Based Camp - February 26, 2024


An Anatomy of the Urban Monoculture


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

178.44948

Word Count

6,010

Sentence Count

320

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

34


Summary

The Urban Monoculture is the dominant cultural group in the world and one of the descendants of European imperialism. It sees itself as naturally superior to all other cultural groups and perspectives, seeing them as essentially backward savages, and its imperative is to spread over all of the world s population. As such, it only survives by parasitizing children from nearby demographically healthy cultural groups, or importing families from geographically distant cultures and converting their children.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I often say that the urban monoculture loves the LGBT community in the same way Hamas loves
00:00:04.440 hospitals. It sets up the most imperious elements of its operation in the hearts of vulnerable
00:00:09.900 communities to divert attacks against it to those communities, allowing it to claim the
00:00:15.380 moral high ground. This can be seen in its tendency to use the rainbow flag to show conquest
00:00:20.320 over institutions. After a mosque, synagogue, et cetera, has been conquered, they will hang this
00:00:25.480 out front to direct anger away from the culprit of the cultural erasure and towards the LGBT
00:00:30.420 community. Now, if you have fallen victim to their propaganda, you might be saying, oh, but what's
00:00:37.120 the difference? I mean, the vast majority of gay people are progressives, right? 45% of gay men in
00:00:44.000 the last election cycle voted for Donald Trump. People are like, no, it needs to redirect the
00:00:47.920 anger at the LGBT community. It needs that the LGBT community has its loudest voices. And it's like,
00:00:52.020 no, it doesn't. It controls our media. It controls our school system. It could use powerful people
00:00:58.680 to be the scapegoat, but it doesn't. It uses the vulnerable members of its community to be the
00:01:04.540 scapegoats, to be the biggest proponents of the most imperious aspects of the culture and the loudest
00:01:10.220 proponents. You know, when you go on TikTok and you see the craziest ultra-progressive viewpoints,
00:01:15.220 they are people in these communities. Would you like to know more?
00:01:18.380 The stage at which I can't feel my fingertips anymore.
00:01:22.000 I love that you, and you're the one who enforces this on the family, to be clear. I always say
00:01:27.540 that you can indulge yourself when you want. I'm not enforcing this on the children. They say
00:01:32.140 repeatedly, I love the cold. They prefer the cold.
00:01:36.880 You are an amazing woman, Simone, and I appreciate how austerely you live because it helps us stay
00:01:44.480 focused on what matters, which is moving things forward for our species during this particular
00:01:50.060 time of challenges that we live in. And one of the biggest challenges has really made clear to me
00:01:55.020 when we were talking to a reporter recently, and they were asking for more clarification on the urban
00:02:01.040 monoculture, right? And it made me realize that one of the mistakes that people can make when dealing
00:02:06.180 with the urban monoculture is to think that it has the similarities it has because it is true.
00:02:14.980 But that is not the case. And so I'm actually going to start by reading my response to the reporter
00:02:21.780 about the urban monoculture.
00:02:24.480 Dive right in, friend.
00:02:26.420 While the urban monoculture is not the sole cause of demographic collapse, no realistic solution to
00:02:30.680 demographic collapse is possible without addressing the issues posed by the urban monoculture.
00:02:34.600 The fertility rates within all cultural groups are crashing, but the proximity of a group to
00:02:39.520 the urban monoculture is directly correlated to the speed of the crash. Worse, cultural innovation
00:02:44.180 any family attempts will be fought by the urban monoculture insofar as it deviates from the urban
00:02:48.680 monoculture, which it definitionally will due to the monoculture's low fertility rate.
00:02:54.540 The urban monoculture is the dominant cultural group in the world today and one of the descendants
00:02:58.940 of European imperialism. It is what many call wokeness, progressiveness, etc.
00:03:02.720 It sees itself as naturally superior to all other cultural groups and perspectives, seeing
00:03:07.560 them as essentially backward savages, and its imperative is to spread over all of the world's
00:03:12.700 population. What makes it hazardous is the urban monoculture has the lowest fertility rate
00:03:17.500 of any cultural group in the world. As such, it only survives by parasitizing children from
00:03:22.080 nearby demographically healthy cultural groups. Usually these are conservative religious groups
00:03:26.380 or importing families from geographically distant cultures and converting their children. This creates an
00:03:31.900 existential problem in our society that I predict will be the core source of conflict over the next
00:03:35.940 century. The dominant cultural group, the group that controls the school system and mass media,
00:03:40.940 must attempt to convert children from neighboring cultures to keep its population numbers stable.
