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00:00:33.000That's the reason HBO made a full-scale documentary about the discredited Anita Hill charges.
00:00:39.000It's why the left gets to consistently insist that Thomas is some sort of idiot for not asking questions during oral argument, a useless procedure given that the justices have generally made up their minds already.
00:00:49.000Even the museum includes items from the Anita
00:00:51.000Hill debacle, according to the Weekly Standard.
00:01:12.000This is the sick double standard of the left.
00:01:14.000If you're a leftist black person, you can commit virtually any sin and withstand it.
00:01:17.000If you're a prominent conservative black person, you must be memory-holed.
00:01:20.000That's because the left identifies people by group characteristic and insists it is the greatest protector of victimized groups.
00:01:26.000If certain members of those supposed victim groups refuse to see themselves as victims, and instead they insist on thinking along conservative lines, they must be cast out lest they represent
00:01:36.000A living testament to the falsity of leftist thought.
00:01:41.000And the same Democratic Party that reams Donald Trump for doubting Barack Obama's point of origin has no problem disappearing Thomas.
00:01:47.000After all, it's racist to pretend that President Obama isn't authentically African American.
00:01:52.000But it's perfectly acceptable to do so to a man born in segregated Georgia on a farm, speaking Gullah as his native tongue, the descendant of American slaves, abandoned by his father, left homeless by a fire, raised by his maternal grandparents.
00:02:03.000He doesn't think like Obama does, and so he must be excised.
00:02:14.000If you're wondering why you're watching us here on a Friday, it's because earlier this week was Rosh Hashanah, and that meant that we had to take two days off.
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00:03:44.000We're going to do Deconstructing the Culture.
00:03:50.000We had to skip that earlier this week, so we'll do that today.
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00:04:06.000We will discuss corn and we'll deconstruct the culture in a little bit.
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00:05:06.000Hillary has provided all sorts of material for him to use in the debate on Sunday.
00:05:10.000There is no shortage of material for Donald Trump to use in the debate on Sunday.
00:05:14.000So, for example, according to the Wall Street Journal today, quote,
00:05:21.000We're in close contact with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign in early 2015 about the potential fallout from revelations the former Secretary of State used a private email server.
00:05:30.000In other words, the Obama White House was coordinating with Hillary about something that the Obama White House was supposed to be investigating.
00:05:36.000The Obama DOJ was in the middle of a criminal investigation of Hillary's private email server, and the White House was working with Hillary Clinton and the State Department.
00:06:50.000By the way, the State Department also tried to convince the FBI to relabel documents less classified so that it wouldn't look like Hillary had passed really highly classified material across her server.
00:07:00.000Third piece of news that Donald Trump should be using in the debate on Sunday.
00:07:04.000Russia now wants to open bases in Vietnam and Cuba.
00:07:08.000So, Hillary, who is supposed to have given the Russian reset button, she's going to be so tough on Russia.
00:07:12.000Russia is currently on an expansionist tear.
00:07:36.000So they've actually put what they call the Iskander missile system, I think I'm pronouncing that correctly, the Iskander missile system, a short-range missile system, in Kaliningrad, which is kind of this, it's a weird little territory that's Russian territory, but it's not actually contiguous with Russia.
00:07:50.000It sort of curls around, and Poland is to its south, and Latvia and Estonia are very close by, and Finland is just across, a body of water.
00:07:59.000And the outgoing president of, the outgoing president
00:08:25.000They're now obviously moving in offensive directions because they feel like whoever wins this election, they're going to be able to achieve what they want to achieve.
00:08:46.000Aleppo is a city in Syria, Gary Johnson.
00:08:48.000Aleppo is a city in Syria that has been sort of a battleground between the resistance to Assad and Assad, and the Russian-Syrian forces are now pounding Aleppo.
00:08:56.000376 people have been killed in the last couple of weeks.
00:09:03.000He's threatening to stop speaking with the Russians, which I'm sure would be a great relief to them, because who wants to hear John Kerry speak to them?
00:09:42.000So he could mention all these things, and he should mention all of these things, right?
00:09:46.000He should spend his time going after Hillary on all these things.
