Why Nothing Seems To Makes Sense Anymore - Rudyard Lynch

as a guy who has spent a lot of time studying history how unusual do you think that the time we're living in right now is we are the most absurd era in history by a very significant margin uh and I can get into why I think that's true I think there's only one under there's one easy underlying variable that explains all of it but I invented an acronym called saw and saw is study is an ancient wisdom and what that means to convey is that there's an underlying shared truth that all the world religions share all the world's folk ways going back thousands of years and then this is corroborated by modern evidence and I think this podcast is a great example you might be like the one of the biggest saw content creators where what you do is you compare ancient teachings with what modern science says and so there is a strong tether between the two and the 20th century is just a bizarre century and that's true for about a dozen different reasons uh the 20th century established different intellectual precedents as it related to maid as it related to the idea of community the nation religion how economic uh conditions worked and so you could kind of call the blue pill era of history from roughly the world wars until covid or now and it's really the centy of social engineering so our era of history is incredibly bizarre and the irony is that we judge everyone else according to our stand standard but our standard is incredibly strange and so I like to say that a fish in a pond cannot know its place in the world because it only knows the water and that we are that fish and the reason we don't study history is because if we started looking for what it taught us we'd realize we're doing something very very wrong how so oh a variety of ways um the largest example and something I freaking like to say is the idea that's killed the most people in history is the idea that humans are inherently perfect where the the crisis that started or the world wars in the 20th Century's totalitarianism killed over 150 million people and that's larger than anything else it's in any way comparable in history and that was based upon the assumption that you can break and mold human nature to be whatever you want and the blank slate or the idea that all people are born the same all people are born the same capabilities sounds nice on paper but in reality it's a immediate next jump is totalitarianism to socially engineer people to reach whatever aim you would like and that's just one example where there's so many of these the idea of infinite Financial progress no matter what this is idea the left holds up a lot which is um the left sees money as something to divide not something to create the reality is money is created every single year by people producing it and if you look at most of History most of civilization stagnation is the norm it's you have an Empire rise the Empire exploits The Peasants they grow weak another they fall barbarians restart the process only for pretty small slivers of History including ours for creating up certain incentive structures do you see very rapid progress but we take that completely for granted so economically very unique what else would be in the uh top few the top rungs so the idea that men and women are psychologically the same which is something that our ancestors would view is completely ridiculous and we view our ancestors as stupid our ancestors if they saw us if you took a Greek philosopher or a medieval philosopher and brought them to our day they would say that we had a weird combination of autism and schizophrenia where the thing with uh there there's a lot of psychology about this but we have very few records of autism or schizophrenia from the pre-industrial world where the mental illnesses a society has are driven by the social structure that in the Neurosis it puts in the society so in the Middle Ages after the Black Death you would have entire towns break up into dancing as the sort of mania or people would become witches or people would have demonic possession so different society different psychological Neurosis I have a friend who was an anthropologist in Cambodia for a bunch of years and the natives in Cambodia they literally saw magic in their daily lives so that's an example they saw magic they believed in witchcraft completely and that was just an obvious part of their worldview and that's something that separates us from the past where every single other Society in history and even people in pretty recent history like Charles Darwin Thomas Edison Nicola Tesla Carl Marx Queen Victoria believed in the spirit world belief in the spirit world was completely common among educated people until around 1900 um and so to just go through the list the idea that history doesn't have any lessons to teach us that's modern men and women are the same uh that all that culture doesn't matter uh that genetics doesn't vary across differing populations uh that human nature is perfect that there is no Divine that there is no Spirit World um that economic progress is assured that we that war will end in that yeah basically that war is unnecessary where the past had this very uh you could call it realistic sense of the world where they didn't modernity is motivated by this concept that if we it right we can break the entire game and win forever and the rest of History would view that as completely insane and I think one of the the biggest things my channel talks about is I think we are on the edge of what I call the crisis of the 21st century which is what I think will be and it's easy to say that it's going to be the bloodiest crisis in history because in World War II just 70 years ago the world had one quarter its current population so it's very easy to have the bloodiest crisis in history when you have eight times as many people as the pre-ind industrial world but I think the crisis that we're about to face in the next 30 Years will be the bloodiest crisis in history why yeah so I'm looking at a bunch of different models here and I've have a bunch of I've triangulated a bunch of different equations to find that we are on the verge of the crisis of the 21st century and I think it's going to be a global crisis so let me tell you what the different things I'm looking at one of them is that Peter Turin is and Peter Z's also tapped into this pretty well I think Zan came on your podcast before uh if you got if you know Zan you know one side of this and I have a lot of respect for Zan I think he's done a good job uh Peter turchin pulling from David hack at fiser saw that the world has these Global crises every 250 years that can be predicted by three variables in a computer model plugging these three variables retroactively historically off these You can predict the years these crises happen and what happens in each case is that there's Mass War famine the decline of the global population and a change of the social structure as there's political disturbances in the Western World the last example of this was the French Revolution in Napoleon that was 250 years ago before then the religious wars of the 1600s that killed a third of Europe's population before then the black death which killed half of Europe's population before then uh you have the fall of the Frankish Empire that destroyed centralized government in West W Europe and you can push these as far back as you want to look you've got the Bronze Age collapse you have the fall of the Roman Republic and these are predicted off three de three variables and one of my favorite books ever is The Great Wave by David hacket Fisher and he uses inflation to predict this and you can look at inflation rates to predict when these crises happen but the three variables are income inequality decline in uh average wages and competition for elite jobs these three variables can predict when societies have revolutions to the years they take place in because the way this variable works is that you have is all things end up leading to their end as Aristotle said everything ultimately culminates as Aristotle said something's great strength will become its greatest weakness when pushed to its extremity and with a period of peace and population growth what happens is the value between labor and capital gets destabilized as the value of Labor rinks the value of money to manipulate it grows so inequality goes up so this explains why the postor War II era had one of the lowest inequalities in recorded history while our era has one of the highest inequalities ever inequality today is easily in the top 5 to 10 worst periods ever in history and thus what happens once the inequality gets that bad and wages stagnate because we have done literally everything we could do to depreciate wages we have have uh doubled the population through natural population growth since World War II we've imported 50 million immigrants and that's a low ball number we've globalized to countries like Mexico China Malaysia that have lower labor value we've imported women into the workforce and they 75% of the population we've done automation which is actually people don't think about automation but it's already probably the second or the third most important variable there so we have increased the supply of labor by 40% but the demand we've increased the supply of labor by 40% over what the demand is so that's why wages go down it's why Homer Simpson was a lower middle class loser but he had a wife and kids his wife stayed at home three kids owned his house could to go multiple vacations a year for upper middle class people today upper middle class young people that's Out Of Reach so the quality of life has de declined precipitously since the post-war period and this is something the pop that we've been really gaslighted about but you can look at a variety of metrics between spending power between ability to own a home even stuff like height or Sleep Quality or obesity and for example over history whenever the average age of marriage goes above 28 you're going to have a political crisis so before the Black Death people were getting married past age 28 before you're not saying that people getting married after 28 caused the black de no humans what I like to say is humans aren't design we're humans are designed to breed first and be rational later so what happens when you pull out the incentive structure where the society because we live in a society where people are working too many hours they can't afford a house they can't be successful enough to attract a mate thus their ability to reproduce declines once the ability to reproduce gets weaker it means people are to tear the system apart because if you're screwed in the current system you're going to roll the dice to get a potential to get a different outcome because if you're screwed in the current route you have an incentive to roll the dice with a revolution or a political crisis even though it means you could die because that gives you at least some shot and so what happens as inequality grows quality of life decreases is the population splits up into different subactions based on the self-interest of different groups so in medieval France it was the Arman ycs versus burgundians in 17th century England it was the parliamentarians versus the royalists and all of these underly some underlying class or ethnic or Regional difference where royalists versus Cavaliers was uh the old nobility based out of Western England and versus the capitalists based out of Eastern England um and then you have the whites versus the Reds in the Russian Revolution the optimates versus the populares parties and Republican Rome and in us it's the right the right versus the left and the right versus the left underlies there's a couple different correlations you can stack but the one I go after most is college educated versus uncollege educated every single thing the left pushes makes the college educated better off every single thing the right pushes pushes mostly the merchant class but also so uh religious and Military interests and there's other stuff you can stack like cities versus countrysides male versus female high agency versus low agency if you have low agency at your work you're almost certainly going to be a leftist and even if you have high agency like you're a small business owner or a farmer even if you're poor you're going to be conservative so this is the underlying difference as times get worse what happens is that people get desperate and so they support their faction over the uh centralized government because the centralized government's not going to give you any stuff you don't appeal to moderates because the moderates aren't going to