RadixJournal - September 14, 2020


Les Prédateurs


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

175.83247

Word Count

8,769

Sentence Count

487

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

45


Summary

This week, the internet was set afire with outrage over Netflix's latest release, an award-winning French drama about young girls simply entitled Cuties, Mignon. It struck a nerve and was the latest example of the yawning gulf between people who watch movies and the obnoxious poseurs who write about them. Is this film little more than child pornography, en masquerade? Is it encouraging or normalizing the sexualization of young girls? Or are we overreacting to what is simply a French art house outrage? By using so many French words, am I, in fact, making it worse?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 It's Sunday, September 13th, 2020, and welcome back to The McSpencer Group, America's most
00:00:07.680 procrastinating podcast.
00:00:10.280 Ed Dutton is on hand for our long-awaited return.
00:00:14.000 Main topic, Les Prédateurs.
00:00:17.360 This week, the internet was set aflame with outrage over Netflix's latest release, an
00:00:22.720 award-winning French drama about young girls simply entitled Cuties, Mignon.
00:00:28.160 It struck a nerve and was the latest example of the yawning gulf between people who watch
00:00:33.960 movies and the obnoxious poseurs who write about them.
00:00:38.200 Is this film little more than child pornography, en masquerade?
00:00:42.720 Is it encouraging or normalizing the sexualization of young girls?
00:00:47.500 Or are we overreacting to what is simply a French art house outrage?
00:00:52.500 By using so many French words, am I, in fact, making it worse?
00:00:56.620 Ed and I discuss the reaction to the film and how we can better understand pedophilia
00:01:02.140 and its place in contemporary culture.
00:01:04.940 Ed, welcome back.
00:01:06.240 It's been a little while.
00:01:07.180 How are you?
00:01:09.080 I'm okay, yes.
00:01:10.360 I've just been swimming with the family to this spa where there was a wave machine, which
00:01:17.760 was very pleasant.
00:01:18.460 And because of, I guess, because of fears over Corona or whatever, there was hardly anybody
00:01:23.200 there.
00:01:24.300 So there was no competition for the sponge floats and whatever.
00:01:29.720 So it went very well.
00:01:31.940 That sounds very wholesome.
00:01:34.020 We are going to talk about something that is entirely anti-wholesome today.
00:01:41.180 Um, we'll talk about the, uh, the, this outrage over the cuties film on Netflix.
00:01:47.780 And then I, I think we'll be able to expand off into a lot of subjects that are, you know,
00:01:55.500 a bit discomforting and, uh, tricky to say the least, maybe a little disgusting, but, um,
00:02:02.180 I think they should be talked about and they need to be talked about in a adult forum like
00:02:06.460 this.
00:02:06.800 Um, so let's start with cuties because it's always good to start with something that is
00:02:12.840 immediately accessible to everyone.
00:02:14.840 I presume that everyone who is watching this or listening to this has, um, heard about the
00:02:22.280 outrage, at least over cuties.
00:02:24.080 Um, I have not seen the film.
00:02:25.920 I canceled Netflix.
00:02:27.820 I, I mean, I, I kind of get the idea of consumer boycotts are pointless.
00:02:33.600 And, um, this is just one more thing.
00:02:37.760 Uh, why am I canceling Netflix over this and not that, but, uh, nevertheless, this was a
00:02:44.000 bit too egregious.
00:02:45.940 Um, but, uh, this has been addressed by Congress.
00:02:50.020 Uh, there is, there are motions at least to, um, investigate this in some fashion.
00:02:56.160 I don't know what that will eventuate in.
00:02:58.460 Uh, this has been denounced by major figures, uh, Tulsi Gabbard, um, one of my favorite politicians.
00:03:04.900 She came out pretty hard, uh, on this subject.
00:03:07.820 It's been denounced by a lot of liberals, uh, as well, but it certainly evoked, uh, a great
00:03:13.180 deal of conservative outrage and tons of, you know, alt-right, dissonant right, uh, outrage
00:03:18.980 and so on.
00:03:19.620 I have not seen the film.
00:03:20.740 I feel a little bit bad talking about a film that I haven't seen.
00:03:23.820 It seems a bit dishonest, but I really don't want to see it.
00:03:27.000 And of course I have canceled Netflix, but I've read a few reviews and, uh, I would say
00:03:32.720 that I, I do think the film is a little more ambiguous than it's been made out to be.
00:03:39.140 I will grant it that.
00:03:40.960 Um, but nevertheless, the, the phenomenon, uh, persist.
00:03:46.600 Uh, so this all started, um, it wasn't really the film because there are some films that
00:03:52.700 take on difficult subject matter that you can get on Netflix or Amazon or iTunes or what
00:03:59.280 all these streaming services that are often lower budget films that take on, uh, difficult
00:04:04.740 subjects.
00:04:05.220 I remember seeing a, um, a trailer for a film called white girl, which was kind of about
00:04:10.540 coming of sad coming of age of lower class woman who was, you know, doing drugs and having
00:04:18.000 sex at a young age and so on.
00:04:20.260 The, the, the, the film, I mean, it was depicting it, representing it, but it was, um, seemed to
00:04:27.160 have a kind of sad quality to it.
00:04:29.480 I think the problem with cuties was right away.
00:04:33.080 Netflix was advertising this as a underage strip show.
00:04:39.320 I mean, I don't, I don't think that's wrong to say.
00:04:42.380 The initial poster, uh, was, uh, of these girls, uh, glammed out, uh, the poster did not
00:04:50.800 convey any nuance whatsoever.
00:04:53.840 It was basically, uh, preteen girls, um, acting like, uh, dancing queens at best, I guess, and
00:05:03.120 strippers at worst, maybe even, even worse than that as, as human trafficked, uh, prostitutes.
00:05:08.400 Um, and this generated outrage, Netflix apologized.
00:05:12.960 And I think the line that I've seen is that this was a botched poster or something as if
00:05:17.480 they, you know, uh, made a mistake or something.
00:05:21.300 I, I think it was quite deliberate what they were doing.
00:05:24.280 Um, and the, uh, the, the subsequent posters have been a little more tame.
00:05:30.260 Uh, but I mean, this movie is more nuanced from what I've read than that poster would imply.
00:05:38.400 As probably most all movies are.
00:05:41.260 Um, and it, it's actually about a Senegalese girl and, um, she's, you know, going through
00:05:47.640 the issues of life and having family trauma and so on.
00:05:51.580 Uh, but I also don't think it's wrong that this film is in the, you know, the, the, the
00:05:59.120 poster and the thumbnail of the film is meant to titillate.
00:06:04.240 And it's meant to get you excited about this.
00:06:08.360 You're, you don't click on it or walk into the movie theater for the, for the nuance.
00:06:13.180 You click on it and go to the movies for the titillation and sensation.
00:06:19.000 And, uh, I think that is clearly what was going on.
00:06:22.340 And even if there are more nuances, I, I, there's no question that, I mean, it's a French film.
00:06:29.100 It's French.
