00:01:32.000And if any of you guys went there, it was at the National Mall, or excuse me, the National Harbor in Washington, D.C.
00:01:38.000And compared to Tennessee, where you have the woods, you have the green, you have really friendly people, at the National Harbor, it's like Disneyland.
00:01:47.000It's something that would make Roger Scruton cry in terms of.
00:01:53.000It's also like Pakistan in terms of the population.
00:01:56.000So it really is great to be here on a beautiful property.
00:02:01.000And also, before I get started, I want to give a big shout out to Jared Taylor and really say thank you.
00:02:06.000He's over there for everything that he does.
00:02:15.000I think we really take for granted something like American Renaissance, where it's not flashy, it's not the most sexy thing in the world, but it's something that's robust, it's stable, it's durable, it's there.
00:02:28.000And we've had a very rough year, I think, since Charlottesville in the past couple of months, and American Renaissance is here charging on every year.
00:02:37.000There's no boxes, there's no other issues, and so we really are appreciative of what Jared Taylor does.
00:02:43.000And so to get into my speech, my talk today is about the generations.
00:02:47.000My talk today is called Generation Z, the answer to the boomer problem.
00:02:52.000And admittedly, it's a bit of a risky title given the audience here.
00:02:58.000I know you can look to the left and right, there's a lot of boomers here.
00:03:02.000And so, that I'm calling them a problem, it's a little bit, you can look at the person that runs the conference, also a boomer.
00:03:10.000But nevertheless, we're here to talk about the generations and why Generation Z presents, I think, a really great opportunity to answer a lot of the pernicious social trends.
00:03:22.000That have been started by the boomers.
00:03:24.000And before I get into that, I will say it's very striking how, in this movement in particular, you really do see the juxtaposition of these two generations.
00:03:33.000You see, in this audience, I think, in a lot of alt right, dissident right audiences, people who are aware of these issues, you really do see, I think, a lot of people that cluster towards the older side, a lot of people that cluster towards the younger side.
00:03:48.000We have a lot of the old guard, people who remember what it was like before what has happened, which has been a real disaster in the last 50 years.
00:03:56.000And a lot of young people who wish they remember what it was like before this terrible disaster.
00:04:01.000And I think that speaks to the cyclical nature of the generations.
00:04:05.000This is something that Strauss talked about.
00:04:07.000This is something that many historians, Hegel, I think, started talking about the cyclical nature of history.
00:04:13.000How we have a lot in common, I think, Generation Z and the generation which immediately preceded the boomer generation, which was the silent generation.
00:04:22.000I think that's why it's such a great contrast between the boomers.
00:04:57.000But with that said, I have to acknowledge the elephant in the room, which is the boomer generation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
00:05:09.000And it's not all of you, but it is a lot of you.
00:05:12.000We've seen with the boomer generation born between 1946 and 1964, this is classically defined, this 18 year gap is when the baby boomers were born.
00:05:22.000We've seen the destruction of the country demographically, we see mass migration, we see the pillaging of our economy.
00:05:29.000With free trade, we saw this with NAFTA, it was attempted with the TPP.
00:05:33.000We saw it with bubbles, housing bubbles, the Great Recession, centralized banking.
00:05:37.000They've done all this harm to the country.
00:05:40.000I think a lot of it can be pinned on them the infiltration of the media and academia by liberals.
00:05:46.000And if all of that wasn't enough, I mean, that's a lot.
00:05:49.000And if all of that wasn't enough, now they're going to be annoying online.
00:05:53.000Now they're going to be responding to videos, Facebook posts with the caps lock on in all capital letters.
00:06:01.000They'll still be using impact text memes from 2005.
00:06:36.000And certainly, there are, I think, a big amount of diversity between the boomers geographically.
00:06:42.000Economically, in terms of urban versus rural, we can look at a lot of boomers, I think, from around Tennessee, very different from the kind of boomers you get in the suburbs of Chicago, where I'm from, a little bit different.
00:06:53.000So it's not so much the people we're looking at, not so much individual boomers, so much as it is we're looking at the social trends started by the boomers.