they haven't done they haven't done crap for you so you're going to support a radical that supports your self-interest and so the right and the left have become further and further radicalized until what I predict will happen is that America will have a civil war or revolution within the next 1 to 5 years and I can explain that more if you'd like you are someone that spent a lot of time thinking about alternative history iies what do you think would have happened if Trump had been shot that's a great question so the reason I've been thinking about that and I I actually predicted Trump would be assassinated two years in advance because there are four historic conflicts I use as Parallels for our current ERA and what I do is I look it's almost like string theory where you can find certain historic parallelisms and you follow them and they often turn out to be true those four historic periods are the English Civil War the American Civil War the French Revolution and the fall of the Roman Republic with the fall of the Roman Republic what happened is that Rome became a great nation and conquered the world and for those that or the Known World from Syria to Spain and for those that don't know Rome was a democracy it had two political parties that competed against each other the optimates and the PES and from my study I found that the PES are more so Republicans and the optimates are Democrats the the optimates were more so the Roman deep State and had allies in Rome's foreign Allied countries so in the same way the Democrats have allies in Europe or Canada or Australia the optimates had allies in uh Greece or North Africa or turkey and so what happened was that Rome became this great country and Rome imported a third of its population as slaves and so the slaves depreciated the local labor of the Native Romans and so they fell into poverty so income inequality became absurd where you had men who were equivalent to Zuckerberg or Elon Musk who could buy entire countries then what happened is Rome also saw a feminist movement degradation of its moral code collapse of its religion and collapse of traditional Roman culture as the Roman middle class died Rome spiraled into immense political part polarization between the optimates and the populares and the groi brothers in our parallel because there are multiple Cycles I look at the largest one I know of is the civilizational cycle in which America parallels Rome very strongly and and the groy brothers were wealthy tycoons who operated off a platform of make Rome great again they wanted to reinstall the Roman middle class uh and bring back traditional Roman values at the expense of the wealthy Elites in the Deep State what happened first is that the poz um is that the optimate Deep State they slandered the grakis and then said that they were trying to make themselves tyrants they couldn't run for office but because they were trying to destroy the democracy and make themselves tyrants then when that didn't fail they assassinated the gry brothers what then happened is that the Poes or their version of what I think are the Republicans spiraled into Warlords and so this is a great parallel for what I think is going to happen to America I think the right will crush the left but the right lacks so little internal ideological Unity that the right will spiral into ideological Warlords who will kill each other in the same way that for the the Poes beat the optimates and then inside the Poes were uh you had various uh strong men like Augustus like Julius Caesar like Marius Octavian and uh the problem with both the Poes and the Democrats is that they can't pull on groups of fighting men because if you're the the populares or the populists they can get all these young Roman men to fight for them by offering them stuff but once you've alienated that you have to rely on foreign mercenaries which is what I think the left would do if it was caught in an actually violent conflict where they would try to build up a military of people from Mexico or Europe or southeast Asia or whatever so the obvious thing that people think is something like R the nice nice idea lessons from history but we're beyond that barbarism now you know we're sort of an ascended species look I can predict the weather in Venezuela tomorrow and I can track what's going on with global news and I've got air conditioning and I've got a car to take me around H the interesting thing that you said at the very beginning is um this sort of assumption that we've mastered the world we've mastered social movement social psychology human psychology Health Science everything is sort of within our control and if you believe that then you don't need to learn from the lessons of History because you assume that you're sort of out and apart from that what would you say to someone that says yeah it's like nice idea that that happened in Rome or that happened in the French Revolution or whatever uh I don't see the parallel there's not going to be a land War we're not going to see a kinetic altercation between left and right in America that that seems unbelievable I'm going to answer that question but I'll posit another question to you first if we don't use history to study the world what else are we supposed to look at I don't know what I don't know what people think that they're using exactly so what I say is that if you're not using history to study the world you're making stuff up because the reason we don't like this I said before the reason people don't like studying history is that you're expected to to be accountable to it because there's this shared truth and we've had people who have been analyzing history from as long ago as Herodotus the Bible IB kalun the Chinese historians like siman and they all hit the same point and we are actually part of their narrative but we can't explain their narrative and I'll explain what that means where the reason we don't want to do this is the left which is one of the things I like to say is that even conservatives are leftists today because the left has built up the modern worldview so much that even if you try to escape the leftist worldview you're still operating off leftist assumptions I just brought up class analysis that was something Marx invented um the idea of equality being good that's a Marxist idea the idea that the government should help people push for greater social betterment is Marxist and so the left wants to project its basically religious vision of the world and the only way they can do that is by destroy is by saying history is not important and it's a Tale As Old As Time inside history that wealthy eras get arrogant where it's called decadence it happened to the Greeks the Romans the Indians the Chinese uh and we are decadent and decadent societies thinks they think they've mastered everything they think they've accomplished everything and then they grow weak and then a new stronger faction emerges and wipes them out so you can explain our huous by being an extreme form of decadence that we are the wealthiest Society in history and thus we we are even more delusional and what I would say is that every single era to differing degrees thinks their era is special then you look back and no one is special if you see these patterns going back thousands of years and it always comes back around and if we think we are special and we're unwilling to look at the dozens of times before we weren't special that's legitimately a form of Madness if you want to completely ignore the outside evidence and then just believe your inner truth that it fits the definition of Madness what's this got to do with Trump being shot at uh you have to look at the parallels between the future and the past in which things can get bad because they have consistently gotten bad and so if you choose not to look at it it's going to to catch you in the dark and slit your throat and I would say like because I can talk at all these ideas I can talk at the abstractions the the statistical models but what I'd say is look outside like go to Los go to New York City go to parts of Austin and things aren't good and then compare it to a photo re of the 1960s um look at your own personal life look at the lives of everyone around you uh most people are depressed poor lonely sexless angry have mental health issues most people's lives aren't good uh and that's true on both a statistical and anecdotal basis and furthermore in the last month Trump was nearly assassinated the Democrats had to pull Kamala out as a candidate um and they sorry they had to replace Biden with Kamala and there have been states that have taken uh Trump off the ballot uh there has the last two elections have been disputed and so for each case these are things that have only happened in the previous American Civil War and so just look outside the things we've had enough warning shots at this point I'm not sure that I would agree with the uh everybody's life anecdotally is wor than it would have been in the 1960s I don't know enough specifically about America 20% has it better 80% has it worse it's comparable to dating where what happened with uh income inequality and various things is the top 20% did vastly better and the bottom 80% did worse so I'm using everyone colloquially I see yeah I I don't know maybe I'm not fornicating with the 80% sufficiently well um but I I I I don't know man I I understand what you mean uh there is uh so C an awful lot of problems whether it's coming from the mate ins side whether it's coming from economics whether it's coming from uh real wages and what they can buy whether it's coming from a a psychological Health standpoint a psychic Health standpoint um but I look around uh me and I don't only hang around with high futin sort of super successful people uh and many of those people are flourishing not only that but almost all of them are in relationships almost all of them are getting married almost all of them are having kids and they're teachers they're Builders they plumbers they're [ __ ] Uber drivers you know they're not that homogeneous when it comes to being in some super opelon so my sort of lived experience is different that being said I do see the data so I have this discordance between what is being reported to me and then what I sometimes experience in my own life all of that to say what would have happened if Trump had been shot what would have happened how would the world be different I thought I answered that the right would spiral in the factions where the issue with the right today is that there's no unifying ideology the right is a various Coalition of various anti-left factions um and so the right has Libertarians it has populists it has uh it has uh theoc religious people it has uh Boomer consons uh fascists and the right is held together by Trump's cult of personality and I think this is something conservatives have to be careful about that Trump's in his 70s in no timeline is he going to live for the next few decades and so what happened with the fall of the Roman Republic with the death of the Gris is that after the death of the grois the riot re the basically Republicans lose faith in the system so you start seeing violence there's In-N-Out violence um in which people lose faith that the system has any service for them and so they lose the incentive to cooperate with others and what would happen is I think that there would be blood in the street if Trump got sh shot I think uh various I think parts of the military would Mutiny I think uh various militias and stuff would kill people there' be riots in major cities I don't know how bad the blood would be the death of trump is not my first Target is not the one of the dominant variables I would use to predict a civil war but I completely think that there would be violence and the thing is even the reason the left is or the reason both sides are incredibly weak now the Democrats and the Republicans are not operating under strong platforms and so anything could knock them over at this point and then inside them are various subactions where the left's been eaten up by wokeness which is this which is it it just gets more and more radical 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well-armed they're they have nothing to lose um they're hopeless and they can be easily manipulated and so that's first two variables third variable is that wokeness wokeness is very poorly constructed because it establishes no incentives for cooperation if you're a straight white man wokeness will never be nice to you no matter what you do meanwhile they can't control the behavior of the people who are in their preferred racial or ethnic groups where if you're a black Muslim uh gay person