00:06:30.200 So this, the, the, the, the, in general, my experience of French films is that compared
00:06:35.180 to American films or British films, you know, they're inherently deep.
00:06:38.020 I mean, the, the, the French are people who can make penguins wandering around on the
00:06:43.960 ice doing penguin stuff, a profound emotional experience.
00:06:49.980 And so that's, yeah.
00:06:51.840 I think the version that I got was the original version where it's French.
00:06:57.760 It's much more profound if it's narrated in French than it's narrated by Morgan Freeman.
00:07:02.300 So I think there could be an element of sort of cultural misunderstanding there.
00:07:06.740 And also perhaps attitudes towards the sexualization of children and things like this are rather
00:07:11.700 more, uh, liberal, um, in, in, in French sort of art house drama.
00:07:16.760 Uh, if you look at other posters that they've done for this film, remember it's a Senegalese
00:07:20.540 girl, Muslim girl, and she's torn between the hyper-sexualized, uh, tween age, I suppose
00:07:27.980 you'd say, or whatever, early teenage world of her very poor Parisian friends.
00:07:33.600 Um, and the Islamic world, uh, of, of her background.
00:07:38.100 And, uh, in the end, she makes a choice to go with neither.
00:07:42.280 And, um, the, I'm sorry if I've spoiled the plot for anybody.
00:07:45.660 Uh, but that was the, what they tried to argue was that this was, uh, a critique almost.
00:07:52.080 This was a presentation of reality that the reality is that the culture is hyper-sexualizing
00:07:57.300 these, these, uh, uh, teenage girls.
00:07:59.860 I agree with that.
00:08:00.880 Um, that they are hyper-sexualizing themselves and they dress like, uh, we have this phrase
00:08:07.220 in Finland, piku horat, little whores.
00:08:10.040 And, um, they, they, they, they, they, they, they dress rather like that.
00:08:13.400 So there's highly sexualized and they've got all these sexual influences.
00:08:16.300 But on the other hand, I agree.
00:08:18.000 And there are other posters, uh, which they put up where it's these girls in normal clothes
00:08:22.880 and the sort of Parisian background and whatever.
00:08:24.820 But it seems to me, um, not too much of a stretch to think to oneself that while it
00:08:31.220 is, um, presenting that reality and it is a reality, uh, of the sexualized nature of
00:08:37.740 these teenage girls, particularly in working class districts of Paris or whatever, um, uh,
00:08:43.460 and the fact that the Muslims are going to come into contact with them and therefore it's
00:08:46.440 going to put them in an extreme sort of dissonance about how they should behave.
00:08:49.680 You are rather contributing to it if you do a poster of girls who are whatever they
00:08:56.280 are, 15, 14 years old, how old are they supposed to be?
00:08:59.560 Um, you know, looking sexy and having the sexy, sexy looks on their faces.
00:09:03.820 Um, you, you are contributing to that.
00:09:06.340 You're contributing to the very culture that you're claiming to attempt to artfully, um,
00:09:12.880 present and, uh, critique.
00:09:15.100 So I find it hard to believe that they didn't realize that, you know, we've got to get publicity
00:09:20.380 for our film.
00:09:21.280 Oh, good God, this is going to work, isn't it?
00:09:23.260 Think of all the people that are going to watch this film simply because of the furore that
00:09:27.300 has been put by this.
00:09:27.960 Yeah.
00:09:28.020 I mean, for the amount of subscribers they've lost, uh, they might very well have gained
00:09:33.960 many.
00:09:34.460 And the other aspect is that there's this, you know, there, there is a kind of a certain
00:09:40.440 kind of snobbery of, uh, upper middle-class people that, that are probably subscribed
00:09:46.860 to HBO and things like that and not just Netflix, but that, oh, I can watch this.
00:09:51.880 I can appreciate this, you know, sensation, uh, in, in a way that those, you know, uh, dumb
00:09:59.220 Christians can't.
00:10:01.360 And, uh, I think they're playing on that.
00:10:03.120 They're almost getting, getting a certain cachet.
00:10:05.580 I'm, I, I, I, they see themselves wrongly because we have research on what left-wing people
00:10:09.940 the like, and they feel the sense of moral disgust, uh, uh, with regard to those that
00:10:14.160 are different from them politically, uh, a lot more strongly than right-wing people
00:10:17.900 do.
00:10:18.200 And they feel this sense of equality very intensely and they have less emotional control,
00:10:22.380 uh, uh, than, than, uh, conservatives, but they can sort of think to themselves, yeah,
00:10:27.080 I'm, I'm above my instincts.
00:10:29.400 People have these instincts to these, these lower class people that vote for Brexit and
00:10:34.280 Trump and Marine Le Pen and whatever.
00:10:36.300 They, they, they have these base instincts to just judge this film and judge this poster
00:10:41.000 and be disgusted by it.
00:10:42.180 But I, I can see the art in this.
00:10:44.900 I can see the depth in this.
00:10:46.840 Um, we've had extreme examples of, I mean, if you, if you look at modern art, a lot of
00:10:51.380 modern art is the ultimate example of the emperor has no clothes kind of thing.
00:10:55.200 Uh, even if you go back 20 years in Britain, you had the Turner prize, which was the leading
00:10:59.940 art prize.
00:11:00.640 And it was things like Tracy Emin's unmade bed, uh, or, or it was, it was, it was, uh,
00:11:06.580 just some rubbish strewn on the floor.
00:11:08.640 I think there's another level to it.
00:11:10.500 I think it's the, I'm above my instincts and through effort for effort, full control.
00:11:15.040 I can watch this, but, uh, I, I think there's a, there's another aspect to it, which is that
00:11:20.020 if you look at white liberals in the, their lifestyle, uh, they're living in the suburbs,
00:11:28.460 they are in some cases living in urban environments.
00:11:32.220 Um, but they, uh, and, and you can certainly find them in rural environments as well, but
00:11:37.660 less so, but they are living a kind of wasp existence.
00:11:42.080 And they, you know, I think we, sometimes conservatives will, you know, allow social
00:11:48.800 media to, to inflect how they view them.
00:11:51.560 And they think that every white person voting for Biden has blue hair and is yelling at people
00:11:57.140 and screaming or protesting and throwing Molotov cocktails.
00:12:00.280 Uh, the fact is what, you're like, that's true.
00:12:04.240 No.
00:12:04.840 Um, if you actually go to these white liberal communities, they are pretty waspy.
00:12:12.380 And I think there's this almost, uh, there, there's a certain kind of pity that you look
00:12:19.200 down, you know, your pity allows you to achieve a certain degree of power.
00:12:24.000 You, you are looking down on someone and kind of thinking, well, this isn't happening to my
00:12:28.840 daughter.
00:12:29.600 And, uh, this is kind of a problem among the lower classes.
00:12:33.580 I, I was reminded of, um, something that was, uh, a kind of phenomenon from, uh, about 10
00:12:39.380 years ago or so.
00:12:40.260 And it was, uh, coincided when I was at Duke university.
00:12:44.540 So I guess it's about 15 years ago now.