00:03:47.020 Conversion targets of the urban monoculture naturally see the industrial conversion of their
00:03:51.520 children as a threat. There are high fertility groups in every country, but they are all quote-unquote
00:03:55.960 weird, where weirdness is defined by cultural distance from the dominant cultural group in society,
00:04:00.460 the urban monoculture. These groups look like weird secular religions like our family has,
00:04:05.340 ultra-Orthodox Jews, Quiverfuls, Tradcasts, etc. The problem is, even if the urban monoculture wanted
00:04:10.520 to stop its industrial conversion system, it couldn't. If it did, its population would quickly collapse,
00:04:15.980 and it would lose the political and bureaucratic power it has used to subjugate its neighbors,
00:04:19.940 who are at this point very angry. It has proverbially caught the tiger by the tail. The longer it holds the
00:04:26.880 tiger, the angrier the tiger gets, but if it lets go, things will get bloody. Political parties around the
00:04:31.860 world are beginning to drift into two factions, one representing the urban monoculture and its goal of
00:04:36.720 cultural genocide, and the other representing a diverse alliance of those attempting intergenerational
00:04:41.880 preservation of their cultural identity. As to what the urban monoculture is, it can be hard to explain,
00:04:47.800 because once one converts, unlike other cultures, it does not demand they identify as a member. They just have to
00:04:53.120 adopt its perspectives, values, practices, morality, ideology, and cosmology. To understand this in
00:04:58.160 practice, ask an ultra-progressive Jew, Muslim, Catholic, feminist, etc. what their views are on
00:05:03.680 gender, relationships, the nature of the universe, morality, sexuality, marriage, our relation to the
00:05:09.120 environment, etc., and you will get nearly identical answers. Were you to pose the same question to a
00:05:13.900 conservative Jew, Muslim, Catholic, feminist, you would get wildly different answers to each question.
00:05:18.740 I would also note here that the convergent position of the urban monoculture
00:05:22.220 is not due to quote-unquote science, as is will regularly ignore science when it conflicts with the
00:05:27.680 culture's canon, just as quickly and aggressively as religious extremists do. Now, I'm not going to go
00:05:32.540 further here, because it was actually this last point that I really want to expand upon. Many people, when they
00:05:37.200 look at the convergent beliefs that you have among progressive Catholics, or progressive Jews, or
00:05:43.260 progressive Muslims, they say these convergent beliefs are just science, right? And it very clearly is not true.
00:05:50.880 It's not true in the field of genetics. It's not true in the field of demography. And I wanted to pull up
00:05:57.340 a few instances of this that we've seen recently. So one I wanted to share with you is this insane graph
00:06:04.320 that about 70% of liberal 12th grade girls believe women are discriminated against in getting a college
00:06:12.120 education. Despite the fact that women attain more bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees than men.
00:06:20.220 There are literally 11 times, so 11,000% more women's only scholarship than men's only scholarships
00:06:29.360 in the U.S. The level of distortion to reality you have to have to believe this.
00:06:36.300 Well, Newhall still, just look at rates of college graduation and attendance male to female. There
00:06:42.000 is an obvious skew.
