Leo D.M.J. Aurini - January 11, 2018


Sargon of Akkad： Classical Liberal of Convenience


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18 minutes

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2,089

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145

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5

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36

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The worst sort of hypocrite is the man who chooses his beliefs for the sake of personal convenience. The hypocrite who chooses their beliefs to bolster and bulwark their own weaknesses not only leads themselves astray, but encourages a great multitude of others into great personal folly.

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00:00:00.000 The worst sort of hypocrite is the man who chooses his beliefs for the sake of personal convenience. 1.00
00:00:12.000 Imagine the coward that suddenly finds reason to be against the current war. 0.99
00:00:21.000 Imagine the church boy that demands his wife obey him out of piousness, but utterly lacks the virility to truly lead her or satisfy her in the manner of a husband.
00:00:37.000 Imagine the man who hates his mother, and thus insists that women by their very nature are untrustworthy.
00:00:50.000 See, the normal hypocrite espouses a standard that they themselves fail to live up to, but it is nonetheless a standard which is admirable in and of itself. 0.98
00:01:07.000 The hypocrite who chooses their beliefs to bolster and bulwark their own weaknesses not only leads themselves astray, but encourages a great multitude of others into great personal folly. 0.95
00:01:28.000 Now, this is my first video where I'm going to be analyzing the recent debate, conversation, dumpster fire between Sticks, Hex, and Hammer, Sargon Picard, and Richard Spencer. 0.93
00:01:47.000 Now, in that debate, you had three men advocating three different positions.
00:01:53.000 One of them was advocating the point that our biggest problem in the present-day world is the sheer massive growth of government,
00:02:02.000 and that nothing can get accomplished, and that nothing can get accomplished because every which way you turn,
00:02:06.000 there's a regulator and a lobbyist and a bylaw preventing you from getting stuff done.
00:02:15.000 Another of them was advocating that what matters the most is personal liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of property, freedom of conscience,
00:02:27.000 that this is what makes Western civilization great.
00:02:32.000 The third of them was arguing that what matters is identity, culture, understanding who we are so we can understand where we're going.
00:02:47.000 And if you just look at the debate as those three points, you might walk away saying,
00:02:53.000 well, they're all right. Why are they even arguing? We need every single one of those things if we have any hope of surviving into the future.
00:03:05.000 But see, that's not what the conversation was about.
00:03:08.000 Because of those three men, one of them, I believe, came to his beliefs through a process of analysis, of logic, of rationality,
00:03:22.000 and even self-criticism.
00:03:27.000 The other two arrived at their beliefs for the sake of convenience.
00:03:34.000 Now, in this video, I'm going to be talking about Sargon of Akkad.
00:03:38.000 I'm going to be talking about why, regardless of what he espouses, it's not who he is. 0.76
00:03:45.000 And who he is, is deeply hypocritical, is deeply fallacious, and if you follow him, it's going to lead you on the path to ruin. 0.61
00:03:59.000 Now, the debate itself, in my opinion, is not worth listening to. 0.96
00:04:04.000 It's four hours long, and if you cut out all the parts where people were speaking over one another,
00:04:10.000 or just making grandiose, meaningless statements, you would divide it by a half, if not a quarter.
00:04:18.000 But it is very telling, in that if you pay attention to what's being said,
00:04:22.000 it tells you a lot about the characters of the men involved.
00:04:27.000 The first hour of the debate involved Sargon of Akkad demanding that Richard Spencer give a specific definition of what race is,
00:04:39.000 defining what the white race is in particular.
00:04:43.000 Which is absurd. It's absurd of saying, where is the line between the forest over here and the plains over there?
00:04:54.000 Where is the line, specifically?
00:04:58.000 Where is the gene, as Crowden T might say?
00:05:02.000 The thing is that race is an idea that gets blurry at the edges, the same way with color.
00:05:07.000 Color gets blurry at the edges, and yet we still have red and we still have blue.
00:05:12.000 We have the forest, and we have the plains.
00:05:15.000 Where specifically you draw the line on the map is something that can be debated,
00:05:19.000 and there might be very interesting conversations there.
00:05:22.000 But it certainly doesn't mean that forests and plains don't exist.
00:05:28.000 Now here's the thing.
00:05:31.000 Sargon knows race exists.
