Based Camp - The Death of Woke： Stats on Declining Wokeism

00:00:00.000 hello simone i am excited to be here with you today a long time ago a south park episode came

00:00:06.520 out where they predicted how long woke culture was going to last it was season 19 episode one

00:00:17.680 and it was called stunning and brave and at the end of the episode a farmer is predicting

00:00:24.460 the course of woke culture going forwards and he says we have dealt with this before

00:00:30.460 and based on the last time we had a rise in wokeness which the last time we had it it was called

00:00:38.120 the pc movement or the politically correct movement which was such a thing who are born

00:00:43.960 long after this movement if you want to see a humor that was lambasting it as a movement a very good

00:00:50.420 movie to watch and i think fairly entertaining is called pcu which is about the deaths of fraternity

00:00:56.040 culture and it being replaced with various activist groups within college campuses it's a whole new

00:01:01.880 ball game on campus these days and they call it pc pc politically correct and it's not just politics

00:01:08.800 it's everything it's what you eat it's what you wear and it's what you say if you don't watch yourself

00:01:13.400 you can get in a buttload of trouble for instance you see these girls yeah no you don't those are 1.00

00:01:19.680 women you call them girls and they'll pop your figs save the whales gays in the military now 1.00

00:01:25.140 they freed him already 0.99

00:01:28.140 what those women those aren't women tom those are womenists 0.90

00:01:38.300 you know i saw the new madonna video this night

00:01:41.520 see the one in the middle the one with the blonde hair yeah she's looking at me isn't she 1.00

00:01:50.620 kind of what would you know or something hey sam isn't that the guy that you used to uh

00:01:56.480 yeah you went out with a white male i was a freshman fresh person please please go talk to her what's

00:02:06.280 the problem watch this he's coming over here sister from the wall

00:02:11.660 no you don't have to do that hi how you doing uh is sam in there in there what's that supposed to 0.98

00:02:21.560 mean yeah cock man oppressor oh thank you you know this place is kind of insane wait till you meet 0.95

00:02:28.420 the cause heads the what what don't we eat red meat why don't we eat it 0.98

00:02:35.600 what don't we eat red meat why don't we eat it these tom are your cause heads they find a world 0.99

00:02:44.140 threatening issue and stick with it for about a week what's up what up what happened the ozone layer

00:02:49.580 it was last week now it's meat but then that had a push back to it and it died for a while and then

00:02:54.760 wokeism came and so south park i think made the educated prediction that these cycles last about

00:02:59.500 six years and then we had about 5.9 left however that episode came out in 2015 so we're about four

00:03:10.240 years late on that prediction if this brings me to a question is wokeness just another cycle like a

00:03:20.460 pendulum that moves back in force over the course of history or is wokeness something totally new

00:03:28.720 that will only grow or will become more like a subset or religious community within our society

00:03:35.100 have we seen peak wokeness already okay and if we have seen peak wokeness what does the future look

00:03:44.160 like and i will be going over a lot of statistics in this episode a lot of them drawing from a blog

00:03:50.700 by david rizzuto where he wrote an article titled is the great awokening really winding down and i will

00:03:57.040 come to a conclusion that i think is different than the one he'll come to would you like to know more

00:04:00.520 and i'll just summarize the conclusion i'm going to come to which is i do think that wokeness is past

00:04:06.000 peak in terms of general population popularity however i think that it's structured very differently

00:04:12.460 than old systems of political correctness um and that we are essentially going to see wokeness

00:04:19.260 intensify and exaggerate its effects within large bureaucratic bodies and become more and more

00:04:28.360 obviously a unique and differential basically moral cosmological framework that will be seen

00:04:37.440 increasingly like a religion of the elite in our society and then the rest of us will feel very

00:04:44.620 similar to what it would have felt like being a non-catholic and living under say a catholic monarchy

00:04:49.880 historically okay yeah i can totally see that a but we'll get to why this will happen and the

00:04:56.440 statistics so i sent you the article simona if you want to pull it up yeah i have it in front of me right

00:05:01.240 now the first graph in the article which is term frequency in popular u.s newspapers for the terms

00:05:09.680 racist and racism and what we can see is that there was a huge peak in these terms around 2021

00:05:19.040 near the beginning of that and since then it's been declining precipitously it's not back to base