00:06:44.880 Yeah. Well, and it's something we see with demographic stuff. We'll talk with reporters
00:06:48.900 about demographic stuff, and they'll say, demographers say, this isn't an issue. You
00:06:52.760 cannot predict this stuff long term. I'm like, but you literally can. I can ask the younger
00:06:57.940 generation how many kids they plan to have. I can look at trailing indicators like rates of
00:07:02.420 religiosity. I can look at every aspect of data we have, and it says it's going to get
00:07:07.260 worse over time. I can look at countries that are further ahead of us and collapse. So they
00:07:10.900 have this distortion field that is not science. And it's very important that we call it out
00:07:19.140 as not science, or not just what is culturally just. So is it just to lie to people? Like,
00:07:25.700 is it culturally just? But this is a huge problem, right? Is there like, we are not erasing
00:07:32.280 these cultures. When a culture becomes sufficiently progressive, it hasn't been erased, even though
00:07:41.440 they all fly the same flag now, which we'll talk about in a second. I go to an ultra-progressive
00:07:46.700 mosque, and I go to an ultra-progressive church, and I go to an ultra-progressive synagogue. They'll
00:07:51.240 have the same flag in front of every one of these churches. They're like, oh, well, that's just an
00:07:57.760 interesting coincidence. You know, they are trying to protect a vulnerable group. And I'm like, well,
00:08:03.720 there's lots of vulnerable groups in society. Why are they all converging around the same vulnerable
00:08:09.020 group in terms of the flags that they're flying? Which goes to something that I often say, which is
00:08:13.620 the urban monoculture loves the LGBT community in the same way Hamas loves hospitals, which is to say
00:08:22.120 they are using this community, and a community that is in some ways genuinely vulnerable, to redirect
00:08:29.120 anger that would otherwise be pointed at the larger problem, which is the urban monoculture,
00:08:35.740 towards a discriminated subgroup. And then they use that misdirection and the danger that they caused
00:08:43.640 individuals of that subgroup through their blatant proselytization and attempts to deconvert children
00:08:51.560 using our education system and mass media to anger against this one specific subset of the population,
00:08:58.080 which, to be honest, I don't even know. Like, do most gay men even still support Democrats? I could
00:09:03.520 look this up. Well, I'll look it up after an edit in editing. I called it. 45% of gay men in the last
00:09:11.260 election cycle voted for Trump over Biden, and 51% voted for Biden. So it's basically half and half about
00:09:19.620 now, and I suspect it's going to flip in the next election cycle or the one after that.
00:09:25.040 But yeah. I think they do, pretty overwhelmingly. Then there's just, like, the Lincoln Republicans,
00:09:29.940 and that's it. Just to clarify, it turns out her intuition was wrong, and that it's about half and
00:09:34.960 half right now and likely moving towards majority Republican in the next cycle. And I'd also remind
00:09:40.340 our audience of this, any of you who are right-leaning and maybe underestimate just how much the gay
00:09:47.180 community votes Republican or how amenable they are to joining the Republican Party en masse, at least
00:09:53.940 gay men. So it's really best to not antagonize them because they really are on our side, and they are not
00:10:01.660 the same in terms of these far-crazy, far-left, you know, extremist trans activists and stuff like that.
00:10:09.620 Most gay men are very similar to your average Republican.
00:10:14.440 But it's getting, it's the level to which they've basically been able to pull the wool over society's eyes.
00:10:21.040 Like, and as you pointed out in the studies done on, for example, like, they'll take another discriminated
00:10:25.440 group that they'll be like, they'll elevate to a stupid degree, to a degree that it hurts the community,
00:10:30.260 like the Black community. If you look at areas where Democrats have been in control for longer,
00:10:35.700 Hispanic groups and Black groups have larger distances in contrasted in both earnings and
00:10:41.840 scores on tests when contrasted with the white population. So the policies that are being
00:10:46.400 implemented by progressives are hurting these disadvantaged communities, and this is really
00:10:50.160 obvious in the data. But in other words, like, statistically speaking, and we're not,
00:10:55.480 we're not saying necessarily there's causation, but if I were a minority in the United States,
00:11:03.180 I would rather be in a Republican-dominated area, a conservative area, because-
00:11:08.440 Well, you will do better and your kids will do better.
00:11:10.340 Yeah, exactly.
00:11:10.880 Dispreportedly, in contrast with the local white population.
00:11:12.440 Which is wild, because you assume that, of course, all, you know, Democratic-progressive
00:11:17.500 policies are meant to, at first and foremost, favor and help minorities and those in need.
00:11:25.880 Yeah, but I think that this is really worth drawing attention to, because the illusion that
00:11:33.200 what these communities are converging on when they have been infected by this mimetic virus
00:11:37.740 is truth is objectively wrong, is a religious extremist position that is as disconnected from
00:11:46.780 science and as disconnected from reality as most small-c conservative religious traditions.
