talk to each other on live streams. So why do the various components of the far right or get along? Because they all have these usable paths that serve more as symbolic?
Hi for the right, and is actual models for orient action. So they go in and out of un depending on changes in circumstances, changes in the political and intellectual climate. So the further right 1 goes, the greater conviction there is that a decisive historical break is to blame for both some present that accelerating decline must be met with. Well, something, that’s when things get vague. And that’s absolutely true Right.
The further right you go and people I talk to. The more or more is there a ass absolute loa thing for the present. Right. The the more right wing people are, the more they just cannot stand at our present world and they more and more likely to talk about America as a more rep impressive place than North Korea and other such absurd things. Or downhill after cultivating fire says clear deadly.
Thy rhetoric vague is a powerful political weapon. Right? Jesus, pass revolutionary, he liken the kingdom of god to 11, but a woman took hit in 3 measures of flour till it was all 11. Right not terribly lightning, but not terribly contentious either. Right?
Marx an engels spoke of a post revolutionary communist society where 1 could, hunt in the morning, the afternoon write angry manifesto at night. After that, they let the matter drop. So maintaining vague about the future is what allows people on the American right with completely different views, including completely different views of the past to share an ill sense of common purpose for the future. The So how should we try to understand the radical right today? Well until the election of Donald Trump, generally speaking, people, In the center and on the left, particularly journalists had no interest in embedding in far right groups, Scholars had no interest in engaging seriously with far right ideas and anyone who looked into these matters was greeted with suspicion.
By both their left wing peers and by right wing groups. Today, you’ve got journalists covering many important right wing groups and movements, they do a fairly good job of plumbing the depths of right wing internet charter. Right. But keeping up with the trends is not the same as understanding what they signify signifies so whatsoever so often seems lacking in our reporting is alertness to the psycho of ideological commitments. I remember, at at a friend in orthodox judaism, and I decided in 19 98 that I wanted to go to psychotherapy with her.
She was that a bus at social work. She was a licensed clinical social worker and did therapy. And I asked her what type of therapy do you do, and she said Psycho. So as I understand it, that’s the type of therapy that is most like psycho analysis. And so I work with her on an offer 4 years So what the hell is?
Speaker 8: Seventies, thermodynamics were a hot topic. No pun intended. It explained energy and heat in a way that made sense and it drastically advanced the field of physics. Everybody was talking about it, and everybody wanted a piece of it. And 1 particular scientist that the university of Vienna named ernst Wilhelm von Brook thought to himself.
Well, wait
Speaker 13: a second. If these laws dictate our entire world. That aren’t all living beings, including humans, just bodies of energy that would also abide by these laws,
Speaker 8: Ernst published his theory in 18 74, which was a significant year because it was the same year that he began advising a bright young first year medical student, Albert einstein. I’m just kidding. It’s Sig Freud. Freud really like Von Brooks theory. So he stole it and took it a step further.
He surmise that not only do the laws of thermo thermodynamics applied to the human body. But they also apply to the human psyche. Voila. Psycho theory was born. A lot of early psychologists became founders and dev tease to this theory, including Freud himself and Carl Young, and it became the basis for the first talk therapy techniques, including psycho analysis.
He’s If you’re interested in learning more about psycho analysis, then check out my video for more on that. Around the same time. A boy named Alfred Adler was born to a Jewish grain merchant and his wife. Alfred developed rick at a young age, and was not able to walk until he was 4 years old time his healthy older brother was showered with attention while his mother had very little patience for Alfred needs. At 1 point he developed pneumonia.
And the doctor told his father, your boy is lost, But Alfred beat the odds. He recovered from his a inflection. Bruce strong and became fiercely competitive with his older brother. Little did Alfred know. His illness and sibling rivalry would lead him to develop an entirely new form of mental health treatment.
Psycho therapy. Before we dive in, let’s answer a very important question, What do we mean when we say psycho therapy. Often psycho analysis and psycho therapy are used as interchangeable terms, but they’re quite different. And a lot of people like Anna Freud and Melanie klein develop different flavors of this technique based on different interpretations of the human site but Alfred Adler stands out as the first and most prominent psycho theorist whose impact continues to this day. As such, today, I’ll be focusing on Ad larry.
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Speaker 6: Biden himself from lying directly to you the American people in the weeks leading up to the 20 20 election. And of course, it was censored by Big Tech and the media mob as well, They echoed Joe’s Lai. Take a look.