00:07:03.000And the reason I don't totally say it's the people's fault is because a lot of this is a consequence of communication, technology, all kinds of innovations that have happened as a result of history.
00:07:14.000And we are, I think, in many ways, Slaves to destiny, to the slow march of history in all kinds of elements and all kinds of regions.
00:07:23.000So, we're going to look at three big social trends started by the boomers.
00:07:26.000We're going to talk about that problem and then why Generation Z is a solution to it.
00:07:31.000So, the first thing, the first boomer problem, the first issue that they've caused is the destruction of racial identity in the country.
00:07:39.000And we're going to start from very broad conceptions of identity and then go all the way down.
00:07:51.000We're all worried about the same future.
00:07:53.000Where if present trends continue, depending on which statistics you look at, by 2050, by 2065, by 2072, the white population will be less than a majority of the country.
00:08:04.000And again, it varies by which estimate you look at.
00:08:10.000Some say in Canada, within 100 years, they could be less than 20% of the population.
00:08:14.000So we understand very clearly in this room, I think all of us, what's going on with race.
00:08:19.000And a lot of people will boil this down to the 1965 Immigration Act.
00:08:25.000And of course, this is what inaugurated mass migration.
00:08:28.000This is the reason why the amount of immigrants, the volume of immigrants, and the kind of immigrants has changed so rapidly.
00:08:35.000It's a direct consequence of this law.
00:08:37.000And a lot of people go back to it, a lot of people understand this.
00:08:41.000This is really ground zero of mass migration.
00:08:45.000But of course, this was not the responsibility of the boomers, the sponsors of this bill, the people that wrote it, the people behind it, the intellectual backing behind it.
00:09:24.000And immigration from the third world until several decades later.
00:09:27.000It didn't really take on the character it did until a few decades ago.
00:09:31.000And so I trace the real problem back to the culture wars of the 1990s.
00:09:37.000It's often talked about the 65 Immigration Act, not so much the culture wars of the 1990s.
00:09:42.000Now, I was born in 1998, so I just missed it.
00:09:46.000Just missed the Pat Buchanan brigades and all the rest.
00:09:49.000But there are some very troubling statistics about this that tell us something about the nature of our society that there were many referendums held.
00:09:57.000In the 1990s, between 1990 and the early 2000s, referendums about affirmative action, referendums about making the English language institutionalized into the law, into state constitutions, into state law, making it so that people are required to speak English in public schools.
00:10:14.000And with the exception of one single referendum in that period of about 15 years, every single one of them, a majority of voters voted against mass migration, these cultural trends, voted in favor of English, voted against affirmative action.
00:10:29.000And despite this, The governments, the corporations, the state legislatures and assemblies, the constitutions, all changed with the corporate interest.
00:10:38.000And so this is why we don't totally pin it on the boomers.
00:10:40.000It wasn't an active thing by the boomers that they inaugurated this.
00:10:45.000They were teenagers when the law passed, but they fell asleep at the wheel.
00:10:51.000And these kinds of trends, which informed these legal changes, these demographic changes, they go back to one very troubling, very disturbing lie about race.
00:11:02.000And we've all heard it before when we talk about differences in race, when we talk about immigration, when we talk about affirmative action.
00:11:38.000And who could be so ignorant, who could be so bigoted that we could hold these different views about different people just because they look different?
00:11:46.000Not because they have different characteristics, not because they have different identities, different histories, different heroes, different cultures, different biologies.
00:11:55.000And so, this is one of the big problems of the boomers this lie about race, which is carried through into all kinds of consequences legal in terms of immigration, in terms of demographics, in terms of culture.
00:12:06.000The next biggest problem is that the boomers let go of the nation.
00:12:11.000And we have to distinguish between the race and the nation.
00:12:14.000The nation, in the classical sense, when it came to the English language in the 18th century into common parlance, now we see the nation as almost synonymous with the state, the country, similar words like that.
00:12:27.000But the nation started out meaning something very specific.