00:05:35.000 He has admitted on many occasions that race exists.
00:05:39.000 He knows it.
00:05:41.000 His objection to Richard Spencer was not that Richard Spencer was positing some imaginary quality.
00:05:48.000 His problem came out during the second hour of the debate,
00:05:54.000 when he said,
00:05:56.000 as soon as you provide a descriptive,
00:06:00.000 it becomes a prescriptive.
00:06:03.000 Now, Richard Spencer brushed this aside, which is disingenuous on his part.
00:06:14.000 But we're not talking about him.
00:06:15.000 We're talking about Sargon right now.
00:06:18.000 Sargon knows that race exists.
00:06:22.000 And yet he objects to it being described,
00:06:25.000 because once it is described, it will become prescribed.
00:06:32.000 You see, my father once said to me,
00:06:34.000 Irenis have a strong sense of justice.
00:06:39.000 He said this in response to something I said,
00:06:44.000 describing a very strong point on a matter of justice.
00:06:49.000 And you see, this description of the Irenis as valuing justice became prescriptive for me.
00:06:59.000 That justice is something I should value if I'm going to be a true Ireni.
00:07:04.000 This doesn't just happen with race, of course, or family.
00:07:10.000 The Army is full of tough guys.
00:07:12.000 The Navy is full of disciplined gentlemen.
00:07:16.000 And the Air Force is full of cool guys.
00:07:19.000 Every single one of those descriptions immediately becomes prescriptive.
00:07:24.000 If you're the Army, then you'd better be tough.
00:07:29.000 If you're in the Air Force, I guess you'd better get some aviators.
00:07:31.000 If you're an Ireni, you'd better have a strong sense of justice. 1.00
00:07:35.000 And you'd better not balk from it.
00:07:39.000 And this goes with races as well.
00:07:43.000 Italians are expected to be good lovers.
00:07:45.000 And the French are supposed to be good at baking. 1.00
00:07:48.000 Blacks are supposed to have rhythm. 1.00
00:07:51.000 Asians are hard workers. 0.98
00:07:54.000 Et cetera ad nauseam.
00:08:01.000 Now, of course, you can have positive or negative descriptions for every race.
00:08:08.000 But again, that was not Carl Benjamin's objection.
00:08:13.000 It was not that some races lack positive definitions.
00:08:18.000 Because if that is a problem, then maybe we should find some positive definitions.
00:08:23.000 Something to live up to.
00:08:24.000 No, no, that's not his complaint at all.
00:08:29.000 His complaint was having a prescription in the first place.
00:08:38.000 Who is Carl Benjamin?
00:08:41.000 Who is the Sargon of Akkad that proclaims that 18th century Germany was not part of Western civilization?
00:08:52.000 Because Western civilization is nothing but classical liberalism.
00:08:57.000 Who is this man that so celebrates the freedom of the individual?
00:09:01.000 Well, Mr. Benjamin is the grandson of a black man. 0.65
00:09:15.000 Which is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
00:09:19.000 There is a great deal of pride to be found in your heritage, whatever it might be. 0.95
00:09:23.000 But he is the grandson of a black man.
00:09:30.000 And even though you would mistake him for being completely British, or at least mostly, 0.53
00:09:36.000 in his own mind, he is always that outsider.
00:09:42.000 His grandmother is not a woman that fell in love with a man of another race. 0.94
00:09:46.000 His mother, his grandmother, is a mud shark. 0.59
00:09:54.000 Carl Benjamin is a man who married a woman with two women from a previous marriage.
00:10:03.000 My wife's sons.
00:10:06.000 And thus far, he has no children that I know of with his wife.
00:10:10.000 He is a man who once said,
00:10:15.000 He is too good to show up on time and punch the clock in the morning.
00:10:20.000 He'd rather live on welfare.
00:10:26.000 Carl Benjamin is a man that demands personal freedom.
00:10:31.000 Because freedom means no accountability.
00:10:35.000 The science fiction author, John C. Wright, once commented that libertarianism works great for Christian bachelors during peacetime.
00:10:53.000 You take away any one of those elements, and libertarianism begins to fall apart.
00:10:59.000 Christian.
00:11:02.000 Because libertarianism only works for societies that embrace Christian principles.
00:11:09.000 The golden rule.
00:11:11.000 That if you don't have your own accountability,
00:11:14.000 if you are not accountable to yourself and God,
00:11:17.000 then libertarianism lets you get away with running for EX scams.
00:11:21.000 And we have seen this in Western civilization.
00:11:24.000 As the moral character declines, we move further and further away from a libertarian society.
00:11:30.000 Bachelors.
00:11:32.000 Because it's one thing to say,
00:11:34.000 I have the freedom to do whatever I want, and I don't care what my neighbor does.
00:11:38.000 It's another thing when you're raising children.
00:11:40.000 Because all of a sudden, you don't have freedom.
00:11:43.000 And what your neighbor is doing suddenly does concern you quite a bit.
00:11:51.000 And finally, peacetime.