00:12:46.900 Um, but there was this, uh, book that was out on hookup culture and it, they actually went
00:12:54.620 to Duke university as, you know, one of these, you know, kind of high flying places where you'll
00:12:59.700 get a job in finance afterward.
00:13:01.060 And they were talking to girls about hookup culture and what the book revealed was that
00:13:09.120 there was almost the, this cold, almost sociopathic, uh, response to what's the matter at.
00:13:17.860 No, no.
00:13:18.460 I'm just looking in more detail that, that, um, that picture.
00:13:22.640 Okay.
00:13:23.220 Uh, the cause of all the controversy.
00:13:25.120 Okay.
00:13:26.180 And if you, um, anyway, sorry, carry on.
00:13:29.060 Okay.
00:13:29.980 Uh, so there was this book on hookup culture and what it depicted was this cold, almost
00:13:37.160 sociopathic relation to sex where these girls would, you know, uh, go give a blow job, get
00:13:45.420 a little something for themselves and then kick the guy out of their dorm room, uh, at, you
00:13:51.160 know, midnight and maybe never see him again.
00:13:53.460 And it was almost this kind of like consumerist aspect to sex or it was fun.
00:13:57.960 There was actually another controversy about a year later, which was the, this girl, the
00:14:02.220 sorority was, did a PowerPoint presentation on her fuck list and was just kind of coldly
00:14:09.460 documenting what she's done and how she's risen in status.
00:14:13.380 And so it was pretty shocking just in the level of sociopathy, you could say.
00:14:18.960 Uh, but what this book, um, actually was kind of concluded was that you would have these
00:14:25.800 upper middle-class white liberals who would go to Duke that could act like this and in
00:14:31.380 a way get away with it and maybe end up married and what have you, or end up with a career.
00:14:36.380 Uh, but these same trends occurring among lower classes ended up in, uh, broken families, lots
00:14:46.220 of unplanned pregnancy, abortion, uh, drug use, and so on.
00:14:51.720 Well, I guess it's the difference between operating that strategy and not being particularly intelligent
00:14:57.340 and not having access to resources.
00:14:59.340 Um, and operating that strategy because you plan to operate it because you're coldly psychopathic
00:15:07.140 and highly intelligent and you realize you can make money out of it and you can sort of
00:15:11.060 drop it whenever you want to, and you have access to resources and the contacts to not
00:15:15.740 be, to not have to do so.
00:15:17.440 And so there's something, there's something rather different about a person who, um, you
00:15:22.420 know, has an illegitimate child because they, they're liberal and they think that marriage
00:15:27.160 is an increasingly irrelevant social construct and they don't think they need to get married
00:15:31.100 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:32.320 And they live in, I don't know, in some nice part of North London and have an illegitimate
00:15:36.580 child and whatever, that's fine.
00:15:37.880 But if a, if a person does it, uh, accidentally because out of a drunken drug fuel, you know,
00:15:43.880 gang bang, you know, then, then, then, then that's the same thing, but it's not, it's less
00:15:48.400 of a problem.
00:15:49.620 It's more of a problem.
00:15:50.240 And white liberals aren't doing what you describe.
00:15:52.980 I mean, in, in the sense of family formation and so on, this is the coming apart.
00:15:57.160 Thesis of Charles Murray, where all of these obnoxious, uh, upper bourgeois, uh, whites
00:16:03.920 actually are forming families and sending their children to private schools and so on.
00:16:09.720 And it's actually the lower classes that are, are kind of losing, uh, this, you know, supposed
00:16:16.460 conservatism, which they might actually admire more than the upper classes.
00:16:20.580 They're, they're just a lot of ironies, uh, going on, but I think there's the, it's always
00:16:25.120 the irony with the woke, the woking, the woking classes, as I call them, the working classes
00:16:29.920 as opposed to the working classes that they are, um, it's like Christians as well in the
00:16:34.620 early church.
00:16:35.280 They, they, they, they signal humility as a means of further entrenching their wealth
00:16:40.220 and further in further entrenching their, their social status and further entrenching their
00:16:44.980 lack of humility, really by signaling their humility or signaling their, uh, you know, their
00:16:50.960 their adherence to this woke culture.
00:16:53.020 And so now you do it by signaling your, rather than in the old days, you'd signal your religiousness,
00:16:57.180 your traditional values in Victorian England or whatever.
00:16:59.940 Now, of course, you signal your abhorrence of that.
00:17:02.580 You signal the degree to which you are the opposite of that.
00:17:05.240 The degree to which, you know, I don't need to get married.
00:17:07.220 I'm perfectly happy to have an illegitimate child, uh, illegitimate children or whatever.
00:17:10.840 I'm, um, perfectly happy to swear.
00:17:12.920 I'm perfectly happy to do, I'm perfectly happy with immigration.
00:17:15.520 I'm perfectly happy with sexuality.
00:17:18.040 If I get pregnant and the child has Down syndrome, I'll keep it as a way of signaling my morality
00:17:22.820 and my, you know, how, how kind of in touch I am.
00:17:25.740 And so, and it's only these working class people that would get pregnant with a Down syndrome
00:17:29.260 child and abort it.
00:17:30.780 So it's a side of my wealth that I would keep it.
00:17:33.160 And, um, and, and then you, you just get this signaling in the opposite direction.
00:17:36.860 I'm signaling my humility in all of these ways.
00:17:39.760 But in reality, of course, it helps me to cement my status.
00:17:42.680 And so you have this irony, but it's those very people that will send their kids to private
00:17:46.760 schools, or if it is to state schools, it will be what you call in America, public schools.
00:17:50.940 It will be to public schools in the nicest possible area, you know, the nicest catchment
00:17:55.840 area.
00:17:56.360 So they can then signal their virtue by saying, oh, well, no, I haven't sent my kids to private
00:18:00.120 school.
00:18:00.600 No, no.
00:18:01.300 Oh, no, no.
00:18:01.780 I'm not.
00:18:02.120 But, but, but look, public school, but of course it's a public school in some wonderful
00:18:05.680 area like that.
00:18:08.040 There's not a huge difference between public and private, but, but also it, it, this seems
00:18:12.660 to come to a degree from a meritocratic society, an individualist society where in other,
00:18:19.420 and I don't think I'm being entirely nostalgic and saying this in other times, the upper classes
00:18:24.940 felt like they are a guardian class of the lower orders and they would have a realistic
00:18:30.760 assessment of the lower orders, but they would seek to take care of them in America where
00:18:36.740 you can be whatever you want to be.
00:18:39.260 And it's supposedly meritocratic and individualist, and it's all about accumulating wealth or so
00:18:45.360 on.
00:18:45.660 Then it's just kind of like, well, uh, screw them.
00:18:48.260 They aren't clever enough to be, to achieve my type of lifestyle.
00:18:53.020 And you can, again, have pity for them in the sense that you are looking down on them.
00:18:57.800 Uh, didn't you have that paternalism in the South to some extent?
00:19:03.280 Uh, yeah.