00:12:30.000The nation meant something very specific in terms of your biology, in terms of your ancestry, in terms of your culture, your language, your religion, the kind of art.
00:12:39.000You created the kind of music you listened to, the kind of customs and mannerisms that you had.
00:12:44.000Now we don't see it so much that way, but that's classically how the nation was defined.
00:12:49.000And we look at boomers as custodians of the nation, custodians of their communities and of their families.
00:12:56.000And whether we see good families here today or good people here today, by and large the boomers failed in their stewardship of the nation.
00:13:04.000We look at communities, and if you've read a really great book, which I encourage everybody to read, I'm sure many have read in this room, a book called Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam.
00:13:14.000He talks about how the civic institutions in this country, religious institutions, fraternal institutions, organizations in the community, the PTA, bowling groups, all went on to decline starting around the middle of the last century.
00:13:28.000So we really saw the destruction of the community.
00:13:31.000And you start to see how, in many ways, all of these issues really are reciprocal.
00:13:36.000We look at the mass immigration trend, the destruction of race.
00:13:39.000And can we see how it informs, how that has influenced the destruction of the community?
00:13:44.000For example, you look at a city like Chicago, or a city like New York City, or Los Angeles.
00:13:49.000In Los Angeles, you have hundreds, thousands of languages being spoken by many different racial and ethnic groups in their various enclaves in Los Angeles.
00:13:57.000And we see how these are reciprocal in that it is very difficult to build a community.
00:14:02.000It is very difficult to build a fraternal organization, a PTA, a soccer league, even, if you don't even speak the same language as your neighbors, if you don't even share the same customs, you don't go to the same church, you don't share the same artwork.
00:14:16.000Maybe if you say a certain word, that could cause a very big falling out between people.
00:14:21.000So, we see how these various kinds of identities are reciprocal.
00:14:25.000So, they saw the destruction of the community.
00:14:28.000In many ways, America was built on these civic, secular institutions away from governments.
00:14:34.000Tocqueville wrote about this in Democracy in America how the strength of the American Republic was found not in the state, not in the broader nation like in France or in Germany, but in these local organizations.
00:14:47.000And these all came apart around the middle of the century.
00:14:50.000The other part of the nation, the foundational building block of the nation, That the boomers failed in their stewardship of was the family.
00:14:59.000We see in the 1970s and the 1980s divorce rates skyrocket.
00:15:04.000And actually, curiously enough, if you look at any of the data on divorces or marriages in the country, the divorce rates have actually leveled out in the past decade or so.
00:15:12.000They've gone down for the population at large, they've gone down for the younger generations.
00:15:18.000And surprise, surprise, this fantastic generation of baby boomers, they've seen their divorce rates double.
00:16:20.000And this is one of those trends I think we'll see the me part, and we'll get into that in the next phase.
00:16:24.000But the reason why the family destruction has been so horrible, so destructive, You think about a society in terms of a very clinical, very abstract analysis.
00:16:35.000And we can talk about fiscal policy, we can talk about immigration, we can talk about the banks.
00:16:40.000But at the end of the day, a society is only as strong as its families.
00:16:45.000A society is the individuals that comprise it.
00:16:47.000And every individual is only as strong as the parents who raised them, the parents who gave them virtues, the parents who gave them education, who taught them right from wrong, what it means to be a man or a woman, what it means to be an upstanding member of Knoxville, Tennessee, or Chicago, Illinois.
00:17:04.000So, as the boomers have seen the destruction and the decline of the family, we really see these ripple effects where the boomers and their children are probably a lot worse off given this compound effect.
00:17:15.000The boomers don't raise their children adequately, these parents don't raise their children adequately, and so on and so on.
00:17:21.000And you see this ripple across time, horizontally and vertically, where this is having a lot of adverse consequences.
00:17:28.000The last major issue, the last worst, I think the worst and the narrowest.
00:17:34.000Idea of identity that the boomers have seen deteriorate is the spirit, communion with God.
00:17:41.000We talk a lot about race in this movement, and I think that's because it's very visible, and I think it's a very secular component of what's going on.