everything you do is fine they can't control your behavior so wokeness has got a lot of structural issues and I can't believe they did it because they've pushed wokeness so hard that it's basically built up this obvious resentment against it and that resentment is going to get loosened somewhere and so to repeat foolish arrogant Elite young white men and also de and the economy have really screwed over young white men so they can't succeed in the current corporate system and then you have a a suicidally delusional ideology so it's like you have two rooms one building up pressure and one without enough pressure and they're going to hit an equilibrium so me and you have spoken about this a couple of times before uh my male sedation hypothesis versus your incel far-right Uprising uh give your um sort of insight about where you think young men are at at the moment mental health their desire for Revolution and such I've had this debate a bunch or not I've had this discussion a lot of times and the point that we've often ended up I'm jumping three points ahead in the conversation is that the conversation we often have is what I say is most young men won't want to fight there's small cadres of radicals who will push for it and then what happens is that those radicals the people in charge so if you look at these conflicts the Jacobin were the French Revolution they were less than 1% of France's population literally you could look at the this is such a cool fact you could look at the political subactions of the French Revolution based off what cafes they went to and kidding me no really so different political radicals in the French Revolution went to literally different cafes in Paris you could map out the F the political radical factions based off what streets the cafes they went to were so you're operating off groups that are that small the Bolsheviks where they won the Russian Civil War they were all Communists were 3% of their population and the Bolsheviks were a minority of that uh the the the Puritans who won the English Civil War they were 10% of the population the American Revolution no one wanted the American Revolution 5 years before it started and then it just got ratcheted up over time so I like when people ask me Rudyard what are the different subdivisions inside the right I say most people have no clue what's happening most people um don't know what's going on they don't really have a concept of uh of what's going to happen next and then you have these factions of radicals that jockey and before the English Civil War people said the English have grown too weak to fight and this was in the 1600s it had been over a century since England had a civil war what happened then is that the the royalists and uh the parliamentarians they just conscripted people same thing with the French Revolution same thing with the Russian Civil War the normies don't organize they don't say let's have a riot for normies let's push normies normes forever the radicals organized and then they conscript the normes so most of the population can just want to play video games and do Sports what you need is you need to have small factions of radicals that are capable of conscripting the normies what was that stat that you came up with 20% are motivated 60% will do whatever somebody what's that thing so I pulled that from Game Theory where uh it's a bunch of different things where in Game Theory you've consistently found uh and this is i' I've I've studied multiple Game Theory studies on this in general 60% of the population will do what the group tells them to do six and so uh we have various Game Theory studies one is do you contribute to the the pot or do you take away 20% of the population always contributes even if against their self-interest 20% tries to cheat whenever they can and then 60% tries to um just does whatever the group consensus is and for certain things like will you put up the sign in front of your house if for various studies if you can change the neighborhood consensus that will move it 60 points so if the neighborhood consensus says put this sign up 18% of people do it if the neighborhood consensus changes it moves up to 88 it moves up to 88 78% yes yes um and and so most people today are in onwe they don't know what they really want they don't know what they're really doing what's an onwe for the people that don't know oh yeah uh onwe is a French word for a lack of comprehens a lack of connectiveness to your world and a lack of feeling connected connected to uh your life it's like an existen po anst it is yes yes and so most people don't know what's happening because the the the 2010 mind cannot comprehend our world and most people are still mentally stuck in 2010 and I like to say that the way I would explain uh I would explain life today to my teenage self is I would say we became a Sci-Fi dystopia but most people can't reach that conclusion and so they're kind of stuck in this Middle Ground so our current period per perod is a period in which all of these factions are squabbling over who will become the dominant culture in a way that's comparable to the Jacobin squabbling among other French radicals the Bolshevik squabbling among other Russians uh various we're in the building up period And as Lenin said there are hours in which decades happen and there are decades in which nothing happens and so history works you don't realize it's going to happen until it slams you in the face like the start of World War I or the fall the Soviet Union uh and this is just how things happen tensions gradually build up if you're the kind of person who looks for the stuff you see it otherwise you can your life then just hits you're really stretching my uh historical and imaginary uh imaginative abilities just trying to run forward with your idea of um sort of how easily swayed certain people are certainly 2020 Summer of 2020 we saw a lot of people I think get involved in uh victimhood narrative and identity politics that probably wouldn't have done Rec previously uh probably didn't actually have that much Insight I mean we've seen it when you go to these protests and people are chanting from The River To The Sea and they say which river which sea and they don't know what they're talking about you've seen the same thing anytime that you push groups on the far right or the far left to actually understand what they're talking about it's pretty evident that most of these people are just holding on to the coattails of a movement that they think is the right or righteous thing to do uh so I actually do see even from my experience I do see that kind of uh domino effect this Mass domino effect happening where only a small few groups at the start can uh rally many Downstream what do normal people believe in I have no idea exactly what I've told so one of the takes I've made is I think this war will be the bloodiest war it'll be fought horribly I think there's going to be purges I think people will burn cities down and I was talking on another podcast I said why do you think that and I said if if you can't actually there are no deep values that are imprinted in people wokeness is very I call it mask morality it's this very exit it's this very uh performative morality that doesn't actually require that you change your character and I said that this is this is one of the great ironies that removing a Christian value system and replacing it with subjective postmodernism there something people don't realize that is what got to the Nazis are Stalin because once you think everything's subjective and uh everything is according to interpretation you don't have an argument for killing people for your goals you don't have an argument for killing millions of people to reach Utopia and so I think normal people when they don't believe in anything they are capable of doing absolutely horrible things and like to bring back a question you asked at the start of the podcast the reason I think this is possible is because the bloodiest events in history the bloodiest Wars the worst genocides the worst slave states in history happened within living memory you could call up people who were at the Holocaust or who in stallin gags now and do you think we've really changed in the Gen in the lifetime since so I think you know my position has been for quite a while and I've put this to you too that there is just so much sedation of the populace specifically the cohort that you're talking about through porn through video games through social media and screens that there is this uh sort of mass opium this um copium copium indeed uh and I my I mean [ __ ] hell me laying the uh sanity and safety of the future of the West at the feet of porn websites video games and social media doesn't exactly sound like a glowing review but I do think that there is so much it it could be so different that it's no longer just a difference of degree it's genuinely a step change difference in kind of what we're able to do and able to uh sort of calming down this U Rising uh desire even when many other people are out there doing it because it involves getting out of the house getting dressed utilizing the latent executive function that you haven't ever used why do you think porn would have a strong enough effect for that to work I think that porn is able to curtail men's desire for reproduction not satisfactorily but I think it is able to at least stop them from uh feeling what in the past I mean what was that example from Portugal I'm pretty sure you taught me about that the first son got to marry the second third and fourth son they were all put on gallion ships go explore the new world or what would they doing they were trying to fix the sex ratio that um that basically I think that it gives a tight rated dose of sexual satisfaction to Men Who without that it would be one more you know just one more thing the same as I don't sit at home and wonder about whether my life has meaning I've got Netflix or I've got Xbox Live or whatever I don't go out and sufficient time with my local cohort of friends to actually create a little revolutionary group that can go and push over granny and set cars on fire because I'm busy watching uh social media and why do you think porn is a strong enough effect to do that uh not on its own to be able to do all of it I think porn has a sufficiently strong effect to be able to sedate men's desire for women just that men are largely mechanical creatures uh the fact that you can look at a 4in across screen and see a naked woman and your brain tell your lyic system some sex is about to happen you can look around the side of it you know that it's not real and yet it's able to kid you it's just so easily fallible uh that I think it's enough or it has been thus far enough to keep men satisfied unsatisfactorily yeah I'm 23 so I know a lot of the people in the demographic we're talking about explicitly and I think that for a part of men that's true I think human nature isn't like that though I think human nature is not that stupid where if people don't actually have I think the subconscious is very deep if people don't actually have reproductive options if they don't have pride if they don't have self-respect if they don't have the ability to move socially I don't think they can trick their minds through various distractions and I think the easiest example of that is the cripplingly bad mental health issues because the the mental health issues are a sign that subconsciously um we just can't trick ourselves and I would agree with your thesis if this wasn't hitting Elite aspirant men because if you get a deg and it's a multivariate thing uh it's not just a dating crisis it's uh not being able to get a good job cost of living being too high I think it's 10 different things that pile up and if it was just the dating crisis we wouldn't have this but the other things add up too um it's I think all of that adds up so that um it creates enough of a sense of desperation among Elite aspirants men that you would that you could have this the example I'll give is remember the Columbia protests no not Columbia Bogota Columbia New York City no um so these were really remarkable to watch and people often ask me Rudyard how come you think the right will get this crazy and the reason I say is the left got this crazy already and if you looked back for the things that let the left get this crazy it's a lot less bad than what we're facing now and um and colia protests these and the thing that really shocked me is I'm the same age as these kids and so I know that they went through like seven years of indoctrination against the Holocaust the second they get out of the school the second they get out of the