Based Camp - An Anatomy of the Urban Monoculture

00:00:00.000 I often say that the urban monoculture loves the LGBT community in the same way Hamas loves 0.99

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 0.96

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, 0.79

00:00:52.020 no, it doesn't. It controls our media. It controls our school system. It could use powerful people 0.56

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. 1.00

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 0.99

00:03:07.560 them as essentially backward savages, and its imperative is to spread over all of the world's 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.83

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 1.00

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, 0.51

00:04:05.340 ultra-Orthodox Jews, Quiverfuls, Tradcasts, etc. The problem is, even if the urban monoculture wanted 0.61

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 0.91

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 0.74

00:08:43.640 individuals of that subgroup through their blatant proselytization and attempts to deconvert children 0.58

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

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. 1.00

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 0.94

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, 0.99

00:10:30.260 like the Black community. If you look at areas where Democrats have been in control for longer, 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.75

00:13:19.740 the mouth of this marionetted corpse to claim its trials as its own. I mention the feminist culture 1.00

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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- 1.00

00:18:04.320 Is that not the way that Imperial Europe saw the communities it was contacting? It is a direct 0.96

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 0.91

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 0.99

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, 1.00

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 0.94

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 0.95

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 0.99

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 0.99

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. 0.96

00:25:15.660 It controls our school system. It could use powerful people to be the scapegoat, but it doesn't. 0.99

00:25:23.560 It uses the vulnerable members of its community to be the scapegoats, to be the biggest proponents of 0.88

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. 1.00

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. 0.98

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 0.64

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 0.99

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 0.70

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, 0.98

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 1.00

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.

Based Camp - February 26, 2024

An Anatomy of the Urban Monoculture

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