America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - April 28, 2018


Generation Z - The Answer to the Boomer Problem


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In this episode, Nicholas Fuentes speaks about Generation Z as a problem and a solution to the problem of the Boomer Generation, and how they are the opposite ends of a cycle and the beginning of a new cycle.

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00:00:14.000 Our next speaker may very well be the youngest person who's ever addressed on American Renaissance Conference.
00:00:21.000 I believe he is not yet 20, is that correct?
00:00:24.000 He is not yet 20, 19 years old.
00:00:27.000 Nicholas Fuentes, and he has a nightly YouTube commentary program called America First.
00:00:35.000 I'm lucky to get one video out a week.
00:00:38.000 He does it nightly.
00:00:40.000 Hats off to the editor of YouTube.
00:00:43.000 Nicholas Fuentes will speak to us today about Generation Z, his generation. 0.72
00:00:48.000 As a problem, as a solution to the problem of the boomer generation. 0.80
00:00:55.000 Well, as a member of the boomer generation, I do plead guilty. 0.73
00:00:59.000 We have made a terrible mess of just about everything we laid our hands on.
00:01:04.000 And so I very much look forward to the solution, and please welcome Nicholas Fleming.
00:01:08.000 Thanks so much.
00:01:17.000 Before I get started, I just want to say, What a really great conference.
00:01:21.000 I mean, driving up here, it's a great property, a great facility we have.
00:01:26.000 And I remember I went to a conference earlier this year in March.
00:01:30.000 I went to CPAC.
00:01:32.000 And if any of you guys went there, it was at the National Mall, or excuse me, the National Harbor in Washington, D.C.
00:01:38.000 And 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.
00:01:47.000 It's something that would make Roger Scruton cry in terms of.
00:01:50.000 Postmodern architecture, ferris wheel, lights. 0.99
00:01:53.000 It's also like Pakistan in terms of the population.
00:01:56.000 So it really is great to be here on a beautiful property.
00:02:01.000 And also, before I get started, I want to give a big shout out to Jared Taylor and really say thank you.
00:02:06.000 He's over there for everything that he does.
00:02:15.000 I 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.
00:02:28.000 And 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.
00:02:37.000 There's no boxes, there's no other issues, and so we really are appreciative of what Jared Taylor does.
00:02:43.000 And so to get into my speech, my talk today is about the generations.
00:02:47.000 My talk today is called Generation Z, the answer to the boomer problem.
00:02:52.000 And admittedly, it's a bit of a risky title given the audience here. 0.82
00:02:58.000 I know you can look to the left and right, there's a lot of boomers here. 0.99
00:03:02.000 And 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. 1.00
00:03:08.000 And so, a little bit difficult. 0.71
00:03:10.000 But 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. 0.98
00:03:22.000 That have been started by the boomers. 0.87
00:03:24.000 And 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.
00:03:33.000 You 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.
00:03:48.000 We 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.
00:03:56.000 And a lot of young people who wish they remember what it was like before this terrible disaster.
00:04:01.000 And I think that speaks to the cyclical nature of the generations.
00:04:05.000 This is something that Strauss talked about.
00:04:07.000 This is something that many historians, Hegel, I think, started talking about the cyclical nature of history.
00:04:13.000 How we have a lot in common, I think, Generation Z and the generation which immediately preceded the boomer generation, which was the silent generation. 0.54
00:04:22.000 I think that's why it's such a great contrast between the boomers.
00:04:26.000 And Generation Z. 0.57
00:04:27.000 They are the beginning of a cycle and the beginning of a new cycle or the end of a cycle.
00:04:32.000 They're opposite ends of the spectrum. 1.00
00:04:36.000 Now, I will say before I get into it, because I'm going to say some pretty nasty things about the boomers. 0.97
00:04:41.000 We have to lay at their feet, I think, a lot of responsibility for what has gone on socially, culturally, economically. 0.99
00:04:49.000 But I will say, you guys are cool. 0.77
00:04:51.000 If there's any boomers in this room, you guys are the good ones.
00:04:55.000 You guys are cool, not a problem. 1.00
00:04:57.000 But 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. 1.00
00:05:09.000 And it's not all of you, but it is a lot of you. 0.99
00:05:12.000 We'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. 0.83
00:05:22.000 We've seen the destruction of the country demographically, we see mass migration, we see the pillaging of our economy. 0.96
00:05:29.000 With free trade, we saw this with NAFTA, it was attempted with the TPP. 0.73
00:05:33.000 We saw it with bubbles, housing bubbles, the Great Recession, centralized banking.
00:05:37.000 They've done all this harm to the country.
00:05:40.000 I think a lot of it can be pinned on them the infiltration of the media and academia by liberals.
