01:10:56.580book this was published in the 30s I believe
01:10:58.600the 1930s and it's really cool and i didn't know what to expect when i was reading this because i
01:11:04.420knew the thesis um and they get to the thesis and establish it pretty fast um and it spends a lot of
01:11:11.900time just building it up with anthropological studies it's a very serious book it's a very
01:11:16.840scientific book but it was this uh he went out and was studying tribes from all around the world
01:11:22.940In Africa, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, North America, so American Indian tribes, right down to, you know, the most base form of African tribes, and a pretty big variety in every region.
01:11:38.620and it was studying primarily their religious or spiritual belief structures but juxtaposing that
01:11:46.560against their sexual you know principles and their values regarding monogamy and trying to
01:11:56.340map a correlation between monogamy and how far a civilization or a tribe rather advances
01:12:05.360because you saw a correlation that the most advanced tribes
01:12:09.240seem to have a concept of monogamy and of chastity
01:12:12.400and of, you know, just controlling the sexuality,
01:31:07.520We'll now compare the sexual regulations of the Baganda, Bakatara, and Bayanoko, who lived respectively in central western and southwestern Uganda.
01:31:18.640the banyan kol abominated prenuptial children but did not but did not object to prenuptial
01:31:28.140sexual intercourse if a girl conceived before she was married she confided in her mother and
01:31:34.000they endeavored to procure an abortion in a similar way if an unmarried bakatara girl
01:31:38.560had intercourse with a man and no result followed nothing was said but if she conceived
01:31:44.040the man was pressed into marrying her thus these three these three african societies were in three
01:31:50.080different categories so far as sexual opportunity was concerned the baniacola insisted neither on
01:31:55.240the tokens of virginity nor an exclusive sexual rights on marriage the paketara and the baganda
01:32:00.760demanded tokens but whereas the katara wife like the anacolia wife was common to her husband
01:32:06.180and his clan brothers the ugandan wife was compelled to confine herself to one man which
01:32:11.940means that they were at a higher level of development and like you said before we talk
01:32:17.840about marriage yes they have marriage in main countries however was the wife shared with
01:32:24.400everyone that's more common than you think and also what she and was she shared with every man
01:32:30.620or just the rest of the family right so for us monogamy and marriage go hand in hand but
01:32:37.400for a lot of these tribes that was not the case so it has to be marriage plus monogamy plus
01:32:44.320you know prenuptial chastity those three things in combination here's one about the samoans the
01:32:51.980samoans had different customs at a samoan wedding there is a public or private demand for the tokens
01:32:57.680of virginity the marriage of a chief's daughter took place in the village square before the
01:33:02.400assembled people her virginity was tested publicly by the chief a presumably her own father who
01:33:08.760inserted two fingers into her vulva the crowd eagerly awaited the trickling of the blood
01:33:13.860which was greeted with prolonged cheers you know we often tremble at the thought of penis inspection
01:33:21.000day but by god virginity inspection day sounds so much worse if however the girl failed to pass
01:33:29.920the test once again administered by her own father her father and her brothers would rush
01:33:34.020upon her with clubs and beat her to death wow my god just like ready just the way he described
01:33:41.780just rushed it or like jesus christ okay he goes on to develop this idea here he says many students
01:33:48.020of human affairs appear to have assumed that the evolution of human culture is an orderly progression
01:33:53.020which proceeds in well-defined stages from the definite point and i do not exaggerate when i say
01:33:58.600this, employed in the sense the word evolution is the bugbear of social anthropology. The idea
01:34:05.320seems to be that the primitive or primeval man was placed at the starting point and that all
01:34:10.460human societies have proceeded for a certain distance along the road of progress. All we can
01:34:16.620say definitively is that human culture can be divided into certain patterns. That's it. These
01:34:21.100patterns do not follow one another in any determined order. They merely repeat themselves
01:34:25.340in history and an uncivilized life the change from one pattern to another is the result of a
01:34:31.000change in ideas the world and its attributes are conceived in a different manner opinions alter
01:34:37.220new conceptions oust old notions as a result of this change in opinion activities are revolutionized
01:34:43.460and since the definitions of the cultural patterns are based on activities a change in the cultural
01:34:49.320pattern must necessarily follow the new opinion is neither more true nor more false than the old
01:34:56.320opinion and i thought that's interesting because we so often say that you know x is downstream from
01:35:03.680culture politics is downstream from culture culture is downstream from economics or economics
01:35:09.260is downstream from ideology you know we get these debates all the time he's trying to take a more
01:35:14.580scientific approach that it's actually the ideas themselves that change like first principles
01:35:21.320change then the culture changes because you actually can't change a culture it doesn't
01:35:26.180make sense to change a culture communists tried to do that and it was a massive bloody
01:35:31.800arguably you know catastrophic project that ended in failure but this is one thing we're getting
01:35:39.720to do with the next book which is um a book by cochran called uh christianity classical culture
01:35:46.440about how christianity triumphed in rome into the classical world it's like well it wasn't a
01:35:53.940political project it wasn't even a cultural project you actually have to change the ideas
01:36:00.340and then the beliefs actually follow from that and evolve from that it's a different way of
01:36:07.100looking at it you know um it's kind of hard to describe but it's like one thing he gets to in
01:36:13.020the book which really stuck with me was that he was describing a few tribes where there was
01:36:20.740something like a feminist revolution that occurred in it before contact with westerners or the white