00:09:49.000Of course, that would require him to know policy, so that's an uphill battle for Trump because he doesn't study, and he doesn't really pay attention to this.
00:09:55.000Unfortunately, Donald Trump, just as of about 10 minutes ago, decided that he was going to revivify the case of the Central Park Jogger.
00:10:02.000The Central Park Jogger, for people who don't know this case, a white woman was jogging in Central Park, I believe this is 1989, and she was assaulted, allegedly, by five people, six people, like a group of young guys who beat her up, left her in a coma for 12 days, and raped her.
00:10:16.000And the original case, there were six people who were tried, five black, one Hispanic, if this is correct, I think it is.
00:10:23.000All six of them confessed to being involved.
00:10:27.000And then in 2002, a guy who was a life convict rapist
00:10:31.000Came out and said he was the one who actually did it, and he did the rape alone.
00:10:34.000So, and his bodily material matched up with the kit that was on file, and so these guys were released from prison.
00:10:41.000Now, there still is, to be fair to Trump, there still is some controversy over whether the confessions were coerced, whether the confessions were real, whether there was some level of involvement by these guys.
00:10:50.000But, in the end, there's a $41 million settlement with the Central Park Five, as they were called.
00:10:56.000Central Park Five, as they were called, and they were paid off by the city.
00:11:01.000For some odd reason, Trump feels the need to revivify this.
00:11:04.000Now, forget whether Trump is right or wrong for a second, because nobody really knows whether Trump is right or wrong.
00:11:10.000We do know that the guy who was the actual rapist, or at least one of the rapists as far as we know, the only rapist as far as we know, that that guy's genetic material was on the woman and that there was no other genetic material connecting these other guys.
00:11:22.000But, put the whole case aside for just a second.
00:11:25.000Why is he bringing up an issue that's just going to be a hot button for Hillary to move him onto?
00:12:15.000And we'll see if he's capable of doing that.
00:12:18.000Trump, for some odd reason, I'm not sure what he's doing.
00:12:22.000I mean, I could say that most of the time, but I'm really not sure what he's doing in the lead up to this debate.
00:12:26.000Yesterday he was speaking, I think this is in Nevada, and here he is talking about how he doesn't like getting into the gutter with Hillary Clinton, which comes as a shock to everybody.
00:14:55.000And there are other goodies that are going to be coming to members in the near future.
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00:15:08.000Okay, so meanwhile, Hillary Clinton, it's unbelievable that Donald Trump is losing to Hillary Clinton, and the polls right now are not good for Trump.
00:15:15.000It is a crazy thing, a truly crazy thing that he's losing to a woman who's this bad at this, and she truly is.
00:15:21.000Hillary Clinton, let me give you an example.
00:15:23.000Hillary Clinton had a little girl ask her a question at one of her events.
00:15:26.000Everything for Hillary has to be scripted.
00:15:28.000It's mandatory that everything that Hillary does is scripted because she's incapable of sticking and moving.
00:15:33.000She can't really do things on the run, which is her problem in this new town hall format.
00:15:39.000Is she going to be good on her feet or is she going to collapse on her feet?
00:15:42.000Here's a little girl asking her a question, then we'll explain something about the little girl.
00:15:47.000At my school, body image is a really big issue for girls my age.
00:15:51.000I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look.
00:15:56.000As the first female president, how would you undo some of that damage and help girls understand that they are so much more than just what they look like?
00:16:50.000Meanwhile, it turns out who's her daddy?
00:16:51.000Her daddy is Democratic State Senator Daylen Leach.
00:16:54.000He's the chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee.
00:16:57.000Leach endorsed Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the primaries, saying, at a time when the Republican presidential candidate seemed to be stoking the flames of fear and anger, I have never been more proud to support Hillary Clinton for president.
00:17:05.000Yeah, I'm sure that this was totally spontaneous.
00:17:08.000Everything in the Hillary Clinton campaign has to be scripted, including her exchanges with Steve Harvey.
00:17:13.000Every single element has to be scripted.