Cradle they're immediately shouting like antia into from The River To The Sea so that means the programming is very weak and it also it was crazy because I've studied the history of Communism and they're they're speaking communist Communists have verbal ticks that you can that they use to signal to each other that other people don't know and so they were saying all the Communist verbal ticks they were marching in ranks they were saying um we you must always keep the revolution in your hearts um that we must destroy the Imperial core and the left is all projection so when the when they said the right only speaks the language of genocide what they were really saying is we want to do that and the I was watching another Columbia student who she was saying and she was a young black lady she was St she was talking to a camera where she said I'm not a violent person but if a Zionist were to get in my way I don't know what I would do and that's and looking at her body language it was just horrifying and so I think most young men can be sedated I don't think you can trick the human subconscious into through surrogates because our current mental health demonstrates that doesn't work and even with that with the dating issues I think there's enough other stuff that's piled up where the human mind and we we we ascribe rationality to the human mind which isn't true humans also care about pride and dignity and social status and that stuff and I think wokeness by itself it humiliates young white men enough to build up resentment for it and I spend a lot of time on right-wing Twitter I know people say Twitter's Twitter's not real life but I would argue Twitter in some ways is realer than real life you have a guy just like a guy that spends all his time on Twitter would say let me explain this some ways exactly because let's say you you know a nice guy at work and he posts farri propag far-right stuff on Twitter the thing he him at work is this facade he puts up well the thing he posts on Twitter is what he actually believed did you ever read everybody Lies by Seth Ste that's a great book Yeah so basically the the thesis is that people tell Google things that they don't even tell their partner their friends work or sometimes themselves you know they've got this weird lump on the back of their ankle that they've not allowed to arise in Consciousness for ages but they'll give it a quick Google so from aggregated depersonalized Google Search terms you can work out all sorts of things you said that so uh I have a buddy he does really interesting stuff he ha he runs Ai and has systems where he can look at how you like move your head how you twitch your hand and from that he makes a four Factor yian model of your personality the most rard Lynch [ __ ] friend I've ever heard okay go on um yes and so he also studies the verbal language of the internet and we're hitting basically sociopath sociopathic uh we're hitting sociopath levels on the internet and keep in mind the general populace doesn't have to do this stuff just small groups of radicals I can definitely say that there are large groups there are large small groups of radicals who would definitely do this and just like we would agree that this stuff on the left we would agree that there are people on the left who want to do this and I I mean what I'd say is look at the ruling class look at uh the Democratic party was trying to take Trump off the ballot um the news constantly lies uh Des like look let's go through all the the big content creators Destiny said it was okay he wouldn't be against killing conservatives vouch said progressives should get guns to fight against conservatives um you've had uh Hassan [ __ ] has uh defended houthi Pirates uh on the right like you we know that Nick Flint this is the stuff he's definitely not against um and so these are these people repeat back to their audiences what their audiences want to hear so I fruggle to find a single institution in our society that is not on the a single a single institution that reflects the public consciousness of the population that's not uh just in a really really scary place now so are you saying the people who have some of the loudest megaphones have the extremist voices they have those extremist voices because it's what the people want they're reflecting and I'm a content creator I know how this works where you as a content creator I like to joke I'm married to my audience so I tried to maintain a good relationship with my audience because we're stuck together I'm a College Dropout like it's I have to make this work and um and and so the content creators normally have a pretty good comprehension about what Their audience wants to see and they're very into this so if all of these content creators are saying violence is okay that means it's what Their audience wants to hear and it's a I've given like 15 different proxies it's yet another proxy for the public wants this yeah I think there's definitely something interesting about the displeasure and the sort of disgust that some elements of the far-left have with a big chunk of the West which is white guys you know if you're a white man uh you are the very very bottom of the victimhood hierarchy you get no points at all uh you had this quote which I really thought was interesting don't gloat over your conquered foe it gains you nothing and makes the conquered more dangerous yeah and that to me is it is um indicative of of this really sort of well actually just explain that quote to me like why what why was that so interesting I mean if if you look at the history of Empires it's obvious like if you want to conquer someone you need to kind of have a relationship with them it doesn't have to be a good relationship but let's look at the British Empire as an example when the Brit when the English subjugated the the Irish and the Scottish they gave they they gave them social status if they fought for the Empire you could be an Irish or Scottish guy go to India and you'd be treated like an English person that was a way to get rid of all of the aspirational aggressive young Irish and Scottish guys with the Romans if you were part of if you they conquered you you were a sharp Young guy they would let you into Roman culture and so when you conquer someone you still have a relationship with assimilate in some exactly um and the left the left always really shocks me because their complete lack of strategy is insane where um they do not look at the the left's great strength is the ability to manipulate people where they can especially women the left has like 10 different hooks in the in the collective psyche of of women that they can pull from to get them to do what they want they're horrible at Grand strategy though and it's really shocking where they just set up their entire Coalition that their Coalition building is really bad which is I could explain that if you'd like and so they've established no incentive for white men to cooperate inside the system and they keep on ritually humiliating them I don't think this would be this bad if the lefts didn't turn every single Vector of culture into ritual humiliation of white men even if they just let Hollywood not be woke I think that would it would make things a lot better but normies can't not ignore Hollywood and I'm going to throw this point in here we're at a point where the Western the government the democratically elected governments of the West are purposely committing civilizational suicide if we've Rel reached this threshold and we can't talk about it something's very wrong where the governments of the West they're doing a lot of them are doing degrowth the degrow industrialized economy they're bringing an immigrants not out of economic self-interest but to replace the local population um they are trying to they're trying to like de o over regulate the economy they're trying to get rid of uh Western Heritage and Western culture and even destroy statues uh of the West former leaders the point of this is not some n it's not some sort of warped self-interest it's suicide we are a civilization that's openly committing suicide in other news this episode is brought to you by nomatic traveling should be about the journey not the chaos of packing that is why I'm such a massive fan of nomatic they make the best backpacks and Luggage in the world the difference in the quality of your life when you have a proper well-designed backpack is immeasurable they've got compartments for everything your laptop your shoes your sunglasses it's so well organized that even your toothbrush will feel important it is literally like the Marie condo of luggage 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the carbon reflection and reflecting it back before it comes down to the Earth and this has been loudly loudly denounced by all of the pro green environmental movements and it was the theory on pirate wires the reason for that is that it cuts off at the knees the degrowth movement yes exactly that's the so I was talking to some people I know and they asked me do if they're from the Northeast they said do Texans feel guilty for using air conditioning all year and I said no chance it's a non-negotiable for this to be an industrialized civilization if Texas didn't have AC we'd be having this conversation Pennsylvania or California um and it's a vital system exactly yeah and um and so the crazy thing is that oh yeah so the reason they're pushing against air conditioning and air conditioning do you explain this further you could nuke the entirety of Northwestern Europe and it would have negative it would have little effect on carbon emissions the thing that really is pushing carbon emissions is China and India installing a 100 factories every second 100 coal powerered factories every second if you really cared about fixing the climate you would build nuclear power France or Hungary are mostly driven off nuclear power uh but the point and I just released a video on the unab bomber and the thesis I say with the video is that there are psychological pre pressures implicit to Industrial civilization that we don't understand that create psychological issues which um which mean that people are actively pushing for the death of civilization the reason I think is I don't think humans this is a whole different tangent I don't think humans evolved to live outside Villages I don't think humans evolved to live in cities and away from the earth and so I think it creates weird psychological pressures and it's not a coincidence that the places that have been industrialized for the longest such as the northeastern us the Netherlands Britain are the places they're trying to commit civilizational suicide because I think industrial civilization we haven't figured out the cultural compatibility with it in the same way that for the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago looking through the archaeological record we find there were very rapid fluctuations in population population goes up crashes by 80% goes up again crashes by 60% that happened a couple times as agriculture was inventing because people didn't know how to deal with an Agricultural Society I think that what do you think happened what causes so many people to pass this is this is super cool so uh you know how the when the Europeans came to the new world uh they the diseas has wiped out the natives the reasoning for that is that the from the period between 10,000 BC and 5,000 BC the Europeans or eurasians started dealing with domesticated animals like cows and pigs and almost all of our diseases are from domesticated animals and so what happens they living with them very closely is that you get all these diseases so C agriculture was invented in 10,000 BC the first cities were around 4,000 BC the world's population was stagnant even after the invention of agriculture long term because we were hit by so many waves of diseases that we didn't evolve for so the eurasians went through this disease gradient that wiped out the Native Americans who didn't have domesticated animals in the 10,000 BC to 5,000 BC period so I would say disease is the biggest cause but we also know that there were agriculture was spread by genocide and so it's very difficult to get a non-agricultural population to take in agriculture and so uh like the middle easterner genocide a lot the Western half of Asia against the native peoples but we have archaological records that the native peoples could launch the native hunter gatherer peoples were able to launch counterattacks that could wipe out hundreds of miles of of farmer land so there was a Nate we know from archaeology there was a native Confederacy in Scandinavia that launched a genocidal