Comedian Russell Brand delivers a stand-up comedy special on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, in which he challenges, sharps, and entertains the audience with some of his best jokes and thoughts on the holiday season.
00:02:56.000Now, what I've been informed of in the short while I've been here is that there's a sort of a mixed crowd and this is an opportunity to bring about a little bit of cohesion that could be somewhat challenging under the circumstances.
00:03:09.000I, for one, am grateful for being here.
00:04:32.000This is an interesting time for your fantastic nation, an interesting time to evaluate what authority means to you, where authority comes from.
00:04:43.000Obviously, you recognize the accent, but you will remember, well, Jamestown and Plymouth Rock and the name of the language and the tobacco and many of our endowments to you.
00:04:57.000What I want to say is that the authority I follow is the authority of Jesus Christ, not of any political party.
00:05:08.000I believe in your country a great deal.
00:05:10.000I think you are beautiful people, just incredible.
00:05:13.000And I know there is some kind of psychic scar in the United States of America at the moment that's being healed.
00:05:19.000And there's no question that a country that has food that ultimately acts as an addictive poison by design and a pharmaceutical industry that can't seem to resolve or regulate in a manner that is beyond profitable, financially, profitable biologically.
00:05:42.000I know this is a time of radical transition.
00:05:45.000And it's nice to know that all of us have access to supreme authority at any time and that your nation, supreme and insuperable, will prosper and triumph in spite of the difficulties you're evidently currently encountering.
00:06:00.000Me, I've always been a little bit adverse to authority.
00:06:05.000And in a way, that's been kind of beneficial because I guess I never took any of those vaccines.
00:06:13.000I think the reason was because people were telling me to.
00:06:19.000If the government had really wanted me to take those vaccines, and probably a lot of you too, I sent some freedom fighters in here and some free thinkers.
00:06:28.000If they really wanted us to take that vaccine, all I'd have had to have done in my case is just hidden it anywhere in my house and told me that if I found it, I was under no circumstances at all to take it.
00:09:24.000I'm not casting aspersions, by the way, and in no position to judge anyone, but if you think of like, let's just go for a few former FDA, CDC, and NIH leaders.
00:09:34.000Scott Gottlieb, guess where he works now?
00:10:09.000Not with no clinical trials double-blind and randomized.
00:10:13.000Not with vaccines being tested against other vaccines that were not double-blind, randomized.
00:10:18.000Not with a culture that uses addiction as a modality of marketing.
00:10:22.000And whilst this might be a glorious opportunity for the giants, the titans of your incredible nation, the new Carnegies and the new Rockefellers, the new industrial giants to ensure the organs of this magnificent land remain healthy, that won't happen without conscious, open discourse and plain dialectic.
00:10:46.000And when you have in your language junk food, and when you have in your leaders, in your regulatory bodies, notions like I am the science, man, I don't know anyone that could make it.
00:12:07.000Thank the Lord that the idiosyncrasy and anomaly of Donald Trump occurred.
00:12:12.000Thank God for men like Secretary Kennedy, bold enough, brave enough to put it on the line and die if necessary for what he believes in and what all of us ought collectively believe in.
00:13:39.000And you know it's an ongoing struggle.
00:13:41.000And if it's ever to become cohesive again, not the endless fascias, friction, fractures and fissures of cultural warfare, senseless, needless, pointless, hollow, empty cultural warfare, the Maha movement is the thing you can back because it's the cohesive cartilage between MAGA nationalism and the masculine intensity that plainly scares a lot of people.
00:14:06.000And whatever the Democrat Party has become, this limp, hopeless, could have had Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy, but would prefer to trot out a cadaver and Kamala Harris, A woman who's, listen, you know, people might accuse me of making word salads, but at least there's nutrition in it.
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00:16:01.000This is the time to end the senseless, needless, pointless discourse of argument and conflict and to remember why you do what you do.
00:16:09.000Did you do it because you want to serve America?
00:16:11.000Do you want to do it because you want to accrue and accumulate endless profit?