00:05:25.860 level again yet specifically in the new york times the los angeles times washington post and the wall

00:05:30.300 street journal and then if you look at you broaden these words so uh they have other graphs here

00:05:36.780 that i'll show on the screen one includes sexism sexist and misogyny on this one you do not see as

00:05:42.340 much a decline which is interesting it basically plateaued at an extremely high level and is slowly

00:05:47.060 going down homophobia and homophobic has basically just been going up over time which is

00:05:52.360 really interesting yeah transphobia and transphobic have been exploding it looks like it's only just

00:05:58.640 getting started which is weird because talking with the trans maxing community they implied that

00:06:03.960 they felt like we were already post peak trans so that's interesting you can watch our episode on the

00:06:10.000 how the trans movement changed in 2024 which i think that we are within the general population

00:06:14.360 but not within the elite religious caste that rules our society and controls most of the media but that's

00:06:21.220 what this is looking at is media representations of these so if we look at terms of islamophobia and

00:06:27.040 islamophobic they have declined precipitously and anti-semitism and anti-semitic declined precipitously

00:06:33.000 and have shot up recently although here's my take wellness so if we just talk about racism for example

00:06:38.640 i don't know how much it has to do with concern about racism actually decreasing part of me thinks a lot

00:06:44.840 of it has to do with the fact that anyone who wouldn't completely tout the anti-racist line in

00:06:51.100 mainstream media has already been purged by those initial spikes so there simply isn't anything in

00:06:58.260 those main spheres that can be discussed it's basically already been burnt the the executions

00:07:06.660 have been made the books have been burnt there's nothing left to comment i don't know if that's true

00:07:11.940 really you can look at the rise of the commenting on homophobia and homophobic and who's actually

00:07:16.200 homophobic these days like it's one of the things that i i think that yeah they've expunged from

00:07:23.600 their organizations all of the people who aren't of their religious community but the uh that doesn't 0.99

00:07:30.260 mean and by the way just so people understand why i'm saying like it's a religious community because

00:07:35.620 this is a wider framework that probably requires some explanation they'll be like no they'll say they're

00:07:39.680 catholic or they're muslim and i've explained before that they actually have beliefs around marriage

00:07:45.060 structure sexuality our relationship to the environment morality what the future of our species

00:07:51.380 should be what happens after death that is much more in common with each other than with their

00:07:57.660 traditional religious structures they just are allowed to identify with whatever they want but it is

00:08:03.320 really one cosmological and moral framework that draws its evidence and let's say strongest evidence

00:08:08.780 from science and it's clearly not you can look at the way it reacts to something like new research on

00:08:13.080 trans individuals and if it doesn't fall into the narrative then it must be debunked frequently

00:08:17.700 you'll point out certain ethnic groups commit crime at higher rates and other ethnic groups

00:08:20.880 and they're like that isn't true and i'm like it's clearly true looking at the statistics and they're

00:08:26.580 like yeah but it's not true based on science or something right and so what are they claiming because

00:08:31.740 clearly it's not like science it's something else that they're claiming they're making another claim

00:08:35.720 here and the claim that they are making is based on a if it's not from factual reality but it is shared

00:08:42.540 across this cultural group as a just a truism of reality it's a religious claim the theological and so

00:08:49.960 that's why i'm calling it like a shadow religion that sort of exists and is spreading go to they then

00:08:55.520 show more graphs here that i'll put on stage in turn that show the frequency within u.s news outlets

00:09:02.300 and uk news outlets and i don't think that these graphs show what he thinks they're showing in this

00:09:13.040 piece which is a decline instead what i see if you actually look at the graphs is a shift in terms of

00:09:19.380 the thing that they are currently most freaked out about racism didn't move to homophobia now it's

00:09:28.120 moved to transphobia and before racism it was islamophobia but now you're getting more misogyny

00:09:33.300 it's becoming a hot trend and so i think it cycles through items to care about one of the charts that

00:09:40.100 always stuck with me the most was it was a graph of blm type reporting in media overlaid with united

00:09:48.740 states election dates oh dear we all just an up lead up to elections so another thing that i think

00:09:56.780 i'm going to predict is any trends that we are seeing downwards in terms of wokeness right now

00:10:02.320 are going to start being reversed during this election cycle interesting and stuff like that

00:10:08.600 do you have any thoughts before we go further i'm very curious to see how the election cycle plays