01:36:27.620man because that's what people think they think that oh these tribes were just in perfect harmony
01:36:32.340and then the white man the european or the christian showed up and started installing
01:36:38.320all kinds of firmware into them to change everything but these things for one reason or
01:36:45.780another seem to spontaneously occur and sometimes they completely destroy the tribe but they can
01:36:51.420also occur in civilized societies like ours let me see if i can find it here here we go this is
01:36:58.700actually in tahiti it says moreover over a hundred years before the white man arrived social
01:37:05.180revolutions had occurred among the tahitians eight generations ago and i'm going to butcher this name
01:37:11.100it says aritamai aritamai says about the middle of the 17th century the next great revolution
01:37:18.560occurred and tradition says that it was caused by a woman the revolution which aritamai refers
01:37:25.440arose out of a quarrel between two members of the aristocracy concerning a beautiful woman
01:37:31.060tarura one of them behaved in a manner which is not considered to be in accordance with the
01:37:36.840established tradition a social upheaval was the result i do not propose to tell the story
01:37:42.280of how the rebellious noble took advantage of the traditional pride and generosity
01:37:46.380my point was that tahitian culture like hawaiian culture had been a transactional and erratic
01:37:54.120condition for many years before the white man arrived yeah the example he gave about hawaii
01:38:00.280the hawaiians which around the same time they said that and again pre-contact with white man
01:38:05.960there was the feminist revolution was something like the big events that happened was they used
01:38:11.680to segregate their their meals by gender so the women ate over there the men ate at a different
01:38:19.540area and at one point the queen went to dine with the men and this was seen as the final moment that
01:38:28.700tradition had collapsed but if you look at it and the records that they kept showing this that
01:38:33.420this was just the culmination of something like a feminist revolution that was occurring in the
01:38:40.700tribe where women were starting to organize and advocate for themselves and just there's this
01:38:45.900sense that the old ways were crumbling and it wasn't based on ideology you know i mean that's
01:38:52.100a real 20th 1920th century idea and so and maybe feminism as a you know mental state as a mind
01:39:02.180virus whatever you want to call it that that exists outside of ideology that's just something
01:39:05.700that happens you know but revolution seems to occur within these tribes these fucking
01:39:11.040illiterate tribes tribes where they don't politically organize is there effectively
01:39:16.660dictatorships you know tribal dictatorships and yet the women can achieve something like progress
01:39:24.380and equity and egalitarianism and i don't know that just that really stuck with me which means
01:39:29.960that the forces that are causing this aren't new they're not modern and they're not even
01:39:36.300caused by literacy they're not even caused by female fucking education or the female right to
01:39:42.260vote that drive that revolution causes all that but anyway it's more to my mind connected to
01:39:49.980just a a decrepit or dying culture that allows that sort of thing to happen because you know
01:39:58.100like a coup d'etat by the time the tanks roll up to the palace the coup is already that's the last
01:40:04.880step the coup has already occurred the coup was like the eight to twelve months before that
01:40:09.400where all the relationships were brokered and all the secret conversations were had and then
01:40:15.120distrust in the order was sown and then in one great movement it collapses one final stroke the
01:40:24.640the woman is seated with the man and nobody does anything anyway it might sound like i'm making a
01:40:30.880lot out of that but that that really stuck with me um and it shows like did but did that cause them
01:40:37.480to progress past that not really sometimes these things just fucking happen um i'm just going to
01:40:43.640jump to the american indians here he says because i know we gotta get going so he says in our study
01:40:48.380of the american indians we must rely either on the writings of the early travelers or on the
01:40:53.500modern field work of the reservationist because once again remember these people did not leave
01:40:59.220written records they do not have a language a written language they tell us what the natives
01:41:05.780thought but they seldom mention what the natives did we can extract from their writings very few
01:41:10.100descriptions of native rights but they are always ready to entertain us with a discourse on the
01:41:14.260great spirit american indian ethnography indeed has suffered more than is usual from an attempt
01:41:20.020to render native words in a modern language such words as medicine mystery existence spirits deities
01:41:27.060totem guardian spirit and supernatural meeting jostle against one another on the anthropological
01:41:33.320page in a bewildering variety that needs a special effort of the imagination to remember
01:41:38.740that all these terms and many others are often english equivalents of the same native work so
01:41:44.600again when you hear about even now this is what's so interesting about aboriginals and natives is
01:41:51.100that they in my opinion they inhabit a western context they inhabit a western interpretation
01:41:58.860of themselves so when they talk about the great spirit they will you know most of these aboriginals
01:42:06.560or abos or indians whatever they want to call themselves everyone knows what i mean
01:42:10.940they speak of their own great spirit within a white like a white western understanding of it
01:42:18.380I don't think they really have the same conceptualization of the great spirit that their ancestors did, which is a wild way of thinking about it.
01:42:26.600They don't even have ownership of their beliefs and arguably their rights are just cartoon versions of their rights.
01:42:34.440They will say that it's just one unbroken chain.
01:45:27.900The same phenomenon can be observed among some uncivilized peoples, and basing my conclusions on the same kind of evidence, I consider that the finest period of Mayan history was already passed when the white men arrived in Central America, for it seems that among the Mayans, also the demand for prenuptial chastity had been relaxed.