00:17:50.000But a big problem is the destruction and the decline of religion in America.
00:17:55.000And I think very few people are willing to say this, but I think you see the destruction of the race, the family, the nation.
00:18:01.000All of them are rooted in the destruction of the spirit.
00:18:04.000With the boomer generation in the 1960s and 70s, we see things like the sexual revolution, we see sex, drugs, and rock and roll, we see the rejection of the church.
00:18:14.000The rejection of its restrictive, constrictive, and oppressive social morals and customs.
00:18:21.000You look at any graph about church attendance, regular church attendance, and it goes from the greatest generation and the silent generation up here down to the boomers all the way down here.
00:18:31.000Something like 23% of boomers in their younger adulthood said that they attended church regularly.
00:18:38.000And you think about this loss of communion with God.
00:18:40.000You think about the loss of the nucleus of the society.
00:18:44.000And think about it in terms of the other levels of organization.
00:18:48.000You think about it in terms of the community.
00:18:50.000Very difficult to have a community when you're not able to have reconciliation, when you're not able to have communion with them every Sunday, right on time at church, where you say, in the Catholic tradition, peace be with you, you shake hands, you get all dressed up, and you talk.
00:19:05.000It's very hard to have communion when you lose that kind of organization.
00:19:55.000And you think about that kind of mentality, and maybe we can say, we can watch our movies, we can listen to the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
00:20:02.000We can say, hey, does it really do anybody that much harm if we're just having a good time?
00:20:07.000The saints are the boring people there in heaven.
00:20:09.000We'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, as Billy Joel said.
00:20:13.000But you look at how society has become completely unmoored from the social, particularly religious norms, and the consequences it has on the family and on the community.
00:20:23.000Lastly, you look at race in terms of religion and what has bound together European and American civilization in the last millennium, quite like Christendom, quite like Christianity.
00:21:19.000And so we look at the loss of God in the individual, and in many ways we can attribute that to these higher levels of identity, whether they be family, community, nation, or race, which have been lost.
00:21:31.000And this is because of materialism and because of the idea of the me generation.
00:21:35.000The boomer, you know, we have these stereotypes online that the boomer is concerned about the gross domestic product.
00:21:42.000The boomer is concerned about the money.
00:21:44.000The boomer is concerned about the taxes, about the management of the fiscal policy in the state.
00:21:48.000But of course, all these things mean nothing to us.
00:21:51.000The boomer is concerned about himself.
00:21:53.000The boomer is concerned about we're not happy in our marriage, so we split.
00:21:56.000We're not happy in our community, in our town, so we split.
00:21:59.000We're not happy with our country, so we go somewhere else.
00:22:02.000But this generation, Generation Z, is re embracing what it means to have a community oriented mentality.
00:22:08.000To have a community, a racial, a communitarian consciousness.
00:22:14.000And so a lot of it can be attributed to that loss of God for the individual.
00:22:17.000And this, I think, encapsulates the problem with the boomer.
00:22:20.000You see the loss of these identities at every level, from race to nation to community to family, down to the individual.
00:22:27.000We see where this comes from at the root causes.
00:22:34.000I think many people oversimplify it when they say it's simply a policy issue.
00:22:39.000If we only passed this law, if we only passed this immigration law, if we only passed this tax law, if we changed the immigration composition this much, then we could save this statistic or that statistic.
00:22:51.000We could get the demographics just right.
00:22:53.000But of course, it's a much deeper seated problem than all of this.
00:22:56.000Our task is nothing short of rebuilding our civilization from the ground up, from the very and the most fundamental levels of individual human identity, which is spirituality all the way on up.
00:23:16.000And of course, I will reiterate it's been, I think we're concluding with the boomer bashing segment.
00:23:22.000So I will come back and say, remember, the people in here, the boomers here, the asterisk is not you guys.
00:23:29.000Of course, you guys are the good ones, and we like you.
00:23:32.000But we're here to talk about solutions.