00:16:15.000Do you do it because you care some if kids are suddenly autistic at record levels?
00:16:20.000Do you care some that a country has lost its connection to its people to such a degree that its institutional, institutional, commercial, and corporate modalities require sickness as a way of life?
00:16:34.000I am comforted as a visitor in your great country because I know some of these people.
00:17:35.000I hope you can see how lost I am in this world, but how hopeful I am, primarily because your still yet young country may learn the fundamental lessons that are being presented.
00:17:46.000The technology itself is whispering to you incessantly.
00:18:39.000You know, once you've handed a baby over to anesthetists, once you've seen your wife's breast milk bloom because they can't feed a child before surgery, you're in a different world now.
00:18:50.000I know there'll be a lot of people in this room that have lost children, people almost watching this online that have lost children, that are nursing sick kids, that are confused about why a medical industry would have any interest other than the well-being and welfare of children.
00:19:32.000You're not going to get lost in the politics of personality, are you?
00:19:35.000Baffled and bemused by people's skin tones and haircuts, whether those are Afro-Caribbean or heavily sprayed, whether the skin tones are coffee brown or orange tangerine.
00:19:51.000We can still look to you, can't we, the rest of the world?
00:19:53.000We're not watching a creaking, dying break in America, are we?
00:19:57.000We're still watching the great nation of innovation, of your entrepreneurial railroads, of your ingenuity, of your greatness, of your holy grace of one nation under God.
00:20:25.000Okay, let's just have a little reminder of the lockdown era.
00:20:31.000Firstly, the lockdown could have been a time of transition, transformation, and great change.
00:20:36.000It was an opportunity for metamorphosis.
00:20:39.000Surely, we all went down into the pit, we all went into the cave, and that's what happens when we go into the cave, when we go into the cocoon, we emerge renewed.
00:20:46.000That's when the metamorphosis takes place.
00:20:55.000Where people were kind of upbeat, where nature herself appeared to adorn and due glory upon those that voluntarily, because of the sanctity of life, never forget, were willing to lock themselves in their homes.
00:21:07.000Remember, like, did I dream this, or did like deer start turning up in like high streets and like squirrels in like vests start working in Kmart?
00:21:16.000Was there not a glorious era where nature herself came alive like a Walt Disney or Vedic depiction of living nature consciousness streaming through all things?
00:22:52.000Before that, I would have assumed the greatest transformation might be the difference between speculatively governing through theory and actually governing and having your hands on the levers of power and making decisions that affect the lives of, well, in the case of America, the whole world, but certainly your whole population.
00:23:08.000But the great transformation, man, of who I thought I would be as a parent before I had kids to the parent I am now that those little fuckers have shown up because before I had kids, I was like, nah, my children.
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00:25:21.000There are activists and brilliant people here and dedicated people here and people that have suffered a great deal and worked and toiled their entire lives.
00:25:26.000People, captains of industry, brilliant scientists, people of morality and faith.
00:25:30.000And ultimately, as a Christian and an optimist, even before that, I really fundamentally believe in all of your beauty.
00:25:35.000And I thankfully, because I know some of them, believe in the beauty of the people in this administration, particularly when it comes to the Maha movement.
00:25:50.000Jim O'Neill, I remember he said that when organic food was taken off, and let's face it, we all know we should basically be eating organic food.
00:25:58.000We know that many of the motives for food not being organic are profit-driven motives.
00:26:20.000Jim O'Neill said that when it was proven that organic food was better for you because it's not got carcinogenic pesticides on it, one might assume, that a Stanford test was run in order to ensure that the market around non-organic fruit and vegetables didn't collapse.
00:26:38.000And he said that in order to ensure that the results were favorable, they tested organic apples versus non-organic apples for vitamin C.
00:26:48.000And vitamin C is the same in organic apples and non-organic apples.
00:26:53.000What might not be the same are many other nutritional components.
00:26:56.000So when you are the science, when you am the science, when you trust in this new orthodoxy and forget the orthopraxy, when you forget that reason is a wonderful tool when wedded to divinity and the sublime and the position of surrender, that all of us ought be in before God, but not before one another.