00:17:15.000And so all her campaign now comes down to is scripted exchanges and people shouting about why vaginas make people better qualified to be president of the United States.
00:17:23.000Although, let me just remind you, for all you leftists in the audience, for all you people who are watching on the left, let me remind you, not all women have vaginas.
00:17:31.000Dick Durbin makes the vagina case, the pro-vagina case, though.
00:17:34.000He says Americans just don't want to—the reason that she's having trouble is because Americans just don't want a woman to be president, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois.
00:17:42.000You also have the fact that it isn't articulated very often.
00:17:46.000Here is a woman aspiring to the highest office of the land.
00:17:50.000And there's some people who will never say the words, but they aren't buying it.
00:18:06.000No one in the world would have guessed that people would be talking about Hillary Clinton being the first major party female candidate.
00:18:13.000No one ever would have... Okay, except for all of us who have been functioning as human beings for the last 20 years, no one knew that was going to happen.
00:18:40.000Maybe Donald Trump pulls a last rabbit out of that giant hat, and suddenly he does a great debate, he comes back and he wins.
00:18:47.000But let's assume for a second that Donald Trump loses.
00:18:49.000Over the last couple days, we talked yesterday about Sean Hannity going after Megyn Kelly, and Megyn Kelly saying that Sean Hannity was flacking for Trump, which clearly is true.
00:18:57.000And today, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity sort of made up, they tweeted out a picture of themselves together, saying, we're Irish, it's complicated, hashtag friends.
00:19:15.000He says, you know, if Trump has another bad debate, the GOP could publicly split.
00:19:19.000There could be a bunch of people who sort of walk away from Donald Trump if he has another bad debate.
00:19:24.000What do they feel like will change the dynamic of the race, especially if you're Donald Trump?
00:19:27.000Well, I think if you're Donald Trump, just any normalized debate is going to at least stop Clinton's momentum a little bit.
00:19:35.000But I think, listen to the subtle signals that congressional Republicans were sending yesterday.
00:19:42.000A few blind quotes here or there, you heard.
00:19:45.000If Donald Trump doesn't have a good night on Sunday, and if it's similar to the first debate,
00:19:53.000Then you may start seeing the down-ballot exodus in some form.
00:19:58.000Is it just candidates proactively running away?
00:20:02.000Whatever it is, but you now have the sense that Trump's in, and we've been here before with him, but one of these do-or-die moments with the Republican Party, with McConnell, where if it's
00:20:16.000If it's a debate performance like the first night, it may be unrecoverable and you may see the party publicly split.
00:20:23.000Okay, well, I don't know if the party's going to publicly split.
00:20:25.000I think they'll hold it together through the election.
00:20:27.000But it does raise the question, what happens if Trump loses after all of this is over?
00:20:31.000Now, this election has basically come down to, for people on the right, you know, this has come down to, and I discussed this at length yesterday on the podcast, but this has come down to, I think, in the end, a basic question.
00:20:43.000Do you think this is the last election, or do you not think this is the last election?
00:20:47.000Do you think that there's a possibility that Republicans come back and win in four years with someone who's better than Donald Trump, or do you sacrifice that possibility in favor of Trump is the best we can do and we better get it now because otherwise we're totally screwed?
00:20:58.000Hillary's president and she ruins everything and there's no way Republicans ever get elected.
00:21:02.000Again, Ann Coulter sort of articulates this perspective last night.
00:21:05.000She says this election is the end of Western civilization if it goes the wrong way.
00:21:09.000Well, I'm not really interested in day-to-day politics, but this is, as you say, bigger than day-to-day.
00:21:16.000You know, the truth about Joe McCarthy, the truth about Darwinism, that sort of thing, not particularly involved in elections, but this will determine the survival of Western civilization.
00:21:28.000And it is because of cultures and demographics.
00:21:32.000Well, those are people bringing particular cultures with them.
00:21:37.000It's taken centuries to create the freest, most prosperous, fairest
00:21:46.000Uh, societies in the world and there have been lots of studies about this.
00:21:51.000Um, as you probably know, out of especially Samuel Huntington, um, some professors at Harvard, UCLA, you never hear about, about this.