Speaker 15: There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this is has all the car 4, 5 former heads of the Cia. Both parties. Say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it accept them.
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Speaker 1: Do you believe the recent leak of material allegedly from Hunter computer is part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Speaker 15: From what I’ve read and know, the intelligence community warned the president that Giuliani was being fed this disinformation from the Russians. And we also know that Putin is turned very hard and just spread disinformation about Joe Biden. And so when you put the combination of Russia, Giuliani, the president and together, it’s just what it is. It’s a Smear campaign.
Speaker 0: Yes yes yes.
Speaker 6: Wasn’t just Joe. Here’s the media mob that claimed to be journalist spreading that misinformation lie of of Russian conspiracy theory. By the way, after 3 years of lives and conspiracy theories, why? They did it to help him win an election, and that might be called election in interference. Take a look.
Speaker 16: Does it surprise you at all that this information Rudy Giuliani is pe, very well could be connected to some sort of Russian government disinformation campaign.
Speaker 9: Well, we know that this whole a smear on Joe Biden… Comes from the Kremlin. That’s been clear for a well over a year now.
Speaker 13: To me, this is this classic textbook. Soviet Russian trade craft at work.
Speaker 17: Us authorities are seen. If those emails, we just talked about are connected to an ongoing Russian disinformation effort.
Speaker 9: It is so obviously. A Russian operation.
Speaker 18: Hunter Biden, this laptop that intelligence officials have warned or is likely. Russian disinformation.
Speaker 17: For all we know, these emails are made up or maybe some are real and others are fakes, we don’t know. But we do know that this is a classic example of the right wing media machine.
Speaker 1: It’s broadly known and widely known, Peter that there was a broad range of Russian disinformation back in 20 20.
Speaker 6: It was a time before the election. You’d be banned from Twitter, Facebook, Social media for even sharing the New York post Correct hunter biden laptop story a private message. All of the wink and a nod from what the Fbi that was meeting in the weeks leading up to 20 20 with big tech, the level of…
Speaker 0: Okay. That’s that’s all the heat pawn that you’re you’re gonna get. Alright. So you’ve been good. I gave you a little heat porn.
Now I need you to eat your vegetables. Alright, Back to the New York review of books. I like this description of the psycho dynamics of ideological commitment. So our political and ideological and religious commitments. Alright?
They also have a component that simply resonates in our emotions. The great political novel of the past, Dos, Conrad, Thomas mann, created protagonist who make coherent ideological arguments that other characters engage with seriously. That also reveals something significant about their psychological makeup. Right? He’s authors wrote the way a good psycho and analysts practice their art in the consulting room.
So analysts you not, dismiss the reasons we give for what we feel and believe. Right, these reasons might contain a good deal of truth. They’re just not waiting for a gotcha moment. When our real base motives appear and our stated reasons can be dismissed. Right?
That’s a common excuse for not paying attention to the right in politics. Right? So a good psycho analyst looks at us through 2 different lens. 1 is an inquiring creature is sometimes finds the truth. And second, We are also self deceiving creatures who searches as a woe incomplete revealing the repetitive emotionally charged and often self undermining.
So we need to use the same type of analysis with the leading ideological movements of our time. So sometimes, people say the truth. Sometimes we say the truth. Frequently, however, what we say is incomplete, people if not, lie, emotionally charged and often self undermining. So for the author of this New York review of books, His favorite stream of American right wing thought today is Catholic post liberal, also called common good conservatism.
So the purpose of politics is to increase the common good. The post in post liberal means a rejection of the intellectual foundations of modern. Liberal individual ism. So the focus is not on a narrow set of political principles such as rights, right, the focus of Liberal is on the individual and his rights. Right?
So post liberals by contrast prize autonomy. And they are indifferent to the psychological and social effects of radical individual. Is that true? No. That I think the opposite, Right?
The post liberals think that there’s something more important than the individual, and that is the well being of the people, the group or or the tribe. So the… This right wing outlook is hostile to the notion of natural limits, moral limits to individual action. No. I don’t believe this is correct.
But anyway, Catholic Personally liberals want to establish a more humanitarian vision of the good society? Yes. See, they focus. Of the postal label liberals it’s not on the individual. It’s on the community.