00:27:14.000All of us are on our knees, shoulder to shoulder, covered by the covenant of the holy blood of Christ Jesus.
00:27:19.000None of us are better than one another.
00:27:21.000Not the president, not the vice president, not anybody in this administration, not anybody in this room, not the billionaires or the genii.
00:28:33.000And then do you remember the early indicator of propaganda and peculiar xenophobia, given the flavor of the preferred ideology of many of the propagators of deception in the media spaces?
00:28:45.000You know where that pandemic emerged from, don't you?
00:29:34.000Dominoes, dear, Burger King, all good stuff.
00:29:37.000Don't look at the ingredients, don't look at a box, don't think about it.
00:29:39.000Dominoes, Burger King, McDonald's, good stuff.
00:29:42.000You get it from Patrizia Fuzzioni when she leaves Pfizer and climbs up that ladder a little further.
00:29:47.000Can't remember the name didn't mean to be generally racist against people with Italian-sounding surnames, you know, but can't do everything.
00:31:22.000Oh, and it's just this weird that all of the data got deleted and the DARPA have been making those donations and that we can demonstrate at a molecular level the signature of human intervention.
00:32:02.000Every dollar you spend on these glorious products, there's methylene blue, there's colostrum, there's creatine, gets you an entry to win this Jeep 392.
00:33:41.000If civilization is going to collapse, if there's a solar flare and the internet shuts down and Bitcoin isn't styred by the CIA, we're going to be in a lot of fucking trouble.
00:33:50.000The last thing you want to worry about is your asshole.
00:34:50.000I believe in Jim O'Neill and Callie Means, although he doesn't work for the organization, I don't know, for this department no more, as I understand.
00:35:00.000A lot of brave people that I've been around and seen, decent people.
00:35:05.000Me, where I come from, I know, because I'm English, you might not know that my accent indicates a social class that would be surprising when coupled with my vocabulary.
00:36:00.000We know that the categories of misinformation, malinformation, and disinformation have not been created to protect American people or British people, but to control data.
00:36:10.000We know that the media's integrity has collapsed because of deception, hypocrisy, and ineptitude.
00:36:16.000That's what happens in a free marketplace.
00:36:18.000We know that decentralized communication technology has led to independent media, and independent media has led to authenticity.
00:36:25.000And now you're going to have to just deal with it.
00:36:28.000Perhaps by smearing independent media creators.
00:36:31.000Maybe that's one thing that could possibly work.
00:36:34.000Possibly by creating new categories, malinformation, disinformation, and saying, as Obama did at Stanford University, even if people are clever enough to discern whether the information is true or not, they still could be deceived.
00:36:46.000They've lost control of the information.
00:36:59.000You have to allow the sublime and the divine back into the conversation.
00:37:02.000And above all else, I know this: that the people in this organization, whether it's Secretary Kennedy or Dr. Oz or Lisa Oz or Tony Lyons or Jim O'Neill or Mai Macari or Jay Batachari or Callie Means or Casey Means, are people of integrity.
00:37:16.000That I tell you, by God, we will not in five years be reading, oh, guess who's a fighter?
00:37:54.000One day, the people at Black Lives Matter and the people at January 6th will realize they're fighting the same enemy.
00:38:00.000And you better be fucking ready for that day.
00:38:05.000But I know that Dr. Mehmet Oz is a beautiful man who took time to counsel my wife as she struggled and suffered and fretted about giving birth to a son that might be born dead.
00:38:20.000He was there, he was present, and he was fantastic.
00:38:23.000I know that Mai Makari risked his career.
00:38:27.000And Secretary Kennedy, I pray the blood of Christ over that man's safety.
00:38:38.000All right, you filthy, beautiful bastards.
00:38:42.000I've been asked by Tony Lyons, the great incomparable Tony Lyons, to welcome back to the stage many people, it seems, ultimately to send to create a sense of cohesion and unity and hopefully in the Waldorf Austoria DC, a sense of joy and unity and hope.