00:19:04.800 I mean, are you talking about like the old South or?
00:19:07.000 Yeah, the out-to-belling South.
00:19:08.440 You have that kind of paternalistic attitude.
00:19:10.520 Of course.
00:19:11.140 I mean, the, the dominant, you know, as, as, uh, the role Jordan role book shows the Junovese
00:19:16.800 Day book, the, the dominant emotion between slave owner and slave was love.
00:19:21.980 In fact, it was a, a paternalistic, uh, love that they are, they, they aren't doing this
00:19:27.900 just as an economic system, that this is actually a moral system.
00:19:31.180 Some even Yankees picked up on that.
00:19:33.300 Yeah.
00:19:33.480 I mean, in England, they were certainly at the public schools.
00:19:36.380 They were very, what we call public schools, these prestigious boarding schools and the prep
00:19:40.280 schools.
00:19:40.820 They were heavily inculcated with this noblesse oblige kind of Spartan lifestyle.
00:19:44.900 In fact, they would, they were deliberately and willfully modeled on the teachings of
00:19:49.820 Plato and, and Plato argued that the, the aristocracy should never know their parents
00:19:54.400 kind of thing, uh, that the, the, the bond with the parents should be broken such that
00:19:58.200 the, the, the no, the nobles are there to, um, to look after society and to act in the
00:20:03.620 best interests of society and to fight for society and to, to look after the lower orders.
00:20:08.060 And that's, that's, that's the quid pro quo they pay for their privilege.
00:20:11.540 And therefore, as part of their privilege, they must be inculcated with
00:20:14.840 these group selected values through a sort of system of, of, uh, of, of kindly meant
00:20:20.760 structured violence, basically.
00:20:22.680 Uh, and that was, that was kind of what the, the, the system did.
00:20:25.540 And those were the kinds of people until really quite recently.
00:20:27.820 I mean, as recently as the late, uh, early eighties, the foreign secretary in England.
00:20:32.240 So the second or third most powerful man in, in England was a hereditary peer.
00:20:36.500 He'd never been a member of parliament.
00:20:37.640 He was a hereditary peer, nor character.
00:20:39.060 And you had various other people, William Whitelaw, who was Mrs. Thatcher's home secretary,
00:20:42.980 uh, lots and lots of others that were gentry, that were part of this upper class tradition.
00:20:47.200 And it's only with new labor that that really falls apart.
00:20:50.500 And you just get, as you say, these upper middle class people that haven't been to public school.
00:20:54.780 They've been to a lot of them to private, to stay private schools or state schools.
00:20:58.360 And they, as far as they're concerned, they have much more kind of Mrs. Thatcher's kind
00:21:01.300 of attitude, I suppose, really without the gentry to hold her back, which is that you should
00:21:05.120 work hard and get to the top.
00:21:06.320 And everyone can do that.
00:21:07.340 If you don't do it, you're lazy.
00:21:09.440 And so you kind of, you, you, which is insane because the, the genetics of, of these traits,
00:21:15.100 such as intelligence and personality that predict getting to the top are very high.
00:21:19.100 Right.
00:21:19.540 And so 0.8 for intelligence, 0.5 was more for personality.
00:21:23.680 So you can see how this, uh, would, uh, would happen.
00:21:26.600 Um, and then you would, of course, as Charles Murray argues in, uh, the bell curve, uh, you,
00:21:31.620 you get this increasing social stratification because of meritocracy, whereby,
00:21:36.320 why people increasingly just don't know or have anything to do with people of lower social
00:21:40.620 classes, let alone regard them as people they should look after or care about.
00:21:45.040 Right.
00:21:45.480 Um, and so, and so you get this, um, increasing polarization.
00:21:50.000 Though I do think.
00:21:50.820 Well, I'm just going to mention that many people in our movement will say things like, well,
00:21:55.260 race, uh, when we deconstructed race, that began the downfall of Western civilization and so on.
00:22:01.300 Uh, I mean, and, and, and if we can just get real about race, that this will be the upfall
00:22:06.960 of, uh, Western civilization, I would, um, interject that it was class deconstruction that
00:22:14.140 started it all.
00:22:15.080 And I don't think that we can save Europe writ large, uh, without a kind of class reconstruction.
00:22:24.280 And I don't mean that in the sense of, you know, oh, wealth inequality is great and we
00:22:29.680 should have these billionaires.
00:22:30.760 Um, but there, there, there needs to be a paternalistic guardian class in any type of
00:22:38.240 society that can deal with these things realistically.
00:22:41.840 And these meritocratic sociopathic elites are just as much of a problem.
00:22:49.180 I think, I think a lot more of the problem, uh, than say, you know, illegal immigrants or
00:22:55.000 something.
00:22:55.960 Um, so just to add that in there.
00:22:59.480 So John Glove argued in his book on the decline of civilizations, he noticed that always during
00:23:04.740 the early winter of civilization, as the civilization starts to be noticeably in decline and becomes
00:23:09.140 polarized and whatever, you always get the same process.
00:23:12.320 You always get them because of the collapse of religiousness and the collapse of patriarchy.
00:23:16.020 You always get the rise of women.
00:23:17.540 You always get immigration because people don't have believe in a God anymore that sees them
00:23:21.360 as special.
00:23:21.900 And so they let foreigners in.
00:23:22.940 And also you always get everything being about money and nothing higher than money because,
00:23:29.020 because for these kinds of whores that you were talking about, that recount the number
00:23:32.100 of blowjobs they give or whatever, there, there, there, there, there is nothing for them
00:23:35.660 higher than they have no dignity.
00:23:36.920 They have no self-respect.
00:23:37.960 They have no higher values.
00:23:39.280 They have no transcendental values that say that certain things are just appalling and
00:23:43.100 beyond the pale for, for like eternal, eternal.
00:23:45.840 Right.
00:23:45.940 They do have self-respect.
00:23:47.500 I would say that they actually respect themselves quite a bit.
00:23:51.380 Oh, in a narcissistic way.
00:23:53.600 They deeply love themselves in a kind of narcissistic way.
00:23:57.260 They do it.
00:23:57.600 That is true.
00:23:59.180 But they, but they, but they have no eternal sort of values and consequently, they, everything's
00:24:03.160 about money and therefore they can do things that disgust them.
00:24:05.420 And the other thing that you, that you find in the, uh, in this glove argues in this fall
00:24:10.480 of civilization in this winter stage is that all the old values are questioned.
00:24:14.400 All the old values are questioned.
00:24:17.020 Um, and so not just aristocracy is questioned, which undermines the paternalistic class.
00:24:21.880 Everything becomes middle class.
00:24:23.040 Everything becomes about money.
00:24:24.500 Religion is questioned.
00:24:25.300 So there's no eternal values, no, no, no patriarchal values, no, uh, sense of ethnocentrism, nothing
00:24:31.120 to fight for, a feeling that everything's just kind of run out.
00:24:34.220 Um, but I, and then we go, we've gone further than this.
00:24:37.260 You start questioning every sort of structure, every sort of difference.