00:11:52.940 Now, I would say that when you get to, like, ultra-conservative religious traditions, you get a
00:11:56.220 higher level of disconnection from reality. But when you're talking about, you know, a normal,
00:12:01.080 I'd say, conservative Christian or conservative Jew, they're probably about as disconnected from
00:12:04.180 mainstream science as progressives are. I mean, they will deny, when I will talk to them,
00:12:07.980 I will say, well, these human traits have a genetic component to them. And they'll say,
00:12:12.360 no, they don't. And I'm like, like, this isn't a new field. Like, we've been studying this for a
00:12:17.700 long time. Like, yeah, they obviously do. The way a person votes, their personality has a genetic
00:12:22.420 component. But it's not just the research. Like, if you know a human being with kids, you would see
00:12:27.540 this. And they're like, well, what about adopted kids? That would be unfair. And it's like,
00:12:32.760 well, if you know someone who has adopted kids, you'll see that those kids are much more different
00:12:36.040 from their parents than people without adopting kids. It's just something you can see if you look
00:12:40.440 at the evidence. Even anecdotal evidence within your own life, you really have to blind yourself
00:12:44.460 or, like, never have been around a child to not realize how much of our personality and the way we
00:12:50.440 act is heredible. Because my kids are doing all sorts of stuff that is like me that I know I
00:12:55.260 didn't teach them. Undeniable. But I also want to continue here with reading what I wrote. I wanted to
00:13:00.940 have a short interlude there because I didn't want it to be, like, a boring just-read-the-piece
00:13:04.620 thing. The urban monoculture parasitizes cultural movements until it becomes the dominant cultural
00:13:09.800 force in them. Then it expels the members that still have adherence to the group's former ideals
00:13:14.440 and culture, wearing that group's identity and history like a skin suit. It then speaks through
00:13:19.740 the mouth of this marionetted corpse to claim its trials as its own. I mention the feminist culture
00:13:26.700 because it presents an excellent case study of a phenomenon I have outlined in.
00:13:31.380 As to what fighting the urban monoculture looks like, the most important thing we can do is build
00:13:35.100 a school system not dedicated to cultural genocide. That is what we are doing with the Collins Institute.
00:13:40.240 And I included a clip for her, which I'll play here.
00:13:43.320 If we combine our music, she'll see that music unites all trolls, and that we're all the same,
00:13:48.460 and that she's one of us!
00:13:52.060 Poppy, I mean no disrespect, but King, the Queen, anything but that.
00:13:57.480 Why not? I can make it right. History's just gonna keep repeating itself until we make everyone
00:14:02.180 realize that we're all the same.
00:14:04.240 But we're not all the same.
00:14:06.220 It's why all our strings are different, because they reflect our different music.
00:14:10.160 Denying our differences is denying the truth of who we are.
00:14:15.940 But I'll go a bit further into the nature of the urban monoculture, because there's this one
00:14:19.720 moment that really got to me when somebody said, what is wokeness to someone? And the person couldn't
00:14:24.680 respond. And I was like, how stupid is that? To say, of course they couldn't respond. If you say,
00:14:30.980 what is a culture? That's a very difficult thing for a normal person to answer. If you say,
00:14:36.020 what is Judaism, right? You can give a few doctrinal opinions, but that's not really what
00:14:43.680 it is of the cultural group. So I wrote a quick piece on this that we can hopefully help explain
00:14:48.060 to people. What is the urban monoculture? Cultural groups are difficult to define and summarize.
00:14:54.260 Consider you asked me to explain European imperial culture. I would say it's a culture that saw everyone
00:14:59.100 outside of it as deplorable and lesser, and believed it had a manifest destiny to enlighten these
00:15:03.860 individuals' children and bring them up to date with the quote-unquote civilized world. Yet this
00:15:08.640 definition would apply equally to the urban monoculture it gave birth to. Were you to ask
00:15:13.480 me to explain orthodox Jewish culture, I could summarize core beliefs, important texts to the
00:15:17.760 culture, and holidays. But that does not really capture the full culture. For example, Jews a thousand
00:15:22.580 years ago would appear the same as Jews today if I used that explanation. But culturally, they are
00:15:28.900 extremely different. For that reason, I find the best way to describe a cultural group that is to
00:15:34.880 for that reason, I find the best way to describe a cultural group is to describe its evolutionary
00:15:40.320 history. In the case of the urban monoculture, that is something we explore at length in the
00:15:44.880 Fragmented Sky to Crafting Religion, which we would argue it is something of a memetic
00:15:49.000 super virus that evolved out of Hicksite Quakerism. The urban monoculture's belief system is most
00:15:54.740 heavily defined by the belief the goal of society is to remove as much in-the-moment emotional pain
00:16:00.920 as possible, and thus it is a negative utilitarian in structure. However, it has many other odd
00:16:06.180 ideological structures and traditions. For example, the urban monoculture claims to love diversity,
00:16:11.180 but also does not believe there are any differences between genders, cultures, ethnicities, etc.