00:05:46.000 And if all of that wasn't enough, I mean, that's a lot.
00:05:49.000 And if all of that wasn't enough, now they're going to be annoying online.
00:05:53.000 Now they're going to be responding to videos, Facebook posts with the caps lock on in all capital letters.
00:06:01.000 They'll still be using impact text memes from 2005.
00:06:07.000 And so it wasn't enough.
00:06:08.000 They ruined the country, and now they're going to comment on your Facebook post.
00:06:12.000 I love my beautiful grandson in all capital letters.
00:06:16.000 We love him.
00:06:16.000 We love him.
00:06:17.000 But we look at the boomer problem, and it's not really a people problem.
00:06:22.000 I think this is one of the big mistakes people make when they talk about it. 0.60
00:06:26.000 The boomer generation, when we talk about them as a group, this is a big group.
00:06:31.000 This is everybody born in the United States of America for an 18 year period.
00:06:35.000 That's a lot of people.
00:06:36.000 And certainly, there are, I think, a big amount of diversity between the boomers geographically.
00:06:42.000 Economically, 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.
00:06:53.000 So 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.
00:07:03.000 And 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.
00:07:14.000 And 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. 0.55
00:07:23.000 So, we're going to look at three big social trends started by the boomers. 0.79
00:07:26.000 We're going to talk about that problem and then why Generation Z is a solution to it. 0.85
00:07:31.000 So, the first thing, the first boomer problem, the first issue that they've caused is the destruction of racial identity in the country. 0.97
00:07:39.000 And we're going to start from very broad conceptions of identity and then go all the way down. 0.97
00:07:44.000 And the biggest, of course, is race.
00:07:47.000 Now, we all know what's going on in the country. 0.64
00:07:49.000 We've all seen the same statistics.
00:07:51.000 We're all worried about the same future.
00:07:53.000 Where 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.
00:08:04.000 And again, it varies by which estimate you look at.
00:08:07.000 Could be 43%, could be a little less.
00:08:10.000 Some say in Canada, within 100 years, they could be less than 20% of the population.
00:08:14.000 So we understand very clearly in this room, I think all of us, what's going on with race.
00:08:19.000 And a lot of people will boil this down to the 1965 Immigration Act.
00:08:25.000 And of course, this is what inaugurated mass migration.
00:08:28.000 This is the reason why the amount of immigrants, the volume of immigrants, and the kind of immigrants has changed so rapidly.
00:08:35.000 It's a direct consequence of this law.
00:08:37.000 And a lot of people go back to it, a lot of people understand this.
00:08:41.000 This is really ground zero of mass migration. 0.52
00:08:45.000 But 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. 0.87
00:08:54.000 Was not created by boomers. 0.67
00:08:56.000 But really, the 1965 Immigration Act was not the decision point. 0.87
00:09:00.000 We understand.
00:09:01.000 And if you know anything about the 1965 Immigration Act, this was sold under false pretenses.
00:09:07.000 This was not something that was popularly supported.
00:09:10.000 The sponsors of it had to lie to get it through.
00:09:13.000 You look at Ted Kennedy, and he explicitly lied about what would happen. 0.98
00:09:17.000 He said the amount of immigrants, the kind of immigrants would not change.
00:09:20.000 Of course, both of those were untrue.
00:09:22.000 But really, we didn't see the spike.
00:09:24.000 And immigration from the third world until several decades later.
00:09:27.000 It didn't really take on the character it did until a few decades ago.
00:09:31.000 And so I trace the real problem back to the culture wars of the 1990s.
00:09:37.000 It's often talked about the 65 Immigration Act, not so much the culture wars of the 1990s.
00:09:42.000 Now, I was born in 1998, so I just missed it.
00:09:46.000 Just missed the Pat Buchanan brigades and all the rest.
00:09:49.000 But there are some very troubling statistics about this that tell us something about the nature of our society that there were many referendums held.
00:09:57.000 In 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.
00:10:14.000 And 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.
00:10:29.000 And despite this, The governments, the corporations, the state legislatures and assemblies, the constitutions, all changed with the corporate interest. 0.62
00:10:38.000 And so this is why we don't totally pin it on the boomers. 0.72
00:10:40.000 It wasn't an active thing by the boomers that they inaugurated this. 0.67
00:10:45.000 They were teenagers when the law passed, but they fell asleep at the wheel. 0.79
00:10:49.000 They fell asleep at the wheel.
00:10:51.000 And these kinds of trends, which informed these legal changes, these demographic changes, they go back to one very troubling, very disturbing lie about race.