Right? That’s the focus in traditional judaism if not on individuals it’s on the community. So in this catholic post liberal vision, democratic institutions would be subordinate to a superior. Authoritative moral vision of the human good, which for many means the authority of the Catholic church. No.
I I think for post liberals on the right. The highest good is the good of the particular people, the the nation, the tribe. And what’s good for the nation, the people? The tribe will depend upon circumstance. But the purpose of a constitution and of law and of a state of an economy is to serve particular people in a particular place.
It’s not to fulfill abstract principles of liberal or any other ideology. Right Back to Examination of critical race there
Speaker 12: is stubborn insisting on the continued d construction of race, so that biological theories of… Inferior and hierarchy cannot ever rise again. However, true to fashion, Del garner contradicts himself by presenting a classroom exercise in the very last paragraph of the book that poses the same question, for student consideration. Will the human genome project show that the Eu genesis and race Iq researchers were at least partly right,
Speaker 0: Do you think people will still be watching replay of these live streams in 10 years, 50 years, 500 years. And does the… Awesome majesty of this show can tell you to match it with the way that you dress when you Watch this show. Asking for a friend.
Speaker 12: And that real non trivial differences do mark the races. Evidently, it is okay to discuss this… Idea in high schools and universities without being canceled as long as the left holds a monopoly on the discussion. The elsewhere in Del Ga fever dreams as in his 19 96 book, the coming race war. He expresses paranoid suspicions that whites will try to end racial preference programs to deliberately provoke people of color to rise up.
Speaker 0: Imagine if somebody. Imagine if somebody on the right published a book called the coming race war and and how they would be treated in the news media. So Mark L writes here in the New York review of books. He says that these post liberal students I meet feel the hollow of contemporary culture. So in all likelihood, these students who have become post liberal on this dramatic, political, ideological and religious journey to the right.
La hollow of contemporary culture. It’s not really what’s primarily going on for them. I suspect is it’s primarily a h in their own soul. Right? If you are embarked on a search for meaning, that means you lack ordinary human connection.
Right? If you got a a spouse and children, Right? All the meaning that you should need is right there. But he says you stood these particular students, that they feel the h or contemporary culture, which is now heightened by the ep, yet, for online relations that they have with others. Yeah.
If your primary relationships with other people is online, there’s something wrong. And so if you’re you’re spending a disproportionate amount of on time and your most important relations are online, then there’s something wrong with the the way you lead your real life. And so to try to cover cover up the whole that comes from an inadequate sense of connection with other people in real life. Right people embark on all sorts of exciting, , dramatic journeys to try to distract 1 oneself from the misery inside. So 1 can understand their romantic infatuation with notion of Catholic tradition and its intellectual heritage, which promised structure and spiritual depth, something similar is happening to J students toronto to orthodox judaism.
Yeah. Those who lack ordinary human ties. Go on these dramatic journeys, and then you go on this dramatic journey, but it doesn’t solve the problem. Right? It just shifts the location where you are living out, your problems, but you’ll will just take yourself with you, no matter what religion you convert to.
Your So they are highly susceptible of dreams of returning to pre modern Christian social teaching, which I think will create a more decent and just society more meaningful personal lives for themselves. Again, if… There are this search for meaning because they lack human connection and and so they have all these fantasies about how oh, judaism, or Christianity or this type of politics. Alright? Oh, that type of endeavor or yoga will meet, , this gaping hole I’ve got inside,
Speaker 12: which will give lights of pretext. To set the head bang on them and then take control of the country. 1 of the most contentious points in the Crt debate Concerns whether or not its extremist ideas are being taught in k 12 schools. On pier 6, Del observe that critical race ideas in k 12 schools have come under sharp attack. Without any clarification, this is an odd assertion for a writer who as we shall see, later takes the inconsistent position that Crt is not taught in k 12 schools.
Speaker 0: Alright. Back to the New York review of books, and the author says it seems far fetched to imagine the right wing making a long mark through America’s institutions. But now Trump activists are preparing to battle against the deep state should Trump be elected again, The heritage foundation, has developed project 20 25, which created a database of roughly 20000 trusted right wing who could be a appoint government positions immediately in a second Trump administration. And the author says this notion of social change having to come from the top to is in the Catholic tradition a very paper 1. So the post liberals writing today a pap in spirit Right?