00:24:40.940 And it creates a kind of a, an arms race of questioning in order to be more questioning
00:24:45.560 and thus supposedly more intelligent, intellectual than the next man.
00:24:48.620 There's middle class questioning of things, questioning of gender roles, questioning now of sexuality
00:24:53.440 and sexual orientation, questioning of, of the nature of male and female, um, and, and this
00:24:59.320 push towards equality that you get in that stage of civilization.
00:25:02.280 So it's been built up because the civilization is about hierarchy.
00:25:06.220 It's group selected.
00:25:07.020 It's a binding values of, of, of hierarchy and in-group loyalty.
00:25:12.840 These are binding values where you sacrifice the good of the individual for the hierarchical
00:25:17.940 structure that is necessary to have an ordered society that can compete with other societies
00:25:21.820 and that can produce things and whatever.
00:25:24.040 Um, and, uh, you have this in-group loyalty and that you, therefore you make sacrifices
00:25:28.380 for the society.
00:25:29.360 What you see at the decadent stage when everyone's really, really rich and whatever is the decline,
00:25:34.420 uh, because these values are upheld by religiousness.
00:25:37.620 Once the religion declines, you get these individualistic values of everything is about
00:25:42.100 harm avoidance and no harm and don't hurt me and, you know, um, and, and about equality
00:25:47.080 and questioning everything in the direction of equality.
00:25:49.540 And that's what we see here that this highlights, you question everything, you question sexuality,
00:25:53.920 you question gender, eventually everyone's equal, people that are gay and straight are
00:25:58.000 equal, people that are different races are equal, men and women are equal.
00:26:01.440 And eventually, well, what about children and grownups and the most fundamental evolutionary
00:26:08.400 thing, which is that parents are there to raise their children and raise them frankly in a group
00:26:16.000 selected adaptive way.
00:26:17.540 Cause that's the traditional way that children are raised in part of a religion part of the
00:26:21.380 good of the group, um, becomes no childhood should be about having a nice time and lots of lovely
00:26:27.500 life experiences, which leaves you unprepared for competing in a society where, where you,
00:26:34.000 you know, these group values help you to compete.
00:26:36.800 Um, uh, uh, and even worse that, Oh, well, I'm, I don't want to judge my child.
00:26:42.980 I don't want to tell my child what to do.
00:26:44.260 I don't, I, my child's an individual and I'm an individual.
00:26:46.580 And so you have this abnegation of responsibility to look after the child.
00:26:50.580 It's almost like the child and the adult child, the parent are no different.
00:26:54.260 They're equal.
00:26:55.100 They're equal.
00:26:55.700 And then you, if the child wants, will imitate the adult to the extent of this sexualized
00:27:01.480 poster, where you have this black girl on her hands and knees, like a, it was a doggy
00:27:05.860 style asking for asking to be penetrated, which is the poster.
00:27:10.040 Um, then, and that is part of this, this questioning of everything.
00:27:14.340 This is negative social epistasis in action.
00:27:17.960 Um, and, and, and the case of that boy whose mother in America, whose mother allowed him to
00:27:23.320 dance on stage at gay nightclubs and gay men were saying, well, giving him money.
00:27:29.480 And then pedophiles online were saying they'd like to have sex with him.
00:27:32.200 Um, because she had abnegated all responsibility for his interests and just let him do whatever
00:27:37.640 he liked and indeed encouraged him to do, to, to, to do these, these unusual peculiar things.
00:27:44.200 Whereas as a responsible mother would say, okay, the son's going through a bit of a weird
00:27:47.360 phase.
00:27:47.980 Let's let's direct him in the right direction.
00:27:50.740 But no, none of that.
00:27:51.920 Um, and then eventually you get a point where once all of this is questioned, pedophilia starts
00:27:57.940 to become something.
00:27:58.800 Something, well, look, I, I, I, everyone is in favor of these excluded groups.
00:28:04.220 It's pride, weak, gay pride.
00:28:05.800 But what about these poor old pedophiles?
00:28:08.140 Yeah.
00:28:08.320 Isn't it just a sexual orientation?
00:28:10.860 Yeah.
00:28:11.200 Let's go there.
00:28:12.700 Uh, so, uh, first off, let me mention this.
00:28:16.420 I, I don't think the fact that, uh, the, the cutie's protagonist is Senegalese is, um,
00:28:25.620 just a, a, a, you know, a dispensable aspect of this thing.
00:28:30.520 I, I, I do think that a lot of this functions on, uh, upper-class white liberals looking down
00:28:36.160 on immigrants and kind of not caring about them.
00:28:38.900 Just, I should mention that, but, uh, let's, uh, not so much with the, um, you know, tween,
00:28:46.940 uh, tranny boy who was, who was white and had Antifa parents apparently.
00:28:51.660 Uh, but let's, let's go there in terms of this notion that the car has no brakes.
00:28:59.460 And, um, I can, you know, I, I was born in 1978.
00:29:03.200 I can remember the gay rights movements of the eighties and nineties.
00:29:09.480 I can remember that within the context of the AIDS, uh, epidemic.
00:29:13.940 Uh, and I can remember, you know, homosexuals kind of gradually finding their way into culture.
00:29:21.660 They were, they were viewed.
00:29:22.580 And I think they did this, um, you know, to a large degree, but kind of in a way neutralizing
00:29:28.760 themselves and having presenting themselves not as a major threat.
00:29:34.000 There was a, there, there were kind of, you know, there was the AIDS crisis, which is,
00:29:37.300 you know, kind of terrifying in some ways.
00:29:40.020 Um, then there was the, you know, activist homosexual kind of from the seventies of, you
00:29:46.480 know, we demand our rights.
00:29:47.800 We're going to go out in the streets.
00:29:49.060 We're going to maybe even have a bit of a gay riot, so to speak.
00:29:52.940 Uh, and then there was kind of the move in the nineties and two thousands of the kind
00:29:58.920 of fun, amusing, cute gay, who is humorous and is your hairdresser and friends with your
00:30:06.200 girlfriend or, or what have you.
00:30:07.760 That was actually much more successful in terms of, um, neutralizing homosexuals and making
00:30:14.400 people accept them, uh, gay marriage, I think was a, a kind of, I think the Andrew Sullivan
00:30:19.520 type tactic of saying we're almost normal and we're just like you bourgeois people who
00:30:26.380 want to get married and have a mortgage was also a very successful strategy, uh, for gays
00:30:32.500 being, uh, accepted.
00:30:34.200 But I, I can remember in about 2013, uh, when gay marriage had effectively been accepted across
00:30:42.880 the board, uh, Barack Obama, who opposed gay marriage in 2008, uh, endorsed it and, and
00:30:48.600 kind of, you know, signaled about that.
00:30:50.520 Most States had it.
00:30:52.080 Um, uh, I think Tim Cook, who was the CEO of Apple computer, which is a multi multi-billion
00:30:57.580 dollar company came out.
00:31:00.280 Uh, and it was just almost a, you know, we've won moment where this is so mainstream.
00:31:06.720 Now you can't even really, you know, it's not even a thing.