00:23:34.000And the solution lies in Generation Z. There's been a lot of debate in this movement about how viable Generation Z will be for the country.
00:23:42.000I think this has been a meme for a long time, and lately it's taken a lot of hits because of the Tide Pod challenge.
00:23:49.000That's been a real obstacle to this generation.
00:23:53.000David Hogg and the Parkland shooters, they have set us back.
00:23:57.000I think Tide Pods, Fortnite, David Hogg, these are the horsemen of the Generation Z apocalypse.
00:24:07.000But if I can give you, I think, a little bit more of a contextual analysis of Generation Z and why I'm so optimistic about them, I'm from Generation Z.
00:24:15.000I come to you as a representative of Generation Z.
00:24:18.000I think we could look and find that there's a tremendous opportunity here.
00:24:22.000And the first reason I think that is because if you look at any of the statistics on Generation Z, they're very different from the preceding generation of millennials.
00:24:32.000The boomers don't like the millennials.
00:24:57.000But Generation Z is very different than the millennials.
00:25:00.000If you're looking at any of the data, Pew Research, Gallup, any of the data, very encouraging signs just in the numbers.
00:25:07.000For example, you look at church attendance.
00:25:09.000We go back to spirituality is a big problem.
00:25:12.000Whereas for the boomers, you had this tremendous decrease from greatest generation and silent generation down to something like 21% for the boomers.
00:26:03.000And I think that's something to work with there.
00:26:05.000Perhaps the most white pilling, the most optimistic number that I've come across, and maybe you've seen this number as well, there was a survey that was conducted by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation after the 2016 election.
00:26:18.000And they surveyed high school students around the Generation Z generation, people who weren't old enough to vote yet.
00:26:24.000And they said, How would they have voted in the 2016 election if they were of age?
00:26:29.000And strikingly, if you look at white voters, white Generation Z high school voters, this blew me away.
00:26:35.000I had to go in and check with the mainstream sources because it was almost too.
00:26:46.00011% said they would go for Hillary Clinton.
00:26:49.000And you think about what that represents in terms of Trump versus Hillary, in terms of Republican versus Democrat.
00:26:55.000In past years, I wouldn't have said that would have meant very much.
00:26:59.000If 48% of young people said they would have gone for Mitt Romney, that doesn't really mean anything to me.
00:27:05.000They go for low taxes, you know, big whip.
00:27:07.000They go for hedge funds and the stock market getting richer, and big whip, but they're for amnesty.
00:27:13.000But with Donald Trump, we see a candidate who represented something different.
00:27:16.000With Donald Trump, whether he was totally on our side, and many people have talked on this issue, Jared Taylor is one of them, Spencer, others talk about this.
00:27:24.000Donald Trump was implicitly, almost intuitively, calling back to that traditional America.
00:27:30.000It was about revanchism, it was about nostalgia for the way America used to be, and all the ways you're not allowed to say.
00:27:36.000And so I think you look at a number like that 48% versus 11%, and the numbers are all there.
00:27:42.000Additionally, not just on the quantitative side, but on the qualitative side.
00:27:46.000You look at the formative events of Generation Z, the formative historical events in their lives.
00:27:52.000And this is what really, really made me optimistic about this generation.
00:27:57.000You look at the boomers and why things have gone the way they have in terms of immigration and demographics.
00:28:03.000And it's not surprising to see why they believe the things they do about race.
00:28:07.000When they were growing up in the 1950s and the 1960s, even the 1970s and 80s, they saw real racial discrimination, real injustice.
00:28:17.000And it's debatable how long that's gone on.
00:28:19.000I think we saw the worst of it in the 50s and 60s as the civil rights era took on a very successful tone.
00:28:27.000But they really saw the real kind of racism that we hear talked about on BuzzFeed, on MSNBC.
00:28:32.000That was when it was really happening.
00:28:33.000And so you talk to an older generation, somebody from an older generation today about these racial issues, it's a lot harder, I think, for them to sympathize with us because they've seen the other side of the coin.
00:28:45.000They've seen the actual not so good part of it, they've seen the excess of it.