00:10:13.560 out in terms of woke concepts in the media that's a very fun thing to be looking at given the u.s

00:10:19.420 election cycle that is uh impending yeah so here's another interesting graph where what they did is

00:10:25.320 they took an average min-max frequencies of terms related to prejudice and positive social justice

00:10:30.240 discourse so there's two ways you can talk about social justice positively with words like racial

00:10:35.280 equality social justice diversity equity inclusion inclusiveness fairness etc safe space awareness and then

00:10:42.540 there's negative terms like racism racist sexism sexist misogyny homophobia etc and what is that these

00:10:48.860 two actually rose at about the same rate but we are seeing slightly more of a decline in negative terms but they

00:10:55.520 still seem really correlated and i doubt this would meet a margin of error here which is pretty interesting

00:11:01.280 now i'm going to go to another graph that i don't have shared with you which looks at the frequency of

00:11:10.560 the terms this one was shared by eric kaufman so in the first of these two graphs what is the frequency

00:11:17.160 this is from the data from the stanford tv news database and you see the frequency of words like

00:11:22.200 diversity equity harm racism sexism white privilege and what you see here is the cycle what i was talking

00:11:28.360 about a rise in the term racism then a drop in the term racism but with everything else it's pretty standard

00:11:33.780 over time yeah yeah if you just take out racism it really seems like they've always been pretty big

00:11:42.400 but what you do see less of is actual cancellations happening so here you look at five different

00:11:49.640 databases of cancel culture instance is incidents from college fix nas and fire you see them rising and

00:11:58.160 then falling after 2021 and you actually can see this as well if you go to fire's own website which

00:12:04.840 is really interesting so do you have thoughts on this before we go further yeah i would want to see

00:12:11.780 the basis for cancel culture incidents because cancellation has come to mean so many things we

00:12:17.900 have friends who are like oh i was canceled last night it was just because people didn't take a comment

00:12:21.940 they said really well so i would just want to understand what this means well here i can show

00:12:28.480 you exactly what it means and i am putting in here another graph now this graph looks at students

00:12:33.040 on whatsapp students reported reluctance to discuss specific topics and it goes over the years 2019 2020

00:12:40.720 2021 and 2022 and what's really interesting is over most of these graphs 2022 is the lowest year

00:12:51.420 other than 2019 um except for politics that's the one where you don't see much so that's really

00:12:59.640 interesting to me so you are actually seeing an on-the-ground difference and here's another

00:13:04.140 example and i'm going to read this quote that i thought was really i don't know that when you look

00:13:07.360 at non-controversial topics it looks like it you know it goes up in 2020 it seems like people just

00:13:13.800 weren't willing to talk about anything and and part of this i like that as a control because it could

00:13:19.260 suggest a wider oh yeah and you see this in younger generations as well also millennials and above

00:13:25.520 people who do not want to express anything even mildly controversial publicly or even anything any

00:13:32.000 opinion they just don't want to say anything and maybe that again means that there's not so much

00:13:38.340 cancellation as we think people just don't want to be judged and are cowards yeah here's an interesting

00:13:44.440 one because you're also talking about what does it mean so this is from the scholars under fire

00:13:48.580 database of 2000 to 2022 and so this shows how they felt discussing this shows specific incidents

00:13:57.700 so either a targeting incident of a teacher a petition any sanctions or a termination of a teacher for

00:14:03.740 being not woke enough and you see there with a huge spike in 2021 and then a rapid decrease

00:14:09.740 now we're not back to baseline yet but it is actually really interesting what's also interesting

00:14:15.040 is how big the type the the spike was in targeting incidents yeah but don't you think again that

00:14:21.560 scholars have just come wise to this so those who would get removed i have been removed and those who

00:14:29.200 remain those who survived the initial purge have learned how to avoid what's interesting is a lot of

00:14:36.300 things that get them purged are things that happened long time ago the nick bostrom institute at oxford

00:14:40.260 got shut down recently who did i'm pretty sure yeah and i'm pretty sure that was over the humanities

00:14:45.640 futures this is like the core ea thing and i'm pretty sure it was over some perceived racist comments he

00:14:50.740 said a long time ago that came out ages ago and recently there was a campaign around him we're still

00:14:56.220 seeing it happen and i will read to you something that i thought was really interesting so this is a quote

