RadixJournal - Transsexuality and the Logic of Civil Rights

00:00:00.000 What I see is this general tendency of conservatives to reject the latest innovation and outrage, you could say,

00:00:10.080 but then want to go back 30 or 50 years and protect the foundation on which the outrage is laid.

00:00:21.180 So they want to go and protect the Civil Rights Act.

00:00:24.440 But everything that they oppose, policy-wise, when the rubber hits the road, is built upon the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

00:00:39.200 Hello, Ed. How are you doing?

00:00:41.320 Hello. Yes, I'm OK. Yes, I've... Yes, it's very hot here.

00:00:46.560 It was mid-summer yesterday. It's this thing they celebrate here in Finland, which...

00:00:51.760 Well, the day before yesterday, which Cromwell abolished.

00:00:55.820 So we don't really have it.

00:00:57.660 It's almost like people celebrating, watching people celebrate Ramadan or Eid or something.

00:01:02.160 It's fairly meaningless to us, us English people.

00:01:04.940 Well, do they run around, maybe not the Maypole, but do they get all pagan and stuff?

00:01:10.600 No, they just drink. It's really just an excuse to drink very, very, very heavily indeed.

00:01:14.480 So May Day or summer solstice, mid-summer, is the equivalent to Tuesday in Finland.

00:01:21.140 Yeah, there are similarities, yes.

00:01:24.040 But drinking even more heavily than that and also this tradition of going to the countryside

00:01:28.400 and having a cabin and swimming in a lake.

00:01:31.820 So they've been doing things like that.

00:01:33.000 So I met up with a Scottish friend and an Italian friend.

00:01:37.120 And that was good enough.

00:01:39.440 We spoke exclusively in Finnish because the Italian doesn't speak any English.

00:01:42.780 Interesting.

00:01:46.780 So I thought we could talk about Laurel Hubbard, who has made history today.

00:01:55.400 And I don't want to just do the typical outrage session over,

00:02:03.000 oh my God, I can't believe they're doing this.

00:02:06.100 Because basically we could do that every day, get outraged, the latest atrocity.

00:02:13.880 But I think I want to really look, delve into what's happening with women's sports in general,

00:02:22.560 with the implications of this, with what also, what is the foundation of this stuff,

00:02:29.480 at least in terms of policy.

00:02:31.100 I think that the wokeness and transgender stuff, a kind of divine individual,

00:02:38.960 I think that's almost a, has a religious origin of sorts.

00:02:43.180 But when the rubber hits the road, it has to become policy.

00:02:46.640 And I think it's also very clear how this stuff is being built upon,

00:02:50.540 if we assume that it is coming from America, which I think is kind of correct. 0.95

00:02:54.960 But let's first talk about this amazing bravery and breakthrough of Laurel Hubbard.

00:03:03.400 She will be representing New Zealand in weightlifting.

00:03:08.840 And Laurel Hubbard used to be a man. 0.75

00:03:12.840 A male weightlifter.

00:03:14.080 A male weightlifter.

00:03:15.160 A male weightlifter.

00:03:16.280 Right. 1.00

00:03:17.100 So taking all of that into account, I think she is going to kick ass. 1.00

00:03:23.540 And if she doesn't win, in fact, that would be really embarrassing. 0.98

00:03:29.320 Again, there was an episode of South Park about this concept of the strong woman, 0.90

00:03:34.120 where they had somebody that was meant to be the macho man, Randy Savage,

00:03:38.680 who had decided to compete.

00:03:41.780 He decided last week to become a woman.

00:03:44.200 And now he was competing as a woman.

00:03:46.280 And, of course, he was just beating up all of the females.

00:03:49.760 And this is it.

00:03:50.260 This is a male weightlifter.

00:03:52.180 Okay, not a particularly successful male weightlifter,

00:03:54.600 but nevertheless a male weightlifter,

00:03:56.920 which is consistent with the study I did,

00:03:59.820 which found that they tend to be higher in testosterone,

00:04:02.120 these transgender women, 0.98

00:04:06.840 and who is now a stunning and brave and rather butch woman. 0.99

00:04:14.200 I wasn't a particularly successful baseball player.

00:04:18.320 However, if I think if I went back and played middle schoolers,

00:04:22.300 I think I could be pretty good.

00:04:25.160 I don't think they would be able to hit my 70-mile-per-hour heater.

00:04:29.920 I mean, it's just fundamentally a joke.

00:04:32.800 We're going South Park.

00:04:33.760 They were on that as well, didn't they?

00:04:34.740 South Park did an episode where the little peewee American football team

00:04:39.240 get to play a full-on male team,

00:04:41.820 a full grown-up team and professional team,

00:04:43.700 and the team just beat them up and destroy them.

00:04:46.200 And then it culminates in one of them being so proud that the dad says to him,

00:04:49.920 I love you, son.

00:04:51.220 I love you too, dad.

00:04:52.820 And they're just so proud that they've done this.

00:04:55.000 Yeah, what response can there be other than just bemusement,

00:05:03.500 more than bemusement, outrage?

00:05:05.560 And there is a backlash that's starting to become increasingly mainstream,

00:05:10.220 and I just don't know at what point it will tip over into something changing,

00:05:16.660 because everybody knows this is madness.

00:05:19.240 In England at the moment, there is a very, very nasty by-election.

00:05:23.880 And that issue was in which one of the people standing is someone called George Galloway,

00:05:28.280 who's quite famous in England.

00:05:29.280 He's extreme left-wing.

00:05:30.520 And he's a third of the constituency are Muslims.

00:05:33.900 And, of course, they're completely opposed to this.

00:05:35.860 And there was this transsexuality agenda and homosexuality agenda in schools. 0.89

00:05:40.100 And there was this very nasty debate.

00:05:42.460 And basically all of the Labour candidate, who is going to lose,

00:05:46.340 who should win normally, but she's going to lose,

00:05:49.080 could say is, I think you're being very insensitive to transgender people.

00:05:53.300 That's all she could say back to him. 1.00

00:05:54.640 And she said under her breath, he's such a nasty man. 0.92

00:05:57.720 All George Galloway was saying is, look, men are men, men are men, 0.98

00:06:01.120 women are women, that's that. 1.00

00:06:02.660 A man cannot become a woman. 1.00

00:06:04.800 That's it.

00:06:05.500 What party is George Galloway in now?

00:06:07.520 Well, he used to be in the Labour Party, on the left of the Labour Party.

00:06:10.620 But about maybe even 20 years ago, was it, he broke away from the Labour Party

00:06:16.440 and has established various far-left parties,

00:06:20.680 which have involved basically extreme leftness in combination with Muslims. 0.87

00:06:24.160 So he basically, his coalition is basically Muslims.