00:16:16.000 Why would diversity be a thing of value if we are all exactly the same? It really means it values
00:16:21.160 diversity in its victims. So Simone, I was wondering if you had any comments on this or areas on this
00:16:25.120 you want to elaborate in terms of understanding it as this like unified religious and cultural structure.
00:16:32.500 Yeah, I mean, I appreciate your highlighting it. And I think the important thing is I grew up in this
00:16:41.060 culture, right? And I always remember thinking how crazy people outside of this cultural group were
00:16:49.620 for not trusting the science and not believing in science. And now we live in this era where like
00:16:57.900 they are presented with peer-reviewed science, like even by their own standards, you know, through
00:17:04.740 the processes that they acknowledge are legitimate, they are denying certain truths. It is really wild to me.
00:17:13.620 What disagrees with dogma is not science to them. Because science is defined by what agrees with dogma.
00:17:19.240 I can't emphasize the extent to which they wholeheartedly see what they're viewing as
00:17:27.280 truth, as science, as the factual basis of things, and those who disagree with them as being backward,
00:17:35.140 uneducated, Bible-thumping, or Nazi-esque, or racist, or whatever enemies. And it is the ignorance
00:17:42.860 of their enemies that makes them so evil and dangerous. It is not like, oh, we're dealing
00:17:49.860 with a smart opponent that we must, you know, strategize around. It's never that mindset. The
00:17:55.160 mindset is you guys are so dumb and full of hate, and you're just afraid. And that-
00:18:04.320 Is that not the way that Imperial Europe saw the communities it was contacting? It is a direct
00:18:10.560 descendant of Imperialism.
00:18:11.360 No, no, no, it didn't. No, no, no. Like when you actually look at colonies, as in colonism,
00:18:16.280 as in the American colonies, condescension was the word that was used. And it was a word that was seen
00:18:22.660 as being a noble term. Condescension was being of a person of culture, of education, etc., who benignly
00:18:34.180 and kindly condescended to those who maybe were less educated than them, but didn't like hate them
00:18:41.460 for it. But do you not see elements of this white man burdens mindset in this viewpoint?
00:18:47.300 Oh, no. Yes, certainly. In the progressive viewpoint today. Yeah. But I don't even, I don't
00:18:53.600 even know. I don't see it. Well, I mean, the dehumanization of the outsider is really core to
00:18:58.960 their community. And you look at like where they ignore science. So the way they define science,
00:19:03.560 it's like the way they define racism. Like racism has become a meaningful term because to be racist,
00:19:08.820 I'm like, how am I racist? I don't look down on black people and I have black friends. I engage
00:19:14.020 with the black community as equals. And they're like, well, you're racist because you are not
00:19:17.880 progressive in your views of race. Racism becomes defined. And this is why they'll be like, oh,
00:19:22.880 this black person is a racist. You'll see like a white person saying this because they have defined
00:19:26.740 racism as agreeing with the progressive stance on race and not as seeing people of different ethnic
00:19:35.200 groups as truly separate. And this is how they have begun to re-institutionalize racial segregation
00:19:43.200 in our society. You know, you look at places like California now and they have separate
00:19:47.900 alert platforms for black people and native Americans. And then they have for white people
00:19:53.140 and they have from the Amber alert system, they have the Ebony alert system and the Feather alert
00:19:56.400 system. God, I forgot that. And it sounds so racist. That sounds so incredibly racist.
00:20:01.480 When it is incredibly racist because they are a racist community. When you define racism as things
00:20:08.320 that disagree with the progressive team's value set, then they don't notice when racism creeps
00:20:13.640 into their own values. It's no holds barred. It's just like fully flamboyant racism.
00:20:19.280 They are incapable of recognizing it was the definition they have created. And this is the same
00:20:24.860 is true around like trans stuff. I'm like, well, puberty blockers really like the evidence that that is
00:20:29.540 not harmful is not as strong as like, I've seen a lot of studies that bring up serious, serious
00:20:34.920 concerns about the puberty blockers. And they're like, but it isn't science because it disagrees
00:20:40.560 with what we want. Like science is defined by what they want. And this creates a problem in outsiders
00:20:49.940 trusting them. Because as soon as you see this and you realize that science may align with something
00:20:55.600 that progressives wants, like global warming or something like that, there's really no reason
00:20:59.920 to trust the data. Because even if global warming was not happening, they would be saying all of the
00:21:05.980 exact same things they're saying about global warming because it gives them more state power
00:21:09.400 and stuff like that. And it's really hard to believe that global warming is happening as a
00:21:15.040 conservative. When you see them, the progressives, the Green Party in Germany shutting down the nuclear
00:21:19.780 power plants was no viable alternative and just creating more carbon.