00:15:02.420 from one of the articles i was reading on this for instance the new york times was recently targeted

00:15:06.960 by glad in an open letter signed by dozens of celebrities and quote-unquote thought leaders

00:15:11.240 primarily for publishing stories about transgender issues that included perspectives of people who did

00:15:17.160 not simply celebrate and affirm progressive activists preferred narratives yet rather than issuing

00:15:22.820 an apology and promising to quote-unquote do better firing benching or reassigning the reporters and editors

00:15:28.580 who produced the stories and slash or issuing editorial changes to help the paper conform with

00:15:33.640 activist preferences downstream which had been their playbook in the past the paper responded quote

00:15:38.980 we received the open letter delivered by glad and welcome their feedback we understand how glad and

00:15:44.880 the co-signers of the letters see our coverage but at the same time we recognize that glad's advocacy

00:15:50.500 mission and the times journalistic mission are different our journalism strives to explore

00:15:56.040 integrate and reflect the experiences ideas and debates in society to help readers understand them

00:16:03.420 our reporting did just that and we're proud of it contemporaneously hundreds of the current and

00:16:09.460 former new york times contributors penned a separate open letter demanding a greater conformance with

00:16:15.740 progressive activists preferred narratives to which the paper responded even more forcefully quote

00:16:20.540 it is not unusual for outside groups to critique our coverage or to rally supporters to influence our

00:16:27.380 journalism in this case however member or members of staff and contributors to the times join the

00:16:35.420 effort the protest letter included direct attacks on several colleagues signaling them out by name

00:16:40.700 participation in such a campaign is against the letter and spirit of our essex policy we do not welcome 0.97

00:16:46.460 and will not tolerate participation by times journalists in protest organized by advocacy groups or attacks

00:16:52.400 on colleagues in a social media in social media or other public forums i would never have expected the

00:16:58.700 new york times wrote that well that shows a major perspective and the u.k which is endorsed by the nhs

00:17:08.840 yeah the major perspective yeah that is major they shut down a specific transgender clinics that were

00:17:15.540 targeting teens and preteens being shut down in the uk to me shows a major shift in the public sentiment

00:17:22.680 around this actually it was interesting to me that i was reflecting on the dave chapelle trans joke that

00:17:29.160 got him in so much trouble yeah for people who don't remember it was like a bunch of different activists who

00:17:33.580 represent the different marginalized groups like gays lesbians trans and stuff like that are in a car

00:17:38.340 and the other ones are like the trans person keeps asking to stop and use the restroom and the other

00:17:43.200 ones are like why did we even bring this person along but they've been with us forever so we're

00:17:47.060 going to keep them in and that was like a fairly mild joke and yet he tried to get super canceled for

00:17:53.540 it and i was reflecting on if that joke had come out today and people try to get the the special taken

00:17:58.700 down on that inside people was in netflix tried to get it taken down and do petitions if that joke was

00:18:03.200 done today no one would bat an eye like i think society has really changed in the way it

00:18:08.320 reacts to this stuff and what was interesting is netflix also did a big thing of firings after

00:18:13.160 that and got rid of a lot of the people who participated in that stuff which people were

00:18:17.100 absolutely having aneurysms about so i want to hear your thoughts before i give mine

00:18:21.180 you're starting to change my mind with this this is not data that i expected to see and i missed a lot of

00:18:28.420 these developments so now i'm starting to wonder gosh are things actually changing but then i'm also just

00:18:36.220 thinking about how institutionally solidified these general ideologies are and i think still i i have

00:18:43.900 this intuition that so much of this is merely happening because it's it has been they've won

00:18:50.720 they've taken over once you've taken over you don't need to keep using these buzzwords because

00:18:54.700 the problems are no longer being manifested per their opinion in their new reformed organizations

00:19:02.000 so i have a different read of what's going on and it's actually been heavily colored by

00:19:07.800 both what i see happening with the trans pushback and what i have seen happening

00:19:12.020 with the gamer gate 2 like the reaction to sweet baby but keep in mind in in the earlier graphs that

00:19:18.840 you highlighted transphobia was in the middle of a rising spike that is yet to abate so and i think

00:19:26.420 that it is but keep in mind that this is what's being published by newspapers the gamer gate 2 if

00:19:33.000 you look at sales figures it's basically been completely successful every game that these