00:06:27.880 Yeah, yeah.

00:06:28.400 No, I've known of him for at least a decade.

00:06:31.120 He's a colourful figure.

00:06:32.460 And I will maybe, I don't know, half the time agree with him.

00:06:36.180 Kind of an interesting guy.

00:06:39.540 But the other half of the time, you know, vehemently disagree with him.

00:06:42.920 Yeah, so I'll just do, I said that we're going to get past the kind of outrage of this

00:06:49.160 and talk about bigger issues.

00:06:50.640 But I would just mention this.

00:06:53.360 So the world record of strong woman deadlift was 290 kilograms, which is around 640 pounds. 0.98

00:07:08.240 So that deadlift is a good indicator of just overall strength.

00:07:13.860 It works the hamstrings.

00:07:15.600 It's really a full body lift.

00:07:18.160 You're lifting a very heavy weight off the ground.

00:07:23.000 So again, the strongest strong woman on earth did 640. 1.00

00:07:30.040 The strong man, that guy, I can't even pronounce his name, Bjorn Halfersson or something.

00:07:37.120 He did close to twice that weight in deadlift in strongman competitions.

00:07:41.860 So this is not, in an Olympic sports or professional sports in general, they're battling over like half a pound or a millimeter.

00:07:50.500 I mean, if you run the 100 meter dash two milliseconds before your competitor, you've won with, you know, in a runaway.

00:07:59.700 If you can throw a baseball two miles per hour or faster, you're going to start dominating.

00:08:06.260 And we're not dealing with 1% or half a percent.

00:08:10.060 We're dealing with 100% increase.

00:08:13.500 It's just incredible.

00:08:15.500 I mean, I don't even know what to say.

00:08:18.220 This is just such an obvious violation of biology.

00:08:24.660 The argument they use is that the level of testosterone in Hubbard's system is within the bounds, the legal bounds that permit this person to compete as a woman.

00:08:38.500 And of course, what they manifestly fail to understand is that this person has become a woman quite recently and therefore has developed, obviously has developed as a man and therefore will be much, much stronger.

00:08:50.260 It's as simple as that.

00:08:50.940 Yeah, she went through puberty and that's it.

00:08:55.040 Yeah.

00:08:55.880 But I would say this, I agree that we're seeing a backlash.

00:09:02.220 I think even this, I don't know if you've been paying attention to it, but this critical race theory obsession that's going on with conservatives,

00:09:11.440 I think this is part of this backlash and it's vehement.

00:09:16.440 It's sometimes shrill.

00:09:18.440 It is even sometimes violent.

00:09:20.240 I have no doubt that that's where we're going, but I also see a just sort of inevitability to all of this and I can explain why.

00:09:33.840 I think that the animus that is pushing forward this New Zealand weightlifter and that's pushing stuff like critical race theory, all the critical, CRT is a rather minor thing.

00:09:49.860 Just pushing forth the whole demoralizing agenda.

00:09:53.120 I do think it is going to win.

00:09:55.120 I think it is inevitably going to win because it is going with the flow of the entire logic of a society and it is going with the flow of policy logic and conservatives don't criticize either of those two things.

00:10:13.040 And therefore, they are going to lose as usual.

00:10:17.040 I can go into that more, but why does it follow that they're going to I'm not sure that conservatives are going to lose.

00:10:23.660 I think what's what what you're seeing is just more evidence of of just polarized of just of polarization.

00:10:30.240 So neither, neither, no question, neither, neither group is going to give way.

00:10:35.040 It's not like at some point these people that are financially, emotionally, psychologically, you know, self esteem early invested in all of this woke nonsense are going to give in.

00:10:44.120 But similarly, I think increasingly one gets the impression that the people on the other side, whereas before they would just there would just be this incremental movement towards the left.

00:10:54.120 It's been going on since probably World War Two or at least since the 60s.

00:10:58.000 Always, always they would see ground.

00:11:00.860 And increasingly, when you get what happens when you get a far left society like this is eventually the evolutionary mismatch becomes so extreme that there's enough people that won't see ground.

00:11:12.620 They just won't.

00:11:14.160 And it's and if it's those people that are breeding, which they are, and if it's things like social media as well.

00:11:21.580 There was a paper published recently, which which argued that quite cogently that things like Twitter and Facebook have contributed to polarization by creating incentives to towards groupishness.

00:11:37.540 Right.

00:11:38.420 And so if you're in that kind of situation, then again, people won't.

00:11:41.820 I've experienced that.

00:11:43.020 Yeah.

00:11:43.260 Then people won't see ground.

00:11:45.720 And so you just end up basically what I can only see as a slow breaking apart of people.

00:11:52.280 You even see this in America in a very subtle way in Idaho, in counties, not states wanting to break away from the union, but counties wanting to change state so they can be part of a right wing state.

00:12:05.620 And I see this as a subtle, slow reaction that is going to gradually occur.

00:12:12.200 I don't fully disagree, but I would emphasize the overall flow of this river that they're in, that they are swimming upstream in a sense.

00:12:26.440 I remember one time at summer camp where I was swimming really hard upstream and then I stood up in the river and I realized that I had actually gone backwards about 50 yards.

00:12:36.440 So I felt like I had, you know, swum a hundred yards that I had actually gone backwards as I was swimming upstream.

00:12:43.420 I was really working and furious about it, but I was still going backwards.

00:12:47.040 And I think that's the, that's the experience of conservatives.

00:12:51.020 I mean, I agree.

00:12:53.780 Polarization is more intense now than it was 10 or 20 years ago.

00:12:58.320 No question.

00:12:59.340 I mean, now the level of distrust among conservatives, they don't trust the election.

00:13:05.640 Anything the New York times prints is a lie.

00:13:08.520 You know, I mean, it's got, it's gone to extreme limits and almost to a kind of, I don't know where it can go from here.

00:13:17.040 Um, that being said, we have seen very similar things like this reactions by conservatives to things that they perceive as demoralizing, demoralizing, and they ultimately give way and lose.

00:13:32.300 There is extreme polarization to the, basically the kind of racial revolution in the sixties that ultimately led to riots and so on.

00:13:43.140 And there was actually major, and, and going back to the fifties as well, there was major pushback, um, from the right, if that's what you want to call it.

00:13:50.840 And, uh, it ultimately ceded ground.

00:13:54.080 And the question is, why is that there was major, there was major freakouts to gay marriage.

00:13:58.960 They have ceded that ground totally.