01:45:47.820so there like we're completely removing prenuptial chastity from any christianization
01:45:56.540or any contact with outsiders and even after like you said the mayans encountered white men their
01:46:03.580glory days were still on the horizon they didn't cause a collapse so it's something else and i
01:46:10.600think that i keep coming back to like what causes it almost just seems like a natural like an
01:46:17.420entropic phenomenon in that sense but it always takes the form of relaxed sexual regulation
01:46:25.100usually uh performed by the woman usually encouraged by the females in that society
01:46:32.600it goes into the science of it here like okay if we agree that controlling sexuality has a
01:46:40.140correlation to how developed a society is by developed we mean it has an understanding of
01:46:46.160itself it has a more comprehensive understanding of the universe we kind of know what we mean but
01:46:52.220what does that mean in a tribal context um he says when we apply these principles to the cultural
01:46:57.800data two conclusions follow at once the first is that the full effect of an extension or limitation
01:47:03.460on sexual opportunity whether in the whole society or one strata of society it's not revealed for at
01:47:10.640least three generations or roughly a century after its adoption the second is that in the production
01:47:16.000of social energy the sexual opportunity of the females is a more important factor than that of
01:47:22.100the males needless to say in the course of these hundred years much seed falls by the wayside
01:47:27.200not all but a few but only a few citizens accept and pass on the new tradition thus when a cultural
01:47:33.740change occurs haphazardly either upward or downward there remain some representatives of the higher or
01:47:39.660lower culture these increase or decreasing the number according to the behaviors of the subsequent
01:47:43.860generations that's a very interesting thing he just said which is that for a cultural shift to
01:47:50.280occur it takes around three generations or 100 years because during that period there's going
01:47:56.120to be advocates from whatever the old culture is either high or low they'll be agitating against
01:48:02.560change but that's why you won't see the ramifications of any of these you know and we're
01:48:10.420going through that right now like anything we're talking about right now like oh the west has
01:48:14.820fallen society's fallen it's like we might have another 50 years before that really becomes clear
01:48:20.400but at that point it's set after three generations the norm is solidified he goes on to sort of
01:48:28.200define what he means by these energized societies when we control sexuality it frees up the energies
01:48:35.260for other things he says among the accomplishments of an extremely energized energetic society
01:48:40.800are territorial expansion conquest colonization and the foundation of a widely flung commerce
01:48:47.400all these things and their like are manifestations of what i call expansive social energy a society
01:48:53.940which displays uh productive social energy develops the resources of its habitat and by increasing
01:48:59.940its knowledge of material universe bends nature to its will you know what's interesting when he
01:49:05.020says that people might recall we did a book called we went back to the stone age we were looking at
01:49:11.780you know prehistoric you know not crow magnum but you know basically cavemen right and there's this
01:49:19.060idea of prehistoric man as being just a grug brained bonk a woman on a head and raper and
01:49:28.840walking around in tattered clothes basically an ape but they have found evidence of prehistoric
01:49:35.060mines they have found evidence of prehistoric societies um and prehistoric you know model
01:49:42.400massive you know monoliths right which says that you know you would think of these ancestors as
01:49:49.480being basically retarded or zombies but it's like no well they actually they knew how to mine for
01:49:54.700different types of rock which with which they could fashion spears which is a fucking wild
01:50:00.180thing to think in like 5000 BC or whatever the age is right where like you knew enough to dig
01:50:06.600at a certain depth and craft steps and ways to get into the fucking earth to retrieve something
01:50:11.940to fashion a tool so the idea was that you know if you can control your sexual energies or you
01:50:20.060have some kind of society that emerges from a first principle that frees up your abilities to
01:50:26.620actually do those things. Because when the Teutonic tribes overran the Western Roman Empire in the
01:50:33.4805th century, they manifested an expansive social energy. A similar energy was exhibited by the
01:50:39.180Babylonians 4,000 years ago, by the Romans when they conquered Carthage, by the Arabs when they
01:50:45.200burst over Egypt in the 7th century, by the English when they colonized in all parts of the world.
01:50:50.060Now, in human records, there's no trace of any display of productive energy, which has not been preceded by a display of expansive energy.
01:51:00.200So production and expansion seem to go hand in hand historically.
01:51:05.680Although two kinds of energy must be carefully distinguished, in the past they have been, as it were, united in the sense that one has developed out of the other.
01:51:14.040A society which displays productive energy possesses a rationalistic culture.
01:51:19.000Expansive energy is typically more typical of deistic societies
01:51:23.820or the deistic stratum of a rationalistic society.
01:51:28.540And then connected this to our previous point about the generational transfer,
01:51:31.900it says the nature of the inherited tradition in turn depends on the amount of energy
01:51:36.740which the previous generation displayed,
01:51:39.580that generation inheriting a tradition dependent on the amount of energy
01:51:43.000the preceding generation displayed, and so on.
01:51:45.620Now, in each case, the amount of this energy depended on the intensity of the compulsory continents with the sexual regulations imposed.
01:51:54.100Thus, the cultural condition of any society, any geographical environment is conditioned by its past and present methods of regulating relationships between the sexes.
01:52:04.080So you have to make these norms, you know, maintain over three generations.
01:52:10.800And the only way to maintain that sort of energy is to control the relationship between the sexes.
01:52:17.840And that doesn't even necessarily mean that the woman must be subservient to the man legalistically.
01:52:25.220But as he established earlier in the book, you know, women actually have more power in this relationship, which is why it must be controlled naturally.