00:11:02.000 And we've all heard it before when we talk about differences in race, when we talk about immigration, when we talk about affirmative action. 0.51
00:11:09.000 We always hear that we are ignorant. 0.94
00:11:12.000 We are the naive ones. 0.89
00:11:14.000 Because, of course, race is only skin deep. 0.99
00:11:18.000 This is the most pernicious lie of the boomer generation that race is merely skin color. 0.86
00:11:25.000 And this is one of those social trends that has been really problematic. 0.73
00:11:28.000 This is one that has been accepted by the boomers and indoctrinated by them into the young. 0.71
00:11:33.000 That we're all the same people, all pink on the inside. 0.86
00:11:36.000 We just come in different colors.
00:11:38.000 And 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?
00:11:46.000 Not because they have different characteristics, not because they have different identities, different histories, different heroes, different cultures, different biologies. 0.86
00:11:55.000 And 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. 0.73
00:12:06.000 The next biggest problem is that the boomers let go of the nation. 0.76
00:12:11.000 And we have to distinguish between the race and the nation. 0.99
00:12:14.000 The 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.
00:12:27.000 But the nation started out meaning something very specific.
00:12:30.000 The 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.
00:12:39.000 You created the kind of music you listened to, the kind of customs and mannerisms that you had.
00:12:44.000 Now we don't see it so much that way, but that's classically how the nation was defined. 0.72
00:12:49.000 And we look at boomers as custodians of the nation, custodians of their communities and of their families. 0.93
00:12:56.000 And whether we see good families here today or good people here today, by and large the boomers failed in their stewardship of the nation. 0.94
00:13:04.000 We 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. 0.98
00:13:14.000 He 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.
00:13:28.000 So we really saw the destruction of the community.
00:13:31.000 And you start to see how, in many ways, all of these issues really are reciprocal. 0.98
00:13:36.000 We look at the mass immigration trend, the destruction of race. 0.99
00:13:39.000 And can we see how it informs, how that has influenced the destruction of the community? 1.00
00:13:44.000 For example, you look at a city like Chicago, or a city like New York City, or Los Angeles.
00:13:49.000 In Los Angeles, you have hundreds, thousands of languages being spoken by many different racial and ethnic groups in their various enclaves in Los Angeles.
00:13:57.000 And we see how these are reciprocal in that it is very difficult to build a community.
00:14:02.000 It 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.
00:14:16.000 Maybe if you say a certain word, that could cause a very big falling out between people.
00:14:21.000 So, we see how these various kinds of identities are reciprocal.
00:14:25.000 So, they saw the destruction of the community.
00:14:28.000 In many ways, America was built on these civic, secular institutions away from governments.
00:14:34.000 Tocqueville 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.
00:14:47.000 And these all came apart around the middle of the century. 0.92
00:14:50.000 The other part of the nation, the foundational building block of the nation, That the boomers failed in their stewardship of was the family. 0.78
00:14:59.000 We see in the 1970s and the 1980s divorce rates skyrocket. 0.62
00:15:04.000 And 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.
00:15:12.000 They've gone down for the population at large, they've gone down for the younger generations. 0.81
00:15:18.000 And surprise, surprise, this fantastic generation of baby boomers, they've seen their divorce rates double. 0.83
00:15:25.000 And triple in the last 10 years. 0.96
00:15:27.000 Whereas it had been a very big problem for a long time, we start to see it fade away.
00:15:31.000 They're actually going up as they go older.
00:15:34.000 And we see why.
00:15:35.000 We see why communities have gone away.
00:15:38.000 We see why families have gone away.
00:15:40.000 And we see, and I'll talk about in a moment, why that's such a challenge, why that's such a trouble. 0.97
00:15:44.000 And the biggest problem is because the boomers were centered on the self. 0.97
00:15:50.000 Marriage is unhappy. 0.81
00:15:51.000 You're having a tough time with the wife.
00:15:53.000 You're staying a little bit too late at work or you're going to bars.
00:15:56.000 The spark just isn't there.
00:15:58.000 Well, neither partner's really happy, so let's call the quits.
00:16:02.000 We're not happy now.
00:16:03.000 We don't have this transient experience of happiness or pleasure, satisfaction, so we're done.
00:16:09.000 We made a commitment until death do us part, but we don't like it right now, so we're calling the quits.
00:16:14.000 Never mind the kids, never mind the commitment, never mind an allegiance to a higher creator.
00:16:18.000 We're calling the quits.
00:16:20.000 And this is one of those trends I think we'll see the me part, and we'll get into that in the next phase.
00:16:24.000 But 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.
00:16:35.000 And we can talk about fiscal policy, we can talk about immigration, we can talk about the banks.
00:16:40.000 But at the end of the day, a society is only as strong as its families.
00:16:45.000 A society is the individuals that comprise it.
00:16:47.000 And 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.