00:14:02.500 No, I, I've never heard, I don't know.

00:14:04.140 Remember the last time a conservative questioned gay marriage, they're now, they're now getting freaked out about transgenderism.

00:14:10.720 They're saying, Oh, this is, this is it.

00:14:12.520 They were, they're questioning the integrity of the body at this point where they were saying, using similar language 10 years ago, and they ceded ground.

00:14:21.340 And they will, they always, they always ceded ground.

00:14:24.900 It's something I'm looking at in this book I'm working on.

00:14:27.700 The left doesn't ceded ground.

00:14:29.360 No, no, they don't.

00:14:30.200 Because you have, you have these five moral foundations that the right have all five of them.

00:14:34.600 The left basically are low in three and high in two.

00:14:38.040 So that means the left can, the right can sympathize, empathize with the left and then not vice versa.

00:14:43.120 And so what that means is that right-wing people will always cede ground.

00:14:47.480 Also being left-wing does seem, I don't think it's, I don't think it's a cultural, I think it's an inherent thing, does seem to be associated with mental instability and things like this. 0.85

00:14:57.720 Oh, this is just nonsense.

00:14:59.480 It's not nonsense.

00:15:00.900 It's not.

00:15:01.540 Ed, there are millions of people who are successful humans living in the suburbs, administering the government and major corporations.

00:15:12.480 I never said, I never said there weren't, but it's, it's a, it's a, no, that's not, that's not the issue.

00:15:18.440 The issue is what does the, what does the large data indicate?

00:15:21.240 And what it indicates is that mental instability is higher among people that are left-wing.

00:15:25.340 I don't mean mental to be like they're going around killing themselves.

00:15:27.580 I mean, they're more neurotic and that can give, that can act as incentive, that can act as an incentive to desire power, to desire, sorry.

00:15:36.960 Why are they, why are they so dominant if they're so?

00:15:39.840 Well, because if you're, there are, there are, it can be socially positive, there's various studies on this, to be moderately high in neuroticism.

00:15:48.340 So, for example, there's evidence that people that are optimally high in neuroticism do better at university than those who don't, because they work harder and they worry and they're concerned.

00:15:57.920 And so they, and so they act as an incentive and in much the same way, if you have a sense that the, even only a limited sense that the world is fundamentally unfair and everyone's against you or whatever.

00:16:07.740 And you want, therefore, you want to take control, you want power, you want to take control of everybody and because then you feel better.

00:16:15.460 Or, and so you can see how, therefore, that I don't, when I say mentally unstable, I don't mean they're all nutters.

00:16:20.100 I mean that it acts as something that makes you more Machiavellian.

00:16:23.160 And so, anyway, I think that these, these two reasons, these two factors are why there is a tendency for the right to see ground.

00:16:30.600 The right are, there were studies on this, people that are conservative are literally less fervent.

00:16:34.840 So if you present a person that's conservative with evidence which counters their viewpoint, like logically and reasonably,

00:16:41.280 they will be much more inclined to change their viewpoint than is the case among people who are more liberal.

00:16:48.220 They will more strongly hold on to their viewpoint in the, in the face of counter evidence.

00:16:53.300 So all of these things would be consistent.

00:16:55.460 The fact that it would be the conservatives that would see ground every time.

00:16:59.460 I mean, look, I, I think that's an interesting supplement.

00:17:04.600 I, I, it does strike me as promoting such things to strike me as self-serving for conservatives in the sense of,

00:17:11.580 um, they want to imagine the radical left is Antifa terrorist and they are all actually moral and upright and good.

00:17:20.100 Um, I, I think that's, I mean, it's, it's interesting studies, but I, I mean, the, the fundamental issue is what is the ideological trajectory, trajectory of the United States.

00:17:33.060 And all of these Western societies that are, you know, since 1945 are in the United States is wake in the sense that you can even find, um, I mean, Germany, for instance, the defeated power doesn't have an actual constitution.

00:17:48.740 It has a kind of base groundwork for a constitution, um, so to speak.

00:17:54.280 Like, and you see them being maybe a decade or two behind, but in some ways a decade or two ahead in some directions, but, uh, a few years behind, but ultimately defining their sovereignty, the legitimacy of their state on American like grounds.

00:18:10.620 Like there's actually never been a German people in Germany has always been diverse.

00:18:14.640 You see this from actual politicians.

00:18:16.340 Everything's following in this ideological wake that's created by the United States that probably does go back to the core issue of its founding, um, in the, in the sense of, uh, um, Calvinist coming here to escape what they perceived as religious persecution.

00:18:36.920 But I, I think ultimately also does derive from the kind of liberal mechanistic conception of the state in the constitution that you end up at, you, you end up here eventually.

00:18:53.040 It might take a few hundred years and there might be a lot of nationalism and racism in between, but this is where it ends up when you define yourself on the basis of natural rights, which the United States did.

00:19:05.940 At some point, I don't know, I don't know if it has to be, uh, if I think because you, you have very similar processes that have occurred in other civilizations.

00:19:15.380 So they start, so therefore it's, um, there's a deeper way of understanding it.

00:19:21.460 And I think that the idea that it's to do with the nature of philosophy or something that causes these things is, I think it's, it's, it's, it's, it's too, you can go beneath that.

00:19:30.420 You just always get the same process that these things start off as an ethno state.

00:19:34.880 America basically started off as an ethno state.

00:19:38.040 It was Anglo-Saxon England.

00:19:39.840 Yes, they did.

00:19:40.440 That was their view.

00:19:41.120 They were very explicit about it.

00:19:42.680 It was an Anglo-Saxon state.

00:19:43.720 Yes and no, but it was very different.

00:19:45.960 It's not yes and no.

00:19:46.880 It's, it's, it's, yes.

00:19:47.900 It started off as an ethno state, Anglo-Saxon state.

00:19:52.300 And they were clear on this.

00:19:53.800 Anglo-Saxon.

00:19:54.060 They were clear on fighting for the rights of English, Englishmen.

00:19:57.180 No question.

00:19:57.880 It was not an entirely Protestant country.

00:20:00.960 It was overwhelmingly, I think it was 90% Protestant in, I think it was 1750 or something.

00:20:06.300 So it was, this is in Eric Kaufman's book.

00:20:09.160 So it's an, the point is that they perceived themselves as an ethno state.

00:20:12.840 And then gradually you get this view, no, we're not an ethno state.

00:20:15.840 We're a hodgepodge of different peoples, but we're held together by religion.

00:20:18.920 And then gradually we're Protestant.

00:20:21.780 And I think FDR apparently said to some advisor of his, look, this is a Protestant country.