00:31:10.400 It's not even a controversy at this point.
00:31:13.140 And many, you could see, you know, national review, the conservative case for gay marriage
00:31:17.340 and all this kind of stuff.
00:31:18.560 And I remember thinking at the time, well, okay, I guess this is now over and we can move
00:31:23.260 on to more serious things.
00:31:24.800 But of course I was wrong.
00:31:26.720 It's never over.
00:31:28.040 And within a year, uh, who popped up on the radar screen, but Caitlyn Jenner and the, we
00:31:36.340 went to transsexuals and within a couple of years after Caitlyn Jenner, which you could
00:31:42.660 say is an oddity and, you know, idiosyncratic novelty, uh, we went to trans children and that
00:31:51.840 was promoted in the mainstream, uh, by, uh, 2018 or 2019.
00:31:57.580 Um, there was a, um, presidential, uh, democratic presidential gay, lesbian, queer, uh, forum on
00:32:08.060 CNN in which most of the candidates were effectively endorsing, uh, conversion therapy for children.
00:32:16.460 There was actually a, uh, notorious and, and really shocking scene in which, you know, Elizabeth
00:32:22.200 Warren, this just, you know, tedious, uh, you know, daughter of Puritans going the way
00:32:30.400 that she does talking with his other just tedious, uh, you know, overweight woman who is, they're
00:32:37.100 bragging about her child being, you know, uh, a transsexual and they're going through therapy.
00:32:42.340 Of a child going through, a child going through a phase as all children do phases of various
00:32:48.640 Of course they do.
00:32:49.360 Yeah.
00:32:49.820 And the parents should direct the children, um, in a, an adaptive direction rather than just
00:32:55.900 listen to them.
00:32:56.960 But if I listened to my son and just let him do what he wanted, he'd be on the computer
00:33:00.020 all day, every day.
00:33:01.280 Right.
00:33:02.060 Um, and also going through puberty, they don't understand what sex is.
00:33:06.620 They're, they're going to kind of be weird and, you know, you just have to accept that.
00:33:12.080 And kind of accept it, you know, but then also direct them in a, in a positive direction,
00:33:19.220 but, but also understand that, you know, look, being a kid, you, you're, you're learning all
00:33:24.880 that.
00:33:24.960 You don't understand things.
00:33:25.980 You're learning your hormones are changing.
00:33:28.160 I mean, it's, it's, it's a difficult time, but to, you know, a kid who's a boy who says,
00:33:34.260 Oh, I want to dress up as a girl.
00:33:35.820 Uh, and then you say, Oh, good.
00:33:37.780 Let's castrate him immediately and, and change him to a girl.
00:33:42.280 Um, yeah, I can remember, I had an older sister who was five years older than I, and her friends
00:33:47.080 would always dress me up like a girl whenever they would come over.
00:33:50.680 Uh, but there was no, which was, I look back as like a form of amusing hazing or something
00:33:56.760 on, on behalf of my older sister, but it is not important.
00:34:02.620 And the, the notion that that said something significant about my inner identity is absurd.
00:34:09.040 And so, yeah, I just, I used to dress my dog up in human clothes, but there was no, no
00:34:15.740 question for me becoming a trans species.
00:34:19.000 Um, but the thing, the thing, the thing that's interesting about it is that in the seventies,
00:34:23.720 when there was this general free for all, particularly in the UK, you had the pedophile
00:34:28.400 information network, it was called, which was this pedophile advocacy group.
00:34:32.260 And it was advocating for pedophilia.
00:34:34.860 It was advocating for the age of sexual consent to be reduced to three or something.
00:34:39.040 Um, and it, and it, and it attached itself to, uh, the civil liberties, this pro civil
00:34:44.660 liberties group that were pro gays.
00:34:46.720 Um, and it was kind of, to some extent accepted among this group.
00:34:51.220 And then eventually there was a public backlash against it.
00:34:54.000 Like we we've gone too far that those, the right, despite for me types that want to destroy
00:34:58.580 society and completely undermine everything and just embrace the void and embrace chaos.
00:35:03.460 We've gone too far.
00:35:04.980 Let's reign it back.
00:35:06.160 Um, so pedophilia was reigned back.
00:35:09.100 Um, and there was this kind of transference that as homosexuality was increasingly promoted
00:35:14.840 as acceptable and okay, pedophilia was increasingly the thing that, no, that's out.
00:35:19.700 That's, that's awful.
00:35:21.060 And we're seeing that now.
00:35:22.320 Yeah, because we, you see even liberals talking about this is cuties is promoting sex, sex
00:35:29.220 trafficking.
00:35:30.000 I mean, I think they know it's, it's gone too far too soon and it undermines what they're
00:35:35.060 doing, but where we've gone is so far.
00:35:38.420 Like, yeah, this is like, this is like a hundred steps forward.
00:35:42.440 One step back.
00:35:43.340 Like, I mean, basically, exactly, exactly.
00:35:45.780 If you look at places like Iran or whatever, the Shah, he liberalizes society.
00:35:50.400 He makes it all Western.
00:35:51.620 He went too far too soon.
00:35:53.280 And the consequence of that was a huge backlash on the establishment of the Islamic state.
00:35:57.920 It's like the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:35:59.420 Um, and so you, you can't go, that's what they've got to be careful about.
00:36:02.160 If you go too far, you get a backlash and that's a problem for these people.
00:36:05.040 They, the, the idea is to, to, um, to slowly, uh, get you used to it.
00:36:10.860 So get you, get you used to, yeah, gays is fine.
00:36:13.420 Get you used to transsexuality.
00:36:15.580 You don't go too far.
00:36:17.100 And so these people are now, now, here we go.
00:36:19.660 40 years after Pi.
00:36:21.580 Now in Britain, we have these people that call themselves maps, minor attracted persons.
00:36:27.240 And they've got their own flag, like a gay pride flag.
00:36:30.400 And they've got, and they've got their own, you know, they're slowly sort of putting it
00:36:34.340 out there.
00:36:35.080 And there's a, there's a psychologist called Stephen Harper at Nottingham Trent University,
00:36:38.880 who's, he told a newspaper, um, I think that the map community is essential.
00:36:42.940 We know that people are minor, who are minor attracted, face a lot of stigma in society.
00:36:47.620 We know that a lot of them don't commit any offenses at all.
00:36:50.400 So actually having the community where they can support each other and their mental health
00:36:53.440 gives them a sense of identity.
00:36:55.180 And Harper added, as a heterosexual male, it doesn't mean because I see a female in the street,
00:36:59.100 I'm automatically going to commit an offense.
00:37:00.960 It's a common misconception that minor attracted people have no self-control.
00:37:04.000 They have the same level of self-control as anyone else.
00:37:07.440 Well, okay.
00:37:09.400 This is one of those things where I, I agree.
00:37:13.560 Like, I mean, I, I think this needs to be snuffed out.
00:37:17.540 Like you, you can't open up that door.
00:37:20.360 Uh, however, I, I, I mean, I would say this just to be entirely objective about this matter.