00:28:50.000Additionally, they grew up in a country that was demographically homogeneous.
00:28:54.000It's very difficult to communicate to the boomer these kinds of projections that we see in the future because it is so outside of their experience.
00:29:03.000People who grew up in a country that was built by small towns, it was built by people who looked the same, talked the same, had the same mannerisms.
00:29:11.000And the idea that America would ever be not that way, the idea that it would be so radically transformed, I think is so outside their experience, it's difficult for them to relate to that, to sympathize with that.
00:29:23.000Generation Z, on the other hand, you look at the formative events in our lives.
00:29:27.000This is the first generation that is one generation removed from any kind of real racial discrimination.
00:29:36.000The racism we hear talked about all day long on television, in the media, on the internet, by the liberal politicians, never seen it.
00:29:44.000As somebody who was born in 1998, when I went up through kindergarten, through grade school, through high school, there was no talk about white teachers discriminating against black students.
00:29:54.000There was none of that, it just didn't exist.
00:29:56.000And so when you look at the formative events for the young people, you have this rhetoric on the one hand.
00:30:03.000And you have every single one of our lived experiences, which is increasingly we're coming face to face with real diversity and all its consequences, and we know what it means.
00:30:13.000This great dissonance between what we're told and what we experience, I think there is the hope in this gap of how Generation Z can come to understand what's going on.
00:30:30.000And it's difficult because we see a lot of Generation Z, and a lot of them are very liberal.
00:30:34.000But as they grow up, as they come of age through college, as they get acquainted with our new neighbors, our new friends in the country, I think they will come to understand through personal experience just the way the world works.
00:30:47.000Now, the last point on this we see very encouraging signs.
00:30:51.000We see very good things about the country in terms of the statistics, in terms of the formative events.
00:30:56.000A lot of this is theoretical, a lot of this is projected in the future.
00:31:03.000What we have is an opportunity, not a guarantee.
00:31:07.000And so, while this generation is primed for reform, this generation is primed for, I think, a real counter revolution in terms of ideology, in terms of race, in terms of all these other things, it has to be actualized.
00:32:25.000Some ethereal, abstract concept of postmodern liberation, theological justice.
00:32:31.000I'm sorry, I don't see that as a very strong motivating factor.
00:32:35.000We are willing, at the end of the day, I think we are, and we must be willing, to give our lives for this cause because it is meaningful, because it is important.
00:32:45.000They do not have a great motivating cause.
00:32:48.000And lastly, I will end with a personal anecdote.
00:32:51.000I came here to the American Renaissance, and it's no secret the reputation of this conference because we have kind of this occupied media, this occupied country.
00:33:00.000It has become a liability to many of us to be involved with these kinds of organizations, these conferences, these groups with our real identities, our real faces attached to it because there is such a stigma to telling the truth.
00:33:12.000And to speak on the point of things that we're willing to fight and really die for, I was told.
00:33:48.000Cassie Dillon trying to get a job at the Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro.
00:33:52.000Do you know how much Paul Ryan would love somebody like me with my last name?
00:33:58.000I am the dream of these conservatives.
00:34:01.000The pro amnesty, they talk about natural conservatives.
00:34:04.000If I were up there on Fox News talking about how we should gut the middle class with low taxes and free trade, I come on with a mariachi band in my Hispanic last name.
00:34:14.000I'm the biggest selling point in 100 years.
00:34:18.000But I rejected the establishment and I came here.
00:34:21.000And I think all of you came here for the same reason.
00:34:24.000Because we don't have the luxury to worry about career.
00:34:27.000We don't have the luxury to worry about money.
00:34:30.000We don't have the luxury to worry about the material.
00:34:35.000And if we don't succeed, if we don't win, the consequences will be catastrophic for ourselves, for our people, for everyone that we love.
00:34:44.000And so I'll end with a quote right here by the Venerable Fulton Sheen, who was a great Catholic Archbishop back in the day.