00:19:39.520 studios worked with these institutions on that were meant to like wokeify the games is either bombing

00:19:46.780 or going to bomb they're basically dead on launch which shows in mass consumers are not interested in

00:19:54.200 these products anymore which makes it very dangerous for organizations to now collude with or work

00:20:00.860 with um outsource dei which were successful in doing so i feel like as tired as the phrase go woke

00:20:09.800 broke goes i never was under the impression that that games movies shows books etc that decided to pursue

00:20:18.940 this in an active way to the extent that they would pay for it were ultimately commercially successful

00:20:25.360 no before we knew about sweet baby inc and stuff like that games that they worked on god of war

00:20:31.440 ragnarok did pretty well commercially oh really okay so there are instances of go woke and do okay

00:20:37.640 yeah they were doing okay like they were seen as like corporate trash but they did okay and now

00:20:44.060 they are not keep in mind the bud light backlash that happened for example which was fairly effective

00:20:51.340 and i think did a fairly good job of scaring organizations about those types of partnerships

00:20:55.600 in the future but here's what i think happened and where i will agree with you i think was in the

00:21:00.040 mainstream population of the u.s right like the plebs they're firmly anti-woken and they actually view 1.00

00:21:06.140 it as a threat and they will actually effectively boycott products that are caught engaging in it like

00:21:12.240 the target boycotts were fairly effective if you see the way that they changed their status on this

00:21:16.860 but within the large bureaucratic organizations they are true blue to the core woke and they don't need

00:21:26.420 to generate money in the way that small businesses do so small businesses can't really afford to do

00:21:32.480 anything woke anymore right but if you're a large corporation like microsoft which produces a lot of

00:21:38.140 games they've been doubling down on their woke initiatives nintendo has been increasing its woke

00:21:43.100 initiatives and that is because these organizations are so large and have so much inertia behind them

00:21:49.380 that their decisions can are not going to be as affected by market pressures and so if you have a

00:21:56.560 viral memetic subset which is good at replicating itself within the organization um it doesn't matter that

00:22:04.000 it is hurting the organization's efficiency it's just going to continue to grow um like a cult basically

00:22:10.280 um and as you say as they have been doing in places like the media and stuff like that expelling anyone

00:22:16.360 who speaks up and i will point out here all this is coming at the same time as media like traditional

00:22:21.480 media newspapers everything like that are doing worse and worse nobody's reading this stuff yeah and

00:22:26.340 the question is like why don't they change why don't they stop if no one's reading why did it take

00:22:33.340 kotaku so long before they finally said okay if you're not writing articles about games we're getting rid of

00:22:38.740 you because they've been ossified by these organizational cancers to the extent that they are incurable right

00:22:47.940 yeah that's my read that's my read of what happened that makes sense and then the question is

00:22:56.000 then what ends up happening uh so there's a few potential futures one is that they really

00:23:00.760 consolidate themselves within the top of our society it's been shown that this sort of religious 0.62

00:23:07.320 group doesn't believe that people who are in it deserve the same human rights as people who are in

00:23:11.700 it and they'll even strip them of their like ethnic identity if a black person disagrees with them

00:23:16.240 they'll say you're not really black or if a gay person disagrees with it they're like you're not really

00:23:20.000 gay like you you keep seeing this right or you're not really trans whatever so they don't really see 1.00

00:23:25.220 the people within the group as it's not that they're denying that these people are same-sex

00:23:29.880 attracted it's they're denying that they're human it's not that they're denying the melanin or

00:23:33.780 heritage of these people they're denying that they're human that's why they don't count as a 0.96

00:23:36.820 black person anymore by this group stand they're a black enemy instead you're saying they don't see

00:23:42.860 them as having independent thought anymore they believe everyone who doesn't agree with them 0.96

00:23:47.020 they're very narrow range of thought and again to the south part clip of the gods like you you'd be a

00:23:51.880 rebel by doing everything we do everyone's just walking around like a bunch of conformists 0.97

00:23:55.560 they're all zombies racing to their graves just an excuse for my mom to bitch at me for not wearing 0.99

00:23:59.720 girly clothes like all the other britney spears wannabes they're all a bunch of nazi conformist 0.98

00:24:03.760 cheerleaders if you want to be one of the non-conformists all you have to do is dress just like us and 1.00