00:21:23.200 One of the things that progressives often can accuse us, the prenatalists, and it's true,
00:21:28.940 we're trying to bring the best of the best of humanity together to take to the stars, to reform
00:21:35.240 this planet, to do amazing things in the future. And they're like, so you want to leave this sinking
00:21:40.560 ship like you don't want to fix it? And I'm like, we tried. We built the nuclear power plants. Those were put
00:21:46.140 up by conservatives. Elon, for example, he built Tesla. He tried to make emissionless cars,
00:21:53.180 popular. He did more to making them popular than anyone else. And now you tar and feather him
00:21:57.440 because he also promotes free speech? Because that is out of control. Because free speech is an
00:22:02.460 existential threat to people who control information in a society. If one cultural group controls mass
00:22:09.040 media and they control the school system, then of course freedom of speech is an existentially
00:22:12.860 threatening idea to them because they can't have a free market of ideas where people can point out
00:22:16.980 the things that we're pointing out, you know, where truth becomes a danger to them.
00:22:23.120 Well, so, okay, if we're saying that this form of toxic progressivism is a virus,
00:22:34.080 I'm sorry, if we're saying that this form of toxic progressivism is a religion,
00:22:37.580 does that change the tactics that people should use to defend themselves from it?
00:22:43.240 The analogy I use is it's a religion in the same way that contagious canine venereal cancer. So
00:22:50.380 canines have a type of cancer that's contagious is a dog. It is a parasitic cancer that evolved out of
00:22:58.200 a religion, but it is not a religion. It doesn't have all of the code it needs of the cultural group
00:23:03.280 to sustain itself. It absolutely can only survive through cultural parasitism. It can only survive
00:23:08.900 by taking the children of other people because it lacks the cultural DNA that motivates reproduction
00:23:14.780 and self-sacrifice, which I actually talk about a bit later in this piece. Not a piece, but like
00:23:19.860 email I sent, which I was like, okay, I should probably share this. It also has an ethnic, sexual,
00:23:25.220 and gender-based dominance hierarchy bordering on a caste system whereby the status of each of these
00:23:29.860 traits is determined by the perceived trait's impact on the status in the plurality of neighboring
00:23:36.080 cultures. This provides differential pressure for individuals with these traits to convert and
00:23:44.860 loudly proselytize the more bizarre and nonsensical elements of the monoculture. I often say that the
00:23:51.760 urban monoculture loves the LGBT community in the same way Hamas loves hospitals. It sets up the most
00:23:57.360 imperious elements of its operation in the hearts of vulnerable communities to divert attacks against it
00:24:03.420 to those communities, allowing it to claim the moral high ground. This can be seen in its tendency to use the
00:24:09.460 rainbow flag to show conquest over institutions. After a mosque, synagogue, etc., has been conquered, they will
00:24:15.560 hang this out front to direct anger away from the culprit of the cultural erasure and towards the LGBT community.
00:24:22.040 And I would remind listeners here again that 45% of gay men voted for Donald Trump in the last election
00:24:28.020 cycle. It's like bull baiting with a red flag to get the bull to attack the wrong location.
00:24:35.800 Or even more hilariously, they've dressed a child all up in red and let him run around the ring with the
00:24:42.640 bull chasing him so that they can merrily pick it off while it's distracted.
00:24:47.000 Again, I need to be clear, there is no agency or plan in any of this here. These are all just culturally
00:24:52.920 evolved mechanisms. The iteration of the culture that did this outcompeted the ones that actually
00:25:00.780 tried to protect these communities. And this is something I want to take a quick aside on here
00:25:06.340 because there isn't people like, no, it needs to redirect the anger at the LGBT community. It needs
00:25:10.860 that the LGBT community has its loudest voices. And it's like, no, it doesn't. It controls our media.
00:25:15.660 It controls our school system. It could use powerful people to be the scapegoat, but it doesn't.