01:52:34.080because they can bear a child because you know bearing a child out of wedlock is bad you know
01:52:41.120it's always been bad fucking prehistoric africans know it's bad to the point where they they were
01:52:48.440tolerant of abortions and abortions were also bad but it's way better than having just a child
01:52:53.900at a wedlock because they understood that you need a mother and a father to raise this child
01:52:57.500um so just moving on and he goes on it further and says any society in which complete prenuptial
01:53:06.420sexual freedom has been permitted for at least three generations will inevitably be zoistic
01:53:13.680uh the zoistic cultural condition it will also be at a dead level of conception that previously
01:53:20.100had been at a higher cultural condition so that's like if by three generations you just
01:53:26.320allow rampant sexual freedom you basically go back to like bantu tribesmen and you will not only
01:53:32.640lack any coherent spirituality you'll stop giving a shit about the dead you'll stop giving a shit
01:53:38.520about history you everything you'll just be a wandering animal basically um he's got an
01:53:45.960interesting point here it says when absolute monogamy is the rule absolute monogamy marriage
01:53:52.360is as a means whereby a man secures domestic labor and heirs of his blood a wife and her
01:53:58.660children are under his dominion and domination of the husband in the eyes of the law he alone
01:54:05.080is an entity in its full rigor in this model this institution has never been tolerated for
01:54:13.620very long indeed all those human societies which have adopted it were constantly revising their
01:54:19.720methods of regulating the relation between the sexes sometimes as in babylon the changes were
01:54:25.680made by a series of separate enactments sometimes as in rome by a somewhat violent change in the
01:54:32.060legal premises but in every case they took the same course in every case too the qualification
01:54:37.520of the material and parental authorities was accompanied by the reduction of marriage to a
01:54:42.940temporary union made and broken by mutual consent furthermore in most cases the demand for
01:54:50.020prenuptial chastity was relaxed so really what he's saying there is that the most extreme
01:54:55.940patriarchal form of marriage has only ever really existed for brief flashes of time every other time
01:55:02.720it's it's more it's more nuanced than you would think which is which makes a bit more sense right
01:55:10.200which is why women are always fighting against it but if you which is you know even within
01:55:16.520catholicism we don't like divorce but you know we do have what was it annulment you know it's
01:55:24.300like you can't get divorced but we can make it so the marriage never happened because there are
01:55:27.940instances where you know a woman needs to get out of the marriage maybe the guy just is a fucking
01:55:33.100sadist you know maybe the guy just loses his mind one day and there's extenuating circumstances
01:55:38.000they've always the point being that every religious built in something like that on on the margins even
01:55:45.980but it's never been totally authoritarian driven because the relationship between men and women
01:55:53.720is messy it always has been messy you need rules but i don't know like like i said they will test
01:56:01.780for chastity they'll test to make sure you're a virgin but if you if you had many lovers before
01:56:08.080then but still remain a virgin we're just not going to talk about it or if we don't allow
01:56:12.640virginity we're not going to talk about the abortions right because we we need to make
01:56:16.820concessions to handle the sloppy behavior of teenagers see what i'm saying and what do you
01:56:25.520think about that yeah yeah it makes sense i mean i i wish we could use an understanding of this to
01:56:33.800create a culture where the rigid monogamy could last for longer because it seems like
01:56:39.900in all of the previous cases part of the reason that it's fallen apart is because the rationale
01:56:45.000was just because i said so which is never it's not going to fly and what's interesting is people
01:56:50.740people in our society one thing we often remark on uh in various meme channels that we consult
01:56:58.900is that people are finding monogamy but much later like it's way more common for people to
01:57:04.520actually find their true love or settle down but in their 30s and we'll say well that's too late
01:57:09.400sure because we lack the social pressures to encourage people to do that younger it is better
01:57:15.000to get married younger have children younger but there is like a drive for monogamy but
01:57:23.260absent those social pressures it seems that we just kind of find it later that that's like the
01:57:28.760negotiation we you know absent any rules found ourselves in we just need to get that done
01:57:37.180earlier that will require social pressure that will like you need social pressure to keep people
01:57:42.620together but it seems that we get there eventually it's just we get there too late you know what i
01:57:47.980mean so we need to like encourage it to be earlier but it's not like it's gone yet yet but let's give
01:57:55.080it another couple generations maybe close but not yet um anyway i know we gotta go no that was the
01:58:00.200main thesis established there and he paints a very cohesive and a very persuasive argument that you
01:58:08.940know it's something everyone intuits like you said it seems obvious when you hear it but there's so
01:58:14.420many examples in the book where he goes into like if you just like hearing about tribes and the
01:58:18.880shit that they did um and the different spirits that they believed in the main problem is a lot
01:58:24.980of them are the same that's what you learn is that the reason he categorized the zoistic nanistic
01:58:31.540and deistic societies is because once you break it down they all fall into these buckets they just
01:58:36.600of different names for the spirit but it's all guys with magic stones engaged in magic wars
01:58:44.080but really the way i said you know i was saying earlier what fascinated me was these emergent
01:58:52.260sexual revolutions because i think that's what i'll call them emergent sexual revolutions
01:58:58.140that are non-ideological and non-religious anyway and we'll leave it at that um thank you
01:59:05.760any closing thoughts on that by the way no no that's a good episode all right so i'll let you
01:59:10.540go it's late uh thank you so much i'll talk to you later no worries man take care
02:03:16.480so it's probably closer to italian but yeah i'm reading the translation um we might be working
02:03:22.880from different copies i don't know how many different translations there are but uh relatively
02:03:27.920relatively short book i'd say you know maybe for fiction it's about 300 pages maybe yeah um
02:03:35.360i went into this sort of blind not knowing what to expect i knew what people had discussed before
02:03:40.160like oh it's about mass migration it's about mass migration into france and this was written in the
02:03:45.52070s and i think the fact that's written in the 70s has to sit high on people's minds when it's
02:03:51.840people will say predicted the future um but the context in which it was written you know the
02:03:58.320soviet union still exists so that factors in pretty heavily to the story uh the vietnam war
02:04:04.320i believe is still ongoing i would need to because when was it written like 1972 72 it was written
02:04:12.16073 it was released so yeah i mean it probably probably you know vietnam was pretty much over
02:04:18.320by then i think the paris peace conference was 73. yeah because it mentions uh hanoi and it
02:04:25.840mentions like there's references to vietnam and the sort of third worldist regime but um it's
02:04:32.240difficult for me to figure where to jump in like do we want to just get to like the meat of it
02:04:37.920let me just start by asking this did you like it and yeah i i thought that i thought this was
02:04:44.500going to be like kind of a slog you know it's like oh it's the meme book you know people are
02:04:48.540gonna like i'm doing this for you i'm doing this for the audience but i actually it was a good
02:04:53.440read i'm gonna put it on my good reads yeah and i think it's the reputation preceding it
02:05:01.660Does it a disservice because it's, you know, knowing the political waters that we swim in, maybe we're just used to a lot of this language and these scenarios, but it wasn't as vulgar as I was expecting.