War across Poland and Germany like 7,000 years ago that is so cool what so just you know touching on a topic that seems quite timely at the moment when we're talking about population decline birth rates at the moment how do you fold the current declining birth rates into this discussion I was hoping we'd get to this um do you know Mouse Utopia assume I don't okay great um so Mouse Utopia and this is one of my best videos for people watching um Mouse Utopia was a study that was run 30 times in the 60s and 7s and the way the study works is that you drop nine mice in a cage that can hold 6 th000 mice with perfect conditions then what happens is that the mice population balloons there's uh infinite food no Predators perfect climate no disease and then and they were doing this at the time because this was the era when the world's pop the world's population went up five times over in the 20th century and for reasonable reasons they were worried about what the effects of that would be and then past the 2000 Mark and again that's onethird the carrying capacity bizarre things happen the mice stop the mice split up into different subcategories of antisocial Behavior you had autistic mice who couldn't socially interact you had sociopathic mice who would kill the mice that would continue to breed you had the beautiful ones who would just groom themselves all day but they would never breed you had female mice who refus to to mate and they just hang out isolated you would homeless mice who would wander around the center of the colony allowing themselves to get beaten up uh and you had a the M the mouse social structure completely broke down and then the birth rate crashed to complet zero as the mice lost the ability to have communities or socially interact with each other how much have we as humans with frontal loes got to learn from the social structure of m yes so The Mouse and the human brain structure is diff is similar except for one variable that being the free the prefrontal cortex as you teased out where we have the amydala and we have we have the lizard and the mammal brain and those control for automatic functions how we process uh fear or horniness or jealousy or happiness or excitement we process that similarly to like a dog or a horse or a cat because uh we have the same lizard brain and the same mammal brain so automatic functions and uh emotions are comparable across mammals now finally the thing that we do have that the mice don't is we have a vastly enlarged prefrontal cortex which is the ability to plan and think and abstract um and that's what allowed the creation of human civilization and with mous Utopia you're seeing fundamentally hormonal changes where the mice aren't rationally thinking to themselves um that I don't want to have kids I hate everyone around me I'm going to be depressed um the mice just act on impulse because the hormones change and it's comparable to people with mental health conditions or who catch diseases we humans um you could let's say catch a horrifying disease tomorrow and then you would it would completely change how you feel the world on a personal basis our minds are not buffered from the world and so we would see the same hormonal changes as the mice but we would have the ability to think about them abstractly but what I'd say for Mouse Utopia is every single thing in Mouse Utopia has already happened it's just it hasn't fully played through its logic what is the underlying Dynamic that caused that to happen in Mouse IA I don't understand why you get to onethird the carrying capacity of a perfect environment and all of these weird side effects like what's media is there a [ __ ] spirit that gets in there and goes oh there's they hit the 2,000 thing time for the Ethereal Mouse Poltergeist to go in and make everybody crazy what's the dynamic what's going on it's hard to say I mean if you look at the fall of Rome as an example uh it's unclear what caused the fall of Rome where people it's often a RAR shock test for what you care about you can say the fall of Rome was caused by change in military structure uh civilizational it Rome civilizational cycle ending uh climate change population decline uh decline in values uh Etc and so complex historic events it's often very difficult to figure out what actually caused them like why did gasan become such a great conqueror I could give you 10 reasons I don't know which one is accurate and mouse Utopia is comparable where the guy who ran the experiment calhon he did the same 30 yeah he did he did 30 together oh so he did them all at the same time no no so he did he did over a very long period of time and he did 30 experiments understood yes and so he after doing all the experiments said that it was lack of agency uh that the mice once they lived in a perfect world that was overcrowded they stopped feeling like they could actually go out in the world and do things and it's very comparable to what Ted kazinski said the issue with modern civilization which is oversocialization uh dig into that for me you this is my last video as well so it's pretty topical the Unabomber said that industrial civilization would either collapse or we would use genetic engineering to change humans into cogs over the course of the 21st century for those that don't know the Unabomber was terrorist in the 199s and he the reason he did his terrorism was to get the message out so that people could deal with it but what the unibomber said is that the complex interconnected system that is industrial civilization is so difficult to get to flow together that you need to have the individual sacrifice lots of their animal nature and lots of their individuality to get the system to work how so I'm going to use an example I did from the last video um there was no concept of employment in the pre-industrial world everyone was a renting farmer and they worked for themselves and in the F in the pre-industrial world the family was an economic unit you uh your wife uh your your father was your boss you worked with your father uh your mother helped manage the economic system that was the family you knew everyone around you in the pre-industrial world society was a community of people you know every single service whether your religion whether your insurance whether your military defense whether your your people you work with uh for your uh job they were all people you knew it was a community and so the idea of splitting people up into all these different subcomponents of of their lives it wouldn't it didn't exist back then and now modern civilization is a bureaucracy I like to say a normal person knows significantly more bureaucracies than they have friends where there's the bureaucracy that handles waste there's the school there's your work etc and the thing with bureaucracies is you can't build up intimate social connections and um so what happens here is that because Society gets atomized and split up due to the way due the sheer scale of industrial civilization it means a person has to wear their mask all the time they can't be authentic they have to wear their mask with their boss they have to wear their mask uh often with their families uh with their friends there's no and we've consistently found and all the great big universities like Harvard and Columbia have studied this the most important component for happiness is social connection and so that would have significant social effects that we wouldn't even mentally process it's not a dish it's the main course and another one of the most interesting books I've read is uh the history of manners by Norbert Elias and it's a history of manners in the Western World from the Middle Ages until the present and the fascinating thing is in the Middle Ages um if you wanted to cook something you would cut up the animal carcass in front of your friends in the Middle Ages it was completely normal for friends and family to have sex in front of each other Knights would write poetry how much they loveed The Act of Killing um it was it was a society where like there was no concept of privacy and those are things that we find disgusting in our society because we deal with so many people we don't know that we don't want to see people we don't know do those things and um and so the argument that the unibomber made and this is this is really crazy where the left Societies in collapse normally push their worst trait even further and that's a fascinating historical Trend where when the Aztecs knew they were going to die as a civilization they killed more people when the Nazis knew that they were going to lose World War III they killed more Jews when the Muslim World realized the European colonialists would wipe them out they became more conservative and so what the left did upon dealing with the underlying issues of industrial civilization is that they doubled down on using social engineering to control people if you're a leftist you're not allowed to like your country you're not allowed to be possessive in romantic relationships you're not allowed to want to kill people you're not allowed to be chauvinistic and naturally push your own self-interest you're not allowed to use magical thinking or believe in the div the Divine um where if you look at the left's worldview and I know lots of people like this people who are just the inner Elite or the low-level Elite of the managerial class is completely socialized if you look at someone like let's say a local uh bank branch manager or someone who works in the bureaucracy of Google they are people who can't change out of the corporate America setting they don't show a wide variety of emotions they don't think things they're not told to they do whatever their Elites say uh they believe has that not always been the way has it not always been the case that you've got chattle class that just does what the the elites expect of them and want to model what their betters are doing it's the degree of control I mean everything when one of things I like to say is everything is a matter of U of of range and so the range is everything um the degree of socialization we have now is completely unparalleled where you look at the left the left wants to shut down Human Nature they they they want to push for a society where you don't have kids where you don't push for your nation's self-interest um and all the things I said before and so there are differing degrees of control and I don't think it's that much a it's not a top down control it's not the Soviet Union where if you don't follow orders the pullup Bureau shoots you it's more so that through the process of education and socialization we have an incredibly rigid social code that doesn't have place for human nature we'll get back to speaking to rard in one minute but first I need to tell you about ag1 you are probably not eating enough a fruit and vegetables and you know it and this 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um the the video I'm writing now is the anthropology of the left the video I'm going to write next is the anthropology of the right and so I study the left and the right as if they were tribes in the Amazon of the Congo I look at the demographics that formed them their philosophic assumptions their strengths and weaknesses um the right has no no shared coherent ideology the right doesn't Thomas Soul has said that the right is whatever the left isn't so if you look at conservatives you have the Taliban you have Libertarians you have Nazis you have monarchists you have religious fundamentalists you have uh classical liberals these people share nothing except the left's coherent vision of the world the future is whatever the left says and the conservatives build their worldview off a past that never really existed and and and so there when we're talking at the right we're talking at different factions I think the Boomer cons in the old school right are are frankly like am I allowed to swear in the show of course oh yeah they're cucks like the Boomer consons are cucks um they don't go hard enough they don't have any concept of what's going on the world um the new right are sociopaths uh the Christian right is delusional um yeah you can just give me factions and I can criticize them well it seems to me at least looking at good portions of the right maybe more sort of the uh manosphere right the sort of young men's movement there is so much [ __ ] cynicism it is it is a very uninspiring movement to be a part of exactly I say the biggest issue of the new right is it the biggest issue of our entire Society is it lacks a soul there's a wonderful book by an orthodox Theologian that says the modern world is divided between those who numb itself to its