00:24:08.400 listen to the same music we do shallow life doesn't have true independent thought and therefore cannot be

00:24:14.060 seen as a source of information and this level of dehumanization extends to voting and they really

00:24:20.400 don't care if for example if the u.s electorate wanted to regularly elect people like trump

00:24:25.600 they would take the position that we just shouldn't have free elections in the u.s anymore because the

00:24:30.220 electorate doesn't know what's best for it and this is something that and if people are like guffawing at

00:24:35.180 us like we go to new york dinner parties for wealthy people fairly frequently this is not an insane thing to

00:24:42.200 say that if the majority of this country was regularly electing people like trump that we should not respect

00:24:48.520 their votes and we should just install other people in power if you want to talk about things like

00:24:53.060 whatever like voter fraud or something like that whether or not it happened is less important than

00:24:58.540 that there is the will to make it happen if things persistently went in a different direction than the

00:25:05.920 power players in our society today um and we know that these individuals are very involved in

00:25:12.120 organizations like the cia and the fbi due to the leaks that happen around trump's presidential cycle

00:25:16.780 where you have people in these organizations which basically have very little government oversight

00:25:20.840 saying if you're saying functionally how could this happen saying it is a national security threat

00:25:25.140 to allow one of the presidential candidates to be allowed to be elected right if you're thinking

00:25:29.600 that there's no way anyone would ever act on that even if they didn't act on it last time

00:25:34.340 eventually they're going to act on it if they feel like especially if this other group is growing

00:25:40.220 in terms of their voice and they're going to become increasingly aggressive for example if you look at

00:25:45.860 something like the school system i really don't think it's salvageable at this point i think

00:25:50.240 they're going to become increasingly aggressive at how they round the wagons with the university system

00:25:55.280 as a pipeline for cultists who are going into these old bureaucratic institutions meanwhile the portion

00:26:02.940 of society that is economically productive is going to begin to split from them yeah

00:26:08.540 which is interesting and so then what happens either they end up losing power just because they lose

00:26:15.240 so much economic productivity and they become so comical and so obviously like a cult that the rest

00:26:21.320 of the world is just like yeah we're not really engaging with you you can go off and do your own

00:26:25.160 thing or they do consolidate positions of power within certain countries no i don't think it'll be

00:26:30.380 every country but i can easily see it happening within some countries in europe for example

00:26:34.660 could happen in the united states but i think it's a little less likely that it'll happen in the united

00:26:40.840 states and i think if they make a play which i think they did do in the last presidential cycle

00:26:45.860 with media and stuff like that where you could say even if they didn't directly influence votes they

00:26:53.280 definitely had a sustained media campaign that was based on a fabricated reality and if you don't

00:27:01.660 believe this fabricated reality you can look at something like the trump hillary election where they

00:27:05.700 basically said it was impossible for trump to win electorally this would be a main position so much

00:27:11.040 that there were articles when nate silver said he had the five percent chance to call for nate silver

00:27:16.140 to be fired from his own organization for being such a bad poller and clearly republicantly biased and

00:27:23.220 people made this call because they were just reporting what all the other media was saying which was

00:27:28.900 a fabrication a statistical fabrication and this is one of these things where i get worried because i think

00:27:36.580 if they overplay their hand then the other side will play their hand and there's been people who talk

00:27:41.900 about oh this could lead to a civil war some sort of like unrest within the united states i don't think

00:27:47.640 it will go that far but i do think it will lead to institutions forming that take the way our democracy

00:27:56.840 is supposed to work much less seriously this could be things like stacking the supreme court this could

00:28:03.480 be things which the left mused doing already just completely ignoring the way our system is supposed

00:28:09.880 to work and striking the supreme court um like mainstream figures in the left were calling for this

00:28:15.260 okay that but hasn't the right been working on that for 20 years and succeeding do you understand

00:28:21.160 what i mean when i say stacking the supreme court no i don't know what you mean then oh basically they

00:28:25.940 said so we're just going to add a bunch of extra supreme court justices oh okay so like literally

00:28:30.360 changing its composition instead of overtime ensuring that in the way the system is supposed

00:28:35.820 to work where you replace one at a time literally just saying okay we control the branch of the

00:28:41.380 government right now that allow us to just put in a bunch of extra supreme court justices so we're 0.60

00:28:45.660 going to do that and everybody it was that that would be bemused is just a blatant power grab i think