00:11:54.000 Because in peacetime, we need to make hard decisions.
00:11:57.000 We might need to abandon a bit of territory, and that territory might include your house.
00:12:04.000 And if you don't go along with the plan, your house will be a useful means of egress for the enemy to attack the rest of us.
00:12:13.000 Sacrifices must be made.
00:12:15.000 There must be this community spirit.
00:12:19.000 This is why, incidentally, every society that the anarcho-capitalists look to bring up,
00:12:26.000 every example of, look at this free society in history,
00:12:30.000 every single one of them fell.
00:12:33.000 Because although a good society full of Christians and bachelors during peacetime looks very libertarian, 0.99
00:12:45.000 you need a bit more than personal freedom.
00:12:47.000 But see, here's the really damning thing about Sargon Akkad.
00:12:54.000 It's that he's not truly a libertarian.
00:13:00.000 He finds it convenient to be a libertarian in a socialist society.
00:13:05.000 In a society which won't force him to work for a living.
00:13:14.000 In a society that won't force him to keep his word, otherwise he becomes a pariah.
00:13:21.000 In a society full of the depths of corruption which we have today,
00:13:28.000 it is very convenient for Carl Benjamin to be a libertarian.
00:13:34.000 Because nobody will ever call him on it.
00:13:39.000 But in his heart of hearts, he knows what he is. 1.00
00:13:45.000 He is a weakling and a coward and a layabout. 1.00
00:13:52.000 He is deracinated. 1.00
00:13:54.000 He feels no pride in being British.
00:13:56.000 He denounces the whole conception of the British people having pride.
00:14:02.000 Because in his mind, he is still the product of a mud shark.
00:14:11.000 He has no responsibility to bring children of his own into the world.
00:14:17.000 Or to serve as a good example for your children.
00:14:20.000 He is an atomized individual.
00:14:23.000 And you can't hold the atomized individual responsible.
00:14:28.000 And if being atomized individuals means that in 200 years,
00:14:36.000 that the descendants of the great men that built Western civilization,
00:14:41.000 if the descendants are completely marginalized,
00:14:44.000 if the descendants have gone extinct, 0.96
00:14:45.000 and they've been replaced with the jibber-jabberings of the most ignorant and prolific rabbits from the third world, 0.96
00:14:56.000 if the Sistine Chapel gets turned into a brothel in 200 years, 0.98
00:15:02.000 it doesn't matter because Carl Benjamin will be dead.
00:15:05.000 The last thing he wants to hear is that he has some responsibility.
00:15:14.000 The last thing he wants to hear is that he has been weak.
00:15:18.000 That he has made mistakes.
00:15:19.000 That he has been slothful.
00:15:22.000 And he needs to get his act together.
00:15:24.000 We all need to get our act together.
00:15:27.000 When you follow Sargon of Akkad, 1.00
00:15:38.000 he posts a video telling you that feminists are stupid. 1.00
00:15:43.000 But you knew this already. 1.00
00:15:45.000 You didn't gain anything from this video, 1.00
00:15:50.000 learning that feminists are stupid, 1.00
00:15:52.000 they have stupid performance art, 1.00
00:15:54.000 that the left is dumb and hypocritical. 1.00
00:15:56.000 You know all of this already. 1.00
00:15:58.000 What did you accomplish by watching this video,
00:16:03.000 by following all of this?
00:16:05.000 What did you gain?
00:16:09.000 What you gained was narcissistic supply.
00:16:12.000 What you gained was a pat on the back,
00:16:16.000 telling you that you are smart,
00:16:19.000 and so you don't have to do anything because of these feminists. 1.00
00:16:24.000 You can just keep advocating for more freedom
00:16:28.000 and more liberty without responsibility.
00:16:31.000 Which is how we got into this mess in the first place.
00:16:35.000 You know, Jordan B. Peterson, if he were to grace me with his company,
00:16:44.000 might point out that the sort of freedom that Sargon of Akkad promotes,
00:16:50.000 the sort of classical liberalism which he advocates for,
00:16:54.000 is that which we see in Pinocchio on Pleasure Island,
00:16:58.000 where the boys are allowed to play pool and smoke cigars
00:17:03.000 and drink beer until all hours of the morning, 0.99
00:17:07.000 as one by one they're turned into jackasses 0.97
00:17:10.000 to be put into boxes and carted away. 0.99
00:17:15.000 That is the freedom.
00:17:17.000 That is the folly which Sargon of Akkad is selling you.
00:17:21.000 The reason he hates the alt-right is not for their vices,
00:17:31.000 of which there are many.
00:17:33.000 The reason he hates the alt-right,
00:17:36.000 and for that matter the feminists, 1.00
00:17:38.000 is for their virtues. 0.92
00:17:40.000 Sargon wants to lead you down a path of folly,
00:17:51.000 because, well, they can't send all of us to hell, can they?
00:17:58.000 Trust me, they can.
00:18:00.000 Deus volc, folks!
00:18:06.000 Next time, 1.00
00:18:08.000 it'll be time for me to shit on the alt-right. 0.99
00:18:11.000 This is, 0.99
00:18:14.000 Burini, out.