00:25:23.560 It uses the vulnerable members of its community to be the scapegoats, to be the biggest proponents of
00:25:29.080 the most imperious aspects of the culture and the loudest proponents. You know, when you go on TikTok
00:25:33.680 and you see the craziest ultra-progressive viewpoints, they are people in these communities. They are not
00:25:39.620 the actors who have security. They are not the politicians. They are not the ultra-wealthy tech
00:25:46.480 company CEOs who take the most milquetoast perspectives, which is where if the community was
00:25:52.200 virtuous, it would be driving anger. And you say, well, no community could work that way. Well, yeah,
00:25:56.480 they can. Many conservative communities, especially ultra-conservative communities, it is the leaders
00:26:00.740 of those communities that take the responsibility and the burden of the social attacks against those
00:26:06.640 communities and promoting and keeping the communities on a virtuous path insofar as they
00:26:12.120 define virtue, which means pushing some of the crazier ideas or crazier ideas insofar as craziness
00:26:16.880 is defined by distance from the dominant cultural group in society or other cultural groups in
00:26:20.040 society. So the urban monoculture spreads by infiltrating institutions, then expelling members
00:26:26.380 who have allegiance to the institution's original mission. I mentioned this in the case of the
00:26:30.600 feminist movement above, but we see this phenomenon play out in companies, religions, et cetera.
00:26:35.800 Once the memetic infection reaches a certain stage, the institution will start building new
00:26:40.360 structures designed to ensure ideological conformity, further the spread of the memetic
00:26:44.800 virus, and expel anyone who appears to show immunity. An example of these types of structures
00:26:49.060 are ESG departments. The urban monoculture tells people that they have a duty to identify
00:26:53.760 as whatever they feel in the moment and do whatever makes them feel best in the moment insofar
00:26:59.320 that does not hurt other people. While this may seem benign as a commandment, a culture that uses
00:27:04.360 this as their North Star is going to be very bad at motivating sacrifice and thus have a very low
00:27:08.500 fertility rate. It is also going to have huge mental health issues, but that is beside the point.
00:27:12.820 It is important to note that the urban monoculture is not just a continuation of utilitarian left-leaning
00:27:17.040 ideas optimized around increasing aggregate world happiness and equality. When choosing between those
00:27:23.360 goals and removing in-the-moment suffering, the urban monoculture always chooses the removal of in-the-moment
00:27:27.420 suffering. For example, if you point out that being overweight is unhealthy,
00:27:30.920 this could cause in-the-moment pain to an individual, even though it would be in their
00:27:35.860 long-term best interest. So the urban monoculture suppresses it. Banning test scores in high schools
00:27:41.620 obviously increases inequality by allowing rich kids to go to their extracurricular where they
00:27:47.000 will still be tested. However, doing so removes in-the-moment negative emotions. Government programs
00:27:51.680 hammonding out drugs on the streets obviously increase inequality, but also remove in-the-moment suffering.
00:27:56.520 So throughout this, it's really important to note that this is not the progressive culture you grew
00:28:02.420 up with. It borrowed some of those elements. And I think a lot of people who haven't been targeted
00:28:07.420 yet by the urban monoculture yet don't realize how much it's changed.
00:28:11.940 Yeah, I think that is probably the vast majority of people who still identify as progressives and then
00:28:18.500 unknowingly support progressive policies is they did grow up with this more sane version and they don't
00:28:24.520 realize how insane it's gotten. And yeah, you're probably totally spot on. Which is to say that
00:28:29.480 we're not saying, like, it's actually a very small minority that's gone off the rails, but then...
00:28:34.320 But they have all the positions of power.
00:28:35.880 Yes.
00:28:36.360 And they have been able to utilize those positions of power to transform our society
00:28:39.820 in a direction that hurts the very groups that they claim to want to protect.
00:28:44.040 And you can see this in the data, as I've said. And so I want to be clear here, right?
00:28:48.340 Like, a lot of people, they'll come to me and they go, no, this is only the extremist who
00:28:53.920 believes those things. I am a progressive and I define progressive beliefs by what I
00:28:58.540 believe, right? Because I identify as a progressive. And when I say, well, those aren't really
00:29:02.200 progressive beliefs anymore. Those are actually much closer to conservative beliefs today.
00:29:07.320 Yeah, but no one when we say that believes us.
00:29:09.720 Yeah, they don't believe us because they haven't been targeted yet. And then I constantly see
00:29:13.780 this same story playing out again and again. They see something in their company or something
00:29:18.240 like that that they thought was reasonable because they hadn't had to be in a bureaucratic
00:29:21.240 environment that was dominated by this new cultural group yet, you know?