00:20:26.480 And anyone that's not Protestant is here under sufferance. 0.72

00:20:28.420 And this is what he said to one of his advisors.

00:20:30.120 It was Catholic or something.

00:20:31.440 And then it becomes not about religion.

00:20:33.360 It just becomes, oh, we're just this melting pot.

00:20:35.600 You get the same thing in Rome.

00:20:36.880 Eventually anybody can be Roman. 0.97

00:20:39.140 And then eventually you get people who literally aren't Roman at all, just taking over the society. 1.00

00:20:45.820 And, and, and then it starts to falconize and fall apart.

00:20:48.920 And that's, I don't fully disagree, but you ultimately, in, in terms of like just the demography that you've set out, I, I obviously don't fully disagree.

00:21:00.140 But if you looked at, if you look at the way that they defined themselves explicitly, it is more complicated.

00:21:08.340 And there actually is something unique.

00:21:10.200 I, I, in a way believe in American exceptionalism.

00:21:13.700 I think it is a unique invention, this American experiment.

00:21:17.900 And it was fundamentally different.

00:21:20.900 John Winthrop did not define the, this new place as an ethno state for Anglos or something like this.

00:21:29.820 I, I, it would have been surprising for him to say that it's a white state, but he should have, or he could have defined it in other ways.

00:21:38.040 He defined it as a new Jerusalem, a shining city on the hill.

00:21:42.960 And that myth of a place where all people can come from around the world to experience God.

00:21:50.920 Yes, he wanted homogeneity in terms of religion, no question.

00:21:58.640 But that is the way that it was defined.

00:22:02.380 It was already from the, before he even set foot on North America, it was defined as a different type of entity.

00:22:10.020 And it was a deeply Calvinist basis for a new conception of a country.

00:22:16.960 Now, well, I'm not sure I, well, I can see your point, but I'm not sure I a hundred percent agree.

00:22:20.900 I think, I think that you, it's like these people that say, oh, there's, there's some fundamental problem with the nature of Christianity.

00:22:25.740 Christianity because look, you can point to this bit in the Bible and this means that you have to be left-wing and anti-nationalist.

00:22:31.600 I'm like, well, yeah, fine.

00:22:32.300 But you can also point to this bit in the Bible and you can interpret that to mean you have to be extremely ethnocentric and whatever.

00:22:37.920 And you can make yourself.

00:22:38.780 Can you point to a single instance of Jesus being racist?

00:22:42.520 The new, the new, the new Jewish people. 1.00

00:22:45.240 Well, can you point to a single instance of Jesus being racist?

00:22:49.080 Well, he says things, I think at some point he does say that he does, he is a Judaizer at some point.

00:22:53.740 So there is, there is salvation comes from the Jews. 0.83

00:22:56.220 There is some evidence for that, but it's not the, the, but the, the thing is the idea that Jesus, I mean, what the Jesus was that was built up was the Jesus in the Bible plus sort of Constantine and Mithras and this hodgepodge of stuff.

00:23:09.740 Right.

00:23:10.040 And if you want to interpret it, find ways to interpret it in a, in a sort of a, um, egalitarian way, then I suppose you can do that.

00:23:16.860 But if you want to find things that you can use to interpret it in a group oriented way, you can do that as well.

00:23:21.260 Uh, and it's just a question of what the people who are, what stage of their development they're in, that they're going to draw upon the religion to justify something that is this or is, is that.

00:23:31.640 And I think you've got the same thing with America.

00:23:33.620 So you have elements of the American, whatever you want to call it, um, the, uh, the American, um, imagined community or something like that.

00:23:42.320 Um, which you can, which you can, which, which have been, and were interpreted in this more ethno-nationalistic or whatever kind of way.

00:23:48.960 And then you've got elements of it, which if you want to, you in, in this sort of enlightenment values, kind of, kind of, kind of dimension, uh, and, and so on.

00:23:56.260 And it's just a question of what the nature of the people is at the time and what they therefore choose to sort of draw upon to sanctify themselves.

00:24:02.480 Well, because I don't, I don't want to just react to men beating women at weightlifting, lifting competitions.

00:24:12.840 I want to look at what the ultimate, like the, the ultimate basis of this is.

00:24:19.820 And I, I don't, unless you believe that all religions are the same and they all are just ethnocentric, uh, which I don't agree with.

00:24:29.160 Um, Christianity is a unique religion.

00:24:31.800 There is a certain motive in Christianity towards something very different from the old law.

00:24:38.620 Otherwise there would be no need for a new Testament.

00:24:40.820 I mean, it's the whole point of the religion.

00:24:44.160 Well, it was the point of it.

00:24:45.140 It was the point of it at various points.

00:24:48.080 So if you're, if you're in the middle of society and you want to try and get to the top, then you, you traditionally, you, you signal these, these individualistic values.

00:24:58.020 Cause you are individualistic.

00:24:59.260 And so you're trying to, you, that's what you are in that situation.

00:25:01.980 You need to get to the top people at the top that pass on their genes, whatever.

00:25:05.240 And that's what Christianity was about was people in the middle signaling these, these, these individualistic values.

00:25:10.820 It was because they are individualistic to get to the top, which they did.

00:25:14.100 And then it became a religion that was more group oriented.

00:25:16.600 Same thing with Protestantism.

00:25:18.020 Exactly the same.

00:25:19.240 I mean, it was, it was people in the middle who didn't have all the power.

00:25:22.880 A lot of them using this as a means to signal their way to the top.

00:25:26.180 And it's what you get to some extent with, I guess, BLM and whatever now people, it's Protestantism.

00:25:32.960 Fascinatingly.

00:25:33.700 One thing that I noted this week in the newspapers was that the church of England and therefore presumably eventually its equivalent in America has declared that it wants to abolish its traditional formal, you know, titles of address, like the reverend and the venerable and things like this.

00:25:49.320 And I thought this was very, very interesting because the last time it did that, the last time it had a major change in its forms of address was the reformation.

00:25:57.520 And before that, if you were a junior priest, you would notice like Sir John Smith, like a knight, you were Sir John Smith priest.

00:26:04.140 And if you were a vicar or something, you were Master John Smith like that.

00:26:07.620 And this whole reverend thing didn't exist.

00:26:10.020 And then gradually, sort of late 1600s, gradually those titles die out among priests and income, the system we have now, the reverend.

00:26:19.000 So it's almost like the Church of England is going through a new reformation as society goes through.

00:26:24.620 This is a reformation.

00:26:27.160 I agree.

00:26:28.520 Yeah.