00:17:02.000 Or the United States of America.
00:17:04.000 So, 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. 0.57
00:17:15.000 The boomers don't raise their children adequately, these parents don't raise their children adequately, and so on and so on. 0.52
00:17:21.000 And you see this ripple across time, horizontally and vertically, where this is having a lot of adverse consequences. 0.99
00:17:28.000 The last major issue, the last worst, I think the worst and the narrowest.
00:17:34.000 Idea of identity that the boomers have seen deteriorate is the spirit, communion with God. 0.78
00:17:41.000 We 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. 0.60
00:17:50.000 But a big problem is the destruction and the decline of religion in America. 0.51
00:17:55.000 And I think very few people are willing to say this, but I think you see the destruction of the race, the family, the nation. 0.75
00:18:01.000 All of them are rooted in the destruction of the spirit. 0.67
00:18:04.000 With 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.
00:18:14.000 The rejection of its restrictive, constrictive, and oppressive social morals and customs.
00:18:21.000 You 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.
00:18:31.000 Something like 23% of boomers in their younger adulthood said that they attended church regularly.
00:18:38.000 And you think about this loss of communion with God.
00:18:40.000 You think about the loss of the nucleus of the society.
00:18:44.000 And think about it in terms of the other levels of organization.
00:18:48.000 You think about it in terms of the community.
00:18:50.000 Very 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.
00:19:05.000 It's very hard to have communion when you lose that kind of organization.
00:19:09.000 It's very hard to have families.
00:19:11.000 It's very hard to find a good justification for families, for the individual, if not for religious values. 0.64
00:19:18.000 Of course, when boomers go off the reservations away from sexual morality, they say that's all stuffy, that's all oppressive.
00:19:25.000 We just want to dance, we just want to do our drugs, have a little fun, hang loose.
00:19:30.000 And I saw on Twitter Christina Hoffsommers tweeted something like this.
00:19:34.000 And Christina Hoffsommers, you could say she's kind of right wing, relatively right wing. 1.00
00:19:40.000 She fashions herself as kind of a right wing free speech icon. 0.97
00:19:43.000 But she tweeted sometime in the last month to my generation, to the younger generation.
00:19:48.000 Let loose.
00:19:49.000 When we were kids, we had sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and you guys are so stressed out. 0.70
00:19:54.000 Chill out, man.
00:19:55.000 And 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.
00:20:02.000 We can say, hey, does it really do anybody that much harm if we're just having a good time?
00:20:07.000 The saints are the boring people there in heaven.
00:20:09.000 We'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, as Billy Joel said.
00:20:13.000 But 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.
00:20:23.000 Lastly, 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.
00:20:36.000 We've seen the Great Crusades.
00:20:38.000 We saw the Siege of Vienna in 1683 when the Polish came to the rescue of the Austrians.
00:20:44.000 We look at the defense, the shared virtues, values, customs that had to be defended from the Ottoman Empire, from the various caliphates.
00:20:52.000 We look at in the Cold War, you know, a lot of them were, I mean, of course, they were Orthodox in the Soviet Union.
00:20:57.000 Traditionally Orthodox, but there was a great deal of unity in this country rallying around a moral cause.
00:21:03.000 It wasn't just about ideology.
00:21:06.000 At the end of the day, it wasn't about what kind of economic system you wanted.
00:21:10.000 It was about the fact that we were fundamentally good.
00:21:12.000 We were a Christ loving people, and the people in the Soviet Union were butchers.
00:21:17.000 They were not humanitarians.
00:21:19.000 And 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. 0.76
00:21:31.000 And this is because of materialism and because of the idea of the me generation.
00:21:35.000 The boomer, you know, we have these stereotypes online that the boomer is concerned about the gross domestic product.
00:21:42.000 The boomer is concerned about the money.
00:21:44.000 The boomer is concerned about the taxes, about the management of the fiscal policy in the state.
00:21:48.000 But of course, all these things mean nothing to us.
00:21:51.000 The boomer is concerned about himself.
00:21:53.000 The boomer is concerned about we're not happy in our marriage, so we split.
00:21:56.000 We're not happy in our community, in our town, so we split.
00:21:59.000 We're not happy with our country, so we go somewhere else.
00:22:02.000 But this generation, Generation Z, is re embracing what it means to have a community oriented mentality.
00:22:08.000 To have a community, a racial, a communitarian consciousness.
00:22:14.000 And so a lot of it can be attributed to that loss of God for the individual. 0.97
00:22:17.000 And this, I think, encapsulates the problem with the boomer. 0.96
00:22:20.000 You see the loss of these identities at every level, from race to nation to community to family, down to the individual. 0.75
00:22:27.000 We see where this comes from at the root causes.