02:05:14.740And I'm just going to give sort of the bullet points of my takeaways.
02:05:20.100If you'd asked me when I was halfway through reading it, if I liked it, I would have said, yes, this is an amazing book and it haunts you.
02:05:29.760it's chilling and it's not necessarily because it's gory or in particularly graphic there's
02:05:35.280some gross scenes in it and we'll get into that in a second but um but by the end of it because
02:05:40.980i'd finished it this past weekend i had softened a bit on it you know i didn't love it as much i
02:05:48.500like the first half more than the back half and we can get it i will say it had a good ending
02:05:54.700i i was expect i was expecting something else not a twist necessarily but something
02:06:01.820more in the first half of the book it surprises you with how layered it is so i'll tell you one
02:06:08.960thing i wasn't expecting and you let me know what you think about this i wasn't expecting
02:06:12.840the amount of spirituality that was woven throughout this yes and mentions of god yeah
02:06:20.460Yes, it mentions of God, and not in a ham-fisted way either, in a very, not nuanced, but in a very mature way, it's clear that Respiel, Respiel, Respiel, I think it is, he has at least a decent understanding of scripture and of God.
02:06:46.220you know and it's funny because his it's usually coming from the mouths of his atheist characters
02:06:52.220yes that's a great point i'd had one of the one of our listeners was a big fan of the book
02:06:58.780said that it was pretty harsh on christians and it did not interpret it that way catholics
02:07:04.600specifically what could even yeah catholics i would say yes you know the jesuits are up to
02:07:10.400their tricks but if anything more of a sort of liberal humanism that has infected these religions
02:07:16.800because god is present in this in fact much of what occurs in the book could be it's almost
02:07:23.840explicitly described as something like solemn providence that god is a yes sir oh sorry no i
02:07:30.240was gonna say you could say that it's like um oh it's like it's like one of the plagues that uh
02:07:37.920that not noah that moses uh tells the pharaoh about in order to great point the israelites
02:07:47.520this is this is clearly a punishment from god yeah and um so the setup of the story and we
02:07:54.720don't need to go into too too much detail going beat by beat but i will say what it's about it's
02:10:41.580That it really, it spends, it meditates on where it should, especially in the first half of the book. I really love the first half of the book for this. Describing, you know, picturesque, his sort of house, a homestead that's been in his family since the 1500s. He lives there alone. And then the entire village is abandoned.
02:10:59.980And he's sort of like the like the Roman centurion of Legionnaire at the end of Spangler's.
02:11:09.720Yeah. Sort of just stand in guard because at this point, everyone has sort of resigned themselves to failure.
02:11:16.220And this is sort of his last stand as a Western man. And so continue.
02:11:20.300you know that that that scene where he's just going through the house and he's talking about
02:11:26.600uh you know the invention of the fork whereas like the fork was invented how many years ago
02:11:33.000and these people still eat with their hands or uh you know he's talking about the the linens that
02:11:39.200have been in his family for so long and have been packed away and they smell like lavender that
02:11:44.480either his mother or his grandmother put in there and there's this there's this kid he's like this
02:11:50.300anarchist who is going to lead the horde right to his doorstep so that he can kind of watch it all
02:11:58.020burn down and the professor just shoots him it's awesome yeah and for people who've seen the meme
02:12:04.180there's a quote that circulates from this book where uh it doesn't attribute it to anyone but
02:12:09.560it's like they'll be tired they'll hungry they'll make a fire of your nice wooden door it's said by
02:12:13.980this kid who's again in this abandoned village saying that hey old man you know i'm gonna and
02:12:19.940And just the way he describes it, there's these long, I would call them monologues, where you really understand the psychology of these villains, these antagonists, various anarchists.
02:12:32.940Like you said, there's journalists in here, politicians, cardinals and clergymen, people who are on the side of this third worldist revolution.
02:12:42.500And in fact, they are the main instigators of it.