00:26:29.700 Which is...

00:26:30.220 Sorry.

00:26:32.360 Yeah, no, no, I totally agree.

00:26:34.020 And I think that it is a mere formality on one level, but it actually bespeaks something much deeper.

00:26:41.020 Okay.

00:26:41.620 Let me take this from a different angle.

00:26:45.280 So, Christy Noem, who is a...

00:26:50.080 Whenever I say her name, I always think of garden gnomes.

00:26:53.400 But anyway, she is a governor of South Dakota, I believe.

00:26:59.100 And the legislature, the Republican-led legislature, put up a bill that was going to ban trans athletes, effectively.

00:27:13.020 And she had trouble signing it because she got some pressure from the NCAA.

00:27:18.680 She was worried about her universities not being able to compete.

00:27:22.180 She was just kind of playing both sides of this thing.

00:27:26.560 She wants to present herself, in fact, as a presidential candidate. 0.99

00:27:30.860 But at the same time, she realizes that she's got to play along with the big boys, you know, with the NCAA, wherever that's located in Washington.

00:27:40.440 She also defined her stance against trans athletes as defending Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

00:27:52.280 So, Title IX was not in the original 64 Act.

00:27:59.240 The 1964 Civil Rights Act did not mention women whatsoever. 0.94

00:28:03.900 It certainly didn't mention homosexuals.

00:28:05.720 It didn't mention transsexuals at all.

00:28:07.960 It was about public accommodations that might be privately owned and public funds and positions and so on.

00:28:20.080 And it was obviously directed towards Blacks, although it did not, you know, used more general language.

00:28:25.780 So, racial discrimination cannot be a factor in accommodations and public monies, public positions, public schools, etc.

00:28:34.160 Some seven years after that, in the early 70s, 1972 or 1973, the feminists basically jumped on that bandwagon and they built upon the 1964 Civil Rights Act to add in Title IX. 1.00

00:28:50.440 Now, they never mentioned sports when they were promoting this, but it was basically against sexual discrimination that was added to the Civil Rights Bill.

00:29:00.900 They never mentioned sports.

00:29:02.580 I think one person did, and he offered to exempt college athletics from the logic of this title, but they didn't take him seriously.

00:29:12.560 Well, what happened with Title IX in college athletics when the rubber hit the road is that universities will certainly spend more money on, say, the football team than they spend on the girls' volleyball team.

00:29:28.400 But when it comes to distributing goods, that is, a scholarship, which is like money in a way, it's a, you know, it's a good, you don't have to pay $50,000 a year or whatever.

00:29:40.680 They have to do that equally.

00:29:42.440 So, Title IX led to a huge boon for women's sports in the sense that you used to have, you know, if you have 100 scholarships for the football team, you have to have another 100 for the softball team.

00:29:55.320 Despite the fact that 100,000 people want to go see the softball team, and maybe 100 people want to go see the softball team, but you have to equally distribute it.

00:30:05.440 So, it has been a massive boon for women's athletics, and it's created something that I think some traditionalists might kind of dispute.

00:30:14.680 I don't think anyone would dispute girls playing sports in general. 0.99

00:30:19.300 I think it's a great thing, but just this kind of hyper-competitive, man-ish, let's say, female athletics would not exist, at least to the extent that it is now, without Title IX. 0.98

00:30:33.380 So, Christy Noem, when she was discussing trans athletes, she declared that she wants to protect Title IX.

00:30:42.640 What I see is this general tendency of conservatives to reject the latest innovation and outrage, you could say, but then want to go back 30 or 50 years and protect the foundation on which the outrage is laid.

00:31:03.820 So, they want to go back 30, so they want to go and protect the Civil Rights Act.

00:31:07.960 Everything that they oppose, policy-wise, when the rubber hits the road, is built upon the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

00:31:16.260 Whether through Supreme Court decisions, the 64 Act applies to sexual orientation, whether upon sexism and hiring or sports or whatever, and ultimately about race.

00:31:33.380 So, everything they oppose has been built on this act.

00:31:37.900 This is the paradigm for policy that is controversial over certainly my lifetime and well before that.

00:31:45.500 And yet, they want to protect that.

00:31:48.740 And it just creates, this is why they're going to lose in the sense that, yes, it's polarized, they're reacting, they're mad.

00:31:56.240 But there's a dynamic where they want to ultimately protect what the left did 30 years ago going forward.

00:32:06.800 That is a dynamic that will lead to endless leftward drift.

00:32:13.120 I don't know where they're going to go after transsexuality five years from now. 1.00

00:32:17.800 Well, it will be, I can only, it's going to be, it's going to be, it's going to be, child, it'll, no, I think it'll be childhood adulthood.

00:32:24.420 I, I, there's already some hints of this.

00:32:27.220 And I think that if they carry on and that's when we think, because people have a natural repulsion, pedophilia and so on.

00:32:33.300 So that was even in the seventies, they tried that, uh, in Britain and then they had to roll it back in because people were so horrified.

00:32:40.860 And so it's as if they've, it's as if they've waited, uh, they've, they've, they've played the long game.

00:32:45.340 Uh, and, and eventually you've already got these societies, you know, but what do they, they call them men attracted to, um, Nambla or Nambla or Nambla.

00:32:57.100 They call themselves and they, and they, and they're trying with the success of transsexuality to try and argue that, uh, they are a persecuted minority and they should have rights and, uh, uh, whatever. 0.95

00:33:07.520 So, so I think to the logic, I mean, it's so disgusting that it's going to have more trouble, but it ultimately has the same logic to it.

00:33:18.340 They're a, they're a persecuted minority.

00:33:19.980 I mean, they kind of are in the sense that everyone, you know, it's, it's partly genetic or it's part of their upbringing or whatever it's not their fault.

00:33:29.120 And so, um, and then also just, I think the, the, the, the, the, the blurring of the line between adult and child.

00:33:34.800 Once you start problematizing things, asking, well, what do you mean by race?

00:33:38.640 What do you mean by sex?

00:33:40.000 What do you mean by gender?

00:33:41.140 What do you, then, then, then, then what do you mean by childhood?

00:33:44.060 I mean, it's the, it's the, it is the logic of this, of this, uh, tactical nihilism that they engage in, um, in the same way that they don't like it.

00:33:52.260 The reason why they react so strongly against Rachel Dolziell and such people is because it's, it's, it's taking their logic to a place which then undermines their power base, which is to make white people feel terrible about being white.

00:34:04.100 Uh, and so that has to be stamped down on that can't be allowed, but, but, but somehow, uh, men who surely have more power than women being allowed to become women, um, that somehow that's gradually, that's okay.