00:37:27.540 I do think that I, I don't, I don't think that a, a pedophile is, I don't know what to
00:37:34.660 say.
00:37:35.020 You know, he, he, he's, he's, he's indulging in sin or he's been, he's been changed by society.
00:37:40.180 I, I would imagine that a pedophile does have a serious mental disorder that, and maybe even
00:37:46.860 a genetically defined one and he should be treated clinically.
00:37:50.260 Uh, but I, I agree there, there's this problem with, with objectivity where, you know, again,
00:37:57.280 a, um, objectivity does not mean endorsement or, or acceptance.
00:38:01.340 So I, I think we can talk about these very discomforting matters.
00:38:06.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:07.420 I had this, do that, uh, that paper I did.
00:38:10.580 What they're doing when Slate Magazine writes some article on, you know, how pedophiles, it's
00:38:16.480 not their fault or whatever.
00:38:17.600 I know what they're doing, but at the same time, at some level, it isn't their fault.
00:38:22.060 I think they are, um, incurable.
00:38:25.760 Sexual orientation, um, develops maladaptively.
00:38:29.340 It has to go through a series of phases to become, uh, heterosexuality.
00:38:34.640 This is a consequence of genes.
00:38:36.340 This is a consequence of things happening in utero, um, problems with mother and her hormones
00:38:41.740 and whatever.
00:38:42.840 Um, uh, and so, uh, that's, uh, that's certainly true that, that, that, that's, uh, pedophilia,
00:38:48.500 uh, correlates with all kinds of other markers of developmental instability, such as, uh, uh, asymmetrical
00:38:55.440 face, minor physical abnormalities, uh, all, all kinds of things like that.
00:39:00.040 So it's, it's a consequence.
00:39:01.300 There's nothing adaptive about wanting to have sex with children.
00:39:04.420 Uh, hemophilia is a slightly different thing, but there's nothing adaptive about wanting
00:39:07.700 to have sex.
00:39:08.180 It, it, it correlates, it correlates with, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, mood, mood disorders.
00:39:13.340 66% have mood disorders.
00:39:14.980 25% have obsessive compulsive disorder and personality disorders of various kinds.
00:39:19.340 Uh, 61% have borderline personality disorders or the sense of the self hasn't developed properly.
00:39:25.420 Um, so yeah, it's not, it's not, it's not their fault, but they're basically people that
00:39:29.900 for those, due to those different sets of circumstances are seriously ill, uh, mentally
00:39:34.660 ill, often physically ill as well, because it correlates with lots and lots of physical
00:39:38.160 problems.
00:39:39.060 Um, and so to promote it as, uh, uh, on a par with, uh, homosexuality, particularly when,
00:39:47.120 as I've said, there's some evidence that homosexuality could even be group selected, um, uh, doesn't
00:39:52.460 make much sense to me.
00:39:53.320 I suppose, uh, it could be argued that there could be a group selected dimension to it in
00:40:00.820 so much as these people are attracted to children, therefore want to work with children and be
00:40:04.680 teachers and things.
00:40:05.480 And as long as they are absolutely forbidden to act on it, well, there's something like
00:40:09.340 that, but that seems to me improbable, but you consider all of the, uh, uh, negative,
00:40:15.100 uh, genetic costs.
00:40:17.640 So, yeah, there, there's plenty of non-criminals who want to coach soccer.
00:40:23.800 I mean, I don't think we need to accept it on that basis.
00:40:30.320 Yes.
00:40:31.000 So I think, I think it's, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a matter of the salami tactics,
00:40:35.660 a matter of preparing society and going too far.
00:40:39.220 Like in Britain with the wokeness, they decided to, the BBC decided not to play, uh, Royal
00:40:46.000 Britannia, uh, the last night of the proms, which is famous patriotic thing, the last night
00:40:50.940 of the proms.
00:40:51.420 And it was realized fairly quickly that they've gone too far.
00:40:55.460 This is causing a backlash.
00:40:56.700 It's causing too much of a backlash.
00:40:58.380 We should be banning the British national anthems, you know, 30 years from now, not now.
00:41:03.020 We've gone too far.
00:41:04.880 Right.
00:41:04.980 And so they've gone backwards and that was, that was, I think what happened with, um,
00:41:09.540 pedophilia in the seventies.
00:41:11.400 Do you think there's, there's also kind of a, a class dimension?
00:41:14.640 I mean, I, I, I, I, again, I, I think that, I think that pedophiles need to be, uh, obviously
00:41:22.060 crime that needs to be criminalized, but they, they, they need to be treated clinically.
00:41:27.180 And I think in that context, a certain degree of understanding, uh, could be offered.
00:41:32.860 But, um, do you think there's also kind of a, a class dimension to this and the sense
00:41:38.860 of, I mean, when you see with the, the, the Epstein affair and so on, where it's, it's
00:41:47.420 not a, a, a pedophile in the sense of someone who just has this bizarre maladaptive attraction
00:41:54.280 to children.
00:41:54.960 You've got to understand which, yeah, that's quite right.
00:41:57.540 You've got to, when we say the, the, the, the word pedophile is moved, used too broadly.
00:42:01.960 So there are those that are pedophiles that are just sexually, specifically sexually attracted
00:42:07.200 to children.
00:42:07.780 It's a fetish, a sexual fetish.
00:42:09.400 Right.
00:42:09.620 There are various things that have gone wrong.
00:42:11.460 Then there are those that just have a very high sex drive and want to have sex and the
00:42:15.260 psychopaths and don't care about who they hurt.
00:42:17.220 And it's almost like there's a little bit of, even if they're not, they're, they're not
00:42:22.660 like a, a pedophile in this, in this biological sense there, there's almost this frisson of
00:42:28.980 like, like, I'll just, I'll go there.
00:42:31.080 I'll, I'll do whatever is, uh, against social norms.
00:42:35.940 I, I'm just, uh, above it all.
00:42:38.280 And, um, you know, I, I, again, so, I mean, I, I, I think some distinctions could be made.
00:42:44.740 I mean, and I, I think they're with something like cuties there, there, there, we do have
00:42:51.700 an elite in Western societies.
00:42:54.760 The wealth and equality is tremendous.
00:42:57.280 It's much greater than it was 50 or a hundred years ago.
00:43:01.160 Uh, and it, there are people when you get there and there are no social norms holding
00:43:08.640 you back.
00:43:09.300 There's almost the sense of, I can do anything.
00:43:12.040 And I have come to the top and even if I'm not a, a pedophile in the kind of clinical
00:43:19.360 sense, why not, you know, this, this just, this just demonstrates that would be, that
00:43:25.960 would be consistent with sort of psychopathic or sort of narcissistic personality and the
00:43:29.680 idea that I'll just demonstrate to myself, my own importance by just doing whatever I
00:43:34.800 like just to see if I can get away with it.
00:43:36.640 And I can get away with it and I will, um, sort of, sort of, yeah, I, I suppose that could
00:43:42.040 be an element of that, that it's something thrilling for someone like Epstein or whatever
00:43:45.320 to, to know that I can, this is totally unacceptable and I can do it because I'm above everything.