00:39:02.000For though we will all one day die, let us die in glory.
00:39:06.000For Abraham must have known that Isaac was going to die one day anyway, for he put Yahweh first.
00:39:13.000Our Lord and Savior was willing to suffer because he knew there was a higher kingdom for he created it.
00:39:19.000And all the saints know that nature leads the supernature.
00:39:23.000And may this be a blessed country, a blessed nation, and a blessed movement.
00:39:28.000Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the stage this rogues gallery, this group of autistic pioneers.
00:39:38.000Callie Means, former White House SGE and health policy advocate, Vani Hari, Kyle Warner, James Lyons Weller, Sue Paradise, gotta love that name.
00:39:49.000John Clark, Dick Russell, Joe Lepardo, yeah, Joe Lapido, the Surgeon General of Florida, Florida Man, Steve Slepovich, Joe Polish or Polish, Meryl Nass, Sherry Tenpenny, Saya G, Lee Marinoff, Mary Holland, the great Mary Holland, Giorgio Ziola, hey Giorgio, get your ASL be a motherfucker, Jeff Hayes, Liana Werner Gray, Zen Honeycutt, Kelly Ryerson, Judy Mikovich.
00:40:19.000My God, these are some really edgy people.
00:40:21.000Aiden Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy III, and the great Gary Brecker.
00:40:26.000Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for these brave, glorious.
00:40:33.000Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the uncancellable healthy again.
00:40:47.000Beautiful very beautiful light up Hey, do you watch Russell Brand unpack that That's where we pre-tape and organize brilliantly lovely content like this.
00:41:08.000The race to create a bioengineered human being, a child.
00:41:29.000As Silicon Valley pushes into the most intimate realms of human existence, reshaping how we are born and how we grieve, what happens to a civilization that allows its technology to redefine life and death themselves?
00:41:42.000Well, it collapses is the simple answer, but let's get into that now.
00:41:46.000While the race for AI captures all of the headlines, there's another one quietly brewing between Silicon Valley executives.
00:41:53.000The race to create a bioengineered human being, a child.
00:41:58.000The Wall Street Journal has some extraordinary reporting out that a small company backed by none other than OpenAI chief Sam Altman has spent months pursuing a secret project for a genetically engineered baby.
00:42:10.000They're working toward creating a child born from an embryo edited to prevent a hereditary disease.
00:42:17.000Editing genes in embryos in order to create babies is banned in the United States of America.
00:42:24.000Same as when gain of function research got banned in America.
00:42:29.000They're just going to outsource genetically engineering babies to a territory or terrain that's outside of US jurisdiction, but ultimately within US dominion.
00:42:38.000Has been searching for places to experiment where embryo editing is allowed, including the United Arab Emirates.
00:42:45.000Sam Altman's family office and Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong are backing this company, Preventive.
00:42:51.000How about genetically engineering people's sexuality or their identity or their race?
00:42:56.000You can see that human morality, human reason, divorced from divine surrender or submission to the divine could head in literally any direction.
00:43:04.000Hitler would justify going in one direction and Bill Gates in another.
00:43:08.000The best thing is to surrender to God and accept divine principles, which are, by and large, written down.
00:43:15.000which, as you mentioned, is conducting preclinical research to attempt to create a baby from a genetically engineered embryo to prevent a hereditary disease.
00:43:26.000Look, I sense the demonic in all this.
00:43:29.000Behind the scenes, the company has told people that a couple had already been identified who was interested in participating in the research.
00:43:40.000Imagine the amount of controversy caused by the pun around the word genes when Sidney Sweeney was advertising them eagle jeans.
00:44:19.000We're just locking you in your house to help people.
00:44:22.000We're just genetically modified babies to repeat after me, help people.
00:44:26.000But we've seen where this stuff ends up.
00:44:28.000In the same week that Silicon Valley elites, including open AI chief Sam Altman and his husband, were revealed to be bankrolling preventative, a company whose goal is nothing less than genetically engineering babies, former Disney actor Callum Worthy unveiled Two-Way, an AI app that lets users speak with digital recreations of their deceased loved ones for a monthly fee.