meaninglessness through various substances and various Hedonism and those who realize it and go crazy every exactly yeah I just you know that when I look at a lot of the even the sort of more right leaning content at the moment even the the hopeful messages are guised within a you have to do this because if you don't do this then everything's going to go to [ __ ] like your hopefulness is kind of delivered at the end of a barrel of a gun yeah yeah exactly um and yeah it's just depressing and like the thing I see with a lot of the new right is it's just it's very cynical you're right it lacks any sense of inner authenticity or inner truth and it's funny the people who tell you to be authentic are the least authentic people in the world um some random redneck from my hometown in Pennsylvania is much more authentic than a person who says Be Be yourself love yourself be authentic um and and uh yeah it's it also gets stuck on weird points where uh like this is a big issue we've lost the ability to change settings and so the new right obsesses over a couple different topics um like abortion or the Jews or physical fitness uh or just hatred of the left and they lose the ability to the bigger picture and they're upset every Ideology Now is hyper materialist and that it only sees things from their material good and it lacks any concept of the inner soul or character of things um and yeah I mean I think that it's a lot of desperate people who look for some kind of Hedonism as a way to get out of desperation because they don't have a better idea yeah I wonder what the combination of extreme cynicism with a fractured fragmented sort of inner group is I'm always really cautious this is one of my I've got four rules of how you can tell if a content creator is being honest and truthful one of them is is there group bound together over the mutual hatred of an outg group or the mutual love of their in group yes and I think I see an awful lot of both sides their identification is we don't know what we are necessarily but we know that we're not that and that is the other side yes exactly it's why for my channel I've said that the the value that I try to build my channel around is honor because I said the left the right now is based around hatred of the left I say a lot of the factions of the right are adjust there rationalization for killing people and I think that's going to end up in a very bad place so you need to create an active value and so why it's why I said uh we stand for for when I released one of my videos I said honor truth and freedom I think those are important values and it's I mean I think that we're in a winwing event for Content cre political content creators I don't think 80% will make it in the next three years I think we're going to see not if this [ __ ] 2024 keeps going the way it is dude I think that the last four weeks has been the highest revenue for the guys that are like balls deep in the political daily Wyatt for instance I would wage your money that they have made more cash in the last month than they will have ever made before damn that's cool um but what I see with a lot of content creators is just they're having horrible mental health issues or they're having serious they're having like uh so you had uh Hassan he had his Breaking Point with where he thre threat to kill himself uh vou had his uh pedo uh Scandal Destiny had his scandal about um about uh Whatchamacallit again you know what I'm talking about saying that you're allowed to shoot Trump voters the daily wire had internal drama uh I and back in my head I've got a list of like 10 of those you could throw like there's probably three times as many but I think that uh I think that we are we are in a critical three-year window in which the world both for content for politics for our nation will change very much in the next 3 years and it's comparable to do you remember the world before covid yeah briefly kind of it's not the same world as today and I remember uh I think in music and in 2020 there are different songs I use to symbolize different mental States I have so I want to change how I think I change the music and so I have a song in my mind that's symbolic for the age that came before and I remember listening to this in 2020 and I thought to myself I'm going to listen to this song now knowing that in the future I will look back on this and realize that this time is gone but I didn't know what will come next right okay yeah again another very you thing to do one one interesting Insight just going back to the right the anti-intellectual culture yes that they have at the moment what's the role that you see that playing cuz it I don't know it seems to me that that's kind of a shitty thing to embody it is yeah um my thing here is that the managers and the experts have really screwed over people over the last 40 years I have a text wall where I talk about 10 different ways the experts massively lied uh one saying that fat is the end all Beall of uh health and that sorry you should just cut out fat don't care about sugar cause massive issues when I was growing up we had the food pyramid the food pyramid said you needed to have carbs the most of anything and that lean meat was bad for you that's example one saying men and women are the same that's a massive expert lie saying genetics had no Val has no value I'm from Pennsylvania my part of the country got hosed by de-industrialization and then the experts all said we're going to get you coding jobs we'll make sure it's fine Philadelphia now is a lower population than it did in 1950 um besides that I mean there was this whole like neoliberal globalist project that everyone said would bring about Utopia and brought out the opposite and I could find 30 examples where the experts have just massively lied and I think a lot of the right is people who don't have high enough a lot of most of the world is people who don't let me back up I like to say that if you're not an intelligent person there's a couple strategies you realize that you are not intelligent so you try to figure out someone more intelligent to model your behavior off um and so if you're in that category which is not as genetically intelligent and you've realized the people on top keep lying to you and you don't know or trust anyone who's more intelligent who has your best interest in mind you're just going to hate them as a demographic that's interesting yeah I previously would have followed a group that I could reliably uh use as a way marker for me to track my future I don't necessarily have the agency or the time I'm so busy that I don't actually have the opportunity to do the reflection that's needed so I'll Model Behavior of those people but this massive loss in trust in organizations in media in science you know like just trust the science now is used ironically uh so yeah that's that's interesting and we're seeing you know a good bit of this Candace Owens had her well is the world round is is the Earth really round or is it flat because I don't trust and that's taking this to the you know the absolute most extreme tuer Carson sort of re bringing creationism kind of back to the front well you know Evolution we've got a lot of questions that we need to ask there it's almost like I I believe that these people kind of believe it but I also know that they can get away with the troll because it is the tip of the Spear of a huge shaft which is all of this anti-intellectual scientific skepticism yeah we lack wisdom and the wise man doesn't know what he doesn't know what about the left how did the left end up getting so feminine in that way why are there no strong masculine figures standing with the working class that's really a great question um so in the video that I I'm writing now and I'm uh going to release in the next week I I split the left into the Western left and the Eastern left the Eastern left is Marxism the Western left is our left it goes back to the French Revolution and so you have a thinker you have there was a thinker in 1820s or 1810s France called Saint Simone Saint Simone pushed for uh using liberating the third world to launch a revolution in the first world the destruction of sex and trans he pushed for uh the creation of a new man creating a religion of science where you built secular rituals to uh worship the experts um and the breakdown OFA and the make creation of complete equality so everything in the left today you can find in French thinkers from the revolution 200 years ago um that you can view a tremendous amount of the current left as a resentful spurned lover against the working classes because the the aim of the working classes was largely to get more money and the left saw the working classes as this wedge to get them into power and the leftist elite is all either basically academics or Thugs and this was earlier communist the Communist Elite was either academics then when the academic then when the revolution worked the thugs killed the academic Stalin and Castro and Ma were literally like Bandits for parts of their lives um and what happened with the spurning of the working classes is that the left redirected towards women and women were a demographic that was easier to manipulate and socially control and so one of my I just read two incredible books about this one is the Leviathan and its enemies by Sam Francis and the other one is uh is the total state by Orin McIntyre and both of them are books on how the ruling class controls the population because I'm going to make a video series talking about the mechanisms of power and they both call the leftist elite foxes and foxes are the kinds of people who manipulate through cunning they're good people at running systems they're good people at getting inside the levers of bureaucracy itself it's comparable to when an Empire Falls it's there's always uh either a child Emperor or an old fool surrounded by Unix Haram girls and bureaucrats our Elite are Unix Haram girls and bureaucrats and so the left went through the left because the left doesn't like using actual physical Force thus their levers of power come through manipulation and that came that's indirectly a lot of the scop stuff and the ological manipulation comes from advertising the people who made the advertising industry were the exact same people of the people who made propaganda during the world wars World War I created the advertising industry for that reason and so the left is able to use women and psychologically manipulate them and women agree to this because the state can fill the void that the that men used to be so the state can support can keep you from being attacked it can feed you with welfare um it can make sure you have good health it can give you insurance so the state was able to make and the bureaucracy was able to make a a bargain with women where in exchange for us replacing men you give us unquestioning loyalty in exchange for your freedom from the patriarchy and so that's the calculation that's going on and the problem is that the left is desperate and they can't renegotiate that they're they're pushing up against the end of their lever and so they're stuck pushing this equation and this bargain more and more to desperately maintain power and they lose the ab lack the ability to form a new Coalition yeah that is interesting what's the role of multiculturalism in this yes um so the modern supply chain is very complex and it's very large this shirt I I think it's probably made in Vietnam uh it it's designed in I don't know Europe made in Vietnam now we're in Texas so the globalization of the economy requires a tremendous amount of cooperation by different nations and so that's reason one Global globalism allows and multiculturalism allows greater AC AC ACC creation ACC creation of wealth uh by large multinational companies second reason is that by watering down the West's culture and the West is the most individualistic Society ever they can dominate their own populations only by taking an immigrants from elsewhere and by making globalist values do get rid of those pesky Western values vales like pride and freedom and uh in individual rights and so it's inside the self-interest of the elites to uh push for globalism either to weaken the strength of their enemies inside their own countries to get value and strength from other countries or from uh the ability to cooperate transnationally more easily does the globally interconnected world and the fact that we are so Multicultural does that change any of the Dynamics that you were looking at previously so this is a great question and it brings up I think one of possibly possibly this is my best video it's not the one that I look back upon most fondly but