00:43:50.220 I'm like God.
00:43:51.480 Yes.
00:43:51.840 And he wanted to be God.
00:43:53.500 You can actually see in his research interest, um, there was kind of, uh, eugenics, uh, are
00:44:00.340 there, but, but also kind of living forever and, and all sorts of things.
00:44:04.160 So, um, yeah, I mean, it's, it was almost like a, um, perversion or deformation of some
00:44:10.220 of the things that we discuss.
00:44:11.320 Um, but, uh, it's interesting, isn't it, that traditionally, traditionally the only people
00:44:16.840 in the English, the only person in the English language whose personal pronouns differ from
00:44:23.520 he or she is God because it's has to be capitalized.
00:44:28.340 Hmm.
00:44:29.180 Um, and now, and now, and now there's all these people that are saying, oh, my personal pronouns
00:44:33.400 are these, my, I have this different personal pronoun from he, she, and in the past, the
00:44:37.820 only person that had a different personal, personal pronoun from small h, he, small s, she
00:44:42.520 was God.
00:44:43.920 Um, and the, the narcissism level among these people is, is very high.
00:44:48.700 They have high levels of narcissistic personality disorder.
00:44:50.980 So it kind of makes sense, um, but yeah, I use the first person plural for, for myself.
00:44:58.480 Uh, we use that.
00:45:01.660 No, just, yes, that was traditionally only the monarch that would use that.
00:45:08.180 Exactly.
00:45:08.800 Yeah.
00:45:10.340 Um, but I do, I do think that it's, it's picked up on something.
00:45:14.120 It's that, that, that, that poster is that has caused the controversy is so starkly about
00:45:19.320 that those, those, those little girls are sexualized.
00:45:23.200 Perhaps there's some people that have reacted to it negatively because I was sort of cognitive
00:45:27.200 dissonance because they're kind of aroused by it and they don't want to be aroused by
00:45:30.700 it and it makes them angry.
00:45:32.400 Um, and, um, I see it as real.
00:45:36.400 I've always, that, this is why I don't understand pedophilia.
00:45:39.980 I, I just, I, I, I, it's like, I would more likely have sex with a shoe or something than
00:45:49.140 it just, there's, it just doesn't make sense.
00:45:52.820 I, I, I don't, you know, I, I think I've mentioned this on a earlier, but it's like,
00:45:56.660 if you were out at the, um, if you were out at the beach and a little, and you'll sometimes
00:46:03.860 see this where a, uh, a toddler, a little girl, they'll, they'll take off their swimsuit and
00:46:09.960 kind of, you know, I'm free basically in their mind.
00:46:13.220 Uh, cause sometimes they, you know, just, you know, don't like wearing clothes.
00:46:16.760 You kind of look at that and it's like, oh, that's so cute.
00:46:19.400 That's so funny, but there's no eroticism to it.
00:46:23.220 And, and seeing an 11 year old dance in these ways, or even some of these, um, people, and
00:46:28.780 this is actually kind of a lower class phenomenon in the United States of creating the, creating
00:46:33.160 these princess pageants and so on.
00:46:36.480 The, the, uh, John Bidet Ramsey kind of thing.
00:46:39.060 I, I, I'm, I'm not just saying this to sound like I'm a prude, but I look at that and this
00:46:43.960 is sad or bizarre.
00:46:46.100 Those are the emotions or I would use it.
00:46:49.100 The erotic is not one of them.
00:46:52.000 No, that's the emotions of normal heterosexuals should feel about such things.
00:46:56.280 Um, and, um, and that's, that's the adaptive emotion.
00:46:59.400 They're children and they're there to be brought up by society and looked after.
00:47:03.160 And, and, uh, and, uh, um, uh, carefully and successfully, uh, molded into adults.
00:47:11.680 And that's, that's, that's the group selected thing to do.
00:47:14.740 The individualistic thing to do, uh, and it's in extremists is, is if you're just a total
00:47:20.220 psycho is just to see everybody and everything as subject to your whims and subject to what
00:47:26.040 you want.
00:47:26.560 And if you happen to want, if you happen to feel horny at a given time and the easiest
00:47:30.760 thing to access and it is easy to access as a child, um, then that's what you'll, if
00:47:35.620 you're, that's what you'll go for.
00:47:36.780 Or if you're just meant messed up and you'll set you out and you're attracted to children.
00:47:40.540 So, but so, yeah, and we've, um, and that's why if you look at these old films, if you
00:47:45.580 go back to, um, the fifties or forties or whatever, child nudity in films is, doesn't
00:47:54.400 mean anything.
00:47:54.840 It's fine.
00:47:55.600 It's commonplace.
00:47:56.360 It's not a problem at all.
00:47:57.700 Adult nudity, absolutely a problem.
00:47:59.980 And now this has been reversed.
00:48:01.840 Adult nudity is perfectly normal in films.
00:48:03.920 And, um, you, you have films where you like, I remember seeing a film, it was, it was an
00:48:08.640 American remake of one of those Japanese movies, you know, those Japanese kind of movies, horror
00:48:14.360 movie type things.
00:48:15.280 And there's a boy that has a bath and they have him wearing his swimming trunks because
00:48:21.960 the idea of even the briefest or even implied nudity with a boy, it would be appalling, but
00:48:28.900 nudity of an adult is perfectly fine.
00:48:30.800 So you've got, you've, you've had this, uh, extraordinary reversal because of concern
00:48:35.040 about pedophilia, uh, and the concern about this tiny minority of people that would get
00:48:39.500 their rocks off over some, over, over something like that.
00:48:41.920 So, so yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a disorder.
00:48:45.440 It's a serious disorder.
00:48:46.680 It's appalling, uh, of course, for the children that are abused, uh, whether they are sexually
00:48:50.920 abused or whether they're put into photographs or whatever, psychologically, physically appalling
00:48:55.660 for them.
00:48:56.420 Um, it can lead to, there's evidence that can cause maladaptation in their own sexual
00:49:00.780 sexuality and that a lot of pedophiles have themselves been abused.
00:49:03.760 Um, uh, and, and so to, to, to, to normalize in any way, the sexuality of children is just
00:49:11.540 something which is a sign of a highly degenerate society.
00:49:14.320 And that's what a society that's in decline and society that's lost its way, a society that's
00:49:18.820 lost its values, its group values.
00:49:20.620 And that's, to have put up a poster like that, where you're clearly, um, encouraging other
00:49:26.580 children who will see that, think that's okay.
00:49:29.260 And you're clearly kind of titillating people with the, it's absolutely, they've of course
00:49:33.380 withdrawn it over the furore, but, um, it's, it's happened.
00:49:37.180 They've done it.
00:49:37.600 They've made their little contribution to negative social epistases.
00:49:40.420 Well, let's leave it at that.
00:49:43.600 I, I'm glad we could have this, um, serious discussion about an uncomfortable topic.
00:49:48.820 Uh, Ed, thanks.
00:49:51.840 Thank you.