00:21:59.000Um, so that the left can go on, uh, persuading Americans
00:22:04.000And I suppose Canadians and British and so on, that American culture is the worst culture in the world and the sooner we replace ourselves, the better off we are.
00:22:13.000We are somehow oppressing, you know, these throngs of the third world that are now being brought in to replace us.
00:22:20.000Okay, so I have sympathy for the argument that multiculturalism—not sympathy, I agree with the argument that multiculturalism is a blight on Western civilization, because if you have cultures that are post-Western civilization, that's not a good thing, that's a bad thing.
00:22:32.000However, the idea that Hillary Clinton's election is going to end it all
00:22:36.000That's really the, you know, that's really the break point.
00:22:39.000And I understand both sides, I understand people who say that it's going to end it all, but I've heard that every four years my entire life, in four years we'll hear it again.
00:22:45.000And all of the, I think a lot of the people who say that Western civilization is over, you might as well pack up shop and go home, America's done, it's not America anymore.
00:22:52.000We have a lot of people I respect believe this.
00:22:54.000None of them will be quitting their commentariat jobs on November 9th if Donald Trump loses.
00:23:16.000Hillary Clinton could be an awful, awful president.
00:23:18.000But that does not absolve us of our duty to fight back and it does not mean that we don't have a chance of winning if we do fight back.
00:23:25.000And that is what I'm hoping for November 9th.
00:23:27.000If things go downhill, if things go downhill, there's only one thing that's going to guarantee the dominance of the left four years from now.
00:23:34.000Because let's face it, if Hillary Clinton's elected, she's going to be unpopular.
00:23:52.000What I see is a woman who's going to be very deeply unpopular from the first day she steps into office, will remain unpopular, more likely just thanks to the vicissitudes of the economy, to undergo...
00:24:02.000Some sort of brutal recession in the near future, because the cycle is usually, you know, every ten years there's a recession.
00:24:09.000You know, there was one in 2000, there was one in 2008, there was one in 1991.
00:24:13.000Every eight to ten years, there's a recession.
00:25:11.000If we're going to move together forward after this election cycle, the people who didn't vote for Trump and the people who voted for Trump and the people who reluctantly voted for Trump
00:25:19.000We're all going to have to stand together to oppose Hillary Clinton and hopefully come up with somebody who's better next time.
00:25:24.000That first requires us to acknowledge that this is Donald Trump's fault.
00:25:32.000If Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, a deeply flawed candidate, the most deeply flawed candidate of my lifetime, if Donald Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, that's not on me.
00:26:09.000Everybody's going to have to look inside their own house.
00:26:11.000Everybody's going to have to look back at themselves and say, what did we do to bring ourselves to this sort of impasse?
00:26:16.000I think a lot of the Trump voters are going to have to look and say, did we make the most intelligent decision to channel our anger, our understandable anger at the status quo, a feeling that Congress doesn't do anything, that the Republicans sell out?
00:26:26.000Did we do the best thing by pushing somebody who is a career Democrat, who doesn't know anything about policy and just says absurd things because he's famous?
00:27:15.000We need to recognize that yes, our principles are right, but we don't have to suggest that every single hill is the hill where the republic dies.
00:27:22.000We have to be willing to die on every hill, but we can't give up ground to the left.
00:27:25.000But we have to stop at the crisis mentality that suggests that every single battle is the end of the republic, and so if we lose, we're all going to die, and let's just get the guy who can win, even if he doesn't represent us.
00:27:37.000The establishment, which I think is largely responsible for the rise of Trump, by not listening to its own base, by scorning its own base, by presenting everything was hunky-dory, by caving to Democrats, by making deals, they're going to have to start listening to the outrage of the American public, and they're going to have to start recognizing that go-along-to-get-along, because things are basically okay, isn't accurate for the vast majority of Americans.
00:28:04.000So that's all stuff that we have to do, all of us.
00:28:05.000We all have to look into our own houses and figure and clean up our own houses.
00:28:09.000But we also have to have sympathy for people who are trying to clean up their house.
00:28:12.000And we all have to acknowledge that we're trying to move in the right direction.