00:44:58.000So on one hand, we're genetically engineering babies.
00:45:01.000And on the other hand, we're resurrecting the ghosts of our loved ones.
00:45:07.000Now, have you read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
00:45:53.000Who among us don't miss our dead relatives?
00:45:56.000Who among us don't hanker after our ancestors?
00:45:59.000Ancestor worship is found in every single culture worthy of the name.
00:46:04.000Reverence for those that went before you.
00:46:06.000The golden generation, the great generation, and all of our individual sentimental, deep loving attachments to those that we've lost being rebooted and metastasized here ultimately to sell a product that is gonna be dubious.
00:46:21.000The very same tech will be used to create ghouling pornography, obviously.
00:46:25.000And also that kind of stimulation of false states, states that could be attained through the surrender of the ego, the surrender of the self, not its further augmentation and an unwillingness to yield what is plainly God's domain.
00:46:42.000Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, money, bullshit, and everything else is God's.
00:46:53.000Mom, would you tell Charlie that bedtime story you always used to tell me?
00:46:57.000Once upon a time, there was a baby unicorn who didn't know he knew how to fly.
00:47:03.000This baby unicorn was like your mom because she didn't know that she knew how to fly, but she knew how to do all kinds of fabulous things.
00:47:12.000Often technology is met with cynicism and suspicion.
00:47:15.000Indeed, Ned Ludd and his glorious Luddite movement, smashing up the spinning jennies, is still a byword, Luddites and Ludditeism, for opposing technology that will advance our lives.
00:47:27.000And when we look back to the native people of these lands that thought that having their photograph taken would steal their souls, we look at it almost with a roll of the eyes.
00:47:34.000But now, in the Instagram deluge, in the blizzard of online information, what is it that's stealing your soul?
00:47:43.000Is it trapped in two dimensions somewhere?
00:47:46.000Are you staring mirror, mirror, on the wall, asking continually for appraisal and affirmation from dead, pixelated ghosts, comforting yourself with the words of a dead and unloving grandmother, waiting for the birth of a genetically engineered baby, hopefully a sexy one that you can send to Epstein Island?
00:48:41.000The bounds of the real and the possible are being re-evaluated and engineered.
00:48:46.000We all know that there is something in matter that is of spirit.
00:48:51.000You know, it's a miracle that most of us can move our bodies at the behest of our mind and that all of our organs are functioning.
00:48:59.000There is something miraculous in us understanding and knowing morality, knowing what is right and wrong, knowing that we shouldn't lie or shouldn't hurt other people or exploit other people.
00:49:09.000It's almost like there is a code and a setting.
00:49:12.000We're moving now into encoding new realities, but for whose benefit and to what end?
00:49:19.000It's like the very essence of life is being reconfigured and reconsidered at the same time as there's so much moral disruption and so much lack of trust.
00:49:29.000For a moment, consider that these people are being resurrected.
00:49:33.000While most people are confused in one way or another about what Epstein Island represents, did Jeffrey Epstein even die?
00:49:41.000For me, it's interesting because I personally experienced having my past maneuvered around.
00:49:46.000For example, you know, like when in 2004, 2005, 2006, all that was being celebrated as a shaggy of the year.
00:49:53.000And then subsequently, just because of the way media moves and the way the Lord moves, I found myself as a person that was counter-cultural in my commentary rather than pro-cultural, even if I thought of myself as a real rebel when I'm sleeping around stuff.
00:50:05.000My past has been utilized and reformed.
00:50:09.000People have been invited to reconsider encounters with me in bathrooms as potentially nefarious.
00:50:16.000And reality is what they want control of.
00:50:18.000Remember how many times I've said, I don't know if you pay attention to this stuff.
00:52:42.000Bunny start by telling us a little bit about yourself.
00:52:47.000These two stories might appear separate, but together they signal a profound and accelerating shift.
00:52:52.000The tech industry is no longer content with reshaping our economies, our media, or our politics.