00:28:55.000 at january 6th we saw that the right was open to doing something similar based on and in reaction

00:29:01.720 to what they felt were unfair election results if the left becomes more blatant i think we saw at january

00:29:09.180 6th that there was the will among the base of the right to take action there are enough people in

00:29:16.180 government like people were like why didn't people in government like stand up to them more there are

00:29:19.600 enough people within police forces and the military who think that things have gone too far that you're

00:29:26.680 not going to get a coordinated response to them and i think that this is a really key thing that people

00:29:31.340 are i don't think in the u.s we would ever have our police forces or the military um go against

00:29:39.300 the federal government or legal things within the united states we'd never have a coup or anything like

00:29:44.540 that but when you get a large mob of very angry people who believe that an election was unfairly

00:29:51.580 taken from them um and we have seen that the right is capable of generating this right um if the mob is

00:29:58.480 large enough you need either a military or a police force that will shoot at them when they're told to

00:30:03.900 okay and i do not think that our military or police force would do that at scale and that means that

00:30:11.040 you will not have the organized resistance against something like that which is very interesting to

00:30:17.540 me and it is also interesting to me that the two bureaucracies that the far left most needs if they

00:30:24.340 really shit the bed are the two that are the most right-leaning the military and the police force 0.91

00:30:30.400 that's comforting i also think it's important to point out that any dominance that woke may 0.98

00:30:37.780 ultimately secure in mainstream government and really large organizations is short-lived

00:30:45.440 due to demographical apps that there just won't be a population to support this over time but we're

00:30:51.620 talking not within our lifetimes or even our kids lifetime so it's still relevant to us that this

00:30:55.900 yeah i'm thinking like the next 10 20 years yeah um so i like think this is where we are that the

00:31:02.080 non-wokeism is the mainstream among the consumer base but among the elite in our society it is being

00:31:08.580 increasingly collapsed in under a church or cult-like organization that that controls our society in

00:31:15.900 the same way that historically when the for example in the ottoman empire they ruled a lot of non-muslim

00:31:21.360 people but it was a muslim monarchy and i think that's where we're heading it reminds me a lot of

00:31:26.200 how many older at least not just european all over the place civilizations were with this elite that

00:31:33.700 was completely memetically unmoored from the commoners i guess there was a short-lived period

00:31:41.840 in which there was a little bit more alignment maybe because in the united states there wasn't as

00:31:48.700 strict of a class divide to begin with just because things were still being formed but

00:31:54.260 i don't know it it doesn't seem unusual for there to be this bifurcation and these different realities

00:32:01.940 that people live by yeah so whatever people are going to have their own little communities they're

00:32:08.360 not going to understand each other and there will be conflict resulting from that but nothing new

00:32:12.800 and we've made it through before so we can make it through again i love you to death simone and i am so

00:32:18.700 glad to be married to someone as sane as you a rare breed and it's funny i think many people

00:32:27.460 they hear us call each other saying they're like you two are not saying i don't know well we're both

00:32:31.680 in the same way which means that just like with all the other groups that have fractured from reality 0.98

00:32:37.780 we fractured in the same direction meaning that at least we're on each other's page which is good

00:32:42.960 i love you so much love you too all right keeping you waiting oh you're such a sweetheart but you

00:32:51.840 are making a human being after all simone safe the human being has been made and printed well i know

00:33:00.020 but you're keeping her safe and i can't do every time you leave me with her for a little bit i'm like

00:33:04.440 i'm gonna kill this thing i'm gonna do something wrong i'm gonna pick it up wrong 0.95

00:33:07.820 you can't even support a pad answer they feel super super delicate and it's all right just switch 0.75

00:33:16.200 into my proper oh hold on

00:33:22.760 it's not plugged in now i can hear woohoo all right all right i am i shared in the comments for most of

00:33:34.600 the graphs that we're gonna go over come from thank you so i can take a look

00:33:39.600 and we're gonna go over graphs which will be in this and we're gonna go over david rosato i'm not

00:33:46.860 familiar with him cool i'm excited this is gonna be good it's not like that right of a post either which

00:33:56.360 is interesting yeah huh okay

00:34:00.360 very nice all right you're ready for me to get started let's do it

00:34:07.360 you

Based Camp - May 16, 2024

The Death of Woke： Stats on Declining Wokeism

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