00:28:15.000We're going to need some unity after this election is over, no matter which way it goes.
00:28:19.000But that's particularly true if Trump loses.
00:28:20.000We're going to have to have a unified movement so we can come back in four years.
00:28:24.000And we also have to recognize something.
00:28:26.000If we just put it on the candidate, we're going to be better off.
00:28:29.000John McCain lost in 2008 because he wasn't a good candidate.
00:28:32.000In 2010, Republicans united and they elected a Republican Congress.
00:28:35.000Now, the Republican Congress didn't do enough to do what we wanted them to do, but that was a victory.
00:28:40.000In 2014, won a sweeping victory after recognizing Mitt Romney was not the right guy.
00:28:45.000Mitt Romney did not do a good job as a candidate.
00:28:48.000We can either sit around smacking each other and, you know, continue to waste our efforts in the House and the Senate in 2018 if Trump loses, or we can recognize that we're still in the fight of our lives here and that Donald Trump was not the right guy to lead us forward.
00:29:00.000And the truth is, it's hard to find the right guy to lead us forward.
00:29:03.000It's hard to find a leader because human beings are inherently flawed, all of them, including Ronald Reagan.
00:29:21.000We ought to be unifying around the ideology, recognize our own flaws, try to fix those for the future, get rid of the crisis mentality for conservatives, or at least minimize it a little bit.
00:29:30.000Recognize that there is a crisis if you're somebody in the establishment, and if you're a Trump supporter, if you're somebody who voted Trump to burn it all down, recognize that burn it all down is not a responsible response to the system.
00:29:41.000The proper response to the system is to destroy the parts of it that are bad and maintain the parts of it that are good.
00:29:47.000The guy who just pledges to go in there and break everything up with a hammer is probably the least likely guy to actually do it.
00:29:52.000And by the way, if he does destroy everything with a hammer, then you're left with nothing, and no plan for building.
00:29:59.000All of that said, speaking of somebody who's absolutely destroying the country, President Obama is having himself a grand old time over at the White House.
00:30:05.000People missed this because President Obama has basically turned the White House now into a gay and lesbian culture lecture hall from a college campus.
00:30:14.000And so he had bisexual celebration day, this is I guess a week and a half ago or two, inside the White House because every sexual behavior must now be, every sexual drive must now be celebrated.
00:30:55.000And I call upon the ancestors to witness our presence and for the Great Spirit, Wangkangthangka, to guide our words and thoughts so that we can speak true and strong.
00:31:12.000Okay, and he prays to the bisexual, and then he talks about how bisexuality in Native American culture is wonderful.
00:31:18.000That wasn't even the most ridiculous moment.
00:31:20.000The most ridiculous moment was this bisexual poet reading her poetry about bisexuality and capitalism, and this is happening at the White House.
00:33:21.000Okay, socialism is about the idea that the government gets to come with a gun and steal crap from you.
00:33:26.000Capitalism and its inherent violence, and then we get this bizarre poem about fingers, and you don't know what I don't know, but no one knows what I know, and the no-no, and here's my nose.
00:35:17.000Uh, and it is kind of like Game of Thrones in that there's sort of an existential threat that threatens all these people while they're at war with each other at the same time.
00:35:36.000So, this one is going to be hard for you to understand if you're just listening to the podcast, which is why you really need to subscribe at dailywire.com, because this is a joke that you sort of need to see.
00:35:45.000This is one of my favorite internet videos, and it was sent to me by the aforementioned poet Andrew Klavan, and it is Steve Harvey.
00:37:57.000If you haven't been watching, there's this entire series of apparently scary clowns who are showing up all around the United States now because 2016 needed to get worse.
00:38:15.000This group in Arizona has decided that they're planning a peace walk, a Clown Lives Matter peace walk.
00:38:22.000And in response to the social media frenzy about creepy clowns in Arizona, this woman said that she's getting all sorts of flack because she called it Clown Lives Matter.
00:38:31.000The New York Times and CNN have been calling, she said, this is a peaceful walk to show clowns are not psycho killers.
00:38:35.000We want the public to feel safe and not afraid.