00:52:56.000It's now reaching for something far more intimate and far more dangerous.
00:52:59.000The power to manipulate the beginning and end of human life itself.
00:53:03.000And unlike past moral crises, this one is emerging quietly, disguised as compassion, convenience, and progress, which is the new masquerade that we're invited to engage in.
00:53:26.000But history teaches us exactly where such dreams lead.
00:53:29.000A century ago, eugenics movements across the West claimed they were simply promoting healthier populations.
00:53:36.000That rhetoric paved the way for sterilization campaigns in the United States and Britain, and later for the monstrous Nazi vision of a biologically engineered master race.
00:53:46.000Right, let's have a look at what the Nazis were up to.
00:53:57.000The most secret one of the Nazi regime, the Liebensborn programme, meaning spring or source of life, to give birth to children who were seen as perfect in the eyes of the Nazis.
00:54:54.000But in 10 years, around 20,000 babies were born in the Nazi maternity hospitals.
00:55:00.000In March 1948, at the end of the eighth Nuremberg trial, the four leaders of the Liebensborn project were charged with crimes against humanity.
00:55:20.000They claimed that they ran a charitable organization that helped mothers in difficulty to give birth.
00:55:27.000That's so much like the Nazis, isn't it?
00:55:29.000We actually are running a charitable organization of terror smothers, but that kind of Nazi mindset that's in institutions of power everywhere.
00:55:46.000Digitalize the help, We're going to help you into total, total incarceration.
00:55:53.000They were convicted, but only for their membership of the SS.
00:55:58.000As for the children of Liebensborn, well, most of them only discovered their true origins much later.
00:56:04.000Jeffrey Epstein didn't discover them because they're going to be fucking gorgeous, these kids.
00:56:08.000They'll all can be working at Jeffrey Epstein's beach cabana.
00:56:13.000To the little towel slung about their waist, perfect little Nazi children.
00:56:17.000What begins with eliminating disease always threatens to end with eliminating difference.
00:56:21.000Preventative's promise to correct devastating genetic conditions echoes the same seductive language, soft, benevolent, and catastrophically naive.
00:56:30.000Once society accepts the premise that humans can be enhanced, we step onto a slope that has never led anywhere good.
00:56:35.000Now, this is obviously a story that personally impacts me.
00:56:37.000You may be aware that my son was born with a congenital condition, tetralogy of fallow, as well as de George syndrome.
00:56:43.000And we were offered late-term abortion.
00:56:46.000And probably in the future, parents of such a child will be offered the opportunity to genetically enhance or improve their child.
00:56:51.000But I can tell you, now that my son is here and well, that he is perfect.
00:57:13.000As technology reaches the point where we might live in a fully augmented realm, we have to have a kind of moral veracity, a willingness to accept that every time we enter into God's domain, we are taking an incredible risk through disobedience.
00:57:29.000Man, I suppose on one level, you wouldn't even want to wear braces on your teeth or contact lenses or have hair transplants or take Botox or ploy teeth-whiting technology.
00:57:41.000Certainly, it's possible for me to imagine a spiritual state where I would happily accept decline and deterioration as part of a sort of a thinning of my material self as I move closer to God.
00:57:52.000But as we enter this realm where life itself is considered to be the domain of human beings, as always offered to us in this kind of sanitized, Huxley-esque, technologically advanced perfection, we recognize that the diabolical now has a very different aesthetic.
00:58:09.000It's no longer red horns and goat legs.
00:58:12.000It's a kind of sanitary vision of a perfect, serene world.
00:58:16.000And we are all supping on the soma, which Huxley predicted would be a kind of cohesive plasma within which all of us remain serene, calm, hypnotized.
00:58:27.000Even the scientific landmarks we once treated as alarming now seem almost innocent in comparison.
00:58:33.000When Dolly the Sheep was cloned in the 1990s, the world panicked.
00:58:37.000Governments rushed to regulate genetic manipulation.
00:58:40.000Today, however, Silicon Valley's investors openly search for countries where they can create the first gene-edited baby, shielded from Western law.