00:22:30.000 And this is where we are today.
00:22:31.000 This is the problem where we are.
00:22:34.000 I think many people oversimplify it when they say it's simply a policy issue.
00:22:39.000 If 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.
00:22:51.000 We could get the demographics just right.
00:22:53.000 But of course, it's a much deeper seated problem than all of this.
00:22:56.000 Our 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.
00:23:10.000 And that's the problem.
00:23:11.000 But we are here to talk about solutions.
00:23:13.000 We all know about the problem. 0.79
00:23:15.000 We all know about the boomer.
00:23:16.000 And of course, I will reiterate it's been, I think we're concluding with the boomer bashing segment.
00:23:22.000 So I will come back and say, remember, the people in here, the boomers here, the asterisk is not you guys.
00:23:29.000 Of course, you guys are the good ones, and we like you. 0.57
00:23:32.000 But we're here to talk about solutions.
00:23:34.000 And 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.
00:23:42.000 I 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.
00:23:49.000 That's been a real obstacle to this generation.
00:23:53.000 David Hogg and the Parkland shooters, they have set us back.
00:23:57.000 I think Tide Pods, Fortnite, David Hogg, these are the horsemen of the Generation Z apocalypse.
00:24:04.000 Really set us back a long way. 0.72
00:24:07.000 But 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.
00:24:15.000 I come to you as a representative of Generation Z.
00:24:18.000 I think we could look and find that there's a tremendous opportunity here.
00:24:22.000 And 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.
00:24:32.000 The boomers don't like the millennials.
00:24:33.000 This is the perpetual war.
00:24:35.000 You talk about warfare that goes on forever.
00:24:37.000 You talk about the 100 years war. 0.63
00:24:39.000 I don't think there's been a nastier war in history than this dialectic between the boomers and the millennials. 0.53
00:24:45.000 The boomers who shake their fists and say, get a job.
00:24:48.000 Get out of your mother's basement. 1.00
00:24:50.000 Put down the video games.
00:24:51.000 Time to grow up.
00:24:52.000 And the millennials just say, you know, you just don't understand.
00:24:55.000 It's pretty rough out there.
00:24:57.000 But Generation Z is very different than the millennials.
00:25:00.000 If you're looking at any of the data, Pew Research, Gallup, any of the data, very encouraging signs just in the numbers.
00:25:07.000 For example, you look at church attendance.
00:25:09.000 We go back to spirituality is a big problem.
00:25:12.000 Whereas for the boomers, you had this tremendous decrease from greatest generation and silent generation down to something like 21% for the boomers. 0.61
00:25:20.000 Say they.
00:25:21.000 Go to church on average as young adults.
00:25:24.000 For Generation Z, that number is more than 40%, more than double.
00:25:27.000 Every generation since the boomers goes down and down and down. 0.51
00:25:31.000 Generation Z is more than double before the degeneration started. 0.54
00:25:35.000 So, in that regard, it's already a more religious generation. 0.59
00:25:39.000 We look at any of the numbers about risk aversion.
00:25:42.000 We look at any of the numbers about their attitudes on pot, on social issues like transsexuals, homosexuals, anything like that.
00:25:49.000 And although it's difficult, we have tended to not be so successful in the culture wars.
00:25:54.000 Although Generation Z is much more open to those kinds of things than previous generations, they're a lot less enthusiastic about it.
00:26:01.000 A lot less enthusiastic.
00:26:03.000 And I think that's something to work with there.
00:26:05.000 Perhaps 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. 0.68
00:26:18.000 And they surveyed high school students around the Generation Z generation, people who weren't old enough to vote yet.
00:26:24.000 And they said, How would they have voted in the 2016 election if they were of age?
00:26:29.000 And strikingly, if you look at white voters, white Generation Z high school voters, this blew me away.
00:26:35.000 I had to go in and check with the mainstream sources because it was almost too. 0.50
00:26:39.000 Too optimistic to believe.
00:26:41.000 48% said they would go for Trump.
00:26:46.000 11% said they would go for Hillary Clinton.
00:26:49.000 And you think about what that represents in terms of Trump versus Hillary, in terms of Republican versus Democrat.
00:26:55.000 In past years, I wouldn't have said that would have meant very much.
00:26:59.000 If 48% of young people said they would have gone for Mitt Romney, that doesn't really mean anything to me.
00:27:05.000 They go for low taxes, you know, big whip.
00:27:07.000 They go for hedge funds and the stock market getting richer, and big whip, but they're for amnesty.
00:27:13.000 But with Donald Trump, we see a candidate who represented something different.
00:27:16.000 With 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.
00:27:24.000 Donald Trump was implicitly, almost intuitively, calling back to that traditional America.