00:34:51.000And he said something very poignant in his book, The Life of Christ, and I think it speaks to what motivates us all to be here, where we should aim, how we can bring Generation Z up, the kind of fighting spirit we need.
00:35:02.000He said, We need a Christ who will restore moral indignation, who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity and love goodness to the point where we can drink death like water.
00:35:15.000And I think the cause is just enough that we can do that.
00:36:03.000They embraced their idea because they saw discrimination.
00:36:10.000Well, first of all, that's largely false in a factual manner.
00:36:14.000But also, no, they did what they were told, as most people do.
00:36:21.000One of the myths founding the deaths, sustaining the deaths of the system is that each generation is told that it's being given new ideas, that the previous generation believed all these bad things.
00:38:13.000I also know something about millennials because I have kids, I know nothing about Generation Z and I don't think I was quite aware of what it was until this afternoon.
00:38:24.000You made the point, and I completely agree with you, that there needs to be some kind of restoration of a national religion.
00:38:32.000And I mean that in a structural sense, not a theological sense.
00:39:14.000And it's difficult because we see modernism everywhere in terms of the technology, the social trends where religion is almost on another planet for a lot of young people.
00:39:23.000But what's motivating, I think, is the fact that young people are looking, they're really striving and searching for a greater sense of purpose and identity.
00:39:33.000And I don't think they'll find it anywhere but the church.
00:39:36.000Now, I don't think it's inevitable that young people will come back to the church, but I think that's one of the things we have to push on them.
00:39:43.000Because you see young people, they go into college, they're in high school, and there are not meaningful relationships between friends, between, you know, in terms of romantic relationships.
00:39:54.000You have this hookup culture, this degenerate.
00:39:56.000Kind of sexual revolution ruins we're exploring.
00:40:00.000And I don't think they're finding real existential meaning in their lives.
00:40:04.000I don't think they'll find it economically in this world.
00:40:07.000I think they'll have to search for it in the other realm.
00:40:47.000They talked about the 1990s was a third turning and unraveling, and then there was going to be a fourth turning, which is now in a crisis, which leads to a first turning high where people really do come together.
00:40:58.000And I really do think it's coming to pass.
00:41:01.000I don't know if you have any comments on that.
00:41:05.000I think a lot of the projections that are about the future, about the generations, about population, there's a lot of doomsday talk.
00:41:13.000And granted, the stakes are very high right now, and it's looking very difficult in more ways than one.
00:41:19.000But I think this assumes that things will be static, when in fact, you look at these transformative elements in our society, whether it's technology, whether it's social trends.
00:41:30.000I don't think anything will be very much the same as it was now in 5, 10, 15 years.
00:41:36.000So, I really do believe that all this disruption that's happening with the election, with artificial intelligence, and I'm not really an expert on that, but I mean, you see all these things happening, all these changes happening.
00:41:46.000I think it almost has to happen that there'll have to be a fourth turning.
00:43:21.000One of the biggest problems with the boomers was also the embrace of ideology, the embrace of Spenglerian socialism.
00:43:28.000Oswald Spengler wrote a lot about this in Decline of the West.
00:43:31.000He talked about socialism not as an economic system where the state controls the means of production, but socialism in the West as a social consciousness that we are crusaders, we're reformers.
00:43:42.000When we talk about what ought to happen, we're talking about progress and we say people ought to do this.
00:43:47.000For example, we talk about environmentalism.
00:43:49.000It's not, I want to take care of litter.
00:43:52.000It's society ought to make changes as to how we function.
00:43:55.000It's not, I want to give money to the poor.
00:43:58.000Society has to fix things for the poor.
00:44:00.000I think a large measure of how we get out of this is getting away from that mentality that if we just embrace this ideology, this movement, we're going to get out of it.
00:44:08.000We have to rebuild virtue for individuals, individual families.
00:44:12.000We all have to take responsibility for this revolution in our own ways.
00:44:16.000That could be as simple as having a big family, going to your PTA meeting, and living out a reasonable life in an unreasonable time.
00:44:24.000But anybody tells you it's a big design or anything like that, I'm just very skeptical of it.