02:12:47.980And they're friends of this revolution on both sides. So we're in France, but there's people there. And I'd made a comment on the driving force of these antagonists before. And I think it's extremely important that this book was set in France and written by a Frenchman.
02:13:07.480because one thing I had said and an idea I'm playing around with
02:13:10.520is that revolutions are never truly over.
02:13:13.720No revolution ever recedes from the current zeitgeist.
02:13:32.440even though it's been over for how long.
02:13:35.240So I think what's going on in this book, it's it's an echo of the French Revolution. You have these revolutionaries, you have the Jacobins, you have these sort of petite Robespierre's who are who are not even necessarily on the side of the third world, but they are against the bourgeoisie.
02:26:49.220and they're like well we must we must stop and we must pick them and then he just doesn't want to
02:26:54.200and just goes full steam ahead and just runs them all over and just churns them up into chum
02:27:00.720and he's just smiling the whole time and he's tried as a war criminal but as the book goes on
02:27:06.200it's like well he had the right idea like there's various people on there like well what could you
02:27:11.320do you can't bring them on you're both all over in the book it's like you know what yep he did
02:27:15.300the right thing um and just like south africa south africa is you know as the fleet is going
02:27:21.960around the horn of africa and all because it takes a long time takes like three months something
02:27:27.520like that maybe even longer um they're they're thinking along 50 days yeah they said they said
02:27:34.720every there's all these countries along the way they'll deal with it they're not going to get to
02:27:38.760france so they're hoping south africa does something and it doesn't um you know they just
02:27:44.460basically say if you land here we will shoot you we'll destroy your fucking boats and they're
02:27:49.820treated as a global pariah how dare apartheid state south africa should be punished you know
02:27:55.440what we would say now right so so here's here's one thing right in this in if in the camp of the
02:28:04.100saints version of things right uh south africa's probably still around rhodesia is probably still
02:28:13.360around yeah yeah and there's you know they're an apartheid state and everyone kind of makes a
02:28:20.240not a mockery but makes a monster out of them and then they're forgotten and then the air i think
02:28:25.840they they go to the suez canal i think that's the one and then what country is i want to say it's
02:28:31.860iran but it's not around uh um egypt yeah egypt they're like okay the egyptians will take them
02:28:38.540in because you know they're they'll like that that place more but they turn that they militarily
02:28:44.720turn them away at risk of blowing up so like they're it's passing the buck the entire the
02:28:49.920entire world is passing the buck to france daring them to do something and the story is they wait
02:28:55.900until it's too late that's really the story it's like they by the time they want to fight back
02:29:00.120by the time the president of france is basically saying you know we can't let them in they're there
02:29:06.360And then the towns and villages are abandoned and there's been little flashpoints for the nation of, and this is where the third world is a global South story comes in that there's friend, you know, the unions of the fucking janitors and shit, all the Jamaicans in France, they're siding with them.
02:29:24.920and right there they're all and they're they're waiting in the lurch there uh oh i think there was
02:29:31.620a really good there was a really good phrase that respiel used uh i think that's like the third
02:29:36.740different time or you know the third different time i've pronounced his name uh anyway uh where
02:29:42.980these guys are the jamaicans the the black people all all the global south of france are waiting at
02:29:52.180radio for the president's speech and they're going to attack and and riot if if they're uh
02:29:59.460if they if what happens if what they think is going to happen happens where the president
02:30:05.380actually you know stands up and says no we're not taking them in uh and and there's one line
02:30:11.860in particular where he says something like and france because she gave away all her menial jobs
02:30:18.580stupidly uh is now held hostage by them very very much like um like in fight club
02:30:27.860and they're pissing in the soup and it's like these are the guys that uh wash your car and
02:30:32.420pick up your laundry and like don't with them you know and it's like yeah the same thing happened
02:30:37.620in rome when the sheer number of the slaves you know was unignorable any decadent society where
02:30:45.220where there's such a swelling underclass,
02:31:13.900that the western world does not put up a fight there is no race war the the fleet arriving is
02:31:22.060the conquering of the nation they just move in into these villages in these towns where the
02:31:27.740inhabitants have fled and there's there's only tiny resistance from some of the main characters
02:31:32.780we've come to understand in the book who group together by the end sort of a last defined stand
02:31:37.940but it's it's one guy versus a million people and they know they're going to die and they you know
02:31:46.900they take out a couple hundred by um defending this village but really it's not like armies
02:31:52.880clashing by the end of it it's a fleet of refugees and this is what happens you know when um when you
02:31:58.720look at the collapse of the bronze age and these great cities um what's interesting is some people
02:32:06.140will blame it on the arrival of the sea people that was spoken of in history but that was sort
02:32:12.460of you know they weren't a conquering viking horde of any sort of stripe really that was just like
02:32:19.820the last step of a civilization that had already started to decay due to its own internal inertia
02:32:25.660plus it was subjected to several natural disasters and earthquakes so really they were just like
02:32:31.900refugees sort of like these indians like they move in because there's no one to defend the borders
02:32:38.140and because no one gives a shit anymore and that the the inertia of the nation is just it they just
02:32:45.400move in on the land and no one's there to defend it um which is you know if if you're going into
02:32:51.480this expecting the turner diaries where it's like guerrilla war in the streets or anything like that
02:32:56.600or terrorism like it's not that it's it's deeper and i would say more uh relevant to our situation
02:33:03.480right now it's the west goes quietly into the night it's there's it's no bang but there is a
02:33:14.240whimper yeah it's it's so you can't imagine that this would have happened pre-second world war
02:33:23.440pre-first world war yeah like and all of the villains get their comeuppance but it doesn't
02:33:28.820matter because the villains die but then everyone does like there's one really tragic figure um it's
02:33:35.980um it's this guy he's a songwriter believe and his wife who's like a hapa woman and they're
02:33:43.620they're celebrating they're almost like communists like they're celebrating the communist revolution
02:33:48.480They think that the third world will bring in a socialist sentiment, more socialist than they've already got.