00:34:17.720 So, yes, I do think the next step is, would, would be people identifying as children and, uh, all of this kind of stuff.

00:34:25.960 Uh, and at some point, I just, I don't, history tells us that at some point, you can talk about American exceptionalism.

00:34:34.120 Okay, fine.

00:34:34.600 But also it seems to be quite striking the way that these parallel, these, these, um, patterns, these cycles happen again and again and again.

00:34:41.700 And history tells us that this kind of nonsense, whether it's Gnosticism or whatever, happens in the winter when things come apart.

00:34:49.320 And that's what is increasingly at increasing speed happening.

00:34:54.940 Five more years of this.

00:34:56.940 Yeah.

00:34:57.620 I, I, look, we're not in total disagreement.

00:35:00.840 I would just stress this, that the conservatives, the, the way that they understand their resistance to this is so flawed that I, I don't think that we're just going to have a kind of, uh, a breaking apart.

00:35:17.540 And even if we broke apart, I think they would recreate the same society.

00:35:21.740 Take a look at this.

00:35:22.860 So you might be aware of this.

00:35:24.500 There's an obsession with CRT, which is, um, uh, uh, I guess mostly a kind of legal, um, philosophy, critical race theory that I think is just in a general paradigm in academia.

00:35:39.660 It's in a paradigm bigger than itself of, um, you know, seeing race everywhere, looking at oppression and the, the persistence of wealth within races and all of this stuff.

00:35:52.120 Um, um, and undermining the fairy tale of American history that I learned even in the, in the eighties, uh, and conservatives understandably perceive this.

00:36:04.240 I get it.

00:36:04.880 They perceive that they're being demoralized and that their stories and icons are being smashed.

00:36:10.780 And so I get why they're reacting to it.

00:36:13.460 I don't like it either, but look at the way they're reacting.

00:36:18.220 So there was a bill in Florida that has, I, I think it might've been signed this week and I'll have to go look at it, but just stick with the broad strokes here.

00:36:27.520 There's a bill in Florida that effectively banned critical race theory and it went further.

00:36:33.000 It banned all sorts of racism and sexism in general.

00:36:37.900 So you cannot display racist, uh, media in any form in public education.

00:36:47.520 So that would include, I don't know, reading Mein Kampf when you're studying the second world war or inviting Richard Spencer to your campus.

00:36:56.500 All of those things, according to this bill would be illegal.

00:37:00.400 Um, you cannot demoralize a student on the basis of sex or race.

00:37:05.480 And they're calling all of this stuff, sexism.

00:37:07.640 So we're against racism and sexism that is now illegal in public universities.

00:37:12.480 And they want to bring in this like Patriot education about learning about anti-communism.

00:37:16.740 Well, this is obviously a violation of free speech.

00:37:21.320 So I don't think this will last, but beyond that, I think it's even more fundamentally flawed in the sense that they're,

00:37:29.740 they are speaking in the language of the 64, um, uh, of the civil rights act.

00:37:37.040 All of those acts were based on removing racial discrimination from accommodations and, and public institutions.

00:37:44.360 Then five to seven years later, we need to remove sexism from this. 0.92

00:37:48.440 Then 30 years later, we need to remove homophobia from any accommodations or public institutions.

00:37:54.600 Then it's, we need to remove transphobia.

00:37:56.900 It just keeps going.

00:37:58.200 They are speaking the same language as the 64 act.

00:38:03.120 Everything that they hate, that I understand why they hate it is built upon that act.

00:38:09.640 Yet they want to reaffirm the very foundation of this stuff.

00:38:14.980 But that's the, they will lose.

00:38:17.100 That is the distinction between the everyday conservative and the more profound conservative,

00:38:21.580 isn't it?

00:38:22.060 That the, the conservative just doesn't like change.

00:38:24.160 So if the conservative is, if the conservative is brought up in a communist society, you could argue that those people that were rebelling against, uh, against Mikhail Gorbachev and tried to, uh, and there was a coup and they took, took him out of power for a few days.

00:38:39.120 Those people in a sense were kind of conservatives, right?

00:38:41.800 They weren't left wing.

00:38:42.600 They were conservatives and they just didn't want change.

00:38:44.560 And, and so you've got this with the Charles Murray type that I, I just don't like change.

00:38:50.240 Uh, the, the, I've got used to about this post sixties America and I quite like it.

00:38:54.520 And now there's a radical change happening.

00:38:56.000 I want to go back to how it was.

00:38:57.220 And I loved the 64 act when I was 20 years old.

00:39:00.240 It was awesome.

00:39:00.880 So why, why, how could it be a problem?

00:39:03.840 It's just big.

00:39:04.560 It's just getting, it's just, you know, you're left wing when you're young, you get more conservative with age and, and then you're conservative for the things that were radical.

00:39:11.360 When you're young, those things are the established things.

00:39:13.420 So it's like, you know, going to Rolling Stones concerts now when you're in, when you're in your sixties or seventies, it's the same sort of attitude.

00:39:19.740 Oh, when he was young, Rolling Stones was radical and cool and new and breaking.

00:39:23.840 So it's just, it's just that as distinct from the more sort of, um, profound conservative who is basically low in these individualizing values, low in them.

00:39:32.280 And, and like Margaret Thatcher, to some extent was a bit like, I think she just didn't, didn't care about the feeling, not interested, and was interested in the group oriented.

00:39:41.360 Stuff and that's the, that's the difference.

00:39:43.280 And so, yeah, they will always frame things in those ways.

00:39:45.380 The argument you could put in their favor is that the whole society has been so indoctrinated with the idea, the post 64 idea, perhaps that you have to treat, treat people as individuals.

00:39:56.460 Um, and to a certain degree, I quite liked that idea, but anyway, you, you, that you, it's so indoctrinated with it that you have to put it in those terms.

00:40:04.920 The idea that you can say there shouldn't have been the civil rights act is just such anathema to, to almost everybody.

00:40:10.440 I agree.

00:40:10.580 So in a sense, you, it's to, it is a sort of real politic.

00:40:14.240 It has to be expressed, um, in those to get support in those kinds of terms.

00:40:19.580 And so that's kind of what they're doing.

00:40:21.620 Um, and that allows them to draw in quite a lot of conservatives who, let's face it, they are, they're high in the group oriented values, but they're equally high in the individualizing values as well.

00:40:30.860 You know, therefore don't discriminate against people or whatever.

00:40:33.440 And so that's the tactic that they're using.

00:40:35.660 Um, but it is, it is true that eventually what, or it is seemingly accurate, that eventually what seems to happen is it is that society gets pushed so far.