00:29:24.720 When you see this with, like, blocked and reported, you see this with the free press,
00:29:28.760 there is this new class of elite progressive that is now seen as, like, heterodox or even sometimes
00:29:36.680 labeled by the establishment as conservative merely because they have been like, wait, no, no, no,
00:29:43.060 this is crazy. But they still maintain their progressive stances of the days of yore, which
00:29:48.140 is to say, like, what traditionally progressivism was rather than off the rails insanity that it is
00:29:54.020 now, right? And I think that it's easy to see when you're a progressive to dehumanize your enemies
00:29:59.360 when you do not look for disconfirming evidence of the stuff they're telling you.
00:30:03.620 It's easy to, like, a great example of this is the don't say gay bill, for example, right?
00:30:08.900 Like, when I point out the conservatives haven't really done that much that's really homophobic
00:30:12.500 in a while, they're like, what about the don't say gay bill? And I'm like, actually,
00:30:16.220 I know one of the people who wrote that bill. And the number one progressive complaint that
00:30:20.760 people could use that bill to get a teacher fired for being gay or telling her students
00:30:26.700 that she's gay, literally, that was in, like, the language when the bill was first written
00:30:31.600 could have been used to do that. But the conservatives within the conservative movement read it and
00:30:37.520 they said, oh, we need to take that language out so that it is only the teaching of sexuality
00:30:41.840 to children, not like an individual's identity, not their home life, not them
00:30:45.200 even mentioning these things to students. It's only the teaching of sexuality that we want to
00:30:49.900 prevent or, like, specific sexual acts to students. And yet progressives, they don't know this. They
00:30:54.820 don't believe this because it's hidden from them in their media. The conservative movement has
00:30:59.400 significantly moderated its views on these issues. And in them using things like the LGBT community as
00:31:07.560 their scapegoat constantly, the progressives using it, they are reigniting genuine animosity
00:31:12.820 within the conservative party that when conservatives end up replacing them, which they will eventually,
00:31:17.540 it's just demographics, is going to be very, very bad for people with those traits who we do not want
00:31:23.300 to see come to harm due to the short-sightedness of these fraudsters that are claiming to represent
00:31:30.180 them. And it is, it's really sad that it's gotten to this stage. But what I say with something like
00:31:35.960 Trump, the point I was making here, is they say, you know, if you don't know that much, if you haven't
00:31:39.880 really looked at his policies, if you haven't really looked at the effects that they've had on a global
00:31:42.920 stage and you're just viewing this, it's easy to see him as like a crazy person or a bad person or
00:31:47.020 everyone who supports him as a bad person. But when you really engage with it, even claims around things
00:31:51.460 like the election might have had some issues, when you really genuinely engage with it, instead of
00:31:58.800 just spout talking points, you can see how a well-meaning, intelligent person could come to that
00:32:05.420 perspective. I'm not saying it's true, but I'm saying it's not insane. Okay. And, and yet progressives
00:32:11.520 are taught that these are insane positions and it is going to lead. Oh, it's not an insane position
00:32:17.600 when their candidate loses an election, but. Well, yeah, no, then there was definitely
00:32:21.580 some form of election temporary, but it's going to lead to them doing more and more blazingly
00:32:26.460 anti-democratic things as they dehumanize their opponents. And eventually this is going to lead
00:32:31.860 to something like a civil war. If, if they keep this up, if they blazingly continue to. Brazenly.
00:32:38.560 Brazenly continue to use other families and other cultural groups to supply their population,
00:32:42.940 e.g. parasitize their children using the educational system they employ.
00:32:47.600 Well, if you can't understand why people are existentially angry about that and why that's
00:32:53.420 going to cause problems in the longterm. I just, I don't know how to communicate. Like
00:32:58.300 we are trying to defuse a situation that is going to end with you, the progressive group
00:33:04.320 suffering, because you have a low fertility rate right now. You are the group that will
00:33:08.240 be the vulnerable one in the future. And we are trying to help you before things get bad.
00:33:14.200 And there you have it.
00:33:20.020 Anyway, I love you to Decimum.
00:33:21.860 I love you too, Malcolm. And weird times, but I'm glad I'm spending them with you. So thanks for that.
00:33:28.640 I feel the same way.
00:33:32.460 Hmm.
00:33:32.640 Thank you.
00:33:38.160 I don't know.