this is probably my best video modern civilization because one of the angles I look at is civilizational analysis and I study the strength and weaknesses and the origins of Western Greco Roman Chinese Indian civilization and I found that starting around the time of the world Wars you saw something that looked independent from the other civilizations where if you go to Egypt or Italy Egypt especially you can look at the Persian the Greek the Roman the British the Islamic architecture and you know that that was a different civilization with a different idea after the world wars block architecture took over the world these concrete square blocks they don't symbolize anything uh when I briefly lived in California I'm from rural Pennsylvania in rural Pennsylvania most people are white Christian they look they wear European style clothes they live in European style houses they have a European political philosophy California clothes aren't European most people aren't white they don't have a Europe they operate off postmodernist political philosophy they're not Christian they wear clothes invented in California so implicit in that is the creation of a new cultural formation that I call Modern civilization and Sam Francis has said that the managerial class is trying to create a new civilization independent of Western Civilization similarly to how the Communists launched the cultural revolution against the uh old Russian or Chinese civilizations so the elites trying to make a new civilization the problem is that new civilization doesn't stand for anything it doesn't have any Deep Roots it can pull from so it's doomed to fail it seems interesting to me to think about you know we talking are we in posthistory are the lessons of before no longer applicable now and you know one of the things whether it be science technology sort of social order this kind of belief that we all have in the back of our minds that were no longer driven by the same things that drove uh Rat Utopia Mouse Utopia uh or our previous history and I do wonder how much of a hedge or how stabilizing it is that everybody is so interconnected from a sort of global perspective that we don't want to cause too much of Ruckus or that other states are going to step in to be ballasted you know what I mean yes so there was an author named Angel before World War I who made that exact same argument before World War I Angel's argument is that the global economy is interconnected enough that there's not an incentive to have War the irony is that statistically it produces the opposite the more interconnected a system is the more likely it is to break down and that's why do you think that is so there's something called complexity Theory and complexity theory was used first for traffic jams and then we later used it for the Bronze Age collapse where once you have throw more complex variables into an interconnected system one of them can go wrong and then it spreads across the system for example the Silk Road tied Europe together in the Middle Ages but then that meant that the Black Death could spread from China to Europe in a 5-year period um and what happened with the Bronze Age collaps and this is something people forget about is the world the Middle East in the Known World 3,000 years ago was pretty Advanced you had cities you had markets you had writing you had like a in system uh all that stuff Advanced governments but they were dependent upon long-distant trade where it's funny the the regimes in Syria they would Source tin from Britain because it so tin is a vital subcomponent of bronze the only way that they could Source tin was from Britain and Afghanistan so very complex system what happened in the Bronze Age world is that once one country fell apart the entire Bronze Age system fell apart the Greeks fell apart the hites fell apart the syrians dead there were similar collapses in India or China and what happened in World War I was that the system was very complex but it also created competitivity where the reason World War I happened the British and the French were scared the Germans would out compete them the Germans were scared the Russians would out compete them so inside that globalist market system came competition and a greater degree of uh of strife and so uh I I mean this argument's been used before I don't think we often project our social attitudes onto other countries where we're a very Market focused very wealth focused Society but look at China China just shut itself off from the world you Western journalists aren't allowed in China they've been just stealing money from people they're killing millions of weers China just shut itself off from the global economy and they made that for political calculations before and people thought that was impossible because from the Western in mind you're thinking they're trying to get their people to be more Rich right and the Chinese were thinking no we want to stay in power and so we shouldn't assume that we shouldn't assume that all the players involved have comparable motivations to us one of the interesting stats that I learned was the increase in the use of the word racist or racism in the New York Times I think it was from 2008 to 2018 it goes up by this absur it's like 42 times increase or something like that uh perhaps unsurprisingly all of the data suggested that real racism had been declining and then we've seen in the last two to three years or so at least for me being exposed to stuff on the internet uh way more latent anti-Semitism yes than I ever knew existed yes and you know I I I don't I wasn't around that many uh Jewish people growing up Jews don't have that same kind of uh foothold culturally in the UK that they do in the US yeah but I did live near I think one of the densest Jewish populations outside of Israel uh which is just North of the river TI in wait in Newcastle you're from Newcastle well like uh is the is the is the side the other side of the river it's like Bamberg what's the name of it bambra is bambra bambra is one of them yes but Gates head and just a little bit above that is where this particular area is what do you lay the sort of recent increase in anti-Semitism at the feet of yeah feels like Kanye's [ __ ] fired the starter pistol and just been going from that I'm glad you brought that up because that's something I've seen and and I exist in conservative spaces where it's just ugly now like the racism the sexism the homophobia whatever it's not good and I think like I I really dislike the sentiment the left did it and thus we have to be the opposite of the left it's very reaction because the left is so accepting even if it's only performatively of these things yes the left is that therefore we are whatever the opposite is yes um yeah in baboon in baboon colonies uh if one Superior kicks an inferior baboon that baboon will kick a further inferior baboon pecking all exactly yeah and it's the displacement of aggression and people's lives suck now and so they look for a scapegoat and the Jews are a convenient scapegoat and there is there there's an element of Truth to everything where Jews are disproportionately leftwing they are disproportionately in positions of Authority so they make an easy scapegoat because they so if you want to scapegoat the Chinese Communist Party good luck if you want to scapegoat Islam again good luck um what you mean when you say that why good luck so if you're one of those content creators like censa or law that like constantly criticizes the Chinese Communist party you get a lot of crap for that like the chin you don't want to be enemies with Islam or the Chinese Communist party or the American deep State the Jews if you criticize the Jews uh most people don't know other Jews uh I don't Jew the Jews are in this sweet spot and this uncanny valley that they're powerful enough to be a scapegoat but they're not powerful enough that you're actually threatened by scapegoating them does that make sense and you go back to history and this is man this is something I'm researching I've got like a 2,000 page reading list because I'm I'm looking up je I'm reading up on Jewish civilization because I want to make the definitive answer on why the Jews get persecuted so much and what about uh whatever the situation is that justifies that but I mean this is super common it's like like anti-Semitism is just incredibly common over history it's just a continuation of the pattern the thing that shocks me is like I was Fed so much anti- Holocaust stuff as a kid that it's crazy that the the the that the programming was so skin level it wasn't sticky enough to stick around yeah I I remember this Family Guy sketch where it's these Jews that are helping to build the pyramids and they're being whipped by you know one of these Egyptians as they're going up and the one that's carrying the first big brick turns around to the guy that's behind him and he says all nations have to put up with their amount of persecution us Jews are getting ours out of the way early after this it's just going to be clean sailing and it's so right because you think my God like this is a particular group of people that just keep on being on the wrong end of a whole host of like pretty sort of nasty outcome yeah this is basically historical fanfi but uh I I sometimes imagine because we know that Abraham existed because all the descendants of Abraham um we've traced everyone who claims descend of Abraham and they have a shared Y chromosone in that place that time so I do wonder is like historical fanfic If Abraham made a deal where in exchange for suffering the Jews could create so much stuff because suffering allows greatness and so it it it kills off the weak people makes you push harder and you look at the Jews uh they've produced Christianity they've produced Judaism they've produced uh Einstein's physics Spinosa was a Jew Marx was a Jew and it's crazy to see this population where they've suffered so much but on top of that they've produced so much and those they're they're the same variable what are your thoughts on Nick fent oh did you hear my recent beef with him you had beef oh yeah so I released my most successful tweet ever came out I sent it out last week and I called him a Fed it got 3 million views and I detailed all the reasons why I think he's a Fed give me the portfolio give me your proposal so um the short answer is I was looking at his various self-interests and I realized the the calculations he was making were not actually um the calculations he were making were not what made sense for him so he targets all the other figures inside the hard right which doesn't really make sense unless he's a Fed because You' think these would be coalition Partners instead what he's doing is he's targeting the the he T targeted menes moldbug Bronze Age pervert zero Lovecraft um I think there's some evidence for sbra he's targeting all these people many of them for being Jewish but it these are the kinds of people that could genuinely I mean I don't agree with their ideas but I respect that they have intellectual grit and um and then on top of that he portrays the hard right in the least sympathetic light possible he is openly a um he's openly a uh tradcath incel um anti-democracy Holocaust denying fascist so if I was in his shoes I would say yes I love democracy but what we have now is not real democracy I support real democracy for the people and the only way to have real democracy for the people is that do centralize it in the hands of a leader who can represent the will of the people that's what I would say if I was him I would not say those things because so he make he attacks other right-wing thinkers He makes himself look very bad uh he got off really light for j6 which you'd think that the legal Court the legal system would go after him punitively um where the legal system would go after him punitively because he's exactly the kind of person who they'd like to make a symbol out of uh but no he got off very light uh and I think what happened is that I don't think he's like genetically a Fed I think it was something that was forced on him in exchange for not going to jail where he I think he genuinely is a conservative but I think he's forced to do some stuff in order to to not go to jail that is a serious conspiracy theory I suppose as well regardless of what you think about his politics he's not a total stupid person no that's what I said at the end of the tweet I said that I could tell his mind works very quickly but the things he say doesn't match the speed of his mind I can look at him and I can see the gears are moving very quickly but it there isn't an alignment between the external show and his underlying