00:40:45.920 And this is the danger that the react, this is the danger that Charles Murray highlights.

00:40:50.280 He highlights it as being a very bad thing.

00:40:52.040 He says, it's a very bad thing, but that you, the reaction will be that you get, people will rise into positions of influence who are, well, like Trump perhaps, who are just low in individualizing values,

00:41:02.280 who just don't care.

00:41:03.820 They don't care.

00:41:04.480 They're not, and they will be permitted to, um, not care because it will be such chaos by then that people will regard these individualizing.

00:41:13.140 It's just decadent.

00:41:13.980 And you just need to sort out the problem, the rise of the Caesar, um, and the Rubicon needs to be crossed and the problem needs to be sorted out.

00:41:22.160 And I think that's what there is the path down which they're going.

00:41:28.220 And I suspect that it's over the next 10 or 20 years, you're already seeing evidence of a reaction.

00:41:34.620 And I don't think that is, that is a superficial, I think that it's, it's going to get worse.

00:41:40.860 But Trump was about making America great again.

00:41:45.920 It was about going back and it was about uniting one country.

00:41:50.360 And I, I think that, I think the Rubicon is because, and, and ultimately let's be honest that, that whole project failed to a very large degree due to Trump's own limitations and the limitations of the, the absence of a real movement behind him.

00:42:10.140 Trump had a lot of grifters and fanboys and sycophants that they, he didn't have a real movement.

00:42:19.000 I mean, going, doing pageants in Ohio and, you know, uh, speaking to the crowd and getting them riled up that that's, that's something, but that's not what you ultimately need.

00:42:30.040 Um, I think the Rubicon is crossed when they start saying things like, we don't want to be part of this country or we don't want this.

00:42:41.940 Maybe even we don't, we want to repeal the 64 civil rights act. 0.58

00:42:44.960 I doubt they'll say that, but we don't want to be a part of this anymore.

00:42:49.540 I think that will be a major change.

00:42:51.720 And I think Trump will kind of be seen as this like last attempt to bring it all together.

00:42:58.520 Um, I think that possibly is the case.

00:43:00.960 Yes.

00:43:01.240 Yeah.

00:43:02.060 All right.

00:43:03.200 Oh, go ahead.

00:43:04.060 Go ahead.

00:43:04.360 No, no, no, no.

00:43:05.540 Okay.

00:43:05.860 I have one more thing that I wanted to mention about.

00:43:09.240 So as usual, we talk about girl sports, but then we go off and totally different, you know, interesting directions.

00:43:16.960 Um, so I just want to raise this issue of the cuckoo in the nest. 0.75

00:43:24.240 And so, uh, four or five years ago on alt-right Twitter cock was the word du jour. 0.93

00:43:33.220 It was everywhere. 0.66

00:43:35.480 Everyone was responding to it. 0.68

00:43:37.200 There had dozens, hundreds, maybe even articles or blog posts about cock.

00:43:42.340 And it was basically a insult directed at conservatives who were not supporting Trump. 0.95

00:43:49.300 So there are a bunch of cucks and it goes back to a kind of 18th century, um, uh, uh, joke.

00:43:58.940 It actually includes the bunny ears, I guess, not that the bunny ears about, um, yeah, about

00:44:04.220 getting cuckolded. 0.89

00:44:05.300 Um, and basically, and I think it also resonates with a very 21st century thing of cuck porn and 0.71

00:44:11.740 all that kind of stuff, which I won't mention for the delicate ears of our audience, but I

00:44:17.400 won't delve into for the delicate, because this is a family program.

00:44:20.960 Um, but, um, it, it, it, the, the term cuck is actually kind of more interesting than just 0.97

00:44:28.640 saying that someone, you know, oh, your, your, your wife is getting, is having sex with a 0.99

00:44:34.520 bunch of men. 0.95

00:44:35.220 It's actually a more interesting phrase.

00:44:36.560 It goes back to the cuckoo bird.

00:44:38.060 And you can think of the cuckoo clock, the cuckoo bird evolved to have a reproductive

00:44:44.460 strategy of deception and, and use in, in, in, in insinuation and subversion.

00:44:52.080 It is evolved to that is its strategy.

00:44:55.560 It, the cuckoo bird will lay its eggs in another bird's nest. 0.69

00:45:01.000 And not only will the, the, that other bird invest in raising the cuckoo's young, but the 0.54

00:45:08.540 cuckoo's young will be even more demonic and it will actually kick the, the other birds

00:45:14.520 out of the nest so that, that, that foreign mother puts all of its, um, investment into a, 1.00

00:45:21.580 another species or breed.

00:45:25.420 Right.

00:45:25.700 Um, so it's a, it's a kind of fascinating thing and they, they've evolved to this.

00:45:31.260 These are instincts.

00:45:32.820 Um, but it does raise the issue of certain humans that maybe aren't that instinctive about

00:45:41.280 it, but kind of operate according to that own strategy.

00:45:44.520 I mean, we were joking about if I wanted to go, if I wanted to identify as a 12 year

00:45:51.400 old, you know, uh, you know, I'm, I'm now a 12, this is my identity.

00:45:55.440 I, I, I, I, you know, I could go and dominate the football team among 12 year olds.

00:46:02.040 It's ridiculous to even say it, but yes.

00:46:05.020 Um, do you think that there's a, a certain type of human that uses that disguise that, that,

00:46:11.420 that wears mask instinctively, that lies like the rest of us talk and these people are, this

00:46:20.120 isn't just, because I think they're for some transgendered people.

00:46:24.020 I think it's, I mean, we might disagree with it, but I do think it's real.

00:46:27.520 Like they don't feel at home in their own skin and they're screwed up and whether they're

00:46:35.740 actually women or actually men, I don't think so, but they're, they're clearly psychologically 0.70

00:46:41.460 damaged people and deserve at least some sympathy.

00:46:44.080 But there are some people that don't seem to deserve sympathy at all.

00:46:48.500 And that is the one willing to wear a mask.

00:46:51.460 So are we, is this kind of also where we're going?