00:38:37.000So come out, bring the family, meet a clown, get a hug.
00:38:41.000And participants were invited to dress up like clowns.
00:39:48.000Why does Ben & Jerry's have to have 50 different types of flavor?
00:39:51.000And they supported Bernie Sanders in his debacle of a run.
00:39:55.000And so Ben and Jerry's has now released a statement about Black Lives Matter, which makes perfect sense, because when you want to hear about Black Lives Matter, what you really want is two elderly white guys who live in legitimately the safest state in the union, Vermont.
00:40:08.000By the way, there are like five black people in Vermont.
00:40:11.000Vermont is one of the whitest states in the union.
00:40:13.000Just to point out that Ben and Jerry are not seeing a lot of crime and run-ins with black criminals in Vermont.
00:40:22.000We believe that saying black lives matter is not to say that the lives of those who serve in law enforcement community don't.
00:40:27.000We respect and value the commitment to our communities those in law enforcement make.
00:40:30.000We respect the value of every one of their lives, but we do believe that, whether black, brown, white, or blue, our nation and our very way of life is dependent on the principle of all people being served equal justice under the law, and it's clear the effects of the criminal justice system are not colorblind.
00:40:43.000Okay, the very last sentence here is so idiotic.
00:40:45.000The effects of the criminal justice system are not colorblind?
00:40:48.000The effects of the criminal justice system should not be colorblind.
00:40:51.000The administration of the criminal justice system should be colorblind.
00:40:54.000The effects should be color—the effects
00:40:57.000The effects should just be what the effects are.
00:40:59.000I mean, if the implication is that the effects should be colorblind, meaning an equal number of blacks proportionately are in prison compared to whites, that's not a criminal justice system.
00:41:56.000All right, so, other things that I hate on today's show.
00:42:00.000So, The Daily Show is making fun of Jesse Waters.
00:42:04.000Jesse Waters did this ridiculous video, and it is, it's a ridiculous video, for Fox News, where he went around Chinatown and basically just did stereotypes about Asian people.
00:42:11.000And it's not funny, and it's stupid, and it's borderline racist, for sure.
00:42:17.000And The Daily Show had a correspondent, they sent a correspondent out there to mock this, and I'll explain why this is so dumb in a second.
00:42:25.000So we sent waters down to New York's Chinatown to sample political opinion.
00:42:32.000Okay, first of all, let me get this straight.
00:42:34.000They say China in the debate, so you go to Chinatown?
00:44:03.000I mean, everyone's been wondering who'd be the target of 2016's worst racism.
00:44:07.000I didn't even know Asians were in the running.
00:44:10.000Oh, and by the way, if you're gonna be racist, at least get your stereotypes right, you ignorant sack of shit.
00:44:15.000Karate isn't Chinese, it's Japanese, and you're doing it in a Taekwondo studio, which is Korean.
00:44:20.000If you wanna come at Chinese people, make fun of China's high pollution, or the fact that they censor most of the internet, which in this case might actually be a good thing, since no person from China will ever have to watch your garbage.
00:44:31.000I actually don't disagree with a lot of what this guy is saying.
00:44:33.000The part that I think is hilarious is that comedy, if Jesse Waters' routine had appeared on Comedy Central, everybody would just ignore it.
00:44:40.000Because it would be on Comedy Central.
00:44:41.000So, the problem with Comedy Central and what they've done with the news is they've merged comedy and the news and then they pretend that it's all one.
00:44:47.000Jesse Watters' routine on Fox News is much closer to what they do on Comedy Central than it is to normal news.
00:44:53.000And everybody who watches Jesse Watters' segment on O'Reilly knows this.
00:44:56.000I mean, they know that Jesse Watters' routine on Bill O'Reilly's show is not meant to be Bret Baier.
00:45:57.000That said, I think that Comedy Central criticizing it for merging news and opinion and
00:46:04.000Okay, now let's do some deconstructing the culture.
00:46:18.000All righty, so deconstructing the culture.
00:46:20.000Normally we do this earlier in the week, but obviously it was Rosh Hashanah, and we were celebrating the New Year, and obviously the New Year has gotten off to a stellar start, gang.