00:27:30.000 It was about revanchism, it was about nostalgia for the way America used to be, and all the ways you're not allowed to say.
00:27:36.000 And so I think you look at a number like that 48% versus 11%, and the numbers are all there.
00:27:42.000 Additionally, not just on the quantitative side, but on the qualitative side.
00:27:46.000 You look at the formative events of Generation Z, the formative historical events in their lives.
00:27:52.000 And this is what really, really made me optimistic about this generation. 0.75
00:27:57.000 You look at the boomers and why things have gone the way they have in terms of immigration and demographics.
00:28:03.000 And it's not surprising to see why they believe the things they do about race.
00:28:07.000 When they were growing up in the 1950s and the 1960s, even the 1970s and 80s, they saw real racial discrimination, real injustice.
00:28:17.000 And it's debatable how long that's gone on.
00:28:19.000 I think we saw the worst of it in the 50s and 60s as the civil rights era took on a very successful tone.
00:28:27.000 But they really saw the real kind of racism that we hear talked about on BuzzFeed, on MSNBC.
00:28:32.000 That was when it was really happening.
00:28:33.000 And 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.
00:28:45.000 They've seen the actual not so good part of it, they've seen the excess of it.
00:28:50.000 Additionally, they grew up in a country that was demographically homogeneous. 0.90
00:28:54.000 It'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. 0.93
00:29:03.000 People 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. 0.71
00:29:11.000 And 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.
00:29:23.000 Generation Z, on the other hand, you look at the formative events in our lives.
00:29:27.000 This is the first generation that is one generation removed from any kind of real racial discrimination.
00:29:36.000 The racism we hear talked about all day long on television, in the media, on the internet, by the liberal politicians, never seen it.
00:29:44.000 As 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.
00:29:54.000 There was none of that, it just didn't exist.
00:29:56.000 And so when you look at the formative events for the young people, you have this rhetoric on the one hand.
00:30:01.000 Which says the society is one way.
00:30:03.000 And 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. 0.94
00:30:13.000 This 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. 0.97
00:30:28.000 Thank you.
00:30:30.000 And it's difficult because we see a lot of Generation Z, and a lot of them are very liberal.
00:30:34.000 But 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.
00:30:47.000 Now, the last point on this we see very encouraging signs.
00:30:51.000 We see very good things about the country in terms of the statistics, in terms of the formative events.
00:30:56.000 A lot of this is theoretical, a lot of this is projected in the future.
00:31:00.000 But by no means is it a guarantee.
00:31:03.000 What we have is an opportunity, not a guarantee.
00:31:07.000 And 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.
00:31:20.000 We have to keep our foot on the gas.
00:31:22.000 We cannot fall asleep at the wheel as the previous generations have.
00:31:27.000 I will say, I'm especially encouraged by exactly what we're fighting for in the sense that this is a cause that speaks to us.
00:31:36.000 This is our home turf.
00:31:38.000 What we're fighting for is our families.
00:31:40.000 We're fighting for our God.
00:31:42.000 We're fighting for our ancestors.
00:31:44.000 We're fighting for posterity, for our children.
00:31:46.000 We see what has gone on in this country for 50 years.
00:31:50.000 It's not mismanagement, it's not neglect, it's not unintended consequences.
00:31:56.000 It is evil, it is deliberate, it is by design.
00:32:09.000 And that is something that is worth fighting for.
00:32:12.000 You look at the young people that are gathered outside, you look at the real winners outside, and I guess not very many of them showed up.
00:32:20.000 Fortunately, we have very robust security.
00:32:22.000 What are they fighting for?
00:32:24.000 What are they fighting for?
00:32:25.000 Some ethereal, abstract concept of postmodern liberation, theological justice.
00:32:31.000 I'm sorry, I don't see that as a very strong motivating factor.
00:32:35.000 We 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.
00:32:43.000 To us, they do not care.
00:32:45.000 They do not have a great motivating cause.
00:32:48.000 And lastly, I will end with a personal anecdote.
00:32:51.000 I 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.
00:33:00.000 It 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.
00:33:12.000 And to speak on the point of things that we're willing to fight and really die for, I was told.
00:33:17.000 By just about everybody I knew.
00:33:18.000 And I have some connections in this movement.
00:33:21.000 I have many connections in the establishment as well.
00:33:23.000 And many people bagged and pleaded Nick, you have no idea what you're doing.
00:33:27.000 You can't go to the American Renaissance Conference.
00:33:29.000 These people, we may agree with them, we may like what they're saying, but not a good career move.
00:33:35.000 It's not a good look.
00:33:37.000 We've all heard this kind of thing.
00:33:39.000 You'll never be a Fox News intern, you'll never be a pundit.
00:33:42.000 And can you believe it?