00:46:54.940 We're developing a kind of race of cuckoo birds who lie like the normal people speak. 0.99

00:47:04.480 So the, the, the evidence is that, uh, you have different kinds of transsexual. 0.96

00:47:08.440 You have those who are, um, just, um, homosexual transsexuals, that is to say that, and they 1.00

00:47:14.060 really do from a very young age, feel like they are in the wrong body. 0.52

00:47:18.040 And there's some evidence that their physical and mental brain features are those of the

00:47:24.340 sex, which they think they are. 0.83

00:47:26.040 So those people in small minority, um, but that's, that's just an anomaly of, of nature. 0.88

00:47:31.720 Then you have the autogynophilist transsexuals. 1.00

00:47:34.240 They develop transsexuality in adolescence, early adulthood. 0.74

00:47:37.420 Um, those people tend to, uh, be, uh, heart, uh, it's, it's gender dysphoria, uh, and they 0.53

00:47:44.020 tend to be high in autism, uh, uh, high in certain personality disorders, borderline personality

00:47:49.180 and things like this, don't know who they are, create a sense of self, whatever.

00:47:52.940 There's those people.

00:47:53.800 And I do have, there is a weak correlation, however, between transsexuality and things

00:47:58.940 like psychopathic personality disorder and things like this.

00:48:01.480 So it's perfectly conceivable that you would get some people that were Machiavellian about

00:48:06.100 it in the same way that you've got these people like, um, uh, these transracials who

00:48:11.740 just decide they're of a different race and they're basically lying and they know they're 0.74

00:48:16.540 lying.

00:48:17.020 I'm not sure that's true with this Dolsey L woman, but I think it is true with, with some 0.97

00:48:20.980 of the more recent one, I forget her name, uh, who was, uh, an academic and who I think

00:48:25.860 that is true.

00:48:26.840 She was just lying about being, um, uh, native American or whatever, Mexican, whatever it

00:48:31.860 was, Shekino, wasn't it?

00:48:33.240 Um, in order, in order to attain.

00:48:35.060 It's funny.

00:48:35.440 They're Ashkenazi Jews with frizzy hair and they, they claim to be Afro Latinx. 1.00

00:48:41.540 Whatever they are.

00:48:42.140 But that's what I think that was, what was going on.

00:48:43.980 And I do think you could get that with some, some people.

00:48:47.120 I mean, you'd have to, it seems to have, for example, males, you're sentenced to prison.

00:48:51.780 You're going to go to prison for male prison.

00:48:53.740 It's nasty. 1.00

00:48:54.500 It's a nasty place full of psychopathic, dangerous people. 0.99

00:48:57.320 So you suddenly identify as a woman and you, and you, and you get to serve and you can do 0.98

00:49:02.360 that without having any surgery.

00:49:03.760 That seems kind of understandable to be honest.

00:49:06.080 It does.

00:49:06.600 But that, that's a Machiavellian thing to do.

00:49:08.560 Right.

00:49:09.060 And you, and you, and you serve your time in a female prison. 1.00

00:49:11.960 Then you come out, Oh, I'm a man again.

00:49:13.560 Yeah.

00:49:13.780 Yeah.

00:49:14.240 And that, and that things like that happen.

00:49:17.120 And that would be, that would be exactly the kind of thing that it would be people,

00:49:20.700 people, people taking advantage of this for, for what they can get out of it.

00:49:25.340 And I, and I strongly suspect that there would be some people that would be of that ilk.

00:49:29.400 Yes.

00:49:31.400 Well, I have to say when they send me to prison one day, um, I'll probably do that.

00:49:39.400 Well, yeah.

00:49:40.080 But it's, it's, it's, uh, it's certainly, I don't say that there are a, a, a, a,

00:49:46.900 a significant minority or whatever, but they would certainly, you can see there would be

00:49:49.900 among, uh, where there's advantages to it.

00:49:52.660 You would get people who would take advantage.

00:49:55.120 Right.

00:49:55.500 And I think that you're going to get that.

00:49:57.720 All right.

00:49:58.900 Uh, my dog is chewing up the mic cable.

00:50:02.540 That would be a disaster.

00:50:03.920 All right.

00:50:04.800 Let's, uh, put a bookmark in it.

00:50:06.760 Uh, thank you, Ed.

00:50:07.980 This is a good discussion.

00:50:08.860 Thank you.

00:50:19.960 Yeah.

00:50:20.400 That, that, um, another thing we could talk about maybe next week would be this Miami

00:50:23.740 collapse, this, this building.

00:50:26.240 Because I was going to suggest it this week because it's, it's, it's clearly just at our

00:50:31.860 which end, you know, there was a, a, a report was made saying, if you do not do something

00:50:36.260 about this, there will be exponential damage to the, to the, to the concrete, but because

00:50:40.540 the person didn't put it, you know, that would have been, that report would have been read

00:50:43.920 by some average IQ person who just didn't understand what he meant.

00:50:48.600 What he was saying was, if you don't do anything about it, the building will fall down, but he

00:50:52.420 put it in these technical terms and the guy was like, exponential damage to the concrete,

00:50:56.080 you know, whatever.

00:50:56.860 Um, and, and, and, and now, and now people have died. 0.98

00:51:01.500 And so that, that, that could be a new problem as we get stupider, which is the inability of 0.84

00:51:06.080 clever, cleverer people to communicate with average people. 0.62

00:51:10.300 Yeah.

00:51:11.080 They're understood, um, resulting in this happening.

00:51:15.040 Cause that guy was that guy, that structural engineer was very clear.

00:51:18.620 If you don't do something about this, the building will fall down, but he didn't put it in the

00:51:22.540 language of a child like that.

00:51:24.060 He, he put it in this technical way.

00:51:27.000 Yeah.

00:51:27.560 And, and, um, you see the, it is fascinating that we're building, you know, cause building

00:51:34.720 technology has improved and we, we obviously have all these huge marvels in terms of server

00:51:39.960 systems and so on.

00:51:42.240 Um, and, um, whether all there, there is this kind of, you know, mismatch between IQ and

00:51:50.600 the, the maintenance of this technology, I think is, is kind of fascinating.

00:51:55.620 Right.

00:51:56.340 It's horrifying.

00:51:57.800 Yeah.

00:51:58.380 And again, the horrifying thing for me is it was what I was writing about three years ago

00:52:03.020 at our wits end.

00:52:04.360 Yeah.

00:52:04.660 And I was thinking this kind of thing would be something that maybe my kids' generation

00:52:07.960 generation or their, their kids' generation will have to deal with, no, it's happening 1.00

00:52:10.940 now, clearly buildings are falling down, um, because people are too stupid to maintain 0.99

00:52:17.980 the things which were done by people that were a bit cleverer in the past or just were 0.99

00:52:21.860 done by cleverer people.

00:52:23.160 It's just, it's disastrous.

00:52:24.680 It's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just a good thing.

00:52:42.240 We'll be right back.

00:53:12.240 We'll be right back.

RadixJournal - July 01, 2021

Transsexuality and the Logic of Civil Rights

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