And they almost never speak about the power of the Gospel to transform society from below by first transforming the in enoch lives of its members. So saving souls is just a retail business, not a wholesale 1 has nothing to do with jo for political power in a fallen world. Administering to souls requires patience charity and humility means meeting other people where they are and persuading them that there’s a better way of living. Jesus employed his disciples to be wise as serpents and harmless as does. And some of these post liberals, counsel people to adopt Machiavelli means to Ari ends.
Right? Mont maintain had a wise remark, it is much easier to talk like aristotle and to live like Caesar than to talk and live like socrates. So faith may move mountains but too slowly for these horsemen of the apocalypse. And the author credits, the post liberals with getting a number of things. Right?
There is a m call it cultural or spiritual or psychological. Western societies reflected most of all in the worrisome state of our children who are ever more depressed and suicidal. So he’s giving them points. We do lack adequate politics or articulating and defending the common good and placing necessary limits on individual autonomy, But seen from another perspective, the post liberals offered just 1 more example of the psychology. Of self induced ideological hysteria.
Right? So if you’re coming from an unstable place, right? If you don’t have a life that works. Right? If you’re not able to relate to people in another way, you’re highly predisposed if you’re intelligent to seek out his ideological hysteria that will distract you from the the w refuse of your own life.
So self induced ideological hysteria begin with the identification of a genuine problem, then they quickly mutate into a sense of war historical crisis. And then the appointment of oneself, once comrades as the select go out there and deliver divine comma and strike down the adversary. So as long as their focus on culture wars rather than spreading the Christian gospel. These catholics will inevitably meet with this appointment of pros protestant Secular America. And the author concludes, my concern is for the young people drawn to the movement today.
Their unhappiness with the lonely superficial unstable lives our culture and economy offered. Does them credit. No. It doesn’t do them credit. This is where I disagree.
Right. If you’re lonely and you feel like your life is superficial and unstable, does nor likelihood that has almost nothing to do with America and almost everything to do with you. Right? Most Americans not leading lonely superficial unstable lives. Finding the true source of our is never a simple matter.
Yeah. The true source of our is inside a lack of ease with ourselves. Which then translates into uneasy relations with others. And it’s much easier, I agree with the author to be enchanted by historical fairy tales, to join a partisan political sec, promising redemption from the present, than it is to reconcile oneself to never being fully reconciled with life as it is. By were a believer and called preach a sermon to them, I would tell them to continue cultivating their minds in their souls and to leave Washington to the caesar’s of this world.
So pretty good essay here in latest New York review of books. Alright, back to Ap macquarie magazine cri Critical race theory.
Speaker 12: But Del ga is using the word ideas here, not theory without explaining why. The phrase critical race ideas, only appears 3 times in the book and all on the same page. Jumping ahead to P 104 105 Del writes, readers of this book, and anyone who has attended a k 12 school in recent years, know that critical race theory is a law school or graduate level class hardly ever taught in the early years. In a limited sense, there is no inconsistency in this denial, as now he is using theory instead of ideas. Yet there are many academic subjects like mathematics, whose basic foundations are taught in the k 12 years, and whose more advanced concepts are reserved, For post secondary education.
Scholars and teachers normally feel no need to use deception to hide their curriculum development plans except when ob their true aims that is radical ideological brainwashing. Regardless, in a sloppy admission on Ppe, 68, 69, Del Ga gives the game away. Right in the middle of a discussion of black and latino nationalism within the Crt movement, he explicitly states that his book was used in a k 12 curriculum. And At the high school level, a Latino studies program in at least 1 district in Tucson, Arizona drew the ir of state officials. School officials removed a number of the program’s texts, which included Paulo F is, the pe of the oppressed, and the very book you are reading from the shelves of the classrooms in front of crying students.
After a long struggled, the students and their back prevailed. Gonzales v Douglas, 269 f sup, 3D9 hundred 40 8DR 20 19. After all who can resist a boast. On p 21, we find Del ga, preaching the idea that white men rarely act out of any sense of goodwill. Civil rights gains for communities of color coincide with the dictates of white self interest.
Little happens out of alt alone. While it has not always been smooth sailing, the fact that much of the white establishment has for generations, willingly shared, power is hardly mentioned. Ignoring the goodwill of white people denies an essential aspect of their humanity and raises the suspicion that they are malevolent self dealers.
Speaker 0: Okay. That’ll do it for tonight. Take care and talk to you blake later. Bye bye.