00:33:43.000 I was at the Leadership Institute just last year trying to climb the ranks.
00:33:47.000 I was with.
00:33:48.000 Cassie Dillon trying to get a job at the Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro.
00:33:52.000 Do you know how much Paul Ryan would love somebody like me with my last name?
00:33:58.000 I am the dream of these conservatives.
00:34:01.000 The pro amnesty, they talk about natural conservatives.
00:34:04.000 If 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.
00:34:14.000 I'm the biggest selling point in 100 years.
00:34:18.000 But I rejected the establishment and I came here.
00:34:21.000 And I think all of you came here for the same reason.
00:34:24.000 Because we don't have the luxury to worry about career.
00:34:27.000 We don't have the luxury to worry about money.
00:34:30.000 We don't have the luxury to worry about the material.
00:34:33.000 Because time is not on our side.
00:34:35.000 And 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.
00:34:44.000 And so I'll end with a quote right here by the Venerable Fulton Sheen, who was a great Catholic Archbishop back in the day.
00:34:51.000 And 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.
00:35:02.000 He 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.
00:35:15.000 And I think the cause is just enough that we can do that. 0.95
00:35:18.000 Generation Z, you are our last hope. 0.99
00:35:20.000 I will lead you, but it'll be a fight.
00:35:23.000 Thank you.
00:35:34.000 Thank you.
00:35:35.000 What a tremendous promise you have.
00:35:38.000 It's really remarkable.
00:35:39.000 It's not a compliment, it's simply a statement of fact.
00:35:43.000 I think it was Evelyn Wall who said that every generation is a conspiracy against the previous generation.
00:35:50.000 And so, you know, this is a natural phenomenon.
00:35:53.000 But you both overestimate and underestimate the guiltiness of the boomer generation.
00:36:02.000 You said that they.
00:36:03.000 They embraced their idea because they saw discrimination.
00:36:10.000 Well, first of all, that's largely false in a factual manner.
00:36:14.000 But also, no, they did what they were told, as most people do.
00:36:21.000 One 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.
00:36:33.000 That's not true.
00:36:34.000 When I was in high school, elementary school, I heard exactly what you and others heard.
00:36:41.000 It was there, leftism.
00:36:43.000 And the.
00:36:46.000 Where was I going to go?
00:36:49.000 They also embraced these things, not because they saw discrimination, because we lived in a very segregated and happy society.
00:36:56.000 They embraced it because they didn't actually have to experience mixing with other races.
00:37:02.000 They embraced it out of ignorance. 0.51
00:37:05.000 I think that it's fine to copy our enemies and engage in a. 0.99
00:37:11.000 A selling technique of presenting the Z generation with the idea that they're different. 0.99
00:37:17.000 Just in my generation, the new left presented it as a generational thing by saying, don't trust anyone over 30.
00:37:24.000 But the fact is, this is not a generational thing.
00:37:30.000 This has deep, deep tap roots that go deep into American history, way back to McKinley and Lincoln and the Revolution. 0.78
00:37:39.000 We can't go back anyhow and start with the old woman.
00:37:43.000 Anyway, I don't mind the use of a generational gimmick, but I think you really have not gauged where we've come from.
00:37:54.000 Thank you.
00:38:00.000 First of all, congratulations on an amazing speech.
00:38:03.000 I haven't heard the rest of them yet, but you'll be one of the ones I take away with me.
00:38:08.000 I'm obviously a boomer.
00:38:10.000 I'm not sorry. 1.00
00:38:11.000 I know something about boomers.
00:38:13.000 I 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.
00:38:24.000 You made the point, and I completely agree with you, that there needs to be some kind of restoration of a national religion.
00:38:32.000 And I mean that in a structural sense, not a theological sense.
00:38:36.000 That's a debate for somewhere else.
00:38:38.000 But what do your generation really think about religion?
00:38:41.000 Is it going back?
00:38:42.000 You're obviously Catholic.
00:38:44.000 You pretty much said that.
00:38:45.000 But are you going back to the old conservative church?
00:38:50.000 Or is there something new?
00:38:51.000 And the reason I ask that is I think inevitably it's going to have to be something new because we're in a different world now.
00:38:59.000 And I'm not saying you couldn't bake in traditional Catholic values, traditional Protestant values.
00:39:07.000 But, I mean, how do you see that?
00:39:11.000 Yeah, that's a great question.
00:39:11.000 Could you address that?
00:39:12.000 That's a really great question.
00:39:14.000 And 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.
00:39:23.000 But 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.
00:39:33.000 And I don't think they'll find it anywhere but the church.
00:39:36.000 Now, 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.
00:39:43.000 Because 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.
00:39:54.000 You have this hookup culture, this degenerate.