00:47:23.000It's the only thing anybody cares about in pop is sex, and how to get over it, or how to get it, or why you're upset about it, or why it makes you happy.
00:47:29.000The only thing that people care about in pop music anymore is sex.
00:47:42.000Those are the things that they care about.
00:47:44.000You go over to heavy metal and what they care about is pain and suffering and death.
00:47:47.000All three of these genres are these things in the absence of God.
00:47:51.000So pain and suffering and death become meaningful in the presence of a religious belief, right?
00:47:57.000You believe that death has a meaning and life has a meaning if there's something beyond you and beyond this plane.
00:48:04.000What Heavy Metal seems to suggest is that pain is something to revel in and suffer in and enjoy in and of itself.
00:48:11.000It's sort of the mentality people have about Halloween, the people who are really into kind of the dark side of Halloween, where like, I don't have to be scared of death if I mock death and if I involve myself in death every day.
00:48:19.000If I become a part of death, then death can't scare me.
00:48:23.000Anybody who says death isn't scary is lying to you.
00:48:25.000Death, of course, is scary for religious people just like irreligious people.
00:48:28.000But there's this notion that pain and death are worth wallowing, suffering is ennobling, but not ennobling because you're doing anything useful, just in and of itself, because you're going to live, it makes you deep to suffer, it makes you deep to be ensconced in the serious things.
00:48:44.000We're not going to be frivolous, we're going to talk about death.
00:49:07.000And rap is do whatever you want so long as it is opposed to the generalized perception of decent behavior and proclaim that it is empowering in some way.
00:49:17.000So this is the problem with all modern music.
00:49:19.000All modern music now does not uphold anything of value.
00:50:22.000And then Korn suddenly appears in his apartment and is breathing really hard and things look terrible and there's a bathtub full of leaves and a guy in a bathtub full of leaves which is not going to clean him in any way.
00:50:39.000And then they're rocking hard and suddenly busting through cement which honestly is not good for your elbows.
00:51:15.000And they have really weird hair that they need to wash more often, but it won't ever happen because they're bathing in a bathtub full of leaves.
00:51:41.000Suffering is something in which to revel, because suffering is what makes us deep and worthwhile.
00:51:47.000The more we suffer, the more worthwhile we are, because we understand the existential angst of being out here, and things are brutal, and so I'm angry about it, and I live in a crappy apartment with pictures of old people on the walls.
00:51:59.000Okay, it says that suffering is fading.
00:52:06.000And that makes you deep, because these are like,
00:52:08.000The creepy goths in high school who would get a date by just sitting there and brooding.
00:52:13.000And there'd be some chick who'd be like, he must be deep because he's brooding.
00:52:15.000He's like, no, he's not deep because he's brooding, he needs to get a life and figure out some interests outside of drawing pictures of skulls.
00:52:23.000The chorus is, digging deep inside of me, getting past this agony, I can't seem to get away, another day rotting in vain.
00:52:29.000So, okay, if you're rotting in vain, if things aren't really that crappy, you might want to look for a solution.
00:53:17.000First of all, every one of these singers sounds like Alex Jones is doing the vocals.
00:53:22.000But it's this kind of horror show, and I understand that some of it is done half in jest.
00:53:28.000Some of it is done, I assume, half in jest.
00:53:31.000People don't take this fully seriously.
00:53:32.000They just think it's kind of funny, and they think it's interesting, and it's Halloween-y, and there are people who are into this sort of thing.
00:53:36.000But if this is what you ensconcered, there's no way to watch five of these videos in a row without walking out and being depressed.
00:54:18.000That is the- Find a better way of life is the theme of today's Deconstructing the Culture, because this is just not- does this look like a series of happy people to you?
00:54:25.000Does anyone look at these people and say, God, I wish I was living like the people in this music video?
00:54:31.000And the only good thing about this music video, so far as I can tell, is that one of the crazy people from Braveheart is still alive and in it, so that's exciting.
00:54:41.000Okay, isn't that guy in Braveheart the guy with the scar on his face?
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