conscience does that make sense so what what does that portray to you for certain people you can look at them and you can see a kind of unity of their character in that from front to back they're the same person um and when I see a disjoint like that it means that there's because whenever I talk to someone I get a Vibe do what do I know about this person what don't I know for a lot of people I get the impression there are three important facts I don't know and so when I see a disjoint like that what it tells me is that his underlying motives are not what the external appearance is I've had a couple of conversations with people that are like that it's one a while ago and it's done this big episode and we you know we sit down and we have this chat and then we finish up and there was this uh moment where I sort of paid a compliment at the end and there was a flash on the face of this sort of chain in this sort of narcissistic inflation this sort of ego came out and then really quickly like it sort of clamped down and it came back over the top and that was the most disturbing part of the whole episod and I thought oh okay that that that one you know3 second element really betrayed yeah everything frankly this is not a very trustworthy trustworthy industry I think content creators are significantly less trustworthy than the general population well the thing that drives anybody to seek Fame and Status at the expense of their sanity for the most part probably not a particularly uh healthy psyche inside yeah one of the things I guess maybe that a lot of people might be feeling after this conversation is well [ __ ] hell Rod thank you for that you know very sort of fatalistic nihilistic cynical view of the future I know that you try and have worked hard both for yourself and for your audience to uh come up with uh rules and uh worldview and uh strategies to actually be hopeful and to kind of counter a lot of the bad advice that's given to young men yes where do you go to for that given all of the potential chaos and the future and it's all going to be hard and blah blah blah what what's some sort of firm footing what do you rely on when it comes to this discussion that's a good question uh in eastern mysticism and Hinduism and Buddhism and stuff there's this concept of do not look at the association your mind makes of things um let's say you feel sad just focus in the feeling of being sad don't make it don't think about what it reminds you of don't think about what you what your mind immediately jumps to and so the Mind naturally makes lots of things that it doesn't actually relate to the thing that you are directly speaking about and so I just told I tell you what I believe to be the truth I tell you this because I see it as my duty to tell you the truth um what you choose to do with it is your choice um and what I I think there's no right answer for everyone and whenever people give advice to everyone I don't think it's useful because everyone's so different so whenever a friend asks me for advice I say what do you like to do what are you good at what do you better Visa V everyone else look for the asymmetric Advantage so I'm not going to give your entire crowd advice because I don't I don't know who you are random guy listening in Florida um and what I will say though I I have a couple different things I say um the first is that just live your life like one of the things I tell myself is the world could go to crap but I'm still gonna I'm still here to chill I'll still do cool events I'm still going to do what I want to do I'm still going to make friends travel to places read new books that doesn't have a bearing on the outside world like you you read about Winston Churchill lived through so many horrifying Wars but he had a great life um same and that's what I think you can do and what I would say is try to find I think religion is the biggest thing that helps people with this stuff when you have a grounding in the world irrespective of the outside world it's like it's like you have this you have a soul and once you have a soul you have an ability to have a differentiation between the insanity of the world and yourself and what I also what I tell young men especially and I gather your audience is probably majority male is what are you willing to die for because for men to have something worth living for you need to have something worth dying for and so if you're dying in a ditch what cause do you want to be dying in a ditch for and so figure out your as asymmetric advantages figure out what you want to die for find some kind of spiritual grounding and um and I mean n said don't get stuck in the house of morality and this is something I see with a lot of creators especially conservative creators they're so stuck on hating the left assume the left is completely evil just for this one sentence argument what's next if the left is evil what do you do next and that's my answer for this and I went through uh upon realizing these things I went through like a a one or twoe grieving process where I had to think okay because people say like it it's weird or schizo to be obsessed with politics but no politics is life if it's World War II and it's differing to gree politics isn't life in 1984 if it's World War II you're dying in a ditch in Stalingrad politics became your life these macro political became your life and so my assumption growing up was that we would live in this John Hughes Simpsons America where you go to college and you get a good job and then you get married and I realized that wasn't going to happen so I thought to myself what's next because if that's not going to happen what am I going to do next and over time I realized I prefer this to the old life it's better it's better to play to play a difficult game and feel your heart breathe than play a boring game yeah I think you know this so much about the advice that's given to young man which is perverted the difficult situation I I mean you both agree on this uh wildly unpopular uh among most of the people that are sort of male content creators which is that the crisis of femininity and the sort of female uh impending sort of female psychological problems are maybe going to at least compete with what guys are suffering with at the moment yeah yeah I agree um that's something that you and I uh are in agreement on and I actually think women have it worse than men uh in that I think women are more dependent upon their community and society and thus uh if that goes bad they lose they have less of an ability to handle the toughness or adjust than men and like every single girl in the age of 25 I've met has at least one mental health condition at this point it's a game where I try to guess which in advanced and it's just it's crazy that there's an entire I mean Zoomers are split between 20% who are very effective and 80% are ineffective and um I mean I think there there's enough suffering in the world why do I have to add more like I mean women are suffering men are suffering the poor are suffering the rich are suffering uh having a competition like that it's one of the very odd things about that that I was thinking about as I was doing some research this morning for this episode is that the framing of sort of uh intersectionality victimhood hierarchy that is heavily criticized by guys on the right is also used by them to say well yeah but women don't have it as bad as me exactly yeah and I've lived a bizarre life and so I've met a lot of different people rich people poor people famous people not famous people everyone's got a person everyone's a person everyone's got a soul just because someone has an identity that that's not your doesn't mean they don't have a soul and the thing I can't compromise on is that once you start treating your political enemies like they don't have souls that's just evil bad things are going to happen and um and and your victimhood argument is interesting where the further right you go the more psychologically you end up like the left in a bunch of different ways do you want me to explain so uh the far right and ironically they were the same movement until around 1850 and then they were both part of the Revolutionary movement then you had National revolutionary ISM and then you had leftist revolutionary ISM so Nazis and Communists were the same in the early 19th early 19th century and so hard right uh obsession over your social status obsession over blood um lack of a concept of a soul uh the idea the government should run Society ideas of manism or everything is good versus evil um ideas of revolutionary ISM um you have I mean the the Nazis and the Soviets both had gulags they killed different people but they both had the death camps and what about the left what's the equivalent far left oh yeah it's the Communists I mean uh the the the far-left equivalent they they also think the government should run everything they also think that uh your birth determines uh who you are if you're born upper class you're part of the bad guys if you're born working class you're a good guy um they also don't believe in a concept of the Soul they both believe that uh if we kill an outgroup the world becomes perfect that's either the Jews or the capitalists uh both don't see the world as an organic living place they both really don't have a concept of God either um and it's funny that the most hard right Christian the most hard right guys are philosophically the least Christian people in the political Spectrum where the left and even the Techno Optimist they take a lot of implicit Christian assumptions the hard-right fascist guys are the least philosophically Christian even though they often say I'm hardcore Trad cath um so yeah they also think that um they they're both authoritarian and they both think that in order to achieve these they're both often rationalizations for killing people too where would you send somebody if they said this is kind of interesting it sounds like you've had a non-typical education what are some of the books that you think would be good for me to read that are accessible for somebody kind of stepping F into this world the uh if you want to learn history as a person who's not a historian the best book to read is the invention of yesterday by tamim msar um that's a book that looks at history from the perspective of What ideologies people in different societies use so it explains how an ancient Greek person saw the world how a communist saw the world Etc atrocities by Matthew white is also very good it's a history of the world from the perspective of the top 100 bloodiest atrocities in history very helpful no it's actually great because it's not a biased narrative and you realize damn lot of history happened in medieval China uh because most histories are written like we are going towards progress this is our agenda top 100 atrocities just death is the Arbiter it's a pretty objective look at human life um and then my favorite author the author who I keep on like pushing up is amori duror amori dakor was a French orientalist of the World War II era and he wrote several he's made five intellectual jumps that are absolutely brilliant one of which is said he wrote book sex and Power in history which how the relations between the Sexes inform the rise and fall of civilizations uh he wrote The Eye of Shiva which compares the teachings of modern science to Hinduism and how the Hindus 2,000 years ago reached a lot of similar philosophic conclusions to modern science uh the coming Caesars is about uh the parallel in America and Rome that's where I got the groy stuff from and then he wrote The Soul of India and the soul of China which is about the mental system and the character of Indian and Chinese civilization looking at some of the summaries of his work not perhaps the most accessible in the world how easy did you find that stuff to get through oh uh I was going through a comment se you you can just go on Amazon and order it or albris I mean how uh accessible was the book how easy was it for you to read and and retain so he's not a particularly difficult writer um no he's he's a pretty clear writer um I mean it depends no yeah I think a normal person would be fine reading that okay if it's normi approved that's good R Lynch ladies and gentlemen dude I really appreciate you where should people go they want to check out more of your stuff you should check out my channel what ifal his and I have a second Channel called history 102 with Eric torenberg yes exactly thank you so much for having me I appreciate you man you too peace thank you very much for tuning in if you enjoyed that episode you will love my fulllength 3our conversation with Eric Weinstein right here