00:39:56.000 Kind of sexual revolution ruins we're exploring.
00:40:00.000 And I don't think they're finding real existential meaning in their lives.
00:40:04.000 I don't think they'll find it economically in this world.
00:40:07.000 I think they'll have to search for it in the other realm.
00:40:09.000 The question is will they fail?
00:40:11.000 Will they find a substitute and not be satisfied?
00:40:14.000 Or will they come back to Mother Church?
00:40:16.000 I think that's largely a big question mark at the moment.
00:40:20.000 Yeah, sure.
00:40:21.000 Great question.
00:40:21.000 Thanks.
00:40:23.000 Yeah, that was an excellent speech.
00:40:24.000 You talked to Lloyd Strauss, William Strauss, who wrote a book called The Part of the Dairy Harmonish and a Wire.
00:40:33.000 That book has changed my life, I have to say.
00:40:37.000 I think it's very informative.
00:40:39.000 And how, like, they talk about neurodiversity in 1997, I'm guessing.
00:40:43.000 A lot of this.
00:40:44.000 A lot of it.
00:40:45.000 In 1997, and so in.
00:40:47.000 They 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.
00:40:58.000 And I really do think it's coming to pass.
00:41:01.000 I don't know if you have any comments on that.
00:41:02.000 Well, yeah, I think it's almost.
00:41:04.000 I think it's almost inevitable.
00:41:05.000 I think a lot of the projections that are about the future, about the generations, about population, there's a lot of doomsday talk.
00:41:13.000 And granted, the stakes are very high right now, and it's looking very difficult in more ways than one.
00:41:19.000 But 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.
00:41:29.000 It's moving at such a rapid pace.
00:41:30.000 I don't think anything will be very much the same as it was now in 5, 10, 15 years.
00:41:36.000 So, 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.
00:41:46.000 I think it almost has to happen that there'll have to be a fourth turning.
00:41:49.000 So, I agree.
00:41:50.000 Sorry, that there will be a fourth turning, or that we are in a fourth turning?
00:41:54.000 I think we are in a fourth turning.
00:41:56.000 I think we'll see the manifestation of that later on.
00:41:59.000 Obviously, right now, they still control the media, they still control a lot of the institutions. 0.91
00:42:04.000 I would just say, I think we're in a fourth turning, and I think Eastern Europe is in a first turning, and I think it all. 0.97
00:42:16.000 Makes sense, but I'll just leave it there. 0.99
00:42:18.000 Yeah, sure.
00:42:19.000 John Jones from San Francisco.
00:42:19.000 Hi.
00:42:19.000 Thanks.
00:42:21.000 I'd like to congratulate you on your excellent talk.
00:42:24.000 I'd like to tell you what you don't tell us.
00:42:29.000 You don't tell us how this is going to get off the ground.
00:42:33.000 I doubt that you could, perhaps, but you don't.
00:42:35.000 And I think that's something that your speech, your talk, would be much more interesting if you could give us more of substance.
00:42:43.000 It's a lot of constructive criticism, which I appreciate.
00:42:43.000 Thank you.
00:42:47.000 But if I could answer that general point, I will say it's difficult because there is not a game plan here.
00:42:57.000 There's not one roadmap.
00:42:58.000 There's not a grand design that will tell us how we're going to get out of this.
00:43:02.000 We've never been in a situation quite like this before with all the factors in front of us.
00:43:07.000 But I will say it's not going to come from a mass movement.
00:43:12.000 I really am skeptical when you hear people talk about.
00:43:14.000 Grand designs, grand nation changing, regime changing, organizations, movements.
00:43:19.000 It's going to come from individuals. 0.84
00:43:21.000 One of the biggest problems with the boomers was also the embrace of ideology, the embrace of Spenglerian socialism. 0.88
00:43:28.000 Oswald Spengler wrote a lot about this in Decline of the West. 0.51
00:43:31.000 He 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.
00:43:42.000 When we talk about what ought to happen, we're talking about progress and we say people ought to do this.
00:43:47.000 For example, we talk about environmentalism.
00:43:49.000 It's not, I want to take care of litter.
00:43:52.000 It's society ought to make changes as to how we function.
00:43:55.000 It's not, I want to give money to the poor.
00:43:58.000 Society has to fix things for the poor.
00:44:00.000 I 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.
00:44:08.000 We have to rebuild virtue for individuals, individual families.
00:44:12.000 We all have to take responsibility for this revolution in our own ways.
00:44:16.000 That could be as simple as having a big family, going to your PTA meeting, and living out a reasonable life in an unreasonable time.
00:44:24.000 But anybody tells you it's a big design or anything like that, I'm just very skeptical of it.
00:44:31.000 Thank you.