00:58:48.000That which once shocked us is now a mere stepping stone.
00:58:52.000And in the shadow of that normalization lies Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a timeless warning about the arrogance of those who believe they can control life itself.
00:59:00.000Dr. Frankenstein's sin was not creation, it was presumption.
00:59:03.000And like Shelley's doomed scientists, today's technologists charge forward convinced of their own brilliance, blind to the consequences that will inevitably follow.
00:59:12.000If preventative disrupts the beginning of life, Tu Way disrupts the end.
00:59:16.000Victorian spiritualists once held seances to contact the dead, practices that were criticized even then for exploiting grief and distorting reality.
00:59:24.000Today, the same impulse has returned, dressed in the sleek language of AI innovation.
00:59:29.000But where Victorian mediums sought emotional connection, Tuway offers a subscription-based simulation, a monetized imitation of the dead whose purpose is not healing but retention.
00:59:40.000Psychologists warn that such digital necromancy may prevent people from confronting the finality of loss, trapping them in an artificial afterlife generated by corporate servers.
00:59:51.000Even the app's critics have recognized its moral inversion, a parody of resurrection in which the dead speak on demand, powered not by memory or spirit, but by algorithms trained to mimic sentiment.
01:00:02.000Religious and philosophical traditions across cultures insist that mortality is not a glitch.
01:00:07.000Buddhists teach that clinging to what has passed only deepens suffering.
01:00:11.000And Christian reflections on death emphasize that grief has a sacred purpose.
01:00:15.000That resurrection, when it came, was not something that humans could manufacture.
01:00:20.000Both these traditions recognize an uncomfortable truth.
01:01:39.000And at the center of this new worldview stands a wealthy elite convinced that because they can afford to transcend human boundaries, they should.
01:01:46.000Their tools are not merely innovative, they are transformative in ways society is not prepared to confront.
01:01:51.000When billionaires gain the power to design their children's traits and to digitally prolong the presence of their dead, what they're really acquiring is dominion over the human story itself.
01:02:02.000It's unfolding now, quietly, subtly, and with the kind of momentum that is difficult to reverse once established.
01:02:08.000Gene-edited babies will not remain confined to curing disease.
01:02:11.000AI avatars of the dead will not remain harmless novelties.
01:02:15.000And once people begin outsourcing the most profound experiences of life, birth, grief, loss, all experiences, by the way, denied to us during the pandemic period in order to stop the spread and to save grandma, the whims of corporate platforms mean that we risk surrendering something far greater than privacy or autonomy.
01:02:35.000We risk surrendering the meaning of humanity itself.
01:02:38.000The future being built is arriving faster than the mortal framework needed to confront it.
01:02:43.000Unless we recognize the ominous direction in which these technologies point, we may wake up in a world where the arc of life from the genetic makeup of our children to the voices of our dead belong not to us, but to the companies that have learned how to monetize it.
01:02:56.000Mary Shelley's imagination was able to render in archetypal form the nature of a problem that has continued to increase.
01:03:06.000You might say that Mary Shelley ain't the originator of that idea.
01:03:17.000Let's discuss that together over time.
01:03:19.000But certainly what this archetype helps us to understand is the limits and boundaries of human power and what the domain of God might look like in a time where people don't believe in God in a serious way, even though there is a resurgent interest, thankfully, in the kingdom.
01:03:36.000Your dead grandmother, who one minute is used as an avatar to keep you in your house, is now used as an avatar to get you to spend money.
01:03:44.000The protection of life itself, which is a convenient undergirding for the restrictions that took place in COVID, are now used to justify aesthetically attuned babies.
01:03:55.000What they want, and I say they, you know what I mean, global cult, global imperialist network of powers, is nothing short of total control, total control over reality.
01:04:06.000And they are on the precipice of achieving that.
01:04:08.000But the truth is, and the glorious truth is, that whatever it was in Mary Shelley is in you and I, a type of genius, a type of divine spark, a connection to the whole, a connection to God, God self.