02:33:56.180And they're driving their fast car, and they're laughing in soldiers' faces, telling them to turn back.
02:34:01.980And they end up in this town that's overrun by prisoners because all the prisons have been emptied, you know, without much of a fight.
02:34:10.840It's just everyone, you know, that's another theme in the book, which is that all the police, all the military, all the authoritarian forces, they just got the memo that things are falling apart and then half of them just leave.
02:34:23.340So the entire structures begin to decay.
02:40:33.580And I'm paraphrasing here, but it says that
02:40:35.580when they set sail, they were driven by
02:40:38.460something like vengeance, like a quest
02:40:40.860for the land of milk and honey, as you describe.
02:40:44.180And it was, it was hostile and they are, they continue to be more and more hostile on the ships throughout the journey there because at various points, these, these religious groups, the Catholics and the Protestants both try and like race each other to give aid and these other countries are trying to give them aid and they get the food and the medicine on the boats, but they reject it.
02:41:06.820they throw it over the side and they're rushing to try and justify like what could they mean by
02:41:12.400this it couldn't be that they just hate us they must be confused they must have thought we were
02:41:17.080the bad guys trying to poison them but there's a point i forget exactly where this was but
02:41:22.440they described that the hostility and the anger had just melted away they weren't hateful anymore
02:41:29.620They were something else. And it was such an interesting view of race where on the way there, they could be seen as sort of like anti-white.
02:41:41.340You know, they were all united. It didn't matter if they were Indian. It's just this, there's white people, Europeans, and then everyone else united against them.
02:41:49.400But by the time they land, they don't even see themselves as reacting to whites. And the quote was something like, they are the only race.
02:41:57.400there that they don't see themselves in the shadow of anyone else they've been driven mad
02:42:03.520by their time on the ship and they already started off pretty deranged and diseased but by the time
02:42:08.140they're there they're not even fucking human anymore they don't even they're driven by something
02:42:12.980else they don't even know what they are but it's just this like one organism moving forward and i
02:42:19.520thought that was an interesting way of describing them like they are the they're not anti-white
02:42:23.780they're the only race on earth by the time they land and in some ways in some ways it's quaint
02:42:33.880the book is the book is cute in uh in its portrayals of what could happen because at
02:42:42.060the end yeah it's like what 800 000 people make it off these boats it's like oh that's that's
02:42:48.020that's a good year in the United States.
02:43:17.260Where the author is writing from sort of the last bastion, but then even that is beginning to fall, even that is opening its borders, succumbing, as every other nation did, to its own internal treachery, saying that, you know, eventually it's destined to fall unless you're choosing armed combat.
02:43:37.420And that's sort of the other message of the book, which is like, you need to shoot your way out of this.
02:43:40.780And if failing that, there is no solution to this.
02:43:45.360There was, I was surprised because, you know, you hear all the memes about, like you said, this book's reputation precedes it. I was surprised that they had a Soviet Russian perspective in the book at all.
02:44:01.900and i thought that was very telling that the the russians were giddy to to get revenge on the
02:44:11.880germans in the second world war uh but they but they balked at shooting chinese women and children
02:44:19.040yeah and also you know you would think oh the soviet union would be the most open to these
02:44:26.120no no no they didn't want the chinese entering there either no no and and they were giving and
02:44:31.320All they wanted was, quote-unquote, Siberia.
02:44:33.460Like, the thing about Russia is it's massive.
02:44:36.040You can fit the whole global south and never know that they were there.
02:44:43.280But you forget that, you know, looking at the communists from our perspective,
02:44:48.820if you're caught up in the discourses on X,
02:44:51.700you would think that the entire Soviet Union was just like danger-haired campus progressives.
02:44:58.040But no, these were serious men that were extremely pragmatic.
02:45:01.320Like they wouldn't be swinging open the doors of their nation for theory
02:45:29.660And he was he was very drunk and they all got very drunk on vodka. Some people might think that's a trope. I just think that's a real thing that would happen all the time.
02:45:38.380Yeah, no, he was he talked about he's like, well, if I'm going to kill all these people, I'm going to have to do it completely drunk. And the guy was what was that like? There was that great speech. And this was early on, too, where he said all the great wars in history were fought by drunk people.
02:45:52.700right right all it was all drunkards and and the guy replies he's like well there's no respect for
02:45:59.140for drunken soldiers anymore or something something to that effect uh yeah i was missing more of that
02:46:06.700i thought there was more conversations more you know here's a word for a diverse conversations
02:46:12.700earlier on i liked those conversations more than what i got at the end again i'm not trying to rag
02:46:17.920on the end too too much but you know some of these characters just fade away like the turd eater
02:46:23.500you know he arrives it is you know child arrive on the shores of france and then kills one of
02:46:30.680the guys and then sort of just disappears you know then by that point we're just fading into
02:46:35.160the end of the story but yeah it just sort of fades into nihilism as you described it
02:46:41.360um and and maybe that's there's a good ending there's one fate i'd like to also describe before
02:46:51.140i forget sorry there's one uh what's his name he's the soldier but he has a specific name
02:46:58.600you remember like the ranger or something uh no i don't he had defects from the army and it's like
02:47:04.700him versus the regular army and then he's like a communist or a marxist in some sense
02:56:05.460The bar is very, very low for books because Donald Peele will buy books.
02:56:08.500So imagine selling 200,000 copies through the mail.
02:56:12.500Like, this was a massive book, which is wild to think about.
02:56:15.820And I wonder how Camp of the Saints would stack up because it is, even though I haven't read it, I do suspect this is a better book.
02:56:22.880You know, it is a much better book, you know, would be really ironic because you can get knockoff books printed in India and then ship them.
02:56:35.460no no no and you can actually you can actually have them like you can buy them on amazon i have
02:56:40.980a book that uh i got i thought it was at discount but then i look at it like oh this was printed by
02:56:47.140just some guy oh we gotta we gotta do it we gotta do this so so just you know get a fiver and uh
02:56:58.180ask him to print and mail you a book yeah if there's one thing i know i don't know how long
02:57:33.500A lot of white people love to go to India because they think it's the most spiritual place in the world.
02:57:38.140But you contrast that against, you know, the Google Maps game or just drop a pin anywhere in India randomly and see if you can find one location that's not covered in shit and trash and it doesn't look like a war zone.
02:57:52.240So you're like, once you behold these people, and I do think they're an accurate description of what this specific class would be like, it is horrifying.
02:58:02.900You know, if you're a Westerner, if you're a European, a white person, you know, homeless people. Sure. You know what the hood is like, but the hood is like the aristocracy compared to like the slums of India or these villages in Africa.
02:58:20.340You know, I'm reading this book. It's a fascinating book called A Sex and Culture by Joseph Unwin, I believe. It was written in the 1930s. I believe it was released either by Antelope Hill or Imperium Press. They did a reprint of it.
02:58:33.100But it was just this anthropologist. The thesis of the book is that the level of civilization achieved by a tribe is directly correlated with its views on sex and chastity and marriage.
02:58:50.260and the more monogamous and chaste a tribe or society is the more advanced it is and it was
02:58:57.120it went all throughout fucking polynesia all throughout africa all throughout south america
02:59:01.540and it's just a straight up anthropological say discussing these tribes but you're reminded that
02:59:08.300these tribes exist you're reminded that there's a lot of people in the world you know how you know
02:59:14.080You think of, well, like the United States of America, that's a huge lamb ass.
02:59:18.440It's not packed as much as India is, right?
02:59:21.660There's so many people out there that are, if not cannibals, then pretty close.
02:59:26.880And they're huffing bags of their own shit.
02:59:29.220And they do think pedophilia is tolerable.
02:59:32.060Or they don't have a word for pedophilia because it's just a thing that you do.
02:59:36.380And that you are just eating dirt mud.
03:15:51.940I think the entire concept of civilization is not fully understood by anyone other than those who create it.
03:16:00.140So I think it would be wrong, and this is a great book that expresses that, it would be wrong to say that these people hate civilization.
03:16:07.520They just know that over here, there's things that I want that are being kept from me.
03:16:13.660I don't understand why they're being kept from me.
03:16:16.400So on our side, on the side of civilization, we would assign no shortage of theory or even morality to that by saying, oh, they just, they desire an egalitarian world.
03:16:28.840They desire equality, a redistribution of wealth because they think it's unjust.
03:22:53.980Now, how that would drive them from across the world into Europe, maybe blame telecommunications, that they're exposed constantly to this world that they know they're not a part of.
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03:29:06.460I've partnered with Tukey's Magazine, or Tukey's Mag, rather, to do a show called The Library of Mass Destruction.
03:29:13.880Myself and Capitalissimo, we go over, you know, schizo books.
03:29:19.040I paint with a broad brush there, but I don't think anything conspiracy related.
03:29:25.680And we're in the middle of Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, the Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh.
03:29:31.460we're on i think 15 episodes right now each of them like three hours long so it's a it's a long
03:29:37.560book and we obviously uh pause to argue like an old married couple um i want to read this book
03:29:45.060i'm looking at it right now this looks wild it's awesome it really is and wendy painting does a
03:29:51.880terrific job of she she has gone into more detail than any any other book that i have read especially
03:30:01.340about these subjects tom o'neill wrote chaos and that is you know everybody joe rogan had tom o'neill
03:30:09.120and they talk about chaos right and he talks about how uh it's so well researched it's so
03:30:14.800well documented you really got to the heart of the manson stuff painting has done that but for
03:30:22.660uh the oklahoma city bombing i think and there's still more stuff i think she's working on a sequel
03:30:28.080right now um this originally started off i think as her phd thesis so she she put in a lot of work
03:30:35.820and uh yeah i have it's it's hard for me to to compliment uh i won't go there but yeah no it's
03:30:43.500really really great book highly recommended and cap and i i think do a good job of making it
03:30:47.840entertaining as well uh everyone on this space everyone's reading everyone's reading wild shit
03:30:54.120and making good content based off it yeah so uh i mean that's that's all i've got i've got a couple
03:30:59.040books out you can find me on twitter at tr underscore hudson uh i don't really know how
03:31:04.480to end podcasts so go ahead and cue the fraser
03:31:07.620and maybe i seem a bit confused yeah maybe but i got you peg
03:31:19.440But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs.